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Show HEALING mmm OF WAR BIGGEST JOB OP RED CROSS Broken Homes and IV!en Must Be Rebuilt Re-education cf Disabled Sol'Jicrs for Future Usefulness. Thry nre nlrendy rebuilding "u-broken "u-broken liecuB of I-'nince. And they ure :ilre:id.v rebullilii:; Uie I in ken men. Over here we, loo, lire ;e; lin ready to devote to the same tnsl; the bebt i t Anieiieaii skill and genius. Tor ea. h million of our men who enter ncllon ten thousand will lie so crippled 11s to need mechanical appliances, appli-ances, 11 lid Ihey will have to he ypi-eiiilly ypi-eiiilly educated to use these so that the nctioii of the missing limbs will be reduplicated ns closely 11s possible. If the Hermans had hud Ihe entree to certain parls of Krnnco last fall thry milit have seen li.-bis that Ihcy once destroyed yieldin,' their best crop In years. Aral they mi;:ht have si ea some of theso fields liein reaped by men they thought they had done for. Thoy were men with varying de-prees de-prees of lep.lesse.ess anil a.anlessuess. Some run (and repaired) tractor engines. en-gines. Some, wiili boili anas pone nhove the elbows, spaded the cround with the nid of n clever mecliaiiism to v.ldch the sjiade was look (!. One man, wh.o also had hut the sunup of each sirm left, not only used a scythe but kept It sharp. The lied Cross is ru:rrtms a five-hundred five-hundred acre farm in France on which I the malnvd are taught the use of farm implements nnd the care of domestic animals, nnd is already laying its pliins for great work for the maimed In (his country. The end nnd aim of all Us work will he to fit men to return re-turn to their own homes, nnd re-enter, ns nearly 11s possible, their former phire in life. Sometimes those re-cducnled men take 11 far higher plnce In Ihe community com-munity tlinn they occupied before. For Instance, men who have been automobile automo-bile mechanicians, and whoso legs were mutilated, have been re-educated In mechanical drafting. Ilridge work- ; n: n have made similar advances. A ; . 'ar.adiaii mocha u !c v. ho was laairiod I and aflrlward reeducated became u I I' -1 . -1 ! : : 1 1 nl iii.irc than doiiblo his for-: for-: mer pay. It was only tlo ir seeming ; I 11. i o! or; ;:ncs that opened for lie .-" ! ii 0,1 ihe ;!tirt :;)!' lo secure the cili:-; cili:-; ca;: ai li eir lalon.s lo.'i itcd. j The Kcd dvy sends out a strong I warning rgaii -'t liii-::::!:en kindness ;o- I ward tiie n ainie 1 men who are even I now ret iniinL'. If. It says, the public , . irsls's i n ua'.iiig lie:.-; of tl;'"-" men. ! j it wiil end 1 y in.ii.ieg ;!e,:i babies. If : j employers hunt Ii. rough i'leir plants for 'snaps" for them, and give them j j Jobs that menu little more than bold- ' ' leg down stonis ar.d reminisci; g aboui. ' J li.eir daring deo;i.:, then holed we I sic, II complete 'tlx work of cb'sini'-tlori for them, maiming minds ns well as bodies. YVe, the American people, are goln to be nsked to spend more time, more money nnd energy keeping these men In the game than it would cost to merely support nnd amuse them nnd let It go nt thai. We must make them special l'arm-ses. actually and metaphorically, meta-phorically, nnd then have patience while, ihey lire getting adjusted to It. And we must see that te.ey have liieir chances a; suitable employments. l'ut these men are going to have something more than jusl marvelous appliances ll.nt will enable them to do almost any kind of work. These men's tremendous sacrifices won't be paid back by letting llmm In on life's work, but not its sot-pd game. So they are going to have Sunday arms nnd legs ns well ns the v, ork-a-day wonders! A man with both bands gone may, with perfectly molded lingers, light his own cigarette or play cards. And a man with Ids face so ravaged that his best friend could not restrain a shudder may wear, over the disligured part, a mask that is perfect and delicate, a work of art and science. |