The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-18
MEN, WOMEN
 AND THINGS

acorn stood for civic power and justice. and it was the emblem of Jupiter. It is therefore fitting that it should be the em- blem on the cover page of Carry On the magazine devoted to aiding disabled sol- diers and sailors.
 We recently had a story in this column giving certain phases of the work being done and mapped out for future accom- plishment The name Carry On has worked it's way from the trenches into the American vocabulary and day by day is becoming more colloquial It is word much used in the talks of the Canadians and the Britishers who visit us. Charles Hanson Towne has a beautiful and striking poem, Ruins" It tells of a conversation between a charming woman and an artist. The theme hangs around the couplet:
 "You know that War is shattering the
 world,
 Ana beauty IaIlS III aSileS at our ltet. Pictures Of the Parthenon by moonlight. the Colosseum on a summers night and Rheims in it's splendid desolation are flashed on the film of dainty verse. Leaving the destruction wrought by yandals on architecture the theme be- comes human and takes up the story of the brave men who went out in the pride and glory of their manhood to come back home human ruins from the war:
 "She turned There was soldier at the door,
 And one sleeve in his uniform hung limp,
 And there were many scars upon his cheeks.
 "A ruinv' the artist whispered. "Yet he seems
 The only whole and perfect man know"
 
 Yes, it win be hats off to the men who were maimed and wounded and blinded for our sake, but while we will throw around them the glamor of romance, thank God we won't stop at mere words of appreciation. but this great govern ment is going to give them chance 70 Garry On' in the fields of peace, by making it possible for them to become self supporting.
 But after the nation has contributed to the soldiers rehabilitation all it's re- sources of treatment, vocational train- ing, and placement service, he must go munity and make his own way, basing a structure of self-support upon the foun- dation of just pension, which will not be reduced no matter how much he is able to supplement, for it is his by right. Let it be carefully understood that there will be no forcing of the disabled heroes to take up any specific work. As to the decision to undertake training at all it must be voluntary, so must the choice Of a particular trade meet with the full aps proval of the soldier himself. Not only special thing it becomes distasteful, the opportunity to change will be readily allowed, for it has been found in the schools already in operation that the un- willing pupil is poor learner, indeed. A great aid, however, in helping a soi- dier to decide about his future is to learn something of the records of other men with similar physical disabilities wno
 have made good-meh who have be trained and who are holding jobs at asN tractive wages. For many badly har st
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 good. Men have found in. themselves s~
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