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Show MISTAKE SOMEWHERE. The American legion Weekly, the official magazine of tha great organization organi-zation of soldiers of the world war, now in process of formation, charges the government with failure to keep its promises to disabled veterans and places the responsibility upon the federal board for vocational education. Tho weekly is very severe in its handling of the subject and some 8ort of an explanation ex-planation from tho board will doubtless doubt-less be forthcoming. Ono charge of the weekly is that "in ordT to make sure that no maimed man in training is permitted to receive more than $S0 a month while a ward of the government, govern-ment, any wages he may earn while perfecting himself in his new vocation are appropriated by the board." Section Sec-tion 7049 of the regulations is quoted as proof of the charge. This section reads as f ollows: . " All disabled men in placement training will have set off against the training pay described, such wagos as may be paid him, by the employer em-ployer in whose establishment he is being trained, for services rendered during training. ' ' The wording of this section, apparently appar-ently substantiates the charge made. Recently, however, the following statement state-ment was issued by the board: WASHINGTON', Hept. 14. Tho wholehearted whole-hearted co-operation Kiven to the fcdr-ral board of vocational education by industrial, indus-trial, commercial and educational Institutions Institu-tions In the work of retraining diffibld soldiers has been ot untold value in the accomplishment of the purpowea of congress con-gress In the enactment of the vocational rehabilitation law. Some employers hava even pone po far as to admit their indebtedness to disabled dis-abled men who bavo been placed in tlu-ir establishments for training purpos'.-. In recognition of the money value of the work done by these men in trnining:. certain cer-tain employers hava paid them wages. Men in placement training are paid at the Same rate as those training in colleges or schools, and no deductions are made by th board in tha training pay of tlnse men because of money earned incidental to their work while students in, shops, offices, farms or elsewhere. Therefore we may take it for granted that tho extra money earnod by the disabled men iu training will not bo held out on theni by tho government. The taxpayers of the' United 6tallH, while they insist upon a general curtailment curtail-ment of expenses, are in favor of giving the wounded men the best care possible pos-sible negardless of cost and the vocational vo-cational board should bo aware of tho fact. There is probably just cause for complaint on other scores, but we think the men in training need not be alarmed lest their earnings bo taken away from them. |