Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-11-02
DEL. UNIVERSITY is
DOING A WONDERFUL
WORK FOR SOLDIERS
Continued from page

mo one win forget ArmIstice Day 1
and it's afterperiod OF thanlxfulnoss.
the continual round of festivities An
honor OF the returning soldiers and
sailors. Fashionable ladies' turned |
from knitting socks to the serving of |
banquets and the holding OF dances |
In .their behalf. Money was Just as |
| lavishly poured into funds for cole |
brations and receptions as previously
for Liberty Bonds and war relief |
Bands We're playing and colors flying.
You men stopped your autos anytime
and anywhere TO give the boys a
lift Nothing was too good for our
heroes. II is credit 60 the men that
all this homage did not turn their
heads.
But all this feasting and celebrat-
ing had to end Reality said; The
trenches Of France are behind us.
Once again we must find employment
and take our places among the daily
wage earners. The ablcbodied ex-
service man eventually found work
again, IL not his old job, another per-
haps more suited 10 his new possI-
i bilities. brought out under rigorous
training and experience in France.
But what of those men weakened and
MANNED for life, thousands and thou
sands throughout the United States.
those men many OF whom had spent
! from six months 10 a year of suffering
, in the hospitals looking forward
eagerly to the days when they too
could go out to their places In life.
What did they find on leaving the
hbspital2 When employers were APP
|, preached by those men, in spite of all
their interest and sympathy, they
could only say: Handicapped as YOU
are we can use you only If you are
trained
, fright here at your door in the
: University Of Delaware are twenty
nine veterans with lung or bronchial
trouble brought on by gas, gunshot
: wounds, or exposure. as many more
suffering from such things as broken
RIBS, crushed hands. paralyzed
, muscles, broken shoulderse, ankles
and what not, to say nothing of those
with one eye, one hand, or one leg.
s Heart cases. deafness, epilepsy, all
? have exacted a toll. Some of the sad
dest sights are TO see apparently
o strong, ablebodied men rendered help
4 less by wracked nerves due TO she'll
4 shock. gas, or the strain of war
h alone. There are eight of these In
IS Newark.
q "These are now incidents to us
Often II Is necessary to help sti.lighter
Il out family affairs, for the men are toe
i unnerved TO help themselves
i Nothing can compensate for these
| htsf af
: Mobilization Is to trains such men, .,
n that when they ask for job, they ear
l. ask with something 20 offer, /. e., IN,
services of trained man. who can al
~ ways iill a position even though dis
= abled.
Aroused by the seriousness of th'
{. situation the employers all of whom
= yearned 10 help these men. and tn
:, general public demanded action. Oi
- June -, 1918, the President approve,
= the Vocational Rehabilitation &C
/ which authorized a department of re
&c hahilitation under the Federal Boar
for Vocational Education, TO furnisl
= vocational training to men handicap
E. ped by wounds traceahle to service.
\ "The Federal Board for Vocationa
{ Education was formerly divided int,
lg Il districts of which Pennsylvania an,
he Delaware were one. Now the who'll
le has been reorganized by combining tn
h Bureau OF War Risk Insurance. tn
Federal Board for Vocational Re
N habnitation, and the Public Healtl
oT Into the Veterans Bureau which hope
he TO prevent duplication of effort am
re to reduce the administrative force
n 81. stsisl
IN have been proven eligible for training
as and s7.604 have taken vocationa
-. training under this act. Out of thi
n number 5.522 have been successful
I trained OF those remaining ap
-. proximately 80 per cent are takin
=. training in the trades and industries
- 80 per cent in business and commerce
! l13 per cent in the professions; IS pc
:, cent in agriculture, while IA per Ger
- are taking what are called try-ol
courses.
~ LET Us bring the case nearer hom
ne IN this building there is branch o
ls' fee Of the Veterans Bureau which
N common with all the rest OF Il
PEI country, has made thorough car
10 yass of its State TO learn how mar
ne men are entitled TO training. Do yc
realize that there are about 357 m,
70 in this state Of Delaware registered 4
act training. Of whom 161 have accepts
The and are actually in training?
~ A Typical Case.
he let us take a typical case, mar
"a of course fictitious, TO illustrate &
i, operation OF this law affecting such
81 large number of men. Tom Pelaski,
a,,t coal miner OF Pennsylvania, was ca
-, ed 10 the colors in 1917 and sent
- once to France. With many othe
- he was gassed at the Battle of I
,s 4s AIarne. When finally released FRI
sen the hospital at Philadelphia, he !
.he turned at once TO his old occupati'
'De' coal mining, But few weeks pass
= before il was proved that he was
'saa longer the strong-lunged young Poll;
American. The gases and the hea
stih confining labor OF the mines were
dY much for him. Through the help
an the Local Red Cross he sent TO
di- Federal Board in Philadelphia his
mis-: fidavit Of disability. his army d
and charge and an application for traini
one "An examination by the bos
wer medical officers proved that the
hat tent OF his disability made him
: is gible and feasible for training.
ord the same day he was interviewed
what Is called a vocational advi:
he who, learning that Pelaski was raj
(. "a on a farm in Poland, suggested that
" take UP agriculture as a future
cation. Furthermore it was belie'
that the open life would help his IL
.. trouble.
Ugh ITO train men OF Mr.. Pelaski's
inc grade education. the Philadelphia Z