The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1921-09-16
Vocational Training.

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The Federal Government, in CO.
operation with the State of Tennes-
see, has provided fund of $4,000
for the present year for the training
of disabled citizens OF Tennessee.
Both men and women, who are six
teen years old or over and who, on
account of any accident or disease,
have a physical disability that him
dcrs the person from following a reg
ular trade or vocation, are eligible
to the benefits of this law The re-
Mobilization fund can be used to pay
for the tuition, books and tools for
the person undergoing rehabilitation
training, No part of this fund can
be used to pay the board and lodging
of the disabled person.
The injured person will be trained
in certain schools and in the shops
and factories, industrial establish
ments and the corporations through
out the State Whenever possible,
the injured person will be given
training in or near his home locality.
The disability does not have to be
received in the course of employ
ment. A boy injured on a rabbit
hunt; girl disabled from an auto
mobile collision; woman injured in
her home is entitled to the benefits
OF this training as is the one who
is injured in factory or on rail-
road. Persons who are crippled as
result of disease are also entitled to
be trained under the provisions of
this law.
Hundreds of Tennesseans who are
unsuited to follow certain trades or
vocations on account of their physi-
cal disabilities can be trained for
other trades or vocations which can
be followed successfully. For exam
pie, a farmer who has lost one or
both legs can be trained as shoe
maker, a printer, a saddler, harness
maker, a linotype operator, and q
score of other positions; a young la
dy who has been disabled by in
fantile paralysis can be trained as
stenographer, file clerk, costume de-
signer, bookkeeper and a number of
other vacations. It should be re-
membered that a physically disabled
person usually has left uninjured the
greatest faculty of all, that is, the
abled, the disabled person through
proper training can be qualified to
follow successfully a trade or voca-
ton that will be means of self
support.
Those who read this article are
requested to send the names and adj
dresses of any disabled persons in
their community, who appear to be
in need of rehabilitation training, to
the Director of Industrial Rehabili
tation, Mr.. Robt H. White, State
Capitol, Nashville, Tennessee.
Although the rehabilitation fund
is limited, yet it is hoped that at
least four or five disabled persons in
every county in Tennessee can be
given the benefits of rehabilitation
training. With this fact in mind,
the readers of this paper are urged
to send Mr.. White the names and adj
dresses of persons who are most Sc
riously injured, such as the loss of a
hand or a leg, blindness, or those
badly crippled from rheumatism, in
fantile paralysis, etc. Women, as
well as men, are entitled to all the
benefits of the industrial. rehabilita-
ton program. No disabled person
should hesitate to accept the ben
efits of this training. 1t is net in
any sense charity, but sane effort
on the part of the State and the fed
eral government to render social JUS
tice to the injured and handicapped. |