Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1920-02-27

in any one of the sixteen
reconstruction hospitals
u that his discharge is what
ER$%#fV3%I lie wants most and he VIII
bE@% keep on saying it after he
SzsSA~Aa3 gets if and arrives home.
He means ii, of course, Dut IL Is al'ei
the fashion TO say it anyway. Inc ar
raw of Inconvenience that have been
looming I'D ever since he turned from
tho victorious battlefield remind him
that he wants "Out." These are-suu-
den transfers from camp 10 camp, only
one shirt or one pair of SoX, long de-
lays in papers being signed, uncertainty
about war risk insurance papers, IN
certainty about physical condition, and
all sorts of annOyances in way OF
sameness in meals, much confinement,
and having no way of using ones own
initiative and doing things for ones
self. OF course, this array of incon-
veniences was as much in sight when
he was an active soldier, but he didn't
see them.
Although these continually tickle the
soldiers desire for discharge, they do
not keep him from the larger inf1u-
ence of reconstruction, which has made
such an atmosphere that he writes
back after he's out and at home that
he's bit lonely, and he may add some
thing that shows his courage-(for
his letters always have this in them)
is not understood. Indeed, he will
write back anything he feels, for he
has an understanding of the recon
struction folk and they of him.
This reconstruction program. as car
ried out In the hospitals for the re-
turned disabled. is one of the most I'M
usual and unique happenings of the
war period. Perhaps no part of the
war situation is more dramatic than
this, and in the written history it will
occupy some of the most interesting
pages.
Meanwhile this drama of refitting
the disabled for life is still going on.
The workers have been selected from
the applications requested by the sur
geOn generals office at Washington of
thousands of persons, largely women,
qualified for this work, and more than
5000 women have been appointed.
They have come from country, town
and city. The large majority are
trainei in arts and crafts, for their
first kty is TO occupy bed patients
with ndwork, and their second to
rive n convalescent something to do
help TO cure a stiffened mus
teach one hand to do what
lids previously did. Some are
lists in some craft, like jewelry
hasketry, wood carving. leath-
Ing or rug weaving Some are
It's In art, and teach poster
\and designing. Others are
workers and help the mer
I'd chains, baskets and any
tld like for himself or a
mother group are stenogra
hi teach shorthand and tipping
or are teachers for reading. writ
arithmetic. or on up through the
re subjects. Still another (thes'
mepA teach subjects like agricul
auto-mechanics, printing. etc
IL. a group with entirely differen
ling do massaging to restore tn
nctions of muscles and nerves.
10 the reconstruction workers COM
ON the nation at large and, there
ore It's the whole American people
that are helping this soldier to get set
!tled again.
Now there wouldn't be much dram'
pnuch of anything else TO The 10
\construction if each person JUS
) hit that Uncle Sam assignee
do. But he. or rather she
and that is why the soidie
baAk and that's why there's
.-Sto tell-one that might b
py part of any communit
Ollege or university, bu
xain until there is al