The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-03-07
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Miss Harper is former student at the Univer-
sity of Chicago. who has been associated with the
Childrens Aid society and with n night club for
boys and girls in Boston; who has taught book
binding In Haverhill. Mass; who has served with
the Massachusetts Infant asylum-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
ptal There at Boston she set group of cripples
to work making childrens 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 as independent,
self-respecting and respected citizens.
The chief of the bureau of re-education is n
woman, and feminine woman. 1 think it would
seem to the antebellum American mildly diverting
If he could cast his eye the list of equipment
for the Red Cross farm of re-education which, at
this point of talk. Miss Grace Harper permit
ted me to see: tractors pows! harrows! extir-
pators and Canadians (whatever Canadians are
she told me-but don't remember) rollers
drills, manure distributors horse hose moving
machinery-and don't know how many machines
more-8 horses. 10 cows, bull. 100 sheep, 20 pigs
Is chicken pens Comprising rooster and hens
each), incubators (2lO eggs each), etc.
Under war conditions" Miss Harper resumed
"some mutiles are promptly In a position to earn
good wages in munition works at wages which
they will find 1t hard to equal once normal condi-
tons are restored by the return to peace. We
must therefore, walk rather carefully, If are
interested In the return TO peace conditions, ana
in what happens to the muties in the readjust-
ment. What interests is that 65 per cent of
farm laborers included in the list of mutiles-and
must reach them. at least some of them
promptly. We must get these men started on the
road that leads to the land while they still
under psycotherapeutic surgical care For that
reason, II for other the Red Cross must COM
bine its agricultural reeducation with its surgical
enterprises. This training for the future must be-
gin during conference.-the 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, disparages undertakes the fine work of
the reeducational institutions which have preced-
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 time.
be somewhere near the edge of hunger Did you
this last evenings Evenement?" concluded Miss
Harper, handing me clipping.
I had not, but read 1t.
1.-THE commission charged to study for the radi-
cal party congress the economic reorganization of
France has adopted the following conclusions" the
article begins.
at is by agriculture that France can, and must
renew itself, for this is the base and source of
life.
TOO much encouragement cannot be given to
agricultural production. Henceforth 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
1.-The state should encourage the construction
and of agricultural machinery-especially trac-
tors. =. Scientific agricultural stations should
be created in the principal regions of France,
linking the to the other by means Of a central
station at Paris"
THAT Is a politicians document, and you have
not read all of it." concluded Miss Harper, she
took back the newspaper clipping; but the prin-
ciple is there and 1t is justly enough expressed.
Here is another newspaper article Edmond
Thery, writing in LIE Matin of Paris concludes an
article on Our Agricultural Production with the
words:
1.-The Indispensable agricultural policy for us to
pursue from now has been perfectly defined by
the order of the day unanimously voted by the
chamber of deputies at its sitting of October IL.
and it can be summed up in two clauses mobiliza-
ton of agricultural labor mobilization of chemical
fertilizers
$50 you see" concludes the chief of the bureau
for the re-education of mutiles, that the Ameri-
can Red Cross, in seeking to give France more
skilled agriculturists, through its scientific and
mechanical instruction of mutile farmers and farm
aborers is only undertaking to express practically
what French deputies and French economists de-
clare to be a vital necessity for France, and there
fore for Frances warmest friend in all the world"