Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-11-12
DISABLED SOLDIERS
 TO BE TRAINED
U. $. to Look After Work
 ing Conditions.
By Associated Press.

Washington, Nov 10.--Offices are now open in fourteen of the chief cities Of the United States to receive the applications of disabled sGid'ers 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 Federal Board for Vacations and are in the following cities: Washington Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Atlanta, New Or leans, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Dallas, Denver, Chicago, Minnesota, San Francisco and Seattle.
 At each office are stationed men to advise the disabled fighters as to what they are entitled to receive, a medical officer and man to obtain employment for them when they are ready to go to work. It is promised by the Federal Board that applica- tions will be sympathetically consid- cred with the best interests of the disabled men in mind.
 While receiving education the gov ernment will pay the disabled men $65 month and in addition will pro vide them with the funds necessary to pay educational fees. Each man accepted for re-education will be sen, to an institution giving special courses in the line he has chosen or he will be given instruction ill 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 he was in active service.
 When the disabled man has finish cd 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 cntinue unaffected by the amount of his earnings.
 In making these announcements the Federal Board for Vocational Ed ucation states:
 "The worst mistake disabled man can make is to drift into low grade, unskilled occupation. Without any training he must compete with the normal man in line of work where brute strength and physical 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 permanent employment at a desirable age in the position for vly1,f fn1, h. ,l~:< <.l, he can become best fitted. Otherwise his career will consist of alternate periods of more or less desirable en- ployment, idleness, trying to live on his pension and picking up an occu- patton. No self-respecting veteran of this great war can afford to be placed in this position. There is only one escape by which these men may make their future safe and that is if train ing is necessary to obtain it through the Federal Board for Vocational Education.
 "The temptation to take 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 looked at too closely; but jobs commanding war prices and employ ing large numbers of particularly skilled or unskilled hands are not. all ways going to exist. They are soon going to shrink to normal conditions. What then? The answer is unfryaln- ately very simple. The law of Sup ply and demand is not going to stop working because there have Deen some men who have been soldiers. and who incurred disabilities in defense of the country. If there is only pay ing work for so many hands, the sup ply of hands must be cut down. When this happens, the man who cannot turn out as much or as good work