Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-11-27
EDUCATION
OF WOUNDED MEN
Is BEING GIVEN

WdSlIngtOn.-Oth are now
open in II OF the chief cities of the
United States to receive the appli-
cations OF disabled soldiers and
sailors of the American army and
navy for free education to equip
them for the vocation for which
they are most fitted. These offices
have been established by the feder-
al board for vocations and are in
the following cities: Washington,
Philadelphia, New York. Boston,
Atlanta, New Orleans, Cincinnati,
ST. Louis, Dallas, Denver. Chicago,
Minnesota, San Francisco and Sc
attic.
At each Office are stationed men
10 advise the disabled fighters as to
what they are entitled to receive. a
medical officer and a man to obtain
employment for them when they
are ready to go to work. 1t is prom
ised by the federal board that appli-
cations viii be sympathetically
considered with the best interests
of the disabled man in mind.
While receiving Teeducation the
government will pay the disabled
will provide him with the funds
necessary to pay educational fees.
Each man accepted for reeducation
will be sent 10 an institution Civ
ing special courses in the line he
has chosen or he will be given in
struction in any industry he wishes
to learn.
During his training period allow
ances will be made by the govern
ment to his dependents such as
wife, children and mother. These
will be fixed in proportion to the
amount they received while ne was
in active service.
When the disabled man has fin
ished his training the federal board
promises to have employment ready
for him. After he has gone TO work
again his compensation from the
war risk insurance bureau begins
and will continue unaffected by the
amount of his earnings.
In making these announcements
the federal board for vocational
education states:
The worst mistake disabled
man can make is TO drift into q low
grade. unskilled occupation. With
out any training he must compete
with the normal man in a line Of
work where brute strength and
fitness alone count and
there can be no doubt as to the
outcome when work becomes slack.
Every consideration requires that
disabled man should obtain perma-
nent employment at a desirable age
in the position for which he is best
fitted or for which he can become
best fitted. Otherwise his career
will consist Of alternate periods of
more or less undesirable employ
ment. idleness, trying to live on his
pension and picking up an occupa-
ton. No self-Tespecting veteran of
this great war can afford to be plac-
ed in this position. There is only
one escape by which these men may
make their future safe and that is
f training is necessary to obtain It
through the federal board for voca-
tiOnal education.
The temptation to take these
low grade. unskilled jobs is very
strong while war prices prevail.
especially as pay is higher because
there is a lack Of help and the quail
ity of the work is not looked at too
closely but jobs commanding war
prices and employing large num-
hers Of particularly skilled or IN
skilled hands are not always going
10 exist. They are soon going to
shrink to normal conditions What
then2 The answer is unfortunately
very simple The law Of supply