Show advice to american disabled soldiers from their french grandfather by DR MAURICE bourrillion BOUR RILLON part paris since I 1 am director of the national institute for disabled soldiers at paris and since I 1 have been called the grandfather of the movement for the rehabilitation of disabled soldiers let me speak to you as I 1 should speak to my children and give you a few words of advice before I 1 learo lean your powerful and wonderful country I 1 have just been visiting the first institutions which the american people have organized for giving givin you ass assistance I 1 i stance in the reconstruction of your liver if you have lost an arm arin or a leg or even both or are permanently manent ly disabled you can still become a skillful workman in a trade which will he be carefully chosen for you or if you prefer you can complete your general instruction and after education in certain bertain subjects find splendid eplen did positions in commercial industrial or scientific firms I 1 firel firmly y believe that just as our french soldiers have dono don you will understand that it is your duty both to america and to yourselves to put into tho the reconstruction of your lives the same ardor and courage which you gave evidence of when you came to the aid of france many of our french soldiers believed that inasmuch as they had been wounded in serving herving the nation the nation ought to support them for the rest of their lives prance france no more than america thinks of quibbling over the right of hor bar wounded soldiers to generous compensation for their disabilities but she ehe is convinced that she should give a further proof of 30 her ber appreciation of the valiant defenders by placing them in a position to serve their country again through their work |