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Show WAR CRIPPLES. The war cripple problem has been extensively ex-tensively st u died in Prance, the policy j of tho reconstructionists being to return i men to their old occupations whenever ; posMble. Out of .1000 cases studied at ! Bordeaux it was found that per cent 1 nt the wounded were able to return to J their former oceu pat ions y i t hout spe cial training, the remaining 17 per cent V receiving special education iu order to fit. them for taking up other lines of work. Tho result is due iu a great measure mea-sure to the phenomenal skill of modern mod-ern surgeons, a greater advance having . been made siuee tho outbreak of war in 1911 than for centuries. It was found by investigation that patients who had been farmers before being called to the 1 colors returned more readily to their former for-mer occupal ions than any other class, the loss of a hand or forearm not interfering in-terfering with tlie efficiency of the man who did not seek some new line of work. As a matter of fact, it was found that the services of some of the cripples were more valuable than before they were wounded, particularly when they were called upon to act in a managerial ca-i ca-i pacity. The reconstruction problem before the Suvernment of the United States is not so pressing as in the case of. Prance, whose man power has been so sorely depleted. de-pleted. But we shall have many thousands thou-sands of wounded men to look out for and some of them will require a certain amount of training before liioy will be fit to take up the battle of life or be able to earn a living. Pxreusive preparations prep-arations for the training of these men have already been made and we have ni doubt that everything possible will be done to set them upon their feet. Cue thing we hope we shall never sec is a crippled veteran of the American Amer-ican army selling shoe laces or lead pencils pen-cils upon the street corners or begging his bread from door to door. Such Mphts have been common enough in the Pu ropean countries from time immemorial immemo-rial and some of our ow n civil war veterans who had been crippled ere -cut out into the world to uet along as nest they could upon a small pension. But the world has made great progress in the p:ist fifty years and the men who face the shot and shell and are unfortunate enough tn get hit are now the objects of much solicitude and care. Some millions f men have been crippled crip-pled iu the lan Omr years. The future hob Is little ood in store for counties-i counties-i hou-ands of them, particularly tho-e w no claim Kusia or central Iv,::npc y-ihiir y-ihiir home. The--o countries are impoverished impov-erished and manor provide for the i won ndf'd. The l ; i .-: :i n - :i r'-o r: ;i re j ' robably as skiiful m thu-e of riiii-r j j countries and t-.cy have doubtless h.-:: able to rebuild many of their iiiaU'T'-d ! fighters but the diffi'-uliy will be in, , finding employment for them when taoy j are fit to work. There is ?,: h- ,3 j ehunei for such unfortunates in .:(-':-:a and practically n one at all iu Kn v-d a. I But in tliis country we have tho medi-cal medi-cal skill, the mean- and the wilt to care for the crippled soldiers for all of ! which wo should in.- thankful at the j close of a great war. One thing the j government should guard nuaint, how-lever, how-lever, and t h ;i t is a n i 1 1 f 1 u of ph y .-i -I call v incapacitated men from other I countries. We shall nut be able to care j for them. |