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TT,T - .I ̂ k'̂ t ' Reconstruction Work Has Already Begun in a Number of Large and Well Equipped Hospitals M- w, HE problem Of puttfnr*fce crip­ pled or disabled soldier or sailor back into' self-support­ ing civil life is one with which all the European belligerent na­ tions have been struggling for nearly four years, with only partial success, in Its solution, Based Upon the combined (ex­ perience of the allies and the entral powers, studied at first hand by ,n corps of specialists, and supplemented by co-operative .'^research under the direction of the Red Cross k- \f .".Institute for Crippled and Disabled Men, pnd the • • ^National Association of Manufacturers, 1 a pro* v"( v gramme has been worked out by the surgeon*geri- •V*V,1 eral's joflice of the army which is calculated to „f insure to every soldier of the United States who, 'j , comes back from "over there" minus an arm or leg, blind, deaf, or otherwise handicapped, * v!-^^ better chance of reinstatement as a useful mem- f^ber of society than was afforded to any of the /.^soldiers of the allies in the first two or three • ,r, years of the war. ( f ^ j' Germany alone, the only nation that was pre- %>, , pared for this war, had included detailed plans - • %for the reconstruction of maimed and mutilated , soldiers in its war program from the beginning, ^V^and, under its autocratic system of government, * ^vhas been able to enforce these plans, with the "ip result that every crippled German soldier is put to work at some useful occupation with the slight­ est possible delay after his Injury. The allies have had to evolve their general plans as well :as particular methods out of the bitter experience of war, in this as in other phases of the great conflict, writes Frank Parker Stockbridge in New York Times. It was not until after the United States «n> p ^ ,tered the war--in May, 1017, to be exact--that p| ; f there was anything like a complete exchange of ir: experiences and'principles evolved from them to je, , -irespect to the war cripple. Out of the first inter- Rallied conference <.on reconstruction and re-educa-* Mr'f ^.tion of the disabled combatant, held in Paris May 8 to 12, 1917, at which delegates from the United States surgeon general's office sat for the first .time as representatives of their nation at war, came an international interchange of "knowledge find Ideas concerning the war cripple. At a sec­ ond conference. held In London last November, a &'y.y^permanent interallied committee was established h^-A\"which will have its headquarters in a new per-Af . . £.; •' jinanent institute for the disabled, endowed by the French government with 150,000 francs ($30,- \OOOX for building and equipment, and maintained by annual appropriations of 30,000 francs ($0,000) 0* each by the different allied nations represented. Is* ' Already this clearing house pf scientific and economic information for the benefit of the war p|? ^iScripple has done invaluable work in .enabling the * jarring nations to profit by each other's expert- \ Pnces an<l mistakes. -]§ot the least valuable con- *v ^ Jfi'ibutions have come from American sources, our V/'¥ #rmy surgeons having had opportunities for com- V t>arative observation of methods in vogue In dlf- *4 .^liferent countries denied to those whose nation^ ^|y,"f>ad been actually at war for three years. The I;", JJnlted States, therefore, will begin its work of" ' Restoration with the accumulated experience pf p nearly four years to build upon. The first steps toward reinstatement to a self- f v ^ supporting status, and by tar the most important | • Uteps, must be beguu almost immediately after ! fclhe soldier receives the incapacitating injury and carried on continuously and cumulatively throughout the period of his hospital care. -xt;: * This is especially true In the case of the «ot ' r . *<lier who has lost a limb, or who has been blindpH. ' 4|>ne of the most important lessons gained from the experience of the allies, if not the most iqp- f " "|>ortant. Is that the problem of the restoration to j? ** Usefulness of the crippled soldier is a psyclip- • joglcal one, even more than It Is surgical or ' , economic. ' The experience of the French authori- « "A-jltes, who had to deal with a terrific proportion of first two years of the war, was '••Viyjptsheartening. Fewer than 17 per cent of dts? . ^ I^bled soldiers expressed a desire or even willing- ^ ^ liess to learn how to do useful work. A large proportion had "lost their nerve" at the same time that they lost their limbs or their eyesight, most of them felt that they had done enough for their country--that the nation owed them their Jiving without effort. Because facilities for the ^ farly employment of patients, even at trivial oo- * \ cupatlons, were lacking in the military hospitals, :~*hey had acquired the habit of idleness whidk V * when once fix£d, is almost . ineradicable. s*v # The experience of France differed only in de* ->, -'jpree from that of the other allied nations. To void a similar experience, and not only give very crippled soldier the best possible chance / o become self-supporting, bijt to insure that he vails himself of the opportunity thus afforded* e psychological and economic rehabilitation of ^ ^ every American incapacitated by his injuries for ,-further military service will begin with and go i^^n parallel wftlf his physical rehabilitation, . j •;,% .which, in turn, will be a process not merely of. ' ^ : ••patching up," but of the actual development tp i*>*.ihelr utmost usefulness of ail the Injured man*ir - -remaining physical powers. . /y The first reaction of the man who has lost a* •8mb is utter despair. He Is "done for," in his 1 fSfjwn estimation. '-"Nobody has any use for a crip­ ple," is the way in which nine out of ten express • It. Unless he is a man whose former occupa- ^tton has been mental, not dependent upon the f 1st* of his physical energies, he sees no ray of fliope for his own future. Unless immediately Rectified, this state of mind quickly becomes fixed •Dd all but irremediable. So the first.step to- * >. rehabilitation, which will begin almost as ipon as the injured man comes put from under tihe anesthetic, is what they are terming fn the purgeon general's office "cheer-up work." By ewery means that can be. devised the cripple is to %e convinced that his case is not hopeless, that ••|»e still has chances of becoming again a useful WOOD CAR y&? AT WORK 1 K/wrr/sK? CA. T/iffi/iT £i/£rt me GEO -ftJDD£fi Wmm Get New Kidneys! Tne kidneys are the most overworked organs of the human bodv, and when they rail in their work of filtering out and throwing off the poisons developed in the system, things begin to happen. One of the first warnings is pain or stiff­ ness in the lower part of the back; highly colored uriije; loss of appetite; indiaes- tion; irritation, or even stone in the brad- der. Ihese symptoms indicate a condition that may lead to that dreaded and fatal maladv Bright s disease, for which there is said to be no cure. J AV? not 4elf5' a, minute. At the first in-43 > dication of trouble in the kidney, liver, °ir i u,'Tlnar7 orRans start taking Gold Medal Haarlem Oil Capsules, and , save yourself before it is too late. Instant treatment is necessary in kidney and blad­ der^ troubles. A delay is often fatal. ou can almost certainly find immediate relief m Gold Medal Haarlem Oil Capsules, tor more than 200 years this famous prep- aration has been an unfailing remedv for all kidney, bladder and"urinary troubles. It is the pure, original Haarlem Oil your great-grana mother used. About two cap­ sules each day-will keep you toned up and feeling fine. Get it at any drug store, and it it does not give you almost immediate relief, your money will be refunded. Be sure you get the GOLD MEDAL brand. .None other genuine; In boxes, three .--Adv. WO0DWojiHW<? * industrial unit--perhaps * better Chance than <ppE**: has ever had before. I " One of the most important means of Instilling this vitally important lesson will be through the utilization of "cheer-up men," themselves crip­ ples, who have lost arms, legs or sight, and who "have, nevertheless, made good. Plans are com­ plete for the employment of a large corps of /' these "cheer-up workers;" they are being en- listed through the aid of the Red Cross institute, the National Association of Manufacturers, to* . suranee companies dealing with industrial acci­ dents, and from the ranks of Canadian and Brit­ ish soldiers who have suffered mutilation in this * war and are a^ain self-supporting civilians. Eventually, unless the war conies to a much ; learlier termination than Washington is figuring on, our own army will provide a supply of "cheer- up men" from the graduates of the reconstruction^- hospitals. These, workers are to be attached to the base hospitals, the hospital ships that will * bring the Incapacitated soldiers back to America} lor treatment, and to the general and special hospitals on tills side. , ' ' • - i' • ̂ Supplementing the work of the "cheer-ug^ine^? « whose function Is to demonstrate both orafly and, -• • visually that a cripple is far from useless, will be books, pictures, motion pictures, and other ex­ hibits calculated to inspire the will and stimulate the ambition of the injured man. Jn the surgeon general's office a wonderful book .is being com­ piled, under the direction of one of the most „ ftimous of American surgeons, in which the life stories of hundreds of maimed and crippled men' who have overcome their handicaps are told in „• simple but convincing fashion. Profusely illas- ' . trated, copies of this book will be available for ^the perusal of every crippled soldier in the hos­ pitals. Motion-picture films showing crippled men- 4 whp have undergone almost every conceivable form of mutilation, performing useful work for, good pay, with qjid without the use of artificial • /uembers, are being prepared by the Red Cross Institute and elsewhere for exhibition to the maimed soldier as eurly as he Is able to see them. To Insure against the habit of idleness, provi­ sion Is being made for the employment of every crippled soldier at some form of work as soon as he Is able to use any of his faculties. Special iiurses, male and female, are being trained, as ^'bedside teachers," to give the wounded man a Istart at employing his faculties before he is able to leave his cot. The things he does ht first will necessarily be trivial in their results, but" they will be required duties, gauged to the man's ca- paclty and strength, and leading to his future career as a crippled civilian. Thus, the mqn wltp has lost his right hand will be taught to use hie ' left for the tilings he was accustomed to do witu' his light; the stenographer who has loit a hand will learn to operate a typewriter with one hand not so difficult a feat as it may seem. As toe Cripple becomes a convalescent, able to leave hi*, bed, more work will be required of him. By tlile # time he will be on the hospital ship, on his way back to the United States, for every woundef Soldier who cannot be quickly restored to active Service will be sent back to this country as soon as he can be transported, for further treatment or discharge. On the boa- pltal' ship and In the reception hospital on Ellis Island there will b e special officers whose duty it will be to ascertain all the available facts about ,jgach man's personal •ability, social status, and similar data, on Which to base a Jttdg •jnent as to the partic­ ular form of re-educa- tion best adapted to his needs. Fourteen of the gen­ eral hospitals being constructed by the war department In as "many different sections of the United States are to be used as reconstruction hospitals, where the maimed ^tnay be restored to their fullest useful­ ness. To each will be attached workshops, where at least the rudiments of different trades may be practiced; gardens and farm land for -outdoor work, and every possibl# facility for encouraging the cripple to do his utmost towar^ self-restora« tion. Here, too, will be centered the work of the "reconstruction elds," a corps of instructors in physical training, specially trained for the work of drilling crippled men in the fullest use of their remaining muscles, to the end that they may exercise their faculties to the utmost. The de­ gree tt> which the stump of an arm or a leg may become mobile and useful has •been carefully cal­ culated as a result of French experience; it is surprising to a sound man to discover how useful half a forearm, for instance, may beeorfie. The corps of reconstruction aids Is being recruited from among men and women instructors bp gym­ nastics under tlie direction of Miss Mwguerite Sanderson of Boston. The fitting of artificial members to replace miss­ ing hands and legs has become almost a science In itself. Wonderful results have been achieved In Europe with marvelous and complicated hand mechanisms that enable their wearers to perform almost miraculous feats. For 'most crippled sol­ diers, however, the simpler forms, variations of the plain hook or the various forms of clamps for holding tools, are much more serviceable as work­ ing hands. A specialized body pf surgeons is studying the whole subject under the direction,of Sui-geon General Gorgas, with a view to fitting every American soldier who may need such arti­ ficial aid with the type best adapted to hia civilian needs. The general plan of reconstruction work con­ templates caring for each disabled soldier or sailor in the reconstruction hospital nearest his former home. The plan of vocational rehabilita­ tion contemplates training him to do something as nearly like his former occupation as possible; For instance, a journeyman carpenter who has lost an arm may be trained into a goPd superin­ tendent of construction. If this can be done by placing him in a school where he will have an opportunity to learn how to read blueprints and understand specifications, su<h a school wl 11 be found. So far as pessible, existing schools are to be utilised ; most of the large Industrial organisa­ tions already maintain technical schools for their employees, and these and other $imll»r institu­ tions will be opened to the discharged crippled soldier. And while the soldier or sailor is under­ going such re-education he will continue to re­ ceive the disability compensation to 'which he Is entitled under the war risk insurance act. If the advice of those who have studied European ex­ perience Is taken, any pension to which he may be entitled is to be based upon the nature and extent of his Injuries and not upon his earning capacity. x , Both the reconstruction hospitals and the gen­ eral scheme of rehabilitation in all probability will he open to civilian employees of the govern­ ment injured in the discharge of their duty, aud •under certain. restrictions the vocational re­ habilitation may be made iivailable for ^ny pei^ son injured in any civil employment, umlei* cofadl- tious to be established by the rehabilitation board. «OUt of th£ emergency of war. therefore, there will thus develop a permanent asset for peace, a long step toward solving the problem of putting the industrial cripple u» well as the war cripple back on the pay roll. All Figured Out. lack took great pride in dressing up in his little soldier's uniform and drill­ ing With his air rifie. When his uncle came home on a furlough* Jack, stretching to his full height, with a serious, and important air. told him: "Next year Til he old enough to go to kindergarten, and then the year after that I'm going to the war." In the Kitchen. Mistress--You needn't fix that nut­ meg seasoning, Maria. Maid--This Is a grate relief. Pershing Paid for Pig. The French papers delight In an­ ecdotes of the good relations between the American soldiers and the peas­ ants. »One of these stories, with whiclj^ General Pershing's name is coupled*' is printed this week. "A big American automobile tore through a Freuch village on its way to an American camp," says a Lyon# paper. "Unfortunately a pig belong­ ing to an old peasant woman strayed into the path of the car and was killed.' The old lady was heartbroken. But a few days later a letter came for her. Inclosing ,a check for 100 francs, and saying how sorry the writer was for the death of her pig. "The signature was that of General Pershing." Almost Out. Burglar's "Wlfe-rSay, Mag, do yon know of anVrell^le cure for somnam­ bulism? My j^rt Is trouble some­ thing awful with that uncanny afflic­ tion. Pocketplcker's Wife -- What's he been doing lately? Burglar's wife--Only last night & rasping sound woke me op and I hope to die if there wasn't Bert with two bars of his nice brass twin bed sawed clear through!--Buffalo Express* Our J&arner's in Use. "Darn a cutworm!" ejaculates an exchange. Let the cutworm mend his own ways, say we.--Boslo^. Tran­ script. . *• . «= , • m-. * ^ As fast as some men make oppor­ tunities others grab them. WOMEN OF MIDDLE ME Need Help to Pass the Crisis Safe Jiy--Proof that Lydia E. . barn's Vegetable CongM Can be Relied Ujpoa* XfrbaM, UL~**During Change <rf Uftj* In addition to its annoying symptoms, I ~ had an attack of grippe which lasted ail winter and left me in a weakened condition. I felt at times that I would never be well again. I read of Lyclia E» iPinkham's V e ge­ ts b 1 e Compound and what it did for w o m e n p a s s i n g through tie Change of Life, so I told my doctor I would try it. I soon began to g a i n i n s t r e n g t h and the annoying symptoms dis­ appeared and your Vegetable Compound has made me a well, strong woman so I do ail my own housework. I cannot recommend Lydia E. Pink ham's Vege­ table Compound too highly to women passing through the Change of Life." --Mrs. FRANK HENSON, 1316 S. Orchade St, Urbana, 111. Women who suffer from nervousness, "heat flashes," backache, headaches and "the blues" should try this famooe root and herb remedy, Lydia £. Pink-* ham's Vegetable Compound. m Honest Advertising. •J "ili§ b a topic we all hear now-a-d&ys because so many people am inclined to ex* V j aggerate. Yet has any physician told you that we claimed unreasonable remedial ~ fiopertieŝ or Fletcher's Gastoria? Jsst ask them. We won't answer it ourselveŝ J S? we know what the answer will be. V That it has all the virtues to-day that was claimed for it in its early days is U be round in its increased use, the recommendation by prominent physiciansi and out Insurance that its standard will be maintained. Imitations are to be found in some stores and only because of the Castori§ that Mr. Fletcher created. But it is not the genuine Castoria that Mr. Fletcher Honestly advertised, Honestly placed before the publio and ftm which he Honestly expects to " receive his reward. ^ Children fet Contents 15?laid Dr--* • • fflfllffWifiHjl ALCOHOL-3 PER OJ . AVe^etabtelVcparatioflMAi- j similatin^thefood | finotiie.StMBadts aiwiBcwwaj INFANTS "Chilphi N . TherebyPromotin$IHj^M I ChccifiiinessandRwtCortwtf nctthcrCtoium, Morphine nor. | "Mineral. Noi NARCOTIC tfxar MxSrwma ModMSdk I AHELPFULRCM^YFCF Constipation and Diarrtweijj V Compass NEW "YORKI Exact Copy of Wtmpptt. Extracts from Letters by Grateful Parents to Chas. H. Fletcher. MM* John W. Derrick, of Lexington, S. C., Bays t "My children ctyj for Castoria, I could not do without it." Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Gaines, of Ripley, Tenn., say t "We endoaa oar; baby's picture hoping it will induce some poor tired mothers to give your, Castoria a trial. We have used it since baby was two weeks old." Mrs. J. G. Parman, of Nashville, Tenn., says : "The perfect health oi. my baby is due to your Castoria--the first and only medicine he has taken. He is never satisfied with one dose, he always cries for .more." Mr. and Mrs. A. Lbs Johnson, of Stevens Point, Wis., say: "When oar baby was two weeks Old he cried so muc|i we did everything for him, then got some Castoria and he is now strong and fat. We would not be without it, and are very thankful to you." GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS BEARS the itUf* of CHEERED HIM UP. 4 • .. • -r Caller- -I sent you a poem about three weeks ago. What have you done with it? Editor--I'm holding it. Every little while lately I get to thinking that we are nor petting out as good a paper as we ought, and then I take that poeui and see how murh worse the sheet -night be, and that makes me cheerful again. Say, how much']! you take for it? - FORCE OF HABIT. ..^"WliersL ypu goip'? Cjharlie," asked a friend of ,fln old horseman who mid kept up with the pace of civilization and had bought an automobile. "Oh, I'm Just out to let the crittur stretch her legs a bit and tabs the kinks out of the gasoline." 0'i < WORTH KNOWING ;-£s '"'/f'fciSoch a variety of races are iented in the population of the Phil­ ippine Islands that 81 languages are 4V°ken. ' The repopnlation of the artificial Mussel beds of the Mississippi river lb ioccessfully being accomplished by ar­ tificial propagation. The Congo, is one of the widest wa­ terways on the globe. In some places Sk Is so wide that vessels may pass one 3tet*» m Ofjifht^ V The South African government has built a large sugar mill to encourage cane cultivation in Zululand. In the base of a new desk telephone is a spring-controlled roller that takes up the slack in the wire. Sulphur dioxide is the freezing agent used in a new portable refrigerating machine of French invention. The American soldier's opinion of a French hotel petit dejeuner is summed np In the comment of one of them. MI ain't 119 hummln' bird."--Herbert Adams <gtt>bons ip the <3entnnr» . . ' - .. ;-r A spinning turbine wheel keeps the exhaust gases moving in a new anto> mobile muffler and helps to cool them. Nigeria has been added to the lands In which valuable deposits have been 4iscovered in recent years. Drinking cups are made from rhi­ noceros horn by natives of Sumatra, who believe that they counteract pois­ ons. Careful copies are kept of all letters written by Kiiyf George in person, and these are preserved in the archives at i % T GATHERED FACTS iH? : A German city collects garbage, dries it and mixes it with molasses to form a cattle food. * Giving up a life of luxury, Miss Dor­ othy Dawes, a society belle of Colum­ bus, O., has be?n driving a milk wagon in Marietta. Instead of repeating a number of prayers, Buddhists have written pray­ ers attached to a wheel, the revolv­ ing of which a certain,, number of timet AW* •opposed to hare the same effect, He Couldn't Spell It. In the spelling list for a class in a rertaln Indianapolis school were the tvords singing and singeing. The elass was asked to write sentences nsing these words to show that they knew' the correct meaning of each. One little fellow, Robert, wrote: "The Italians* are a singing nation." "The allies will soon be singeing tne beard of the kaiser.** With sideward glances he waucned his teacher mark his paper and timid­ ly asked: "Is it all right?" * "Yes." she said, "but the kaiser has no beard; he has a mustache." "I know. I know; but I wanted lUt on my paper, and I couldn't spell mus­ tache.**--Indianapolis News. Opening His Eyee. "There will be a greater percentage of contented men in proportion to the world's population after the war than there was before It started.**, "Why do you think so?" "Well, if living for weeks and months in muddy trenches and being bombed, gassed, shelled and otherwise shot at, not to mention the cooties, won't make a man rate the comforts of home at their troe value, I don't know what will."--Birmingham Age-Herald. Ton cannot hope to get much more out of life than you are willing to pat Into it. 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Ad Ijji nil Chicago, IU.; M. V. MacJnnaa, III Mfartaa Avenue, Detroit. Mich. Canadian Government Agents A la Beriit). "Say, pop, what is a signal victoryT* "In Berlin the capture of one Ameri­ can with the loss of only twenty Qar» mans Is so regarded, my son." Not Far Off. Two sailors were discussing the translation of "Deutsehland Uber Al- les," "It means that 'it's all over with Germany,*" the wise youth declared. • woman says that tight shoes are comfortable because they make her forget her other Ufodbles. Natural Act. -m "What do you do when yos get hh deep water for speeding?" "Send for a friend to bail me out** " • • 1 . .. .SSSBSSSm' YourfeiB-i,, , Soreness,1 Itchingi _ of the Eyes or Sifted for Marina wheo yoar Wftm N Maria* By* He--sdy Con*1 W. N..U, CHICAGO, NO. 37-ltMk 4,: -,v -'M&