rnvc prepared
government stands back of
disabled men ,
j£ecial To The Caducous.
UR PRESIDENT calls
attention to the fact that
the Government stands
squarely back of it’s dis
abled fighting men. The
THE CADUCEUS
I— —iisuuiig men. The
President says that the government's
peat program of rehabilitation which
IS being carried out fully and gener
ously, “is the payment of a draft of
honor which the United States of Am-
selected these
The intense efforts of the Govern-
ment to properly care for the disabled
soldier and sailor are emphasized by
the President’s letter. In these days
when peace negotiations and the grave
problems of re-adjustment of all busi
ness are uppermost in the minds of
most men, the President says, “this
Nation has no more solemn obligation
than healing the hurts of our wounded
and restoring our disabled men to
civil life and opportunity.”
The Re-educating, re-training and
re-placing in civilian industry the
great numbers of disabled men has
become a much bigger task than was
time of the signing
difficult problems are being met by
experts of the Federal Board for Vo
cational Education, which has full jur
isdiction in this work.
According to estimates made since
the announcement of the total Ameri
can overseas casualties, there are
more than 200,000 disabled men under
treatment in the hospitals in this
country and overseas. Of this num
ber, it is probable that more than
one-fourth have been disabled by di-
sease. Contrary to the general idea
of the casualty list, only a very small
ppcentage of the total have suffered
disabilities which resulted in the am
putation of limbs.
It is not merely the men who have
lost arms or legs that the Government
IS offering to retain and restore to self-
supporting activity, but the Federal
Board offers its aid to every man, re
gardless of his disability, who is’ en-
Utled to Government compensation,
Th.6 Board roalizes that the many
thousands of men who are suffering
from the effects of shell shocks, gas
sing, shrapnel and gun shot wounds
which weaken their systems, tubercu
losis, bronchitis, heart and nervous
to re-ente?
their former occupations. To all these
as those with more evi
dent hpdicaps, the Federal Board is
extending tp opportunity to be re
established in civilian life.
The cases of several thousand of
(Rscharged by
the Surgeon General have already
been considered by the Federal Board
As many others are being sent from’
the incoming ships to the hospital
throughout the country the i- •
District offices of the Board are get
ting indirect contact with them. Cases
are being surveyed in a most thorough
manner, not only by experts of the
Federal Board, but each individual
case IS carefully considered by an
employer, a ■ representative of labor
and a physician in the home district
Of the man. -Every effor” is fe?ng
made to trmn and place each man
and°m‘ww°if suitable
and m which he is most likely to be
satisfied and successful.
Within the next few months it is
expected that several thousands of dis
abled men will be taking training
under jurisdiction of the Federa!
Board and at the expense of the gov
ernment. 'Those who had been actual-
ly placed in training on December
10th, were taking courses in a wide
range of trades and professions in
eluding twenty-seven different occup^
tions. Industrial schools, colleges“ol
fices and shops located throughout the
country are being utilized so that
most of the men are being trained
close ,to their own homes. 'Thirty-one
per cent of the total now in training
are taking commercial courses; seven
teen per cent are learning the various
phases of agriculture, farm mm : “
ment, poultry raising, dairying, etc
Others are studying law, ■ medicine
banking, and some are being trained
m engineering, telegraphy, tailoring
window trimming and designing, ac-
counting, store management, machine
shop practice, meat inspection, traffic
management, etc.
Board is prepared to
meet the emergency, and is ready to
give full attention to the individual
of the two hundreTtS
sand disabled men who needs and
rerah-r? rOf the liberal
rehabilitation program of the Govern
ment.
17
DANCE NIGHTLY
WORK OF COMMUNITY SERVICE
CONTINUES
UEEN cn Y’S Community
Service, known before the
signing of the armistice
as the War-Camp Commu-
Service, added dur-
ing the week past, a number of special
attractions to the regular list of re
creational activities conducted for the
men in uniform. A dance ha^been
iryon street every night, with such
tinue the dances at the club nightly
during the coming week. The pres-
ence of numbers of Charlotte young
for the holf
gfves^fhP® of dancers and
Ccy^fCrttro?porn5‘!‘\^^e"nVr^
S SSk”'
tor the officers
^tven at the
Southern Manufacturer’s Club Thurs-
'^*'® marked
with^ 1^1’’® ® Christmas,
with the celebration of a Christmas
fP®®'"** ‘tinner and
infoimal concert in the evening.
USE OF PLAZA
Recommendation that the buildings
Wac^in P’^=^ nt the Union Station,
Washington, D. C., erected by the
Government Housing Bureau, be used
to accomodate soldiers suffering from
nervous troubles who are now sent
Hospital, has been
made by Mrs. J. H. Boggs, of Wash
ington, to the Senate Committee in
vestigating the activities of the hous
ing committee. The statement has
been made that men suffering from
nervous troubles should not be placed
m a hospital for the insane.
father dies
The joy of the Christmas season
was turned to sorrow for Private The-
. i® , member of The Caduceus
staff, when he was notified on Christ
mas eve of the death of his father,
a retired wholesale grocer of Newark,
Ohio. Private Neal was granted im
mediate leave and left at once for
home. He has been granted a ten
day furlough.
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