The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-06
OPENED
FOR EDUCATING
MANUFACTURES
Bureaus Will Receive AppIiCa-
tiOnS Of injured Soldiers and
Sailors for New Vacations
to Fit Them for Civil Life.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.-Offlces are
now open in fourteen of the chief cities
Of the United States 10 receive the ap-
plications OF disabled soldiers and sail
ors OF the American army and navy for
free education to equip them for the
vocation for which they are most 1T
ted, These offices have been estab-
llshed BY the federal board for vUca-
tons and are IN the following cities:
Washington, philadelphia, New York,
natl, -, Louis. Dallas, Denver, Chi
engo, Minnesota, San francisco and
II each office are stationed men to
advise the disabled fighters as TO what
they are entitled to receive, a medical
officer and a mar to obtain employ
hent for them when they are ready TO
so to work, II is promised by the fed
eral board that applications will lie
FympathiCally considered with the best
interests Of the disabled man In mind.
While receiving education the gov
eminent will pay the disabled man SIS
a month and in addition will provide
him with the funds necessary to pay
educational fees. Each man accepted
for re-education will he sent to an in
stitution giving special courses in the
line he has chosen or ne will be given
instruction in any industry he wishes
to learn.
During his training period allowances
will be made by the government To his
dependents, such as wife, children and
| portion to the amount they received
while he WAS In active service.
Job To Be Ready.
When the disabled man has finished
his training the federal board promises
to have employment ready for him. A.
ter he has gone TO work again his com
pensatton from the war risk insurance
bureau begins and Will continue unaf-
fected by the amount of his earnings.
IN making these announcements tho
federal board for vocational education
| states:
The worst mistake n disabled man
can make Is 10 drift into q low grade,
unskilled. occupation. without any
training he must compete with the nor
nal man In a line OF work where brute
strength and physical fitness alone
count n there can be no doubt us
TO the outcome when work becomes
slack, Every consideration requires
that a disabled man should obtain per
manent employment at a desirable age
In the position for which he Is best
fitted or for which he can become best
Tilted, Otherwise his career will con
sist of alternate periods Of more or
less undesirable employment, idleness,
trying to live on his pension and pick
ing up an occupation. No self~respect-
ing veteran of this great war can af-
ford 10 be placed in this position. There
is only one escape by which these men
may make their future safe and that
IS n training is necessary to obtain Il
through the federal board for voca-
tional education.
1.-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 quality of the work is
not hooked at too closely; but Jobs COM
large numbers. az particularly skilled or
unskilled hands are not always going
TO exist They are soon going to shrink
to normal conditions. What then7 The
anbwer Is unfortunately very simple.
The law OF supply and demand Is not
going to stop working because there
have been some men who have been
soldiers and who Incurred disabilitics
In defense of the country. If there Is
only paying work for so many hands,
the supply OF hands must be cut down.
When this happens, the man who can
not turn out as much or as good work
az a sound nan is going. to lose Ms
job, because of his deficiency and the
sound ma Is going Co Keep his job.
| That means the disabled man will be
out OF q job and will drift about from
one temporary employment to the other,
meeting rebuff after rebuff and becom~
Ing OF less value as time goes on.
THE Antidote- for such q condition
Is offered free by the United States
government" i.