| Show x HEALING WOUNDS OF WAR BIGGEST JOB OF RED CROSS Broken Homes and Mon Men Must Be Rebuilt Rebuilt education education Re-education of Disabled Soldiers for Future Usefulness They are arc already rebuilding the tho broken homes of ot France And AntI they are arc already rebuilding the broken men Over here we too aro aro getting ready to devote tIe to the some same task the tho best of ot American skill antI and genius For Mich I million of at our mt men n who enter action ten thousand will be so crippled as to need appliances appliances nn ances ances es and they tIley will ha have hato to be specially dally educated to use these so that the action of ot the missing limbs s willbe will willbe willbe I be reduplicated as us closely closel as us possible If It the Germans had had the entree Ito j I to certain parts of or France Franco last fall tall the they might have ha seen fields that the they once destroyed yielding Iel their best crop cropin i in years year And the they might have seen some of ot these fields DeWs being reaped by men the they thought the they had hud done for The They were men with varying de tie- grees of lawlessness and nna Some ran rl and repaired tractor en en- gines Some with both arms gone above e the elbows spaded the ground round with t the aid of n a clever el mechanism I to to which the spade was hooked hoofed One Ono man who also had but the stump of or each ench arm left lett not only used a u scythe the but I. I kept pt It sharp The Red fled Cross Is running a five five- oe- oe hundred acre farm furm In France on which the tIle maimed are ure taught the use of or farm fans implements and the care of at domestic animals and Is already laying Its plans pious for or great grent work ork for the maimed in this countr country The end and aim ataU of at all aU Its work will be to fit men to return return return re re- re- re turn to their own homes and re enter as nearly as possible their former place in life Sometimes these educated re men take n a far nr higher place In the community com corn than they occupied before For instance men who have hu been bile and whose le legs were mutilated have been re-educated re In n mechanical drafting Bridge work work- men have ha made similar advances A Canadian mechanic who was maimed and afterward re-educated re became a foreman at fit more than double his former for for- former mer Iner pa pay It was ns only their seeming that opened for these the men ruen the opportunity to secure the education education edu edu- cation their talents merited The Red lied Cross sends out a strong i warning against mistaken kindness toward toward to ward the maimed men who are even now returning If If It says MS the tho public insists on making lions of ot these men it will end h by making them babies If It employers employers hunt through their plants for snaps for them and give he them Jobs Johs that mean little tittle more than holdIng hold hold- Ing lag down stools and mcl reminiscing about their tIn daring ring deeds then Indeed wo wn shall complete the work of at destruction for for tor them maiming minds as well as I bodies bodIN Ve We the American people leople are going I to be asked to spend more time more money and ener energy keeping these men In the game gume than It ft would cost to merely support and amuse them and let It go 10 at that We must make niche them special harnesses actually and meta meta- and then have hu patience while white they are arc getting adjusted to it And Ancl we eve must see that they have their chances at ot suitable employments But Dut these men ruen are going to have something more than just marvelous elous appliances that will enable them to do almost any kind of work These mens men's tremendous sacrifices wont won't be paid back by letting them In on lifes life's work but not Its social game So they arc are going baIng to have hmo Sunday arms and le legs s as ns well as the work day wonders A Aman man mn with both hands gone ma may with perfectly molded fingers light his own cigarette or pIn play cards And a man with his face ince so ravaged aged that h his s best friend could not restrain a shudder may wear over o the disfigured part a mask masl that Is perfect and delicate a work ork of at art and science |
