Arizona republican., 1920-08-02
GIVES POINTERS ON REHABILITATION IF
 INDUSTRIAL CRIPPLE
lessons Learned by Govern ment in War, Applied to Industry, Would Solve Problem of Caring for Disabled Citizens

NEW YORK, August 1.-The lessons learned by the United States in its work Of rehabilitation of soldier and Pa1lor veterans of the war, if applied lo the problems of the industrial crip- pie, would mean not only the return 70 independence of those injured workers. but an actual increase in the wealth of the nation of $2,500 GOO, 900 . year, according to Ralph T. Fisher. district vocational officer of the Fed Fral Board for Vocational Education In the New York district in an address here Thursday before the New York Rotary club
 In point of dollars said MT. Fish fr, restraining the industrially crip- pied means an increased productive value to the nation of amounts hereto- Tore little understood. I believe we are easily within conservative esti- mates in saying that any seriously disabled man who can be vocationally rehabilitated will have his earning ca pacity increased by a total of at least Sl2,500 for the remaining period of his life, and that his increased pro- ductive value to the nation will easily reach $50,0OO
 The Federal Board for Vocational Education is just now gathering data on the subject, but if, for immediate estimates, we assume that not more than one-fifth of the permanently dis aDled require retraining, we would nave 5O,0O0 men a year to be retrained. It is simple matter of computation to see that if each retrained man re- turns $50,000 in the remainder of his life, the increment accruing to the wealth Of the nation would amount to -wo and one-half billion dollars. This enormous figure, it must be remem- bered, is the estimated result of train Ing those persons crippled in indus try in one year"
 250,0 Disabled Each Year.
 MT. Fisher said it was estimated by the board that four or five times as many persons are disabled in indus try in one year as were disabled in the American Expeditionary forces during the period of the war He said fhat at least 250.000 persons are per- nlanently disabled in the United States sach year through industrial accidents
 The problem, said Mr- Fisher, will always be largely a state problem.
 .'The state.'' he said, which is re- sponsible for the most industrial crippleS is likewise reaping corres- poding profits from the industries in that state which are responsible for those cripples- Consequently, funds for industrial rehabilitation should come chiefly from sources of state taxation, assuming that the state will, m turn, derive taxes for that purpose from the profits of those industries which are responsible for the acci- dents.''
 MT. Fisher praised the act of Con- gress in passing almost without re- duction the ninety million dollar ap- propriation for the rehabilitation of war veterans. This action, he said made it possible to prove beyond a doubt the feasibility of rehabilitation of cripples.
 New York Law Praised.
 New York state is to be congratu- lated, MT. Fisher said, "on having re- gently passed a law calculated to &C., cept the provisions of the federal act recently approved which does not provide for the support of the indus trially disabled who are undergoing vocational training, but purposes to standardize, supervise and encourage industrial rehabilitation in the various states. The New York law designates } state advisory committee for the re- Mobilization of handicapped persons