The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-08-31
AMIElR1lC CAN LEGION NEWS

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here tell Of a nation
ID nation pay
ms atty Of an unjust
warb aFOR HER SONS
WHO FOe These visitors
praise the speedy effort put forth by
| the German government in caring fo1
the dependents of her dead and dis.
fabled, aid in rehabiliating the wound.
led for gainful occupations. ..3
Most of these who have closely II
contact with the work done and be.
ing done by the German government
Loyalty aided by the public along these
lines declare they marveled at the
expedition with which the nation
undertook the big task, ard how sue
Icessfully it has carried: it <out, in view
fof the sorely depleted national treas.
ury, and the lack Of facilitates. With.
out drawing odious comparisons, they
inquire, closely into what our own
country has done since the great wa1
ended and the problem presented it
self. I'll = s2a*4% ~ %$$x ~%E n :,
A. A. Sprague, chairman Of the Ia-
tional rehabilitation committee Of the
American Legion, in a. recent letter
to Brig. Gen, G. E. Sawyer, personal
physician Of President Harding and
chief coordinator in charge of the
plans for the treatment ard care Of
|disbled American veterans, accused the
general Of seriously delaying and in
terfering with a Disqualification pro-
gram already. agreed upon and ord.
cred by congress-. < =. -.
!. The American Legion declares more
than $500 mental cases are still con-
fined in contract institutions unfit for
their care, and of the remaining Ats
victims of mental disorders due to
the war, only $500 are in government
institutions devoted entirely to their
care. = # ~. &.s,>~.. -.
!. Hardly had Germany's millions of
disabled been returned to their homes,
those who have studied the work there
say, before the government began
paying out of it's scant treasury money
to the wounded and the dependents Of
the dead, at the same time starting
the disabled in vocational training =
often carried on by those who had
not been wounded. But that is not all.
Realizing that the disabled men and
widows of soldiers cannot live sole
1y on the compensation grants, Ger
many sometime ago set about to get
jobs for every wounded man, not to-
tally disabled. The infinite amount OF
work involved in getting the disabled
placed is in the hands of a patriotic
organization headed by Joachim Won
Winterfeldt, land director of the pro-
vince of Brandlenburg. n r..
Won Winterfeldt, in the early days
of the war, perfected an organization
for Brandenburg which has now been
copied by every province in Germany.
In each province; the organization is
SO complete that no badly wounded
soldier has. to go far to report his case
ard make known, his needs. After
local headquarters has considered the
case of the disabled man, he is sent
to Berlin, where a full record Of his
life and needs is made. After a thor
ough examination, the employment
director takes charge of the disabled
man, finding out the type of work for
which he is best suited and obtaining
a job for him as near the disabled
mans home as possible. .: @'% >33I H, r.. .
i Germany has hit upon scheme BY
which German manufacturers, who
may have profited by the war are made
to help support disabled soldiers. a
law has been enacted, whereby every,
business which employs more than 20
persons must give employ IN two
percent Of its jobs to badly wounded
soldiers. %Hs@ 4. / . Il E. ,.:5 1.
The duration Of the soldiers job de-
pends upon his giving satisfaction, but
it is said that German employers have W
rot been drastic and the disabled men
are making good. Disabled men are
being given virtually the same sal
aries as the men who are normal.
I III Brandenburg, there are 62 re-
gionaI offices outside Of Berlin. These
Offices have taken care of more than han
Sd, 900 wounded soldiers, $4,000 CT
whom were classified as badly wound
ed. OF this number, all but 600 are
at work. 5t s:s "a. ~ 5..s3s
III German manufacturers, showing
that they were eager to make the dis
3abIed mans lot as easy as possible,
have installed special machinery Y
their factories for blind men and men e,
with only one arm Of one leg. AT these
machines, The. disabled men are able
'toz turn out AS much work as normal q n q.
men. .sss B ~ B. D >ts5s5 ,.s5
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.sHORTHORN BREED
'77'''s ! ERs MEETING
There will be a meeting Of Short
horn Breeders III the Bottineau Com
rl1ercial Club Rooms Saturday night,
September 2nd at eight o'clock This
meeting il called for the purpose Of
discussing II Short thorn sale il coriilec-
ton with the Annual Corn ard Pota-
ID show to be held I'M October. All M
iterested should turn out.
ID. Ertresvaag, Secretary