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Show THE MAIMED SOLDIERS WILL BE WORTH THEIR WAGES Tho war ciipplcd .sold to is who aio being reeducated by Undo Sam In vocations milted to their handicaps aio to bo absorbed Into American commercial and industrial life only or tho basis that they aro woith tholr wages, declares Samuel Hopkins Hop-kins Adams In tho June Number of tho new Hod Cioss Magazine. Such dllllculty as tho situation holds Is his conclusion after a thorough study of the program that is being carried out by the government, Is not In tialnlng tho maimed men but lu educating edu-cating tho prospective employets. "Tho manufacturers and business men ot tho country," ho declares, "must bo persuaded out ot tho natui-al natui-al but erroneous belief that becaiiBC n man has lost an arm or a leg or a senscT ho Is therofoto economically a defective; and educated Into perceiving per-ceiving that whllo a cripple cannot 'do so many things as a whole man, thoso that aio within his scope lit) ran perform, after tho government Id through with him, better than the average. Sheer earning capacity Is to bo the solo basis upon which tho government govern-ment sees Jobs for its maimed. A thousand mpn could be scattored and placed on a sufferance or sympathy. Thirty thousand which Is tho nuiu-iber nuiu-iber of more or less Incapacitated soldiers, sol-diers, can bo successfully merged with tho nation's economic structure only on a basis ot efficiency,' |