The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1919-05-07
WORD FROM WASHINGTON
Vocational Education.

National REHABILITATION ACT Oh June Z
1918, was to provide training for dis
abled soldiers that would equip them
to reenter some productive activity in
spite of their wounds. One section OF
that act gives compensation from the
Bureau of War Risk Insurance to dis
abled men after their discharge from
military or naval hospital. 1t is
said that the officials of the Board for
Vocational Education construe the law
to mean that no soldier is eligible fol
training until he has received his first
compensation check from the War
Risk Bureau.
From the tine of mans discharge
from hospital until his first check ar
rivcs, there often elapses p period
varying from day 20 months. Dur
ing that time, as the statute Is now
construed, the government is power
less to provide for his maintenance
1t is reported that the offices of the
Vocational Education Board are fire.
quented by wounded men, struggling
along on such financial assistance as
they can get from their friends until
the arrival of their first compensation
check, which means their admittance
to school. Incapicitated by their
wounds from resuming the occupation
they left to enter the army, they are
utterly helpless until the slow moving
machinery of the War Risk Bureau
reaches their cases.
Figures from the New York office
CT the Education Board are said to in
dictate that since September 10, 1918,
when the office was first established,
1896 discharged disabled soldiers
have been interviewed, S67 Of whom
have been approved for training, but
only 1856 actually placed in the schools.
More than $40 of the men have found
positions for themselves, and the re-
naming 11,757 heroes are either wait
ing for their cases to receive attention
from the War Risk Insurance Bureau,
or waiting for the Vocational Educa-
ton Bureau to assist them in finding
positions.
Spiggoty Englis.
The Bureau of Mines, in its last
monthly statement brings out the
startling fact that the inability to
read and understand English places
the foreign born in danger of his life
Director Manning concludes his report
with the statement that had the En-
glish-speaking American rate for fat
alities and injuries been maintained
there would have been a saving of
TIC fatalities and 900 very serious in
juries, strong argument for Ameri-
canization and education of the min
err" Wherein the Bureau of Mines is
right but has not gone far enough in
its argument. American business and
industry to Americanize its foreign
born element and institute compulsory
education but also to dispense with
such u large proportion of foreign
language courses in our schools and
colleges. what is sauce for the goose
is sauce for the gander." How many
Of the successful big business men of
the United States who have branched
out into foreign countries have been
students of the languages? The Eng
lish Language has proved adequate in
practically every case. Better that
the Bureau of Education spend its
time placing practical courses in our
schools, courses which will fit the men
the world in which they can earn i
and women of tomorrow for places in
sufficient living than to force down
their threats languages, which after
they have been mastered, are cast
aside, never to be used. Americanize
our foreign bornl Americanize oui
American bornl There is no better
way to stamp out bolshevism for tn,
future. True Americans are not SUM
to sleep by anarchistic symphonies
1t is those who suffer in ignorance o.
the true principles of free govern
ment, a republic, by, for and of th'
people, who fall into the snare Of tn
radicals.
Maker and Breaker.