Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-03-07
DEP ARTMENT OF
EDUCATION HAS
NEW ACTIVITIES
Division of Industrial Rehab-
iitatiOn Has Been EStab-
IiShed With D. w. Rocky
AS Supervisor.

Especial Correspondence TO The Journal
Santa Fe, March GA new and
very practical form of service for
the people of New Mexico is com
ing to activity in the state depart
ment of education through the
work of the division of industrial
rehabilitation, just now getting in
to action under the direction of ID.
w. Rockey, supervisor, who TOOK
charge Of the work on February /.
Mr.. Rockey came to New Mexico
from Utah, where he had wide eX-
perlence in industrial welfare work.
lie has given his first month on
the job to a careful preliminary in
vestigation of the New Mexico field
the results of which indicate tina:
his division Of the department or
education is going to have plenty to
do, Mr.. Hockey estimates thas
there are not less than 1000 men
and women in New Mexico, eXclu-
sive of disabled soldiers, who are
eligible for assistance under the act
of congress and the New Mckee
law by which each appropriates
$4,000 annually for cooperative
Industrial renaDr;:;atfon WORK
among civilians, under the general
supervision of the division of in
dustrial rehabilitation, fedefai
board for vocational education.
Rendering a disabled person fit
to work and earn: that's our Jop,
MIR. Hockey said today in discuss
ing hin work 1T is a Job worth
doing, for the Industrial and eco
nomic wastage due to disability
from injury or disease is enormous
throughout the nation, and Ne"
T,exico is by no means exempt.
Under the act of congress re-
Mobilization is defined as the rem
dering of a person disabled fit 10
engaged in a remunerative occu-
patton The language of the act
seems to indicate that Its trainers
had in mind almost wholly an ed
ucation or special training process
But in actual experience It mas
been found that rehabilitation Il
actually a specialized and Otter
complex personal service Wnlcn
may include medical or surgical aio
leading to physical reconstrucuon
the provision of an artificial arm
or leg or some other mecnanlca
appliance and teaching its use; oc'
cupation that may be carried OF
without aggravating certain disease
| tendencies, such as the ARRESTED
case of tuberculosis; placing a per
son disabled to incapa city for ont
kind of Job into another that M
can hold; or providing suitable
training for specific occupation
ANY or all of these forms of as
sistance may be found necessary II
a specific case of disability.
1--WE are empowered to spent
money from the appropriation onl!
for tuitional expense--actual edu
cational work, and in such case
the individual must provide hi
own maintenance. Thus limited
both as to scope of expenditure an!
appropriation available, our worl
becomes a big job of cooperation
with whatever agency that can b.
found ready to assist, in handlinl
each individual case. We do no
anticipate any difficulty in findin'
cases to occupy our attention. W.
may encounter some difficulty il
securing the corporation that /
necessary to successful handling 0
these cases, until the people gen
orally understand what we are un
dertaking to do. With understand
ling of the work cooperation is
matter of course, because, first AM
last, every case of industrial dis
ability is a burden upon some one
family, friends, business, industr
or community, and lifting that bur
den is as important to each Of thes
as it is to the disabled one. We wan
to know every case that come
within the scope Of our work, an,
we want to get into contact wit
every agency capable of co-operat
ling with us. While the work vii
keep me in the field much OF tn
thine ] can be reached at any tim
through the department"