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Show 3,000 LEGION MEN TO ! CARRY APPEAL FOR ! DISABLED TO PEOPLE 4 ' rnm- ,N K. A. Staff Bpectei.) - o - XyJlo rjr in--Tr.,.. jLMEi j ' '' thouand speakers for the American " sjZf lyepion will carry direct to the people """"j CT I , r he nation an appeal for Just J f. -f - jss-' treatment for xlck nnl disabled vet- V.j Sjm "J J-jr Chi legloi Loda; praaented to Praai- 4 Jk-' ' dent Wilson. President-elect IIurdlnb' - I ' " MM i iaam ( . f. rinjr ihameful necJect and injuttir. " Pv H i IJA j M4a ' rl-'1 ,tw" 'rinsin.tt-.J ffllULl Mia a mi (iVDiiKis NBrfnUi . Bufl ' ' ' cnAn o Ar fcH i i t . i.k qEV MaLJL. . u. TajfH without proper " 1 .at ... ... ..nc.illnfl ' ' i ' ' ' 1 4 1 -1 , care, unuui uiuwm"--Witft .'in."' to obtntn It. abandoned ' by the country they eerved. THE CAi HU "In the rli;ibllltrulon of u disabled nun there are three n-eds. medical treatrneal vocational training and fl-i fl-i nuncial support. Tii. ui.vern nnn1 hus recognir.ed the Ihree m'-.-.Ih. but overlooks the fact ' thnt Miev itju- simultaneous neds of I ulan -i i not of three different men or of one man at three different ! times. "It mnkes three prOblcmf out of IT.hal n illy is a three-part problem. "Continuing this faulty conception, it has delegated these tliree faults to three agenclaa aacli .nd pendent of the others treatment to the pubtn health Mrvlce; training to the federal loard for vocational edu-a Hon, am! financial support to the war risk bureau. bu-reau. "In practice compensation Is dl-rorced dl-rorced from iralning. and medical treatment from both. These three agencies conflbt and! duplicate In most instances and fall j oil liaison In o Ultra, leaving the disabled dis-abled mnn totalH without suppor". j ml Re I'eing pns-e,j from .the .lurisdlc- Uon of one ageney to that of another "Ah adherent defect is failure to reCOgnlxe thnt the problem of training, treatment :md compensation is an in-dlldual in-dlldual problem. It inns: be handled by persons in dlytrW and branch offices of-fices who sot and deal with the disabled dis-abled men themselves, and not as at present by persona in Washington whol u.-e and deal only with paper records, i H I (l RE. Vrom a scientific standpoint the; functions of trnlnlng. treatment and compensation must be combined. from nn ndmlnlstr;i tlve standpoint' the functions of the three agencies the bureau of war rink Insurance, the. ff..M-al nard for -ocat lonal education and the public health service must be '-oordtnated. their machinery decen-! tralired and all threo daced under a common control. To do this there must be a new law Which shall physically consolidate and coordinate the activities of the fed- r.il bo.iril for vocational education I the bureau of war rltl: Insurance and tli. public health sorvlce, and place, the unified organizations under a sln- gle admlnletratlvc head. "The whole mutt be decentralicd. The un.iieiJ orgaJiizallon proWaed at once wih an eppn ; ' "ii tiiffi.l-n '. b.n. build .'ti-l . ii-la ii-la rgc hospitals to provide and maintain main-tain ampin facilities." oo |