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Show Views of Sawyer on Rehabilitation THE question of hospitalization of the World war veterans is one embracing many important features fea-tures which have heretofore been unnecessary un-necessary in the construction of proper prop-er hospitals for the care of civilian sick, according to Brig. Gen. Charles E. Sawyer, the President's physician and military aid. "There is nothing too good for the World war veteran who is trying to regain his health and re-establish himself him-self In civilian activities," he says. "A vocational training program which Is carried out on the basis of entertainment enter-tainment and hospital occupation Is unfair, both to the World war veteran vet-eran and to those who have the responsibility re-sponsibility of operating such an Institution. In-stitution. "Sensible engagement such as will Improve both mind and body should be the policy of the rehabilitation forces. To make such a plan workable it Is quite important that every institution giving hospital care to the ex-soldlers thould have a well-equipped and perfectly per-fectly arranged special apartment in which vocational training can be carried car-ried on. With an academic course as the underlying principle, It will then be quite easy to carry out a commercial commer-cial course which would lead into all tne practical lines of business, 6uch as hanking, accounting, etc. There should be an industrial branch of the educational educa-tional system. There should be an. agricultural course. "Out of these four courses could certainly be applied, separately or Jointly, Information which would without with-out question make every individual participating more capable, more self-reliant, self-reliant, with greater earning power. "Some have an Idea that there is such a difference between the various classes of patients that each must have a separate Institution in which to be treated. With that view I am not in accord. I know after a third of a century contact with all classes of patients that it is perfectly possible pos-sible for all classes of cases to be ., treated In the same institution. It is unjust to stamp any as defectives." |