Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-03-12
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Miss Harper is a former student at the Univer
sity of Chicago, who has been associated with the
Childrens Aid society and with night club for
boys and girls in Boston, who has taught book
binding in Haverhill, Mass; who has served with
the Massachusetts Infant asylum-and who first
came to deal with crippes in helping DR.. Richard
Cabot organize the Kings Chapel bureau for the
handicapped at the Massachusetts General hos
pital There at Boston she set group of cripples
to work making chdren's clothes; their product
sold from coast to coast and at good prices.
The work paid the workers commercially, as well
helping to restore their status Independent,
self-respectng and respected citizens.
The chief of the bureau of re-education is a
woman, and feminine woman. 1 think it would
TO the antebellum American mildly diverting
if he could cast his eye the list of equipment
for the Red Cross farm of re-educatiOn which, at
this point of our talk Miss Grace Harper permit
ted to tractors plows harrowsl extir-
pators and Canadians (whatever Canadians" are
she told me-but l don't remember); rollers,
drills, manure distributors, horse hose, moving
machinery-and don't know how machines
mOre-6 horses, Is cows bull, 100 sheep 20 pigs,
10 chicken pens Comprising 1 rooster and hens
each), 6 ncubators (210 eggs each), etc.
"Under conditions" Miss Harper resumed,
"some mutileS promptly in position to earn
good wages in munitiOn works at wages which
they will find it hard to equal once normal condi-
tons restored by the return to peace We
must therefore, walk rather carefully if we are
interested in the return to peace conditions, and
in what happens to the mutiles in the readjust-
ment. What interests us is that 65 per cent Of
farm laborers included in the list of mutiles-and
must reach them, at least some of them,
promptly. We must get these men started on the
road that leads to the land while they are still
under psycotherapeutic surgical care. For that
reason, if for other, the Red Cross must com
bine its agricultural re-educaion with its surgical
enterprises. This training for the future must be-
gin during convalescence-that is, before discharge
from the army is granted
do not think that the American Red Cross in
its plan for specializing upon agricultural re-edu
cation, dsparages undertakes the fine work of
the reeducatiOna institutions which have preced-
ed it in the field But it cannot overlook the fact
that France is an agricultural nation and that,
after the war, almost all the world will, for time,
be somewhere near the edge of hunger Did you
see this last evenings Evenement? concluded Miss
Harper, handing me a clipping.
l had not but / read it.
1.-THE commission charged to study for the radi-
cal party congress the economic reorganization of
France has adopted the following conclusions, the
article begins
1T is by agriculture that France can, and must
renew itself, for this is the base and source of
life.
TOO much encouragement cannot be given to
agricultural production. Henceforth the ut
most possible quantity of labor should be provided
to agriculture by the mobilization on the land of
the older military classes and of agricultural spe
ciaStS.
1.-THE state should encourage the construction
and use of agricultural machinery-esp especially trac
tors Scientific agricultural stations should
be created in the principal regions of France
linking the one to the other by means of a central
station at Paris
THAT is politicians document, and you have
not read all of it." concluded Miss Harper as she
took back the newspaper clipping; but the prin
cple is there and it is justly enough expressed.
Here is another newspaper article. Edmond
Thery, writing in LIE Matin of Paris, concludes an
article on Our Agricultural Production with the
words
1.-The Indispensable agricultural policy for US to
pursue from now on has been perfectly defined by
the order of the day unanimously voted by the
chamber of deputies at its sitting of October IL.
and it can be summed up in two clauses mobiliza-
ton of agricultural labor mobilization of chemical
fertilizers"
$50 you see," concludes the chief of the bureau
for the reeducation Of mutiles. that the Ameri-
can Red Cross in seeking to give France more
skilled agricuturiSts, through its scientlhc and
riechanica instruction of mutile farmers and farm
laborers, is only undertaking to express practically
what French deputies and French economists de-
clare to vital necessity for France, and there
fore for Frances warmest friend in all the world.
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