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T H U R S D A Y , D E C . 21, 1950
O R E G O N N E W S R E V IE W
DISABLCD VETERANS
Rehabilitated Disabled Veterans
Competent, Efficient Employees
Recently motion pictures were being taken of blind veterans in the
Idento-Tag plant of the Disabled American Veterans.
Here miniature automobile license plates for key rings are made
by disabled veterans and distributed to 30 million motorists each year. False Alarm
' WAS ALL HUSHED up, but
The funds realized are used in the DAV service and rehabilitation pro
one day recently practically
gram.
every
top m ilitary man in W ash
“ Cut” , cried the director and the camera stopped grinding. The di
rector stood for a long minute without saying anything, looking speech- ington was anxiously scanning the
sky in anticipation of an enemy
less.
air raid on the nation'» capital.
“ What's wr„ng?” asked the cam
Reason for their concern was a
eraman.
an arm may still be a competent cable from India which read:
The director Ignored this ques salesman, draftsman or lawyer. "A lert all U. S. cities they are due
tion as he asked to caucus with the These are a few of the jobs open to to be bombed within the next
production manager.
the disabled veteran.
twenty-four hours.”
“This is a ticklish m atter,” hem
A vice president of General Mo
Astonished clerks at the message
med the director, "but those boys tors said in a memorandum to de center Immediately made a dozen
work with such speed and ease, the partment heads that once a disabled copies—on message center forms—
public won't see they're blind. Could veteran is properly placed on a job and shot them out to the key of
you ask them to slow up?”
he is no longer considered disabled
fices. The cryptic message, on of
When the production manager ex
Ordinarily you wouldn't think of ficial stationery, had all the ap
plained the situation to the group, a badly disabled man as a construc
pearances of being an official
one of them said. “ Oh, I know what tion worker.
warning, and remembering how
they want—they want us to act as if
Orlando A. Milano of Erie, Pa., Washington was caught asleep dur
we’re blind.”
was seriously wounded by the ex ing Pearl Harbor, word of the im
When a blinded veteran of World plosion of a land mine in Germany pending attack was flashed from
M A R S H A LL PLAN FLO U R FOR H U N G R Y YUGOSLAVIA . . . A German representatives of the federal
War I I has to “ act” blind for a during World W ar I I . Outside of the the Pentagon to every key office
motion picture camera it speaks two men who lost both arms and throughout the city—including the
ministry of economies shakes hands with a Yugoslavian delegate as he receives for his government the
well of the rehabilitation of World both legs, he was about as badly White House.
first of a series of emergency shipments ol flour for drought-ridden Yugoslavia from the Marshall Plan.
W ar I I disabled.
The flour, shipped from the Palatinate m ill at Mannheim, was loaded aboard a train In Jute hags as part
disabled as any living veteran.
Uniformed couriers sped the mes
The blinded veteian is proficient
He was totally blind. His left arm sage to the national security coun of the $11,500.000 worth of flour which w ill be sent from Germany and «taly to Yugoslavia under the
United States government's stop-gap aid program for nations that will help defend the west from Uommu-
because his rehabilitation followed a was amputated at the elbow. His cil, a sergeant raced into Defense
ism.
definite, tried and tested pattern.
right hand was badiy mutilated. And Secretary Marshall's office, the
He wasn't always so proficient. he suffered a slight loss of hearin„
central intelligence agency was
And he may not always be as ef
alerted,
Pentagon stenographers
ficient if the rehabilitation program An Outstanding Case
hearing the news made frantic
and the post-rehabilitation benefits
But there was the magic of reha phone calls to advise their friends
break down.
bilitation! Milano was assigned to and relatives. Tension was mount
a convalescent hospital for blinded ing to the breaking point.
Three Phases of Work
veterans for social and pre-voca-
Then the bubble burst amid a sea
In the nine years since the first tional training. All the time he was
of very red faces.
disabled veterans of World W ar II planning what he was going to do I
A few calm officers decided to
were returned to the United States, when he got his discharge. His
check
the name signed to the cable
it has been found that rehabilitation father had died while he was in the
can be as simple as curing the service and there was no one but from India. They discovered that
him to carry on the Milano Con the signer wasn't employed by the
chicken pox.
state department, wasn’t a CIA
struction Company of Erie.
Both the rehabilitation of the
agent, wasn't in arm y, navy or air
On his discharge, through the
disabled veteran and the curing
intelligence.
In fact, he wasn't a
war assets administration, local
of the sick child should follow
U. S. government employee of any
manufacturers and his own ag
a smooth and successful course
kind.
gressiveness be acquired equip
under proper professional care
He was, they learned, an Amer
ment
which
Included
heavy
duty
and direction; while each can
ican tourist stopping off in India.
trucks and shovels and other
become serious and harmful
Examination of the original cable
things necessary to his plan.
through neglect or misunder
revealed it had been sent on No
Today he is successful in a high
standing.
vember 23.
ly competitive field and the hard
Thus the disabled veteran again
work connected with running
One officer glanced at a calen
becomes a useful and self-sustain
this business does not bother
dar. “ November 23 was Thanks
ing member of society just as the
him.
giving day,” he said.
Then he
child can be restored to normal
And there is the case of Louis A. queried, “ What are some Am er
health.
Woodrow Wilson in a letter of No M iller of Louisville, Kentucky. He : icans apt to do if they're in India
vember 29, 1918, wrote that this na was wounded when he and the driv on Thanksgiving day?”
“ Get drunk,” was the reply.
tion had no more solemn obligation er of his armed jeep broke through
than that of restoring the disabled to a stubtjsm roadblock in Germany.
The assembled officers nodded in
civil life and opportunity . . . by The driver was killed and M iller agreement. Washington was saved.
developing and adopting the remain was left for dead. He was wounded
in the back, neck and head by ma-
Soviet Seeret W eapons
ing capabilities of each man.
chinegun bullet«. He was uncon
American ordnance officers are
From this the definition of reha scious fifteen days.
HAZARDOUS BUSINESS . . . A barge laden with gasoline clings stubbornly to the brink of the federal
bilitation was worked out by a navy
popeyed at Soviet weapons, cap
Although an operation was per tured in Korea. They are so amazed
dam in the Hudson river at Troy, N .Y ., as straining tugs finally pull It free. The huge barge, which was
officer as “ the process of restoring
carrying 650,000 gallons of gasoline, lodged on the dam several days ago after breaking lopse from a tug
the handicapped individual in terms formed on his brain there were no that they are hastily revising their
that was towing it in the strong and treacherous current of the rain-swollen river. Officials took every
of his total situation, to the fullest hopes for his recovery. Surgeons estimates of Russian m ilitary might
precaution to prevent a leakage of the gasoline upon the high waters because It might have created a fire
physical, mental, social, vocational labelled him as a “ museum of and are convinced that the United
hazard for several miles along the banks of the rampaging river.
and economic functioning of which pathology.” Even later when he was States has been underestimating
able to sit up doctors predicted
he is capable.”
Russian strength by as much as
he would spend the rest of his life
50 per cent.
This means in even simpler lan
in a wheelchair. He was paralyzed
guage that rehabilitation is trying
A prelim inary survey indicates
on his left side and he lost his pow
to get the disabled veteran to stop er of speech. But M iller was deter that Russia sent nearly two billion
thinking about what he could have
dollars worth of m ilitary aid to
mined to fight back to normalcy.
done with which is gone, and aiding
He began to try to walk and began North Korea, which is more than
him in helping! himself in making to try to sing with the radio. Soon the total American deliveries to
the best use of what is left.
he was walking and then he was all North Atlantic pact countries
The Disabled American Veterans talking. On his discharge he took an combined. And this does not in
has worked for more than 29 years extension course in the University clude planes and ships which the
with thousands of disabled veterans of Louisville where he studied ad Russians did not supply to North
and so carefully has the m atter been vertising. typing and business ad Korea in quantity.
thought out and so successfully have ministration. Then he went with the
Furthermore, markings on the
the ideas been applied that it has Kentucky department of agriculture. equipment have been traced to Rus
been found that rehabilitation can He is now advertising manager for sian factories that U. S. intelligence
be broken down into three distinct the Kentucky Electric Co-op News.
thought were producing civilian
phases. F irst there is physical and
goods. These captured weapons are
mental readjustment. Then training Compensation Necessary
now being tested and evaluated at
and employment. Third, the individ
Thus the man who was left as the Aberdeen, Md., ordnance center.
ual and social restoration.
The most effective weapons cap
dead on the battlefield is very much
alive, fighting the battles ofaKen tured from the North Koreans are
Disabled Vets Competent
tucky farmers for better living con heavy mortars _nd burp guns,
These factors all blend in a ditions, water, sewage and land con which laid down the most terrific
harmony of body, mind and spirit. servation. He leads a useful and ac firepower that the American arm y
has ever faced.
To bring about this harmony a care tive life.
For example, the captured Rus
ful program is followed, each phase
These men are only two ex
sian 120-mm. trench m ortar is
of the veteran's rehabilitation being
amples ont of thousands of what
heavier than the comparable 4.2-
handled by competent and well
can be accomplished when reha
inch U. S. m ortar; also fires 1,600
trained persons.
bilitation follows a definite pat
yards farther. In addition, the North
There is the veterans idministra-
tern. Actually rehabilitation in
Koreans used a m ortar even heav
tion physician and the nurse. Then
the experience of the DAV is
ier than the 120-mm., which the
the physical therapist, the occupa
proper hospitalization or treat
army has not yet evaluated.
tional therapist, and the artificial
ment of the wounded or disabled
The Russian burp gun ha» a
appliance maker. The disabled man
veteran. It is also fa ir com
drum-type magazine and fire» at
may need the psychiatrist or the
pensation and pension for his
a terrifically rapid rate. Most of
psychologist. He comes under the
SOMBER M I S S I O N . . . Gen.
wartim e handicaps.
W ITCH OF BUC HENW A LD . . . Use Koch is sworn in at her trial before
these were inscribed with 1950 man
influence of the vocational counselor,
George C. Marshall, secretary of
Compensation, as an aid to reha ufacturing markings, thus refuting a German court at Augsburg. Frau Koch is charged with atrocities
the educator, and the placement
defense, arrives at the White House
bilitation, is one thing stressed by the Soviet claim that they had against Germans while living at Buchenwald concentration camp as
worker. Then he is associated with
to discuss with President Truman
wife of the camp supervisor. She denies all the charges against her.
the DAV. It is considered an impor shipped no arms to North Korea
the employer or the industralist—
dispatches f r o m
General Mac-
One witness asked permission to kick out 13 of the prisoner’s teeth, be
tant part of the adjustment of the since 1945.
and finally by those of his home cir
Arthur concerning United Nations
cause, he says, he remembers the 13 teeth he lost when he was kicked
wartim e handicapped. Disabled vet
cle and his friends.
reverses on the North Korean front.
in the mouth by the heel of Use’s riding boot.
erans are paid by a grateful govern Soviet Jeep
Rehabilitation involves t h e
ment to help them live as normal
Probably the most fascinating
a life as possible and become useful captured equipment is the Russian
combined efforts and thoughts
citizens in their communities. Com Jeep. This is slightly larger and
of all these persons. But the best
pensation is paid each month to off
of all aids is the disabled vet
more comfortable than the U. S.
set, at least in part, the veteran’s
eran himself. For as someone
model, is equipped with softer
reduced earning power caused by
said “it is he whose Interest and
seats, double springs and better
satisfaction must be met, within
his wartim e, service-incurred dis
shock absorbers. However, its vital
abilities.
his remaining physical, mental
parts are still modeled after the
and social capacities.
Rehabilitation, too, is social re out-moded A and B types, made by
The disabled veteran, prepared adjustment through comradeship Ford.
for a job in line with his physical with fellow disabled veterans at
Several BA-64 light-armored cars
condition, aptitude and ability, can DAV chapter meetings. Further were also captured. However, they
do his work well. A man with a leg more, it is legislative protection of are distinctly Inferior to the A m er
amputated can do anything at a rights to which the disabled veteran ' ican M-8 in maneuverability, fire
desk that an able-bodied man of is justly entitled, and which give power and defense against small
equal skill can do. A man without him a necessary sense of security.
arms.
r
A Job Is Important Link in Program
This disabled veteran is not actually rehabilitated until he has
the job which is within his remaining capacities. These remaining
capacities have been developed to a high degree. If, when he is ready
for a job there is no job, there is a definite break in the link of
rehabilitation. If he should have to take a job for which he is not
suited, much of the good work is ruined. He may suffer a complete
setback. It is essential for the disabled veteran, unless he is totally
incapacitated, to have the right job.
Most captured Soviet rifles are
modeled after the U. S. Springfield
1903. They weigh 10 pounds, use
five-round clips and fire at a slower
rate than modern U. S. rifles.
However, a novel, hand-shoulder
antitank gun was captured that is
easy to maneuver and can pierce
armor up to two and one-half inch
es. The Russian-made goryunov m a
chine gun can also be used against
aircraft by reversing the gun and
elevating the tall.
Its effective
range is 900 yards but it is d iffi
cult to carry and load.
SIGNS OF T H E T IM E S . . . A soldier and a sailor anxiously review the
significant headlines of a recent newspaper in the nation’s capital. P .F.C ,
John Green, United States a ir force (left), Cleveland, Ohio, and Seaman
Radarman Alex Kun, United States navy, Akron, Ohio, read the deUils
of President Trum an’s announcement that the United States is consider
ing using the atom bomb to stop Chinese aggression In Korea. Capitol
dome can be seen in background.
W ant to m ake a l i l t w ith a ll your
•m o kin g friends this Christm as?
l i t re 's w hat you do: C heck-off the
nam es of n il your friends who
smoke cigarettes. G ive them a
ru rto n of C am elal Cool, in 1 1 d
Cam els are a welcome g ift to any
sm oker because m ole
people
smoke cornels Ihun any other c ig a r
e tte 1 And fo r a ll your frien ds who
smoke a pipe or ro ll th e ir own
cigarettes, give a big pound tin of
P rince A lb e rt Sm oking Tobaccol
When you give a m an Prince A l
bert. you're giving h im the re a l
sm oking pleasure. And when you
go to your local dealer, be sure to
get the co lo rfu l C hristm as pack
ages. Both Camels a n d P rince
A lb e rt are available in red and
green puckuges In the s p irit of the
season. A ll you have to do is w rite
yo u r personal greeting on the
b u ilt-in g ift card on the package.
Save tim e and money th is C h ris t
m as by giving cool, m ild Camels
and m ellow Prince A lb e rt Smok
ing Tobacco. See your dealer to
day.
—Adv.
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M rs. E m il Anderson, 3632 W a
bash, D e tro it, M ich ., says she be
lieves in folks being lu cky nnd a ll
th a t . . . but she says th a t people
today are Inclined to re ly too
much on ju s t good luck. One thing
M rs. Anderson says, “ is fa c t not
fic tio n ” , . . she isn ’t going around
saying she thanks her lu cky stars
fo r fe eling so good—No S ir! not
M rs. Anderson —she says she feels
so good now because she is ta kin g
H AD AC O L.
She was su ffe rin g
fro m a deficien cy of V ita m in s B ',
B2. N ia cin , and Iro n w hich H A D A -
col contains.
H ere is M rs Anderson's own
sta te m e n t;
• “ F o r m any years now I have
had nagging aches and pains not
in ju s t a few places but a ll over
m y body—in fact I know n person
co uldn ’t have fe lt as m iserable as
I did.
“ I was nervous too—so nervous
th a t I co u ld n 't even darn socks
and the w orst th ing was th a t I
co u ld n 't eat or sleep p ro p e rly. I
would ju s t eat th is nnd th a t—
never a fu ll m e a l—and m y stom
ach a lw ays fe lt bad. I was so tire d
a ll the tim e —seems lik e when I
would go up tw o or three steps I
would be co m p le te ly w orn out.
I was ju s t about at m v w its end,
not know ing w ha t to do.
“ Then w hile v is itin g m y son and
his w ife in M orton-G ap, K y., he
told me how his m o th er-in -la w had
been helped so m uch by H A D A
COL. I brought H A D A C O L a ll the
w ay home to D e tro it w ith me. I
could te ll a big d ifferen ce a fte r f
the second bottle. So fa r I have
taken 6 or 7 bottles of H AD AC O L.
W hat a w onderful change has ta k
en place. 1 eat w ell and th orou g hly
enjoy m y fond, and sleep—w hy I
can’t even stay up late enough to
w atch a ll of the te levision —I ju s t
drop o ff to sleep. I have lots of
energy too—now I can even get
out in the y a rd and do the ya rd
w ork. Yes H A D A C O L is w onder
fu l—and you can bet yo ur life I
w ill never stop ta kin g H A D A C O L .”
F olks A ll O ver the C onntry
whose system s were d e ficie n t In
V ita m in s B ', B2. N iacin, nnd Iro n ,
have been helped by H A D A C O L
and H A D A C O L can help you, too,
if you su ffe r from stom ach d is
tress, Insom nia caused by upset
stom ach, vague aches nnd pains,
o r a general run-down condition,
when they are caused by such de
ficiencies.
T h a t’s the kind of p roduct you
w an t—th a t’s the kind you should
buy and th a t’ s the kind you should
s ta rt ta k in g NOWI
G ive re m a rka b le H AD AC O L a
chance to benefit you R em em ber,
you have nothing to lose. H A D A
COL w ill m ake you feel b etter
a fte r the fir s t few bottles you
take, or yo ur money w ill be re
funded O nly $1.25 fo r T ria l size;
L n rg e F a m ily or H ospital size,
$3.50.
I f y o u r d ru gg ist does not have
H AD AC O L, o rd er d ire c t fro m The
L cB la n c C orporation, L a fa ye tte ,
Louisiana. Send no m oney. Ju st
yo u r nam e and address on a pen
E X -P A R T Y L E A D E R J A IL E D . . . ny post card. Pay postm an. State
E a rl Browder, once boss of the U.S. w hether you w ant the $3 50 hos
Communist party, arrives at U.S. p ita l economy size o r $1.25 tr ia l
district court in Washington. Ho size. R em em ber, m oney ch ee rfu l
was unable to post ball In contempt ly refunded unless you are 100%
of congress charges and was placed sa tis fie d .—Adv.
behind bars.
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