The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1919-05-07
10000 SOLDIERS
LEARN TRADES
Discharged Soldiers, Being Crippled
or Having Physical Disability
Not 20 PedGe Wares


or Having Physical Disability
Not 20 PeddQe Wares
GOVERNMENT TEACHES TRADES
Government Aims 70 Put Every Sol
dier on Self Supporting Footing In
Order to Care for Themselves
CAMP DODGE, May 2--Discharged
soldiers, laboring under the handicap
81 being crippled or having some 9th
er physical disability, will not be
permitted to peddle wares or solicit
subscriptions, obtaining business be
cause people hate to refuse the plead.
ings Of discharged soldier, especial
" one who is disabled.
Uncle Sam has sent out this ultima
tum and has prepared to enforce 1t by
proyiding the disabled soldiers with
period Of training at government ex'
pense.
DR.. Uel W. Lamkin, district voca-
tional officer OF the federal board of
vocational training who Is in Des
Moines to confer with employers OF
the city estimated today that by the
time the work is finished the ninth
district organization, which comprises
Kansas, Iowa. Nebraska and Missouri
will have trained 10000 disabled sol
diers.
% -Four branch officers are stationed
at Camp Dodge and pne In Des Moines
The disabled soldier, whether he has
an arm, both legs or only finger OH
is offered training at government ex-
pense which will fit him for the work
he wants to make life job.
Men are questioned as to their pre-
syious industrial experience, their pre-
vious education and their disability.
They are asked their preference and
the opportunity for employment is in
vestigated by placement officers. If a
man wants to be trainman and two
or three months training will do the
Job, he is given the opportunity. Or
II he wants to be a doctor and needs
four years training, the government
will pay his tuition, buy his books and
pay him stipulated sum per month
for maintenance.
In the case OF the unmarried man
with no dependents, the amount is $65
a month. The married man who takes
his wife with him is given $75 and II
she stayed at home receives 500 and
she Is sent $40 a months
The government aims to put every
mar back into, ociety and the business
world better than he came out of 1t to
Join the army said DR.. Lamkin.
"Employment OF soldiers Just because
they have served their country is not
charity. Within ten years the world
will have forgotten and the man who
is not valuable to his employer will be
dropped"
1t has been decreed that hereafter
civilians .may perform certain duties
at Camp Dodge that previously belong
to military duties. Many men have
been retained in the service for doing
certain lines Of work but from this
time forward no soldier will be asked
to dc any work that can be performed
by the common citizen.
In hiring civilian labor to replace
soldiers Camp Dodge will be conduct
ed on an open shop basis, it was an
nounced this morning. The task of
Anding jobs open has been placed
largely in the hands of the federal en-
ployment bureau in Des Moines.
While not prepared to announce a
wage scale, General Ballou, camp com
mander, said that in hiring men the
best interests Of the government both
as to efficiency and economy will be
of primary consideration and for this
reason no excessive wages or salaries
will be paid. Already more than 100
applicants have Allied out Introductory
cards at the federal employment bu-
reau and are awaiting the word to
commence work.
Belgians Given Great Reception
In spite of bad weather great
crowd was at the Rock Island station
Sunday to greet the Belgian contin-
gent. Bands were out and numerous
former citizens of Belgium had gath
cred from all directions and it was
great occasion. To be greeted by so
many speaking the native tongue was
q great delight to the home sick trav-
elers. They had with them eight pow
erful dogs which had been used to
draw mounted machine guns right in
to the trenches of the enemy Hitched
to the same equipment that was used
at the battle front these dogs gave
thousands Of people an opportunity to
study methods hastily improvised to
meet great emergency. The men
had al! SENSITIVE sefvice and some
were wounded. They carried the same
equipment that they used in active
service. They were brought in auto
mobiles to Camp Dodge where they
were given a rousing reception by the
overseas men who had just arrived.
History Of Iowa Troops
The general assembly appropriated
$4,000 for the work of compiling
complete history of Iowa's part in the
great war. The work will include the
main item OF record of each soldier,
sailor and marine who enlisted or was
drafted from Iowa SO far as the same
is 0btainable from the records of the
adjutant generals Office the. war de-