Show WOUNDS OF r VAR BIGGEST DIOCESE JOB OF RED CROSS CROSSI Broken Homes and Men Must Be Rebuilt Rebuilt education education Re-education of Disabled Soldiers for Future Usefulness I The They ore are already rebuilding t-rebuilding the I broken homes hOllies of France And they ore are already rebuilding the broken men Over here herec we c to too are getting ready to devote otc to the same task the best of ot American skill and genius For ach million nillion of oC our am men who enter action ten thousand will be so 0 cI as to need mechanical appliances ances and they thoy will ill have ha to be specially pC- pC chilly educated to use USI these so so 10 that the action of or the missing limbs will willbe willbe willbe be reduplicated ns as closely clo as possible le If the Germans ha had hu had the thc entree to certain parts paris of at France last fall they ther might h have t seen s-een fields that t the they once destroyed ed yielding their best crop cropIn cropIn cropin In years 3 ears e A And 1111 they ther might have seen some same of these fields being reaped byj byi U by j i JIIn r n n Ole they thought the they hud had done for They were were men with vilh varying degrees de tle- degrees grees Je s nf of If It and null esi Some run ran and repaired tractor en en- gines glues Some SOllie with both arms gone above aho the he elbows elbow spaded spade the ground with th the aid of a clever cl mechanism to which lie spade shade was hooked One man who Mho also had but the stump of oC each arra ano left not only used a sc scythe the but kt kept lIt It sharp The fhe Red fled Cross Is running a n five five- hundred acre acre farm falm In France on which the maimed are arc taught the use of farm Implements a and 1111 the CHIP of or domestic animals and anil Is already laying Its plans for great work for the manned maimed In this tills country The end and aim of nil all Its work worl will be he to fit men to return re reo return turn to their own homes and re enter us ns nearly as possible their flamer place pince in life Sometimes these re-educated re men take a far higher place In the community com community com com- om than they the occupied before For Instance men who ulio have been automobile automobile automo automo- bile and whose legs were mutilated have hae been educated re-educated In mechanical drafting Bridge work men have ha made similar advances ad A Canadian mechanic who was maimed nod afterward re-educated re became a foreman at more more than double his former former for for- mer Iller fla pay It was only their seeming that Hint opened for tor these III men eo the opportunity to secure the education education edu edu- cation their talents merited The he Tied lied Cross sends out a strong warning against vil 1 aken n kindness toward to- to ward the thc maimed men who are even cn now returning If it says say ft the public Insists on making lions of or these men it will wm end by making them babies It If Itt t employers ers hunt through their plants for tor snaps for them and und give Eire the them n Jobs that mean more than holding holdIng hold hold- Ing down stools and reminiscing about their darting daring deeds then Indeed we shall complete the time work of at destruction for tal them maiming minds as 88 well at as bodies We the American people are going to be asked to spend more time more mone money find and energy keeping these men In the game than it would to merll merely support and amuse them and let It KO go o at th that t. t W We must make male them special harnesses nesses actually and metaphorically metaphorically meta meta- and then have patience while they are getting adjusted to It And we ue must see that they have their chances at at suitable employments But But these men are going to have hav something more than Just marvelous appliances that will enable them to do almost army any nn kind of ot work These hese mens men's tremendous sacrifices wont won't be paid back h by letting them in on life's lifes work but not its social game So they are going to h have ve Sunday arms and legs as us well as ns the work-a-day work wonders A Aman Aman man with both hands gone gon may with perfectly molded fingers light his own cigarette or pIn play cards And a man nuin with his face so ravaged that his best friend could cO not restrain a shudder may mas wear wear- o er over the disfigured part a mask that is perfect ct and delicate a aw w work rk oo of ot art and science |