Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-07-12
RIDER REPEATING DAYLIGHT Law
PROMPTS WILSON HANBACK,
AGRICULTURAL BILL UNSIGNED
I should not be JUSTIFIED in &C
quiescing in it's repeal"
es The Sundry BIN.

l1to 6Wl1UEy
In regard to the sundry civil bill
the president in another communities
ton to the house said: AI
Under the vocational rehabilitation
which became a law June 81, 1918,
the congress has sought to fulfill the
expectations of the country that the
soldier, sailor or marine disabled in
the recent war should be given an op-
portunity to secure at the expense
and under the fostering care of the
federal government such training as
he needs to overcome the handicap
Of his disability and to resume his
place as a civilian able to earn a liv-
ing upon something like equal footing
with those with whom he was associ-
ated before he made his great sacri-
fee for the honor and defense Of the
country.
"The work Of rehabilitation under
this admirable law is now at its
height and was to have been given
greater speed and certainty by the
amendment to section two of the vo-
cational rehabilitation bill which I
have today signed and which places
the whole responsibility for vocational
training in single agency, virtually
transferring from the war risk insur-
ance bureau to the federal board for
vocational education six million dol
lars with which to support disabled
men in training at the generous figure
of. $50 q month for a single man and
500 month for man and his wife.
cit Is matter of very grave con-
cern therefore that at the very mo-
ment when these disabled men are
coming in constantly increasing num-
bers to the government to avail
themselves Of this general plan, there
should appear in the sundry civil ap-
preparation bill which I now return.
limiting clauses which will do much
more than seriously cripple and re-
tard the beneficial work Of restoring
these men to useful and contented
lives. These, clauses would pos
sibly. in fact, If put into effect, nullify
the whole purpose of the act and
render it's administration practically
impossible.
...The section of the bill which new
return which governs 1.-THE approprla-
ton for, this work provides the sum
of six million dollars for all the ex-
penses Of rehabilitation, including the
! support of, the disabled men in train
ing, and this sum is stated to be IN
lieu Of the appropriation contained
| in the act approved July 60, 1919,
amending section two OF the act ap-
4 proved June 27Ss41 - 8, inasmuch as
i:th4Fe, Asss. Alreadx 4,00ess disa n!en
soldiers, sailors and marines in train
ling and inasmuch ~ another 900
win be put into training now: that
| the amendment. to section two has
become law. 1t is clear that even at the
rate Of only $50 month sum ap-
proHmating eight millions will be re-
quired for: the mere support iof these
men, and that under the present ap-
preparation nothing will be available
for their tuition and travel or for
placing them where they can. earn a
living and it will be impossible to
meet the needs Of the new thousands
who are every week seeking the ben
efits of the rehabilitation act. In
the Offices Of the board in the District
of Columbia and in fourteen great CEN
ters of the United States. immediate
help is being given to men in need
of these services and these Offices are
used for the essential purpose of keep
ing accurate records, of providing
4 proper medical survey of the men, OF
i caring for them in their illness and
for the various administrative costs
| inseparable from difficult work of this
kind which must. in the present cir
cumstances, reach to every corner OF
the United States.
Means Loss Of Men.
"Furthermore, the same section OF
the sundry civil bill places such hmi-
tations upon the salaries which the
federal board for vocational educa-
ton is permitted to pay, that it will
inevitably result in the loss by the vo-
cational board Of a very large number
of men who have made themselves
especially valuable and indeed indis-
pensable in this new work by reason
OF their. native ability, their proven
general experience. and their special
training, and to whose advice the dis
abled men must look as well as for
superintendence in the matter Of
training and employment. Among
these are the vocational advisers
whose special duty it Is to study them
in the hospitals. confer with them
and lay cut their vocational plans.
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