The Sentinel=record., 1918-06-30
"SAOT UP" MEN
 GIVEN A CHANCE
GOVERNMENT NOW WORKING OUT PLAN FOR NAMED MEN TO
 ENGAGE IN USEFUL WORK.
The legless, ArmIess and Sightess
 Men Are to Be Trained so They Can Earn Living and Not Be Dependents

Washington, June 29-Every man Who goes in the army or navy is now certain that if the Germans shoot him up' he will not be compelled to sell pencils, or shoe laces to eke out an insufficient pension or be immured In soldiers home to rust out the years until death comes to his relief.
 The United States government has studied the whole subject of voca- , tional rehabilitation of wounded and disabled soldiers. The experience of all the belligerents has been gone ever carefully, and the marvels of re- education accomplished by some of them are fully noted. The federal hoard for vocational education has been at work on the proposition since August, 1917. The result is to be found in the Smith-Sears act, which passed congress June II, and provides a comprehensive scheme of rehabii- tation for wounded and disabled men. NAilohNA iitlS DtGu dOllIfs iulS MOIk with great success and all of the Canadian experience has been freely given to the United States. The di- rector of that work has been actively cooperating with the federal board for vocational education, and was sent by his government to appear before the senate committee and tstify at the hearings of the bill, which passed both senate and house without q dissenting vote.
 It has been demonstrated in Europe and Canada, that no matter how badh a man may be wrecked physically, as a generlity he still has latent capa- bilities for something useful If those capabilities may be specialized into some line of trade the wounded SOL dier already knew, that is done. The experience he has had and his knowl- edge of the trade is a valuable found aton to build upon.
 If the trade he is familiar with does not offer an opening then he is induced to enter an allied trade " NlItA t lil0 htOM ltuEt VIII Dt of value In some cases the man is entirely educated and for an occu- patton entirely different from that which he had previously followed. It is seldom that a man is so badly shattered that he cannot be doing a mans work for mans pay and that he is back in the current of civil life. a useful and happy citizen who asks no odds of anyone when it comes to making living.
 The task to be discharged by the | Federal Board for Vocational Educa- tion is a large one. Figures from the , various countries show that for each million men in the armies, there will be one per cent, or ten thousand men to be re-educated. This does not in-- clude the wounded who are able to and eventually do return to their oc- equations.
 This does not necessarily mean that these are "dismem berment" cases. The general idea is of the legless, larmless, or sightless man They are
 
 which have now got down to fairly accurate averages, show that of the 10000 half of them will be purely medical as against surgical cases. And of the 5000 that are surgical, l that is, which need the attention of surgeon as against that of the phy sieian, 300 will be cases of dismem- | berment, where the men have lost members of the body. Three hundred
 will be cases where a leg has been
 lost and two hundred where arms l have been lost. In Al, ,000 returned l invalided Canadians there we're less forty cases of blindness.
 The real problem is the man who
 has suffered profound shocks to his system and perhaps been rendered in
 capable of standing the strain of his
 former occupation. A boilermaker,
 for instance, comes out with she'll
 shock and his nervous system in tat
 ters. He could not stand the racket
 in a boiler factory, but he, with his | knowledge of iron and steel working
 could very easily be made into, say
 an expert lathe operator where there
 is no noise. And so on along the whole line of readjustments.
 The Federal Board for Vocational
 Education is the source of most of
 the war training courses and is going
 ahead with plans to begin the reed
 ucational work at an early date. It is
 proposed, instead of concentrating the
 men to be re-educated in large hos
 pital shops, to use the wonderful ia
 cilities afforded by the many tech lnical and agricultural schools of the
 country as far as possible
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