Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-07-13
U.S.PAvESSOLD|ERS'
WAY TO" COME BACK"
Trade Schools Will Train Cripples
in q Vocation Making Them
Self Supporting.

New York, July ~ American soldiers
and sailors crippled IN the war are TO
be given every opportunity, in addition
| to war risk insurance indemnity and
| pensions, To learn new tradoa or pro
| fessions in order that they may resume
| their place of usefulness IN civil life with
| out the handieaps that ordinarily surround
man deprived Of arms, legs, sight or
hearing
One Of the most interesting Institutions
that has been established here as a result
OF the war, is the Red Cross Institute
for Crippled and Disabled Men at 81
Fourth Avenue where four schools.
the nuclei Of others that are, Il IL saud, 10
be organized in Chicago, 81. Louis and
other places are now under way teaching
crIpples the manufacture 0f artificial
limits, linotype and monotype operating,
mechanical drafting and oxyacety ylene weld
ing THESE four local schools have
teaching capacity for 300 men
The recent passage by Congress Of
the Smith Sears bill. providing an ap-
preparation OF 81 600 10 be used ~
the discretion Of the Federal Board Of
Vocational Education contemplated, It
is sud, the elaboration Of the plans which
are now being worked ont IN this clty.
Soon, it il thought there will be add-
tional schools in many other parts of
the United States and other studies
and trades will be added To the list The
new law authorizes the Communicating
of private and public institutions for
the re-education Of crippled soldiers
and sailors and, where necessary, the
building Of new schools
-Four Traders were selected for tho
New York school because they were m
fields that were not overcrpwded
soldier or sailor, may thus acquire
trade that viii pay him 81 10 81 a day
Frank X Bigler, q cripple for 2 years
and minus leg and an arm. Is the IN
dustrial agent of the Institute which was
founded about a year ago bv Jeremiah
Milbank with an initial endowment
IF $4,000 and building IN which To
carry on it's work Mr. Bigler came
from Kansas City, Mo, his services
being loaned by an industrial corporation
there 10 instlll optimism and good cheer
INTO tho minds of an returning var crippcs
Douglas g. McMurtrle. director of the
Institute, a graduate of the NassachuRctt Is
Institute Of Technology and ~ charge
of the department of printing at Columbia
niYerslty. has made a study ~ tho social
and economic reconstruction Of cripples
for more than eight years
Mr. McMur4rie made IT clear that
while the Institute has no official ar
rangencnt with the government author-
ties relative 10 the utilization of its ia
cilIties in the rehabilitation If war cripples
that department being in charge Of Sur
pnon General William q. Gorgas, when
soldiers and sailors arc discharged from
army and navy hospitals then the In
stituts vail offer them every chance to
come back. Positions will be found
for the men and, where they are unable
to pay expenses whlle learning their new
trade, funds will lac advanced them as
loan to enable them to continue their
training until competent 10 take lob.
] he Institute, however. is National
activity OF the American Red Cross, re- /
HponsIble to the War Council through 4,
the Director General nf Mihtarv Relief. /
Jesse II. Jones H. II the only non /
commercIal institution Of the kind in the /
[ nIted states. Gays Mr. McMutrle, !,
and It's purpose Is broadly humanitarian, !
taking N civilian as we'll as military /
crlpples. II ls not charitable institution 4
but intended To be self-RIpp0rtIng
Already the national authorities have /
gone on record. SAID Mr. McMurtrle,
rs accepting without reservation re- !
5ponslbIity for the alter-care If men
injured IN the service The Surgeon /
Generals Office Of the War Department /
Is now preparing To provide for wounded /,
men, not only medical and surgical care,
but also the curative advances afforded
by the simpler forms OF occupation. The
government IS further inauguratlng vo-
ratlonal training having as its object +
for self-support The gov
however, is disposed 70 make !
Use Of, under due supervision, such pri-
gate assistance as may be offered and
ound OF value.
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