Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-06-04 | Page 7 | Trying to Uplift Nation's Cripples

IlG'TO UPLIFT " 1IIGMIPPLG Red Cross and Charity Organization Or-ganization Society Work Together. Realizing that the world war will soon send back to the United States hundreds and thousands of men who are shattered and maimed from wounds or physically incapacitated by disease or the effects of long strain and exposure, the American Red Cross and the varioua charity organization or-ganization societies are working hand in hand in a campaign that has for its object ob-ject the uplift of the cripple to a point that will make him independent of doled-ogt doled-ogt alms. Miss Kate Williams, executive secretary of the Charity Organization Society of Utah and secretary of the Home Service department of the Salt Lake County chapter, chap-ter, American Red Cross, said yesterday that the vital points in the work already undertaken were, first, to educate the public so that cripples would not be treated as objects of sympathy to be supported sup-ported by the passing- out of indus-crimlnately indus-crimlnately given donations, and second, to instill into the minds of the cripples a feeling of independence, self-reliance and consciousness of ability to be self-supporting. self-supporting. 4. "We can well begin educating the public pub-lic right now," said Miss Williams, "and we can well begin compelling many of the cripples we have in the city right now to earn their living in some useful way instead of depending upon donations from thoughtless and sympahetic citizens." In a -little leaflet issued by the Red Cross Institute for Crippled and Disabled Men, it is pointed out that "it Is no kindness to reduce cripples to the ignomy of dependence of others, for that makes them 'crippled,' indeed. We must put them buck in the game, make them useful, and, in consequence, make life well worth living again."