The Republican., 1920-03-25
HARD BOILED METHODS ARE
BEING USED ON WAR VETERANS
Vocational Training Beard Issues Or
der to Show Lack of Sympathy
to Wounded.

to Wounded.
Washington, March 23.-Represen-
tative James w. Hustled, of New
York, and Col Franklin D'Olier, COM
mander of the American Legion, have
instituted a fight on the inhumane
methods of the Federal Board for Vo-
cational Education. At the instance
of the legion head, Hustled has intro
duced a resolution calling for the fol-
lowing information:
First, whether the Federal Board
for Vocational Education, or any of
its agents, officers or the employees
thereof, issued an order to any one or
more of the officers, agents or en-
ployes of said board containing in
structions to guide such officers,
agents or employees in the disposition
of applications of disabled soldiers
for training under the Vocational Re-
habilitation Act, which said instruc-
tions were in the following language,
or the substance thereof, to-wit:
"The organs used in approving cas-
es are the eyes and the brain The
ears and the heart do not function
Be hard-boiled. Members of the dis
trict Office stats will beat you over
the head with verbal pressure. Dis
trict pressure causes all our mistakes.
Put cotton in your ears and lock the
door. If you are naturally sympa-
thetic, work nights when nobody is
there. Accept advice from central
office. Take all the cigarettes you can
get from members of the district Of
flee staffs, but no advice"
Second, if said order was so issued,
the name of the person or persons is
suing the same; whether said person
or persons are now in the Government
service under the Vocational Reha-
bilitation Act, and, if not in such ser
vice, when and under what circum-
stances of resignation, dismissal or
otherwise, the severance from the ser
vice took place, whether said order
was issued with the knowledge of any
one or more members of the Federal
Board for Vocational Education, and,
if so issued, the names of the mem
bers of said board who had such
knowledge. If said order was issued
without the knowledge Cf any mem
Der of the board, whether said order
has been rescinded and, if rescinded,
the date when said order became in
effective.
Husted's resolution was referred to
the Education Committee, of which
Representative Simeon D. Fess is the
chairman, for immediate hearings In
commenting upon his resolution, Mr..
Hustled said:
eve cannot afford to overlook an
absolutely Incorrect and unsympathet-
ic attitude by the board in connection
with its work The 'hard-boiled' or
der reflects an incorrect attitude
which is callous and flippant, and ev-
erybody connected with its issuance
should be dismissed from the board as
wholly unfit to administer the rehabil-
itation law passed by Congress. If
any department of the Government
needs a Congressional investigation.
the Federal Board for Vocational Ed
ucation surely does, and | am going
to the bottom of this matter, not only
to find out who issued the unfeeling
hard-boiled' order and whether the
members of the board were aware of
its issuance, but also to develop the
facts concerning the entire operation
and policy of the board
every member of Congress is
greatly disappointed at the failure of
the Federal Board for Vocational Ed
ucation to achieve the standards for
which it was intended 1t was the in
tention and hope of Congress that this
organization should accomplish a
great humanitarian work, and it
surely was the belief that the admin
istration of the rehabilitation law
would be placed in the hands of men
who would administer its provisions
wisely and in accordance with
proper attitude toward the wounded
soldiers. The hard boiled order is
sufficient evidence of how short the
board has fallen in maintaining the
necessary sympathetic attitude to-
ward the country's wounded veter-
ans. Congress has generously appro-