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Show H; n n m K' A SQUARE DEAL FOR THE CRIP- D , PLED SOLDIERS Hv ' "When the crippled soldier returns from Bi the front, the government will provide B ior him, in addition to medical care, spe-It spe-It icial training for self support. 1 ' But whether this will really put him Kr , ljack on his feet depends on what the 1 1 public does to help or hinder, on whether II the community morally backs up the nail na-il tional program to put the disabled sol-11 sol-11 , flier beyond the need of charity. U ' In.the past, the attitude of the public H las been a greater handicap to the crip-H crip-H Pie tnan lus physical disability. People H i1ave assumed him to be hopeless, and H have, only too often, encouraged him to H become so. H Fo1' the disabled soldier there has H een rliero-worship"; for the civilian H -cripple has been a futile kind of sympa- H i-liy. Both do a man more harm than H .good. . ' B v L All the cripple needs is the kind of job I l" "ST m, I" he is fitted for, and training in preparation prepara-tion for it. There are hundreds of seriously ser-iously crippled men now holding down 'jpbs of importance. Other cripples can do likewise, if given the chance. In the light of results already attained abroad in the training of disabled soldiers, sol-diers, the complete elimination of the dependent de-pendent cripple has become a constructive construc-tive and inspiring possibility. Idleness is the great calamity. Your .service ,to the crippled man, therefore, is to find him a job, and encourage him to tackle it. Demand of the cripple that he gets back in the work of the world, and you will find him only too ready to do so. For the cripple who is occupied is, in truth, no longer handicapped. Can the cripple soldier or-the industrial indus-trial cripple as well count on you as a true and sensible friend? |