Albuquerque morning journal., 1920-04-19
S130,000 PAID .'
FOR VOCATIONAL
WORK IN MARCH
J. C. Ross of Federal Bureau
Reports 1900 Men Placed
In Training In This Dis
triCt at Rate of IS Week.

In Training In This Dis
triCt at Rate of Is Week.
j. c. Ross district manager of
the federal board for vocational
education, returned last week from
a conference n Denver of all men
in the branch offices of district IL,
called for consideration of ways ana
means to go even further than has
been gone in eXpediting the work
of getting into training all dlsa-
bled soldiers, sailors, marines and
nurses eligible for training under
the rehabilitation act.
The federal board for vocation
al education has been working
steadily towards decentralization
ever since it was divorced from the
war risk insurance bureau last
July. At that time 5000 men had
been approved for training. Tc
date 4l,O00 men have been ap-
proved, and $1,000 of these are ac-
tually in training. Men are being
placed at the rate of 200 a week.
I'm this district" states Mr., Ross,
figures show that over 100 have
been approved for training, anG
that they are being placed in train
ing at the rate of seventy five
per week, During the month of
March there was paid in casn TO
me for training in district No. Ii
S130,000. These men are taking
training in fifty institutions over
the four states of the district anG
in forty-five or fifty shops In vari-
Gus parts of the four states. Cam
paigns are constantly being made
throughout the territory by advise
ment men meeting and contracting
with these men, and relationship
with cooperative agencies such as
the American legion, American Red
Cross, public health service, cham
Der of commerce, Elks and other
organizations are very fine In
aiding the federal board to get
these men face to face with the
opportunities offered them,
Authority of the district office
has been extended, so that now the
following procedure, formerly
lodged in central office at Wash
ington only, is being carried on in
the district office:
\. The approval of all cases, eX-
cept those which at the time of
application are known to require
more than two years for the COM
pletion of the course. Heretofore
all cases except major amputations
and hospital cases had TO be sent to
Nrslg h I'M of tffN fnr
2. The power to place any man
who has been awarded compensa-
ton Immediately into section III
training merely upon the presenta-
ton of proof that he has been
granted compensation.
The foregoing procedure has
greatly facilitated the handling of
cases.
At the conference there was also
discussed, a plan for sending repre-
sentatives from the district office
at Denver with representative
from the central office at Wash
ington, to stra tegic points through
out the district, which embraces
New Mexico, Colorado, Utah and
Wyoming-for the purpose of find
or might be entitled to vocational
education, that there the papers on
each case might be completed and
the man given decision on his
case and where the decision was
favorable the man be placed i'm
mediately into training. BY TINS
means it is believed that the cases
over the district which have not
been given decision because of
lack of proof of legality can be
handled and the men placed into
training at once or as soon as they
are physically able and an institu-
ton that can provide the needed
training found.
The conference also listened to
members of the American legion
and took up the matter of a closer
relation and cooperation with
them, also with the other organiza-
tions thus far so beneficial to It's
work. Now arrangements have
been made by the American legion
which should greatly facilitate the
work of the board. BY this ar
rangement the American legion
posts everywhere have been IN
structed by the national headquar-
ters to name one man as vocational
educational adviser to whom all
men who believe they might be en-
titled to vocational training can
go, and he will establish liaison
with the representation of the fed
eral board. With this help, the
board feels it will be able to con-
tinue the splendid record of the
past six or eight months and de-
sires all persons as well as the or
ganized agencies, supply informa-
ton on any man who may be in
need of its assistance in getting
back to civil employment.
Freddie christopher Sganzini has
just been placed in the mechanical
department of the state college, IN
1.-THE work of auto repair and ighI-
ton.
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