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THOS. J. ROSS, PRES. 



,04 N. FIFTH ST. PORTLAND, ORE, 



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H.M.GILBERT, President and Manager 

 Growarc and Shippers of 



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TOPPENISH. WASHINGTON 



The process of retraining the dis- 

 abled is known as re-education, and can 

 best be provided in a special school for 

 crippled men. The first school of this 

 kind in the United .States is the Red 

 Cross Institute for Crippled and Dis- 

 abled Men, established in New York 

 City through the generosity of Jeremiah 

 Milbank. At this school, open to dis- 

 abled civilians and soldiers alike, six 

 trades are already being taught: arti- 

 ficial limb making, motion picture oper- 

 ating, oxy-acetylene welding, printing, 

 jewelry work and mechanical drafting. 

 More will be added as the demand de- 

 velops. Graduates are already giving 

 satisfaction in the jobs to which they 

 have been graduated, so the enterprise 

 has passed the experimental stage. And 

 in the results attained with disabled 

 soldiers abroad there is overwhelming 

 evidence of the logic and practicality of 

 rehabilitation. 



The cost of soldier rehabilitation is 

 being met by the United Stales govern- 

 ment and by the governments of some 

 of our allies. It will be admitted with- 

 out argument as desirable that the ad- 

 vantages of re-education be made avail- 

 able to disabled civilians as well, but 

 will not the cost be prohibitive? The 

 fact is that rehabilitation effects a re- 

 duction rather than an increase in the 

 cost of disability to industry or to the 

 community as a whole. 



A typical case will illustrate how the 

 saving is effected. A worker in Massa- 

 chusetts was injured by a fall while 



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working inside a submarine and his 

 hand became permanently crippled. In 

 due course his compensation rate was 

 determined and he was referred to the 

 insurance carrier to be paid ten dollars 

 a week for a long period, with a maxi- 

 mum total payment of four thousand 

 dollars. Since the disability was mani- 

 festly permanent the insurance com- 

 pany wrote the case olT their books as 

 a four-thousand-dollar loss and trans- 

 ferred that amount to reserve to cover 

 the weekly payments. After the com- 

 pensation had been paid for nearly a 

 year, a new ofhcial of the insurance 

 company began looking over the list of 

 men to whom the company was pay- 

 ing compensation. His attention was 

 directed to the man in question and the 

 latter was requested to call at the olhce 

 of the company. The case was, like 

 many thousands of others, susceptible 

 of rehabilitation for self-support, so the 

 insurance company official put a propo- 

 sition to the man in very frank terms. 

 "I believe that you can be trained to 

 earn a good living. I want you to 

 understand very clearly, however, that 

 this proposal is to the financial ad- 

 vantage of the company, but 1 also 

 believe it is to your advantage as well. 

 A total income of ten dollars a week is 

 not very attractive to you and you 

 would probably rather return to work 

 at a good wage than remain idle. If you 

 will consent, the company will send you 

 to a school of re-education and see if 

 we cannot get you back on your feet in 

 good shape." 



The injured man consented to the 

 proposal and the company sent him to 

 the Red Cross Institute in New York. 

 They began to pay him, not ten dollars 

 n week as required by law, but forty 

 dollars a week, twenty to him in New 

 York and twenty to his wife at home. 

 The company also paid liberally his 

 traveling expenses in both directions. 

 In the period of eight weeks he was 

 re-educated in oxy-acetylene cutting 

 and welding and returned home. He is 

 now making not only a satisfactory 

 wage but twice as much as he had ever 

 earned before the accident took place. 

 In the whole transaction every party 

 at interest was benefited. The man was 

 advantaged in that his general living 

 standard was distinctly raised, and the 

 necessity of working for his living 

 could not be considered as a hardship. 

 The company paid less than five hun- 

 dred dollars for his rehabilitation, and 

 this expense, in conjunction with the 

 five hundred dollars already paid in 

 weekly compensation during the first 

 year of idleness, made a total for the 

 case of one thousand dollars. They 

 were thus enabled to charge three thou- 

 sand dollars of profit to the account of 

 l)rofit and loss. The community was 

 infinitely the gainer in that the man, 

 formerly an unproductive consumer, 

 became a useful producer instead. The 

 community further gained in the elimi- 

 nation of the disabled man from the 

 category of a prospective dependent, 

 because while compensation might have 

 taken care of him in a very insudicient 

 way during the period of idleness, there 



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would have come a time when com- 

 pensation ceased, and then he would 

 have been in a desperate economic 

 status indeed — confirmed in habits of 

 idleness, untrained for skilled work, 

 and without any source of support. 



A more intelligent handling of dis- 

 ability by insurance carriers will, there- 

 fore, reduce their expense, and will 

 thus cut the cost of casualty protection 

 to the employer. There is needed also, 

 however, some revision of compensa- 

 tion laws so that there may be definite 

 encouragement to insurance carriers to 

 offer opportunity of rehabilitation and 

 definite encouragement to the disabled 

 men to take advantage of it. Practi- 

 cally every compensation case that has 

 ever come to the Red Cross Institute 

 has come on the day his compensation 

 expired. For one year, for two years, 

 or for four years the man has existed 

 in idleness, drawing compensation and 

 cultivating habits of indolence. ^Vhen 

 his support was cut ofi', he then became 

 interested in rehabilitation. Present 

 compensation legislation tends to en- 

 courage the man to remain idle because 

 his payments are reduced by any im- 

 provement in earning capacity. A re- 

 vision of this practice will make for 

 more constructive provision. 



In short, the first effort should be to 

 prevent injury, the second to minimize 

 its permaneni effects, the third— when 

 disability has ensued— to offset its eco- 

 nomic consequences. The execution of 

 this complete program is not only 

 sound humanitarian practice— it is good 

 business as well. 



