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WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, FRIDAY, MAY 9, 1919 7 Government is Aiding Injured Warriors Through Federal Board for Vocational Education in City! The federal board for vocational education, whose Chicago offices are located in the Westminster building, have already assisted 12,000 cases of disabled men, and are now engaged in trying to reach soldiers and sailors who still have the spirit and will to prove independent and yet are fight- ing a losing fight in occupations that promise no future, and which, when normal times return, will offer no op- portunity of a livelihood. The public is asked to co-operate with the government by conveying information of the opportunities which are offered to disabled men in the service of the country. To Aid Injured Warriors In order that there may be no mis- fits and that every discharged dis- abled man may receive expert atten- tion, a group of professional men has heen gathered together in Chicago. The recent important acquisitions to the teachers of training and experts on occupations are the medical offi- vers who were chosen after a con- ference in Chicago of federal agents. The two men who h ave been select- ed from Chicago's representative physicians are Colonel Edmund J. Doering, who will be chief medical officer and expert adviser for the fed- eral board, and his assistant, Captain Stock Sullivan. Both men on account of their work with war casualties are specially fitted for this service. All disabled men whom the federal board will train for, or place in, suit- TOM ALLEY ENTERS 500-MILE AUTO RACE Tom Alley, who for five years has held the world's 100-mile dirt track record, has decided foiiry for:'a piece of change" in the 500-mile lib- erty sweepstakes on the Indianapolis motor speedway May 31. "Soldier Tom," as he is often re- ferred to in racing circles, got his training as a driver while mechanic to Ralph DePalma. From the Mech- anician's seat he graduated to the wheel of a Duesenberg, and for a couple of seasons divided with Eddie O'Donnell the "Duesy" honors. Then he took over the Ofren and drove the first of this make in the opening race of the Chicago speedway. last vear he had a Pan- American and about midseason leaped to the dirt track circuit when Barney Oldfield lined up with the "outlaws." Now Tom is back on the "big time" and this year will campaign Bender: Special. This car has been built by Alley for C. J. Bender, president of the Ahl- berg Bearing company of Chicago. The engine is a four-cylinder, with a bore of 35-8 inches and a stroke of seven inches, giving a cubic-inch piston displacement of 289 inches. Alley has always maintained that his flaming red hair is a good luck talisman. While he was riding with Ralph DePalma, back in 1912, he emerged almost uninjured from an accident that put DePalma in the hospital for months. Alley's 100-mile world's record was established October 24, 1914, on the Minnesota state fair track at Ham- line. He covered the century in 1:31:30, an average of 65.57 miles an honr. AMERICAN AUTOS GET FOOTHOLD OVERSEAS American automobiles gsined a strong foothold in Denmark and Australia when the Europea. nations were so busily battling cach other that their output of cars virtually ceased. So well are thev liked by the inhabitants of these faraway states that they have become almost a necessity. Axel Semler and L. Bech of Den- mark and H. B. Crosby of Adelaide, South Australia, who have been re- cent visitors at Dodge Brothers' works, Detroit, say that previous to the war the American cars were little known in Denmark, though they had been sold in Australia to a limited ex- tent for ten years or more. When the European nations ceased making cars, however, the Danes and Australians turned to the United States for automobiles. They found them cheap and durable and nught ot « frame. The men here predicted a con- tinual increase in the use of Amer- ican automobiles in their countries. Mr. Semler said that before the war the larger part of the automo- 7 bilss in Denmark were of European manufacture, mostly from Germany, but that hereafter the German auto- mobile will be in disfavor. DRIVES HIS FRANKLIN OVER 300,000 MILES Dr. R. F. McGrew has driven his 1910 Franklin runabout over 300,000 niles. He now wants an enclosed body to substitute for the present open type. able occupations receive thorough medical examinations which deter- mine their fitness for the positions. Before a man is discharged from the army or navy, he is told of the opportunities that are offered him by the federal board. It is pointed out to him that is he is entitled to compensation from the Bureau of War risk insurance he is entitled also to the services of the federal board. The board will not only assist him in finding suitable employment, but if he is hindered by his physical con- dition from carrying on successfully his former occupation, the board will give him a course of training, agri- cultural, industrial, commercial or professional, as is suited to his needs and preferences. While he is in training his family receive the usual allotment, his tuition and other ex- penses incident to his training are paid, and he is given at least $635 a month for subsistence. Will Help To Educate Them The board will give those handi-! the medical field. Others, who had | continue heavy work, were given a formerly worked on a farm, and on| course in scientific farming to enable account of casualties, were unable to|them to become farm managers. Discriminating People capped men who need and desire' training before going into employ- ment, so much education at, the ex-'} pense of the federal government, as the man may elect, provided that his- claims are reasonable and that his previous training and the nature of his handicap are such further training profitable. Several examples showing men have benefited by the vocational training are given. A former bell boy, with practically no education was given a short course in an auto- mobile school and has now a good position in a garage where his earn- ing capacity will increase. 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