HOW FORESTRY AND TREE CULTURE CONCERN 

 THE DISABLED SOLDIER 



BY W. M. HUSSIE 



OF THE RED CROSS INSTITUTE FOR CRIPPLED AND DISABLED MEN, 

 311 FOURTH AVENUE, NEW YORK CITY. 



AS the world has been thrown into war, so it has 

 been forced to undertake the serious consideration of 

 one of the most important by-products of war, the 

 rehabilitation of 

 the disabled 

 fighting man. 

 There is not a 

 trade, an occu- 

 pation or an in- 

 dustry that has 

 not engaged the 

 serious attention 

 of the experts 

 who, in all the 

 combatant na- 

 tions, are en- 

 gaged in the 

 construe tive 

 work of fitting 

 for civil life the 

 men whose phy- 

 sical powers 

 have been im- 

 paired by their 

 period of serv- 

 ice with the 

 colors. 



According to 

 the vocational 

 r e h ab i litation 

 act recently en- 

 acted by Con- 

 gress those dis- 

 abled in the 

 military and 

 naval forces of 

 the United 

 States have been 

 placed under the 

 joint authority 

 of the Surgeon- 

 General of the 

 Army and the 

 Federal Board 

 for vocational 

 education. The 

 Surgeon - Gen- 

 eral has juris- 

 diction from the 

 time the person 

 is injured until 



THE WONDER OF HUMAN RECONSTRUCTION 



Thi remarkable photograph, furnished American Forestry by the Red Cross Institute for Crippled 

 and Disabled Men, shows a "mutile" with double fore-arm amputation, working in the field and 

 handling a spade with dexterity, using a single hook on the right arm and a ring hook on the left. 



he is restored to good physical condition, when he receives 

 his honorable discharge from the service. The Federal 

 Board then offers him vocational re-education and train- 

 ing which will 

 enable him to 

 return to useful 

 active employ- 

 ment, and the 

 U. S. Employ- 

 ment Service 

 will find him a 

 job. 



It is high time 

 we Americans 

 make an exami- 

 nation of the 

 possibilities of 

 educating cer- 

 tain of our war 

 disabled men to 

 bear their part 

 in the actual 

 work of affore- 

 station, which 

 we shall have to 

 come to, it ap- 

 pears, if we are 

 to provide for 

 the require- 

 ments of the 

 future. If such 

 a course lends 

 new impetus to 

 a forest conser- 

 vation program, 

 so much the bet- 

 ter all around. 



Other coun- 

 tries have sensed 

 the pressing 

 need of conser- 

 vation of tim- 

 ber, and are try- 

 ing to link up 

 re - educational 

 processes with 

 future govern- 

 ment activity m 

 that field. 



The connection 

 between forestry 



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