The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1920-02-27

KLSN keep on saying IL hltei hc
002 gets II and arrives home.
He means 1t, of course, but 1t IS arter
the fashioa to say 1t anyway. the ar
ray of inconvenience that have been
looming up ever since he turned from
the victorious battlefield remind him
that he wants "out." These are-sud-
den transfers from camp to camp, only
one shirt or one pair of sox, long de-
lays In papers being signed, uncertainty
about war risk insurance papers, I'M
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 infu-
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 un
usual and unique happenings of the
war period. Perhaps no part of the
war situation is more dramatic thar
this, and In the written history II vii
occupy some Of the most interesting
pages.
Meanwhile this drama of rehttinl
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 O
thousands of persons, largely women
qualified for this work, and more thar
6OO0 women have been appointed
They have come from country, tow
and city. The large majority ar
trained in arts and crafts. for thei
first duty is to occupy bed patient
with handwork. and their second t
> give the convalescent something to d
{ that will help to cure stiffened mus
: Gle or to teach one hand TO do wha
y both hands previously did. Some ar
8 specialists In some craft, like jewelr
r making. basketry, wood carving. leatf
: er tooling or rug weaving. Some ar
!. specialists in art, and teach poste
4 painting and designing. Others ar
l general craft workers and help the me
y TO make bead chains, baskets and an!
thing he would like for himself or q
q home. Another group are stenogri
i pliers and teach shorthand and typin,
8 Another are teachers for reading, wri
ing, arithmetic. or on up through tn
= college subjects. Still another (thes
n are men) teach subjects like agricu
y ture, auto-mechanics. printing. ct
/. Finally, a group with entirely dlfferer
= training do massagfng to restore II
d functions Of muscles and nerves.
Q So the reconstruction workers CON
Q from the nation at large and. Their
J. fore It's the whole American Peep
that are helping this soldier to get Sc
tied again.
= Now there wouldn't be much dram
7 or much Of anything else to the X
: OF, reconstruction IL each person ju
u did the bit that Uncle Sam assigns
y him to do. But he. or rather sh
y doesn't and that Is why the soidl
u writes back and that's why there's
.. real story to tell-one that might
y reacted in any part Of any ccmmuni
' or in any college or university, b
y never In full again until there Is q