Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1918-03-14
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Miss Harper Is a former student at the Univer-
sity Of Chicago, who has been associated with the
Children's Aid society and with Il night club for
boys and girls in Boston; who has taught book
binding In Haverhill, Mass. who has served with
the Massachusetts Infant asylunl-and who first
came to deal with cripples in helping DR.. Richard
Cabot organize the Kings Chapel bureau for the
handicapped at the Massachusetts, General hos
pital. There ut Boston she set q group of cripples
to work making children's clothes; their product
was sold from coast to coast and at good prices.
The work paid the workers commercially, as well
as helping to restore their status us independent,
self-respecting and respected citizens.
The chief Of the bureau of re-education Is a
woman, and n feminine woman. I think it would
seem to the antehelum American mildly diverting
If he could cast his eye over the list of equipment
for the Red Cross fario of re-education which, at
this point Of our talk, Miss Grace Harper permit
ted me to see: tractors! plows! harrows! eytir-
pators and Canadians (whatever canadians are
she told me--but Il don't renember) ; rollers,
drills, manure distributors. horse hose, moving
NORTHUMBERLAND l don't know how many machines
more--6 horses, Is cows, ! bull, 100 sheep, 20 pigs,
Is chicken pens Comprising / rooster and 6 hens
each), 6 incubators (210 eggs each). etc.
Under war conditions Miss Harper resumed,
Some mutiles are promptly in u position to earn
good wages in munition works at wages which
they will find 1t hard to equal once normal condl-
lions are 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 G5 per cent of
farm laborers included in the list of mutiies-and
we must reach them, or 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 or surgical care. For that
rnnenn 10 Cow v1 ntLnv tI, Dad rrnea p,,,pt nnp,-
bine It's agricultural re-education with It's surgical
enterprises. This training for the future must be-
gin during convalescencc-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, disparag es or UNDERWRITERS the fine work Of
the re-educational institutions which have proceed.
ed 1t IN the field. But 1t cannot overlook the fact
that France is an agricultural nation and that,
after the war, almost all the world will, for a time,
be somewhere near the edge Of hunger. Did you
see this last evenings EvenementT concluded Miss
Harper, handing me a clipping.
! had not, but I read 1t.
9TH commission charged to study for the radi.
cal party congress the economic reorganization Of
France has adopted the following conclusions" the
article begins.
ut Is by agriculture that France can. and must
renew itself, for this IS the base ind source Of
life.
'ToO much encouragement cannot be given to
agricultural production. Hencef0rth 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-
cialists.
"rhe state should encourage the construction
and use Of agricultural machinery-especially trac.
tors. Scientific agricultural stations should
be created in the principal regions Of France,
linking the one to the other by means Of O central
station ut Paris
"That Il a politicians document, and You have
not rend all of IT." concluded Miss Harper, as she
took. hack the newspaper clipping; but the prln.
ciple IL there, and It Is justly enough expressed.
Here Is another newspaper article. Edmond
Thcry, writing In lie Matin Of Paris. concludes mn
article on Our Agricultural Production with tho
words:
".The indispensable agricultural policy for rs TO-
pursue from now on has been perfectly defined by
tho order Of the dry unanimously voted by the
chamber Of deputies Mt It's sitting Of October II,
and It can be summed up In two clauses in0billza.
ton Of agricultural labor, mobilization Of chemical
fcrtllizers.'"
80 you scc.'' concludes the chief Of the bureau
for the rc.education Of mutiles. "that the Arnert.
can Red Cross, In seeking to give France more
skilled agriculturlsts. through It's scientific and
mechanical instruction Of mutile farmers and farm
laborers, ID only undertaking to express practically
what French deputies and French economists d.
clare 70 bs . vital necessity Tor France. and there
tore Sos vsanosb wasmsst A3eod u ~ ~ vegAV"