The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-01-24


Ar-Eksyn iHand OF Col. l.. K. Schreiner and ms
EGES Y staff story is brought home
In a way that Is thrret"d miracle
-sux.-a ~ those Rho watching the re
makIng crippled or disabled
Toy Granted, 1t is great many crippled young
men TO see ar pHc time therr al Walter feedi Il
tragedy of war make the simplest soul be"t-
dcted. But look again. and again-"tek hy Week
month by month-th"u you see the beginning
If This miracle uf renaking which is being
wrought there by the doctors surgeons, educators
.DuI psychologists of the medical department OF
army. Indeed, sometimes 1t Is miracle Of
lie more abundant" growing out Of seeming
hplplrNsHpss.
This muy be an illustration of 1t. and how it is
threeIoId. Here is a boy who overseas
OF defenders. He could not read or write,
hui he could do the things that soldiers do and
endure the things That soldiers endure lie couia
count OF the seconds before the order came to
charge German trench, and then when the
rider he could 20 over the top, and he did
for all OF rs here at home, and he was struck
by of the shells that were blasting at him as
he charged, and he fell
When the stretcher-bearers found him they
saw that his anputation case. Perhaps
you have seen in the movies, prepared by the
medical department of the army, how these
str"tcher-bearers, privatcs in the medical corps.
make the sklful tourniquet the emergency spiint
If rifle and grass for such boy as this one, how
they rush him to the nearest dressing station,
Hnd how he Is taken back to his field and then
base hospital. If you have not undoubtedly you
viii have the opportunity, for the film will
be broadcast
q, There is another film that shows part OF the
ihTeefold miracle for the returned men at Walter
Reed. but only part % the film can show you
how such boy make one arm or one leg do
the work of two; t2) it illustrates graphically how
he is trained to IA more Interesting and wcll-paid
rIs,de Than had before the and his aInpu-
tatiou-but (3). the film alone, of course, cannot
show you the life more abundant which he feels
coming through the training Of his mind, as he
learns to read and write and life reveals new
wonders and new opportunities.
Mai H. r. Baldwin. $. C., L. S.A.. with his assist
Ents has provided opportunities of advancement
all Of thes" men. Willie II few words might
explain in general what it is that works this mir
acle of what the surgeons call reconstruction"
II has taken the evolution of all the centuries to
develop the knowledge which these surgeons and
psychologists now possess.
The process OF reconstruction begins with the
distinctly physical treatment medical or surgical.
massage, and the various kinds Of physio thernpy.
This is followed carried on in conjunction with
HAT orcupatiounl reconstruction which develops
new muscular control and power in the partially
paralyzcd limb in the stump. while it is at the
same time teaching new trade or occupation
through thar very exercise; and In the third place
1t *. simultaneously. clearing and training the
mind.
AT rebirth. There is workshop there at Walter
Reed where the almost helpless fingers of
one returned boy have been forming very gradual
ly silver necklace of great hcHuty-the hands
and the mind of that boy becoming the hands and
IN. mind of artist as he has worked Curious
that through being injured there should come
life more interesting more significant. more crca-
live.
ON the ren-acrc farm and in the modern
greenhouses at Walter Reed cruelty crippled men
are finding life immeasurably enhanced through
their work with growing things. Sometimes men
who could call only few flowers by in
Them now their loved vocation for the future.
BY every known modern science the
minds of those others who have been clouded hy
shock or wound helped to find themselves
;e;lin. take hold of the opportunities waiting
for them there: there is scarcely so dis
;lied that there is not waiting for him through
these hospital opportunities definite advance
ment in ltfe-if only his family, the public the
country large will understand
Let the following list of subjects and occupa-
lions which being taught under the admnistra-
lion of Ma jor Baldwin show how definitely this
statement is true Then let go with these
same crippled boys to the theater and see
itrange sight. remembering that these are oppor-
tunities that they carry in their minds:
You will he enrolled in more of the
following" says a bulletin addressed to them:
Academic Department bookkeeping. civil serv.
ice commercial arithmetic. commercial English,
commercial law. English foreign .anguase. his
tory mathematics, Premiership salesmanship