Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-03-19

each country new methods for the
restoration TO society of all the in
jured, comprising the best elements
of the various methods now in use.
Plans for extension of the work to
the hundreds of thousands of per-
sons crippled every year in industry
also are to be taken up at the CON
ference.
Today's session was gwen over TO
short outlines of the rehabilitation
plans of the various countries, speak
ers including some of the most prom
inent opponents of the movement in
the United States France, Italy, Eng
land, Belgium and Canada.
DR.. Maurice Bourrillon, president
of the permanent inter-allied COM
mittee on war supplies. director of
the French national institute for
crippled soldiers and known as The
Grandfather of Re-education" was
the first speaker.
Frances Plan.
France, he said, so far as possible,
is training the disabled to resume
their pre-war Trades, but that where
this is impossible they are being
Eained for new vocations according
to their preferences and abilities.
New laws, he said. give them pen
sions and five years preference in
civil positions in the national gov
eminent
Belgium's work was described by
Prof. Louis Alleman, director of the
government institute for cripples at
Port Villez, France. The Belgian
work so far, he said, had been con-
Quoted by civilian organizations. but
q bill providing for national rehabili-
tation of soldiers will undoubtedly
be passed SOON
Prof. Vittorio Putt, a famous Ital-
ian orthopedic surgeon and director
of the Rizzoli institute at Bologna,
described Italy's plan, which fifteen
days compulsory attendance by each
convalescent soldier at vocational
training school, This brief period, he
said, was sufficient to convince vir-
tually all the men of the ACCESSIBILITY
Of taking a complete course. Pref
erence in certain government posi-
tons also has been instituted in Italy
as a means of providing places for
soldiers, he said
f. Gerald Robinson, deputy min
ster of the Canadian department of |
soldiers civil establishment, and |
W. f. Segsworth, director of voca- |
tional training in the depaHment, |
described the three-part Canadian !
plan of rehabilititatlng her wounded !
the ward occupations designed to |
keep the soldiers cheerful during
the curative work.
'hops where heavier work is given
md the industrial retraining schools
Q which the men are sent when
physically healed.
England said Mrs. Ethel Wood,
ecretary of the local war pensions
ommittee of London, is offering vo-
ataional training not only to the
rounded but to soldiers who were
minors when they enlisted, to uni
ersity students, whose courses were
Interrupted and to widows of Slain
oldiers
American Program.
Americas program, as built up
rom the experiences of the allied
ations, was outlined by Col Frank
Filings, chief, and Lieut.. Col. Joseph
. Miller, assistant chief of the di-
lston of physical reconstruction in
he surgeon generals office.
Under the American plan, Colonel
filings said, no soldier will be dis
narged from the army until he has
lily recovered physically and all (.
no desire will be given full voca-
onal retaining.
Some difficulty is being enconn-
tired, he said, in obtaining sufficient !
Istructors for the restraining work. =
he forty-eight reconstruction hos {
ltals now operating, he said, have c
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