Show SCARRED HEROES OUT OF WORK IN N. N Y Technicalities Prevent Their Placement in SC Schools loo looIs s at Pres Present en t Special Special- 1 t v X yew w York April 26 A 6 A technical technical- It tty IKy in the vocational rehabilitation actis act IK is temporarily disbarring hundreds of or disabled former soldiers from vocational vocational vocational voca voca- training according to officials of oC the Red Cross Crout says tears the Nc New York Tribune The Sears Smith bill signed b by the President on Juno 27 7 i 1 1918 1915 18 provides for tor vocational ocal rehabilitation reh and antl re return rot ro- ro I t turn n to civil c employment of disabled persons discharged from the military or ot or naval navi forces of or the United States tates I rid and for or other purposes An Initial appropriation of oC I with which to carr carry on this work wa was made mado and approve approved as part of oC th the act Tho civil ehU sundries bill Om ill provides pro for Cor the Appropriation of cr additional In Section 2 th the stipulation Is made that every person who is iN disabled under circumstances entitling r him after discharge d fr froni m m the military or fir natal 4 al forces of th the United States Stales is entitled to compensation luI Get ct l Kir irI Cheek Up-nr Up Henry Brarton of the Red ned Cross Institute In- In for tor Crippled Men here and of officials officials officials of- of of oC the federal board for vocation voca- voca ca cation tion education declare that under the literal Interpret interpretation Uon of oC this section no na soldier Is for or training until ho has haR received his first compensation or 01 pension money moncy from the War ar RIsK Jr Insurance bureau Bettit Between een the time of a soldiers' soldiers discharge discharge dis dis- charge c from the hospital and the there re- re of oC his first Ch chick check CI no provision is made h by the government for or his maintenance t 1 It was said at the offices oC or the tho board This period was as de described do- do scribed as varying from twenty four hours ot of months A hero bero of or rho iho Argonne his left hand shattered J by a n piece of oC shrapnel de declared de- de yesterday that this proc procedure dure dureI I is taking inking the heart healt out of oC me and driving mo nun to 10 suicide lie Ho declared that h- h he e has been be waiting I nS' nS for tor ah almost o a n lor or ins compensation struggling a along IonS on slender finances v. to being t admitted to one onn of or orthe the tho numerous schools used h by the thc got gov government O for the rc retraining of ri II Of four soldiers In lit the out outer r office o on othe n of or the Hie board c three had been waiting more than three weeks for their Initial o t I while one discharged fifteen 1 lys ys rs or o has al alto also o been o overlooked e o o 0 date hi te Sniffer During In Be-In telny A former corporal of the Ninth In- In infantry In Infantry Int t fantry of the heroic Second division and aud a veteran of or Chateau Thierry Thiern- three times wounded and deprives nf or his normal speech b by a n machine gun sun bullet wound In the mouth registered f for r admission to training school chool and departed in search for a position t to support him until the receipt of his first payment from the government There dont don't seem to be an any john jobs here ho said haltingly The They want wantonly wantonly only men with trades I was a salesman sales sales- man man he he laughed ami fingered ln his scarred face face but but talking comes awfully aw nw- awfully ful fully hard now I suppo o that I wll wn get ct Into a a. scho school l when I get m my first check but In my family waited f for Cn Jr months for Cor their allotment nn and I think Its It's a case of hustling or starving In ing Since September 10 1918 1915 when the Hie board was walt first opened 13 G discharged die dis charged disabled soldiers have o bee Inter interviewed lowed Of or this number have hac been approved for far training while only onh G have ha been placed in schools school V 1 total of or have ha found Cound positions for themselves cs under the thc supervision of the federal board The r remaining discharged heroes heroes he he- ro roes s are arc either cither awaiting their compensation compensation com cont- or awaiting positions from the placement bureau of oC the tho board a |