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Show TO AID MENTALLY ABNORMAL Soldiers Relief Commission Will In. terview Veterans in Oklahoma Penal Institutions. All veterans in penal institutions of Oklahoma will be Interviewed and examined ex-amined by members of the Soldiers' Relief commission, with special attention atten-tion to cases of men mentally abnormal. ab-normal. This action was suggested for every state In a resolution adopted at the last meeting of the American Legion's Le-gion's national executive committee. The veterans' organization will co-operate In the Oklahoma survey. Representatives of the commission will gather complete data on each veteran, vet-eran, to be used In assisting the men entitled to federal compensation, war risk insurance, and other allowances. Vocational training classes and a series of libraries will be established in the Institutions as a means of helping help-ing prisoners to rehabilitate themselves them-selves in civil life. A survey of the prisons of Wisconsin Wiscon-sin revealed that 00 per cent of the former service men confined therein were mentally abnormal, 00 per cent suffering from disabilities due to World war service. |