The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1918-03-08

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Miss Harper is former student at the uniser'
sty Of Chicago, who has been associated with the
Childrens Aid society and with night club Tor
boys and girls In Boston who has taught book
binding In Haverhill, Mass. who has served with
the Massachusetts Infant asylum-and who hrst
Came to deal WITH crippes IN helping Dr.. Richard
Cabot organize the Kings Chapel bureau for the
handicapped at the Massachusetts General hos
pital There at Boston she set 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 as independent,
self-respecting and respected citizens
The chief of the bureau of re-education Is
woman, and feminine woman l think 1t would
seem to the antebellum American mildly diverting
II he could cast his eye the list of equipment
for the Red Cross farm of re-educaton which, at
this point of our talk Miss Grace Harper permit
ted me to see: tractors! plowsl harrows! extir-
pators and Canadians (whatever Canadians are
she told me-but I don't remember; rollers.
drills, manure distributors, horse hose, moving
maehinery-and don't know how many machines
more-e horses. IS cows, bull 100 sheep 20 pigs.
Is chicken pens Comprising rooster and hens
each), 8 incubators (21O eggs each), etc.
Under war conditions" Miss Harper resumed,
"some muties promptly In a position to earn
good wages In munition works at wages which
they will find 1t hard to equal once normal condi-
must therefore. walk rather carefully, II 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 IS per cent OF
farm laborers included in the list OF muties-
we must reach them at least some Of them.
promptly We must get these men started the
road that leads to the land while they are still
under psycotherapeutic or surgical care. For that
reason, II for no other. the Red Cross must com
bine its agricultural reeducaton with Its surgical
ka-
gin during convalescence-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 dsparages or undertakes the hne WORK OF
the reeducational institutions which have preced-
ed 1t in the field. But 1t cannot overlook the fact
that France Is agricultural nation and that.
after the war almost all the world WILL for tlme
be somewhere near the edge OF hunger. Did you
see this last evenings Evenementr' concluded Miss
Harper, handing me clipping.
had not, but read II.
.'The commission charged to study for the radi-
cal party congress the economic reorganization OF
France has adopted the following conclusions" the
article begins.
1T 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 mODluz0uOn on tne Idou VI
the older military classes and of agricultural spe-
cialists.
.The state should encourage the construction
and use of agricultural machnery-especially trac-
tors Scientific agricultural stations should
be created in the principal regions Of France.
linking the one to the other by means Of central
station at Paris
THAT 10 q politicians document, and you have
not read all Of it" concluded Miss Harper. as she
took back the newspaper clipping; but the prin-
ciple Is there and 1t Is Justly enough expressed
Here 10 another newspaper article. Edmond
Therv. writing in Le Matin Of Paris. concludes an
article on Our Agricultural Production with the
words:
1.-The indispensable agricultural policy for ~ to
pursue from now on has been perfectly defined BY
the order OF the day unanimously voted BY the
chamber Of deputies at its sitting Of October IL.
and II can be summed up in two clauses: mobiza'
ton Of agricultural labor. mobilization of chemical
fertilizers'"
$50 vou see" concludes the chief Of tbs bureau
for the re-education Of mutiles. that the Amer-
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 he a vital necessity for France and there
fora IA. yranee'o waxmest friend in all the world