Airplane workers trained by
Federal Board for Voca-
tional Education, 165.
Allotments and allowances to

soldiers' dependents, 181.
American Casualties, 55.
American Federation of La-
bor coöperates to obtain
passage of rehabilitation
law, 244; endorses rehabil-
itation, 244.

Amputation cases, average
percentage of, 57; in United
States forces, 13.
Analysis of first 159 cases
placed for reeducation, 225.
Armistice changes medical
conditions in army, 10.
Artificial aids to the disabled,
23.
Australia, establishes soldiers'

homes, 137; furnishes land
for her soldiers, 136; gov-
ernment supplies all funds
for land in, 138; Repatria-
tion Commission of, 136;
system of land purchase
and financing soldiers of,
138; vocational reeducation
for the disabled in, 137.
Austria-Hungary, 118; casual-

ties of, 123; military au-
thorities provide medical
eare in, 118; orthopædic
schools in, 119; placement
of disabled men in, 121;
places care of disabled on
states of the Empire, 118;
policy of, one of concentra-
tion in large institutions,
120.

Automobile drivers and mech-
anicians trained by Fed-

ica to reeducate disabled
soldiers, 124; first provi-
sion for wounded in, 124; in-
ception of vocational reëdu-
cation in, 125; Invalid Sol-
diers, Commission of, 126,
128; makes special effort to
ascertain wishes of disabled
men, 130; method of hand-
ling returned disabled men
in, 128; Military Hospitals,
Commission of, 124; occu-
pational therapy in the hos-
pitals in, 129; offers educa-
tion free but without main-
tenance to certain classes of
soldiers, 132; pensions un-
affected by retraining in,
126; placement work in,
134; reeducation in, limited
to disabled who cannot re-
sume former occupations,
127; rehabilitation system
of, 124; rehabilitation work
demilitarized in, 126; suc-
cess of, in rehabilitation,
257; system of, a practical
evolution, 125; utilization
of disabled man's family
in, 129; wounded of, given
furloughs to visit home,
129; wounded of, sent to
depot nearest home, 128.
Casualties, American,

55;

123;

Austro-Hungarian,
British, 58; Canadian, 134;
French, 90; German, 116;
Italian, 156.

Central Empires, restoration
work in, 105.
Charity undesired and un-
welcome, 20, 271.

Choice of an occupation to
train for, 213, 218; medi-
cal limitations on, 216.
Civil-service positions, number
of, 249, 250, 253.
Classification of disabled from

a military standpoint, 9.

Coddling the disabled man has
no place in the programme,
241.

College courses, assistance to
complete, 229.

Commiseration "unsteels the
soul,'' 273.

Community obligations to dis-
abled men, 28, 241.
Complete restoration of dis-
abled the new National pol-
icy, 29.

Compulsory training a fail-
ure, 26.

Congress, interest of, in re-
habilitation, 170.
Conservative democracies
turned into conserving de-
mocracies, 50.
Convalescent patient should
start on reeducation, 210.
Convalescent stage of ten vital
links between medical treat-
ment and vocational reëdu-
cation, 207.

Council of National Defense
acts to procure legislation,

171.
Courses available through Fed-
eral Board of Vocational
Education, number of, 225.
Creditors of disabled men
should be restrained, 302.
Cripples small portion of
problem, 58.

Curative work in hospitals de-
cisive factor in inducing
volunteers for vocational re-
education, 13.

Curative workshops and
courses of instruction in
United States hospitals, 8;
must be under military dis-
cipline, 208; when work
should begin in, 209.

Deafness and speech defects,

12.

Debt of the Nation to the dis-

abled man, 16.
Deficiencies in training cor-
rected, 239.

Dépôt des Invalides, Belgian,
established, 66; compensa-
tion to inmates of, 67; cur-
riculum of, 66; instructors
in, 67.

Determination of course for
disabled man crux of the
problem, 256.
Disabilities

not necessarily
visible, 283; rarely total,
22; specific, incidence of,
13.
Disability incurred in Great

War a badge of honor, 271.
Disability compensation, 49.
Disabled, average of, under

modern system of war, 53.
Disabled men, assigned for
training to institutions near-
est their homes, 229; im-
perative to have interest of,
in retraining, 220; instances
of retraining of, in line of
previous experience, 218;
country still expects them
to do their duty, 214; long
for unaffected comradeship,
272; may be "slackers'' by
refusing to take training,
275; not necessarily crip-
ples, 21; previous valuable
trade knowledge of, never
discarded, 219; primary en-
deavor to fit them where
chance of success is best,
217; a potential reserve to
warring nations, 47; real
reeducation of, begins after
discharge from Army, 223;
restoration of initiative of,
important, 221; retrained
examples of success of, 255;
retrained, wantonly a fair
trial, 270; under jurisdic-
tion of War and Navy De-

partments until discharge,
205.
Disabled of industry the
larger problem, 289; see
also under Industry.
Disabling wounds often high
road to real success, 262.
Disregard of disabilities and
concentration on abilities
essential, 282.

Division of Physical Recon-
struction, Surgeon - Gen-
eral's Office, 4.
Duty of the home community,
266; of the citizen toward
the disabled man, 275; of
the whole citizenry to its
disabled members, 308.

Early days after injury criti-
cal in psychological sense,

25.

Economic redemption of dis-
abled a national investment,
51.
Educational institutions used
in placing first reëducation
cases, 228.
Effect of work on wounded
first noted at St. Addresse,
France, 66.

Electricians trained by Fed-
eral Board for Vocational
Education, 165.

Employers of disabled men
need educating, 234; ex-
ploiting disabled should feel
public wrath, 285; gen-
erally willing to give re-
trained a chance, 235, 300;
had wrong conception of re-
trained men, 300; not ex-
pected to employ retrained
at a loss, 270; protected
against increased casualty-
insurance rates, 232.
Encouragement, not commiser-
ation, need of disabled, 284.
Equality of opportunity now

the aim of the Government,
44.

Expenses of retraining paid

by the Federal Board for
Vocational Education, 210.

Families of untrained men the

sufferers, 280.
Farm, states can check drift
from, 305.

Farm community for soldiers,
suggested plan of, 303.
Farms for soldiers, states
should provide, 303.
Federal Board for Vocational
Education, authority of, to
prescribe course, 194; au-
thorized to make studies of
disabled of industry, 296;
authorized to receive gifts
for use of disabled of indus-
try, 296; authorized to
supervise rehabilitation of
disabled of industry, 294;
began retraining operations
promptly, 292; composition
and functions of, 163; co-
operates with other agen-
cies, 197; district or branch
offices of, 211; district vo-
cational officers of, 211;
empowered to accept gifts
and donations, 198;
trusted with reëducation
work by Congress, 171; first
man placed for reëducation
by, 199; first 159 cases
placed by, analysis of, 226;
given large discretion, 196;
has disciplinary powers over
students, 194; holds "all
careers open to the disabled

en-

man," 213; immediately

available to retrain dis-
abled soldiers, 166; institu-
tional facilities available to,
223; institutions utilized by,
227; local boards of, their
composition and functions,

put quietus on state and
private effort, 301.
Financial provision for the
disabled soldier, 177.
Follow-up work after place-
ment, 239.

France, casualties of, 90;
compensation and mainte-
nance of disabled men in
schools of, 86; difficulty in
inducing men to take reedu-
cation in, 82; disabled am-
bitious for clerkships in,
89; disabled qualifying for
trades formerly occupied by
Germans in, 88; discipline
in schools of, 86; finds the
discharged disabled most
difficult to interest, 85;
Government reëducation
school of, Institute Na-
tionale, opened, 80; manual
trades most preferred in,
88; reeducation work in,
an evolution, 77; reserves
public service positions for
disabled soldiers, 253;
schools available for reëdu-
cation in, 81; system of re-
education of, 84; system of,
inaugurated by Edouard
Herriot, 78.

Germany, agricultural schools
in, for war disabled, 113;
casualties of, 116; creed of,