Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1921-02-17
War Widows and Orphans
To Be Trained By Board
(Bx J. c. Barney

| 10y J. =. baFnes)
! Senator Kenyon has introduced a
bill in the Senate, which is a bill to
amend an act entitled, IAN act to
provide for vocational rehabilitation
and return to civil employment of
! disabled persons discharged from IL
military or naval forces of the Unite
States, and for other purposes" a.
proved June q, 1918, and amendt
by the Act of June II, 1919.
This bill includes in substance I'll
matter included in the DesOlutio
passed by the American Legion
convention assembled at CleVelan,
Ohio, in September, 1920. This pre-.
posed act, which has already passed
the Senate, provided the following:
l. Vocational training for Ameri-
can citizens serving in Allied forces.
2. Vocational training for 10 per
cent disability or over.
3. Vocational training for widows
or orphans Of persons who have died
as result of injury or disability con-
nected with service in our armed
forces.
4. Medical service and treatment
for all trainees.
5. Base pay of 500 a month for
all trainees.
6. Limitation of eighteen months
in which to apply for training after
passage of proposed act.
1t can readily be seen that the pas
sage of this bill would hberalize the
conditions leading 20 eligibility. 1t
would give wider scope to the
board and permit them to train all
men who have been awarded disa-
bility of 10 per cent or more by the
Bureau Of War Risk Insurance, many
of which cannot now be trained by
the Federal Board of Vocational
Education with maintenance pay I'M
der the present laws governing the
boo~d
If this bill becomes a law, those
citizens of this country who fought
in the ranks of our Allies and who
were disabled while repelling a cOm-
mon enemy, will be entitled to voca-
tional training on the same status as
a brother citizen who repealed the
common enemy in the ranks of the
armed forces Of the United States.
The citizens of the United States
who went into the Canadian army
and were injured and suffered disa-
bility, should be entitled to voca-
tional training. The present law does
not cover this mans case. The pas
sage Of this act would permit this
man to be trained.
Under the present law governing
the board, maintenance pay granted
to men taking Section training is
$50 per month for single man; in
those localities where the cost is
above the average and relatively high
jim these centers maintenance pay
is 500 per month, with an additional
allowance for dependents as pre-
scribed under Section 204 Of Article
2, War Risk Insurance Act. Passage
of this bill would standardize the
pay of men taking Sec
ton 2 training throughout the United
States, and all men would draw 500
per month, plus the additional family
allowance mentioned above.
This act would further make it
possible to grant training with main
tenance pay to the widows or orphans
Of persons who died in the services
or who have since died as a result of
injury or disability connected with
their service. This would give many
who are now struggling to
support themselves and their father
ess children an opportunity TO mas
ter some form of work whereby they
could earn a fair living wage with
which to support themselves and their
children in the proper manner