Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-11-11
AID DISABLED SOLDIERS.
Offices Opened in Fourteen Cities to
Receive Applications for Schools.

Washington. Nov. 1l.-Ofices now
are open in fourteen of the chief cities
of the United States to receive the ap-
plications of disabled soldiers and sail
ors of the American army and navy
for free education to equip them for
the vocation for which they are most
fitted. Those offices have been ee-
tablished by the federal board for
vocations and are in the following
cities: Washington, Phila delphia. New
York, Boston. Atlanta. New Orleans,
Cincinnati, st. Louis. Dallas. Denver,
Chicago. Minneapolisc. San Francisco
and Seattle.
At each office arc stationed men T.
advise the disabled lighters, as to
what they are entitled to receive. a
medical officer and a man to obtain
employment for them when they are
ready to go to work. Tt Is promised
by the federal board that Applications
will be sympathetlcally considered with
the best interests Of the disabled man
in mind.
While receiving re-educet:Gn the
government will pay the disabled man
S65 month and in addition will pro-
NluG MIN WIFI lilt luhuS hSS'f'si w
.ay educationa! fees. Each mar ac-
! cepted for re education will be sert ia
an institution giving special courses
in the line he has chosen or he VII &c
given instruct ~ in any industry he
wishes to learn.
During his training period allow
ances will be made by the government,
to his dependents such as wife. chill
drcn and mother. These will be fixed
in proportion to the amount they re-
ceived while he was in active service.
When the disabled man has finished
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 insur-
aance bureau begins and will continue
unaffected by the amount Of his earn
ings.
In making these announcements the
| federal board for vocational education
states:
"The worst mistake a disabled man
| can make is to drift into a low grade.
| unskilled occupation. Without any
| training he must compete with the
normal man in a 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 desirable
age in the position for which he is
| best fitted or for which he ccn he""m"
best fitted Otherwise his career will
consist OF alternate periods OF more
or less undesirable employment. Idle
ness. trying to live on his pension and
picking up an occupation. 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
obtain it thru the federal board for
vocational education.
1.-THE temptation to take these 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 employing
large numbers particularly skilled or
unsktlled hands are not always going
to exist. They are soon going to
shrink to- normal conditions. What
then? The answer Is unfortunately
very simple. The law of supply and
demond is not going to stop working
because there have been some men
who have been soldiers and who in
CURED disabilities in defense Of the
country u there 10 only paying work
Tor so many hands, the supply Of hands
must be cut down. When this happens.
the man who cannot turn out as much
or as good work as a sound man Is
going to lose his job, because OF his
deficiency, and the sound man Is going
to keep his job. That means the dis
abled man will be out of Job and
will drift about from one Temporary
employment to the other, meeting re-
bun after rebuff and becoming OF less
value as time goes on.
"The antidote for such condition
Is offered free ~ the United States
government"
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