The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1919-06-13
ALL DISABLED SOLDIERS
IN ARMY TO Be HELPED
Colonel Arthur Woods Points Out Gov.
ernment Policy for Aiding
the Wounded Soldiers.

Washington, June 9.-In his work
in behalf of discharged service men
Colonel Arthur Woods, assistant tc
the secretary Of war, in charge of
finding employment for demobilized
fighters, has learned that in many
sections people generally do not know
what the government is doing to aid
men disabled in the line of duty to
re-establish themselves in civil life.
1nasmuch as the government took
these men out of civil life and placed
them in service where their disabil-
tiles were incurred, the obligation up
on the government to ~re-establish
them in civil life is clear. 1t should
be understood that those injured in
France are not the only ones entitled
to assistance, for all disabled service
men, whether inquired in the United
States or abroad, are provided for
equally.
For re-establishing the disabled, the
authorized agency is the federal board
for vocational education, which is
charged by congress with the "voca-
tional training of disabled soldiers and
the placement Of rehabilitated persons
in suitable and gainful occupations"
The government not only trains the
disabled man, thus enabling him to as
sumo again with unimpaired efficiency
the responsibilities of civil life, but
assists him in obtaining employment
at the end Of his period of training.
No Excuse for Begging.
In some cities crippled men in uni
form are seen engaged in "panhand-
ling" kindly disposed persons. 1t has
been found in nearly every case that
these men were plain ordinary fakirs
in the guise of soldiers, who took this
method of enlisting unmerited symp-
athy from the public.
There is no excuse for these IA
kris. No man disabled in service need
engage in any hold-up game o need
he engage in any occupation which is
not becoming to him. Any one see
ing men in uniform so engaged should
inform them of provisions made for
their training and placement by the
government. If any man, after be-
ing informed what his opportunities
are, continues his game, a favor will
be done if every case is reported to
the nearest branch office of the fed
eral board for vocational education.
If a disabled service man, who is
considered by the bureau of war risk
insurance to be as much as 10 per
cent disabled, will get in touch with
the federal board for vocational edu-
cation at Washington, or with any
one Of it's fourteen branch offices, the
federal board will place them in edu-
cational institutions, when education
is necessary and feasible, where suit
able trades or occupations will be
taught them according to their indi-
vidual experience, capacities and pref
e%fernces.
List of Northwest Branches.
A disabled mar so incapacitated that
he cannot take up his old occupation
will be allowed to choose any occupa-
ton or trade he thinks he would like,
subject of course, to approval by the
Federal board, which is interested on
ly to be assured that the mar is fit
ted to pursue the occupation or trade
selected. The northwest is covered by
these branches:
Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, 1900
Westminster, 10 South Dearborn
street, Chicago.
Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri,
SIT Chemical building, St. Louis.
Minnesota, North Dakota, South Da-
kota, room TAP, Metropolitan Bank
building, Minneapolis.
Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Washing
ton, room $50 Central building, Sc
attic.
While in training a man receives
pay at least equal to the base pay re-
during his last months service
in the army, navy or marine corps,
but in no case does he receive less than
S65 per month if a single man, OF less
than S75 per month if living with de-
pendents, or less than SOS per month
for himself if living apart from his
dependents-in addition to allowances
to his dependents if married and living
apart from his wife durig the period
of training. In all cases the wife re-
SIS and each minor child $40
per month.
Under the arrangement first men
if a man who served as a pri-
vate at $50 a month, wishes to take,
training, waving claim to subsistence,
clothing, ETC., he will, if single or liv-
.ng apart from his dependents during
raining, be allowed an additional $35
per month by the federal board, thus
bringing his income to the minimum
If SOS per month.
Wide Latitude to Terms.
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