Evening star., 1919-04-27
INDUSTRIAL CR|PPLES
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locate as many of these disabled men
entitled to help as they can hnd.
rights under the law. The board
does not have jurisdiction over them
until they have been discharged from
the service. IN as good physical trim
as the medical officers of the Army
and Navy. can. put them: If they
amounting. to 10 per cent Of their eff
cheney tfley are entitled to benefit
under the war risk insurance act
which provides monthly compensation
for the men according to the extent
of their disability. they are also
tions under the rehabilitation act. II
they are unable to carry on gainful
occupation, to resume their former
occupations. or to enter upon some
occupation, or. having resumed or en-
tered such occupation, are unable to
continue them successfully.
Divided Into Fourteen Districts.
The vocational education board has
divided the country into fourteen dis
tricts, with headquarters in each,
where officers of the board are located.
pisab bled soldiers or sailors who have
been discharged and who need at
tention and re-education should ad-
dress themselves either to the officer
in his district or to the federal board
in WASHINGTON. The District of Co
lumbia 10 included In district No. 4.
along with Maryland, Virginia and
west Virginia. The Headquarters OF
this district is at COS F street north
west. Washington. and many dis
abled soldier or sailor has had his
case considered at this off1ce already.
The board is limited in Its approprf-
alton to certain specific things, but
through the generosity no OF tne s Elks
established, which enables the board
to give aid imm mediately to worthy
case. The board advances enough
money to the man to keep him going
until his claim has been acted upon
by the war risk insurance bureau,
when the amount is paid back to the
board and restored to the Elks' fund.
This makes it possible for the board
to act promptly in cases where there
is real necessity
No Compulsion Involved.
Where the man is in need of fur
ther medical treatment as well as
re-education ne is given It, The ques-
ton of re-education is propounded to
him by the boards picked advisers
men who are capaoie o1 sizlhs I'm up
ing him good advice as to what. field
he should enter.
There is absolutely no compulsion
in regard to the re-education. The
man either takes it or he does not
Of the system of re-education have
been: explained to him and new hope
, has been given that he may become a
| self-supporting citizen. it Is almost a
| saIre thing that he will request the
education. The man is given a choice
+; take. and he is given instruction alona
| the lines he desires.
Tho total number Of cases Of dis
abIed men, discharged from the serv-
ice, approved for training courses by
the board up to March 20 last. wa,
! .. .704. The courses selected numbered
about 15O AS a matter of fact, there
| are about 400 courses from which the
! men may select. This does not near
| that the board is maintaining gov.
/ vate institutions including Harvard
| IJniyersity-all kinds of schools fol
/ ali kinds of instruction. Here are
| some of the courses selected and the
numbers of men selecting them: .Aca
demic. elementary. 125: academic; col
AKA: auto mechanics. 165: architecture
| "a: carpentry, IS; chemistry. 80: prep
aration for civil service examinations
Is: commercial. 531; engineering, 178
! dentistry, 21: electrician. III: me
chanic. 40; plumbing. IS: salesman.
! shin. 81; tailoring. 81: telegraph, 27
| The courses may extend only a few
months or for a year or more. The
men are entitled to their compensa
| tion and to the instruction under the
law. so that they may live decently
while taking these courses. Man!
already have made rapid strides and
| have obtained far better jobs thar
they had before they were manned
or disabled.
Learn to Use Brains.
It is easy to see why this is so
There is many a young man who, fol
lack of opportunity, is working with
his hands today when. if he had hao
the education and the training, he
might be using his brain, or a pen ol
pencil or an instrument. So it hap.
pens that a discharged soldier hav.
ing only one leg or one arm, who
was formerly a farm hand. is today
learning how to farm scientifically
90 that when he goes home he may
superintends the farm at the same
| time he does part of the work
] through the operation of machinery
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