Republican farmer., 1920-01-30
CONGRESS FAILS TO MAKE GOOD ON TAXPR0MISE Vocational Training Board Has Need For More
 Money $12,OO0,OOO MORE HAS
 BEEN REQUESTED President Urged That Mon ey Be Granted In
 First Place

Washington, D. C., Jan. 29.-The light of day is beginning to fall on the political machinations of the Re- publican majority in Congress with the reporting to the House by the Appropriation Committee of sS2, 100000 deficiency bill. Last summer, and again at the Christmas recess. the majority leaders made loud claims of their savings to the taxpayer. Now they are beginning to pay some Of their curtailed notes.
 Probably the best instance of what | Congress has actually done by way of | saving money is in the appropriations l for the care of the men wounded in 1 the great war. The Federal Board for | Vocational education particularly has 1 had to stand the bumps incident to the record Congress was trying to make for itself in the campaign year. The new deficiency bill reoom- | mends the granting of an additional 1 SIP, 100000. This Is out of the S15,- l 000,000 requested by the board to carry 1t over until July 1920, and re- | presents the second deficiency appro- 1 priation the board has had to ask l since last summer for the retraining ] or the cOuntryS wounded
 | In July last Congress took issue with the estimates of the board and pared 1 the appropriation in it's Sundry Civil Bill down to ss,00o,00o with which the men disabled in the war some l 150,000 or more-were to be rehabili- | tated and put back in the economic | machinery of the country. Realizing | the utter inadequacy of this sum- | President Wilson lost no time in ye- toing the entire Sundry Civil Bill and | returning it for larger appropria- | ton. which was forthcoming, Con l gress did not at that time add all i that was really necessary, but repass- l ed the measure with the addition of 1 several million dollars. In describir 2 the situation at the time the Presi- l dent said:
 | 'Inasmuch as there are already more than 4,o00 disabled soldiers, l sailors and marines in training, and | inasmuch as another 4,o0O will be
 put into training now that the
 amendment to section 2 has become
 law, it is clear that even at the rate
 of only SS0 a month amount ap-
 proximating $s,000,oO0 will be re-
 quired for the mere support of these
 men, and that under the present ap
 propriation nothing will be available
 
 placing them where they can earn
 8. living, and it will be impossible to
 meet the needs of the new thousands
 who are every week seeking the benefits of the rehabilitation act"
 Since that time in November, 1919
 the board has had to ask for g
 deficiency appropriation of $10,00O,.
 900, and for the present deficiency 6. 15,0O0,o0o, which it has recently done and of which the committed has chosen to report favorab1y only } $12,000,00o.
 There are now 23,s4o former sol diers, physically and vocationally dis abled, who are being rehabnitate6 } and put back on an economic footing
 through the vocational education ant 3 rehabilitation schools of the board 1T various parts of the country In ad r dition to these there are 2,36s mer already enrolled in such schools, who = for personal reasons have temporarily suspended their courses, many be r cause their physical condition re quires rest. Recently there have beer reported to the board some 92,00( applicants for Federal rehabilitation out of the forces mobilized for tn. : war and wounded in the nation.
 battles. Of these 1t Is estimated
 about S2,oo0 will be favorably re
 ported on, and the majority of tha.
 number enrolled in technical ana
 academic rehabilitation schools in thu r course Of the next month of two. One of the principal obstacles a
 this time Is a lack of acconmoda
 tions, but many new schools are be ; ing rapidly supplied The city O Holyoke, Mass, is building a voca,
 tional educational school with view to accommodating large number O
 these pupils and several other citiel . have similar projects on foot II 1 1 Holyoke 1t is believed the school vii become permanent, and that a larg' :, percentage of more than 300,0o0 dis 1 ajbled annually in industry will late = find the school @ haven there.
 The Federal Board for vocationa
 education also has on it's hands thu . re-education and bringing back tt :. health of sorne 35,S00 tuberculal = cases that have come out of the war : Much of this work will be done i. a cooperation with the Public Healt; <. Service, but the state of health of { large percentage of these Is sufficient = 1y good to warrant going directl.
 ahead with their re-education and t; 5 l this end about five or six sanitariun = 1 schools are being constructed. \ Several of these will be in Nev 5 Mexico, which commonwealth ha, = | taken a marked interest in the car | of these cases.
 Many of these schools and sani | tariums of temporary but ample con
 struction, are already under way | During the last month there hay
 been BIO graduates from the genera | vocational courses conducted by tn >' board. Some of these are nov y ready to take up additional vvo y l cationa1 courses.
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