Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-07-07
Rehabilitation Is Now
State and Federal Plan
Aid TO Be Given to Cripples
and Other Unfortunates
In Wisconsin

Rehabilitation means rendering a
disabled person fit to engage in re-
munerative employment. Industrial
Rehabilitation includes those disabled
in industry and in other walks of
life. In order to. obtain satisfactory
results in this work, we'll organized
plan for rehabilitating such disabled
persons must be established a plan
which involves physical restoration,
vocational training, and proper place
ment after the case has been given
proper advisement and training.
The 66th United States Congress
appropriated one million dollars for
sthe purpose of promoting this social
service among the handicapped of the
various states This sum is appOr-
toned to the various states in the
ratio that their population bears to
the entire population Of the Unied
States and on this basis, Wisconsin
will receive 5000 annually fTonE& I
eral funds. But the federal govern
ment is not willing to advance this
money without some state appropria-
ton and consequently, insists that
each dollar of federal money spent
must be matched by state or local
funds expended for similar service. To
meet this requirement, the 1921 SEES
sion of the Wisconsin Legislature
enacted the Industrial Rehabilitation
service.
The administration of the State
Industrial Rehabilitation Law was
placed under the jurisdiction of the
State Board of Education of which
Mr.. GeorgeP. Hambrecht is director.
Mr.. w. F. Faulkes was selected as
state supervisor of this work and he is
assisted by three assistant supervisors
Miss Melba Roach and Mr.. J. H.
Brown of Madison, and Mr.. H. V.
Harvey Of Milwaukee who has charge
of the Office in that city.
Rehabilitation is a personal service
and each case presents problems pc
culiar to the individual. Hence, it
is of the utmost Importance that the
disabled person be seen Immediately
after his accident so that a healthy
mental attitude toward his rehabili-
tation be built UP and maintained In
order to accomplish this end, it is
often necessary that bedside vista
ton to the injured be made during
the period of convalescense.
The state staff of the industrial Re
Mobilization Department, consisting as
it does of only four people, is too
limited in number to reach all indivi-
duals that are in need of rehabilita-
ton service as soon as necessary In
order that this early contact may be
made in all cases, it has been decided
to enlist the support of the various
localities in the state to cooperate
with the state department in this work
Local committees on industrial re
Mobilization are being established to
accomplish this end. These commit
tees are mainly advisory in nature,
but their personnel will include a
working secretary who will make
study of local conditions and be pre-
pared to cooperate with the state de,
partment in promoting this special
social service in the community. The
balance of the committee will, in most
instances, be made up of representa-
tives of the various social, health,
business, and labor organizations Of
the local community. Each local COM
mittee will choose it's own chairman
vice-chairman, and such other officers
as it deems essential to the proper
execution of the work. For obvious
reasons, it seems advisable that the
executive secretary be named by the
state department.
Since much of the training program
will be taken up through the local
vocational schools, when such exist,
the local Board of Industrial Educa-
ton will assist in this field of endeay
or and such institutional training as