Show p s sa Y Contest 0 t inner nn er Named Jaycees I II In connection with h a program further Employ the Handl Hand Ul ui ped the Panguitch Junior amber of Commerce sponsored n n Essay contest in the local school The Jaycees wish at athis his time to thank tile the students eachers and judges for makh making g this possible First place went to Edward second place to Ila ha Mae Cobb third place to 1 Illy Sargent The title of the Ule winning essay Is Employing the Physically ith id t Unpaired paired employing Employing the tho 11 ill Impaired I. I All through American history es especially since the end of t the the e eI I First World War we as Americans Amerla Ameri Amerl- cans a ans s have ha been faced with the problem of ot employing the physically tally cally Ur impaired After the last world war the ther r bob dob ob was bungled and it was not i at at t all uncommon to see a crip- crip led ed or blind person sitting on me me street corner selling penIs penns pen- pen ii ns Is flowers Clowers or even worse sit- sit I c ing with a tin cup begging penal pen- pen t al' al les ies ies from passers This time mid and iid from now on there must be beno beno beo no o such mistake We must see hat hat every handicapped person persons s s trained for some profession before he Is put out to try to torn torn rn his or her own way With With modern methods of train- train g and new scientific discoverS discoverer discover discover- er es s these men can become assets S o o a nation instead of liabilities en were this not so nature as s tried to make It slightly p-asler p aster sier for the handicapped perT per- per T TJ TS eon son n by making the other organs more more skilled to compensate for forI I fr jE the be loss that has been incurred Modern methods of production call ll for men and women skilled w in one operation or form Corm of work This applies also to toI I modern mod mod- r r ern ern business Why then can not these men and women to whom I i t We we e refer as handicapped take their Ir rightful place in this world n r 1 Employing a handicapped pern per- per n must not be done out ot of j sympathy mpa r for this Is the last thing in tho the world a so-called so r handicapped person wants j Rather ather they want to lo be treated as any other person given the theT theme same T me opportunities and responsibilities g 0 f Therefore we must look at i this tills problem with a purely n n. j lime cold-blooded cold like business-like Y attitude Naturally no company 1 or Individual can afford to employ employ em em- f ploy anyone who is a liability rather than an asset We must i. i train our Impaired so they can canfill fill jobs and do their jobs as asell 1 well ell or better than persons not thus handicapped Let uS MS look at a few ways the Physically handicapped can be useful to a thriving nation Why cannot a person with a leg or arm missing be as good ink In Ina Ina k a clerks clerk's job as anyone To begIn begin begin be be- gin with the senses of the mind are probably sharper than before i his Injury He also knows that he be is more or less at a disadvantage vantage and will thus try harder hard hard- er to d do o his Job efficiently The loss of some of his native powers Is naturally going to make him wore more conscious of his responsibilities responsibilities to others as well as to himself I F A girl with an arm or leg gono gone jr 1 H an do secretarial work as well as anyone The blind or deaf too can perform much valuable work in fields such as science N and electronics There are arc several severN sever sever- al examples examples of people thus handIcapped handicapped handicapped hand hand- doing remarkable things In just such difficult fields as these The handicapped can go into thousands of tiel fields s such as sculpturing cabinet rr m making a k kin i n g g aeronautical engineering and architectural work With these few examples you youcan youcan youn can n see how a handicapped person person per per- I I son Bon may till fin the job you OU even eyen now are trying to find someone to take r We Va Americans have hae the re- re 8 of ot seeing that tho the h handicapped aro arc prop prop- II I erly trained so eo that they may go out Into the world unafraid of ot what awaits them and looking forward to a prosperous future not only for themselves but for tor all America 1 |