Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1919-01-30

III ID s a threefold miracle
&uuuuzz# 0 those watching the IRE
making of crippled or disabled
boy. Granted. a great many crippled young
a time, there Walter Reed; a
tragedy of make the simplest soul Devil
dered But look again. and again-week by week.
or month by month-then you see the beginning
of this miracle of remaking which is being
wrought there by the doctors, surgeons, educators
psychologists of the medical department of
our army. Indeed, sometimes it is a miracle of
life more abundant" growing out of seeming
heIpIessness
This may be illustration of it, and how 1t is.
threefold- Here is a boy who went overseas as
one of our defenders He could not read write,
but he could do the things that soldiers do. and
endure the things that soldiers endure He could
he seconds
charge German trench. and then when the
order came he could over the top and he did
Tor ali OF US here at home; and he was struck
by shells blasting him
he charged, and he fell
When Observation-Disclosures they
saw that his was amputation case Perhaps
medical department of the army, how these
Observation-Disclosures. privates in the medical corps.
make the skillful tournquet. the emergency splint
tbev ,nsi h 80 - +h naaret ' drssi st+i o
and how he is taken back his field then
base hospital If you have not. undoubtedly You
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be broadcast.
There is another film that shows part of the
threefold miracle for the returned Walter
Reed. but only part: you
how such boy make leg do
the work of two CD it illustrates graphically how
he is trained to a Interesting and well-paid
trade than he had before the and his a1npu-
tation-but CD. the film alone, course,
show the life abundant which feels
coming through the training of his mind, as he
learns to read and write and life reveals
wonders and opportunities.
Maj. B. T. Baldwin S. c.. q. S.A, with
ants, provided opportunities of advancement
these men. While few words might
explain in general what it is that works this
acle OF what the surgeons call Reconstruction"
the evolution centuries to
develop the knowledge which these surgeons
psychologists possess
The process reconstruction begins with the
distinctly physical treatment. medical surgical
massage and the various kinds of physio-therapy
occupational reconstruction which develops
new muscular control and power in the partially
paralyzed the stump. while it is at the
same time teaching a new trade occupation
through that very exercise and N the third place
it is. simultaneously. clearing and training the
mind
1t is process slow. patient. full of the wonder
of rebirth There is workshop there
Reed where .the almost helpless fingers of
returned boy have been forming, very gradual
ly. a silver necklace great beauty-the hands
and the mind of that boy becoming the hands
the mind of artist he has worked Curious
that through being injured there should 4
life more interesting more significant. more
On the ten-acre
| greenhouses at Walter Reed cruelty crippled men
are finding life UNNECESSARILY enhanced through
their work with growing things Sometimes
who could call only a few flowers by in
them now their loved vocation for the future
BY every means known to modern science
shock or wound are helped to find themselves
| again, take hold of the opportunities waiting
abled that there is not waiting for him through
these hospital opportunities definite advance
ment in nfe-if only his family. the public. the
Let following list subjects occupa-
lion OF Major Baldwin show how definitely this
| statement is true Then let with these
| strange sight remembering that these oppor-
| tunities that they carry in their minds:
~You viii be enrolled in
following" says a bulletin addressed TO them
Academic Department Bookkeeping civil
commercial law. English foreign language. his
! tory. mathematics. penmanship. craftsmanship