The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-05-31
Vocational Insurance for Our War Disabled


Vocational Insurance for Our War Disabled
If you are disabled soldier, sailor or marine,
you should take out lat once reeducational insur-
policy with the efederal board for vocational
education.
Uncle Sam reserves this sort of insurance for
you exclusively If ycsu are one of the war dis
abled, to provide you with insurance for life
against any necessity for curbstone pencil-and-
shoe-lace peddling, against ideness, charity and
old-age dependency-against that down and out
ness which uninsuredE disabled have experienced
in the past.
Uncle Sans vocational insurance guarantees
the disabled man 100 ger cent efficiency in some
suitable vocation, and incidentally it guarantees
that happiness which IL inseparable from life of
service.
This insurance is issued free of cost to dis
abled men not as a charity but in recognition of
the plain fact that they have already paid the
price for it in full by service rendered.
Taking out this insurance is entirely volun-
tary, but disabled man should fail to take
full account of the advantages which will accrue
to him if he becomes policy-holder By placing
himself under the guidance Of the federal board
for vocational education and following the course
with due regard to the given disability and to
natural aptitudes, preferences, and past exper-
fence, the beneficiary under Uncle Sans reedu-
cational policy is able, usually within a short
time, either to return to his former occupation
or to enter upon some other occupation equally
as good or better than the one followed prior to
his enlistment in the service. This complete res
toration vocational as well as physical, is the
ideal insnirin0 TJnclo Sam in IA
adequately for the war disabled.
Congress has charged the federal board for
vocational education with the responsibility of
returning each disabled soldier sailor, or marine
to suitable civil employment, and with the
duty of providing such training as may be re-
quired in each case. Under this policy the very
best schools, colleges, and universities opened
to the disabled, tuition free. 1t should be noted
that there will be delay whatever in discharge
from military duty on account of taking train
ing with the federal board can begin.
Beneficaries under the federal boards reedu-
cational training policy assured benefits such
as no other policy provides. Among these bene-
fits the following may be specified
That each disability now regarded as handi-
cap shall be converted into an asset for the dis
abled, by the development of new capacities in
place Of those lost.
That the man and his dependents shall be sup
ported while he is in training, developing these
new capacities for living and working.
That each disabled man shall be given maxi.
mum protection for life through the full develop
ment of wage earning power.
That there shall be no lapse of policy through
non-payment of premiums or assessments or fail
TIRE of the company.
That participation in dividends, profits, ano
benefits, material and immaterial, shall be daily
throughout life.
That upon completion of his training the dis
abled man shall be placed at work under equitable
conditions of wages and hours.
That the interests of the retained disabled
man shall be fully safeguarded after placement
That the retained disabled" man, made fl
and able for useful service, shall not be compelled
by any unforeseen exigency to accept unsuitable
low-wage employment.
That the monthly payments by the war risl
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