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MAY YORK. \ 114 1!' Thousands
I *>! factories. shop- and offices in tin*
I nifed States are planning to open
their doors after the war to the sol
di* r and sailors who may return
limn** h.indi* app**d In omuls *» seri
ous as to force these men t«> enter
r.e\* trudes and industries.
Already field agents employed by
the Red Cross Institute !•>•• Cmpled
and Disabled Men in this city are at
work demonstrating to employers ot
I.-bo’ that a man who has lost an arm
or a leg may prove to be a valuable
worker, capable of maintaining him
self in comfort. If not affluence; for,
with the allowance made by the gov
ernment to the returned tighter,
wages earned hv labor would place
1 him on a better footing financially
than he was before the war.
Douglas c McMurtrie, director of
the Red Cross Institute, has knowl
edge of hundreds of typical cases of
men who have been crippled in in
dustry and in battle Such men, ac
cording to Mr. McMurtrie. instead of
becoming despondent derelicts or
mere pensioners, have learned trades
and professions which have made
them happy and successful.
A mechanic who enlisted in the
Princess Patricia's regiment and who
was wounded and returned to Canada
sp»mt three months in a convalescent
hospital, and now earns, it is said,
double his former pay. having taken
advantage of mechanical drawing and
arithmetic classes carried on at the
institution Writing to the hospital
instructor, he said; "At present, |
siueo my discharge from military j
service. I pm, technically, a better;
m in all around: I am able now to
hold a job as foreman in a mach'nej
shop, with more than twice the sal
ary | was getting before."
\ former prisat** in the Thirteenth
battalion, before enlisting, was get
ting $12 a week for driving a city
milk route. He lost an arm and a
leg. and after a course in a re-educa
tion school subsequent to preliminary
training at the convalescence hospi
tal. he obtained a position as a metal
turner and fitter at $75 a month.
Quoting Lord Shaughnessy, Mr.
McMurtrie said that “the occupations
and training provided reveal aston
ishing talents which even the man
| himself did not know h»* possessed."
[The success which is being achieved
in Canada in dealing with the proh
| lent of vocational re-education. Mr.
■ McMurtrie stated, has been inspiring
to those who have the same work in
hand in the Cnited States.
The federal hoard for Viwifinnnl !
education, with an initial appropria
tion of $2,000,00o, is authorized to
take over all schools and Institutions
necessary to re-educate the crippled
soldier or sailor, and in certain cases
I to build new schools. Thus far the
preliminary work of rehabilitating the
war cripples has been undertaken
largely at the Walter Reed general
' I hospital In Washington, under United
States army supervision, and at a
dozen or more similar institutions]
throughout the country.
Basketry, typewriting and similar
simple kinds of work are given thei
patient to keep his mind clear and
bright and give him an interest in
life Major General William Gorgas,
surgeon general of the army, It is
understood, heartily approves of this
method The Red Cross Institute
here, however, will not take a man
for training until he haH been dis
charged from the military or naval
' service. Its plan contemplates the
I employment of a re-education advisor
I in every military hospital where the
needs of the patients as to learning
new trades or professions could he
studied, and the men will be given
every advantage of selection after
practical tests.
"The public has too often confused
the idea of a cripple with that of a
i beggar." said Mr. McMurtrie. "The
| resulting reaction has done a great
5 injury to the cause of the self-respaet
’ iug disabled man in regarding him as
a subject for charity but not for trade
? training and employment.
, "To he sure, there is historical
precedent for this attitude, for in past
1 decades and centuries various peoples
have condemned the cripple to the
status of roadside beggar or at best
employed him as jester or court fool.
And in our experience there is justi
fication in the view because we have
seen many cripples at street corners
making 'tmblic exhibition of their de
formity or amputation and soliciting
alms of the passers-by. The number
■ of these beggars is small in comparl
son to the great hotly ot physically
handicapped men who are usefully
• •inployed. hut the few have vigorously
• advertised, have made a considerable
! imprtion on the sitsi cptibilitb*.; of
the community, and have reaped a
j.Kditalde harvest. \ hank teller re
! pi . Jed feci nt 1 \ i he < a < of . • rippl' d
lie.! beggar vv bo deposited in , <v
ings aeeoiiiit alter pa vine. hit living
• \ peiises. $ I" a vv ei*k
“'rbat the begar rrippb* ba been
permitted t«> ply bis trade is a great
injustice to the disabled men of cb 't
’ at ter ami independence 'Hie prac
tice should have been stopped ia the
past; it is absolutely necessary that
it be prohibited in the future. For
with the exportation of our soldiers
who will return disabled from the
'front the publi should have on ox
idise for associating their prospective
career with that of the mendicant.
On the contrary, every influence
should be brought to bear upon the
public to show that physical disabil
ity is an obstacle, but easily superuble
with character and ambition; and
that the cripple may be made into a
useful and productive citizen.
"In several cities then* have been
inaugurated campaigns t«> drive the
crippled beggar from the street anti
give hint the alternative of produc
tive employment or a stay in jail.
Such efforts should be imitated in
every community anti persevered in
until tin* unfortunate conception oi
the cripple shall exist no more Such
activity may well be undertaken as a
first step in preparation for the re
turn of our disabled soldiers and siil
ors.”
Frank It. Bigler, a one-armed and
one-legged business man. “loaned” to
tile Bed (Toss Institute by a big Mis
souri corporation to act .as its indus
trial agent during the war. in ampli
fication of Mr. Mc.Murtric's statement
said that a cripple came to the
institute recently to get pads for the
stumps of his legs, both of which had
been amputated He was a beggar,
and had been forced on the streets
because he could not get employment.
“We persuaded him to give us an
opportunity of getting a job for him,”
said Mr Bigler, ‘explaining that it
was much more respectable to earn a
living than to be dependent upon
charity. We succeeded in placing
him in a factory assembling the parts
of whistles at $1 a week to start.
“We placed a out* armed man with
tin* Kmpire Art Metal Company at
running an emery band. He was
raised three times in six weeks. He
now receives $24 a week. When hfa
company ran out of material he was
not contented to remain idle, hut
.mie hack to us to ask for another
job We placed him with the \meri
< an Hard Bubber Company, when* he
made good The company immedi
ately offered ns jobs for fifty leg crip
ples. I can place every one-legged
man in New York dtv in profitable
employment The case of the one
armed man is somewhat more diffi
cult. but we can help him. neverthe
less.” i
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PKKIN'G. Vug 10—An agreement
recently concluded by China and Ja
pan for discontinuance of specie re
demption by ^he Chinese Provincial
Government Bank of Manchuria and
for preferential guaranteed value of
local bank notes is declared by com
petent authorities to afford Japanese
business interests in that territory
snch an advantage over those of other
nationalities as effectually to crush
all competition. Already one big
American concern has ordered a sus
pension of business in Manchuria, and
it is said others will inevitably have
to do the same.
It transpires that the Kengtion bu
reau of finance, a Chinese institution,
borrowed on April 88 from Japan, for
the purpose of "readjustment ot the
reserve" of the Provincial bank, the
sum of 3.000,000 yen. and gave as se
curity all of the Chinese holdings in
the Pen hsl hu Colliery and Mining
Company These 8.000,000 yen were
required to be deposited with tin* Muk
den branch of the Bank of Chosen, a
Japanese concern, and it was agreed
j that for every $1,000,000 additional
i silver notes issued by the Provincial
bank, 8,000,000 yen more should be
j deposited In the event that the Chi
! nese provincial authorities are unable
! to repay the loan at maturity, the
1 Japanese gain control of valuable col
lieries in South Manchuria.
The advantage to the Japanese busi
ness interests lies in the fact that.
| every local bank note held by them
lias its face value guaranteed l»v
l.oon.oOO yen deposited tor that pur
pose, whereas other nations have no
r;i«h guarantee
Specie redemption re.cod on M.y
12. For several \» «is Japan lias in
; !’.• its face value guaranteed by
' house hank - hi Manchuria at the
’. fc of $ 41 *.* '• 1 i iiicin'li. In ( on •
; ounce flu i'ii!ri.- .. hank.- v. en- in
• nan- ial si rail nd had l<» 1 «ok to
Inpan for relict The immediate re
nit of the suspension vv a depres ,
sion of tin* lot it notes and an intla-1
tion of the IViyang dollar to $1 7.'. in
terms of minor coins, which i - the j
highest point ever reached.
Japanese under the agreement with
China are able to indemnify them
selves for any loss occurring from
acceptance of small coin money or
paper notes and are thus able to un
dersell their competitors. For $1.20
in small coin notes they can obtain a
silver Mexican dollar which costs oth
ers $1.75. The Chinese authorities fix
$1.20 as the arbitrary rate. The Jap
anese calculate that anything above
that represents a loss to them, and
they are at liberty to compensate
themselves accordingly out of the
• dim.ooo yen fund.
A protest by American government
officials against this discrimination
br »; lit an offer by flu* governor gen-i
eral to make an exception in favor of*
specified persons and firms, granting
the same privilege enjoyed by the
Japanese; but the offer was refused,
since it was not available to all Amer
icans doing business in Manchuria
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War has a way of driving on with
out regard to the desires or
conveniences of the
individual.
....This is no time for hesitation....
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victory nearer, you must get started.
The • Government wants what your
money will buy—and wants it before it
is too late to be of use in this war.
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to cut down the unnecessary things and
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