The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1919-06-26
SCHOOL OPEN'FOR =
BLINDED FIGHTERS
VOCATIONAL INSTRUCTION AND
REHABILITATION AT HosPiTAL
IN BALTIMORE.
MEN TAUGHT USEFUL TRADES
Soldiers In Field and Camp Get Many
Secretary Wilson Explains
General Mobilization Of Labor for
War industries.

General Mobilization Of Labor for
War Industries.
Urom Committee on Public Information) |
MISUNDERSTANDING federal SOL
d1ers, sailors and marines are being
received now for vocational instruc-
ton and rehabilitation at Hospital
Training School, General Hospital No.
Z, the former home Of Mrs. T. Har-
rison Garrett, at Baltimore, Nd. The
hospital 10 outfittsd to accommodate
$50 men and has large recreation
fields and an extensive acreage In gar
dsns.
Col. James Bordiey Of the surgeon
generals ONCE in charge Of the re-
education Of the blind. has announced
the appointment Of o. Fl. Burritt OF
the Pennsylvania Institute for the In
struction Of the Blind az the educn-
uonal director Of this army hospital
training school, with Miss Jenny A.
Turner, former designer for the Mas
saehusetts commission for the blind, az
n reconstruction aide. Miss Turner
has been working with the returned
wounded soldiers at the Walter Reed
hospital, Washington.
The blinded soldiers from overseas
will be discharged from the hospital
after they have been taught practi-
cal self-supporting trade, have been
put In good physical condition. ana
taught to read standard printing In
raised type. The men will be sent to
their own home communities and
placed In the trades for which they
have been trained. Red Cross work.
ers will watch after their welfare.
Cooperating with the army medical
department, the Red Cross Institute
for the Blind is now making national
survey Of industries open to blinded
soldiers. Instructions will be made
10 conform with preparations for these
industries. The federal board for
vocational education Is arranging q
plan for the economic and social su.
pervision Of all wounded and MANNED
soldiers.
The war service committee of tbs
American Library association reports
that 435,O00 books were shipped Il
American soldiers in France up t.
July 1. The books went In Tonnage
space granted at the request Of Gen
eral Pershing on the decks of trans
ports, where they were used by TIL
men on the voyage and unpacked TO
use In France; in naval vessels TO
naval bases abroad and In Red eros
tonnage for the hospitals In Franc
and England.
A total of more than 2.500,000 book
have been supplied by the America
Library association to the camps an
stations In the United States and ovei
seas. Approximately 100000 of thes
books were purchased, others havin
come as gifts from the American pee
pie through the public libraries of tn
country. Nearly 40 library building
have been erected, and 600 camps
America, alone, have received collie
lions of books.
Two hundred librarians, includin
leaders In their profession in this coul
try. are giving their time to libraI
war service. Most of these are ser
Ing as camp librarians, assistants. an
organizers In the field; others are
dispatch offices for the shipment I
books to France.
Methods of thrift now enforced
the army quartermaster generals
fce, including the repair OF clothil
and shoes, where possible, have c
down the issue OF new clothing al
shoes from so to 40 per cent in sor
instances.
The plants where the mending
done are run In connection with for
and camps by the camp quartermast
When a soldier tears or rips a
ment he turns II in to his supply O
Ger. When the soles of his shoes we
out or the heel runs down. the she
10 back to the same officer. The
garments and shoes are taken to
repair shops managed by the cons
walton and reclamation ofiicer. VIII
repaired and put in order they are
turned to the original owner II p'
sible, and II the original owner canr
be located they serve some other s
der.
Hundreds of women are being e
paoyed by the war department in
work Of repairing the garments Of S
disrs and In the laundries at cam
and environments. Preference in d
employment Is given the wives, siste
and mothers of men in the service.
paying 81 a month a soldier is entitl
20 weekly bundle OF laundry in VIII
the number of articles is not limit
DO not waste Ice says the Uni,
States food administration. Do not ,
90 q luxury to serve with sala
fruits, and sea foods and do not |
more than is necessary in glasses
water, tea, and other drinks.
There 10 to be no curtaiiment
SAe use Of ice as q necessity, but
sAoulA he uaed carefully In lOcalit