Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-08-20
IOWA RANKS HIGH
IN TRAINING LAME
AMONG LEADING STATES iNvo-
CATlOMAl- EDUCATION
AMONG CRIpPLES.
DOING MUCH FOR. MEN
MANNED IN INDUSTRY
State Officials Commended by Gov
eminent Officer in Charge of De-
partment-Both Federal and State
Governments Contribute Money
With Which to School the Manned.
by f. G. Dougherty.l

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Washington, S,llg. TO- High praise
for the efforts already made by the
Iowa authorities In operating the vo-
cational educational provisions OF the
state law was sis,en today by l.. d
Hawkins. chief az the division OF vo-
catlonal education with the federal
board of vocational education, vino
recently visited Iowa and conferred
with Governor Harding, and other
STATE officials having charge of vo-
Scational education in the Hawkcye
state.
Mr.. Hawkins said the governor
had decided to issue an acceptance
of the federal act passed by the last
congress thru the provisions OF which
the federal government and the
states cooperate in the payment of
vocational education to persons in
jured In industries. In the absence
of the state legislature being in ses-
sion. the governors OF states are
privileged by tho federal act 10 Of
tlcially accept the law.
The start made, by the Hawkeye
state in rehabilit,lting MANNED work.
ers, Mr.. Hawkins said, reelected
greatly upon Go'a,rnor Harding and
his associates. Ett said that agricul-
tural instruction was being given in
many counties OF the state; shat
some Of the schools of the state were
CO. operating heartily In reconstruct
ing persons injured in industry. and
that great stride, had recently been
made in off -season" classes. at
which painters and paper hangers
We're given instr,lc ton.
Mr.. Hawkins recalled that Cover
nor Harding some five years ago in
a public speech Outlined the benefits
that would come thru vocational
education. and he, said the Iowa ex-
ecutive has always been enthusi-
astically in favor of reconstructins
all who were injured in industry.
a recent estimate made by Mr..
Hawkins places the number of In
dustrial cripples In the United States
at 2,122,o00. OF these 100000 are
ciassed as GEOGRAPHICALLY useless
,,rhe federal act appropriates ST.
--000. 900 annually1fo Or four years to be
allotted among the states, which In
turn must give an equal amount of
that appropriated by the government.
The original applc priation is only a
fraction Of what'it will become In the
opinion of officials here. Congress
appropriated the comparatively small
! amount in order 10 give the states
the opportunity 10 develop >thetr
training system under federal super
vision.
While the law Is aimed to carry
on industrial rehabilitation, the per-
sons aided need not have been In
jured in an industrial occupation,
The law specifies.
+ persons disabled shall mean any
. person who by reason of physical
defect of infirlnity', may be totally
incapacitated for rsmunerative occu-
patton"
ANY in this class, are eligible to OBJ
tain benefits from the federal and
state appropriations.
Iowa Mot extravaganza.
Iowa did not live beyond Its means
in 1919. according to report of the 1919
state financial census just made
public by Samuel T,ogers, director of
the ce,isus. The ]Iawkeye state was
one OF 81 states whose revenues ex-
.ceeded the total expenditures for
governmental costs including inter-
est and OUTLAWS. Director Rogers, re-.
port shows that Io'xa netted $S.426,-
SI2 in excess Of its expenditures dur.
ing 1919. The state was exceeded
only by Massachusetts and Minnesota
In the amount of profit from govern
mental revenues. b