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Demorralic Waldo,
“Bellefonte, Pa., September 29, 1922.
$200,000 IS EARNED BY MAIMED
WORKERS TRAINED BY STATE.
Efforts of Pennsylvania in rehabili-
tating workers injured in industry
have enabled them to earn at least
$200,000 annually, according to S. S.
Riddle, chief of the State bureau of
rehabilitation.
Mr. Riddle made this assertion in
reviewing the work of his bureau since
its establishment in 1919. Annually
about 400 workers injured in indus-
try, who otherwise might become pub-
lic charges with no productive value,
are enabled through the activities of
the bureau to resume some employ-
ment.
In many cases the worker is unable
to return to the work he formerly did
because of the injury received. Ef-
forts in such cases are made to train
him for some position equally as good
and in some instances better. But in
every case the individual is studied
and some form of employment where
he can earn a sufficient amount of
money to support himself is selected
by the bureau.
“The rehabilitation agent in Penn-
sylvania is returning to suitable em-
ployment approximately 400 disabled
workers a year,” Mr. Riddle said. “In
numbers of these cases varying per-
iods of training intervened between
convalescence from the injury and the
final placement in suitable tasks. In
numbers of cases artificial appliances
necessary to return to work were pro-
vided.
“In every case the services of the
rehabilitation bureau had to be car-
ried directly to the home of the work-
er, and usually in such home commu-
nity, training, if necessary, provided
and suitable employment for the dis-
abled person obtained. The task of
carrying the services of the bureau of
rehabilitation to the homes of disa-
bled workers may be appreciated whei
it is stated that such cases are regis-
tered in every one of the sixty-seven
counties of the State, scattered over
the 45,000 square miles of Pennsylva-
nia and among a population of 8,000,
000 people.
“The rehabilitation bureau has been
operated, so far as it is possible, as a
productive sales organization—selling
the basic principles of rehabilitation
and safety to employee and employer
alike, and showing economic results
for the money expended.
“If, for example, it is assumed that
the 400 disabled persons returned in a
year to suitable remunerative employ-
ment would not otherwise have re-
turned to employment, a measure of
the productive usefulness of the bu-
reau of rehabilitation in straight
financial terms may be gauged. If on
an average each of those 400 persons
earns in wages $1000 a year, the in-
dustrial production represented by an-
nual payroll of $400,000 is created.
But, for the sake of argument, let the
$400,000 be cut in half to provide for
varying contingencies; the annual
production return to the State still
may be considered as that represent-
ed by a $200,000 payroll.
“Further, it must be considered
that the bureau’s work is cumulative.
The work done in one year carries
through succeeding years, and in the
next year likewise through the suc-
ceeding years, with the creation of
wealth in mathematical progression.
If the $200,000 in wages earned annu-
ally by disabled workers returned to
employment by the bureau of rehabil-
itation in one year continues over a
period of only ten succeeding years,
the total future potential wealth cre-
ated as that represented by a $2,000,-
000 payroll, on an annual investinent
by the State at present of approxi-
mately $50,000, with federal funds
matching in less total amount a por-
tion of the State’s appropriation.
“Even further it will be realized
that the above figures merely consider
the possible future industrial produc-
tion of handicapped workers returned
to suitable employment. The figures
do not consider the coincident elimi-
nation of the economic drain upon rel-
atives or charities if such disabled
persons were not returned to employ-
ment, but should remain non-produc-
ing consumers.
“Disabled workers registered with
the bureau of rehabilitation represents
a cross section of human nature. Re-
habilitation in any individual case is
only as successful as the individual,
within his physical, educational and
intelligence limits, desires such reha-
bilitation to be successful and co-op-
erates to that end. The experience of
the bureau of rehabilitation with al-
most 3000 cases of disabled individu-
als, indicates that the scheme is not
merely plausible, but is workable, and
in future years will have an increas-
ingly vital effect upon social, as well
as industrial conditions within the
United States, and be an important
factor in the conservation of our hu-
man national resources.
“Rehabilitation is not charity. Leg-
islative restrictions require that the
activities of rehabilitation agencies be
centered only upon those disabled per-
sons who can be rendered fit to engage
in remunerative occupations. Many
disabled may be so seriously afflicted
as to make it physically impossible
for them ever to enter a remunerative
occupation. Humanitarian impulses
demand that such persons be given
every care and attention that public
or private philanthropic agencies can
bestow, but it is obvious that a reha-
bilitation agency may not go beyond
its legal limitations and enter the
field, which is purely one of relief
without possibility of persons receiv-
ing such relief, returning to industrial
activities.
“Numbers of far-seeing employers
throughout the State are co-operating
actively with the rehabilitation bureau
for the mutual benefit of their disa-
bled employees and the industries.
Similarly are organizations of em-
ployees, employers, public and private,
social and religious agencies, co-ope-
rating with the bureau.
“Even though the work of the bu-
reau has been in progress less than
three years, some of the achievements
of the disabled persons are startling.
Numbers of maimed workers are suc-
cessfully pursuing courses in univer-
sities and higher institutions of learn-
ing. Others are in training in schools
of less acedemic grade. Many have
completed training and have return-
ed to suitable jobs. Some of the tasks
for which disabled workers have been
or are being trained are accountant,
automobile mechanic, baker, barber,
book-keeper, clerk, card writer and
engrosser, carpet weaver, draftsman,
electrician, embalmer and funeral di-
rector, insurance, mine fire boss, mo-
tion picture machine operator, piano
tuner, salesman, shoe repairer, sten-
ographer, teacher, telegrapher, traf-
fic manager, welder and brazer and
many other individual tasks in indus-
ry.
GRANGERS GIVE WARNING.
Warning all unions and organiza-
tions that exist for the purpose of cur-
tailment of production and the ad-
vancement of prices that they are
ready to fight them with their own
weapons and cause them to feel what
restricting production means, the Ly-
coming county Pomona Grange at its
meeting last week resolved to “limit
production just as the manufacturer
limits production when prices are not
profitable.” The resolutions follow:
“Whereas, This is now the fourth
season that farmers have been pro-
ducing at a loss, it is natural that they
should look for the cause of their mis-
fortune and seek a remedy. During
the season of 1918-’19 when the price
of farm produce began to fall, the far-
mer naturally and with good reason
expected what he had to buy would
fall in like proportion to his selling
price. In this he has been disappoint-
ed. After almost four years of pa-
tiently waiting for price adjustment
he is confronted with the fact that the
purchasing value of the dollar he re-
ceives for what he sells is only worth
about 30 cents, when invested in la-
bor, taxes, clothing, coal, and many
other commodities. This condition is
neither natural nor logical, and is
caused by organization of labor in the
various trades, merchants, and man-
ufacturers. In fact, every branch of
business except farming is organized
to regulate production and prices and
by so doing to defeat the logical ad-
justment of values.
“On account of political influences
the farmer has no hope of the matter
being adjusted by legislation.
“Therefore, Be it resolved that Ly-
coming county Pomona Grange advis-
es farmers that their only hope of re-
ceiving a just return for their efforts
is to limit production, just as the man-
ufacturer limits production when
prices are not profitable. No other
business would go on producing at a
loss year after year, as farmers have
been doing. Let every farmer consid-
er which is the poorest paying crop
and cut production of such crop 25 per
cent. during 1923, and better prices
are assured.
“Be it further resolved, that far-
mers warn all unions and organiza-
tions that exist for the purpose of
curtailment of production and the ad-
vancement of prices, that they are
ready to fight them with their own
weapons and cause them to feel what
restricting production means.
“Be it recommended that these res-
olutions be approved by the county
Grange and presented before the State
Grange in December at the meeting in
Williamsport, and introduced before
the National Grange, thus becoming
familiar to all Grangers in the Unit-
ed States.”
Penn State Students to Have Social
Hall.
One of the buildings that will be af-
forded students at The Pennsylvania
State College as the result of the
$2,000,000 emergency building fund
campaign about to be started, will be
a Students’ Union. This structure will
be Old Main remodeled and almost
completely reconstructed.
Because of its historic background,
Old Main being the first building
completed when Penn State was rec-
ognized by the Legislature as a col-
lege, the building is held by all to be
the only suitable one for the new pur-
pose. About it will center the entire
life and traditions of the college.
With meeting rooms for county
clubs, campus organizations, and all
groups of students; offices for the stu-
dent governing bodies and publication
boards; committee rooms; and offices
for the Alumni Association, student
activities will be given a permanent
home in the new Union.
The comfort, convenience and wel-
fare of the student body and of visit-
ing alumni will be taken care of in the
Students’ Union. Rest rooms and re-
ception rooms will be available, a
cafeteria and dining room, together
with a tea room and a lunch room will
gre facilities that are now impossi-
€.
A theatre with a seating capacity of
800 will solve the problem of a suita-
ble place for entertainments, concerts
and class meetings, while a large
reading room and several study halls
will relieve the congestion under the
now inadequate facilities.
First Oil Well was Drilled Sixty-three
Years Ago.
The first oil well in this country
was brought in 63 years ago by Col.
Edwin L. Drake, near Titusville, Pa.
It was only 69 feet deep, but it mark-
ed the beginning of an epoch, the im-
portance of which has only begun to
be realized.
The demand for oil created by the
development of the internal combus-
tion engine has so stimulated the
growth of the industry that there are
today, according to estimates by the
American Petroleum Institute, about
275,000 producing wells in this coun-
try.
Production has increased from the
negligible quantity obtained in 1859
from Col. Drake’s little well, to an
output last year of 469,639,000 bar-
rels in this country alone.
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OUR EXPERT ARMY RIDERS.
When the average American thinks
of rough riding, or “stunts” on horse-
back, his mind turns to the cowboys
of the west, the motion picture actors
of the far west, or the circus rings
which are drawn east, north, south
and west under the big tops. But
those are not the only places one can
witness skillful horsemanship and
thrilling “stunts” in the saddle.
At Fort Meyer, back of beautiful
Arlington and just across the Poto-
mac from Washington, is a riding hall
where visitors from the capital city
frequently see sights that make their
hair stand on end. The cavalry or-
ganizations stationed there have for
years maintained a corps of expert
riders who have entertained and
startled thousands of visitors at their
frequent exhibitions.
After riding into the hall with dig-
nity and decorum and saluting the of-
ficer in charge the khaki-clad horse-
men begin flying around the tanbark
floor standing in their stirrups, swing-
ing over the side until their hands
drag in the dust, lying across the sad-
dle like a bag of meal, facing the
horse’s tail or straddling the horse’s
neck. Half the horses are abandoned
and the mountless riders go around
the circle swinging to the time of the
galloping steeds, making scooters of
their stomachs.
More dignified riders next come in,
ride two abreast, four abreast, six
abreast, gallop in and out of a dozen
formations and go with machine-like
accuracy through bewildering figures
28 Hizicats as those of a well-trained
allet. :
Next come the army caissons pulled
by six horses, two abreast; though
there seems to be hardly enough room
for them to drive carefully around the
hall they start up at great speed,
swing around the corners, cross in the
middle, get seemingly all mixed up in
their whirling flight and finally come
out one behind the other without a
single accident. So accurate is the
skill of the drivers and horses that
stakes are driven in the form of two
small squares in the center of the hall,
and the lumbering caissons at top
speed thread in and out, describe fig-
ure eights, cross each other with not
a foot of space to spare, and finally
come out into line without having
shaken a peg.
But the jumpers give the greatest
thrill of all.
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High hurdles of various
sorts are placed around the ring, and
after they have been jumped in ordi-
nary fashion the riders begin to go
over them standing on their horses,
standing on two horses, six men pyr-
amided on three horses. While two
come in one direction another goes in
the other; they meet at the hurdle
and apparently jump into each other,
but the single horseman goes in be-
tween like a shuttle.
By way of comedy a game of “mule
polo” is played. The players ride
their round-bodied stubborn mounts
bareback, and most of their attention
has to be given to staying on. The
mules seem to take very little interest
in the game, and when the rider wish-
es to follow the ball he is likely to be
carried in the opposite direction, or to
one side. If a player can stop his gal-
lant mount over the ball he has free
play with his mallet, for the mule not
only refuses to move himself but will
resist being moved by the other mules,
which really have no heart in the com-
petition and are more likely to make
their approach rear end first than in
any other way. There is very little
hitting of the ball, but while the rid-
ers make frantic efforts to go for-
ward as the steeds resolutely hold back
the spectators shriek with laughter.
The crowning finale is jumping
through fire. A hurdle surmounted by
an arch is placed in the middle of the
hall. The whole frame is saturated
with gasoline and a lighted match
turns it into a blazing circle. The
horses approach the fiery barrier in a
gallop, and without the least hesita-
tion plunge through the flames.—Ex.
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! State Has 76 High Schools of One
Room.
The day of the little one-room coun-
try school is far from being gone in
Pennsylvania. Of the 15,154 schools
in the State, 9,794 are of only one
room, according to information on file
in the department of public instrue-
tion at Harrisburg.
Four hundred and fifty were replac-
ed by larger schools last year and the
present trend of school development
will soon sweep many more out of ex-
istence, it was said. :
There were also seventy-six one-
room High schools in the State last
year.—EXx.
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Democratic Prosperity vs. Republican Disaster.
The estimated wealth of the United States when President Wilson
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Some Republican Broken Promises.
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They promised to stimulate agriculture and business; they have
given an industrial panic and destroyed our foreign markets. Foreign
Dade declined from $13,500,000,000 in 1920 to near $6,000,000,000 in
1922,
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the higher surtax relieved them of paying $61,500,000.
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government (1923 budget), three years after the war $536,000,000
compared to 1915, three years before the war, with an estimated defi-
cit of $500,000,000 in addition—or $1,000,000,000 increase.
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