New-York tribune., 1920-05-07
Wood Favors
Prompt Aid to
Var Disabled
General Says Wounded
Veterans Should Be Adj
mitted to Training
Schools Without DELAY
Confers With Managers
Believes Skillful Farmers
Should Take to Soil In
stead of Staying i'm Cities

General Leonard Wood Yesterday
smoothed out whatever differences ex-
lsted between Colonel William C. Proc
ter, chairman of his national campaign
committee, and Frank H. Hitchcock, gen.
eral manager of the Wood campaign: :
received callers at the Harvard Club
and the Eastern headquarters, in the
Imperial Hotel: visited the Tribune Of
ilce and last evening called on Mrs
Theodore Roosevelt at Oyster Bay.
During his talk with the newspaper
men he advocated prompt measures for
the vocational training of disabled sol
diers, and in discussing the high cost of
living said it would be a good thing if
thousands of skillfu, Italian farmers
would take to the sell instead Of re-
naming in New York and other large
towns.
81 feel strongly" said the general
chat adequate measures should be
taken at once to insure the success of
the vocational training system for dis
abled soldiers. Disabled men them
selves should have representation on
the Federal Board Central Committee
think disabled men should be used as
largely as possible in the supervision
of disabled men in training, because of
their great sympathy and close under
standing.
Should Train Disabled Men
"Men of the American military
forces who are entitled to training be-
cause of disability incident to their
service should be admitted without
delay to the training schools, which
will give them the new equipment so
essential to their we'll being, and will
enable them to become independent and
useful citizens again; thus inspiring
them with hope and giving them con-
tidence to face the future All Federal
employment bureaus should be charged
with the responsibility of securing
adequate employment for these men.
Not only is it important from the
standpoint of national morale that we
do all possible for those men, but it
is most important from that of ma
tional economic efficiency"
After making fifteen or twenty
speeches, long and short. . day for the
last two or three weeks the general
said yesterday the proposed league of
audience, and as for the war, the peo-
pie, he said, would be glad to forget it.
"The people are, however, intensely
interested in the cost of living and
why it is that bushel Of potatoes is
costing them about &c." he said. at
would be a good thing if we could get
a large percentage of the Italian farm
ers already in this country and those
who are still coming, to take to the
soil instead of stopping here in New
York and other large towns, where
many Of them seek other kinds of en-
ployment. An Italian farmer can beat
a Chinese in intensive cultivation Of
the soil.
Would Send Experts to Farms
again. we should strive to make the
best possible use, both from the stand
point of our own country and that of
the immigrant, of the previous training
which these men and women have re-
ceived, of the knowledge and ability
which they bring to us. We should en-
courage and attempt to influence them
to go to those sections of the United
States where their previous training
best fits them to benefit both them
selves and the nation. Thousands of
men trained in methods or intensive
truck farming, for instance, remain in
our large cities to become vendors of
fruit; others, trained in special lines
of work, settle down in the large cities,
living in racial areas and fed by y
dialect press, remaining in groups so
dyed with their racial sentiment,
methods of thought, ideals and Gus
try from which they come rather than
the stamp of Americanism.
"This should not be, if we can pre-
vent it. If these new people are good
enough to be received among us, to
become the heads of future American