iJ 1 i n S A Va i v s VBs 3j 3 2 i S s f J C y t K 9 fe p v ORcJ c v i 1 51 L ckabilitatiotv Mxvs Vol lNo 1 ATLANTA GEORGIA September 1944 2771 Physically Handicapped Persons Placed in JOBS Last Year THEY CANT HEAR BUT THEYRE EXPERTSMrs Dorris White was taught to operate complicated tabulating punch machines Now shes helping another trainee Mrs Tommie Berry Both of these attractive young women are employed in an Atlanta department store i Rekabiiitatioa Vews Published monthly by the Georgia Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Stale Department of Education Atlanta Georgia Tin Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation News Dr M D Collins State Superintendent of Schools Paul S Barrett Director Div Vocational Rehabilitation DIRECTORY OF DISTRICT OFFICES 134 State Office Bldg Atlanta Georgia 21314 Royal Bldg Albany Georgia Hardman Hall University of Georgia Athens Georgia 607 Southern Finance Bldg Augusta Georgia 349 Union St P O Box 209 Brunswick Georgia 411 Flowers Bldg Columbus Georgia n1 CS Bank Bldg Dublin Georgia 414 Jackson Bldg Gainesville Georgia 406 Bankers Ins Bldg Macon Georgia Room 29 Court House Rome Georgia 302 American Bldg Savannah Georgia 432 BunnBldg WvwcRifjss Georgia Over Lifes Hurdles By Dr M D Collins State Superintendent of Schools NAZI GERMANY we are told revived the ancient Spar tan practice of destroying all weak and crippled children leaving only the strong to grow up and perpetuate the race What a contrast to the American ideal that every person is entitled to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness Nowhere in our educational system is the difference in the two philosophies of government better illustrated than in our vocational rehabilitation program Here men and women with impaired and mutilated bodies are equipped and trained for jobs consistent with their talents and guided into new vocations To give them an opportunity for economic independence is in full accord with American principles Experience shows it also is good business Many applicants for vocational rehabilitation services possess unusual talents which can be developed only through proper training Some of todays leaders in professions and trades were given their first opportunity through this pro gram They are shining examples of government at work for all the people They are proud to be Americans And they make us proud that we are Americans Vocational rehabilitation for physically handicapped citi zens is more important now than ever before Upon this group has fallen much of the responsibility for filling the gaps in the nations war manpower supply They are taking their places in offices shops and factories They are doing their part in the war effortand doing it nobly In the days to come the need for this type of educational service will be even greater as wounded men come back from die fighting fronts Some of them already have returned and are being trained for new vocations Others will follow It thrills me to have a part in this vital work It will thrill you I am sure to get an insight into the methods by which these nun and women are given an opportunity to succeed What we have done and are doing in this field will be told in this and subsequent issues of The Georgia Voca tional Rehabilitation News The Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation News War Manpower Gaps Filled By Handicapped Georgias vocational rehabilitation program was inaugurated in 1920 soon after Congress passed the first National Civilian Rehabilitation legislation Since that time thousands of handi capped persons have been rehabilitated and placed in useful occupations For years appeals for this service came from the individuals themselves It was often difficult to place these workers after they were ready for jobs There was a surplus of manpower Some employers declined even to consider employment applications from this group Now it is the employers who are appealing for aid They need the services of physically handicapped workers who have been trained for specific jobs In many instances they have found rehabilitants more efficient at some tasks than those without handicaps During the fiscal year ended June 30 1944 the 2771 persons were rehabilitateda record num ber for the state They are filling jobs as stenographers typists and clerks in private in dustries and government agencies They are working at skilled trades in shipyards aircraft plants munition factories and other industries Their earnings the first year will amount to more than ten times the cost of meclical and sur gical services trade training and administrative expenses STATE SERVICE Vocational rehabilitation is a state service car ried on in cooperation with the Federal govern ment Headed by a state director the division has 12 district offices staffed with supervisors who serve in designated areas All permanently disabled persons above 16 vears of age who are vocationally handicapped are eligible for rehabilitation A disabled person is considered vocationally handicapped if unem ployed or employed in an unsatisfactory job provided he has riot been fitted by training and experience to engage in a suitable vocation where there is a possibility of employment Phys ical disability alone does not render a person eligible GUIDANCE GIVEN There is nothing temporary about vocational rehabilitation It certainly is not charity It is limited to persons who in spite of their handi caps appear to be able to learn and follow a vocation in a satisfactory way Everyone accepted for vocational rehabilita tion needs proper guidance It is obvious that they should be directed into channels where they can make wise use of their talents and satisfy to some degree at least their ambition This re quires thorough investigation by the rehabilita tion division The division has the cooperation of other agencies in providing guidance training and placement for applicants The State Department of Public Welfare the State Industrial Board the U S Employment Service U S Civil Service Commission War Manpower Commission Na tional Tuberculosis Association and other agen cies investigate cases consult on eligibility and assist in placement In this issue of The Georcia Vocational Re habilitation News is presented pictures and stories of just a few of the many Georgia citizens who have won their fight for an independent existence THEYRE MAKING GOOD HELPING TO WIN THE WAREd Starr 29 blind since childhood operates a power stitcher in a broom factory working on government contracts For years hes been earning his own living now he is shop foreman can take down and reassemble this intricate machine His daily stitching production Fiftyfive to sixty dozen brooms FACIAL RESTORATIONA disfiguring handicap resulting frim childhood kept this man Dwight Carter out of regular enkloyfl surgery restored his nose Now hes employed as cabinet makerThe Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation News GREETING GUESTSFrcm the cordial reception and efficient service you get from this hotel clerk you wouldnt know he has two artificial legs He is Otis R Johnson who was handicapped from birth with club feet Two operations and hes on his feet again LeftDr M D Collins State School Superintendent welcomes him THREE IN ONE SHOPVirgil Collum center who has but one leg shows Robert Jones left who has the same type of handicap some of the fine points of shoe rebuilding while Walter Barnett right who has an artificial leg is busy saving soles FROM Gl TO ELECTRICIANAfter fourteen months in the Infantry W C Moulder 22 received a medical discharge Ulcers of the stomach Given training as an electrician hes now working with a refrigeration and air conditioning establishment OWc GeovcYooccotxV c Kabi litatiotv Mws Vol 1 No 2 ATLANTA GEORGIA October 1944 Georgia Job Clinics Cut Pattern For New National Recruiting Plan TYPICAL CLINIC SCENE Heres a view of the Hall County Superior Courtroom at Gainesville while the job clinic was in session State Vocational Rehabilitation Director Paul Barrett occupies the bench while supervisors personnel officers and clerical staff interview applicants rThe Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation News ekabilitatioa Mws Published monthly by the Georgia Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Georgia Dr M D Collins State Superintendent of Schools Paul S Barrett Director Div Vocational Rehabilitation DIRECTORY OF DISTRICT OFFICES 134 State Office Bldg Atlanta Georgia 21314 Royal Bldg Albany Georgia Hardman Hall University of Georgia Athens Georgia 607 Southern Finance Bldg Augusta Georgia 349 Union St P O Box 209 Brunswick Georgia 411 Flowers Bldg Columbus Georgia 401 C S Bank Bldg Dublin Georgia 414 Jackson Bldg Gainesville Georgia 406 Bankers Ins Bldg Macon Georgia Room 29 Court House Rome Georgia 302 American Bldg Savannah Georgia 432 Bunn Bldg Waycross Georgia A Good Investment In no better manner could the taxpayers money be ex pended in Georgia Thats the conclusion expressed by the Albany Herald influential Southwest Georgia daily in an editorial on Voca tional Rehabilitation in the August 23 1944 issue The Editor called attention to a rather remarkable photo graph which appeared in the same issue and said It pictures two Albany Negroes once classified as unem ployables because of physical disabilities who through the efforts of the Georgia Department of Educations Division of Vocational Rehabilitation have joined the ranks of regular wage earners For twenty years one had an infected knee joint which had become ankylosed or stiffened The other suffered from club feet The former had the infected leg amputated was fitted with an artificial limb by the state then trained to operate a shoe repair shop The other man had his trouble partially corrected through state aid and is the shoe repair mans assistant in the shop The Albany office of the Division of Vocational Rehabili tation says these are but two of 5000 Georgians who in the past two years have been trained and placed in jobs which they are capable of holding Stated in brief says the local office the rehabilitation of an individual covers nine integral factors all or part of which may be required for successful adjustment These are 1 Early location of persons in need of rehabilitation to prevent the disintegrating effects of idleness and hopelessness 2 medical diagnosis and prognosis coupled with vocational diag nosis as the basis for determining an appropriate plan for the individual 3 vocational counseling to select suitable fields of work by relating occupational capacities to job require ments and community opportunities 4 medical and surgi cal treatment to afford physical restoration 5 physical and occupational therapy and psychiatric treatment where needed 6 vocational training to furnish new skills where physical impairments incapacitate for normal occupations 7 financial assistance to provide maintenance and transpor tation during training 8 placement in employment to afford the best use of abilities and skills in accordance with the individuals physical condition and temperament with due regard to safeguarding against further injuries 9 fol lowup on performance in employment to afford adjustments that may be necessary Thank you Mr Henry T MclntoshThe Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation News Job Clinics Attract National Attention Georgias job clinic method of en rolling physically handicapped persons for placement or trade training cut the pattern for a new technique in national civilian vocational rehabilitation The idea of inviting applicants to re port at some central point in a commun ity for medical examinations and inter views with prospective employers was tried out in Atlanta last February The threeday session attracted about eight hundred physically impaired men and women They answered questions as clerks filled out necessary forms This prelimi nary over they were taken to nearby offices where whitejacketed doctors gave them medical examinations Those head ed for certain types of mechanical jobs went to another room for aptitude tests Then came the final stepconsulta tions about jobs through the Civil Serv iceor with private employers Clear ances were checked by representatives of the U S Employment Service and War Manpower Commission Many were accepted for immediate employment Others were found to re quire special training and were soon headed for vocational schools or indus trial plants where trade training was of fered Some had to have artificial appli ances IDEA SPREADS Similar clinics were held in Augusta Columbus Rome and Gainesville Voca tional rehabilitation officials in South Carolina Florida and Tennessee adopted the idea and requested the aid of Georgia administrators in planning and holding their clinics Other states heard about it O E Myers regional director of the U S Civil Service says inquiries about the Georgia plan now have been received from practically every state in the nation The success of the clinics is due largely to the wholehearted support of the Civil Service and other Federal agencies Per sonnel officers from government installa tions and war industries in the Southeast attended most of the sessions to interview prospective workers They came from such distant points as the Charleston Navy Yard Key West Naval Station and Brookley Field at Mobile Ala The clinics in this state resulted in the placement of approximately 1500 handi capped persons and the enrollment of many more for preemployment training and physical restoration A STITCH IN TIME Mrs Sallie McLellan above was one of the first applicants at the first clinic Now shes working as a seamstress Many other seamstresses have been placed at Army posts to repair uniforms I TEAMWORK Oliver Whittier left shows Robert Griffin some of the fine points of engraving Whittier who has a deformed hip was trained by the Vocational Rehabilitation Division and now has his own business Griffin had infantile paralysisThe Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation News ON THE THRESHOLD OF OPPORTUNITY Physically handicapped persons awaiting their turn for interviews at job clinic spon sored by Vocational Rehabilitation Division U S Civil Service War Manpower Commission and U S Employment Service Story on page 3 SEEING THE DOCTOR Junior Culberson a crippled deaf mute AN EASY INTERVIEW C V Castell right who lost one leg in an being given medical examination by Dr N L Williams In the accident and had the other amputated is interviewed by Miss background A P Jarrell Assistant State Director of Vocational Wida Berryman left Battey General Hospital personnel represen Rehabilitation tative while Miss Dorothy King of Rome Rehabilitation office takes down the record 1J VOL 1 NO 3 NOVEMBER 1944 ekabllitatioiv Mws ATLANTA GEORGIA ill Theyre ThankfulMabilitatiorv Mws Published monthly by the Georgia Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Stale Department of Education Atlanta Georgia Dr M D Collins State Superintendent of Schools Paul S Barrett Director Div Vocational Rehabilitation The Georgla Vocational Rehabilitation News DIRECTORY OF DISTRICT OFFICES 134 State Office Bldg Atlanta Georgia 21314 Royal Bldg Albany Georgia Hardman Hall University of Georgia Athens Georgia 607 Southern Finance Bldg Augusta Georgia 349 Union St P O Box 209 Brunswick Georgia 411 Flowers Bldg Columbus Georgia 401 CS Bank Bldg Dublin Georgia 414 Jackson Bldg Gainesville Georgia 406 Bankers Ins Bldg Macon Georgia Room 29 Court House Rome Georgia 302 American Bldg Savannah Georgia 432 Bunn Bldg Waycross Georgia They Too Are Thankful By Dr M D Collins State Superintendent of Schools will give thanks unto Thee O Lord with my whole heart I will speak of all Thy marvelous ivorks In a letter to the Vocational Rehabilitation Division a young woman employed as storekeeper at an air base said I am happy to have a part in this great fight for peace and freedom There was more than patriotic fervor in the feeling expressed by this daughter of a tenant farmer There was a deep personal gratitude for the peace and freedom she had won the peace that comes with economic security freedom from the bonds of blindness Born with defective vision she graduated from the Georgia Academy for the Blind in 1941 Through the aid of friends and wel fare agencies arrangements were made for an operation which gave her sixty percent vision Then she was given training and placed in her present position This young woman is one of nearly five thousand persons who have been vocationally rehabilitated under the Georgia program dur ing the past two years Every one of them had courage ambition determination the will to overcome their disabilities All pressed closely to their hearts this golden opportunity to demonstrate their ability to do something in the great crisis confronting our people All of them had known throughout their lives that they needed only a chance a chance to work alongside others on an equal foot ing They have a personal and secret exultation in overcoming and conquering their disabilities and in being accepted as an integral part in the world of accomplishment along with their friends and fellow workers They know for the first time that the world accepts them and their disabilitiesnot handicapsas efficient and capable workers in any line of endeavor In time of stress and war and crisis every heart every hand and every soul is needed to keep the light of liberty burningstrong and bright When the great day of peace and quiet and happiness again shall return to this nation every one of them along with whatever disabilities he may have will take his place in the shops factories and offices and in the hearts of their fellow countrymen They have contributed their part in the saving of their nation from all the evil forces which beset it and they too will help rebuild remake and reshape this world to make it forever a place of peace and love and kindness So at this Thanksgiving time they are giving thanks with their whole hearts In homes churches shipyards aircraft plants they are offering their gratitude to Divine Providence for the blessings be stowed upon themThe Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation News Georgia Program Second in Nation California here we come could be the theme song of Georgias vocational rehabilitation forces this year At the recent convention of the Na tional Rehabilitation Association in Chicago it was revealed that the Pacific Coast state was the only state in the un ion that topped Georgia in the total number of handicapped persons rehabili tated during the fiscal year ended last June 30 The score California 3111 Georgia 2771 While Georgia was nosed out of first place in this respect it was first among states in some other important phases of the program case load number of persons in training and number of persons receiving service Taking into consideration the fact that Californias population is about twice that of Georgia the showing made by our Vocational Rehabilitation Divi sion is rather impressive to say the least Some of the more populous states New York Illinois and Pennsylvania trailed both California and Georgia in total number of cases rehabilitated Now the Georgia field force is out to top California this year Cover Picture The beautiful and impressive picture appearing on the front page of this issue of the Georgia Vocational Rehabilita tion News was made in the little chapel at the Bell Aircraft Corporation near Marietta Handicapped workers clad in work clothes pause at the altar before going on the job to offer a Thanksgiving prayer The scene is typical of the Thanksgiv ing celebration in war plants throughout the Nation The Bell Aircraft Corpora tion like other great war industries em ploys many skilled workers who were trained by the vocational rehabilitation services The Marietta plant has cooperated fully with the Georgia Vocational Reha bilitation division which accounts in part at least for the record made by the division last year DOING HIS BIT This young man has defective vision in one eye But his disability is no longer a handicap when it conies to operating a riveting gun HEADED FOR A JOB J J Townsend center who has but one arm gets his first chance for a war job at the Gainesville vocational rehabilitation clinic Here he is shown being interviewed by District Supervisor P D Bush while Miss Sallie Quillian of the Gainesville office staff types the forms ft ft ft ft ft ft m iThe Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation News Theyre Making Good in New Jobs FROM FARMER TO SHEET METAL WORKER Robert J Davis left has but one leg but he is making good as a sheet metal worker in a war plant For years he tried to eke out a living on a little farm Through the vocational rehabilitation division his peg was replaced with an artificial limb and he was given training for his present job ELECTRICIANS AND WATCH REPAIRERS Tom Cook eft had arthritis In spite of this disability he was trained in electrical repar work Now he owns and operates a profitable business E W Jones right lost a leg He was trained in watch repairing and is now regularly employed rb cKabilitotioa Mws Vol 1 No 4 ATLANTA GEORGIA December 1944 Teaching the Blind How to Be Blind PUZZLES As part of his prevocational training at North Georgia Vocational School Ted Rose 24 center blind all his life manipulates a block jigsaw puzzle under the guidance of his blind instructor Miss Inez Vinson while Dr M D Collins right State Superintendent of Schools looks on 5The Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation News Jtokabilitatiori Mws Published monthly by the Georgia Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Georgia Dr M D Collins State Superintendent of Schools Paul S Barrett Director Div Vocational Rehabilitation DIRECTORY OF DISTRICT OFFICES 134 State Office Bldg Atlanta Georgia 21314 Royal Bldg Albany Georgia Hardman Hall University of Georgia Athens Georgia 607 Southern Finance Bldg Augusta Georgia 349 Union St P O Box 209 Brunswick Georgia 411 Flowers Bldg Columbus Georgia 401 C S Bank Bldg Dublin Georgia 414 Jackson Bldg Gainesville Georgia 406 Bankers Ins Bldg Macon Georgia Room 29 Court House Rome Georgia 302 American Bldg Savannah Georgia 432 Bunn Bldg Waycross Georgia New Services for the Blind Georgia has the funds and facilities to provide vocational rehabili tation services to all blind persons in the state who are capable of taking training and holding jobsDr Collins The nations first prevocational training course for the blind to teach them how to be blindhas been inaugurated by the Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation Division at the North Georgia Vocational School at Clarkesville Nine men the first group accepted for this type of training have nearly completed the six weeks course designed to give them self confidence and the ability to find their way around the buildings and grounds without assistance When this preliminary training has been completed they will be enrolled for courses in the schools shops or as trainees in industry and another class started Miss Inez Vinson blind since she was 16 and for ten years on the faculty at the Academy for the Blind in Macon teachers the pre vocational course at Clarkesville In undertaking to expand vocational rehabilitation services for the blind division supervisors found that a vast majority of people without eyesight especially those recently afflicted lack selfconfidence They rely on others for assistance So the prevocational course was established as a preliminary to trade training Students are first taught to bathe shave and dress themselves perform household duties locate articles in their rooms and find their way around the dormitory Then they learn hand dexterity to develop their sense of touch through manipulating block puzzles typing placing rivets assembling simple mechanical appliances and reading Braille Finally they are taken to the shops where they get the feel of tools and machines Four supervisors are now on the Division staff devoting their time to services to the blind Two of them are blind Workers trained under this phase of Georgias rehabilitation program are employed in a wide range of trades and industriesin shipyards aircraft plants shops factories and commercial establish ments It has been found that a blind person properly trained can follow almost any vocationThe Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation News i 1 IN MANY TRADES Frank Hopper top left training in machine shop at Augusta vocational school Archie Wilson top right operating lathe in Fulton school under supervision of Marvin Ingram instructor Insert Closeup of Wilsons hands adjusting michrometer to ll000ths of an inch Mack Braswell lower left works as upholsterer at Richs Miss Inez Cannon and Miss Sara Fuller lower right box makers in food industryThe Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation News BLIND WORKERS IN WAR INDUSTRIES THESE MEN CANT SEE but theyre helping to win the war by gauging parts in an ordnance plant in Georgia MACHINIST AND PIANO REBUILDER Edward Barber left taking machine shop course at Augusta school William Lanhar right converting mechanical player piano into regulation instrument DKe GeovqoocodvcmcvV ekabilMiori Mws Vol 1 No 5 ATLANTA GEORGIA January 1945 Physical Restoration Services Offered a STANDING ALONEVernon O Taylor 42 of Lithonia crippled by infantile paralysis and an accident had both legs amputated and was provided with artificial limbs He was trained in auto mechanics and is now employed at an ordnance plant Paul Bar rett center State Director of Vocational Rehabilitation and A P Jarrell Assistant Director observe the results Insert shows Taylors limbs after operationThe Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation News OKc 6eovojvoAocoXoNov Ackabllitatiori Afews Published monthly by the Georgia Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Slate Department of Education Atlanta Georgia Dr M D Collins State Superintendent of Schools Paul S Barrett Director Div Vocational Rehabilitation DIRECTORY OF DISTRICT OFFICES 134 State Office Bldg Atlanta Georgia 21314 Royal Bldg Albany Georgia Hardman Hall University of Georgia Athens Georgia 607 Southern Finance Bldg Augusta Georgia 349 Union St P O Box 209 Brunswick Georgia 411 Flowers Bldg Columbus Georgia 401 CSBank Bldg Dublin Georgia 414 Jackson Bldg Gainesville Georgia 406 Bankers Ins Bldg Macon Georgia Room 29 Court House Rome Georgia 302 American Bldg Savannah Georgia 432 Bunn Bldg Waycross Georgia Earning Power Increased How physical restoration and vocational training increases the earn ing capacity of handicapped persons is illustrated by an analysis of fifty four cases served by Georgias Vocational Rehabilitation Division be tween October 1 1943 and June 30 1944 Records show that before being rehabilitated these men and women were earning 1988064 a yearan average of 36816 After receiving the services they were placed on jobs which enabled them to earn 7519824 a yearan average of 139255 Yet the cost of providing this service was only 884276 or 16375 per case Fiftysix others were given medical and surgical services during the same period At the time the analysis was made 23 were recuperating o awaiting artificial limbs 15 were in training and 18 working on tempo rary light jobs until fully recovered Eighteen types of disabilities were listed in the medical records of these cases Most prevalent were orthopedic hernia visual and those requiring plastic surgery Between July 1 1944 and January 25 1945 192 applications for physi cal restoration services were approved Many of them have received treat ment and are now employed Others are being treated or are in training Medical Board F orme To assist in formulating policies for the physical restoration program of the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation a State Medical Advisory Committee was organized recently The committee comprises twenty leading physicians surgeons and specialists from various sections of the state with Dr Thomas P Good wyn Medical Consultant for the Division as Chairman This group will set up policies for the administration of the physical restoration phase of the rehabilitation program and establish a schedule of fees for services Provision for National and State medical advisory committees was made in the National Vocational Rehabilitation Act Crowd At Clinics The twelve oneday vocational rehabilitation job clinics held in Geor gia between January 11 and 26 attracted 1008 applicants Two hundred and thirtyeight were accepted for employment through the Civil Service and the others enrolled for job training or physical restoration services The clinics were held in Griffin LaGrange Cordelc Albany Thomas ville Moultrie Valdosta Waycross Dublin Statesboro Milledgeville and AthensThe Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation News Need For Physical Restoration By Terry Foster Asst Regional Representative Federal Security Agency To be employable an individual must meet four fundamental quali fications 1 He must have suffi cient mental capacity to learn and hold a job 2 He must be emo tionally and temperamentally fit to work 3 He must have a skill or be able to render a service someone is willing to buy or use and 4 He must be physically able to work An individual who lacks any of these qualifications is unemployable and will remain so until the miss ing factor is restored or developed Thus no matter how well equipped he may be otherwise if the individ ual lacks physical capacity to work ability to perform the physical motions required by a job and the endurance necessary to carry it on he is unemployable in the usual sense of the word and the more the disability of the individual re stricts his ability to perform phys ical motions or limits his mental or vital capacity to work the narrower his choice of occupations and his chances of getting into employment It can therefore be understood that since about one out of every three persons applying for vocation al rehabilitation requires some kind of medical surgical psychiatric or other therapeutic treatment to make him or her employable pro vision for physical restoration is es sential in restoring large numbers of disabled persons to employment and selfsupport The National Rehabilitation Act imposes no limitations on the kinds of physical restoration services which a State Rehabilitation De partment may render The only limitations imposed are that treat ment must be directed strictly to ward employment Hospitalization may not be provided for more than 90 days and the individual must be in need of financial assistance in obtaining the treatment needed In establishing this phase of the rehabilitation program in Georgia care has been taken to safeguard the interests of the medical profes sion the recipients of the service and of the taxpayer The policies under which it is carried out assure that it shall be guided by the medi cal profession and that the doctor patient relationship shall not be interfered with The standards of service which have been established insure that the patient will receive the best of medical and related ser vices and the standards for determ ining the eligibility of disabled in dividuals for services are adequate to insure that the taxpayer will not pay for services to individuals who are themselves financially able to pay the cost in whole or in part More Manpower Needed Reports of the progress being made by our armed forces in Eu rope and the Pacific seem to have led many people to believe the war is about over But lets not be too optimistic Those in position to know say it may be many months before final victory is won Meanwhile we here at home must keep planes tanks guns and munitions moving to the fighting fronts in an everincreasing stream That means we must utilize all available manpower as well as plant capacity And right now there is a critical shortage of trained manpowerof men and women who can keep the wheels of industry turning and arm aments moving down the assembly line Georgias physically disabled cit izens have written one of the most inspiring chapters in the history of civilian participation in the war They stepped into the breach when the reservoir of ablebodied work ers was drained by the armed ser vices and war industries In aircraft plants shipyards tex tile mills factories and offices men and women whose disabilities have been overcome are doing their part in turning out war implements But moremany moreare need ed If you have some physical dis ability or know someone who has you have an opportunity to be of service to yourself your friend your country and all the men fighting on land sea and in the air Heres how you may do it Communicate with the nearest Vocational Rehabilitation District office listed on page 2 of this pub lication or apply at one of the job clinics scheduled to be held during February and March At these clinics the door will be opened for all physically disabled persons above 16 years of age who can fill jobs or be trained and equipped for jobs lThe Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation News Scope of Restoration Program By A P Jarrell Assistant State Director In the past the services of the Division of Vocational Rehabilita tion embraced guidance training supervision placement and furn ishing prosthetic appliances The National Civilian Vocational Re habilitation Act was amended on July 6 1943 to provide physical restoration services The Division is now in position to offer a well rounded program Hundreds of disabled persons who were in need of physical restora tion of one type or another which they were financially unable to ob tain may now be accepted for ser vice and later become selfsupport ing individuals This group which we may call neglected was pre viously reached in part only through the benevolence of doctors and hospitals Since the expanded program is designed to reach this group financial need must be de termined on all cases before any service can be rendered All physi cal restoration services are based on a thorough medical examination by a qualified physician The na ture and extent of these services are determined by his recommenda tions In accepting cases for physical restoration services it must be kept in mind that the ultimate objective is to make the individual employ able In general the Division is not limited as to the type of disability but is limited in terms of the con dition to be treated Thus treat ment may be given if the condition regardless of its physical or mental origin 1 is an impediment to the individuals occupational per formance 2 is reasonably static 3 is amenable to treatment 4 does not require more than ten days diagnostic study and more than ninety days hospitalization for sur gery or treatment and 5 the in dividuals age is from sixteen to whatever age he may be made em ployable through treatment In rendering physical restoration services the members of the Voca tional Rehabilitation staff are guid ed by the professional advice of a Medical Advisory Committee The Division is anxious to give this service to every eligible and feasible person in the State who is financially unable to provide such service for himself in whole or in part The staff of the Division is limited and the cooperation of all physicians is needed to reach this handicapped group Agencies and individuals in the State who may know of persons eli gible for service are urged to refer them to the Division New Job Clinics Scheduled Seventeen oneday job clinics will be held during February and March to enroll physically handi capped persons for jobs or job training Representatives of the Civil Ser vice government installations and private industries will be present to interview applicants and sign up those qualified to fill vacancies They will make arrangements too for those who need training to get itand then go on the job Here is the schedule Washington Ga Feb 19 Waynesboro Feb 20 Thomson Feb 21 Louisville Feb 22 Warrenton Feb 23 Augusta Feb 26 Swainsboro Mar 5 Vidalia Mar 6 Sandersville Mar 7 Sylvania Mar 8 Greensboro Mar 9 Douglas Mar 19 Eastman Mar 20 Fitzgerald Mar 21 Jesup Mar 22 Brunswick Mar 23 Savannah Mar 26 In similar clinics held during the past year men and women who thought they would never be able to work have been rehabilitated and placed in jobs in war plants and private industries0 S3 ikabilitatiorv Vews Vol 1 No 6 ATLANTA GEORGIA February 1945 Their Inspiration i Miss Marie Kirkland and Harold Lingfelt are encouraged in their fight for independence by the experiences of Washington and Roosevelt See Page 2 EditorialThe Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation News ekabilitatiorv Mws Published monthly by the Georgia Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Georgia Dr M D Collins State Superintendent of Schools Paul S Barrett Director Div Vocational Rehabilitation DIRECTORY OF DISTRICT OFFICES 134 State Office Bldg Atlanta Georgia 21314 Royal Bldg Albany Georgia Hardman Hall University of Georgia Athens Georcia 607 Southern Finance Bldg Augusta Georgia 349 Union St P O Box 209 Brunswick Georgia 411 Flowers Bldg Columbus Georgia 401 C S Bank Bldg Dublin Georgia 414 Jackson Bldg Gainesville Georgia 406 Bankers Ins Bldg Macon Georgia Room 29 Court House Rome Georgia 302 American Bldg Savannah Georgia 432 Bunn Bldg Waycross Georgia Winning Independence On February 22nd America celebrates the 213th anniversary of the birth of George Washington In leading the Colonies in their struggle for independence Washington knew what it was to face discouragement suffer reversesand then go on to victory Today another American President Roosevelt is guiding the liberty loving nations of the world in a fight to preserve their freedom and perpetu ate Washingtons ideals He too has had the will courage and determination to overcome ob stacles and achieve success Their careers inspire all who battle against odds to reach new goals In Georgia and throughout the Nation there are thousands of men and women who are striving to free themselves from the bonds of physical dis abilities and win economic independence In their personal lives they have gone through the bitter experiences of Valley Forges and Pearl Harbors Now through the Vocational Rehabilitation Service they are being given opportunities to throw off their shackles For many of them it is the first time they have felt they were wanted and could be of service to their community and their Nation They are taking their places along with their ablebodied brothers and sisters in factories stores and offices With rivet gun and welding torch they are helping to build the ships and planes and tanks which are carrying Freedoms Flag to the far corners of the earth Their courage is being rewarded at last And they are grateful that they too can have a share in final victory Keeping em Flying High At a work bench in an airplane repair shop a 20yearold Georgia boy is doing a highly technical job on oxygen regulators He knows he never can use one of those devices in high altitude flying But hes happy to have a part in the war and be able to look forward to a useful independent life Four years ago he was facing a different kind of life He had a splendid physique had graduated from high school and was working to earn money for a college education Then he was stricken with infantile paralysis Weeks in a hospital and months at Warm Springs followed The Vocational Rehabilitation Division made arrangements lor the train ing course which qualified him for his present job Out of his earnings lie is setting aside a definite sum for investment in War BondsThe Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation News Schools Geared to War Plan Georgias educational forces have played a vital part in the Nations war effort Long before Pearl Harbor edu cators started preparing for the in evitable conflict and have contin ued to carry on with increasing ef fectiveness Their most direct contribution to victory has been the training of workers for war industries The critical shortage of skilled labor called for the development of trade schools particularly in ur ban communities Local and state vocational train ing facilities were expanded to meet the demands Courses offered in each training center were ad justed to meet the needs in that area Between July 1 1940 and June 30 1944 more than 140000 work ers including nearly 6000 physical ly handicapped persons were trained in public schools and pri vate industries for jobs in aircraft plants shipyards munition facto ries mills stores and offices These men and women have kept the wheels of industry turning the planes tanks guns and supplies moving to the fighting fronts Many of the workers had little or no industrial experience Some mastered new skills Others took refresher courses Georgia was one of the few states which offered training in the repair of delicate instruments used in military air craft Civilian workers also were trained for practically every mili tary and naval installation in the state for ODT and other govern mental agencies Large groups were prepared to fill vacancies created in mercantile and service establish ments by men and women going into the armed forces Training the Handicapped Before the war persons with physical disabilities even skilled workers often found it difficult to get employment The manpower shortage gave these citizens their first real opportunity to prove they too could earn their salt Georgias Vocational Rehabilita tion division of the State Depart ment of Education had the machin ery for channeling them into in dustry When the labor shortage became acute state and district of fices were flooded with applications from handicapped persons eager for war jobsmen and women with bent bodies twisted limbs defective vision missing arms and legs Physicians worked overtime mak ing medical examinations Appli cants requiring artificial limbs and mechanical appliances were aided in obtaining these devices and sent to vocational schools and training centers Those requiring medical and surgical services were given needed financial assistance Calls for trained workers in creased as employers discovered that physically handicapped per sons often were more efficient at some trades than those without dis abilities In 1943 three new district offices were opened by the Vocational Re habilitation division to meet the demands for its services During the fiscal year ended June 30 1944 2771 persons were rehabilitated under the Georgia program Only one stateCalifor niasurpassed Georgia in this re spect Farm Production Training In agricultural areas the voca tional agriculture and home eco nomics departments of Georgia schools stimulated the production and conservation of foods feeds and fibers Millions of cans of vegetables fruits and berries and thousands of tons of meats produced under the stimulus of the FoodForVictory program were processed in school owned canneries dehydrators and freezer lockers and conserved for home use These facilities proved a bulwark against hardship and suf fering then rationing regulations were clamped upon the country Georgias food conservation pro gram attracted nationwide atten tion In classroom and home farm women and girls were given instruc tion in cooking budgeting nutri tion child care home care of the sick home management and house hold equipment repair Georgia girls enrolled in homemaking class es made upward of twenty thou sand garments for distribution to the destitute people of Russia In four hundred schoolowned machine shops farmers were taught to make and repair tools and imple ments needed in the production of essential crops Nearly fortyfive thousand farmers used these facili ties in building or restoring to use almost every type of tool imple ment machine and vehicle But for this service many farmers would have been unable to make a crop American production it has been said has meant the differ ence between victory and defeat for the United Nations Industrial and agricultural production goals in Georgia could not have been achieved had it not been for the work of school forces in training the necessary manpower To better prepare youth for war time citizenship far reaching changes were made in Georgia high school curriculum The Georgia Wartime Education Commission comprising leaders in all fields of education projected a plan to give greater emphasis to physical fitness mathematics sci ence guidance and community ser vice Victory Corps Formed To implement this program Victory Corps were organized in high schools and later extended to elementary grades Five hundred high schools formed these units with a membership of more than 60000 boys and girls In many high schools special pre induction training courses were ar ranged In some preflight training courses and preliminary qualifying examinations for aviation cadets were given to Juniors and Seniors Continued on next page 1The Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation News In spite of defective vison Hubert Dean left and Weyman Farmer right are making good as workers in a paper box factory Here they are shown breaking down boxes for shipment Continued from Page 3 During the farm labor crisis the Victory Corps was the nucleus around which an army of volun teers was recruited to harvest crops Reports show that more than one hundred thousand urban boys and girls after receiving instruction went to the fields to save food and fiber crops Today over hundreds of Geor gia schools the Victory Corps V flag floats with Old Glory and the State emblem as evidence of meri torious service in the National emergency The Reidsville High Schools Vic tory Corps program was cited by the Reidsville Chamber of Com merce as the most outstanding con tribution to the community in 1943 This is probably the first time a high school in Georgia has been given this distinction by a Chamber of Commerce Increased employment of women in industry placed upon school au thorities the responsibility of ex panding daycare and nursery school facilities and of providing better recreational facilities Restrictions on transportation equipmentbuses tires and gaso linecreated new problems for school administrators especially in rural areas Routes were rearranged and conservation regulations adopt ed to meet the emergency Community Service In cities towns and rural com munities administrators teachers and students aided in all types of community war activities Selective Service registration Civilian De fense bond and stamp sales sal vage collections ration book issu ances USO campaigns Red Cross drives and blood donations They worked overtime after school hours to do their part in these vol unteer services Georgia schools also cooperated with the Russian Relief in conduct ing ShareYourClothesWithRus sians collections These campaigns produced upward of a half million pounds of clothing for suffering ci vilians of the Soviet Union in 1943 and 1944 Like other states Georgia faced an acute shortage of teachers In spite of offers of more pay in other services many loyal teachers re mained at their posts In the spring of 1943 Governor Ellis Arnall made available to the State Department of Education funds to pay teachers on the state payroll an additional months salary and later authorized another allocation equivalent to an extra months payekabilitatioi Mxvs Vol 1 No 7 ATLANTA GEORGIA March 1945 Happy in New Vocation i it Bradford James right crippled by illness was taught jewelry engraving and is now employed in an Atlanta plant Here he is shown on the job with Uriah Heater left instructor and A M Bowen center Vocational Rehabilitation SupervisorThe Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation News cKabilitatioa Mxvs Published monthly by the Georgia Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Slate Department of Education Atlanta Georgia Dr M D Collins State Superintendent of Schools Paul S Barrett Director Div Vocational Rehabilitation DIRECTORY OF DISTRICT OFFICES he Goal of Rehabilitation 134 State Office Bldg Atlanta Georgia 21314 Royal Bldg Albany Georgia Hardman Hall University of Georgia Athens Georgia 607 Southern Finance Bldg Augusta Georgia 349 Union St P O Box 209 Brunswick Georgia 411 Flowers Bldg Columbus Georgia 401 C S Bank Bldg Dublin Georgia 414 Jackson Bldg Gainesville Georgia 406 Bankers Ins Bldg Macon Georgia Room 29 Court House Rome Georgia 302 American Bldg Savannah Georgia 432 Bunn Bldg Waycross Georgia What you may ask is the ob jective of vocational rehabilitation services for physically handicapped persons The answer is to develop well trained happy workers employed on jobs suitable to their ability To achieve this end may require vocational guidance hospitaliza tion medical treatment surgery artificial appliances training su pervision transportation mainte nance placement and vocational adjustment Or it may require just one serviceplacement A careful study of the social and economic background of all appli cants the vocational aptitudes and interests and the physical limita tions of their disabilities is made by Supervisors with the aid of tech nical assistants in some specialized fields In each case a medical examina tion is made by an approved phy sician When the services of a spe cialist is indicated this also is pro vided Vocational aptitude dexterity and intelligence tests are used to determine a vocational objective consistent with the applicants abil ity and physical limitations When the objective has been de termined the Supervisor decides Continued what services are needed and helps the applicant in the selection of the facility The facility may be the physician hospital appliance com pany training institution or place ment agency The Vocational Rehabilitation Division supervises the rendering of the service to help the applicant make a satisfactory adjustment to the situation and secure the great est possible benefit from expendi ture of funds in his behalf When all preparation services are completed the Supervisor assists the agency in placing the applicant on a job where he can use his abilities to the best advantage After place ment he is supervised a sufficient length of time to make sure his vo cational objective is satisfactory and that he is properly adjusted to the conditions under which he works Four types of tests are used to de termine the vocational objective preference intelligence achieve ment and aptitude For college or professional train ing the Otis Intelligence test is ad ministered and only those who ap parently would profit from this type of training are permitted to enter college with aid from the Rehabili tation Division For business training a clerical aptitude test is used on Next Page The Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation News State Directors of Vocational Rehabilitation in Southeast talk over problems and programs Front row lefttorightP G Sherer South Carolina Charles H Warren North Carolina Claud Andrews Florida J B Wheeler Mississippi E H Gentry Alabama J H Smith Tennessee Paul H Barrett Georgia Back rowH B Cummings Regional Representative Federal Security Agency and Terry Foster Assistant Regional Representative Continued from Page 2 If an applicant failed to finish high school but has had work ex perience which indicates he has the equivalent of a high school educa tion the Stanford Achievement test is used to determine his educational qualifications If he is interested in mechanical training the Box A Minnesota Me chanical Aptitude Test is used to determine his aptitude for mechan ical trades If he desires to enter a vocation requiring hand or finger dexterity the Pedue Pegboard test is used to determine his aptitude for wrap ping folding assembling small ar ticles making or repairing watches and jewelry If the applicant is undecided as to vocation the Kuder Preference test is used This test is intended to determine the applicants inter est in nine fields mechanical com putational scientific persuasive ar tistic literary musical social serv ice and clerical If he shows a high interest in one or two particular fields he selects a specific objective and gets the services needed to pre pare him for a job in his chosen vocation Job Clinics Results The Will To Win The oneday job clinics which have been held by the Vocational Rehabilitation Division since Janu ary first this year have been so suc cessful that it has been decided to continue this method of recruiting physically handicapped persons for employment and trade training An analysis of twentyone clinics shows Total number of applicants 1378 placed in war work 329 placed in civilian jobs 151 accept ed for training 169 found to need physical restoration services 194 In all clinics the division had the cooperation of the U S Civil Ser vice the U S Employment Service of the War Manpower Commission local Department of Public Wel fare officials and local school and health authorities Clinic Schedule Here is the schedule of job clin ics for April Dawson April 2 Bainbridge April 3 Tifton April 4 Camilla April 5 Americus April 6 Quit man April 16 Sylvester April 17 Blakely April 18 Cuthbert April 19 Oglethorpe April 20 and Co lumbus April 30 At 45 a person with less cour age than Missmight feel jus tified in accepting support from a brother while she looked after the needs of their aged mother For twentynine years she had faced life bravely with handicaps that could have been regarded as incapacitat ing Illness had distorted her facial features twisted her hands and dis abled a limb But in spite of this affliction she had graduated from high school and had two years in college For twelve years thereafter she was a successful school teacher When forced to leave the class room she turned to needlework but the financial returns were in sufficient to give her the indepen dence she desired With the assistance of the Voca tional Rehabilitation division she enrolled in a business college and completed the course Now she is earning a good salary in an office joband winning the admiration of her friends M The Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation News Doing Business at New Stand Clyde Archer center blind operator of vending stand in Atlanta postoffice makes a sale while Paul Barrett left State Director inspects merchandise stock Vending Stands for Blind Set Up Plans for training and financing blind persons in the operation of merchandise vending stands have been developed by the Vocational Rehabilitation Division Two such establishments already have been set up In Atlanta Clyde E Archer operates a modern stand in the old Postoffice building and in LaGrange Miss Pearl Dozier has one in the Postoffice Sites have been selected in Dublin and Gaines ville and blind operators are being trained The training program is being carried on by special supervisors Merchandise stocks tobacco soft drinks confections and wrapped sandwiches are being supplied through loans from the Georgia Cooperative Services for the Blind Inc a nonprofit corporation com posed of prominent Atlanta citi zens Getting funds for the purchase of merchandise always is the great est obstacle to the development of a sound vending stand program as Federal or State funds cannot be used for such purposes In Georgia the problem has been solved by a group of publicspirited citizens Loans made to operators for original stock purchases are to be repaid to the cooperative serv ice organization Directors of the enterprise are Ben Gordon president Clarence Elsas secretarytreasurer Frank Neely Hughes Spalding Wiley Moore and C D Thomas Joseph F Clunk of Washington national chief of services for the blind in the Federal Security Ag encys Office of Vocational Reha bilitation said recently that there are approximately four hundred blind persons in Georgia who can be established in vending stand businesses and made selfsupport ing He was in Atlanta attending a meeting of Vocational Rehabili tation directors of the Southeastern regionJ ekabilitatiori Mws Vol 1 No 8 ATLANTA GEORGIA April 1945 From Newsboy to Watch Repairer Joseph E Jones 43 paralyzed from the waist down used to sell newspapers from a rolling chair Now hes learning watch and clock repair with a jewelry firmThe Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation News DKc GeovqvoNocoXovo MabLlitatiorv Mws Published monthly by the Georgia Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Slate Department of Education Atlanta Georgia Dr M D Collins State Superintendent of Schools Paul S Barrett Director Div Vocational Rehabilitation DIRECTORY OF DISTRICT OFFICES 134 State Office Bldg Atlanta Georgia 21314 Royal Bldg Albany Georgia Hardman Hall University of Georgia Athens Georgia 607 Southern Finance Bldg Augusta Georgia 301 Gordon Bldg Brunswick Georgia 411 Flowers Bldg Columbus Georgia 401 C S Bank Bldg Dublin Georgia 414 Jackson Bldg Gainesville Georgia 406 Bankers Ins Bldg Macon Georgia Room 29 Court House Rome Georgia 302 American Bldg Savannah Georgia 432 Bunn Bldg Waycross Georgia Another Achievement Albany Herald April 5 1945 Georgia has many things for which it can be proud Another achievement has been added to that list and it is a noteworthy oneaiding those who are physically handicapped helping them to be come useful self supporting citizens A person who is normal physically cannot begin to understand what this means to those less fortunatethe opportunity for job training for work for independence The happiness the morale lift the deep joy of helping and being helped must be immeasurable Paul A Strachan president of the American Federation of the Physi cally Handicapped Inc has invited Governor Arnall to address a joint meeting of his organizations Washington lodges He has written Geor gias governor It would afford me great pleasure to introduce you as the governor of that state which today leads all states in effectiveness in the overall aspects of rehabilitation During the last fiscal year Georgia rehabilitated more civilians than any other state except California The Georgia Vocational Rehabilita tion Division of the State Department of Education trained and placed 2771 persons This state inaugurated vocational rehabilitation job clinics for re cruiting physically handicapped persons for vocational rehabilitation services The plan now has been adopted nationally through the Civil Service and Federal Security Agency Georgia has led the way in this fine program We must strive for more of that sort of progress Vocational Rehabilitation for Georgias Blind Atlanta Constitution Sure to meet with widespread public approval is a new program of the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation of the State Department ol Education Through the cooperation of the Georgia Cooperative Services lor the Blind a nonprofit organization made up of leading Atlantans money is being loaned for the setting up of vending stands in public places throughout the state These stands will be operated by blind persons trained by special supervisors of the State Department This will have the effect of making an appreciable additional number of Georgians selfsupporting and that in essence is the ultimate aim of any practical program of vocational rehabilitationThe Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation News Handicapped Making Good By MARY LOU HARRINGTON Recruiting Representative Fifth U S Civil Service Region Fighting ships repaired like new and steaming back to the Pacific fighting planes restored to swift and deadly usefulness day after day are paying eloquent tribute to the skill of physically handicapped workers For theres seldom a ship to leave the Charleston or Key West naval bases nor a plane to wing its way from the vast depots at Warner Robins Brookley Field or Miami in whose return to action the physi cally handicapped have not played an important part Through the U S Civil Service Commission the central personnel agency for the federal government thousands of physically handi capped persons have been em Willie Johnson with two artificial limbs works as a shoe rebuilder at a government installation For twenty years after losing his legs in a railroad accident he hobbled on homemade knee pads ployed in these and other installa tions In the Fifth Region alone headquartered in Atlanta and com prising the states of Georgia Flor ida South Carolina Tennessee and Alabama 8422 physically handi capped persons have been employed since October 1942 Many of them were recruited at the Georgia Vo cational Rehabilitation depart ments highly successful series of employment and diagnostic clinics which began in February 1944 These physically handicapped workers are employed at good sal ariesthe same rates of pay received by nonhandicapped workersand have overwhelmingly justified the confidence placed in them An en thusiastic champion of the physical ly handicapped worker is O E Myers director of the Fifth Civil Service Region who has taken a warm interest in the clinic program and has attended many of these gatherings To safeguard the welfare of their physically handicapped workers in stallations employing large num bers of them such as Warner Rob ins and Brookley Field provide periodic checkups by doctors and nurses Onthejob followups as certain that the workers will not aggravate their handicaps nor en danger fellow employees Frequent ly working conditions are adapted to individual needs by providing special stools or other facilities As a result persons with orthopedic disabilities deafness blindness ar rested tuberculosis and various phy sical abnormalities are making a valuable contribution to the win ning of the war With a view to utilizing ever in creasing numbers of the physically handicapped the Civil Service Commission has made surveys of Arthur L Dumas 20 is happy in his job as a mechanics helper now that his facial disfigurement has been cor rected He had to leave high school to support his widowed mother more than 3500 positions to ascer tain exactly what physical handi caps will not interfere with success ful performance Sometimes miss ing fingers will not impede the job sometimes a paralyzed limb in other instances hardness of hearing will not hamper production So eager have Federal employers been to utilize the services of physi cally handicapped workers particu larly those with special training or skills they frequently have sent personnel representatives several hundred miles to attend the em ployment clinics For surveys have shown that the handicapped make highly efficient and conscientious employees Their accident rate ab senteeism and turnover are low their production rate high The record proves they hold their own proudly in competition with the more ablebodied The U S Civil Service wants more physically han dicapped workersThe Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation News Planning Work for the Blind Supervisors of services for the blind from Southern states at recent regional conference Left to right front row J A Moore Tennessee Miss Constance Rabin North Carolina Henry P Johnson Florida Mrs Anne B Owens South Carolina Mrs D W Mc Bryde Mississippi Roy G Parks Georgia and Joe Clunk of Washington Chief Services for the Blind Federal Security Agency Back row H B Cummings Regional Representative FSA and Terry Foster Assistant Regional Representative Life Begins For J T B life began at 38 not 40 The reason It was at that age he started to earn a livingand feel useful and independent An illness at 14 had left his legs back and neck twisted and stiff Even with crutches it was almost impossible for him to walk Year after year he tried unsuc cessfully to find a job He was com pelled to accept support from rela tives But he never gave up Then came the warand the need of manpower in industry Employers were begging for help and would cooperate in any plan that would give them skilled workers So the Vocational Rehabilitation Division induced a motor repair plant to accept J T B for training in armature rewinding even though it was necessary to provide a helper to lift motors on and off the bench He proved an apt pupil His hands and arms were normal his mind keen He soon learned the new technique and was kept on the job at a regular salary His pro duction measures up to that of John W Moore is doing his bit in a war plant after being supplied with an arti ficial limb and given training other skilled employees And his employer says hell always be able to find employment Clinic Schedule Heres the schedule of job clin ics for May Greenville May 1 Buena Vista May 2 Ellaville May 3 Newnan May 4 Macon May 1415 Fort Valley May 16 Perry May 17 Forsyth May 18 Rome May 28 Dalton May 29 Calhoun May 30 Cedartown May 31 The oneday clinics are continu ing to attract from twentyfive to one hundred applicants depending on the size of the community in which they are heldS 2 eKobilitatiorv Mws Vol 1 No 9 ATLANTA GEORGIA May 1945 il 1 3n Atemoriam Ef LIBRARY F 1956 m OF GEORGIAThe Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation News OKg 6eovqoVocoto Mabilitatioa Mws Published monthly by the Georgia Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Georgia Dr M D Collins State Superintendent of Schools Paul S Barrett Director Div Vocational Rehabilitation DIRECTORY OF DISTRICT OFFICES 134 State Office Bldg Atlanta Georgia 21314 Royal Bldg Albany Georgia Hardman Hall University of Georgia Athens Georgia 607 Southern Finance Bldg Augusta Georgia 301 Gordon Bldg Brunswick Georgia 411 Flowers Bldg Columbus Georgia 401 C S Bank Bldg Dublin Georgia 414 Jackson Bldg Gainesville Georgia 406 Bankers Ins Bldg Macon Georgia Room 29 Court House Rome Georgia 302 American Bldg Savannah Georgia 432 Bunn Bldg Waycross Georgia Franklin Delano Roosevelt By Governor Ellis Arnall The greatest tribute that America ever paid to any man in his death was that paid to Franklin D Roosevelt It was not in the pomp and ceremony of his funeral for that was a quiet rite in the rose garden overlooking his loved Hudson at Hyde Park It was in the manner in which the people of our common country received the news of his passing not as if it were the death of someone unknown to them however great he might have been but as the departure from life of a close personal friend Historians unquestionably will record that Franklin D Roosevelt was a great man the peer of his two heroes Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson No chief of state of a great nation within many generations has written his name more boldly across the pages of public affairs The great achievements on the domestic front associated with the eight years of his peacetime chief magistracy were equalled by the skill with which he guided America through the immeasurable crisis of the greatest war in human history The textbooks of the future will conclude that he was an able statesman a superb strategist an inspiring political leader and a public hero who gave his life for the country that he loved and for the cause of peace to which he dedicated a quartercentury of active national leadership But Franklin D Roosevelt the man was an even greater figure His personal triumph over illness and disability the courage of his personal life the deep sympathy that he felt for every human being everywhere these were rare human qualities that lay behind the voice over the micro phone and the statesman engaged in world conferences When in his first inaugural he told America to fear nothing except fear itself when in his final message written the day before death came to him he urged America to have faith in the future Franklin D Roose velt expressed a personal creed He did not fear he always had faith in the nation and its citizens in the eventual triumph of right in a world of men of good will In his relations with others much has been told of the magnetism and charm of his personality His immense vitality his ready grasp of prob lems whether great or small his broad human sympathies and a rare courtesy that came from the heart made him exceptional even among great men No one came into personal contact with him without being profoundly influenced the most rabid of his political opponents could not resist his radiant charm his courageous ebullience his spontaneous humor Many differed with him on public questions but once knowing him remained personally devoted to him I do not think that anyone knew him well without feeling for Franklin D Roosevelt a genuine affection And the people who with the basically sound judgment that has made democracy a living thing of truth knew him and trusted him and loved himThe Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation News National Rehabilitation Week June 2 By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A Proclamation With the attention of the Nation rightly focused on the welfare of men and women returning from service in the armed forces and the emphasis placed on benefits pro vided for them through Congres sional action we must not let our interest flag in discharging our ob ligations to the increasing thous ands among our civilian popula tion who through accident disease or congenital conditions are unable to hold a place in the ranks of the American working force Even in the midst of war their condition calls to us for renewed effort to bring about their restoration that they too may maintain their self respect through selfsupporting work On June 2 our Nationwide pro gram for the vocational rehabili tation of such disabled men and women will have been in operation a quarter of a century Less than two years ago the Congress ex panded this program by amending the Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1920 The new lawthe Barden LaFollette Act passed in 1943 makes it possible for the Federal and State Governments working as a team to bring to the mentally disabled and the blind and all other groups of the disabled the many services necessary to make them em ployable including physical restor ation vocational training and placement in suitable employment Over the past twentyfive years it has been demonstrated that this program for the restoration of dis abled men and women is paying dividends not only in humani tarian terms but in dollars and cents Thousands of men and wom en annually apply to the rehabili tation service for help Because of disabilities they are able to con tribute little to the national in come Many of them are forced to accept public aid Refitted for work they begin to pay their own way No longer then are they tax consumers they are taxpayers That we may not fail to discharge our obligation to help every man and woman who needs vocational rehabilitation services in order to become selfsupporting it appears appropriate at this time that I should urge the ablebodied citi zenry of the United States to unite in a concerted effort to bring about wider knowledge and use of the services for physical and mental restoration of the handicapped pro vided under the BardenLaFollette Act which applies to all civilian disabled NOW THEREFORE I HAR RY S TRUMAN President of the United States of America do here by declare the week beginning June 2 1945 as National Rehabili tation Week And I urge all churches educa tional institutions health and wel fare services civic organizations chambers of commerce boards of trade industry labor publicspir ited citizens and the radio and press throughout the United States to observe National Rehabilitation Week to the end that handicapped men and women throughout our Nation may be located and advised of the benefits to which they may be entitled IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed DONE at the City of Washington this 5 th day of May in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fortyfive and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixtyninth SEAL By the President s HARRY S TRUMAN Secretary of State 49217 illThe Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation News Georgia to Celebrate Anniversary Georgias observance of National Rehabilitation Week will feature a TwentyFifth Anniversary luncheon at the Biltmore Hotel on June 2 at which Hon Michael J Shortley of Washington Director of the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation Fed eral Security Agency and Governor Ellis Arnall will be the guests of honor and principal speakers State officials members of the Medical Advisory Committee to the Division of Vocational Rehabilita tion educators and business leaders will be present Through the courtesy of radio station WSB the speaking program will be broadcast from 1 to 130 PM Dr M D Collins state su perintendent of schools will pre sent the speakers The luncheon will be followed by a business conference of Voca tional Rehabilitation staff members Clinic Schedule Here is the Vocational Rehabili tation Clinic schedule for June All physically handicapped persons 16 years of age and older who want trade training and placement in jobs are invited to attend Go to the clinic nearest to your home or see the Vocational Rehabilitation District Director in your district The dates Cartersville June 1 Atlanta June 45 Clarkesville June 11 Jefferson June 12 Toc coa June 13 Cleveland June 14 Gainesville June 15 Blind BusinessmanRalph Wilson center blind since childhood now operates a vending stand in the DeKalb County Court House Here he is shown waiting on Judge Frank Guess left judge of the City Court and Scott Candler Commissioner of Roads and Revenuefcir 5r Vocational Rehabilitation SERVICES m Second Nineteen 3ortyiwefederal Security cAaency Washington D C Honorable Paul V McNutt Administrator Honorable Michael J Shortley Director Office of Vocational Rehabilitation HONORABLE H B CUMMINGS Regional Representative 441 W Peachtree Atlanta Georgia HONORABLE TERRY FOSTER Assistant Regional Representative 441 W Peachtree Atlanta Georgia State Board for Vocational Lducatlon Atlanta Georgia Honorable M D Collins State Superintendent of Schools and Executive Officer temoeri 1st Distr 2nd Distr 3rd Distr 4th Distr 5th Distr 6th Distr 7th Distr 8th Distr 9th Distr 10th Distr ctHonorable W C Clary Jr Waynesboro ctHonorable Eugene Vereen Moultrie ctHonorable W T Anderson Leslie ctHONORABLE W W KlRBY ViceChairman Newnan ctMrs Henry Troutman Atlanta ctHonorable J W Overstreet Wadley ctHonorable Roy McGinty Calhoun ctHonorable W C Parker Waycross ctHONORABLE W W McCay Chairman Eastanollee ctHonorable Kay Tipton Madison DIVISION OF VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION Honorable Paul S Barrett Director 134 State Office Bldg Atlanta Special Anniversary Edition Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation News June 1945 Vol 1 No 10foreword By M D COLLINS State Superintendent of Schools Twentyfive years ago on June 2 Presideni Woodrow Wilson signed the first National Civilian Vocational Rehabilitation bill passed by the Congress Georgia was one of the first states to take advan tage of the constructive humanitarian provisions of this legislation At that time Dr M L Brittain President Emer itus of the Georgia School of Technology was State Superintendent of Schools Dr Paul Chapman Dean of the College of Agriculture University of Georgia was State Director of Vocational Education The late Honorable Fort E Land was the first State Supervisor of Vocational Rehabilitation and afterwards was State Superintendent of Schools From a small beginning this program has developed into a vital farreaching State and Federal service Since its inauguration more than eight thousand Georgia citizens with impaired and mutilated bodies have been trained for jobs consistent with their talents and given op portunities for economic independence Nearly five thousand of them were trained during the past two years When American security was threatened by foreign aggressors phy sically handicapped men and women were called upon to fill the gaps in the Nations war manpower supply Trained for specific jobs they took their places in shipyards aircraft plants munition factories stores and offices and kept the armaments moving to the fighting fronts Their achievements in a wide range of vocations have won the admira tion and gratitude of the nations leaders It was therefore most appropriate for President Harry S Truman to proclaim the week of June 2 as National Vocational Rehabilitation Week and call for a nationwide observance Responding to the Presidents proclamation the Georgia Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education observed the twentyfifth anniversary with a luncheon and conference attended by nearly three hundred distinguished guests and staff members Georgia was signally honored on this occasion by the presence of Honorable Michael J Shortley Director Office of Vocational Re habilitation Federal Security Agency Washington who with Honor able Ellis Arnall Governor of Georgia and Honorable O E Myers of Atlanta Regional Director Fifth U S Civil Service Region were the principal speakers at the luncheon Through the courtesy of radio station WSB their addresses were broadcast In this booklet we present the texts of these addresses together with scenes at the luncheon and reception which followedcA State Service VOCATIONAL rehabilitation is a state service carried on in coopsration with the Federal Security Agency Headed by a state director the Division has twelve district offices staffed with supervisors to serve handicapped citizens in all counties and communities All permanently disabled persons above sixteen years of age who are vocationally handicapped are eligible for rehabilitation A disabled person is considered vocationally handicapped if unemployed or em ployed in an unsatisfactory job provided he has not been fitted by train ing or experience to engage in a suitable vocation where there is a pos sibility of employment There is nothing temporary about vocational rehabilitation It cer tainly is not charity The services are limited to persons who in spite of their handicaps appear to be able to learn and follow a vocation in a satisfactory way Everyone accepted for vocational rehabilitation needs proper guid ance It is obvious that they should be directed into channels where they can make wise use of their talents and satisfy to some degree at least their ambitions This requires thorough investigation by representatives of the Division In the early days of vocational rehabilitation there was no pro vision for assistance with medical services and surgery to remove disabili ties It was therefore necessary to train applicants around their disabili ties But in recent years the Act has been amended so that now physical restoration services as well as vocational training guidance an artificial appliances may be offered to those who need such services and are unable to pay for them Vocational rehabilitation is not only a humanitarian service it is good business Records of the Georgia division show that the 2771 persons rehabili tated during the fiscal year ended June 30 1944 earned in one year after rehabilitation eleven times the cost of the service In carrying on this program the Division has the cooperation of other agencies in pro viding guidance training and placement for applicants The State Department of Public Welfare the State Industrial Board the U S Civil Service U S Employment Service War Manpower Commission Na tional Tuberculosis Association and other agencies investigate cases consult on eligibil ity and assist in placement To these agencies and to training institu tions establishments and employers who have cooperated with us we express our apprecia tion On this anniversary of the inauguration Cover Margaret Purdue deaf of vocational rehabilitation services empioyedVmch machines c4 Proclamation By The President of the United States of America WITH the attention of the Nation rightly focused on the welfare of men and women returning from service in the armed forces and the emphasis placed on benefits pro vided for them through Congressional action we must not let our interest flag in dis charging our obligations to the increasing thousands among our civilian population who through accident disease or congenital conditions are unable to hold a place in the ranks of the American working force Even in the midst of war their condition calls to us for renewed effort to bring about their restoration that they too may maintain their self respect through selfsupporting work On June 2 our Nationwide program for the vocational rehabilitation of such disabled men and women will have been in operation a quarter of a century Less than two years ago the Congress expanded this program by amending the Vocational Re habilitation Act of 1920 The new lawthe BardenLaFollette Act passed in 1943 makes it possible for the Federal and State Governments working as a team to bring to the mentally disabled and the blind and all other groups of the disabled the many services necessary to make them employable including physical restoration vocational training and placement in suitable employment Over the past twentyfive years it has been demonstrated that this program for the restoration of disabled men and women is paying dividends not only in humanitarian terms but in dollars and cents Thousands of men and women annually apply to the re habilitation service for help Because of disabilities they are able to contribute little to the national income Many of them are forced to accept public aid Refitted for work they begin to pay their own way No longer then are they tax consumers they are tax payers That we may not fail to discharge our obligation to help every man and woman who needs vocational rehabilitation services in order to become selfsupporting it appears appropriate at this time that I should urge the ablebodied citizenry of the United States to unite in a concerted effort to bring about wider knowledge and use of the services for physical and mental restoration of the handicapped provided under the BardenLaFollette Act which applies to all civilian disabled NOW THEREFORE I HARRY S TRUMAN President of the United States of America do hereby declare the week beginning June 2 1945 as National Rehabilita tion Week And I urge all churches educational institutions health and welfare services civic organizations chambers of commerce boards of trade industry labor publicspirited citizens and the radio and press throughout the United States to observe National Re habilitation Week to the end that handicapped men and women throughout our Nation may be located and advised of the benefits to which they may be entitled IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed DONE at the City of Washington this 5th day of May in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fortyfive and of the Independence of the United States of Ameri ca the one hundred and sixtyninth SEAL By the President Secretary of State s HARRY S TRUMAN 49217Program Conference Luncheon 1000 AM Call to OrderPaul S Barrett 1010 AM WelcomeDr M D COLLINS 1040 A M Adequate Case Work Guidance and SupervisionTERRY FOSTER 1130 AM RECESS 1200 NOON LUNCHEON 100 P M Broadcast courtesy of Station WSB Dr Collins Master of Ceremonies Speakers O E MYERS Regional Director U S Civil Service Michael J Shortley Director Office of Vocational Rehabilitation Governor Ellis Arnall 13 0 P M AFTERNOON CONFERENCE Our Vocational Rehabilitation ProgramW W McCAY Vocational Rehabilitation Twentyfive Years Ago Dr Paul Chapman What is Vocational Rehabilitation H B CUMMINGS College Record of Vocational Rehabilitation Students DEAN WILLIAM Tate Adequate Diagnosis of the Physically Handicapped Dr T P GOODWYN Trade Training for Physically HandicappedCharles R CLEGG Cooperation between the Veterans and Civilian Rehabilitation Program CHARLES H ROBERSON Final phase of TB Control L L Young ADJOURNMENT 6Vocational Rehabilitation 3n Une Postwar Period By Governor Ellis Arnall The accomplishments of the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation of Georgia Department of Education are gratifying to every citizen of this State It repre sents achievement that illustrates the potential effec tiveness of cooperation between individuals industries and the governmental agencies It illustrates the man ner in which government may be of service to a group of citizens without regimentation or coercion The vocational rehabilitation program in Georgia has been continuously successful Over a period of many years Georgias record has been high in com parison with all the other States The employees and administrative officers of the Division deserve the recognition and applause of their fellowcitizens On one occasion when I was studying the budget of the State De partment of Education I looked closely into the operation of this Division In its crowded quarters there were cabinet after cabinet of files Each folder represented a case It is possible to reduce those cases to a series of statistical findings but I shall not do that Each folder represented some Georgian in whom hope was reborn because through efforts of this Division opportunity was afforded for him to earn a livelihood for himself by his own efforts The economical aspects of vocational rehabilitation deserve a brief mention In many cases the earnings of a client of the Division in the first twelve months of employment have been ten times the cost of his training There are for example blind persons engaged in essential war industry now earning in a single month almost as much as it cost the State and Federal governments to train them for employment In addi tion they are now selfsupporting and are no longer a burden either to their families or to the pension rolls of the State But it is not by monetary measurements that the value of this pro gram can be assayed It is the salvaging of human beings The rebuild ing of their morale is the interpretation to them of their own worth whileness that makes the program of vocational rehabilitation one of the greatest services that any State can perform for a group of its citizens I think that one aspect of the technique of vocational rehabilitation deserves special scrutiny by educators generally To a very great extent the Georgia agency has pioneered in this field That is the careful fitting of an individual into a field of employment In the early stages of vocational rehabilitation there was a tendency to emphasize special training that would permit a rehabilitant to engage in some occupation for which he might be physically or temperamentally not as well adapted as to some other The present approach is todetermine what type of job the rehabilitant might fit into in view of the handicap to which he must make adjustment Now all of us are handicapped in one way or another The tech niques of vocational guidance that have been devolved by those directing the efforts toward rehabilitation might be used with profit I think in every sphere of education This pioneering cannot fail to have im measurable value to educators generally The problem of rehabilitation will be more pressing and consequent in the postwar period There is of course the special problem of dealing with the needs for rehabilitation of the disabled servicemen Administratively this problem will be met by other agencies although I do not doubt that the same admirable technique will be generally employed in their case But specifically today let us discuss the civilian aspects of rehabilitation America owes a tremendous debt to these citizens In the darkest hour of our countrys need when the ablebodied were fighting on dis tant shores the halt the lame and the blind answered the call of their country and came to man the lathes and the drill presses and the welding torches that made the machines without which we could not have won so speedy and certain a victory These industrial heroes of the war must not become the economic casualties of the peace They have performed an invaluable service They are entitled from the National and State governments facilities for retraining and place ment so that they may continue as selfsupporting members of our communities In Georgia we need to see that their interests are safe guarded The assurances of continued employment for the handicapped of course is an aspect of the problem of full employment for allthe workers of America whether in farm factory or service enterprise The war was a test of the validity of democratic doctrines in their political aspects It was the taunt of the tyrants who now lie dead in the gutters of the cities that they brought to ruin that a democracy could not achieve the unity of purpose necessary to wage a war The American people answered that challenge by building 50000 planes a year by building almost incredible numbers of tanks jeeps and self propelled artillery units by pouring forth materials of war in an end less stream by conforming to the regulations necessary to wage total war by submitting to unprecedented taxation by tireless work on the home front to match the gallant outpouring of blood on the war front The peace will impose an even more stringent test of democratic concepts We have a potential labor supply of between 58 and 61 million persons Unless we have jobs for these 60 million by which they can profitably productively and with selfrespect sustain them selves and their families and support the functions of government then l X faced Wlth this retort from the totalitarian and neofascists 1 he Democracies won the war because they had a preponderance of natural resources but they havent the guts or brains to organize their people for peace It is unthinkable that this Nation can find a solution to the problems of war and can find no solution to the problems of peace Without 8 t m Speakers left to right Michael J Shortley Director Office of Vocational Rehabilita tion Washington Governor Ellis Arnall of Georgia Dr M D Collins State Super intendent of Schools O E Myers Director Fifth U S Civil Service Region Atlanta destroying our existing social fabric it is possible for us to develop a system of full production and full production means full employment We can meet the requirements for capital natural resources and tech nological skill on the part of our citizens The very fact that during the war emergency vocational rehabilitation has trained in new skills large numbers of citizens heretofore regarded as unemployable is a demonstration that our people generally are absorbable into any form of production We have only to fear two things a psychological reaction when we turn to reconversion and a failure to utilize all our facilities for production In the crisis of 1933 Franklin Delano Roosevelt cautioned the American people to fear nothing except fear itself There is no hazard facing reconstruction that cannot be surmounted if we are resolute and courageous The determination to utilize every facility for productionand I would broaden that to include the use but not the exploitation of every natural resource and a utilization of every individual who goes to make up the total of our human resourcesmust include the determination to continue the trend toward decentralization of industry that has been begun as a result of the war It is unthinkable that the great industrial plants of the South and West shall be destroyed or allowed to rot and rust away or that their products shall be barred to the consumers of this nation or the world by conspirators cartelmakers or those utilizing the techniques of discriminatory internal tariffsContinued from Page 9 If we are to have full employment in America we must expand our educational facilities It is precisely in consideration of this question that the work of vocational rehabilitation is so suggestive and challenging Education it is now apparent is not exclusively a process to which children and adolescents are subjected We must not think of our educational establishments as factories with automatic conveyors where one feeds in a batch of 6yearold children at one end and they are moved along past an assembly line of teachers and dumped neatly packaged at the far end of the bin with the label fully grown citizens stamped upon them with the delivery of their diplomas We must think of education as a treatment of specific needs of individual human beings designed to equip them for harmonious living in the society of which they are a part Because vocational rehabilitation deals necessarily with the specific problems of each individual those engaged in administering this pro gram are in position to supply much guidance in other fields of education It is perhaps probable that adult education most emphatically in vocational fields will open new vistas for the America of tomorrow There is no reason why in many instances the problem of technological unemployment cannot be solved by the methods that are now being used to solve the employment problems of the handicapped More and more the last ten years education has come out of the cloister and into the market place better to serve men and women The responsibility of educational institutions and service groups in the future will extend beyond the goal of fitting individuals for em ployment and include helping to place them on jobs Again the accom plishments in the field of vocational rehabilitation are striking because this agency follows the rehabilitant through his training and on to his placement on a job So successful has been this policy so effective has been the produc tiveness of these workers that industrialists and business leaders have found them among the very best employees on their payrolls They have discovered that a handicap is an impediment imposed upon the swiftest runner so that he shall not always win the race and that it is compensated for very often by deep earnestness and exceptional talents Business and industrial leaders should be encouraged to make use of the special training and special talents of the rehabilitated handicapped person and I believe that the postwar world with its era of full produc tion and full employment will be a period in which these individuals no longer will be regarded as unemployables Again I say to you that this must be so The thousands of handi capped persons trained in Georgia have performed in the four and one half years since Pearl Harbor services of incalculable value to our Nation and we must dedicate ourselves to policies that will assure them of the security that goes with employment in the peacetime future They are contributing their full share toward winning the war They must have their full share in the fruits of peace 10Mandlcapi Can Be Overcome By Michael J Shortley Director Office of Vocational Rehabilitation f I am grateful for the opportunity to attend this conference on rehabilitation We at headquarters in Washington know the notable achievements of the vocational rehabilitation service in Georgia It was in this state that the rehabilitation clinic was first used to emphasize the services the State and Federal Governments working as a team provide for dis abled men and women Today just a quarter of a century since the National program was made possible by Federal legislation hundreds of clinics are being held throughout the United States Impressed by the responsibility of government to restore to a working condition all disabled citizens whether civilians or war veterans Presi dent Truman issued a proclamation on May 7 designating the sevenday period beginning June 2 the anniversary of the signing of the Voca tional Rehabilitation Act of 1920 as National Rehabilitation Week In his proclamation he urged industry labor churches welfare agencies and the public generally to join in its observance I could think of no more appropriate way for the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation to comply with the Presidents recommendation than to call upon all State agencies to signalize this week by the holding of rehabilitation clinics of the type initiated in Georgia I am happy to report to you that each state has made some special provision for com pliance with the Presidents call and most of them have accepted the suggestion that rehabilitation clinics be opened during two or threeday periods between now and Friday night I would not have anyone get the impression that we look upon the results of these clinics as the attaining of our objectives The job of restoring broken men and women to the point of employability or of enabling them to get better jobs goes on day after day throughout the United States The clinic is however a device for locating those who could be benefitted as well as for beginning the services they need Actually we do not know how many disabled men and women there are in the country who could be restored to the point where they would be selfsupporting It is probable in fact we know it is true that thousands and thousands of these men and women who could be helped do not know there is available in every state the facilities to aid them We want the more fortunate members of society that is those who are under no handicap to tell these people that there is an agency within their reach which will help them Moreover we want them to assure the disabled that these services are free if they cannot afford to pay for them The rehabilitation program is a welfare service and available to all who need it We want to convince the disabled that the handicap can be overcome Thousands of men who had come to believe that they were through were trained for jobs in war plants after being helped 11Scene in Empire Room Biltmore Hotel Atlanta during Twentyfifth Anniversai i by the rehabilitation services There are blind men working today on machines and doing the job as well as their sighted companions One armed and onelegged men are competing successfully with socalled normal workers You have read many times that employers no longer look upon the handicapped man as a liability And that is true They have found that byandlarge the efficiency and dependability of the handicapped worker is equal to and in many cases greater than that of the socalled normal worker Here is something I want to emphasize We do not ask nor do the handicapped want industry to employ any person classified as disabled in a spirit of sympathy They are not asking pity and I may add 12I rat given by Vocational Rehabilitation Division staff to group of distinguished guests they resent it If a man with one arm can do a job as well as a man with two arms then we ask industry to employ him You in Georgia will recall a certain eminent handicapped man who looked upon this state as his second home He could not walk He was a victim of poliomyelitis His friends never mentioned his disability Newspapers of the country ignored it and press photographers never pictured him in a way that called attention to his affliction This man asked no pity The people of the United States called upon him to administer their affairsnot once but four times They did not ask for his leadership because they were sorry for him because they pitied him but because they regarded him as the best man for the job He did that job splendidly and generations to come will remember him for the work he did and not because he couldnt walk 13Jrandicapped Worker Clclent By O E Myers Director Fifth U S Civil Service Region This occasion is in observance of the Twenty Fifth Anniversary of Civilian Vocational Rehabili tation Services in this country and the Second Anni versary of the conduct of clinics sponsored by the United States Civil Service Commission and the State Division of Vocational Rehabilitation in the hiring of physically impaired people During the past few years I have experienced many difficulties in filling positions in war activities in the Federal Government Many thousands of these po sitions have been filled by people usually referred to as physically handicapped people Were they handicapped Lets take a look at them First to the extent that I could hire them my job was made easier We have thousands of unfilled jobs in the Federal Service today but we would have many thousands of additional unfilled positions if it were not for the physically impaired people working for the Government It was two years ago this week that your State Director of Vocational Rehabilitation Mr Paul Barrett conceived the idea of the holding of clinics clinics for the hiring of physically impaired people The first one was held in the State Capitol when almost one thousand persons were appointed Since then more than one hundred clinics have been held in this Civil Service Region as a result of which thousands of handicapped persons have been appointed to Federal Government jobs I have received letters from all over the United States asking about how the clinics were conducted To our satisfaction the second anni versary of the holding of such clinics will be observed in Atlanta next week by the holding of another clinic in the State Capitol when we expect about one thousand handicapped persons and representatives from all of the principal Federal Agencies in the Region They will meet in the room in which the first clinic was held The handicapped persons will be there to meet with and be inter viewed by Federal Government Representatives and the Federal Govern ment Representatives will be there to meet with and hire physically impaired people I am urging your Governor to attend the clinic and observe how we hire highly qualified people to work for the Federal Government notwithstanding what some people may refer to when speaking of them as physically handicapped The Southeastern States lead the nation in the employment of physically handicapped people and the Federal Government leads all employers in the hiring of handicapped people thanks to Mr Barrett Therefore we feel that your Governor will attend the clinic to be held in Atlanta next week the clinic to be held in observance of the second anniversary of such clinics Continued on Page 17 143C w wpi Speakers table at Twentyfifth Anniversary luncheon Michael J Shortley Di rector Office of Vocation al Rehabilitation and Paul Barrett Georgia State Di rector admire floral ar rangement presented to Mr Shortley 15Left Miss Dorothy Sue King of the Rome District Office and right Mrs Marion Maier of Atlanta office presenting floral crutch to Michael J Shortley center Director Office of Vocational RehabilitationV Reception for Director Georgia staff members welcome Mr Shortley Left to right Misses Emoylees Bradley Atlanta Dorothy Sue King Rome Mary Barton Rome Sallie Quiltian Gainesville Mrs Marion Maier and Mrs Jewel Fouts Atlanta and Mr Shortley The United States Civil Service Commission has made a thorough and comparative study in Government and in industrial establishments of the job performance of physically impaired workers with the able bodied workers and has found that in considering such factors as turnover accident rate productivity and efficiency the turnover rate was much lower among the physically impaired that they were superior from the standpoint of employment stability that they had a higher average accident frequency rate than the ablebodied but the accidents which they experienced were on the average less severe indicating that they present no unusual workmens compensation liability and that the impaired compare favorably with the ablebodied in quantity and quality of work output and in efficiency ratings In view of this we who have worked with this fine group of men and women feel that no one is physically handicapped except those who fail to do something about it Another Scene at Reception In foreground M J Shortley National Director Paul S Barrett State Director and H B Cummings Regional Representative Qrowth of Vocational Senaollltatlon in Qeorgia Number of cases rehabilitated 192122 14 192223 16 192324 64 192425 59 192526 51 192627 69 192728 86 192829 85 192930 114 193031 126 193132 167 193233 132 193334 200 193435 201 193536 238 193637 270 193738 234 193839 248 193940 260 194041 290 194142 413 194243 2109 1943442771 Georgia hospitality at Reception left to tight H R McLatty District Supervisor Augusta J F Sosby district supervisor Augusta C R Clegg director North Geor gia Vocational School Kay Tiption of Madison member of the State Board of Educa tion W W McCay of Eastanollee Chairman State Board of Education G L Boggs Supervisor Stand Operations for Blind Atlanta W H Wells Vending Stand specialist Washington Dr Paul Chapman Dean of the College of Agriculture University of Georgia Athens Ted Owens District supervisor Columbus and J P Millican District supervisor Brunswick In background P D Bush District Supervisor Gainesville and Jack Dempsey District Supervisor Athens Punch Please Left to right John Prickett Supervisor Augusta A P Jarrell As sistant State Director Atlanta Mrs Clara Belle Allen staff member Dr Paul Chapman Dean of the College of Agriculture Miss Jane Melton Staff member and J P MUlican District Supervisor Brunswick r Left to right M J Shortley Paul S Barrett A P Jarrell H B Cummings Terry Foster Jack Dempsey John Prichett and Otis Dyer 19Carly urainee Still On job One of the first trainees under the Georgia program has carved out a successful career in his chosen vocation He is Homer W Smith 50 telegraph operator and ticket agent for the Central of Georgia Railroad at Barnesville Seven years before the vocational rehabilitation program was inaug urated Mr Smith then a youth of 18 lost his right leg in an accident while working as a car inspectors helper He was given a job in a tower on the Macon yards but was re leased in 1920 on account of a reduction in forces on the railroad He recalls now the desperate struggle he had trying to support his wife and baby While looking for work he heard about the new service being of fered by the state and applied for assistance His application was Number 13 in the Vocational Rehabilitation Division files Mr Smith was enrolled in a school of telegraphy made a splendid record and upon completion of the course was reemployed by the Central of Georgia Railroad Since that time he has been telegraph operator at Farmington Round Oak Monticello Experiment East Point and Barnesville He has been in his present position since 1937 His baby Homer Smith Jr now 26 is a sergeant in the Marine Corps and is back in this country after having served twentyseven months in some of the toughest fighting in the Southwest Pacific Mr and Mrs Smith have an attractive home in Barnesville They had an opportunity recently to review the record of his case from the files of the Vocational Rehabilitation Division In the record is a letter now yellowed with age written by Mr Smith on June 5 1923 to the State Board for Vocational Education expressing his appreciation of the services he had received Here is the letter Farmington Georgia June 5 1923 State Board for Vocational Education Room 104 State Capitol Atlanta Georgia GENTLEMEN Please allow me a few minutes of your time to express myself in re gards to the training that is being offered by this great State under your supervision There are no words in my possession that are good enough for me to express the thanks that I would like to offer this great Board and to this great State of Georgia This for one is the greatest Continued on page 22 20 I i Early Traineeon the job and at home top left Homer W Smith showing arti ficial limb Right at the key in the Barnesville office of the Central of Georgia Rail road and below Mr and Mrs Smith review file of Case No 13 in Georgia Voca tional Rehabilitation records 21department that any State can maintain and one that should be main tained by all means On November 20 1920 I was thrown out of work on account of reduction of forces on this railroad As I was not a skilled worker I could not find employment elsewhere I tried hard to get a job at anything but did not succeed In my rounds looking for work I was informed of the training that was being offered to the deformed citizens of this great State so I began to investigate all that there was to it and I was introduced to your able Director Mr F E Land Mr Land explained what the State would require of me and what they offered I gave him all my past references and in looking up these references he came in contact with one of the officials of this railroad that I worked under who recommended that I be put where I could learn telegraphy With this recommendation I was put in training with the Postal Telegraph Company at Macon Georgia I went in training to make good and with this end in view I put my whole heart and soul in my work and by doing this within eight months I was ready to get out and get a position that I could make a living After working for sometime I was awarded my seniority from the date that I started to work with this company up to the date that I returned with all of this time I was given a permanent station which I am now holding There are not enough words in the English vocabulary that can ex press the good that this great division of the State is doing for this class of its citizens I for one am willing to do all that is in my power to help this great Board along where they may be able to push this great work further I can never forget the day that I was turned out with a trade that I could follow and make a living for my wife and baby one that I could get anywhere that I went and one that is in demand any where It is the class of work that I had followed all of my life and one that I was so fond of but it had gotten to the place where the work that I used to do was not in demand for one without skill The tax payers of this State should be proud of this great Board and give it all of the support that it needs for there is nothing as helpful to any State as to have all of its citizens with a trade where they can make an honest living There is hardly another department in this State that should have the full support of all legislators and men that are in position to give them the necessary things to carry on the great work that they are now carrying on There are lots of children being born each day that are crippled men and women being injured when they will be un able to carry on the work that they could carry on if they had not been deformed or injured and the largest majority of these cripples like my self are not able to put themselves through school where they can learn a trade and demand a living salary Again thanking this great State for the good that they did for me when I could not do for myself I beg to remain Faithfully Signed HOMER W SMITH Agent Central of Georgia Rwy Co Farmington Georgia 22Jact About Qeorgia A vocational Jehabiu tatlon Program Jor Jiical year 194344 Number of cases rehabilitated 2771 Total cost including administrative 30171811 Average cost per case 10888 Annual earnings of rehabilitants 492574056 Average annual earnings 177060 Number of persons given training 1714 Number with one or more dependents 1587 Number of white persons served 2112 Number of negroes served 659 Placed in war work 2128 Placed in civilian jobs 643 Number of new cases reported 1543 7 Analysis of Physical Restoration Cases Served July 1 1944 to Dec 31 1944 Number of cases served 130 Number employed 47 Number convalescing or in training 83 Total cost of physical restoration 2188480 Average cost per case 16834 Total cost of other services 361457 Total cost of all services 2549937 Average cost per case 19614 Average weekly salary of those employed 3300 Average weekly salary before given service 484 Analysis of Blind Cases Served May 15 1944 to May 15 1945 Total number of cases receiving services 154 Total cost of services 1977548 Average cost per case 12840 Number trained in business establishments 99 Number given college training 6 Number trained in public vocational schools 2 Number trained in private trade schools 11 Number trained by tutor 1 Lowest weekly salary of rehabilitant 1200 Highest weekly salary of rehabilitant 7200 Treatment Surgery Artificial Appliances 23ekabilitatioti Mxvs Vol 1 No n ATLANTA GEORGIA July 1945 1 GENERAL LIBRARY FEB 15 1956 UNIVERSITY Of GBmk I SIGHT RESTOREDH P Golf 65 had defective vision in both eyes An operation restored his sight in one eye He raises a crop while awaiting a second operation He has two sons in the Armed Forces One was wounded by Japs i The Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation News ckabilitatioa Mws Published monthly by the Georgia Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Georgia Dr M D Collins State Superintendent of Schools Paul S Barrett Director Div Vocational Rehabilitation DIRECTORY OF DISTRICT OFFICES 134 State Office Bldg Atlanta Georgia 21314 Royal Bldg Albany Georgia Hardman Hall University of Georgia Athens Georgia 607 Southern Finance Bldg Augusta Georgia 301 Gordon Bldg Brunswick Georgia 411 Flowers Bldg Columbus Georgia 401 C S Bank Bldg Dublin Georgia 414 Jackson Bldg Gainesville Georgia 406 Bankers Ins Bldg Macon Georgia Room 29 Court House Rome Georgia 302 American Bldg Savannah Georgia 432 Bunn Bldg Waycross Georgia Good Case Work By Miss Edith Taylor Medical Social Consultant HAVE you ever considered that any disability either mental or phys ical has a specific and different meaning to each individual Illness and disease are a threat to any persons security particularly when he is the wageearner in the family and responsible for the support of several people These conditions may cause grave maladjustment The same crippling condition resulting from arthritis may cause one man to develop great determination to find a way of living and wageearning compatible with his disability while another man may decide that he can no longer be a wage earner and settle down to dependence on his family his community or the welfare agencies Good rehabilitation service includes a recognition and understanding of the relationship between disease and the social situation It is concerned with the whole individual as well as just the disease or the resulting dis ability Is the individual able and willing to accept the realities of his condition The young person who is found to have diabetes may find it very difficult to accept the fact that he has this condition and that it is important not only for him to follow medical instructions but the recom mendations of the doctor in regard to the type of work that is most suit able for him The man with heart trouble may not be willing to believe that he has this disability if it is not interfering with his work activity at the present time The rehabilitation supervisor is careful in his efforts to develop the proper attitude on the part of the clients family as well as other elements in their relationships in the home Some attitudes may cause or have caused and created obstacles which have kept the client from a good ad justment to his condition Parents may have been anxious about the dis abled individual over a period of years They probably have been very overprotective and have spoiled the individual Very often parents are ignorant or lack understanding of the persons condition and therefore have misdirected their efforts for the individual Understanding of these problems is very important for they will affect the successful adjustment of the individual in his attempts to attain the goal which has been set up by himself and the rehabilitation supervisor jointly These social factors apply not only in cases in which the disability can be corrected or im proved by medical or surgical treatment but also in those cases where the individual needs the services of training and placement In order to do a good job in rehabilitating an individual it is very helpful for the Division to learn about him just as soon as possible after the disability occurs The longer time that elapses between the onset of the disability and the rendering of Vocational Rehabilitation services the more difficult will be the job since the individual may have had an oppor tunity to develop a very dependent attitude and to have lost interest in finding a job which is suitable The Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation News They Won Their Fight For Independence i it fr At BEFORE AND AFTERMiss Katherine Hitchcock right as she ap pears after a plastic surgery operation under the supervision of the State Vocational Rehabilitation Division And inset the same young woman before the operation I ON HIS FEET AGAINWillard Beck lost his feet in an accident in 1940 He seemed doomed to live the re mainder of his life a helpless and dependent manwith a family to support With the aid of the Vocational Rehabilitation Division he was given surgical services artificial de vices and training in carburetor repair Both legs were amputated Now he is prepared to earn his own livingand be independent DOING HIS BITThis trainee of the Vocational Rehabilitation Division works as a welder in a war plant despite his artificial limbThe Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation News BLIND WORKERS IN INDUSTRY t WORK DESPITE HANDICAPSFrom dependency on others to a selfsupporting status is the story of the two women pictured in the foreground wrapping peanut butter sandwiches Miss Mazie Owens left who has been blind since she was eight years old and Mrs Mary Denmark industrially blind for nine years are two of the com panys most efficient workers according to R E McCor mack extreme right company president ON HIS OWN AGAIN Left George Rogers a crippled Negro was trained in shoe repair work under the supervision of the Vocational Rehabilitation Division Later his leg was amputated and he was aided in get ting an artificial limb Now he owns his own shop A fr fr hi ekabilitatiotv Mxus Vol II No 1 ATLANTA GEORGIA October 1945 WALKS AGAINMrs Frances Rice Huguenin of Hart See story inside WHBKmOFWm JAN 27 19 LIBRARIES I enrThe Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation News OKc GcovqoAoooXovcCv cKabilitatiotv Mws Published monthly by the Georgia Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Stale Department of Education Atlanta Georgia Dr M D Collins State Superintendent of Schools Paul S Barrett Director Div Vocational Rehabilitation DIRECTORY OF DISTRICT OFFICES 134 State Office Bldg Atlanta Georgia 21314 Royal Bldg Albany Georgia Hardman Hall University of Georgia Athens Georgia 607 Southern Finance Bldg Augusta Georgia 301 Gordon Bldg Brunswick Georgia 411 Flowers Bldg Columbus Georgia 401 CSBank Bldg Dublin Georgia 414 Jackson Bldg Gainesville Georgia 406 Bankers Ins Bldg Macon Georgia Room 29 Court House Rome Georgia 302 American Bldg Savannah Georgia 432 Bunn Bldg Waycross Georgia Walks Without Crutches I cannot tell you what a wonderful feeling it is to be able to walk on the streets with otherswithout crutches These were the words of Mrs Frances Rice Huguenin of Hartwell Georgia in expressing her apprecia tion to the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation for its part in making it possible for this young woman to walk with the aid of only a cane Mrs Huguenin was born and reared in Hartwell Georgia of a large family She developed cerebrum spastic paralysis when she was two weeks of age leaving both legs stiff and without muscular control Her father died when she was very young and in spite of her handicap she was eager to make herself employable through proper training in order to be able to help take care of the family Mrs Huguenin was one of the most deserving of young ladies and possessed the finest traits of character as well as a most pleasing personality She was bound to succeed Arrangements were made for this girl to be trained in commercial work In the meantime she was married to a young man who would soon receive his commission in the U S Army and it was not until after her husband left for overseas that she began this training In January 1945 it was decided that her physical condition could be improved by proper treatment She entered the hospital on crutches The spastic muscles prevented the picking up of her feet to step and her steps were made with much effort swinging both legs out as she walked Alter treatments to relax the spastic muscles and bring about proper coordina tion she put her crutches away for the first time in her life and walked unusually well with the use of a cane She could even take some steps without any support at all One of her greatest ambitions was to be able to meet her husband without crutches when he returned from overseas This she did Clinic Schedul The Division of Vocational Rehabilitation has made plans for forty five clinics this fall and winter All physically handicapped persons 16 years of age and older who need medical or surgical treatment and are unable to pay for the services are invited to these clinics The October and November dates are Hamilton October 1 Butler October 2 Hawkinsville October 3 Gray October 4 Thomaston Oc tober 5 Appling October 8 Millen October 9 Springfield October 10 Reidsville October 11 Hinesville October 12 Baxley October 15 Homerville October 16 Blackshear October 17 Ocilla October 18 Waycross October 19 Colquitt October 29 Ashburn October 30 Adel October 31 Vienna November 1 Donalsonville November 2The Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation News It Physical Restoration A Reality to Him When he came into the office with his brother that January morning Hugh Mitcham little realized that he was standing on the threshold of a new life Crippled with rickets for more than ten years his legs were viciously twisted until he walked only with difficulty and was dwarfed inches below his normal height His brother had come to the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation seeking training and Hugh had come along too not really believing that he could even secure training He was surprised and not a little apprehensive when the District Supervisor began to talk to him of physical restoration Being an average colored person of limited education who had spent most of his twentynine years in rural sections of Georgia it was difficult for him to understand what the words physical restora tion could mean to him He answered all inquiries made by the District Supervisor handling his case rather hesitantly although hon estly and courteously for deep in his lackluster eyes was an un easiness and fear of the unknown Medical examinations should straighten the al the extent of permittin necessary arrangements determined that an operation on each leg ignment of his legs and strengthen them to g Hugh to do moderately heavy work All were made for these operations and in February Hugh entered the hos pital and underwent them cour ageously but with eyes still clouded with disbelief that he would ever really have straight legs Then followed more than six months of being completely helpless each leg swarthed in heavy casts Hugh bore this con finement and discomfort with patience and good spirit and finally in August came his re ward His casts were removed and braces fitted on his weak ened but straight legs At first it was hard to walk with awkward braces and unaccustom ed crutches but gradual ly came the ability to move with ease and the tossing away of crutches and cane Gradually too the dis trust in his eyes was re placed with the shining realization that he stood straight and tall and mov ed with dex terity He now looks forward to the final re moval of his braces and soon to pro fitable em ployment MRS ALICE BOONE Widow Aided For 21 years Mrs Alice Boone had a goiter She has been a widow for several years and has four children ranging in age from 6 years to 15 years dependent upon her Because of her physical condition Mrs Boone had not been able to work outside of her home and was receiving 20 per month from the Department of Public Welfare in the form of an Aid to Dependent Childrens grant Examination by a specialist showed that the goiter was increasing in size all the time and that it was causing pressure Arrangements were made by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation for Mrs Boone to have the goiter removed Just two months after the operation was per formed the second picture above was taken This clearly shows the improvement that has taken place Not only does Mrs Boone feel better physically but her interest in life has been stimulated Arrangements have been made for her to work where she will earn enough to support her family Through the rendering of physical restora tion services this widowed mother of four lildren has been restored to good health KNfvra1 made selfsupportiii J i i mi minjThe Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation News BLIND MERCHANT IN LaGRANGE MISS PEARL DOZIER right of LaGrange who lost her vision ten years ago now operates a vending stand in the Post Office Georgia Selected New Stand Opens The Georgia Services for the Blind Division of Vo cational Rehabilitation in cooperation with John Mc Auley and J H Chappell of the Federal Office have completed plans for a training institute to be held in Atlanta from October 1st to November 15th for the purpose of training Blind Industrial Specialists in nine Southern States comprising the Southern Region The first two weeks of this training will be held at North Georgia Vocational School Clarkesville where the trainees will be given prevocational training This preliminary training will consist of aiding the indi vidual in traveling alone exploratory courses in vari ous shops working with machines and tools The following four weeks will be devoted to demonstra tions and operations of various jobs in eighteen indus trial establishments which have been previously se lected and surveyed by Representatives of the State and Federal Offices The purpose of this industrial training is to acquaint the specialists with job experi ences which they can carry back to their states enabling them to find suitable job opportunities for blind clients It will demonstrate to the employers that per sons without vision when given the proper training can perform jobs equally as well as the sighted persons The Services for the Blind Division of Vocational Rehabilitation in cooperation with the Georgia Co operative Services for the Blind has opened a new opportunity for Miss Pearl Dozicr in the Post Office at LaGrange Georgia Miss Dozier had been unable to secure employment since the loss of her vision ten years ago the result of an unknown disease The Division of Vocational Rehabilitation has had the excellent cooperation from the Postmaster Mr Fincher and Lions Club of LaGrange The stand program is expanding as rapidly as per sonnel and finances will allow The goal for Georgia is one hundred fifty stands with volume of business approximating one million and a half dollars There are at present seven stands in operation with four more in the process of being manufactured It is the purpose of the Vocational Rehabilitation Division to rehabilitate as many visually handicapped persons as possible by this methodD72 53 3 OYvc Geovcooceoto Gkabilitatioi Vews Vol II No 2 Atlanta Georgia November 1945 Guidance Clinics Find Arre si 2 Q FIT AND READYUpon positive recommendation of examining specialists guidance clinics especially for arrested cases of tuberculosis have been held by the Georgia Tuberculosis Association and the Division of Vocational Rehabili tion in Atlanta Augusta Macon Savannah Columbus and other cities More are planned The picture above was snapped at an Augusta clinic Seated left to right are Miss Louise Wyatt Secretary in the Augusta district office a former patient seeking vocational aid and C B Shroyer Supervisor of Services for the Tuberculous Standing are Miss Camilla Danforth Executive Secretary of the AugustaRichmond Tuberculosis Association and L L Young Executive Secretary of the State AssociationThe Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation News ekabilitatiorv cVews Published monthly by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Dr M D Collins State Superintendent of Schools Paul S Barrett Director Division Vocational Rehabilitation DISTRICT OFFICES Atlanta134 State Office Bldg Albany 21314 Royal Bldg Athens Hardman Hall University Augusta607 Southern Finance Bldg Brunswick 301 Gordon Bldg Columbus 411 Flowers Bldg Dublin 401 C S Bank Bldg Gainesville414 Jackson Bldg Macon 406 Bankers Ins Bldg Rie Room 29 Court House Savannah 302 American Bldg Waycross432 Bunn Bldg NOVEMBER CLINICS Clinics for persons with arrested tuberculosis or with any other physi cal disability who can be made em ployable through services of the di vision and associated agencies will be held during November as follows at the court house in each instance ex cept at Roberta where the clinic will be held in the Health Center Jeffersonville November 5 Ro berta November 6 Irwinton No vember 7 Barnesville November 8 Eatonton November 9 Trenton November 12 Buchanan November 13 Jasper November 14 Ringgold November 15 Marietta November 16 Elberton November 26 Carnes ville November 27 Crawfordville November 28 Hartwell November 29 and Covington November 30 Cooperation All Along Line Official and Private Needed By L L Young Executive Secretary Georgia Tuberculosis Association An outstanding demonstration of Democracy in Action is the coop eration between official and private agencies interested in the health and welfare of the people A classic il lustration of this is the cooperatively planned program for the rehabilita tion of those handicapped by tuber culosis This cooperation begins on the na tional level between the Federal Di vision of Vocational Rehabilitation and the National Tuberculosis Asso ciation and extends down through the state district and local organizations GEORGIA SIGNS PACT In recent years when more em phasis was placed on service to the arrested case of tuberculosis and more funds became available these national organizations set up a written plan of cooperation This made the facilities of each available to the other Fol lowing this example several state re habilitation offices and state tubercu losis associations entered into similar agreements Georgia was among the first to take this step and in Decem ber 1943 such an agreement was signed by the state director of Voca tional Rehabilitation and the execu tive secretary of the Georgia Tuber culosis Association PERSONNEL TRAINED On the national level the plan has brought to light the need for person nel especially trained in the field of tuberculosis This need is beginning to be met by regular eighttotwelve week seminars being offered by the National Tuberculosis Association for those supervisors dealing specifi cally with tuberculosis or those in a general field who have a heavy case load of tuberculosis The Federal Office of Vocational Rehabilitation makes it possible for supervisors to take these seminars An exchange of ideas and information is of mutual benefit to both national offices MUTUAL EFFORT POINTS On the state level and specifically in Georgia cooperation of the two agencies has enlarged the program and been of service to the clients at several points by First making the services of the district supervisors available to the tuberculosis association to assist with arrested cases Second the state association lend ing a staff member to the Division as consultant on tuberculosis Third training advice and social service case work were given to cases cared for by the association Fourth a group of physicians were recommended by the association for service in medical examinations Fifth all information of mutual benefit is exchanged Local committees for promotion of rehabilitation have been appointed and local tuberculosis associations have furnished information gained through pioneering demonstrations in the field of rehabilitation of the tuberculousThe Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation News Vocational Readjustment of the Tuberculous By C Supervisor of Serv The eventual control of tuberculosis rests on a tripod the three legs of which are 1 finding the case 2 pro viding adequate treatment and 3 rehabilitation or preparing the patient to meet the problems of post sanatorium life Attempting to prepare the patient to meet the economic and social problems he will encounter after his discharge from the sanatorium is a comparatively recent addition to the tuberculosis control program The postsanatorium training part of the program is the direct responsibility of the State Division of Voca tional Rehabilitation GOING FORWARD Georgia having placed emphasis upon the importance of vocationally readjusting its tuberculous is going for ward with a plan for 1 Rendering vocational guidance to the patients in its sanatoria 2 Providing prevocational work for those who will benefit by this service and who are recommended for this service by the doctor in charge of their case In keep B Shroyer ices for the Tuberculous ing with the policy of the state sanatorium this work will be so planned as to enable the patient to continue after discharge while continuing the cure at home under the supervision of the district supervisor serving the territory in which the patient has residence 3 Working out plans for vocational training with and for those patients who are now leaving the sana torium and who are ready for rehabilitation FOLLOWING UP 4 Following up those cases who have been out of the sanatorium for some time and assisting those who thus far have made no attempt to rehabilitate themselves 5 Ascertaining as far as possible if the employment being followed is consistent with their physical condition in those cases where rehabilitation of self has been undertaken Georgias program for the rehabilitation of the tuber culous will be carried out with the cooperation of its sanatoria Public Health Department Department of Public Welfare and its tuberculosis associations A Major Enemy of Working Usefulness By A P Jarrell Asst Director Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Vocational rehabilitation is a public service to conserve the working usefulness of physically and mentally im paired people Under the provisions of the Act practically all services necessary to render disabled persons capable of engaging in remunerative employment on a normal com petitive basis are available past toward preparing these individuals to live useful lives when they recuperate to the extent that they may return to their communities In working with the physically impaired the records show that tu berculosis is one of the major diseases which strike at the individ uals working useful ness For many years an educational program to prevent the spread of the disease has been conducted The state has also provided hos pitalization and treat ment for those who have contracted the disease but very little has been done in the A P Jarrell TREATMENT ALONE INADEQUATE In order to have a wellrounded program it is just as necessary to assist these clients in their readjustment to a new way of life as it is to give them treatment This service is to be provided by the Rehabilitation Division by giving guidance and prevocational training during con valescence vocational training when the client is suffi ciently recovered and it has been recommended by the physician and supervision and followup when he has been placed on the job EACH CASE DIFFERENT CKir program renders service to individuals having widely different impairments each with its own problems and in view of the fact that the impairment of tubercu losis presents many special problems the Division has added to its staff a specialist in this field Mr C B Shroyer He has had intensive training in this work and many years experience with the Georgia Tuberculosis Association Mr Shroyer will work with the rehabili tation supervisors over the state assisting them in deal ing with the problems confronting them in working out a program for individuals who have had tuberculosis f The Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation News State Tuberculosis Sanatorium at Alto Why Program Is Needed By Dr Rufus F Payne Superintendent State Tuberculosis Sanatorium Medical rehabilitation is a greatly misunder stood and abused term principally because we have not actually set forth all the reasons why such a program is needed In the usual sense rehabili tation is considered only as a program for teaching some person a new trade occupation or business so that he might make a living and not become a burden on the community That this is a rather nar row approach becomes ob vious if we consider the following as reasons why rehabilitation is made nec essary by one disease alone tuberculosis Dr Rufus F Payne 1 Occupation may be considered as one of the reasons for breakdown in tuberculosis in nearly all cases in spite of the fact that exposure is necessary Nearly all the cases will be found to be working in an unhealthy environment or working too long and too irregular hours or doing too much hard physical labor or exposed to some nonspecific tuberculogenic factor such as silica dust TO PREVENT BREAKDOWNS 2 Education regarding the disease and the manner in which future breakdowns can be prevented is a necessary part of any rehabilitation program and it is necessary therefore that the individual should be placed under supervised training to see if he understands the limitations which exist if his disease and his occupation are to be compatible 3 Psychological adjustment to former modes of living is quite difficult to the person who sincerely cooperated in taking the cure It is desirable that he should approach his job under modified supervision regarding his habits TO PROTECT OTHERS 4 Protection of other persons from possible sources of in fection is made possible through avoiding occupations in which damage could be done by a sudden breakdown 5 Education of the public to the idea of hiring arrested cases which are vouched for by a responsible agency the agency having trained and supervised these arrested casesKabilitatiotv Mws December 1945 Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city and bring in hither the poor and the maimed and the halt and the blind St Luke 1421 I W Atlanta GaDr M D Collins State School Superintendent right Welcomes First Veteran of World War II to Join Vocational Rehabilitation Staff Veterans of the Second World War returning from the far corners of the earth are filling important positions in the work of vocational rehabilitation for all the people in Georgia First veteran of the war ended this year to join the Divisions staff is James J Segars 35 of Jefferson as signed as an Atlanta district super visor The second is Lamar Wiggins 32 of Eastman Others were expected to begin their duties before the years end WOUNDED IN AFRICA A tank in which Mr Segars was riding was hit and knocked out at Faid Pass in the first day of the Battle of Kasserine Pass But let him tell it Finished Martin Institute Jeffer son Ga in 1928 Graduated from University of Georgia in 1932 with BSA degree a major in vocational education Taught vocational agricul ture in Taylor Hall and Walton counties Commissioned second lieutenant in Officers Reserve Corps Called to ac tive duty in February 1942 Joined First Armored Regiment First Ar mored Division and went overseas in the latter part of May 1942 Spent several months in Ireland and Eng land Landed in North Africa in De cember 1942 Member of first American battalion to use General Sherman tanks Fought in desert country in southern Tunisia platoon leader of five tanks Wounded in both arms and cap tured when Germans overran the lines Sent to Italy to prisoner of war hos pital and after six months was trans ferred to Germany when Italy capitu lated PRISONER IN GERMANY Spent six months in Germany near Breslau and old Czechoslovakia Sent to Lisbon Portugal for repatriation Came home on Gripsholm landing in New York March 15 1944 Spent some time in Halloran Walter Reed Wakeman and Lawson General Hos pitals Discharged September 26 1945 Joined Division of Vocational Rehabi litation October 1 Now for Mr Wiggins Attended Eastman High School Middle Georgia College at Cochran and the Georgia Teachers College near Statesboro being graduated from the Teachers College with a BS degree in 1939 SERVED AS LEGISLATOR I was employed in the public schools of Dodge County for four years as teacher principal and high school super intendent I served two years as a rep resentative in the Georgia General As sembly from Dodge County 193940 Went with the National Youth Admin istration for Georgia in October 1940 as student work officer and held this position until I entered the naval serv ice in December 1941 after the out break of war I served 46 months in the Navy in all theaters of warAmerican Euro peanAfrican Middle Eastern Asiatic Pacific and the Philippines and in various capacities including gunnery officer aboard ship and beachmaster with the amphibious forces I was placed on inactive duty in the Naval Reserve October 27 and held the rank of lieutenant at the time Melvin Owens of Rome who is now making more than 3000 a year as a certified tax consultant was stricken with arthritis in 1936 and left paralyzed from the waist down He has had to use crutches to get around ever since getting out of bed early in 1941 He finished the last half of his senior year in high school in an Atlanta hospital and with the aid of friends and classmates managed to finish school in May 1941 he said From then until June 1942 he was unemployed In fact he said I had never been employed since I had no special skill that would aid in secur ing employment In the Spring of 1942 I registered with the United States Employment Service with the hope of getting some kind of work My application which showed my physical condition was brought to the attention of Mr D Dbnaldson of the Rome district of the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation and he arranged for me to attend some school of my own choice I chose a local business school and prepared to take a course in Business Administration This course was paid for by the Division as well as other expenses incurred such as books and transportation to and from school I completed this course in March 1943 I had been at work for over two months going to school two afternoons each week until the course was finished I was awarded a certificate of stenography and an efficiency award in typing by the Carroll Lynn School of Business Administration I thoroughly enjoyed the course with the local office of the Rehabilitation Division doing everything they could to make things easier for me Every working day has been a pleasure with no time lost from illness since I started to work With the experience gained I have taken on additional duties In 1944 my earnings were more than 3000 and they will be at least as much this year I have been admitted to the American Tax Association as a Certified Tax Consultant and was appointed regional director for the Fifth District of the association I would advise anyone who is elig ible to take full advantage of the serv ices offered and thereby become self supporting They will find competent and friendly advisers at any rehabilita tion office Nearly 50 Independent for First Time Willie Virgil Garrett confined to a wheelchair because of the crippling effects of inflammatory rheumatism had never held a regular job until he received Vocational Re habilitation training and other aid He was 47 years old and dependent on relatives when the Division accepted his case in Brunswick in 1943 Now he is economically independent although not too high and mighty he remarked after his 14th month as a repair man in the shop of H A Lewis 201J4 Anderson Street Marietta He files saws sharpens lawn mower blades and makes furniture repairs Mr Lewis is mighty proud of his employee and calls him affectionately Pedro Mr Gar rett has the pride of gainful useful employment OKc GcovcjoOocoXoao Aehabilitatiori Mws Published monthly by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Dr M D Collins State Superintendent of Schools Paul S Barrett Director Division of Vocational Rehabilitation DISTRICT OFFICES Atlanta134 State Office Bldg Albany21314 Royal Bldg AthensHardman Hall University Augusta607 Southern Finance Bldg Brunswick301 Gordon Bldg Columbus411 Flowers Bldg Dublin401 C S Bank Bldg Gainesville414 Jackson Bldg Macon 406 Bankers Ins Bldg RomeRoom 29 Court House Savannah302 American Bldg Waycross432 Bunn Bldg The 1945th anniversary of the birth of Christ finds Georgia well in the forefront of all the states of the union in the task set forth in the Gospel ac cording to Saint Luke as to go out quickly into the streets and lanes and bring in hither the poor and the maimed and the halt and the blind According to statistics just released by the Office of Vocational Rehabilita tion of the Federal Security Agency for the fiscal year ended June 30 1945 and corrected to October 1 1945 Georgia was outranked only by Cali fornia and Kentucky in the number of persons rehabilitated into employment during the year Georgia had 2361 cases rehabilitated while California had 2971 and Kentucky 2418 FIRST IN SOUTHEAST Georgia led all the states of Region III in rehabilitations the closest rival being Alabama with 2299 Georgias total case load25329 was surpassed only by California with 25935 The approximate total case loads in each of the two states was far ahead of the nearest total case load in any other state New York having 16098 Pennsylvania 12878 Michigan 11863 and Tennessee 10466 The number of cases remaining in reported status at the end of the year in Georgia was larger than any other state Georgia having 12874 and Cali fornia 7294 which indicates a case load too large for the existing staff in Georgia to cope with The staff has been augmented considerably since last Spring Due to the fact that of neces sity many of the new personnel are in experienced in rehabilitation however we should not become overoptimistic in results to be expected during the current fiscal year BACKLOG CROWS Nationally the annual increment of cases has been estimated at 200000 Total cases closed during the year in the nation were 132400 Some 65000 handicapped persons therefore have been added to the already existing backlog The Georgia figures bear out an as sertion by Michael J Shortley direc tor of the Office of Vocational Re habilitation that an important seg ment of disabled persons in need of re habilitation are still not being reached by the rehabilitation agencies until some time after the immediate need for such service has passed Intelligent By Norman E Elsas President Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills The matter of employing handi capped persons particularly blinded persons is simply one of using com mon sense and being willing to select an operation or series of operations in which the individ uals deficiency is not a handicap Just as we would not consider asking a slight 105lb woman to handle big heavy bales likewise it would be foolish to put a blinded person on a job requiring keen vision On the other Mr Elsas hand in industry there are nearly always jobs into which handicapped persons can readily fit should they choose to do so and if they are properly encouraged In textile mills there are jobs re quiring the use of an air hose for blowing off machinery A person with one arm can do this just as well as one with two arms There are numerous occupations which we ordinarily think require eye sight for satisfactory performance but if we look over many such departments we will find a good number of those doing this work looking around and watching the visitors with absolutely no interruption in their work On any such job a blinded person could be trained and lack of sight would not be a handicap It is simply a matter where more sympathy than intelligence has been applied to this problem of encouraging handicapped persons to make their own livingGeorgia at Threshold of Expansion of By M D Mobley Director of Vocational Education Vocational Education today in Georgia stands on the threshold of an expansion the need for which has been built up by pressure of practical necessity almost irresistible With this expansion will come certainly more and better facilities open to handicapped persons aided by the Division of Vocational Re habilitation Generally Voca tional Education in the state has four principal phases vocational agricul ture homemaking education business and distributive education and trade and industrial edu cation The last two named are possibly more important to rehabilitation since they afford training in jobs best suited for disabled persons but the first two also play important roles for the handicapped The state now operates only one vocational school that at Clarkesville Under discussion pro and con at the moment is establish Mr Mobley ment of another state vocational school in south Georgia But in the overall picture the hope lies in expanding local vocational schools establishing new ones and establishing area vocational schools LEGISLATION ENACTED The groundwork has been laid Legislation has been enacted permitting the State Board of Education to receive funds from federal grants andor other available funds to provide education of noncollege grade for persons above the age of 18 and empowering the board to set up and dperate area vocational schools In several areas including Atlanta city and county boards of education are planning joint establishment of area vocational schools open to resi dents of neighboring counties on a pro rata basis In Atlanta there is now only one vocational school the Opportunity School operated by the City Macon has several places for vocational instruction at Columbus there is the Jordan Vocational School Savannah has its Vocational School and Augusta is developing its trade and industrial training facilities The State Board of Education has approved 15 local school units as agencies to operate area vocational schools If and when funds are available area vocational schools will be operated in Atlanta Athens Rome Macon Albany Griffin Augusta Fitzgerald Marietta Waycross Bruns wick Savannah Columbus Moultrie and Dalton REHABILITATION TRAINEES The Clarkesville schools existence and growth is due in large part to trainees sent there by the Division of Voca tional Rehabilitation War disabled such as members of the Aircraft Warning Service the Civil Air Patrol or the Citizens Defense Corps merchant seamen and civil em ployes of the United States disabled in line of duty have their cost of rehabilitation borne 100 per cent by the federal government through the states Division of Vocational Re habilitation and other disabled civilians have their costs defrayed 50 per cent by the federal government exclusive of administrative expense Vocational Rehabilitation will play a substantial role in the expansion of local and area vocational schools The Clarkesville institution has more than a quarter of a million dollars worth of modern equipment formerly owned by the National Youth Administration The equip ment and the plant were transferred to the state without cost on February 1 1944 Training is available in auto motive mechanics radio refrigeration woodworking gas and electric welding shoe repairing laundry work cooking jewelry repairing and commercial work Local boards of education cooperating to establish area vocational schools are negotiating to obtain wide varieties of machinery and other equipment suitable for vocational training from war installations now inactive Corner of one of the Shops at Clarkesville WORKERS FOR BLIND GET TOGETHERSeated left to right Aubra Hurt Oklahoma Robert Barnhart Veterans Admin istration Walter McDonald chairman of the Georgia Public Service Commission Joe Clunk chief of services for the blind of the United States Office of Education Dr M D Collins Georgia school superintendent J H Chappell industrial specialist from Washington and Robert Ellenberg Georgia trainee Standing in the usual order J H McAulay chief industrial specialist of the Washington office Thomas H Quigley Georgia director of the United States Employment Service H B Cummings regional representative Division of Vocational Rehabilitation T E Hartwig Arizona trainee O J Bourgeois Louisiana Murray C OConnor Kentucky Barna Jones Georgia industrial specialist T M Wyley South Carolina and L R Thompson Florida By W B Gaines Supervisor of Services for the Blind For the first time Georgia has attracted a training pro gram for industrial specialists for the blind Previously such programs drawing trainees from the South were held in Baltimore and a similar one was held there this year but the growing importance of Atlanta as an industrial center led to the Georgia capitals being chosen this year CLARKESVILLE FIRST After two weeks preliminary instruction at the North Georgia Vocational School the trainees came to Atlanta for a months employment at jobs similar to those which the blind might fill in their own states They will return home to help the handicapped of their areas Before be ginning their work schedule they got together for a banquet at the Biltmore Hotel at which Dr Collins Mr Cum mings and Paul S Barrett Georgia director of the Divi sion of Vocational Rehabilitation welcomed them The trainees had been chosen in their own states on the basis of their demonstrated capabilities for counseling other blind persons During the program demonstrations were given at Georgia Tech before students and open to the public Mr Hurt and Mr McAulay proved that they could walk up to machines such as engine lathes which they had never been around before and after a few minutes instruction perform certain tasks more quickly and more safely than sighted persons Blind persons it was asserted can do any job in industry which does not require sight and can do such jobs with better attendance records with more safety and more diligently than workers who can see IN FOOD PLANTS In food plants alone for instance a recent check showed that 20 blind or practically blind persons with whom this Division has been in contact were employed In Atlanta are the following J B Rivers Wilson Crawley Carson Lovin Mrs Anna C Rivers Miss Sara E Fuller Miss Frances Roberson and Henry L Renew at Gordon Foods Miss Theresa Zorda Miss Maudie Priest Miss Alice Hammond and Miss Ruby Paulk at the Dortch Bakery Miss Amy Criswell Miss Inez Story and Miss Polly Haney at the U S Bakery Miss Miriam Blackburn at the Lee Chocolate Company and Miss Mary J Ivie at the Cooper Candy Company At the Foremost Dairies in Columbus is Mrs Emily R Parrish at the Bobs Candy Company at Albany is Miss Madie Owens at Carstarphen Son in Macon is Mrs Julie L Rose and at the Colonial Bakery in Augusta is Rex F VinesJl XL VmT II FIRST HAND EXPERIENCE L R Thompson trainee from Florida above operates a shearing ma chine and T M Wyley from South Carolina right a punch press at the C H Air Conditioning Fan Com pany in Atlanta Other concerns in the Atlanta area cooperating in pro viding acquaintance jobs of several days each for the placement specialists were the Atlanta Stove Works Cluett Peabody Company Fulton Bag Cotton Mills Gaylord Container Company General Shoe Company Gordon Foods Highland Mills Lee Baking Company McPhail Candy Company Marcus Loeb Company Potter Rayfield Machine Company Richs Southern Dairies Southern Spring Bed Company and Western Venetian Blind Company These businesses provided an excellent diversification of industrial and business jobs which blind persons can perform on a basis competitive with persons who are not handicapped Atlanta was chosen because of its wide variety of job opportunities and at the same time officials of the concerns said they welcomed a chance to judge what types of jobs the blind could fill successfully for them IffDivision of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education Atlanta Craft sman on Two years ago John Carlton Hall 23 of Whigham Ga was practically helpless and dependent on his parents Now he is a craftsman right employed by Blairs of Atlanta Inc manufacturers of orthopedic appliances The transformation of this individual was no overnight miracle Mr Hall and Eugene W Able district supervisor of the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation at Albany agree that the obstacles to be over come at times seemed insurmountable Paralyzed in infancy young Hall could not walk even with the aid of crutches Because of the difficulties of getting to and from school he had progressed no further than the seventh grade The Division sent him to a specialist who recommended braces Braces and crutches were provided Slowly he learned to get about Training was financed in leather and metal work for appliances such as had been provided in his case I cant believe it is real Mr Hall commented recently at his work bench beaming Pinch me and let me see if it is reallv me Vol II No 4 OKc GcoroJvoJNoco5vVQYoCV JicKabiLitatiorv Mws EMPLOYMENT lanuary 1946 Atlanta GBy James V Carmichael General Manager Georgia Division Bell Aircraft Corporation The Medical Department of the Bell Aircraft Corporation Georgia Division made a study of a group of 1757 per sons with significant physical impair ments who were hired during 1944 These impairments were of sufficient magnitude so that the individual was restricted to the specific job for which he was considered physically competent During the same period a total of 27507 persons were hired at the plant These two groups were compared and it was found that 58 per cent of the entire group terminated before February 15 1945 whereas only 38 per cent of the impaired group terminated This indicates that physically impaired individuals are more likely to stay on the job The reasons for separation were then studied It was found that a lower percentage of the impaired people were discharged or laid off were terminated because of absen teeism stopped work because of living conditions domestic conditions working conditions returned to other jobs and a lower percentage stopped work because of health We do not have data to show the productivity in im paired workers as compared with nonimpaired However our impression is that their efficiency is on a par with the unimpaired if they are properly placed This means that a man with an artificial leg must be placed where he works with his head and hands where the loss of a leg is of small significance insofar as ability to do the job in question is concerned A good example is D B male age 29 who sustained a compound fracture of the left lower leg in the drive on Florence in Italy Being a squad leader he was first to cross a bridge and was hit by a sniper guarding the bridge His artificial leg was fitted four months after this injury and he was discharged from Lawson General Hospital six months after his injury He took a course in electrical bench work at Lawson General before being discharged After spending two weeks at home he came to work ap proximately six and a half months after he was injured He did electrical bench work which required the use of his head and his hands but not of his legs He seemed well satisfied and well adjusted and did a good job in his department Careful placement is the key to the successful utilization of the physically impaired worker Four Feet Six Inches and 75 Pounds and an effi cient experienced secretary is Miss Betty Reeves of the Boy Scout Office in Augusta When she finished high school at Millen in 1943 her employment prospects were poor because of two handicapsher size and a dislocated hip Vocational Rehabilitation accepted her case and sent her to the Hurst Business College in Augusta where she made a splendid record Upon completion of her course there she went to work at the Boy Scout office and has been there ever since one of the most popular members of the organi zation Loss ok His Leg Proved an Opportunity rather than a tragedy to Elmer Lee Johnson of Dublin The leg was amputated when injured by a falling tree Until that time his employment had been uncertain The Division helped in purchase of an artificial limb and in shoe repair training Getting selfconfidence proved to be harder for Mr Johnson than anything else For a year he could scarcely believe he was proficient at a profit able trade Then in March 1944 he resumed work in the shop where he had been trained After a few weeks the shop was turned over to him and he now does all the work He is on the job consistently and has a good patronagea fine example of rehabilitationHas Happy Results By Frank H Neely Executive Vice President and General Manager Richs Inc The first group of handicapped em ployees came to work at Richs in 1942 It was an experimental venture from our point of view and certainly the em ployees considered these jobs a challenge to them They absorbed our ways quick ly they learned easily and were curious about other jobs they became efficient reliable workers It was easy for more to follow the first group because they had sold Richs on the idea and they did the majority of job training for new employees on similar jobs DEAF MUTES EXPERT MECHANICS Herman V Gordon left and Jack D Sellers are shown at work as mechanics at the E E Hollingsworth Auto Service in Savannah where they were trained with the aid of Vocational Rehabilitation Mr Gordon from Ludowici has been a deaf mute since infancy He worked first in the J A Jones Shipyard in Brunswick and then turned to auto mechanic training After completing his course in Savannah he went to Birmingham following the same trade Mr Sellers from Baxley had been deaf and practically mute since birth He had some training in shoe repairing before his case came to the attention of Rehabilitation at which time he insisted he wanted to learn auto mechanics He is still employed at Hollingworths 1 Some Superior All employees at Richs are evaluated according to indi vidual performance It is gratifying to see that handicapped workers not only reach standard performance but in some cases are superior to fellow workers Ability to concentrate is one of their greatest assets This quality together with manual dexterity constitute the two qualifications used in our organization more often than others The most successful of the handicapped employees are on jobs such as machine operators in the sign department the control and operations divisions inspectors and packers in the service division skilled workers in the workrooms bakers in the foods division and clerical jobs throughout the store Not Limited Their associations are not limited to individuals with similar handicaps as shown by the fact that many of our most enthusiastic participants in the Bowling League are from this group of employees Richs welcomes reliable employees capable of perform ing jobs efficiently in spite of physical handicaps We have learned much from our association with our group of these people and through our contacts with the Division of Voca tional Rehabilitation of the State Department of Education MAJOR DISABILITIES DID NOT STOP Gaynor Adam Brown of Augusta from becoming a professional typewriter assembler and repairman With back and chest handicaps he had had no experience when contacted by the Division other than as an amateur in fixing clocks and small machinery The Division financed his apprentice ship at the Underwood Corporation in Augusta in November 1942 arranging a fivemonth period of training He learned rapidly The Division helped further by paying for his tools At the end of training he was put on salary and is still em ployed by the same agencyMabilitatiorv Afews Published monthly by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Dr M D Collins State Superintendent of Schools Paul S Barrett Director Division of Vocational Rehabilitation DISTRICT OFFICES Atlanta134 State Office Bldg Albany21314 Royal Bldg AthensHardman Hall University Augusta607 Southern Finance Bldg Brunswick 301 Gordon Bldg Columbus411 Flowers Bldg Dublin401 C S Bank Bldg Gainesville 414 Jackson Bldg Macon406 Bankers Ins Bldg Rome Room 29 Court House Savannah302 American Bldg Waycross 432 Bunn Bldg This is the time of year when many of you are making plans for entering college next fall and an opportune time to call your attention to training services offered by this Division We want to aid any and all handi capped young persons seeking college educationsand economic need does not have to be determined In other words if you are handicapped physically it is immaterial to us what kind of home you come from We will gladly pay your tuition in an effort to put you on the road to lead a useful life despite your handicap The program we offer is not charity It is a sincere effort to help any of you who have disabilities to overcome them Many of Georgias most prominent citi zens were helped in the beginning by Vocational Rehabilitation If in doubt consult the nearest office of this Division listed above Editorial THE CHALLENGE ML mmmmmj Vocational Rehabilitation in Georgia faces a challenge in 1946 The Division of the State Department of Edu 5T Jl Catln Whch throuSh the ears has Pled up an impressive record outstanding among all the states of the Union must regard its laurels not proudly alone nor complacent ly but with a determination to meet more difficult prob lems even more vigorously w The Dlessings of peace which the nation sought through A m four bitter years are now upon us These blessings are sweet But they are accompanied by sweeping changes in economic conditions which must be met by sweeping changes in the methods of attaining the principal end of the Divisions often complicated procedures helping human beings who through no fault of their own have become in some degree lost to society to gain or regain independence through useful employ ment The experience gained in the 25 years Vocational Rehabilitation has func tioned in Georgia will be indispensablehow to locate persons needing service provide counsel medical and surgical services where necessary train them if need be and then place them in jobs We do not have to worry about all the preliminary phases of procedure But job placement will not be as automatic this year for the handicapped who want and have become qualified for jobs which they can perform on a basis competitive with persons without handicaps Jobs will not be as easy for anyone to get this year The United States Employment Servicewhich according to Dillard B Lasseter Regional Director has pretty certain ways of knowingsays there will be 1250000 persons in six southeastern states classed as temporarily unemployed Thus the labor market in which handicapped persons may seek employment will be vastly shrunk In many businesses and industries which learned during the war that the handicapped were desirable absent less and more diligent in the tasks assigned them the Division has no fear but that it will be able to place the handicapped on a growing mutually satisfactory standard But even such businesses will have fewer jobs to offer And there remains the job of convincing many other employers of the significance of the splendid record made in war years by persons with disabilities Too we must not fail to reach all the disabled in this state eligible for benefits None must suffer because he or she did not know what we offer to benefit both the individual and society of which the individual is a part M D CollinsBy J Hank Smith Acting Director Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Tennessee Department of Education A threeday Regional Conference was called recently by H B Cummings Repre sentative of the Third Region at the Bilt more Hotel in Atlanta The call included State Directors Assistant Directors Case Work Supervisors and Supervisors of Phy sical Restoration of the Divisions of Voca tional Rehabilitation Directors of Services for the Blind and Rehabilitation Super visors of the Blind from Alabama Florida Georgia Mississippi North Carolina South Carolina and Tennessee Homer Nichols former Secretary of the National Rehabili tation Association was a guest at the conference The conference of rehabilitation admin istrators was concerned primarily with problems of reconversion the aim being to gear civilian rehabilitation to postwar conditions as rapidly and intelligently as possible Mr Cummings stated that the Federal Government had waived restric tions against the handicapped since the beginning of the war and every effort should be made to prevent discriminations against employment of the disabled He pointed out that many gains which have been made during the past four years could be maintained provided an immediate effort is made to acquaint employers com munity organizations and the public at large with all the services available to the handicapped The fact that rehabilitation has been so streamlined for the war emer gencies that good case work based on in telligent guidance has been neglected brought to light the urgent need for re aligning the organization retraining and reassigning personnel in order to get at the heart and core of sound rehabilitation Industrial Cutbacks Dillard Lasseter Regional Director of the USES presented an interesting study of the labor market in the region He spoke of the cutbacks in employment in shipyards aircraft and ordnances but pointed out that employees in textile mills clay prod ucts and pulp and paper products have been held at top peak He stressed the need for workers in agriculture and for the de velopment of new industries T C Foster Assistant Representative of the Third Region called to attention the opportunities offered to the handicapped particularly to the severely disabled in self employment enterprises An interesting dis cussion of small businesses agricultural pursuits and the purchase of various types of equipment necessary for building up small industries developed under Mr Fos ters leadership Dr Thomas B McKneely Regional Con sultant of the Physical Restoration Unit opened the discussion on Physical Restora tion by stating the day is past when any person who could see lightning hear thunder or chew milk was acceptable to an employer He pointed out that many severe ly handicapped individuals could continue on their present jobs if their disabilities were properly treated Inasmuch as the first obligation of Rehabilitation is to render all the services necessary to rehabilitate a client all inservice cases should be re viewed carefully to discover possible needs for physical restoration Free Discussion Intercurrent illness and the responsibility for caring for such illness was discussed Tennessee has worked out an agreement with the Tennessee Society for Crippled Children and Disabled Adults which offers a solution to the problem in that state The need for a center where hearing aids could be fitted and training provided in the use and care of all types of prostheses was pointed out Joint meetings of the Divisions of Voca tional Rehabilitation and Agencies for the Rehabilitation of the Blind were held throughout the meeting with the exception of the closing session when J Hank Smith Acting Director of Tennessee presided over the Vocational Rehabilitation group and Joe Clunk Agent for the Blind U S Office of Education was discussion leader of the meeting devoted to the rehabilita tion of the blind The agenda of the Regional Conference was exceptionally well planned and was presented in a way to promote free dis cussions and interchange of ideas and plans of the 45 conference members in attend ance The administrative personnel of the Divisions of Vocational Rehabilitation and Agencies for the Blind expressed appre ciation for the harmonious relationship that exists between the state organizations and the representatives of the Third Region of the U S Office of Vocational Rehabili tation AIRCRAFT TRAINING netted George Coon of Macon a machinists job at War ner Robins Field Mr Coon had tubercu losis of the bone and lost his leg at age 16 He made a scant living for many years as a magazine salesman In addition to lacking a leg his eyesight was poor The Division aided him by purchasing glasses and paid for his training at the Macon Aircraft School He was such an apt student that he became an instructor there Later he left for a better job at Warner Robins where he has a permanent classi fication WISH WE HAD MORE like Herbert Evans says B B Whitaker manager of the Clarendon Hotel in Augusta of this porter Herbert lost his right arm below the elbow when it was caught in a machine at a lumber company where he was em ployed He had no special training for any kind of work and his prospects were dim until Vocational Rehabilitation found him His training as a porter was financed and an appliance provided Now he has a good job If you have any more like him get in touch with me Mr Whitaker wrote the Division isif 11 111 lii I 111 Il l Klir v mounot i mouros mmmt SB BUSINESS IS FINE THANKS A typical vending stand is that operated by Joseph Porter McCook in the Muscogee County Court House at Columbus It was opened August 13 1945 Mr McCook did sheet metal work at Lummus Cotton Gin before he lost his sight in 1923 He took piano and voice lessons from a private teacher attended the Tennessee Academy for the Blind at Nashville and was later a soloist in a Columbus church The stands sales averaged 180 weekly Mr McCook has acquired a host of friends through church work and other social activities The people in the court house have come to think of him as an important part of their everyday lives BARELY ABLE TO WALK but making a living as a shoe repairman nevertheless is Tillman Holloway of Dublin He was afflicted with chronic arthritis to such a degree that it was almost impossible for him to move about even with the aid of a stick He had done a little barber work in the country and at first wanted barber training but was considered nonfeasible for that occupa tion The Division financed six months training at the Dublin Shoe Shop Now he is doing well and his physical condition has improved A LEG BRACE ENABLES Lonnie Griffin of Dublin to hold a job at Cochran Brothers Inc wholesale grocers The brace was furnished by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Lonnie was injured while working as a truck driver his leg was operated on and he was not able to return to his former work at the Mackey Lumber Company He got a temporary job at Cochran Brothers The district supervisor called on the manager and the manager agreed to make the job permanent Lonnie is satisfied and happy j ftp Left to right Glenn E Boggs and Lee Jones Supervisors of Vending Stands B R Gordon Vice President of Richs and President of the Georgia Cooperative Services for the Blind W L McDaniel General Manager of the Washington Society for the Blind Hughes Spalding attorney a Director of the organization for the blind WB Gaines A P Jarrell Assistant Director of the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation in Charge of Technical Services and C E Elsas a Plan More Vending Stands with Blind Operators The Georgia Cooperative Services for the Blind is plan ning a rapid expansion of vending stand enterprises super vised by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation during the year A recent meeting of the board of directors of the Co operative Services members of which said they regarded themselves in a philanthropic undertaking were told by W L McDaniel general manager of the Washington Society for the Blind that vending stands are far from being charitable enterprises but are strictly business ven tures confined to blind persons as operators He cited the fact that in Washington such vending stands have grown in a few years from several in number with liabilities to a sound business grossing more than 1000000 annually and with assets totaling more than 2000000 Lion By The Tail The Georgia Cooperative has a lion by the tail Mr McDaniel said in its 10 standsfive in Atlanta and others in Columbus Macon LaGrange Gainesville and Dalton These stands all installed at intervals since February 1945 grossed 33566 to November 17 according to the report of C E Elsas vice president of Fulton Bag Cotton Mills who is vice president and treasurer of the organization for the blind Mr McDaniel said that vending stands in Atlanta alone could be developed to the point of grossing more than 1000000 annually not counting other cities and projected expansion into South Georgia Under the program 10 blind people are making livings for themselves Most of these persons had never before been economically independent Mr Boggs and Mr Jones recommended that the number of stands be increased con siderably within the next year and their recommendations were adopted in principle Directors of the Cooperative Services agreed to use their influence to obtain advantageous locations for new stands There is a potential of 300 small businesses including vending stands which would have sufficient volume to make blind operators good livings in Georgia according to W B Gaines supervisor of services for the blind in the Division More Capital Mr McDaniel told the Georgia business men that they had been thinking in terms of peanuts for the venture and had not realized its possibilities and the business men agreed that they would try to get more capital into the enterprises as soon as possible rather than relying on the small percentages from the profits of existing stands to widen the work to benefit other blind people The business men all with numerous other duties private and public determined that they will meet more often and give closer attention to operation of the stands to the end that closer inspection will reveal better oppor tunities to get blind people started in businesses which are selfliquidating and means of earning comfortable liveli hoods Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education Atlanta STAYS ON JOB through Rehabilitation Charles E Burnett of Augusta who lost both legs in a railroad accident had worn the same pair of artificial limbs for 20 years repairing them from time to time himself The sole support of his wife and mother he was unable to buy modern artificial legs His economic wel fare was threatened The Division helped him purchase modern appliances and now he is a busy tailor at the DeLuxe Cleaners 315 Eighth Street ARRESTED TUBERCULOSIS does not stop James R Wilson of Macon from learning a profitable tradein his instance watch repairing His general health is good after treatment at the State Tuberculosis Sanatorium Before he contracted tuberculosis he had been a laborer His illness and convalescence proved an opportunity to better his station in life The Division paid for his tools textbooks and financed his training He is employed at Friedmans JewelersijMB3SgSgSKm Vol II No 5 February 1946 Kabilitatiotv Vews m r Sfitajg 1842 1946 Surely every medicine is an innova tion and he that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils Francis Bacon Essays if el VP fj v x r j7 A Atlanta Handicapped To Concentrate By Miss Beatrice Fischer Meyer Personnel Director DavisonPaxon Company Davisons has learned through years af experience with per sons having disabili ties that they are de pendable and eager to learn At the present time we have five employees in the store who are mutes These people work in various departments of the building One has been with us five years and was one of the original mutes we employed from the Cave Spring Georgia school He is George Cannon of Austell and has been employed as a packer At one time he decided he would return to his home at Austell but after a brief absence he be came homesick for the store and returned to work The shoe repair department has had three mutes two of whom were born mutesSam P Jones of Bowden and Leonard Barrow of Waco The other Cecil A White of Hazelhurst became deaf and dumb as a result of an injury when he was nine years of age In ad dition to these John South of Atlanta who is employed in the shoe repair de partment as a repairman is a person who has a serious speech handicap In other departments are other persons with handi caps who are steady and reliable One mute a woman was at one time employed as a marker in our receiving department We have had great success in placing these handicapped persons in positions where they have a specific job to doa job the nature of which is such that their particular handicap is so to speak no handicap at all and in many instances an advantage The receiving department has found that persons with disabilities are very accurate in such work as cutting stencils A department store is like a theater in that each day it puts on its best perform ance Our deaf employees seem to con centrate and do a better job because they are unaware of the hustle and noise around them We have found them to he loyal and dependable and feel that the program we started using handicapped people has mutual advantages James P Sewell exmajor and Donald Hancock excaptain are welcomed into the work of Vocational Rehabilitation by Dr M D Collins Georgia Superintendent of Schools and Executive Officer of the State Board for Vocational Education Frorn Yokohama and the Rhine Two more veterans have returned to Georgia to help rehabilitate into em ployment the states case load of 25000 physically handicapped persons and to find others not reached so far by the program Mr Sewell came from Yokohama where he landed on VJ Day and Mr Hancock from midGermany after sweeping across France and the Rhine with General Pat tons Third Army Mr Hancock brought an interesting commentary on why it was so difficult to enforce nonfraternization between the American soldiers and Germans In France the rate of monetary exchange made prices on nearly everything practically prohibitive for the GIs he said while in Germany the rates were favorable and led to the soldiers spending more time in civilian surroundings JAPS FEARFUL The Japs when our troops first landed in their country were panicstricken Mr Sewell said Much of the population especially the women fled to the hills A Jap encountering an American on the street would make a wide circle to pass warily But after a few weeks of occu pation word got to the fugitives in the hills that the Americans were not mon sters after all and the population trickled back to their ruined homes Japs got so they would smile and nod in passing on the street James P Sewell 33 of Newnan went to Newnan High School and North Geor gia College at Dahlonega being graduated with a BS degree in 1933 He was awarded a master of arts degree at the University of Georgia in 1938 He taught at Carrollton during the school terms while earning his masters degree in Uni versity summer schools 19363738 He was principal of Carrollton High School three years including two sessions after receiving his masters degree He taught mathematics in Newnan High School and was basketball coach in 1940 and 1941 TO U S IN FIVE DAYS A member of the Officers Reserve Corps since 1933 he was called to active duty in August 1941 He was assigned to the 31st Division and went to New Guinea in February 1944 He served in the Morotai Leyte and Luzon campaigns He flew from Yokohama to San Francisco in five days and it took him 10 daysfive waiting for a trainto get to Georgia after landing in the States He has been assigned to the Columbus office Donald Hancock was born at Jefferson Jackson County in 1911 He attended Martin Institute there graduating in 1928 and was graduated from the University of Georgia in 1932 with an AB degree He too joined the Officers Reserve Corps He was employed by the Civilian Con servation Corps until called to Army duty in March 1942 He trained with the 80th Division and served overseas with it 15 months He is assigned to the Atlanta district officeBlind Since Birth Now She Can See The operation was most successful The moment the cataract was removed I gained sight on the operating table wrote Miss Wilhelmina DeAntonio 19 of Collins Ga to C H Parker counselor for the blind in the Savannah district office She had undergone surgery on her right eye in the University Hospital Augusta by Dr Wade R Bedingfield specialist Another operation will be performed on her left eye Doctor Bedingfield was very happy though I was even happier she con tinued in the letter to Mr Parker My eye is steadily improving I can scarcely believe that I have had an op eration as my eye hasnt given me any trouble Mr Parker there has never been a more appreciative girl than I am Before being sent to the specialist by the Division of Vocational Rehabilita tion Miss DeAntonio had only light perceptionshe was unable to discern objects Now she says I can dis tinguish close objects clearly and my eye is gradually improving I type my own letters Doctor Bedingfield has not finished working on my eyes in fact he has just begun I want to say with all earnestness that I truly appre ciate what the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation is doing for me Sin cerely I trust that I may be able to re turn the service some day Miss DeAntonio is a graduate of the Georgia Academy for the Blind and her rehabilitation plan contemplates helping her to get a college education since she wants to teach and is proficient in music and fine arts Much Depends on Attitude of Client By Alfred L Davis Assistant Director in Charge of Field Operations Cooperation is es sential to the success of the rehabilitation program for any in dividual The disabled person may have so cial mental physical and economic problems or he may lack a skill to enter a profession or trade in keeping with his physical limitations The client rehabilitation worker trainer and per sonnel of the cooperating facilities must work together to find a proper diagnosis of the individuals problems and to effect their solution The disabled individuals mental atti tude toward his problems is one of the biggest factors in his rehabilitation People with extremely severe handicaps have made good rehabilitation material because of their determination to overcome their disability Other people with far less seri ous handicaps have failed in their re habilitation problems because of their men tal attitude which caused them to adopt a defeatist viewpoint and not cooperate with agency personnel in carrying out pro cedures to effect solution to their problems EXPERIENCED GUIDANCE Guidance is one of the big factors in some of the harder problems of rehabili tation This is the reason that only ex perienced personnel who have had good training should be used in rehabilitation work It is also the reason why approved professional personnel and training facili ties should be selected to render services If the individual is led to adopt an un derstanding attitude at the beginning of his program the other problems will be much easier to solve I know one rehabilitation worker who often tells his clients This is a 5050 proposition You do your part and I will do mine This rehabilitation worker takes a greater personal interest in his clients than is usually the case and he seldom fails In most rehabilitation cases there are two or more services needed which must be purchased from facilities of other agencies or institutions The personnel of the facilities from which services are pur chased must be given sufficient informa tion by the rehabilitation counselor to work in harmony with the agency and the client in solving his individual problems Prog ress reports designed to measure the ef fectiveness of the service must be given the rehabilitation agency frequently enough to insure proper supervision SOME NONFEASIBLE While it is not the desire of the rehabili tation agency to reject for service any case which may be rehabilitated into suit able employment it is not the purpose of the agency to accept for service cases which are nonfeasible Cases which need medical treatment or surgery but which the examining physician and the rehabili tation personnel think cannot be made em ployable in a reasonably satisfactory occu pation should be referred to other agencies designed to serve such cases Cooperation with all referral agencies is essential to securing referrals on the type of cases which should be served by the Rehabilitation Division Working together the rehabilitation agency with the aid of the client hos pitals training institutions appliance com panies and social agencies can make em ployable thousands of handicapped personsDKc 3eovqjvoNJocoioYo kabilitatiori Vews Published monthly by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Dr M D Collins State Superintendent of Schools Paul S Barrett Director Division of Vocational Rehabilitation DISTRICT OFFICES Atlanta134 State Office Bldg Albany21314 Royal Bldg Athens Hardman Hall University Augusta 607 Southern Finance Bldg Brunswick301 Gordon Bldg Columbus 411 Flowers Bldg Dublin 401 C S Bank Bldg Gainesville 414 Jackson Bldg Macon 406 Bankers Ins Bldg Rome Room 29 Court House Savannah 302 American Bldg Waycross432 Bunn Bldg Scientific Facts In an effort to acquaint the public with the facts on the performance and poten tialities of the physically handicapped in business and industry this publication is presenting a series of articles by large scale employers based on personnel records In the December issue the subject was reviewed by Norman E Elsas president of Fulton Bag Cotton Mills in January there were articles by James V Carmi chael vice president of the Bell Aircraft Corporation who was manager of the big plant at Marietta during the war and Frank H Neely executive vice president and general manager of Richs the Atlanta department store In this issue Miss Bea trice Fischer Meyer personnel director of DavisonPaxon Company tells of her firms experiences with severely disabled persons These employers and others agree that the physically handicapped have at least comparable production records better at tendance records and lower accident rates than nonhandicapped workers To some skeptics a suspicion may have occurred that the conclusions were based upon wish ful thinking and sympathy rather than accurate appraisal despite assertions by the employers that their findings were based on purely objective surveys We would like therefore to cite some results of a twoyear survey of 300 ran domly selected orthopedically disabled per sons in 23 industries in the Baltimore and New York areas as matched with 300 nondisabled persons The report was made to a conference sponsored by the New York University Center for Safety Education in Washington D C Among the findings were When properly placed so that the dis ability does not affect efficient performance the disabled industrial workers are gener ally more efficient than the normal During the first year on industrial jobs disabled workers are usually inferior to normal workers However after a years experience they generally become superior provided they are properly placed When performing jobs with uniform processes they are very superior When performing jobs of nonuniform processes they are slightly more efficient Psychologically the disabled worker is no different from any other worker His success is dependent on himself his em ployer and his fellow workers With pride the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation notes the election of its medical consultant Dr Thomas P Good wyn as president of the Fulton County Medical Society Besides acting as a consultant on general medical matters Dr Goodwyn one of the foremost orthopedic surgeons in the nation provides diagnoses and performs opera tions in many cases of rehabilitation by the Division A native of Coweta County and a grad uate of Newnan High School Dr Goodwyn was graduated from Emory University in medicine and surgery in 1913 He served in France in the First World War as a bone sur geon Afterwards he became orthopedic con sultant to the Atlanta office of the Federal Board of Vocational Education rating disabilities in Georgia Florida North and South Carolina and Tennessee Entering private practice he became visiting orthopedist in Atlanta hospitals and served as chief of the ortho pedic surgery department at Grady Hos pital He has been consultant for the Good Samaritan Clinic and the Atlanta Tuberculosis Clinic Dr Goodwyns services to Vocational Rehabilitation insure that any physically handicapped person treated or receiving surgery under the Divisions program will get attention from the best qualified physi cian or surgeon to be found for the specific handicap and in a hospital which meets high standards LETTERS LIKES THE NEWS Editor Rehabilitation News Thank you so much for the paper that you are send ing me each month The Georgia Voca tional Rehabilitation News I enjoy read ing the paper so much to know that some thing is being done to help some one down lifes highway May God bless you as you go out to bring in the poor and the maimed and the halt and the blind Johnny Shelley 451 North Main Street Thomaston Ga WAS MISERABLE CASE Vocational Rehabilitation I would like to let you know of my appreciation for your efforts in having me trained and placed in a position where I can again work and support my family I sincerely thank you The Clarkesville Vocational Training School is the perfect place for the training of the blind and other handicapped men of Georgia I progressed through the training sched ule laid out by the splendid school man ager Mr Clegg and I think I did ac ceptable work I enjoyed Miss Vinsons class and also the woodshop under Mr Parker the machine shop under Mr Mauney and the laundry under Mr Smith The canteen work was valuable training for me The operator aided me im mensely In addition to all this the school program was a great aid to my health I would like to have the opportunity to thank several of the men there for their help to me In addition to the instructors I have already mentioned there are Mr Sudoskey Mr Nellis Mr Justice Mr Bur rell Mr Church and last but far from the least in my esteem Mrs Franklin Upon arrival at the school I was indeed a miserable case hardly able to turn around by myself but now after finishing my training I am able to go anywhere I want to go and do nearly everything I want to do I have learned to use the typewriter read and write Braille and many other things I had thought impos sible before Georce Emory Taylor 920 Ormewood Terrace S E TRAINING REMARKABLE Vocational Rehabilitation You told me that you had a man who was blind by the name of Mr Rudolph Crooms that you would like to place in our organization as a trainee in the manufacture of furniture As I doubted this man proving to be of any service to the manufacture of furni ture I was willing to give him a trial and by doing so I find that he has made us a splendid man and I do say that it is remarkable that a man of this handicap can be trained to do such wonderful service I think very much of the Vocational Re habilitation Division and that they are able to place such men as Mr Crooms and I am sincerely thanking you for your sug gestion for me to try this man As I might say again he is doing a wonderful job T H Bishop Superintendent Seebach Manufacturing Company Louisville GaHelps Train HalfDoz Other Handicapped Men in Shoe Shop A Veritable Training School for men with disabilities is George Rogers Shoe Shop at Albany Himself a rehabilitant George at right above has helped in training other handicapped men and is continuing his program of co operation with the Division which put him on his economic feet Rogers case was first reported to the Division in 1932 He had a stiff knee and his foot had not been of use in 20 years A sore on his kneecap would not heal At that time the Division was not able to participate in physical restoration or amputation cases but Georges training was financed with the Kent Shoe Shop in Albany Six years later George went in business for himself By 1943 he had earned enough to pay for all his equipment in a first class shop In 1943 the Divisions program had been altered to provide for physical restoration and Georges bad leg was amputated and an artificial limb furnished He gained weight and health In the past few years he has provided training employment in cooperation with Division aid for a half dozen others At extreme left in the picture is Samuel Burley who had club feet which were partially straightened by the Crippled Chil drens Division Vocational Rehabilitation had an operation per formed on his feet and provided for his training in Rogers Shop He is now making good as a trained shoe repairman Second from left is Frank Mack who lost his leg some years ago and for whom an artificial limb has been ordered Mean while he is taking training Third from left is Willie Owens Willie had an infected crippled foot In his rehabilitation plan an effort was made to dry up the infection and he was furnished with a builtup shoe while taking training It later became necessary to amputate the leg and he was provided with an artificial limb He has completed his training and is regularly employed Other men who have been trained in the shop include David Lee Brown and Prather Franklin Brown lost a leg and had a hip amputation while employed at Turner Field The United States Compensation Commission provided hospitalization and Vocational Rehabilitation sponsored training Franklin had an osteomyelitis leg and had been treated by the Crippled Chil drens Division He became a proficient repairman in Rogers shopNEW WORKERS IN SOUTHEAST ATTEND TRAINING CONFERENCEDiagnbsis medical and surgical services training and job Placement for the physically handicapped were the principal subjects at a recent 10day training conference in Atlanta attfnded by rehabilitation supervisors and counselors for the blind Pictured abovefirst row left to right L H Curry Greenville S C rehabilitation supervisor Terry C Foster assistant regionalrepresentative Office of Vocational Rehabilitation Dr Thomas B McKneely assistant medical officer Office of Vocational Rehabilitation H B Cummings regional representatne second row W L Flanagan Macon counselor for the blind lames Segars Atlanta rehabilitation supervisor C B Crppen Memphis rehabilitation supervisor J I Rankin Jackson Miss supervisor of services for the blind H R Matthews Hattiesburg Miss rehabilitation counselor third row B B Sanders Macon rehabili tation supervisor F D Sheppard Nashville Tenn rehabilitation counselor C C Griffith Chattanooga Tenn rehabilitation coun selor Andrew Lindley Greensboro N C rehabilitation counselor and John M Holt Knoxville Tenn counselor for the blind Pictured abovefirst row left to right F G Nelms Atlanta counselor for the blind H A Turner Decatur Ala rehabili tation supervisor J P Cooper Augusta counselor for the blind Clark Ketzel Jacksonville Fla rehabilitation counseorTL Pttard Jacksonville Fla rehabilitation counselor second row L W Blanton Miami rehabilitation counselor HL Jacobs Auburn Ala rehabilitation counselor Virgil White Charlotte N C rehabilitation counselor Henry Redkey Tallahassee Fla assistant state director Bruce Thomason Orlando Fla rehabilitation counselor third row E F SheaW 8nrtl r 11 i VM1wi ciiaumidLiuii uuunsciur nenry KeaKev 1 all hassep Kin assistant state director Bruce Thomason Orlando Fla rehabilitation counselor third row E F Shealey SpartanburgSC rehab orence S C rehabilitation counselor Selwyn Edwards Sumter S C rehabilitation coun ilitation counselor J W Gibson Florence ovrenaDilitation counselor Selwyn Edwards Sumter S C rehabilii selor T D Watkins Anderson S C rehabilitation counselor and H M Henry Columbia S C counselor for the blind AN ARTIFICIAL FOOT and an artificial leg made it possible for B A Brown to learn and hold a good job at Warner Robins Field The Division helped him purchase the appliances He had lost part of his right foot and his left leg below the knee in a railroad accident in 1938 With a wife and two sons his earnings as a taxi company employee were inadequate until he received Rehabilitation aid in his training as a mechanic Now his earnings have con siderally more than doubled PHYSICALLY RESTORED LEARNS TO MAKE BLINDSAn injury to her leg in 1927 led to varicose veins for Mrs Louise Y Cox of Macon so that last Spring she found it impossible to do much standing or walking and had to leave her job as an aircraft mechanic at Warner Robins Field With two young daughters Mrs Cox had a bleak future The Division learned of her case through a newspaper item and sent her to a physician for treatment Her condition improved and training was financed for her at the Specialty Products Manufacturing Company 115 Hardeman Avenue in assembling and repairing Venetian blinds She learned rapidly and from the beginning earned a living wage Mrs Cox and her physician say that the treatments have improved her physical condition and workability to a surprising degree HAVING LOST BOTH FEET when struck by an automobile in 1944 James Mitchell Davenport was unable to return to his old job as a galvanizer in a steel plant Further surgery was necessary which the Division arranged for and helped in the purchase of appliances Mr Davenport was sent to the North Georgia Vocational School for pre liminary training as a watch and jewelry repairman and then was placed for ad vanced training and employment at Sterchis 16 Whitehall Street S W Atlanta IN TRAINING ON A JOB CONSISTENT with his disability is Alexander Stroup at Georges Radio Shop 357 Fifth Street Macon Arrested tuberculosis made it inadvisable for Mr Stroup to try to return to his former occupation of farming so the Division arranged for him to be trained as a radio repairman and helped him to get equipment He had previously taken a correspondence course in radio work The physician to whom the Division sent Mr Stroup recommended that while his quiescent and arrested tuberculosis ruled out farming or other strenuous work he could do radio repairing without any danger whatever to his physical condition Mr Stroup sits at a bench handling light tools and equipment and is free at all times to leave his bench and rest for a while when he feels so disposed He has been careful to follow the physicians recommendations and now has a bright economic future in his change of occupation SDivision of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education Atlanta VENDING STAND TRAINING OF BLIND OPERATORS Ihls stand at the Fourth Service Command Records Depot and Post Engineers Quarters 34 Elliott Street S W serves as a training station for the rapidly growing enterprises sponsored by the Georgia Cooperative Services for the Blind and supervised by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Sgt G E Sizemore is shown making a purchase from Miss Mary Birrick Miss Birrick is being trained to take over a new stand at the City Hall in Macon One stand already is in opera tion in Macon at the Post Office with Miss Eula Mae Hightower in charge Others trained at this stand in Atlanta are Otha G Cooper who has taken charge of a stand at the Hall County Court House in Gainesville and Charlie Jim Hurst who will be assigned to a new stand at the Post Office in Rome Ga Miss Frances Miller employed by the Georgia Cooperative Services for the Blind acts as an instructor for the training stand which pays its way except for small training fees The stand was opened September 26 1945Vol II No 6 March 1946 eKabiUtatioiY Mws ATLANTA GAA Little Time Pays Dividends By Omer 0 Allen President Allen Hudson Company 215 Bay Street West Savannah In view of the fact that I have em ployed several people over a period of years who have had physical handicaps to a greater or lesser degree I would like to state briefly that it has proven most satisfactory to the business and also I believe to the men themselves I feel that anyone who will take a little time to help train an individual who has some handicap will receive rewards equal to and exceeding the time and patience he has invested in both business and personal relation ships At this time two outstanding ex amples come to my mind The first concerns a colored man who came to me in his late teens and wanted to go to work in the garage He was both deaf and dumb but very willing and anxious to learn and so I employed him He was there every day on time and ready to do anything that I told him regardless of how long or tedious the job might be After he had been with us a few months he showed a definite inclination and talent for body and fender work and it proved a very wise move for he was able in a short while to handle a good part of the work by himself His relationship with the the men was good and I feel that he was of very definite value to the com pany The other one of which I think at present is a middleaged man who came to us as a night watchman He was handicapped by a shaking condi tion in all his limbs which was caused by a nerve injury and his spine was also affected He was with me several years and during that time he was never off except during his vacation the only watchman I have ever had on whom I could depend to be present without fail He was honest and indus trious and never complained of the long hours which were part of a watch mans job I would never hesitate to hire any one because he had a physical handi cap because my experience has shown that handicaps can be overcome if the man is willing to work and is given a fair chance Mail Call and Rehabilitation SupervisorAt Marine Hospital Running a close second in popularity to the nurse with the mail above is the Vocational Rehabilitation super visor right at the Marine Hospital in Savannah The scenes are repeated each morning as merchant mariners recover from injuries or illnesses In four months the supervisor B L Crook Smith had 70 cases for processing of which 18 were closed rehabilitated despite their physical handicaps He is shown talking with Marion Hall of Vidalia left and W G Roberts of Jacksonville Fla This hospital receives seamen whose homes are scattered all over the nation Georgias Division of Vocational Rehabilitation does what it can for them and then sends information on them to the Rehabilitation offices at or near their homes Many of course are rehabilitated in Georgia Two Handicaps OvercomeWhen he was 19 Belton Lonzo Winn below lost a leg as a result of a baseball acci dent A foot got spiked blood poison ing set in and an amputation was nec essary For many years he wore a peg leg From 1918 to 1942 he was employed by a casket manufacturing company in Atlanta making a fine record despite his handicap But then he contracted tuberculosis He was treated at Battle Hill Sana torium In January 1945 he was dis missed from the sanatorium and his case was referred to Vocational Rehab ilitation by Battle Hill and the Atlanta Tuberculosis Association Mr Winn was talented in wood work but will not be able to return to his former trade the survey inter viewer reported A medical examination showed that his tuberculosis was arrested and that while his general health was good it would not be advisable for him to return to handling heavy lumber Rehabilitation arranged for his train ing in armature rewinding at the Tripp Auto Electric Exchange 238 Trinity Avenue S W Atlanta An artificial leg was purchased for him to enable him to get about better From the first few days his training reports were excellent Now he is pro ficient in his new trade and is earning more than he did in his former occu pationOWc Ccovcx3oooiCoYNcvV eKabilitatiorv Afews Published monthly by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Dr M D Collins State Superintendent of Schools Paul S Barrett Director Division of Vocational Rehabilitation DISTRICT OFFICES Atlanta 134 State Office Bldg Albany21314 Royal Bldg AthensHardman Hall University Augusta607 Southern Finance Bldg BrunswickAndrews Bldg Columbus411 Flowers Bldg Dublin 401 C S Bank Bldg Gainesville 414 Jackson Bldg Macon 406 Bankers Ins Bldg RomeRoom 29 Court House Savannah302 American Bldg Waycross432 Bunn Bldg Handicapped Veterans Small Per Cent of Total Handicapped Physically handicapped per sons most in the public eye at this time are the vet erans and very properly so Hardly a day goes by but that newspapers do not publish pic tures and articles about amputees and other injured veterans marrying or learning trades or adjusting them selves to their disabilities in numbers of ways That is as it should be These men gave their legs or arms or eyes on the battlefields of Pacific islands or in Africa or in Europe or in the air or on the high seas to save our way of life from the darkest threat the United States has ever faced Many were in jured physically psychologically and emotionally in ways not immediately Dr Collins apparent and their injuries constitute handicaps to which they will have to adjust themselves for the rest of their lives Everything we can do for them to help them learn trades and assume full fellowship in society we should do But the spotlight on the handicapped veteran should not make us forget the physically handicapped civilian Rather it should make us increasingly aware of the large number of people with physical handicaps Too many of us who are whole in body are likely to look the other way when we encounter a person with a disabilityto pretend to ourselves in a way that handicap ped people do not exist Veterans problems should help us overcome that tendency Traffic Injuries Staggering The number of amputees or blinded persons or persons with other physical disabilities suffered in civilian pur suits far exceeds the number of in jured veterans Many of these civilians were rejected in the draft and were injured in war plants or in activities in support of the war effort Traffic tolls alone we are often told account for more injuries than the total of war The Georgia State Highway Patrol reported that traffic accidents account ed for 650 deaths in the state in 1945 Three thousand eight hundred and sixtyfour persons were injured in the total of 5112 highway accidents The 1944 state traffic death toll was 647 3095 were injured and accidents total ed 4239 The 1945 increase is as small as it is only because of a natural and drastic reduction in accidents to military per sonnel said the Atlanta office of the National Safety Council Actually figures show that the nation celebrated VJ Day by going on a prolonged traffic spree that hasnt ended yet Mt Falls And falls cause more deaths and in juries than traffic accidents the Safety Council says From December 7 1941 to August 14 1945 the war caused not quite 1000000 American casualtieskilled and wounded while in the same period accidents at hometraffic in dustrial and homeaccounted for in juries to 36000000 persons according to the American Red Cross A small proportion of these 36000000 died of course but most livedwith physical disabilities Moreover to the lists of disabilities resulting from accidents must be added the congenital handicaps and the dis abilities resulting from diseases Disabilities resulting from accidents are a small proportion of the total The Division of Vocational Rehabili tation can and often does process in j ured veteransparticularly veterans with disabilities not serviceconnected But the big business of Vocational Rehabilitation goes on year after year and decade after decade regardless of war and the aftermaths of war reclaiming to useful employment peo ple who might otherwise be in some measure liabilities to themselves and their communities So lets help the veterans by all means But let them serve to remind us of the other more numerous physi cally handicapped persons who need encouragement and a firm guiding hand on the road to a life of maximum usefulness M D Collins Lens Polisher is Joseph C Patrick 21 formerly of Hinesville where he attended high school His appendix was removed in 1942 and a year later an intestinal obstruction necessitated a second operation After that any heavy work made his abdomen sore and pain ful the examining physician for Voca tional Rehabilitation reported Mr Pat rick was doing carpenter work at a shipyard an occupation which seemed unsuitable in view of his disability Rehabilitation arranged for three months training in microsurfacing of lenses at the American Optical Com pany 109 Drayton Street Savannah At the completion of his training period he was earning a comfortable wage for himself his wife and daugh ter His stomach trouble is no handi cap at all in his new occupation IState i STATEMENT OF FINANCIA I the undersigned State Auditor of the State of Get correct statements of the financial condition of the Slate budgetary documents on file in the office and open to pub STATEMENT OF CONDITION DECEMBER 31 1945 Assets CASH 3408179117 1243934981 128859215 4780973313 Liabilities CURRENT Accounts Payable 287624976 4434225328 RESERVES 1 301 591 42 1106920217 For Sinking Fund Hospital Authority 213200000 For Highway Contracts to Mature 810337828 For Land Title Guarantee Fund 5276 64 For Federal Funds on hand For Teacher Retirement Trust Fund 109779287 191044996 For Unearned Income 26508219 For Revolving Fund of Agencies 5 025 264 32 For Maintaining Aid to Common Schools For Highway Contract Allotments 434800000 3381 527 60 For Income Equalization Reserve 5 702 687 83 Total Reserves Total Accounts Payable and Reserves 4721850304 Surplus SURPLUS Cash over Accounts Payable and Reserves Applied on reduction fixed debt page 4 Highway Department Contracts to Mature Total Contracts Less Regular Federal Fund Participation Special Federal Fund Participation County Fund Participation Active 68978456 05466681 7177274 3406768 Suspended 194204088 36793993 59123009 Total 1063182544 242260674 7177274 3406768 Net State Obligation for Contracts to Mature 652927733 157410095 810337828 STATEMENT OF FIXED DEBT DECEMBER 31 1945 Full Faith and Credit Obligations Year Due Ending Past due but not presented 63046 63047 63048 63049 63050 1 General State Bonds 7350000 2 Highway Refunding Bonds 22600000 3 County Refunding Certificates 265000000 265000000 265000000 NonNegotiable held by University System Total Less Sinking Fund Reserve opposite page Net Fixed Debt 4 W A Rental Discounts 2200000 27000000 54000000 54000000 54000000 27000000 TOTAL 9550000 314600000 319000000 319000000 54000000 27000000 63770217 63770217 93720217 93720217 795000000 795000000 0 0 218200000 218200000 1106920217 1106920217 0 0 0 0 0 1 General State Bonds outstanding are the refunding issueof the Bonded Debt contracted in 1838 and later years for the construction of the Western and Atlantic Railroad which is State property and has a value today of twentytwo million dollars 2 Highway Refunding Bonds were authorized by Act of the General Assembly approved February 28 1939 the principal of which was used to retire County Refunding Certificates due March of 1939 1940 and 1941 in lieu of using current income These bonds bear 2 interest 3 County Refunding Certificates were noninterestbearing certificates issued to the various counties of the State in accordance with legislative Act approved 82531 The amount issued was 2666790930 payable onetenth each year beginning with 1936 The amount refunded to counties was for county funds used as participation in State road construction This obligation was paid in full on March 25 1945 4 The future rental income of the State discounted and still outstanding is 218200000 payable as above stated Discount authorized by Legislative Act dated 21638 These funds were used for building expansion of the State Institutions Lease Contracts Attjrisdate there is 213200000 due in Principal by the Hospital Authority for construction of buildings at Milledgeville State Hospital as autho rized byfW Actof General Assembly From approximately 23300000 annual rental charges made the Hospital the obligation is being amortized payable each yearas due from General Income of the State See reserve of 213200000 shown on opposite page which is to be applied on reducing this obligation r iIfAT DECEMBER 31 1945 y certify that the following statements are true and he date of December 31 1945 as computed from the B E Thrasher Jr State Auditor Future Maturing Debt Position OBLIGATIONS Highway Obligations to Mature General State Bonds of 1838 Highway Refunding Bonds of 1939 County Refunding Certf of 1931 Dec 31 1940 Dec 31 1942 Dec 31 1945 W A Rental Discount of 1931 and 1938 Hospital Authority Bonds of 1939 Tattnall Prison Debt 838621461 1073395634 810337828 332002217 320320217 93720217 530000000 795000000 795000000 1333395473 800047287 0 486000000 378000000 218200000 239000000 229400000 213200000 105108827 0 0 Total 3864127978 3596163038 2130458045 Less Cash Accumulated Operating Deficit Accumulated Operating Surplus Highway Contract Reserve Sinking Fund Reserves Total Net Obligations 1672390631 0 0 219504000 761949457 0 254672000 59123009 810337828 1320120217 1452886631 1016621467 2189681054 317014609 2579541581 59123009 1 Net Surplus Net cash deficit Auditors Notes For the first time since 1838 the State of Georgia has sufficient cash reserves to liquidate every commitment made by the State to date whether currently due or maturing at a future date The State has on several occasions had sufficient cash to liquidate its current bills payable but has never before had reserves to apply in full payment of bonds etc maturing at a future date Very few Governmental Agencies consider bonded debt in making statements of their financial condition thus placing Georgia in a very unique position The State also has for the first time to my knowledge cash reserves to matcii all Federal Aid Funds accrued to the State for Highway purposes and not utilized in the past years In 1838 the first bonded debt of the State was incurred to build the State railroad and since that date we have paid more than five times the principal in interest The State rocked along very well living within its income until 1921 when it was decreed that services be given the people in anticipa tion of future revenue and in this year five years of the W A Railroad Rentals were discounted at a cost to the State of 40241379 In 1926 1931 and 1938 these Rentals were again discounted and the total cost of all the discounts was 306368424 The largest item of debt was the assumption in 1931 of the 2666790930 debts of the various counties of the State incurred by Highway construction By the bonded debt by discounting rentals by the assumption of county debts by the establishment of the Hospital Authority by buy ing prisons on a lease rental basis and by anticipating future income for Highway construction the State by December 31 1940 had an accumulation of debts which reached the highest peak of 5317014609 These obligations were composed of 1452886631 in pastdue debts for which there was no cash to pay and 3864127978 in obligations having future maturing dates As it was necessary that action be taken to place Georgia in a stronger financial position the General Assembly in January 1941 and in 1943 enacted Legislation to aid the administration in correcting the States financial condition By December 1942 the 1452886631 cash deficit had been overcome and there was 761949457 cash on hand in excess of the current obligations which together with the 254672000 cash in Sinking Fund reduced the States net liability on the 3596163038 future pay able obligations down to 2579541581 This December 31 1945 the State stands in the enviable position of having a current cash surplus of 59123009 which together with the Sinking Fund reserves of 2130458045 will completely liquidate all obligations now outstanding against the State whether due today next year or five years from now and still have a current surplus of 59123009 In the present Constitution the administration General Assembly and the people by their vote have enacted laws to preserve the pres ent solvent condition of the State however only time will tell as to whether or not these laws are of sufficient strength to carry out the pur pose for which they were enacted Today the State has an excellent system of financial control which has been developed out of the reorganization of the State in 1931 prior to which time there was a hue and cry by the people for centralized control and responsibility rather than a dislocated control or forty different boards It is regretted that in the last few years we have gradually reversed the progress and apparently arelHttVffJJW towards the old form of government VaV v It gives me great pleasure to report these particular facts to the people and this office takes considerable pride in its Jnall fCjnmbjition r m cooperating with the administration in liquidating in the past five years obligations against the State which had been al n LIdRmRIES 1838 flo OfOfany Changes in Employment Openings Reconversion Conference At MaconThe impact of the changeover from wartime to peacetime conditions in Georgias employment opportunities brought so many prob lems in Vocational Rehabilitation that the professional staff had a conference at the Dempsey Hotel in Macon to talk things over Projected for two days the discussions brought to light so many necessary revisions in procedure that three days were required Paul S Barrett Division Director said in opening the meeting that he wanted to give every person who had a general problem a chance to air it for the benefit of all and he was taken at his word Dr Mark Smith Bibb County School Superintendent welcomed the counselors to Macon and said he could see where some of the best school people in the state have gone After Dr M D Collins State School Superintendent and Executive Officer of the Division had stated his confi dence that the staff could find ways to overcome lessened employment opportunities the general talk began Alfred L Davis Assistant Director in Charge of Field Operations presided during discussion of better case work A P Jarrell Assistant Director in Charge of Technical Services was chairman during the period devoted to physical restoration and other subjects under his charge Terry C Foster Assistant Regional Representative out lined methods of improving case work and assigned actual cases for evaluation during the evenings Dr Thomas B McKneely Assistant Medical Officer from the Washington office advised the workers on interpretation and use of the medical report W B Gaines Supervisor of Services for the Blind reported the expanding operations of his field C B Shroyer Supervisor of Services for the Tuberculous advised on proper handling of persons with arrested tuber culosis In addition Charles R Clegg director of the North Georgia Vocational School told how better results might be obtained with clients sent there and M E Thompson State Revenue Commissioner paid a call to say that Rehab ilitation must live up to its responsibilities as a favored child in a favored family among state organizations Mr Clegg and Mr Thompson happened not to be present when the picture was made but the others are all there if you can find them Robert Ellenberg industrial specialist for the blind in the Savannah office and Harry Delaney industrial specialist in Augusta had the hard luck to be behind people Mr Ellenbergs shoulders may be discerned behind Dr Collins and part of Mr Delaneys face shows behind that of Ted R Owens supervisor in the Columbus office J H Chappell industrial specialist from the Wash ington office is behind Miss Bess Patterson survey inter viewer Mr Chappell gave the staff effective advice on dealing with the blind For readers not familiar with the faces on the front row they are Mr Barrett Dr Collins Dr Smith Dr McKneely Mr Foster and Mr DavisBlinded Starts Own BusinessShot in the face by a lawbreaker who was resisting arrest William Carter Coggin Waycross policeman was totally blinded in April 1944 He began receiving a pension from the city but it was inadequate to support his wife and two children and he needed surgical attention Vocational Rehabilitation sent him to a hospital where the remaining globes which caused him much pain were taken out and shot removed from his jaw and other parts of his face Artificial eyes were purchased for him With Rehabilitation guidance he set up a business of his own making cement blocks500 per day at a profit of 3 cents per block so that his earnings are substantial A Steady Worker is Remo Box of Waycross who is employed as a loader by Snively Groves manufacturers of wirebound crates Mr Box was unemployed when his case came to the attention of Voca tional Rehabilitation in 1943 He had cataracts his right eye had been removed and he had very little sight in his left eye He had been on WPA Rehabilitation placed him with Snively Groves where he is still employed earning a comfortable wage for himself his wife and three children Shown with the client is the plants foreman Doris Crosby Watch Repairing is an occupation in which Ernest Cantrell of Talking Rock Ga does not feel his handicapa heart weakened by rheumatic fever He was a farmer when the disease at tacked him in 1940 Afterwards he could not do heavy work Rehabilitation subsidized his training with Hobson Brothers Cartersville jewel ers paid his board while he was learning and bought necessary tools He is now em ployed by Charles R Campbell jeweler and optometrist 225 Marietta Street N W Atlanta He is doing well Mr Campbell wrote the Division His family are located in Atlanta with him he has steady employ ment and I am sure he would be hard to replace for my needs A Growing Concern is Floyds Refrigera tion Service 515 East Broughton Street Savannah operated and owned by L B Floyd a rehabilitant who is lame as a result of infantile paralysis Mr Floyd was trained in Atlanta where his maintenance was paid for through Vocational Rehabilitation in 1935 Since then he has developed his work in Savan nah to a point at which he is employing others including new clients of the Rehab ilitation Division Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education Atlanta Vending Stand Restores EarningOtha G Cooper 41 of Flowery Branch had a good income as an accountant in 1929 With two years at Georgia Tech and business college training he held a responsible position Then he developed cataracts on both eyes and by 1934 was totally blind In addition to that he developed chronic arthritis to such an extent that he was barely able to move His handicaps were such that he was unemployed until the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation made a survey of his case in the fall of 1944 He had a wife and a 11year old son and had been living part of the time with his father at Flowery Branch He was trained at the training stand for enterprises sponsored by the Georgia Cooperative Services for the Blind and the Division at the Fourth Service Command Records Depot 34 Elliott Street S W Atlanta and began business at a stand in the Hall County Court House Gaines ville in November 1945 Now he is economically independent again netting more than 25 a week and just getting started in a business which promises to grow Like all Vocational Rehabilita tions successful placements it is a job in which his two disabilitiesblindness and arthritic stiffnessare of com paratively little significance Yet at one time Mr Cooper was regarded as unemployable His wife and son live in Gainesville with him and his future once gloomy is bright Shown making a purchase at the Gainesville stand is Miss Evelyn Smith secretary to the Clerk of CourtI II No 7 April 1946 DKg 6GOrcoJNocofcoYvoCV ekabilitatiorv jVews Vj fllir li Tirf f 8 ii r ise Work Wf His Fear if 1 UNIVEBSITY OF 0H What They Can Do We Can Too jfOptical Work was the objective chosen by James Pressey above of Rocky Ford despite or perhaps because of his handicap of very weak eyes He also had a disability of back and chest which made him incapable of doing any kind of heavy work Sticking steady to his training pro gram sponsored by Vocational Rehabilitation with the American Optical Company 109 Drayton Street Savannah Mr Pressey became an expert lens grinder and laboratory worker and has been promoted to more technical positions He has been with the same firm since December 1942 and has encouraged other rehabilitants Right Arm and Left Leg Crippled by osteomylitis John H Blair above of Rockmart reared on a farm and with out other training refused to be stopped Vocational Rehabilitation sent him to a specialist for operations to relieve his condition and then when he had recovered to the Alabama School of Trades Gadsden His physical abil ities steadily improved although he had to return to a hospital for further treatment with penicillin After a short period of employment in Mobile he got a permanent job with the Southeastern Band Instrument Company 307 Peachtree Street N E Atlanta Proficient at a New Trade is Roy G Mitchell below who was a bench mechanic at the Bell Bomber Plant Mari etta during the war His left hip and leg had been stiff since the age of 12 and the handicap did not allow him opportunity beyond work in a grocery store as a youth He had an operation in 1940 and will probably have another Meantime Vocational Rehabilitation has arranged watch repair training with A G Moser Son 63 Forsyth Street N W Atlanta and Mr Mitchell has begun to earn a living in his new craft He has made rapid progress and the quality of his work is excellent Mr Moser reports Blind in Both Eyes with light perception only William Hardy Thrift below of Waycross nevertheless holds down a good job with Rubin Brothers Footwear Inc pull ing shoe lasts Before Vocational Rehabilitation found him in 1944 he had not worked since going blind in 1937 He had a wife and two children and his situation was des perate Placed in training with Rubin Brothers in the fall of 1944 he has learned his job so well that on the last con tact by a counselor the plant foreman said that two men who had been working with Mr Thrift had been trans ferred because of his ability to do the work of all three Ackabilitatiori Mxvs Published monthly by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Dr M D Collins State Superintendent of Schools Paul S Barrett Director Division of Vocational Rehabilitation DISTRICT OFFICES Atlanta134 State Office Bldg Albany21314 Royal Bldg Athens Hardman Hall University Augusta607 Southern Finance Bldg BrunswickAndrews Bldg Columbus411 Flowers Bldg Dublin401 C S Bank Bldg Gainesville414 Jackson Bldg Macon406 Bankers Ins Bldg RomeRoom 29 Court House Savannah2 East Bay Street Waycross432 Bunn Bldg Better Case Work This Year Rehabilitation supervisors and counselors did not have too much trouble getting physically handi capped people jobs jfek during the war Hj tJ War plants and in HHHk m stallations were Dr Collins booming right and left crying for help Often we admit people with disabilities were placed without too much attention to proper training and other preparation That was because of the urgent need for labor Now some of these rehabilitants are being given more detailed medical at tention and training in order that they may fit better into peacetime business and industry And rehabilitation work ers realize that they face vastly differ ent conditions of placement Despite war plants closing right and left however this Division marked up 905 closed rehabilitated cases be tween July 1 1945 and January 1 1946 as compared to 1052 in the simi lar period of the previous year Of the 905 39 were blind persons while in the last six months of 1944 only 22 blind cases were rehabilitated By April 1 this year approximately 1200 cases had been rehabilitated Every physically handicapped per son in Georgia must receive better guidance and must be helped to make the most of training facilities open to him if the state is to continue its out standing role in the national rehabilita tion program M D Collins ing Their Handicaps The extent to which men may rise on stepping stones of physical handicaps to higher things is impressively illus trated by case histories cited by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation of the State Department of Education which is holding a clinic at the Munici pal auditorium in Macon today Feb ruary 20 This division of the Department of Education has made a special appeal to all those who may have lost an arm or a leg who are blind or suffer from poor eyesight or indeed labor under any other disability to come to this clinic today between 10 am and 5 pm in order that they may register to be placed in training It would be gratifying in the highest degree if persons thus handicapped could be equipped so as to face the battle of life with renewed hope and confidence but the evidence goes to show that actually some of the handi capped persons who have had voca tional training actually have acquired a higher skill and a larger earning power than they enjoyed before they sustained a disability The statement by the Vocational Rehabilitation Division gives an in stance where the loss of a leg proved an opportunity rather than a tragedy to a man living in one of the cities of Middle Georgia The leg was ampu tated when injured by a falling tree Until that time his employment had been uncertain The division helped in the purchase of an artificial limb and in shoe repair training Getting selfconfidence proved to be harder to this amputee than any thing else We are told that for a year he could scarcely believe that he was proficient at a profitable trade Then in March of last year he re sumed work in the shop where he had been trained After a few weeks the shop was turned over to him and he now does all the work He is on the job constantly and has a good patron age which the division quite properly thinks is a fine example of rehabilita tion Without entering into details we may say that another case history is given of deaf mutes who have become expert mechanics and now have steady employment It is one of the notable achievements of this postwar period that already many miracles of rehabilitation have been performed This is not only in the field of physical training and equip ment but in the psychological attitude which is developed in the minds of these handicapped persons The Division of Vocational Rehabili tation of the State Department of Edu cation is to be congratulated on the fine work it is doing and particularly on the manner in which it is going out to seek those who may be induced to take advantage of this training The Macon Telegraph From a Chance encounter on a Way cross street with Counselor C W Bell John Western Grant above has been rehabilitated and restored to useful ness in his trade shoe repairing He was on crutches and was having a hard time making ends meet for his wife and four children The Division helped him buy a new modern appliance and he now earns 30 weekly at the Cham pion Shoe Shop in Waycross Auto Mechanic Johnnie Ward Hesters of Southwell Motor Company in Valdosta was badly burned in an automobile accident in 1943 His left leg would not heal and a con siderable area of bone was exposed below the knee He had been farming with his parents at Lake Park but his dis ability sharply limited the tasks he could perform as a farmer Vocational Rehabilitation sent him to a specialist in Valdosta for surgery to facilitate healing and later to an orthopedist for a second operation in Atlanta The leg began to heal Soon his handicap had improved enough for him to begin work in the garage After nine months in the position in June 1945 the injury was completely healed and Mr Hesters was considered rehabilitated into employment A Cataract Removed from his right eye so improved the sight of C C Cofield of Valdosta that he was able to resume work Vocational Rehabilitation paid for the operation and hospitalization Mr Cofield had been a pump operator a fireman and a filling station worker until his sight became too weak With a wife and a son his prospects were dark The operation improved his sight greatly but he was advised to do indoor work away from sunlight and he started a small grocery At first his wife had to do much of the work but soon Mr Cofield could see well enough to do most of the work himself With Vocational Rehabilitation aid he has been restored to economic usefulness Blind in Both Eyes since birth Aaron Days of 536 Charl ton Street East Savannah nevertheless earns a comfortable living and helps supports members of his family He loads coal for E B Izler left of the Izler Coal Yard 663 East Liberty Street and Mr Izler says that Aarons job is perma nent Vocational Rehabilitation made sure before placing the client on this job that his disability stood little chance of being corrected through medicine or surgery An exam ining specialist said that there was practically no chance of improvement by an operation or treatment and Aaron him self said that he did not want an operation So he was glad to be placed on a job which he can perform in spite of his handicap and is proving a good workerBefore and After OperationWhen his case came to the attention of Vocational Rehabilitation W 0 Lambert of Albany was found to be in extreme pain drawn over and unable to straighten his back There was a wife and a child to support and Mr Lambert was trying to work despite his physical handicap He was sent to Atlanta for an operation to relieve the pinching of a nerve in his backbone The operation was com pletely successful His back is now normal and he is happv at his work at the Durham Iron Works in Albany After 13 Years as janitor at one of the Albany city schools William Man uel Dukes faithful and highly regarded by all who knew him was about to lose his job because of a foot disability He was no longer able to do the work He was sent to Atlanta for diagnosis by a specialist An Albany physician treated the client keeping him in a hospital for a month The difficulty was cleared up and William is back on the job supporting his family Without Vocational Rehabilitation aid he would have been out of a job with no means of support Now he can stay on the job he loves 1 1 m verconaes Sill in BY HENRY EUGENE OTT I was a Junior in Rome High School when I lost my right hand in a hunting accident I was so grieved at this loss that I didnt care what happened I wanted to quit school but my parents insisted that I return to school This I did until graduation After I had graduated I was running around in circles undecided as to what I wanted to do until I contacted Mr Donaldson at the Rome office of Voca tional Rehabilitation at the suggestion of H C Brewer city school superin tendent From here I was sent to the TVA School of Welding in Atlanta for a two months course in acetylene welding In order to do this welding I was given a hook for use on my right arm This hook suited the purpose to such an extent that after I received my diploma from the welding school I was capable of doing any type of weld ing that the school required In December 1942 I accepted a job at Taylorcraft Aviation Corporation as a welder I stayed with this job until July of 1943 when I left to join the United States Maritime Service I had always wanted to get in some branch of service since there was a war and all my friends were already in the service I was very fortunate because I had been corresponding with Washington and was given a waiver on my right hand by Admiral Land who was the head of the War Shipping Administra tion I was enrolled in the United States Maritime Service in Cleveland Ohio and assigned to the Baltimore Graduate Station as a Master of Arms with the rating of SM 2c My job consisted of quite a few responsibilities which were handling men assigning men to patrol our station and pier as guards tying up three training ships also to see that the station and pier were secure at all times We were operating a shipping poolby this I mean we kept at all times men on hand sufficient to man any and all outgoing ships The greatest service rendered to me by the Division of Vocational Rehabili tation was the establishing of confi dence in myself and assisting me in getting training which qualified me for my first job For these services I shall forever be grateful I am now seriously considering the possibilities of going to college and studying law Note by Mr Donaldson Mr Ott is still with the Merchant Marine and has saved quite a bit of money Aptitude Tests determined that Elmo Forrest Vaughn who had been re ferred to Vocational Rehabilitation by the Albany Kiwanis Club would make a good watchmaker When his case first was considered he was still in school and was advised of services which might be rendered him later After completing the ninth grade he came to the Albany office of Re habilitation and asked that he be given some type of training suitable to his disability according to F E Wynn counselor Mr Vaughn was trained by the B S Jewelry Company in Columbus for the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation wrote Mr Wynn and after he had had about five months of training Crawford Jewelry Com pany of LaGrange hired him He still had a month or so left in his train ing period but he had progressed so rapidly that Crawford Jewelry turned their watch repair work over to him Some months later while on a visit home he was approached by Savelle Jewelry Company Albany with the offer of a job He has been with this Albany firm now several months doing excellent work Savelle Jewelry Company is proud to have him in the organization This is the story of a boy who was struck down with infantile paralysis in 1924 This is a boy whose left leg is 2 inches shorter than his right This is a boy who has both legs affected as the result of infantile paralysis This is a boy who walks with two canes and whose future was dark indeed until he was touched by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation This is a boy who dreamed of a future life filled with idleness and dependence on others This is a boy who without the help of the Division of Vocational Rehabilita tion would probably never have been able to earn his living Today he is happily at work on a good paying job on his own He is happy and cheerful with the outlook of a life full of usefulness This boy is very happy and appreciative of the services which have been rendered to him by Vocational Rehabilitation Vending Stand in Rome Post Office One of the successful new vending stands operated by the blind in Georgia is shown at right Charlie Jim Hurst the operator is being congratulated on the success of his business by Post master W E Wimberly Mrs Mary Camp left and Miss Dorothy King Mrs Camp and Miss King are Voca tional Rehabilitation employees in the Rome office Mr Hurst has been totally blind since childhood The stand was opened February 5 and is grossing 130 a week affording Mr Hurst a living and contributing to expansion of the vending stand projects which are sponsored by the Georgia Cooperative Services for the Blind Window Display in AugustaThis effective exhibit was arranged by Miss Camilla Danforth of the Augusta Richmond Tuberculosis Association in a window of the Georgia Power Com pany calling attention to a Rehabilita tion clinic recently held there Persons with arrested tuberculosis as well as others with various physical disabilities were given an opportunity to discuss job training with counselors Many learned that they were doing work un suitable for their handicaps or were not employed to the full extent of their abilities Plans were made for readjust ment and onthejob training sponsored by Vocational Rehabilitation If You Know a Person with a Physical Handicap Fill In and Cut Out This Form and Mail It to Us Anyone 16 over white or Negro is eligible Na Address Disability Reported by dd ress Division of Vocational Rehabilitation 131 State Office Bldg Atlanta GaDivision of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education Atlanta brunts Out FisHin Rehabilitation file are J g anTcddent T that of Carlton Kaegler better known to Albany restdents as 01 Crip He los h eg tnere i j TV wiaalprs i ies mo wieelesome and the pond worms is all There are two kindswigglers and pond worms The wiggjers isj mo wigg F hag got red heads Wigglers are found a most any where around jSing trips Before Rehabilita ted up or become low enough for grunting out Cariton uses a truck on g P SSSS s S pleS his income by selling lightwoodVol II No 8 OYvc GcovqOvocoisAcmcvV ckabUitatiotv Aews 1M GFM FEE try of ATLANTA GA in I Jm JBF 1 s f r Without These the E light Not Walk Nor the Poor Nor the Handless sighted See Nor the NearDeaf Hear Nor the Ruptured Move Freely in Their Tasks Handicapped Take Training Better By Mrs Florence Pearce During the three years that I have been superintendent of the Fort Ben ning Branch Charlotte Quartermaster Repair Shop we have had employed at one time or another approximately 100 persons vviih physical handicaps The maximum at any one time was about 30 and we now have 21 Some of these 21 persons have very serious handicapssome wearing arti ficial limbs and some who can work only in sitting positions Their attendance records on the whole are better than attendance rec ords for nonhandicapped people Their production is not any better than the average but it is certainly not inferior They show a great deal of interest in their work and I think I may say that generally they seem to have a greater incentive to make good than do people who are not handicapped Something that is very important to us in this repair work is that the handi capped people take training exception ally well They pay more attention to instruction Deaf mutes particularly benefit by their ability to concentrate We repair Army clothing which is shipped in to Charlotte from all over the country Formerly the shop was a purely Fourth Service Command activ ity but it is no longer confined to the Service Command We repair 25000 garments a week and without the fine work done by all our personnel and especially the rehab ilitants we might not be able to keep up with the constant flood of clothing in need of repair High Regard of Physically Handicapped workers held by Mrs Pearce superintendent of the big clothing repair shop at Fort Benning is proved by the interest she takes in her rehabilitation cases Mrs Pearce is shown in picture at upper left with Mrs Lila M Walls a client whose training was sponsored by Vocational Rehabilitation checking incoming garments to be repaired All the workers in the picture at upper right are rehabilitation clients All have or had occupational handicaps First row front to rearMrs Irene Payne Miss Nelie Kilcrease Mrs Mattie Claspel Miss Helen Layfield and Mrs Willie Mae Payne second rowMrs Martha Burgmany Miss Adelia M Hodge Mrs Gladys McChargue Mrs Lila M Walls Mrs Susie A Skinner and Mrs Mattie P Watson The two Negro workers Clarence Willis and Virgel Dunlap are likewise rehabilitants Standing are Miss Sarah Evans a client who acts as senior seams tress and Mrs Pearce The camera could not bring within focus a number of other rehabilitants at the rear of this part of the big shop Below is a picture of another section where handicapped workers compete with the nonhandicapped on the basis related by Mrs Pearce in the short article at left Rehabilitants are not customarily grouped together as they were for the picture at upper right but may be found in every phase of shop work Piano Tuner with a bright future after Vocational Rehabilitation sponsored training is Cecil Elmore formerly of Pembroke now employed by the Brunswick Music Company He is shown left tuning a piano in the First Methodist Church of Brunswick with Placement Agent R D Ellenberg of the Savannah rehabilitation office looking on Mr Elmore began work within 15 minutes after arriving in Brunswick and subsequently had more calls for work than he could fill He is a graduate of the Georgia Academy for the Blind at Macon and has been blind since birth Dislocated Hip and Fractured Pelvis the results of an automobile accident brought seeming disaster to James S Folsom of Glennville Tattnall County He had been working in a shipyard but was unable to return to his job because of the disability He was unem ployed when Vocational Rehabilitation found him He was sent to the North Georgia Voca tional School for a six months course in refrigeration and obtained employment in Savannah immediately afterward He now works for Floyds Refrigeration Service 515 East Broughton Street Savannah L B Floyd the proprietor who had infantile paralysis himself was rehabilitated in 1935 with the Division paying for his maintenance while in training toss of His Right Arm in a cotton gin accident has not stopped Ira Vickers of Waycross from earning a comfortable place in business and supporting his family Placed with the Independent Life and Accident Insurance Company in Waycross with the aid of Vocational Rehabilitation early in 1945 Mr Vickers has made an outstanding record on a debit which was 140 when he started according to J M Harrison office manager He keeps the neatest set of books of any of our 15 agents and has an allaround record equal to anyone in our territory We would like to have 10 more like him Going Blind in 1943 with a wife and three children to support did not stop Clark Williams of Waycross He had it pretty hard for a while of course His wife did housework Rehabilitation Counselor C W Bell tried Clark on two jobs the first of which would have been satisfactory if the plant had not closed and on the second Clark could not do the work Then Mr Bell thought of trying Clark in a fish market as a sealer and cleaner and the Division paid for the training Clark Williams was rehabilitated into substantial employment He is shown above with P L Jones at the Jones Market 858V2 Tebeau Street Rehabilitaiits Learn Trades At Clarkesville Of 1151 students who have at one time or another enrolled for courses in the North Georgia Voca tional School at Clarkesville since Georgia took over the plant from federal agencies in February 1944 342 students were clients of the Division of Voca tional Rehabilitation according to Charles R Clegg director of the school Current enrollment far from having slumped with war industries shutdown is at the highest point yet reachednearly 300 and rehabilitation clients continue to constitute a large proportion of the total number of trainees Mr Clegg declared He credits Vocational Rehabilitation with being in large measure responsible for the success of this first and only stateoperated vocational institution Because of the schools importance to Georgias rehabilitation program the Rehabilitation News herewith presents pictures of a few of the activities at Clarkesville The buildings themselves in the beautiful setting of Habersham County mountains have all the nostalgic charm of a traditional campus but they house the most modern equipment to train students for what will be the more remunerative occupations of the next decade At upper left is a scene in the radio shop The course includes complete training in repair and oper ation of home sets and repair and operation of re ceiving and transmitting equipment Complete transmitting facilities are available Third from left in the picture in sleeveless sweater is William C Russell of Dawson who was sent to specialists for treatment of a physical disability before enroll ing Sixth from left is Ralph Queen of Clayton who lost his left eye in an accident Upon com pleting the course sponsored by Vocational Rehabili tation a job as radio repairman was obtained for Mr Queen in Toccoa Third from right with face obscured is William Justice of East Point Mr Justice is an arrested tubercular whose disability was discovered at an induction station After hos pitalization and the Clarkesville course he became an assistant instructor there Instructor George A Nellis is shown in dark coat at rear of room A corner of the shoe repair shop is shown at mid dle left Weldon Gilleland seated extreme left is from New Holland He had paralysis Jesse Sim mons of Royston second from left who lost his right leg from blood poisoning was placed with J R Morgan Shoe Harness Shop Lavonia after training Charles Manning of Berlin Ga thirdfrom right back to camera had disabilities from old fractures and poor eyesight Rehabilitation along with other aid helped set him up in his own shop At extreme right is E E Macon of Colum bus whose handicaps were poor hearing and a speech impediment He was placed at the Cumbaa Shoe Shop Columbus Instructor Howard Burrell is shown at right center In the scene in the auto mechanics shop at lower left Instructor Frank Deaton is demonstrating work to two students one of whom behind engine and chain is Alfred Ellenburg of Tiger Ga who was provided a leg brace After training he was em ployed by Crowe Auto Body Works Griffin In right foreground is Nolan Zorn of Sycamore who had asthma The picture on the upper righthand page is in the watch repair shop Supervisor J H Autry left is instructing Roscoe Hartley of Buford in use of a lathe Arrested tuberculosis did not prevent him from becoming a repairman for Richs in Atlanta At center is Burton Brooks of Atlanta who also was placed at Richs in watch repair for which his hip disability is no handicap The youngster at right is Edward Huskey a rehabilitation client from South Carolina A library scene is shown at middle right Re habilitation clients include Ernest Collins of Lyons extreme left Ralph Queen who is also shown in the radio shop picture and is here seated second from left William C Russell of Dawson in foreground at table James Reece of Calhoun left standing at rear and Lonnie Gates of Varnell middle at rear Refreshment time at the school canteen lower right finds on hand clients Henry Holmes of Woodland George Arnold of Lexington Eugene Clark of Manchester and Billy Shackelford of Augusta in the order named fifth man not iden tified Behind the counter is Oliver U Meeks of Douglas a blind client learning to operate a vend ing stand In the picture below blind clients are shown learning mechanical manipulations in the prevoca tional program under the direction of Miss Inez Vinson instructor 250 jrarm Security cAdminiztration family Member Receive Vocational Rehabilitation By R L Vansant Georgia Director FSA In working with FSA farm families we find that maximum production de pends on good health To attain a good liveathome program and at the same time repay loans which these families have obtained through the Farm Secur ity Administration every family must be physically fit It has been found that poor health or physical handicaps are the factors that quite often retard re habilitation among these farm families It has been interesting to note the rapid progress that a family can make in the farming enterprise after a handi capped member has been physically re habilitated In the state of Georgia 250 FSA family members have received aid through the Vocational Rehabilitation Program which means that now these people are or will be prepared to resume their regular full time farm and home work In those cases where they will no longer be able to do farm and home work they are being placed in suitable employment and are thus becoming selfsupporting independent tax paying citizens I would like to tell you how the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation has helped one FSA borrower Jake P Hutcheson of Odum Georgia Route No 1 Jake is very deaf He is a strong healthy man age fiftyfour with a large family Through cooperation with FSAs supervisory program working with Jake has been an ordeal for us and for him because of this deafness Any conversation required sign language or shouting Since he cant read very much this deafness almost isolated Jake from new ideas and from learning better methods of farming and farm management In business transactions such as buying mules and fertil izer he has been at a disadvantage Such farm jobs as driving a truck minding the tobacco barn and tending stock have been somewhat unsafe for him alone Last October we referred Jake to the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation and he attended a clinic held in Baxley After a specialists examination and prescrip tion the Division provided him with a hearing aid Recently we visited Jakes farm He met us at the gate wearing the hearing aid We walked over the place discussing matters at hand in an ordinary tone of voice That deaf look was gone but his wife still does a bit of his talking for him Now he can tell you about his own business she said You know he can hear Why he can hear the hogs crackin corn First thing a morning hes a listenin to the farm program on the radio He never could hear the radio before but now he sticks to it like a dog to a raw hide Both Jake and his wife are grateful that not only can he talk and learn about his business but now he is doing such jobs as his own truck driving It is safer for him to mind the stock and he will cure his own tobacco this year If the barn catches fire he can hear it If his boy goes to the Army he believes he can run a tractor A hearing aid that suits him is a big thing for Jake and his folks siting ses Georgia Program Warm commendation of the Voca tional Rehabilitation program in Geor gia was voiced by Joseph Hunt chief of the Administrative Standards Di vision Office of Vocational Rehabilita tion Federal Security Agency follow ing a recent tour of district offices in the state It was the most thorough examina tion of any state program he had been extended the courtesy of making he said He emphasized that his visit was in no way an inspection since rehab ilitation is administered by the State Board for Vocational Education and the State Superintendent of Schools as Executive Officer I was particularly impressed with the leadership of the rehabilitation program in Georgia Mr Hunt de clared I dont know any of the mens backgrounds and have made no effort to study their individual records but there is a zealousness in administering rehabilitation which if continued will mean a great deal for the handicapped people in this state We want to reach everyone who may be benefited by our services In the small towns along the highways and in the rural sections there are un doubtedly many handicapped persons who could become assets to their com munities through the services of Voca tional Rehabilitation and who are not now being reached in spite of all you are doing We want to help those peo ple both because of the humanitarian nature of the program and because it is economically sound for the state and federal government to make producers of us all You rehabilitation workers seem to be conducting the program along sound business lines and that is what we want you to do Operate as you would if you were in your own business with your own capital bearing in mind that your capital is adequate for wise investments in the states human resources I am grateful for the privilege of looking in on the Georgia program at the invitation of Paul S Barrett your State DirectorOYvc 6corcvo3ocoivorvo c Kabi Litatioa Mws Published monthly by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Dr M D Collins State Superintendent of Schools Paul S Barrett Director Division of Vocational Rehabilitation 131 State Office Building ATLANTA DISTRICT Atlanta305 Peachtree St N E Gainesville414 Jackson Bldg RomeRoom 29 Court House AUGUSTA DISTRICT Augusta 607 Southern Finance Bldg AthensHardman Hall University Dublin401 C S Bank Bldg SAVANNAH DISTRICT Savannah2 East Bay Street BrunswickAndrews Bldg VVaycross432 Bunn Bldg MACON DISTRICT Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg Columbus411 Flowers Bldg Albany213 Royal Bldg Wont Work Of the some 35000 different kinds of jobs in this country most of which are defined in the Dictionary of Occupations at least 2000 can be filled by handicapped men and women said a recent issue of Colliers We were interested as to the source of this information We assumed the statement re ferred to the Dictionary of Occupational Titles published by the United States Depart ment of Labor and widely used in Vocational Rehabilitation We wrote to Colliers and asked It did Colliers suggested that elab oration might be had from the source We wrote to the source in Washington We received an answer from Philip S Van Wyck chief of the Occupational Analysis and In dustrial Services Division of the Department of Labor Said Mr Van Wyck The Division of Occupational Analysis and Industrial Services does not advocate the establishment of lists of occupations consid ered suitable for handicapped workers In stead we prefer to consider each handicap ped individual separately in the light of his remaining physical capacities Thus one blind person may be proficient in Braille highly educated and trained to travel without companionship while another is illiterate and helpless without a guide Obviously or so it seems to me no list of Jobs for the Blind can do justice to the occupa tional qualifications of both although their physical handicap is identical That is exactly the experience of Vocational Rehabilitation Similarly Mr Van Wyck continued there are onearmed men who use highly specialized prosthetic devices with great skill others who work with no restoration those with robust constitutions and others who are frail some blessed with great selfconfidence and determination and others who shrink from all demanding activities Under the circumstances Mr Van Wyck concluded I should prefer to say that the Division of Occupational Analysis and Industrial Services believes that far more than 2000 occupations are suitable for some handicapped individuals and that every job should be con sidered suitable for every handicapped man or woman until an examination of its physical demands and the physical capacities of the applicant show differently Conversely of course we hold that no job can be considered absolutely suitable for a given handicapped person until his remaining capacities have been found adequate to meet the physical demands of that job That is exactly the experience of Vocational Rehabilitation in Georgia That is why Vocational Rehabilitation existsto appraise counsel guide restore or train for suitable occu pation It is not what a person has lost that counts Its what he has M D Collins i If You Know a Person with a Disability Fill In and Cut Out This Form and Mail It to Us Anyone 16 or over white or Negro is eligible NameAddress Disability Reported by Address Division of Vocational Rehabilitation 131 State Office Bldg Atlanta GaDivision of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education Atlanta Finds Himself As Vending Stand OperatorArchie Dean Wilson formerly of McRae and a graduate of the Georgia Academy for the Blind at the age of 31 has finally found an occupation which is completely satisfactory to himself his family friends and his bank account He has been blind since birth Operator of the stand at the Walker Electrical Company 1590 Northside Drive N W he nets an average of more than 40 weekly During two consecutive fourweek periods he netted more than 190 for each period The stand is supervised by Vocational Rehabilitation and sponsored by the Georgia Cooperative Services for the Blind It was opened August 8 1945 Previously Mr Wilson had gone from jobs as a machinist operating a punch press to making wire coathangers and tuning pianos His machinist job folded up with the wars end he was not satisfied making coathangers and he lost his job as a pianotuner through no fault of his own he lost his ability to hear very high tones From the beginning he was successful and satisfactory to himself to Vocational Rehabilitation the Cooperative Services to his family and friends as a vending stand operator The vending stand enterprises operated by the blind are being increased in Georgia Left to right in the picture Mrs Edna Elzey and Signon G Pass plant employes Mr Wilson and Mrs Lucile Helms plant nursefol II No 9 v r 1 June 1946 Mabilitatiorv Mws Sto tte a Rehabilitation Client Byron Herbert Reece Author of the BestSelling Ballad of the Bones See Page 7 W Left to right Rehabilitation clients J M Snellgrove and William Jolly J F Brown proprietor and client Wilson Olive Columbus Shop Trains Handicapped in Seven clients of the Division of Vocational Re habilitation have been trained in watch repair at the B S Jewelry Company 1724 Hamilton Avenue Columbus All bettered their stations in life despite disabilities which until they were trained had kept them in the doubtful class as citi zens In the following article the proprietor of the shop J F Brown tells of his experiences with the handicapped By J F Brown My first experience with a handicapped person was with a friend of mine a Floridian I wanted him to learn the watch repair trade at my expense He was with me for several months He left to take a higher paying job in Macon was there until the war started and then moved back to his home town He is a proud man today that he knows the business and is still making a success Next I had a client of the Division of Vocational Re habilitation from Tallahassee Fla I gave him advanced training since he already had had some experience He was on crutches I helped him get room and board here in Columbus and saw that he had transportation to and from work For a while he went to another Columbus shop but returned to the B S Today he has his own business in Florida Next there was a nephew of mine He left for a job in Macon repairing instruments for the government Today he has a nice business of his own Since then for the past three years I have helped train Vocational Rehabilitation clients all physically handicapped One boy who is on crutches and who will be for the rest of his life because his trouble cannot be corrected is still in my shop I am sure he would not trade his experience for anything He has something that will be a trade and a job as long as he lives and is able to work We had another boy from Albany who took training and left here for a job at 50 a week and I understand he is now in his home town working at the same trade and is making 100 weekly A Columbus man sent to us by the Division finished his training entered business for himself and is now a promi nent member of his community One person with a very serious disability was employed here for several months but became too ill to work at all and is now in bed When he is able to be out again he has a job here we want him back to work If he should choose not to come back here to work I can certainly recommend him to any other employer because like most handicapped people he is earnest and has plenty of determination We now have only two rehabilitation clients One will soon be finished with his training I think he is swell because he is taking jobs and closing them complete I certainly do advise anyone man or woman who is handicapped but who nevertheless is ambitious and willing and wants to do something to get in touch with the nearest Vocational Rehabilitation office at once And I advise em ployers who can hire or train handicapped people to do so because they earn every inch of their way and there is no estimating the satisfaction an employer gets in seeing some one he trained doing wella i TRAINED AT SARANAG LAKE N Y in photofluorographic work as an Xray technician under the sponsorship of Vocational Rehabilitation Miss Bonnie Lou Allen is employed at the State Tuberculosis Sana torium Alto She is shown above on the job at Alto A former patient there she was sent north for the course given by the Saranac Lake Study Craft Guild Upon her return Vocational Rehabilitation sent Miss Allen to Florida for six additional weeks training on the road IN ARMATURE AND MOTOR REPAIR training at the Valley Armature Works 1321 Webster Avenue Columbus is Marion G Hendrix crippled in childhood by infantile paralysis Vocational Rehabilitation is paying for his maintenance as well as for his training In this work Mr Hendrix does not feel his handicap to a great extent since it requires little walking Previously he had been employed in a cotton mill and as a filling station attendant WARPING MACHINE OPER ATOR in Gainesville Mill is John Sylvia Hill Leaders in his heels were drawn as a result of burns in child hood possibly complicated by infantile paralysis Mr Hill has a wife and son and his work as a warper required the use of his right foot the worse affected Vocational Rehabilitation sent him to an Atlanta hospital where an operation was performed He was enabled to re turn to his job in the mill in better con dition and his earnings immediately in creased by more than a third ia Is Outstanding By Paul W Chapman Dean College of Agriculture University of Georgia The growth of the Georgia Divi sion of Vocational Reh abi li t a tion and its leadership in the United States in this phase of practical training is one of Georgias most outstanding educational achievements Those in charge of this program are to be congratulated they deserve the praise and commendation of the citizens of Georgia My first realization of the present scope of the program came with the privilege of attending the twentyfifth anniversary meeting held at the Bilt more Hotel last year It was an eye opener The praise of Georgias work bv the national chief of Vocational Re habilitation was richly deserved Perhaps as much as anyone in Geor gia I can see and appreciate the strides that have been made since Civilian Rehabilitation was started I was close ly associated with Fort Land the first supervisor I often went with him to interview trainees When he became State School Superintendent I was made director of vocational education for Georgia and was administratively in charge of Vocational Rehabilitation For years we had only three field work ers on the staff and a central office in Atlanta with one secretary In those days of pioneering we rehabilitated few individuals After several years when we finally placed 100 persons in twelve months we thought we had done a big job 1 would like to have the privilege of congratulating Paul Barrett for his leadership He and the members of his staff have helped thousands of people and reflected credit upon the State of Georgia THE BREADWINNER FOR HER FAMILY including two school age children Mrs C R White was able to work only part time because of her urgent need for an operation Vocational Rehabilitation sent her to a hospital and engaged a competent surgeon After correction of her disabilities her earn ings as a breaker for J H Swisher Son cigar makers Valdosta increased substantially REHABILITATION TRAINING GAVE HIM CHANGE to earn hs living J E Cochran of Gainesville has extremely poor vision and the examining physician for Vocational Rehabilitation saw no prospect of improving Mr Cochrans sight by treatment He recommended training in some job not requiring keen sight After seven months apprenticeship the client had a per manent job as a stock clerk at Gainesville MotorsUNABLE TO WALK FOR SIX MONTHS because of varicose veins and an ulcer on her right leg Mrs C P Young of Route 1 Monroe the Mount Vernon community has been physically restored by an operation and skin graft A closeup of the skin graft is shown below A farm house wife Mrs Young was helpless and in bed most of the time before Vocational Rehabilitation sent her to a specialist and then to an Atlanta hospital She was unable to work at all before her stay in the hospital while now the leg has healed perfectly and she is a busy housekeeper and helps her husband in farm chores A CHEST DISABILITY caused by pneumonia in childhood made Calvin C Tate eligible for Vocational Rehabilitation training He had been employed as a laborer an occupation not suitable to his handicap Six months training at the Rome Typewriter Company 3 East Second Avenue and Mr Tate now is an experienced craftsman employed by that firm CRIPPLED FARM WORK WAS TOO HEAVY for Miss Clara Bell Gilmore Route 1 Coosa Ga and she was anxious to obtain training in a job she could do well She came from a large family Vocational Rehabilitation agreed to pay part of the cost of her training at the DeLuxe Chenille Company 601 Shorter Avenue Rome and her employer now regards her as one of his best producersBy VOYLE C SCURLOCK Director of Vocational Rehabilitation in Oklahoma and President of the National Rehabilitation Association In a nation that is still warconscious it is natural to associate the disabled with the war and rehabilitation with men injured in combat Although few as yet there are an in creasing number of persons who realize that there are hun dreds of thousands of persons who are cas ualties of war who have never seen mili tary service as well as hundreds of thousands of other disabled civil ians also in need of rehabilitation There is a growing realization that the problem of re habilitating our disabled civilians is one that far outweighs that of our disabled veterans in magnitude So great was the toll from industrial accidents during the war period that it has been authoritatively stated that the home front was far more costly to life and limb than the battle front This army of disabled civilians added to the number disabled prior to the war plus the number that may be expected to become disabled annually from accidents and disease presents a problem that will challenge the best thought and effort of all agencies The one bright spot in this otherwise dark picture is the fact that the public is slowly but surely becoming conscious of the problem and the need for more adequate rehabilitation facilities for the disabled civilian Public Law 113 known as the BardenLaFolIette Act passed by the Congress in 1943 provided for more adequate rehabilitation services for the disabled including increased federal financial participation It is now up to the individual states to take advan tage of this new legislation and to expand their services accord ingly With all of the states the District of Columbia Puerto Rico and Hawaii participating in this grantinaid program much progress has already been made in expansion of rehabilitation services However much remains to be done Some states have been more conscious of the problem than others and quicker to act in expanding and improving their facilities The citizens of Georgia may take pride in the fact that their state is one of the leaders in expansion It has been suggested that this program could operate more effectively if financed and administered entirely by the federal government No doubt many arguments could be advanced for such a change On the other hand the needs of the disabled and the character of the service required involve understanding interest and active program participation on the part of agencies in the local community This fact plus the tendency where the federal government is involved to leave it to the federal agency raises a serious question as to whether federalization would result in improved services Eventually public consciousness will demand that the job be done Therefore the states have the opportunity and the responsibility to meet this challenge Georgia is to be congratulated on its progressiveness and the extent to which all the other states also meet the challenge will determine the type size and effectiveness of the program in the years that will follow NURSES IN STATE TUBERCULOSIS SANATORIUM section for the colored at Alto are rehabilitation clients Eula Mae Edwards and Claudia Mae Jackson above Eula Mae is from Savannah and Claudia Mae from Fort Valley Both formerly had tuberculosis ARTIFICIAL LEG AND COUNSELING keep James Elvin Har ris of Waycross on the job at Snively Groves Vocational Rehabi litation helped him buy the appliance during the war when he worked in a shipyard Laid off he was not working regularly and he had a wife and five children to support The rehabilitation counselor got him a regular job in Waycross and James is proving steadyAekabilMiori ews Published monthly by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Dr M D Collins State Superintendent of Schools Paul S Barrett Director Division of Vocational Rehabilitation 131 State Office Building ATLANTA DISTRICT Atlanta305 Peachtree St N E Gainesville414 Jackson Bldg RomeRoom 29 Court House It isnt often that Vocational Rehabilitation sees a client make such a spectacular success as has Byron Herbert Reece 29 of Route 1 Blairs ville the first house below Lake Traklyta on the way down from Neals Gap Counselor P D Bush of the Gainesville I office looked up young Reece in 1944 after sev IkUpjlS mf eral people in Blairsville mentioned his case Wr M i W Reeci was supporting liis parents his father mw Jll was Mr IkuI i11 lh ra le gte v mSf MliHV cause iif a facial tic Lacking two courses of I graduating from Young Harris College he had tried teaching school but his handicap made that occupation unsuitable He was nervous and frail He says that strenuous farm work is very hard on his nerves but he has to do it to I f keep himself and his parents alive Mr Bush I Bff reported Rehabilitation sent Reece to a doctor who reported anemia in addition to the nervous tic The doctor suggested newspaper training Reece himself preferred that One of his references wrote Courteous dignified consid erate Another replied Reece is a very bright young man He has some unusual talents Still another said Strictly honest in the fine oldfashioned way A plan for training at the Union County Citizen was arranged The manager of that newspaper himself had been aided in getting an education at the University f Florida by the Florida Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Reece was unable to complete his training to the great regret of Rehabilitation He had to return home because he was needed there But what training he had must have done him a lot of good At least Rehabilitation likes to think so He began writing more earnestly than before Ballad of the Bones and Other Poems has attracted nationwide attention something unusual for a thin book of verse Reece is writing another and is also working on a novel AUGUSTA DISTRICT We salute him M D Collins Augusta 607 Southern Finance Bldg AthensHardman Hall University Dublin401 C S Bank Bldg A frQm Thg y ft We have read frequently with great interest of the activities of the Georgia Voca SAVANNAH DISTRICT tional Rehabilitation program It would appear from the articles as well as the remarks made concerning your program that both your thinking in rehabilitation and your Savannah 2 East Bay Street tangible progress have far exceeded that of most of the other states BrunswickAndrews Bldg Sometime in the future it may be possible that in writing articles we might be VVaycross 432 Bunn Bldg able to utilize some of the material you have prepared using your program as an example of how it should be done We are presently receiving your Rehabilitation News but would appreciate your sending any other material you have which would give us a wider MACON DISTRICT background and more detailed information on your activities so that we may be better able to interpret them to the public should the occasion arise Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg xhe letter was signed by Times staffer Eugene J Taylor who served in the Army Air Columbus411 Flowers Bldg Forces as Chief of Education Guidance Vocational Education and Occupational Therapy 213 Royal Bldg We sent Mr Taylor a file and he wired for 11 pictures which were promptly airmailed If You Know a Person with a Disability Fill In and Cut Out This Form and Mail It to Us Anyone 16 or over white or Negro is eligible Name Addr Disability Reported by Address Division of Vocational Rehabilitation 131 State Office Bldg Atlanta GaDivision of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education Atlanta ATHENE WITH ONLY 2 PER CENT VISION IN HIS RIGHT EYEalmost totally blindCalvin T Colquitt of Uecatur s operating a vending stand in the Negro section at Grady Hospital with phenomenal success Sales soared from the day the stand was opened on March 23 Shown before the stand are Frank Wilson hospital superintendent and A 1 Jarrell assistant director of the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation The stand like others in Georgia is spon sored by the Cooperative Services for the Blind and supervised by Vocational Rehabilitation Calvin despite his handicap which is perhaps the most serious with which Vocational Rehabilitation deals is support ing his mother wife and two children Before being placed as operator of the vending stand he had been employed onh at odd jobs and in the Community Shop Vol II No lO OKe GcovcvoJOocooyvoCV cKabilitatiotv Vews Before Being Disabledain an accident John O Graham of Atco was earning 15 weekly in a country store His hip was broken was not set for a long time and his left leg with ered Rehabilitation had operations performed an appliance provided subsidized his training in watch repair with an Atlanta firm and he quickly learned a more profitable trade Now he earns more than 100 weekly as manager of Cham pions Watch Repair Shop Cartersville Miss Ruby Jones of Rome worked in a textile mill and later in a dime store She was capable of learning a better paying occupation and was handicapped by being blind in her right eye as the result of an accident She came from a large family Vocational Rehabilitation sent her to a business college in Atlanta and she also worked as a filing clerk for a typewriter company Now she handles all the office work for the Rome Typewriter Company 3 East Second Avenue By H L Wingate President Georgia Farm Bureau Federation The Georgia Farm Bureau Federa tion is vitally interested in providing profitable and pleasant employment for the physically handicapped people of our state and to help accomplish this worthwhile endeavor we are glad to lend our full cooperation to the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation of the State Department of Education We have learned from observation and experience that a great majority of our physically handicapped people are making a fine contribution to the va rious vocations and particularly are they contributing their talents to the production of food on our farms The ingenuity and ability of this group are not to be discounted and we must lend every aid to insure adequate training in order that each individual of this group might be able to follow the particular vocation in which he feels he can con tribute to the economic welfare of his state and community As a result of the recent world catas trophe the people of Georgia are faced with a tremendous task of making whatever changes are necessary to pro vide training and jobs for those who through no fault of their own have re turned from the bloody battlefields of modern warfare including the factories to take their places in the economic life of their state and communities It is a challenge that we must accept and to meet this challenge we must use every resource at our command to find those who have been partially lost to society and give them full assistance and co operation to gain or regain indepen dence through useful and pleasant em ployment The Farm Bureau joins wholeheart edly in the crusade to assure the phys ically handicapped that we have utmost confidence in their ability to take their place in society and it is our solemn duty to convince the most skeptical in dividual that he has a place in the nor mal functions of his people To this end we must all cooperate with the Divi sion of Vocational Rehabilitation in finding these individuals in our various communities and providing adequate training that will enable them to min imize the particular handicap and at the same time magnify the contribution they may make to our state The Georgia Farm Bureau with a membership of almost 40000 families feels that the year 1946 will find our people with a more determined effort than ever before to concentrate our en ergies and abilities to the end that the physically handicapped will lose con sciousness of their disabilities by appro priating the training which our State Department of Education is providing and taking their rightful places in the economy of our commonwealth Lets forget the excellent record of the past and set our goals for far greater achievements in the future be cause our problems are more complex and difficult Thats our challenge and we must accept it by solving every problem with which we are now confrontedFederal Security Administrator to Address Georgias Annual Rehabilitation Conference Watson B Miller administrator of the Federal Security Agency has ac cepted an invitation to attend the an nual conference of the Georgia Division of Vocational Rehabilitation at the General Oglethorpe Hotel near Savan nah in August The conference will begin Sunday afternoon August 18 and last through August 31 with professional personnel in attendance during the first week and clerical personnel the second Mr Mil ler will be present August 22 23 and 24 and will be the principal speaker at a banquet Friday night August 23 Mr Miller was appointed Federal Security Administrator October 12 1945 to succeed Paul V McNutt who had directed the Federal Security Agency since it was set up in 1939 and who became United States commis sioner to the Philippines Functions of Agency As the federal establishment prin cipally concerned with health educa tion and security the agency includes the Food and Drug Administration Of fice of Education Public Health Serv ice Social Security Board Office of Vocational Rehabilitation Freedmens and St Elizabeths Hospitals American Printing House for the Blind Howard University and Columbia Institution for the Deaf Its war responsibilities included social protection and recrea tion programs administered through the Office of Community War Services The agencys Office of War Property Watson B Miller Distribution established in 1945 car ries out certain functions delegated to the agency by the Surplus Property Ad ministration in connection with the dis posal of surpluses to health education and welfare institutions Mr Miller was born and educated in Rensselaer Indiana the son of Dan iel B and Martha Kirk Miller He is married and has one son Watson Jr In 1898 Mr Miller enlisted in the District of Columbia National Guard and served briefly in the SpanishAmer ican War until it was discovered that he was under age Returning to Wash ington he became interested in motor transportation development and con tinued in this and related business en terprises In 1918 he was commissioned as a captain of the Motor Transport Corps and served as a motor transport officer first for the Ninth Division and then for the 37th Division Following World War f Mr Miller returned briefly to the motor transport industry Active in the development of the Amer ican Legion he was the third Depart ment Commander elected in the Dis trict of Columbia and was National Vice Commander in 1922 While in this office he aided the Federal Gov ernment in formulating a program to care adequately for wounded and dis abled war veterans In 1923 Mr Mil ler was appointed to head up the Legions five million dollar rehabilita tion program Broad Experience In his 18 years as director of the Legions National Rehabilitation Com mittee Mr Miller devoted his atten tion to problems of rehabilitation hos pitalization and the care and welfare of disabled veterans and their depen dents His experience in this national program provides a background of first hand knowledge not only of veterans affairs but also of the broad field of public welfare He has been continu ously associated with the development of government programs as well as pri vate voluntary services in the fields of health welfare and education with which the Federal Security Agency is concerned FOR EVERY DISABLED SOLDIER THERE ARE FIVE DISABLED CIVILIANS IIVILIANS 1250000 ARMED FORCES THE FIGURES GIVEN ARE FOR THE PERIOD BETWEEN PEARL HARBOR AND V J DAY 260000 Chart by Graphics Institute of he Nc Yort TlmeiWalks for First Time in 15 Years Leroy Fields 18 of Montezuma had infantile paralysis at age 3 He had not been able to walk since getting about only in a cart or crawling Vocational Rehabilitation provided surgery braces and crutches and when released from the hospital he was overjoyed He could walk The specialist who oper ated says that eventually Leroy will be able to throw away the crutches and then the braces Leroy said that he was going to get a job earn some money buy a new suit and start stepping out with the girls H P Jones of Amer icus who owns the farm where Leroys family lives came to Atlanta elated to take him home from the hospital Before and AfterJtokabilitatioiv Mws Published monthly by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Dr M D Collins Slilr Superintendent of Srhools Paul S Barrett Director Division of Vocational Rehabilitation 131 State Office Buildino ATLANTA DISTRICT Atlanta305 Peachtree St N E Gainesville414 Jackson Bldg RomeRoom 29 Court House AUGUSTA DISTRICT Augusta 007 Southern Finance Bldg AthensHardman Hall University Dublin401 C S Bank Bldg SAVANNAH DISTRICT Savannah2 East Bay Street BrunswickAndrews Bldg Waycross432 Bunn Bldg MACON DISTRICT Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg Columbus411 Flowers Bldg Albany213 Royal Bldg More Veterans Join Counselor Staff The Vocational Rehabilitation staff is rapidly filling out with veterans of World War II who are taking their places beside the older veterans of World War I Most recent additions are William Wilson Chandler native of Waynesboro alumnus of Millen High School Young Harris Junior College University of Georgia taught in Burke Jenkins and Warren Counties and at Statesboro High School super intendent Warrenton Public Schools 194044 entered USNR as ensign in Veterans Chandler Hastings and Bowen 144 served J9 month 10 on SaiPan Being Greeted by Dr Collins Assigned to Augusta office Jerry N Hastings native of Fulton County alumnus Tech High School Atlanta Junior College Oglethorpe University taught and coached Bremen High School served in Fourth Service Command three and a half years As signed to Atlanta office Joseph Brown Bowen native of Mitchell County attended Mountville High School Young Harris Presbyterian College of S C University of Chicago superintendent Villa Rica schools 193644 served in USNR two years in Atlantic and Atlantic ports last tour of duty at Camp Perry Va as regimental commander in recruit training Assigned to Atlanta office Monthly Publication Full of Inspiration There was once a time not so very long ago when a crippled man a blind man or one without a leg or two had but two choices Either he could live out his life as a helpless dependent on otherseither at home or in an institution or he could eke out a livelihood by asking public charity on the streets The tin cup and the pencils were within memory of this generation as synonymous with the blind as crutches with the crippled That pitiful condition is still true in many parts of the world But no longer need it be true in our land no longer is it true in Georgia There comes to my desk each month a little publication that is a source of inspiration It could be a source of inspiration to every Georgian It is The Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation News published by the Division of Voca tional Rehabilitation of the State Department of Education As you read of the hundreds of severely handicapped Georgians who have been made selfsupporting worthy and contributing citizens of the state the stories told in this little magazine you cannot help but feel a new determina tion a new confidence in yourself If these handicapped can do as they are doing you say to yourself surely I must count myself fortunate surely I should never become discouraged Associate Editor Ralph T Jones in The Atlanta Constitution If You Know a Person with a Disability Fill In and Cut Out This Form and Mail It to Us Anyone 16 or over white or Negro is eligible NameAddress DisabilityAge Race Reported byAddr Division of Vocational Rehabilitation 131 State Office Bldg Atlanta GaA HOMEMADE PEG LEG was not enabling Otis Daven port who lost a foot in an automobile accident to get about very well in his work at McMillan Service Station Broadway and Mulberry Street Macon He was working regularly but under a severe handicap Rehabilitation helped him buy a modern fitted appliance and now the customers seldom suspect that Otis right leg is not nor mal His earnings as the head of his family have increased O James Brooks 38yearold colored man of 1214 Vernon Street is 99 per cent blind but he has nine children so it is important that he works and he does at Snively Groves and furthermore his boss Foreman Doris Crosby reports that he is a good worker James is buying a home now and has long terms with small monthly pay ments and has already paid 135 down and has 50 notes totaling 625 The Lions Club is the agency responsible for helping him borrow the money for a house and in his visual aid work Brooks was aided in securing his job through the Services for the Blind unit of the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation He has six girls and three boys and reports he has been a faithful subscriber to the JournalHerald for several years and wants to see what his picture looks like when it appears C W Bell of Waycross is a senior counselor of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education He works with all types of physically handi capped persons The program for Vocational Rehabilitation as explained by C H Par ker Jr counselor for the blind is that Vocational Rehabilitation in Georgia j is divided into four districts Parkers territory includes Waycross Savannah and Brunswck He announces that expansion of the work has taken place So James Brooks and others like him are enjoying a new day in a more enlightened world when instead of being a load on the community they are making a contribution to its growth Jack Williams Jr in The Waycross JournalHerald Leg Crushed by an automobile accident in 1942 Claude Bell had not been able to work since except what little he could do on crutches Osteomyelitis be came so severe that the injured leg drained constantly Rehabil itation sent Claude to a specialist who amputated the hopelessly diseased limb and then bought him an artificial leg Now Claude makes 37 weekly as a parts molder for C A DuPree Auto Parts Company Americus V I Georgia Begins rirst Diversified Program Of Rehabilitation for ExT Tuberculous to Be Undertaken in Nation as Sanatorium Moves The first comprehensive program of rehabilitation for persons who have had tuberculosis ever to be undertaken in the nation and possibly in the world will begin when the Georgia Tubercu losis Sanatorium is moved from Alto to Battey General Hospital this summer The program will be jointly financed by the sanatorium the Georgia Tuber culosis Association the State Depart ment of Education and its Divisions of Vocational Education and Vocational Rehabilitation Other states have provided limited vocational guidance for the extubercu lous but never before has any state un dertaken to rehabilitate all its tuber culosisaffected citizens in the manner now planned in Georgia Moving date for the sanatorium was tentatively set for June 20 The new sanatorium is the largest singleunit in stitution for tuberculous patients in the world Also patients receiving vocational training will be kept at the hospital until they are ready to punch a clock with the nonhandicapped This too marks a first in the nation Most state tuberculosis sanatoriums release patients when their physical condition is good enough for only four hours non strenuous work per day Many tuberculous patients may not return to the occupations which they formerly followed but are quite capable of following occupations not requiring too much physical activity in which they can compete with people not physically handicapped For instance a laborer or farmer who has had tuberculosis should not return to his former occupa tion but should take training in a non strenuous occupation if he is to resume a useful place in society The rehabilitation staff will work administratively under the sanatorium superintendent The tuberculosis as sociation will employ the top man a rehabilitation coordinator the sana torium will employ an occupational therapist and another who will see that the patients home background and per sonal activities are satisfactorily ad justed the Division of Vocational Re habilitation will supply a counselor who will be attached to the present district office in Rome the Division of Voca tional Education will employ teachers in watch repairing radio commercial work shoe repair barbering and home economics and Dr Collins promised that the Education Department would employ all the academic teachers that are necessary Georgias program of rehabilitation for physically handicapped citizens gen erally ranks annually near the top of the national scale ahead of such states as New York and Massachusetts and in this program for the tuberculous and extuberculous Georgia is again taking the lead in the nation Mr Foster the federal representa tive expressed himself as delighted that the plans had gone through without a hitch Not a single obstacle remains in the way of the project all agencies in volved having cooperated 100 per cent Medical science has come around to the view that no person affected with tuber culosis should be forced to lie in bed for months at a time with nothing to do but stare at the four walls of a ward but should be given some mild form of activity which increases his hope and his outlook for future life Without vocational guidance many patients tend to become institutionalized They lean on their disabilities and develop a fear of returning to the outside world The plans which have been decided upon provide fona wide range of diver sified occupational guidance and train ing so that each patient will be encour aged to choose training in a skill for which he has aptitude The home eco nomics course will be for women who do not want to take places in business or industry but who will return to their homes better able to take care of them selves and their families Much of the equipment for the voca tional courses has been left at Battey by the federal government and other equipment including trade textbooks will be supplied by state agencies Surveys had already been made on 400 patients at Alto and the work was to begin either there or at Battey as soon as personnel was employed Gathered in the office of Paul S Barrett Director of the Division of Vocational Re habilitation seated center are C B Shroyer Supervisor of Services for the Tuber culous Dr M D Collins State School Superintendent M D Mobley Director of the Division of Vocational Education standing left of Mr Barrett Terry C Foster Assistant Regional Representative United States Office of Vocational Rehabilitation A P Jarrell Mr Barretts Assistant Director in Charge of Technical Services Manual Hernandez Director of Vocational Rehabilitation in Puerto Rico a visitor and L L Young Executive Secretary Georgia Tuberculosis Association Inset is Dr Rufus Payne Superintendent of the State Tuberculosis Sanatorium not present when picture was made k Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education 129 State Office Building Atlanta 3 Ga RETURN POSTAGE GUARANTEED See 562 P L R U S POSTAGE PAID Atlanta Ga Permit No 935 Miss Louise Fant Serials Librarian The University of Ga Athens Ga Operator of a Vending Stand in the Atlanta Police Station Andrew Barney Barron has substantial earnings for himself and his family The stand is one of the highly successful ventures sponsored by the Georgia Cooperative Services for the Blind and supervised by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation More are planned throughout Georgia Mr Barron before becoming a Rehabilitation client had been a salesman for the Atlanta Community Shop He had never held another job since graduating from the Georgia Academy for the Blind He has learned to han dle merchandise and money with speed and has made manj friends in the vicinity of the Decatur Street station Shown making a purchase is Police Chief M A Hornsby while Lee Jones one of the two Rehabilitation staff members who supervise a dozenodd stands looks onVol 2 No 11 August 1946 DYe CcorcvoJNooo5wvotvoCV ehabilitatiotv Mws FEB 15 1956 AUVERSITy w tIM rr Never Before Employed Miss Lona Holland 28 of Waycross has found her occupational niche as a filing clerk at Richs in Atlanta as a result of Vocational Rehabilita tion guidance and training A deaf mute she was educated at the Cave Spring School for the Deaf but was without any particular occupational skill Rehabilitation considered sev eral plans for her in each of which her disabilities would not have been great handicaps before settling upon the filing clerk course A cooperative agreement for six months train ing on the job was entered into with the store and today Miss Holland is economically independent it a ir Arrested Tuberculosis after a year in the State Tuber culosis Sanatorium made it inadvisable for Roscoe Hartley of Buford to return to either of his former occupations service station operator or shipping clerk His physical con dition however was such that doctors said he could do non strenuous work such as watch or radio repair on a basis competitive with the nonhandicapped provided he received training Rehabilitation sent Mr Hartley to the North Georgia Vocational School for six months and then provided maintenance for four months onthejob training at Richs Now he is able to support his wife and two young daughters as an expert watch repairman ft ft The Brothers Abercrombie Thomas left below and Paul both clients of Vocational Rehabilitation operate one of the bestpatronized watch repair shops in Gainesville Pauls right hand and forearm were disabled by an accidental gunshot Thomas had an ulcerated stomach and asthma Neither had any work experience other than farming and their disabilities made farming unsuitable Rehabilitation provided training and now they are craftsmen in an occupa tion in which their disabilities are of little consequence Columbus Watch Repairers are William J Peacock right below and Henry Thomas Tillery craftsmen em ployed by Harold Peoples 938 Broadway Mr Peacock had arthritis of the spine leaving his back so disabled that he was unable to pursue either of his former occupations farming and truck driving Mr Tillery also had a chronic back dis ability and limited coordination due to the same disease He had been an electrician In each case Rehabilitation provided training which led to regular employment National Officials To Attend Georgia In addition to Watson B Miller Federal Security Administrator the an nual conference of the Division of Vo cational Rehabilitation Georgia De partment of Education will be attend ed by Michael J Shortley director and John A Kratz associate director re spectively of the United States Office of Vocational Rehabilitation and other notables The conference will be held at the General Oglethorpe Hotel near Savan nah scene of the World Monetary Conference for two weeks beginning August 19 Professional personnel will be in attendance the first week and clerical personnel the second A state wide radio hookup will broadcast a program from the conference Friday night August 23 Directors of Vocational Rehabilita tion in adjoining states have also been invited Mr Shortley is shown second from left and Mr Kratz extreme right in the accompanying picture which was taken at the annual convention of the National Rehabilitation Association in Chicago in May At extreme left is R C Tommy Thompson director of Vocational Rehabilitation in Mary land and immediate past president of the National Rehabilitation Associa tion and third from left is Voyle C Scurlock director in Oklahoma and current president of the association A biographical sketch of Captain Miller was published in the July issue of this monthly Mr Shortley also served in World War I As an infantry officer he was wounded in action in the Argonne For est September 26 1918 while attack ing a machine gun nest Discharged from the service in 1919 he became a member of the staff of the Veterans Administration He directed voca tional rehabilitation matters in a re gional office district office and the cen tral office from 1919 to 1930 He did research work in the coal mining in Very Poor Eyesight and work experience limited to one summer as a clerk in a shipyard office made the employment opportunities of Miss Virginia Crews of Nahunta of doubtful scope Vocational Rehabilitation helped her get good glasses and provided business college training Now she types well enough not to need glasses and is doing fine as secretary to J J Lissner Jr Brunswick attorney From Joblessness to Manager of a Business has gone Mrs Odell Clayton of Valdosta She was earning a living taking care of children near a war plant in Tennessee when her disabilitiesa leg off above the knee and a diseased arm made that occupation impossible She had no family whatever Vocational Rehabilitation sent her to hospitals and specialists for surgical and medical treat ment to a nursing home for recuperation bought an arm brace for her arm after the arm had healed and an artificial leg to enable her to walk The mvest ment paid rich dividends Mrs Clayton went to work for Duchess DAndre Perfumes and Colognes 518 Laura Street Jacksonville Fla and soon was act ing as manager of the business Mrs Clayton has been with me some time now and I have found her very good in the work to the extent that I can leave all details of the business in her hands wrote Stanley M Loeb head of the firm She is exceptionally quick at picking up new ideas as well as working out mat ters for herself dustry from 1930 to 1935 More re cently he was assistant director in charge of field activities of the Social Security Boards Bureau of Old Age and Survivors Insurance responsible for the supervision of approximately 500 field office managers and 12 re gional representatives Since September 1943 Mr Shortley has been director of the Office of Voca tional Rehabilitation Federal Security Agency responsible for the operation of the federalstate program of voca tional rehabilitation under Public Law 113 He attended Duquesne and Cath olic Universities J a Rehabilitation Aids College Student With Disabilities Vocational Rehabilitation has clients in all the institu tions of higher learning in Georgia including those for Negroes The scenes on these two pages are from the campus of the University of Georgia at Athens where there are usually between 75 and 100 clients of the Divi sion enrolled At the University as elsewhere faculty members say that they have no finer groups of students by any classification of any nature than the rehabilitation clients In the first place high school students with disabilities making them eligible for rehabilitation assistance in at tending college must have not less than a B average for their senior year in high school or must make a min imum score of 50 in the Otis Intelligence Test Or if a client fails to meet these requirements and enters college at his own expense and makes satisfactory grades the first quarter he may then be considered feasible for rehabilita tion aid Any student aided by the Division in college must maintain a C average or be dropped from the pro gram until this requirement is met Few fail to maintain the necessary average throughout their college years or if they drop behind in the averages it is not long before they are reinstated Economic Need Not a Factor A surprising number of men most prominent in the public life of Georgia today were helped to attend college by Vocational Rehabilitation Tuition and textbook costs were met for them so that they might be more nearly able to compete with the nonhandicapped and the perseverance and singleness of purpose which is the mark of the rehabil itant in business and industry regardless of his educational background is nowhere more impressively demonstrated than in the records made by rehabilitation clients in col leges and in their subsequent careers in the professions Rehabilitation cannot provide maintenance in colleges be cause the fouryear courses generally would require too great expenditures but the Division does provide in ad dition to tuition and textbooks for all special fees such as laboratory library health activity typing and art if charged to all students attending the institution and tak ing the course in which the student is enrolled It is not necessary that economic need be established in these cases Any high school student may be regarded as feasible or eligible regardless of his home background economically if he has a disability which handicaps him f At upper left the grand old man of the University Dr T W Reed is shown giving a few pointers on the best way to make good records in college to clients Forrest E Nelms left and Jesse Marvin Cawthon Mr Nelms from Elberton had sinus trouble for which the Division provided several operations Mr Cawthon from Jackson has a withered right arm and hand a result of infantile paralysis At center left Dean William Tate is shown chatting with clients Gordon Trulock and Emily Pert Mr Tru lock is from Whigham and has congenital disabilities of the left hand and left leg Miss Pert from Athens has heart trouble Mr Trulock is shown in the picture at lower left checking up on his status with Miss Margaret Armstrong at the rehabilitation window in the Adminis tration Building T J Dempsey Jr the veteran counselor of the Athens district of the Division who acts as a sort of godfather to the rehabilitation students sent to the University by counselors all over the state is shown at upper right with clients Carl Wicker and James T Smith Mr Wicker is from Monticello His disabilities of the lip and palate have been improved by operations and his rehabilitation plan contemplates further surgery and dental work for correction of a speech defect Mr Smith from Jackson had osteomyelitis of the left leg His rehabilitation plan contemplates surgical treatment Overcome Handicaps At center right clients James C Lawson left and Luther Bartlett Jr are looking over political placards on the bulletin board The campus recently has been abuzz with politicsstudent and state Mr Lawson is from Ringgold He is partially blind in his right eye Mr Bartlett is from Athens and has disabilities of the feet Herbert Jones of Nashville a freshman is being warned lower right that tradition forbids him to pass under the famous old wroughtiron arch at the entrance to the campus and that he must go around Mr Jones had infantile paralysis The warner is upperclassman William F Skinner also from Nashville who has disabilities of the left arm due to a fracture and poor vision in his right eye These students like their fellow clients in rehabilita tion in all kinds of schools in business and industry are determined to make good They more than make up for their physical defects in their integrity and incentive As compared with the nonhandicapped they study and work harder and are absent less from their classes and other duties The Rehabilitation News wishes them Godspeed in their individual lives liberties and pursuits of happi ness along whatever occupational paths they may choose Finding Jobs for Disabled Has No Legs but wears appliances so well that the average person never suspects his limbs are artificial A J Parham of 204 Second Avenue Macon has an income of approximately 35 weekly after rehabilitation Before rehabilitation he had a hard time making ends meet for his wife and four children He had lost his legs in a rail road accident The Division provided artificial legs and 415 worth of shoe repair equipment which remains the Divisions property in the clients custody but is enabling him to be an economic asset to his community rather than a liability Totally Blind since infancy Jack Jordan 511A Prince Street Macon nevertheless operates a thriving business a woodyard after rehabilitation guidance and training He has done exceptionally well having purchased a saw gasoline engine mule and wagon out of his own earnings In addition he is gradually building a small housing unit in which he hopes to conduct a small grocery and soft drink business entering this gradually as his own earn ings permit test in State Placement of a growing number of physically handicapped Georgiansboth World War II veterans and nonveterans seeking jobs is one of the biggest current employment problems of the State This disclosure was made by J Pat Kelly State Director United States Employment Service who said 7700 disabled men and women are registered with USES here These jobseekers do not include World War II vet erans with 10 per cent or more serviceconnected disabilities who are rehabilitated and placed in employment through the Veterans Administration Kelly pointed out Urging a more realistic viewpoint on the part of Geor gia employers the USES chief declared a majority of regis trants with varying degrees of physical disability on his rolls are capable of filling useful employment niches throughout the state USES last month placed 435 handicapped men and women in jobs over Georgia including 331 veterans These workers are holding down positions as machinists toolmakers hotel clerks watchmakers salespeople and serving in other fields A national USES survey recently polled 300 employers in the United States who reported 63382 handicapped per sons in their employ Kelly said Tests conducted at their places of business showed that in matters of absenteeism labor turnover efficiency and accident records handicapped workers ranked as good asand often better thanphysi cally normal employees The Atlanta official said his office is interested in placing physically disabled Georgians not from an emotional angle but for economic reasons He pointed out Take the 7700 handicapped workers now seeking jobs in this state If each worker gains a job and averages 2000 a year income that adds up to 15 400000 entering Georgia coffers annually Handicapped persons through gainful employment become taxpayers and responsible citizensassets to Georgia According to Kelly too many employers shy away from hiring handicapped persons Since VJ Day employers stand ards have reflected an upward trend as to age and efficiency which works against USES efforts to place the physically disabled It was stressed that disabled persons on USES rolls are carefully interviewed and screened out so that those referred to employers are capable for the job USES analysts recom mend them for This problem is growing as more handicapped veterans return from overseas or emerge from hospitals Kelly said In one month alone we had 1162 applicants with physical disabilities USES cant solve the problem aloneits up to Georgia employers to cooperate and use handicapped per sonnel wherever possible The Atlanta ConstitutionAcKabilitatiorv Mws Published monthly by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Dr M D Collins State Superintendent of Schools Paul S Barrett Director Division of Vocational Rehabilitation 131 State Office Building Rehabilitations Best Year in Georgia It is too early to be exact as this is written because re ports are still coming in from district and local offices in the state but on the basis of the early returns the fiscal year ended June 30 was the best year Vocational Rehabilitation has had in Georgia since the program was begun in 1920 The fiscal year 194546 will probably go on the books as at least equaling and probably surpassing the 2361 cases rehabilitated in the preceding fiscal year These closures Mtk bear in mind arc not haphazardlj contrived but in each ln Bk w stance must run a gantlet of critical inspection by adminis Bm trative personnel whose business it is to be harsh judges of whether a service has been rendered which actually rehabili tated the individual The peak war years saw handicapped people more quickly placed in business and industry and the record of the yearthus closed has been achieved in the face of drastically lessened job opportunities It is true that un employment has not been as marked as most economists anticipated but getting a job or finding one for a handicapped person has certainly not been as easy as in 1944 Georgia is assured of again standing at or near the top of the national scale in this federalstate program And we firmly believe that in 194647 we are going to reach and serve more persons than ever before We must M D Collins ATLANTA DISTRICT Atlanta305 Peacluree St N E Gainesville414 Jackson Bldg RomeRoom 29 Court House Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School AUGUSTA DISTRICT Augusta 007 Southern Finance Bldg AthensHardman Hall University Dublin401 C S Bank Bldg SAVANNAH DISTRICT Savannah2 East Bay Street BrunswickAndrews Bldg Waycross432 Bunn Bldg MACON DISTRICT Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg Columbus411 Flowers Bldg Albany213 Royal Bldg re Veterans J Staff Two more veterans have joined the staff of counselors They are James R Hampton alumnus of Young Harris Mercer and Oglethorpe Universities taught at Oakwood Murrayville and Iron City served two and a half years in AAF at Robins Field Assigned to North Georgia Vocational School M R Little attended Mercer University and Peabody College superin tendent of schools in Jefferson County state school supervisor ofSoutheast Georgia captain in World War I and major in World War II Assigned to Waycross Spiritual Through Inspiration A letter from Lee S Trimble director of the Business Panel Agricultural and Industrial Development Board of Georgia Each issue of Vocational Rehabilitation News gives me a new thrill as 1 learn of the good work being done When physical and other handicaps are removed new skills taught and a fresh interest in life provided to numbers of people such accomplishments tran scend the economic and social to become spiritual through inspiration As a citizen I appreciate this fine service being rendered those who are handicapped I If You Know a Person with a Disability Fill In and Cut Out This Form and Mail It to Us Anyone 16 or over white or Negro is eligible Na Address Disability Age Sex Race Reported by Address Division of Vocational Rehabilitation 131 State Office Bldg Atlanta Ga Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education 129 State Office Building Atlanta 3 Ga RETURN POSTAGE GUARANTEED Miss Louisa Fant Serials Librarian The University of Ga Athens Ga Sec 562 P L R U S POSTAGE PAID Atlanta Ga Permit No 935 it No Vending Stand Operator John D Croker at the Civilian Personnel Division Retirement Records Branch Army Air Forces 86 Edgewood Avenue S E had been eager to get a stand from the time the program was begun last fall Mean while he worked as a rivet sorter at the Bell Bomber Plant Marietta Previously he had made brooms at the Atlanta Community Shop His stand was opened in May one of the dozenodd sponsored by the Georgia Cooperative Services for the Blind and supervised by the Division of Vocational Re habilitation and from its first day has done a flourishing business enabling Mr Croker to earn a comfortable liveli hood for himself wife and daughter Before taking over the stand he was trained in planning buying and the keeping of accurate reports with a stylus in Braille as do all the stand operators in this program Mr Croker lives at 3835 Union Avenue Hapeville and gets to and from work aloneVol 2 No 12 September 1946 JiekabLlitatioti Mxvs Estimates Based on Statistical Analyses Of Cases Closed Rehabilitated in Georgia in Fiscal Year Ended June 30 Annual Earnings Before Rehabilitation 3260000 IINMM UMAM 675000 Cosf of Program Annual Earnings After Rehabilitationr M 3 Restored to Working A bility as a result of physical res toration has been the experience of Miss Lucille Thompson of Gainesville She had osteomyelitis in her left leg and was unable to stand during an eighthour day in her work as a weaver in Gainesville Mill She was referred to Vocational Rehabilitation by a specialist who reported that the surgery needed would enable her to keep her job but that she was unable to pay the hospital and doctors bills Rehabilitation provided these services and now Miss Thompson instead of being an invalid is regularly employed An Artificial Hand provided through Rehabilitation makes Albert D Bowen of Roswell able to be satisfactorily em ployed as a stock clerk for the Aviation Supply Corporation Municipal Airport Atlanta He had been in the Navy and lost his hand in an automobile accident He was trained in use of the appliance through the cooperation of the United States Employment Service and the Armys Lawson Gen eral Hospital Without Hands But on the Job steadily nevertheless is Fred A Willingham of East Point He operates an elevator in the First National Bank Building Atlanta At the time his case was surveyed by Vocational Rehabilitation he was unemployed and dependent upon his wife They had three children Mr Willingham had lost his left hand and had his right hand severely crippled in a sawmill accident He had no work experience except in sawmills as a truck driver and farming Rehabilitation found him a job which he can perform despite his disabilities Physical Restoration and Training put Albert W Wells of Savannah on a good job Previously he had been unable to workand had lost his jobbecause of a hernia Re habilitation provided the necessary surgery which he could not have had otherwise and subsidized his training with the Savannah Typewriter and Adding Machine Company 129 West Congress Street He is shown with S W Malone head of the firm U S Rehabilitation Association to Draft Plan for Legislation A blueprint of legislation to improve re habilitation of persons with occupational han dicaps will be drafted by the legislative com mittee of the National Rehabilitation Associa tion The blueprint will be submitted to the ex ecutive committee of the States Rehabilitation Council in Chicago in September These announcements were made by Paul S Barrett chairman of the NRA legislative committee following a recent conference of state and federal vocational rehabilitation of ficials with Representative Augustine B Kel ley Pa chairman of the Subcommittee on Aid to the Physically Handicapped House Committee on Labor Present at the Washington conference were Voyle C Scurlock of Oklahoma president of the National Rehabilitation Association Mr Barrett of Georgia R C Thompson of Maryland past president of NRA and ex ecutive committeeman John A Kratz asso ciate director of the Office of Vocational Re habilitation Representative Kelley and Mrs Mary Louise Glass staff director of the sub committee Report in October The Kelley committee has conducted hear ings during the past two years on means to improve services to the handicapped having been set up by Congress to study the subject Its report is expected to be made in October National Rehabilitation Association officials and others have been heard by the committee particularly on H R 5206 introduced by Representative Sparkman Alabama This bill would transfer the Office of Vocational Re habilitation to a completely federal organiza tion which would largely duplicate the present state program and this might terminate or greatly reduce federal aid to the state pro grams It would impose on all employers of 10 or more persons a quota system forcing them to hire disabled individuals on a basis of their disabilities rather than on the basis of merit it was pointed out by NRA officials and Michael J Shortley director of the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation These disadvan tages would tend to arouse the antagonism of employers toward disabled persons Mr Short ley said What is needed he added is a more intensified program of information indi cating the fact that a disabled person properly prepared needs no special concessions The purpose of the Chicago meeting will be to achieve a unanimity of support for a complete proposed program of expansion under the present plan of state control To Avoid Segregation The Kelley committee has conducted the most comprehensive hearings ever held by any Continued on page 4 Handicapped After Tuberculosis Robbie Lester Allen of Savan nah was advised by doctors that he should not return to his former work as a truck driver but should follow some less strenuous occupation He has a wife and two children Rehabilitation provided dental work neces sary to maintain his health and sent him to the North Georgia Voca tional School Shoe shop equipment was purchased for him with the understanding that the equipment would remain the property of Re habilitation but that he might use it as long as it enabled him to be economically independent Today he has a prospering business He is shown with A F Lingle trainer right at the Cut Rate Shoe Re builders 1108 Wheaton Street Blind Since Birth as the result of carelessness of a midwife Miss Eula Mae Hightower a graduate of the Georgia Academy for the Blind is the operator of a profitable business in the Macon Post Office It is one of the rapidly increasing enterprises sponsored by Georgia Co operative Services for the Blind Inc and supervised by Vocational Rehabilitation Before being reached by Rehabilitation Miss High towers earnings were slight in crocheting luncheon sets selling candies fireworks etc for herself First she was placed with a foods packer in wrapping potato chips candy and peanuts and thus became selfsup porting but her pleasant personality won her a position in the vending stand program She is shown with W A Patillo postmasterPhysically Impaired Individual Earns Place In Business World Through Better Efficiency By O E Myers Regional Director United States Civil Service Commission Very early after the attack on Pearl Harbor the U S Civil Service Com mission was faced with converting its examining and recruiting program to an allout war basis The immediate objective was to assure the maximum utilization of manpower However it was realized at the time that later the federal government would be faced with the problem of absorbing its share of disabled veterans during and after the war The Medical Division of the Civil Service Commission initiated extensive surveys of a large number of positions in government including navy yard ar senals and air fields for the purpose of determining the physical demands of these positions Over 2500 positions representing many thousands of jobs were carefully analyzed to determine the physical demands of the position in relation to functional and working fac tors The manpower situation in the Fifth Civil Service Region which comprises the states of Alabama Florida Geor gia South Carolina and Tennessee be came critical in 1943 and it was real ized that we would have to tap hitherto unused sources of manpower in order to fill federal jobs In a meeting of the Vocational Rehabilitation supervisors in Georgia I was invited to express my views on the possibility of placing some of the 30000 handicapped individuals in this state in federal positions It ap peared logical that if we were recruit ing for 10000 vacancies and the State Vocational Rehabilitation Division of the Department of Education had 30 000 physically impaired persons that the thing to do was to make these im paired individuals available to federal appointing officers Therefore Mr Paul Barrett the State Director of Vo cational Rehabilitation and I deter mined on holding a physically handi capped employment clinic in Atlanta It was my job to see that the appointing officials were on hand that the appli cants were given appropriate qualifying Civil Service examinations as well as medical examinations and then to cer tify them to the personnel officials at tending the clinic Mr Barrett agreed to furnish transportation to place of appointment as well as maintenance for those employees who themselves were unable to defray such expenses As a result our first handicapped employment clinic was held in the State Capitol in Atlanta in February 1943 It was attended by approximately 800 physically impaired people There were 12 appointing officers present and as a result approximately 400 physically impaired individuals received appoint ment in federal positions We had approached this project with some temerity However by using the criteria established as the result of the commissions surveys referred to above we were very careful to make judicious placements We realized that this ini tial use of physically impaired citizens had to be successful if we hoped to con tinue such placements Careful checks were made to provide adequate compar ison between the physically impaired employee and the normal worker This check was based primarily on absentee ism turnover rate of accident and pro duction In the case of absenteeism and turnover the record of the physically impaired person was far better than that of the normal person In a great num ber of cases this was the first job that these employees had ever had It was their first opportunity to be indepen dent of relatives or charity It is ob vious why their record in absenteeism and turnover was far better than that of the normal person Being already physically impaired it naturally follows that these employees were considerably more careful in their work and there fore their accident rate was much bet ter than that of their fellow employees Perhaps the most important of these items checked was production In the great majority of instances the produc tion of the physically impaired person was equal to and in some instances bet ter than the normal person Thousands of Placements Subsequently through the coopera tion of the State Superintendents of Education and State Directors of Voca tional Rehabilitation over 100 such clinics were held throughout the five states which are included in this re gion resulting in thousands of place ments The Mobile Air Service Command Mobile Ala originally employed a few physically impaired people out of neces sity There was no other source of manpower which had not been exhaust ed As a result of the remarkable per formance of these physically impaired employees in Mobile the Mobile Air Service Command eventually employed over 2000 physically handicapped indi viduals 50 of whom were totally or industrially blind They discovered that a blind person could work as well or better in a dark room of a photo graphic laboratory than a normal per son Their ability to measure the thick ness of mica between their fingers sur passed the performance of any machin ery Their dexterity in sorting rivets nuts screws and bolts was superior to that of the sighted person Other installations notably Warner Robins Air Field Redstone Arsenal Huntsville Arsenal Charleston Navy Yard and Key West Naval Base had similar experiences Quoted below is a portion of a letter written by Major Augustus H King Chief of the Employees Relations Branch of the Warner Robins Air Depot An analysis of efficiency ratings of handicapped and normal employees oc cupying ungraded positions reveals the following percentagesThe Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation News September 1946 Hi indicapped Normal Excellent 57 46 Very Good 206 202 Good 631 600 Fair 109 134 Unsatisfactory 03 18 The program for the utilization of handicapped personnel at this station has received national recognition and careful analysis of success obtained in dicates that specialized personnel trained in the counseling and proper placement of handicapped personnel is essential A close followup of all placements must be maintained by skilled personnel so that placement can be evaluated and work areas redesigned if necessary in order to fully utilize handicapped per sonnel Constant contact must be main tained with supervisory personnel in order that they may be kept informed as to the limitations of the employees handicaps and that sympathy for and unusual concessions to handicapped per sonnel was not necessary and actually harmful as a handicapped person prop erly placed would prove equally as effi cient as any normal employee It is believed that the work done with handicapped employees at this sta tion by personnel trained in the han dling of problems peculiar to handi capped personnel has laid a foundation which will be of great value in effect ing proper placement and maximum utilization of handicapped veterans of World War II when the time comes to employ them in large numbers Literally hundreds of such letters were received in my office praising the part that the physically impaired indi vidual played in aiding in the war ef fort An Example One of the outstanding and most recent placements of a physically im paired veteran is the case of Thomas Z Atkeson Captain Atkeson lost both hands and both eyes in a mine explosion while on active duty He was formerly employed in June 1939 as a junior biologist in the Fish and Wildlife Serv ice In July 1945 Mr James Silver regional director of the Fish and Wild life Service here in Atlanta called this office about Captain Atkesons case The captain who has a degree in for estry from the University of Georgia and did postgraduate work in wildlife management at Auburn University was applying for restoration to his for mer position in the Fish and Wildlife Service It was obvious that without hands or eyes he would not be able to perform his previous duties as a junior biologist Section 8 of the Selective Training and Service Act provides in part that a returning veteran shall be qualified to perform the duties of his position in order to be restored under the provi sions of the act I felt that although Captain Atkeson could not perform his previous duties that a man so handi capped who had enough fortitude to re quest restoration to his job should have as much consideration as could possibly be accorded him I therefore sent one of my staff officers over to talk with Mr Silver to see if some plan could be worked out in which this disabled vet eran could be restored to a position the duties of which he could adequately perform Mr Silver of the Fish and Wildlife Service agreed that the serv ices of an information advisor were needed in this region The inability of Captain Atkeson to read then presented a problem The captain was willing to hire out of his salary a person who could read to him and in turn take dictation It was realized that a federal employee can not hire another employee to perform part of his duties as this is contrary to regulations Reader Trained It occurred to me that the Veterans Administration might be in position in its rehabilitation and training program to provide a readertrainer for Captain Atkeson I therefore had one of my staff officers who was in Montgomery Ala talk with Mr Harley A Smith Chief of the Vocational Rehabilitation and Education Division Veterans Ad ministration Mr Smith agreed to do everything possible to work out an ac ceptable training program Mr Silver and Mr Roy Moore of the Fish and Wildlife Service together with a staff member of this office prepared a list of duties for Mr Atkeson for a trainee position of PS2 assistant biologist With the aid of the Vocational Re habilitation Division of the Depart ment of Education Alabama a young man was selected and trained to act as reader for Captain Atkeson This young man is himself a physically handicapped person The entire case was then submitted to the Veterans Administration in Washington for final approval and we are happy to report that Mr Atkeson has entered on duty with headquarters at Decatur Ala as an assistant biolo gist trainee He will travel throughout this region where he will visit the va rious refuges and projects prepare edu cational material give lectures radio addresses interpret exhibits and show motion pictures and slides to veterans hospitals sportsmen conservation groups and schools From October 1 1942 through March 1946 there have been placed in this region 10126 physically im paired federal employees We could not have possibly had this degree of success without the active and wholehearted cooperation of the state directors of Vocational Rehabilitation throughout this region and the sincere assistance of the federal appointing officers in mak ing judicious placements As far as the federal government is concerned the physically impaired individual has earned his rightful place in industry Legislation Continued from page 2 legislative committee on the subject of the handicapped Its membership in cludes Jennings Randolph W Va Ellis E Patterson Calif William J Green Jr Pa Richard J Welch Calif Joseph Clark Baldwin N Y and Sherman Adams N H The NRA has 2500 members nearly all professional personnel en gaged in rehabilitation work in the na tion together with large numbers of professional and lay workers in public and private agencies dealing with va rious types of the handicapped It has consistently sought to emphasize that the aim of the program is not to segre gate disabled persons but rather to as similate them into the working popula tion by planned physical restoration training guidance and counselnot to set them apart from the remainder of society as a group for which special benefits and privileges must be sought Isolation in a Federal Commission for the Physically Handicapped under a forced quota system would inevitably lead to segregation of the handicapped as they take their places in industry and commerceUpper RightTwo Rehabilitation clients are employed in Franks Shoe Shop 205 Hardeman Avenue Macon Willie Johnson Jr in foreground has a crippled right leg The Divi sion provided him with a brace sent him to the Georgia State and Industrial College Savannah and then arranged further training in Franks Shoe Shop He is doing well James Wil liams with a deformed foot did not want surgical treatment saying he could stand 48 hours per week for work not involving heavy lifting and so he too was considered a case suitable for shoe repair work and the Division provided onthejob training Upper LeftBroom shop operated by blind men has begun operation in the basement of Tabernacle Baptist Church Gwin nett and Harrison Streets Augusta R O Hubbardthe in structor in foreground is from Waycross and was given broom shop training in Atlanta Clients Willie Hogan Albert Bright heart and Andrew Williams shown in the order named all learned broommaking They find a ready market for the brooms Lower LeftSamuel Moss was a painter when he contracted tuberculosis After recovering from the disease doctors told him he should not return to his old occupation but was all right for less tiring work such as barbering Samuel had a family to support Rehabilitation provided training He is shown on his new job at the College Barber Shop 1209 Railroad Avenue AugustacKabilitatiotv Mws 2400 Georgians in ublished monthly by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Dr M D Collins State Superintendent of Schools Paul S Barrett Director Division of Vocational Rehabilitation 131 State Office Building ATLANTA DISTRICT Atlanta 305 Peachtree St N E Gainesville1 Jackson Bldg RomeRoom 29 Court House Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School AUGUSTA DISTRICT Augusta 607 Southern Finance Bldg Athens Hardman Hall University Dublin 401 C S Bank Bldg SAVANNAH DISTRICT Savannah2 East Bay Street BrunswickAndrews Bldg Waycross32 Bunn Bldg MACON DISTRICT Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg Columbus11 Flowers Bldg Albany213 Royal Bldg Our predictions that the fiscal year just ended would be the best in the 26year history of this Division are more than amply borne out in the final returns just compiled The figures on the cover tell part of the story These 2400 persons had annual earnings before being served by the Division of approximately 624000 Complete expenditures of the Divi sion during the year totaled slightly more than the 675000 represented on the cover as the cost of the program but the difference is accounted for by cases still in the process of being servecf on June 30 The estimated 675000 includes all administrative costs prorated among the cases actually rehabilitated The difference between the annual earnings before rehabilitation and the 3260000 annual earnings after rehabilitation webelieve is an im pressive contrast demonstrating what can be accomplished by sincere guid ance counsel training and physical restoration for the handicapped who might otherwise be in some measure lost to the state or even liabilities upon it More were rehabilitated than in 194445 when war plants were booming Of the 2400 men numbered 1755 and women 645 Eightytwo are blind persons There were 1715 white cases and 685 nonwhite Even section of society is represented 16 years of age or older from the lowliest darkey previously dependent on public welfare to college students In past years Georgia with the federal government paying threefourths of the costs has given its people more rehabilitation service in ratio to population than any other state in the nation We havent seen the figures from the other states this year but we know that Vocational Rehabilitation has served handicapped Georgians in a remarkable manner And we are determined to do far better in the current year M D Collins A letter from Lon Sullivan director of the Georgia Citizens Council I have been reading carefully the last few issues of Rehabilitation News and I just want to congratulate your department This is one of the best publications of any state department It tells the story so graphically of the splendid work of rehabilitation If You Know a Person with a Disability Kill In and Cut Out This Korm and Mail It to Us Anyone 16 or over white or Negro is eligible NameAddress Disability Age Race I1 Reported by Address Division of Vocational Rehabilitation 131 State Office Bldg Atlanta Ga Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education 129 State Office Building Atlanta 3 Ga RETURN POSTAGE GUARANTEED Sec 562 P L R U S POSTAGE PAID Atlanta Ga Permit No 935 r i5is3 Louise Fant Serials Librarian The University of Ga Athens Ga Taking Forestry Course at the University of Georgia with Rehabilitation aid is Eldredge Carnes of Roopville Carroll County His disability of the right arm and hand will not seriously handicap him as a forester He attended the university for two terms left when forestry courses were discontinued temporarily and was employed by the T V A and the Georgia Forestry Department Now he has resumed college training as the courses he wanted are once more available Enabled to Finish training in the GuptonJones College of Mortuary Science Nashville Tenn Emmett G Sanders of Hartwell is now completing apprenticeship as an em balmer in the Athens Funeral Home He financed his own training except for the last four months and a kidney ailment made him eligible for Vocational Rehabilitation aid He has a wife and daughter Without Rehabilitation services he might not have been able to complete the course which now has placed him in a wellpaid occupationVol 3 No 1 October 1946 eKabilitatiotv yvews m v m jNVFRSiTY OF 6E0R0IA The Most Successful Conference in the 26year history of Vocational Rehabilitation in Georgia got into full stride after three days of training for case workers with the arrival of Watson B Miller Federal Security Administratorthe man next in line to the President and Congress for operation of a group of agenciesand Michael J Shortley director Federal Office of Vocational Rehabilitation Left to right above Paul S Barrett director Division of Vocational Rehabilita tion Georgia Department of Education Mr Shortley H B Cummings regional representative Federal Office of Voca tional Rehabilitation Captain Miller E K Bell supervisor of the Savannah district and Terry C Foster assistant re gional representative of the Federal office Below are part of the conference delegation which met the Washington officials upon their earlymorning arrival At Captain Millers right is M D Mobley Georgia Director of Vocational Education f 5 And Michigan Third By M D Collins Georgia School Superintendent This issue of the Rehabilitation News marks a glorious milestone in the broad field of education in this state and particularly in Vocational Rehabilitation The biggest and best annual confer ence of the Vocational Rehabilitation Division since the work began in this state in 1920 was climaxed by the an nouncement from Washington that Geor gia led all the states of the nation re gardless of population in rehabilitations in the past fiscal year It would have been impressive enough if Georgia had led only in cases closed rehabilitated in ratio to population That would have been a highly signifi cant accomplishment But even with a population far smaller than other leading states Georgia re habilitated more handicapped civilians Second to Georgias 2400 rehabilitations was California with 2292 Michigan was third with 2203 and New York fourth with 2115 This is not to say that other states do not have good Vocational Rehabilitation programs Most of them do But the Georgia rehabilitation staff has somehow been caught up in an enthusiasm that never knows when to quit and never gives up on any client for whom the coun selors believe there is hope This record could not have been achieved without the splendid coopera tion of the Federal staff whose chiefs honored us by attending the conference On the basis of GovernorNominee Talmadges commitments to the public schools Georgias appropriation for pub lic education during the next fiscal year will be 39000000 or 64 per cent greater than the appropriation for the past fiscal year Last June when the Georgia Education Association asked all candidates for Governor to state their positions on meeting the minimum school needs Mr Talmadge pledged himself to make available approximately 3000000 more than was actually called for in the G E A suggestions An analysis of the probable fiscal needs of Vocaticnal Rehabilitation in particular during the next four years indicated that the state could profitably allot 500000 for this program and obtain Federal par ticipation on a threefourths basis To this specific state appropriation the in coming administration has committed itself District Supervisors look over a map indicating the number of cases rehabilitated in each county of the state during the fiscal year These figures were compared with the population of each county to find weak spots in the program where more effort might profitably be expended The supervisors are left to right E E Ken nedy Macon district John S Prickett Augusta district Otis C Dyer Atlanta district and E K Bell Savannah district Of Georgias nationleading total of 2400 cases rehabilitated during the year including blind cases 893 were in Mr Kennedys district 436 in Mr Pricketts 640 in Mr Dyers and 431 in Mr Bells Placement Specialists for the blind interested in the operation of all vending stands because of Georgias expanding program of stands with blind operators inspect a stand in the General Oglethorpe Hotel where the conference was held Miss Nora Hillburn the stands operator shows Placement Specialist Tom Bing ham the location of merchandise while Placement Specialists Harry Delaney Robert Ellenberg and John Lewis stand by J 1 Outstanding Physicians and Surgeons of Georgia are giv ing full cooperation to the Vocational Rehabilitation program Many of them lectured on their specialties during the confer ence Above are first row left to right Dr Jeff Richardson Dr C E Rushin Dr Thomas P Goodwin Dr A R Rozar Dr W G Hamm and Dr C A Henderson Second row Dr Edgar H Greene School Superintendent Collins Dr O F Keen Dr C C Aven Assistant Director A P Jarrell of the Division Dr Hewitt I Varney Dr Thomas B Mc Kneelv and Director Paul Barrett Making First Purchases at vending stand opening in Savan nah Post Office are School Superintendent Collins and three members of the Georgia Board of EducationJ W Over street of Wadley W W McCay of Eastanollee board chair man and W C Clary Jr of Waynesboro Operator of the stand Gadson C Floyd was dependent upon his family before being reached by Vocational Rehabilitation and the Georgia Cooperative Servicesfor the Blind Now he has a business which gives every indication of flourishing under Vocational Rehabilitation supervision By Eugene Talmadge GovernorNominee and M E Thompson Lieutenant GovernorNominee The privilege of addressing this pro fessional group composed of experts in the science of rehabilitating and rebuild ing the lives of human beings is an honor that I appreciate very much You are restoring people to their rightful places as selfsustaining and selfrespect ing members of society Your work consists of bringing light into corners that would otherwise be darkened by misery and distress You are mission aries in a great humanitarian enterprise and have become skilled in rescuing those who would otherwise be left stranded in a desert of discouragement and despair or remain at the mercy of public or private charity Your labors are paying dividends in terms of hap piness and material benefit to our state I welcome this opportunity to greet you and congratulate you At the same time I am glad to pay a tribute to my good friends Dr Collins and Director Paul Barrett as well as their able col leaguesall of whom have earned the applause and gratitude of our people for their valuable contributions to the cause of Vocational Rehabilitation which have placed Georgia in the fore front of this great endeavor and won for us such high rank All of us are proud of this distinction achieved by a combination of hard effort superb teamwork and inspiring leadership Such a record affords new testimony of why we are proud to be Georgians Economic Casualties It is most appropriate that this im portant annual meeting should occur in the hospitable and historic community which was the cradle of Georgia We are always proud to point to Savannah as the birthplace of our state This hallowed shrine reminds us of how the founder of our colony that became the Southern outpost of civilization was in spired also to make it the refuge for the unfortunates of the old world Under This address was prepared in collabora tion by GovernorNominee Talmadge and Mr Thompson the Lieutenant Governor Nominee Portions of it were delivered by each speaker Mr Talmadge for a radio transcription and Mr Thompson in per sonal appearance before the conference since it was necessary for Mr Talmadge to leave Savannah before his scheduled appearance It has been edited to dispel confusion over the identity of either official Georgias friendly skies and on her gen tle soil these economic casualties of an earlier day were permitted to mend their broken lives and gain a fresh start toward prosperity and success That is an inspiring example for those who have dedicated themselves to re habilitate human beings and mend broken lives What a worthy task it is to be engaged in bettering the lot of those to whom physical misfortune has brought a personal crisis and of giving aid to those who have become temporary casualties in our modern competition and complex struggle for survival According to my thinking the main purpose of education is to prepare in dividuals to become more valuable members of society and thereby help to improve the standard of the community To become useful members of society involves also the obligation to become selfsustaining members It is precisely in this respect that Vocational Rehabil itation plays such a prominent part It requires no person who has adopt ed teaching as a fulltime career to warn us that we face a serious problem as exemplified by the fact that there were fifty thousand more pupils enrolled in Georgias public schools last year than in the previous school term and that a corresponding increase is likely to con tinue for several years to come In connection with Vocational Re habilitation as in the instance of Voca tional Education generally the incom ing administration has specified a sub stantial raise in the estimates of the ed ucational leaders themselves thereby enabling us to enjoy larger grants on a matching basis from the Federal treasury than Georgia has ever enjoyed before Matching Basis Unfair It is hoped that very soon the Federal Government will recognize the unfair ness of the present method of making grants in aid to the several states strict ly on a matching basis This method tends to make wealthy states wealthier and poor states poorer Federal grants should recognize the principle of need and general welfare of the people Vocational Rehabilitation offers the most convincing illustration of how the State in cooperation with the Federal government may be of service to a group of citizens without resorting either to regimentation or coercion It deals with the unique problems of hu man beings taking into account the particular physical handicap to which each individual must make separate ad justment It is not a mass production operation Indeed it discards the very thought of regimentation When cor rectly applied Vocational Rehabilita tion means fashioning a tailormade suit fitted to the exact requirements in each particular case Its ideal is to place the rehabilitant in a paying and worthwhile job that fits his aptitude and temperament and is adjusted to his exact physical condition It is a paying enterprise justifying the support even of those who must reckon every equation by the yardstick of does it pay It reconverts multi tudes of economic liabilities into eco nomic assets capable not only of enjoy ing but of substantially enriching the community where they dwell The statistics that handsomely dem onstrate the economic gains registered in the record of Vocational Rehabilita tion captivate our imagination and ex cite our admiration Brevity precludes detailed reference either to the mon etary results or the multitudes whom it has rejuvenated and regenerated Suffice it to say that both in war and in peace the contribution of Vocational Education has been a gigantic factor The lame the halt and the blind struck a magnificent blow to help win the nasty dirty and costly war from which we emerged a short year ago America owes these industrial casualties a debt we can never pay In the construction sciences the spe cialized field of building occupies an indispensable place And in this spe cial field everybody knows that it is harder to rebuild than it is to build from the start What nobler task can there be than that of rebuildingnot material resources but the far more priceless human resources that are per sonified in the eager ambitious and fine citizens who compose the clientele of those who will administer and who are enlisted in the priesthood that has mas tered the philosophy and devoutly preaches the religion of Vocational Re habilitationWith Handicaps Than Any State in Nation By Watson B Miller Federal Security Administrator It is a real inspiration to meet here with you people who are responsible for the good record made by the State of Georgia in the number of people placed in employment through its vocational rehabilitation program I am very happy to be able to say that Georgia stood first in the nation in the number of persons rehabilitated into employment for the 1946 fiscal year Among the various activities carried on by the Federal Security Agency to promote and maintain the health edu cation and social security of the people the vocational rehabilitation program has a special place in my heart Before coming to the Federal Security Agency I had the honor of serving for eighteen years on the American Legions Na tional Rehabilitation Committee I know from long experience the per sonal gratification to be gained from your work which restores to a life of usefulness those who through physical or mental handicaps would except for vocational rehabilitation services be destined to live an existence of despair dependent on others for a livelihood Congress has pointed out that one of the essentials to success of the State Federal vocational rehabilitation pro gram is letting it be widely known that these services are available to physically and mentally handicapped persons Your record here in Georgia is un doubtedly due to your having an effec tive program for getting this word around to the people who need to know it Vocational rehabilitation is a term used frequently these days in newspa pers and magazines and on the radio Yet we have found that very few men and women know exactly what it means in actual practice We know too that those who can define and discuss the term are vociferous in their praise of the results of vocational rehabilitation I hope that eventually the two words will be as common a household expres sion as social security and unem ployment compensation because they are just as important What It Is At this point Id like to recall in a Before the Georgia Rehabilitation Con ference Savannah Georgia August 23 few words just what we do mean by the term vocational rehabilitation Professional people define it as the restoration of the handicapped to the fullest physical mental social voca tional and economic usefulness of which they are capable But in everyday language vocational rehabilitation means whatever is necessary to help disabled men and women overcome physical or mental impairments so that they can work for pay in jobs which utilize their best abilities In vocational rehabilitation its not what a man or woman has lost but what he or she has left thats impor tant We who are most intimately as sociated with vocational rehabilitation particularly with that phase which re volves about the joint State and Fed eral programs have seen vindicated in wartime industries our contention that physically and mentally handicapped men and women who have been properly trained for employment and placed in jobs which utilize their abilities actually are no more handicapped than able bodied workers 7000000 Out Daily On an average day seven million persons are prevented from doing their normal work on account of illness in jury or other disablements About half of these people have been unable to work for at least six months Accidents in the home and in the factory on the highway and on the farm cost the nation five billion dollars a year and cause the waste of three hundred and fifty million mendays of labor Each year there are 600000 persons injured seriously100000 of whom are injured so severely as to require special services before thev can hold jobs again Approximately 100000 others are disabled each year from ill ness or from other causes Its an unhappy condition but the cruel fact is that despite advances in safety practices and medical science the disabled portion of our population is constantly increasing The question isWhat can be done to help these people overcome their dis abilities What do we plan to do for disabled Americans in order that they may be in a position to do a days work and get a days pay I think that the best answer lies in the vocational rehabilitation programs which are fostered jointly by the Fed eral Government and each of the 48 states the District of Columbia Hawaii and Puerto Rico Congress recognizes and has implementedthe right of all Americans to all necessary services which will help them to overcome or eliminate handicaps to employment re sulting from accident illness or other causes Vocational rehabilitation for civilians is not newalthough Ill grant you that weve been hearing more about it since VJ Day than in all the other years it has been in existence Voca tional rehabilitation dates back 26 years But not until 1943 did we have the present law which provides any service necessary to get disabled persons ready to take jobs Public Law 113 Congress enacted in 1920 the first Vocational Rehabilitation Act for the civilian populace but had to renew the financial provisions from time to time to keep the programs in operation in 1935 provision was made for the first per manent authorization of funds in the amount of 1938000 annually for grants to the states Congress increased the annual authorization to 3500 000 in 1939 and in 1943 enacted the Bar denLaFollette Amendments otherwise known as Public Law 113 of the 78th Congress which removed the ceilings on Federal funds to be made available to the states for vocational rehabilita tion programs for civilians Public Law 113 also made provisions for rehabili tation of the emotionally and mentally ill as well as the physically handi capped In contrast to the program of reha bilitation for war veterans which is conducted by the Veterans Adminis tration the civilian program of voca tional rehabilitation is a partnership be tween the Federal Government and the states The states actually provide all services to individuals and the Federal Government assists them bv paying ap proximately 70 per cent of the cost of all state programs The Federal Gov ernment pays the full administrative costs of state programs and bears half the expense of services to individuals One of the most significant provi sions of Public Law 113 permits utiliThe Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation News October 1946 zation of medical surgical and psychia tric treatment to remove or reduce physical or mental conditions which are held to be job handicaps The original legislation authorized only the furnish ing of artificial appliances such as limbs hearing aids braces and the like it did not provide for corrective services to obviate the artificial aide or make their utilization more effective Now any man or woman of working age with a substantial job handicap in the form of a physical or mental impair ment is eligible for StateFederal voca tional rehabilitation These services are available not only for persons whose disabilities are readily discernible such as amputees paralytics cerebral palsied or spastics and the blind but also for those with unseen handicaps such as ar rested tuberculosis emotional disabili ties deafness and heart disease In short any condition resulting from ac cident illness or other origin which substantially prevents or interferes with a persons earning a living in accord ance with his best ability would make the person eligible for vocational reha bilitation Vocational rehabilitation is a public service in the same sense as our school systems visiting nurse services libra ries health centers welfare agencies municipal water systems and police and fire departments Vocational rehabili tation is not charity Id like to empha size that againvocational rehabilita tion is not charity The Congress of the United States has assumed leader ship in advocating the establishment of these services for all Americans who need them It has made Federal funds available to the states to help meet the costs of these services Whv one might properly inquire with all these services available is there a backlog of a million and a half men and women of working age with job handicaps 400 Per Cent Increase Several factors are involved First of all the expanded programs have been in operation only three years From the enactment of the original Voca tional Rehabilitation Act in 1920 until Congress passed Public Law 113 just 210000 persons were rehabilitated into jobs The expanded programs went into operation when the United States and our allies were engaged in a bitter un relenting war with the Axis powers Therefore until after VJ Day very few men and women who were eligible for vocational rehabilitation services were aware of the fact because news papers magazines radio stations and other media for disseminating informa tion were primarily and understandably interested in the progress of our armed forces As a result we did not have the opportunities which we have at our dis posal today for bringing home to the people who are eligible and waiting the essential information concerning voca tional rehabilitation and approximately 123000 persons were all who came to benefit from the programs between July 6 1943 and the close of the 1946 fiscal year It is encouraging to note how ever that the average of rehabilitations into employment has gone up from 9100 a year before passage of Public Law 113 to more than 40000 a year after passage of the amendments This is an increase of better than 400 per cent I like to emphasize and reemphasize that rehabilitated workers have proved by their records in bustling wartime in dustries that when they have been prop erlv trained and placed in jobs which utilize their best abilities they are no more handicapped than the ablebodied men and women who work at their side The Federal Office of Vocational Re habilitation made a survev of 100 con cerns employing socalled handicapped workers and found that Handicapped workers are equally as efficient many even slightly better than ablebodied workers66 per cent were equal to the ablebodied 24 per cent were better and only 10 per cent were worse Handicapped workers have better safety records56 per cent had fewer accidents than the nonhandicapped 41 per cent had records as good and only two per cent had worse records Less Absenteeism Handicapped workers come to work regularly55 per cent of those sur veyed were absent less frequently than nonhandicapped workers 40 per cent had the same absentee record and only five per cent had worse Handicapped workers stay on the job longerrecords show that 82 per cent stayed on the job longer than the non handicapped 16 per cent had records as good as the completely ablebodied and onlv one per cent had worse records I think youll agree that these sta tistics are impressive and convincing I should like to point out that the fore sroine records were made by socalled handicapped workers at a time when their services were so urgently required that they were placed in iobs with a minimum of preparation We can only surmise what the potentialities of these same workers would be today with suf ficient time available to provide the allround vocational rehabilitation services to which they are entitled It goes without saying that their produc tion and efficiency records would be even better than they were during the war The national rehabilitation programs are emerging from the obscurity in which they were cloaked for 20odd years because of limited services and funds Congress has given the states the green light by guaranteeing ade quate financial support for their efforts Longrange planning and vision are called for at this time Quantity and quality can go forward hand in hand Lets consider again the backlog of one million and a half men and women who need rehabilitation services right now and the 200000 others who are expected to become disabled each year Lets also consider what we might do to reduce this loss in manpower We could reduce the backlog at the rate of 100000 cases a year if we set out to rehabilitate 300000 persons an nually At this rate it would follow that the backlog would be exhausted in 15 years However since state agencies are currently closing out as rehabilitated slightly more than 40000 persons per year it appears that we will not imme diately be able to achieve the goal we would like to set Progress at the rate of 150000 per year seems to be a more realistic goal at the present time The figure can be stepped up as often as warranted with increased rehabilita tions Our experience has shown us that the average cost per case for rehabilita tion is 300 With the goal set at 150000 rehabilitations per year the cost of the program for one vear would be fortyfive million dollars The states probably would have to make available approximately thirteen and onehalf millions of the fortyfive mil lion dollar total The states share then would amount to less than ten cents from each resident of the United States on the basis of the latest popula tion estimates of 140000000 men women and children Some Never Worked By looking back at what was accom plished in one year for physically and mentally handicapped persons we can have some idea of what can be accom plished in the future if state appropria tions for vocational rehabilitation should amount to just ten cents for each person in the population of the respective states During the 1946 fiscal vear services were provided for approximately 175 000 handicapped men and women of whom an estimated 36000 completed rehabilitation and obtained jobs The others were still in process of rehabili tation at the close of the year or madeadjustment without the need of major rehabilitation services Of those reha bilitated into jobs previous experience indicates that 79 per cent were unem ployed at the time of applying for serv ices and 18 per cent had never worked previously From data based on the fiscal year 1945 vfe found that before rehabilita tion these handicapped men and women subsisted on incomes totaling approxi mately 12000000 a year which they received from odd jobs parttime em ployment etc After rehabilitation they became jobholders earning at the rate of 73000000 a yearan income increase of 600 per cent a year The average salary rate was 1764 Business Basis In doing the rehabilitation job ex isting public and private facilities and all available service resources are util ized Training is secured from public and private schools vocational training courses and inservice training on the job Medical and surgical diagnostic services and treatment are purchased or secured from practicing physicians and hospital care from both public and voluntary hospitals Jobs are found in private business and Government on the customary business basis We have made a good beginning with the expanded services which Con gress has made available for vocational rehabilitation but we are barely scratch ing the surface We would not be fair to ourselves or to the state legislatures if we were to say that little progress has been made since July 6 1943 It is true that some states have lagged behind unfortunate ly It is true also that national figures on rehabilitations into employment are disappointing even when proper weight is given to increased quality and quan tity of services and to the problems of administration which have been encoun tered Nevertheless progress has been definite in the majority of states For the first threequarters of the 1946 fiscal year Georgias enterprising programheaded by Mr Paul S Bar rett as directorenrolled more clients than all of the New England states plus the state of New York Georgia was actually rendering services to fourfifths as many clients as the New England states plus the state of New York and Georgia provided the highest number of physical restorations of any state in the Union bar none It is heartening to see that Georgia is exceeding the indicated estimates based on populationof the number of men and women who should be receiv ing vocational rehabilitation services Your state has located more eligible disabled persons and is serving more than any other state in the nation There is no doubt that Georgia is one of the states which recognize the extent of the problems of disability con fronting our nation and are trying to make real headway in solving those problems through an adequate program of vocational rehabilitationClerical Workers from all the offices in the state many of them not too familiar with the techniques and regulations under which the Vocational Rehabilitation program operates received a weeks instruction from Assistant Directors A L Davis and A P Jarrell Assistant Regional Representative Foster Mr Barrett and Mrs Lucy Hughes administrative assistant to Mr Barrett More than half of these young women have joined the staff since the 1945 annual conference First row left to right Miss Dorothy King Rome Miss Sally Quillian Gainesville Mrs Mildred Callahan Way cross Mrs Jeanette Whittington Savannah Miss Myrtice Cannon Savannah Miss Adeline Preston Savannah Miss Jane Melton Atlanta Miss Judy Creel Atlanta P S Bar rett Miss Mary Lou Norton Atlanta Miss Emma Longino Atlanta Mrs Elizabeth Lunsford Atlanta Miss Mary Hewin Clarkesville Mrs Adele Hester Albany Mrs Mar ion Maier Atlanta Mrs Mary Norton Atlanta Second row left to right Miss Wilma New Brunswick Mrs Irene Spencer Columbus Mrs Lucy Hughes Atlanta Mrs Louise Oakley Atlanta Mrs Rosagene Huggins At lanta Mrs Anita Scott Savannah Mrs Thelma Moore Albany Mrs Margaret Arnett Macon Miss Melva Barrett Macon Mrs Genie Reynolds Atlanta Mrs Emoylees Young Atlanta Mrs Nina Means Atlanta Miss Essie Mae Byess Atlanta Third row left to right Mrs Edna Odom Waycross Mrs Grace Billiter Columbus Miss Mary Weaver Atlanta Miss Helen Ann Mulligan Augusta Mrs Louise Smith Atlanta Miss Evelyn Hester Augusta Miss Ruth Radford Augusta Miss Mary Fanning Augusta Miss Annie Sue Hunnicutt Savannah Miss Betty Henderson Augusta Mrs Anne Bearse Atlanta Miss Katherine Chappell Dublin A P Jarrell Miss Eva Mitchell Atlanta Miss Mildred Hale Atlanta Mrs Gladys Barbazon Atlanta Mrs Phil M Kimball Macon Mrs Nellie White Atlanta Miss Eva Webb Macon A L Davis Mrs Augusta Swicord Atlanta Miss Virginia Porter Atlanta Miss Hannah Slappey At lanta Mrs Florence Maddox Atlanta Miss Virginia Grover Thomasville Miss Katherine Campbell Atlanta Miss Nelle Loftin Athens Miss Mavis Nunnally Athens Mrs Billie Fuller Atlanta Mrs Mary Doster Macon Mrs Elizabeth Roberson Atlanta Mrs Rosa M Dial Columbusof Federal and State Staffs Cooperation By Michael J Shortley Director Federal Office of Vocational Rehabilitation I want to congratulate Dr Collins and Mr Barrett and all of their asso ciates who by their results and plan ning have gone a long way toward proving that all disabled persons in Georgia who need vocational rehabili tation services will be provided with those services During the past year Georgias re habilitation case load has been increased by 13 per cent At last check it was in excess of 25000 and that was 11 per cent of the national case load During the past three fiscal years Georgia has rehabilitated into employ mentinto paying useful jobs7500 men and women That is an enviable record and one that few states can match These figures are significant There is no way to measure the social gains that have and will continue to result But they are great and we can at least mention some of them In the fiscal year 1945 there were 2361 completed rehabilitations in Georgia At the time they were surveyed for services 960 of these men and women were partly de pendent and 610 were totally depend ent Thats about twothirds totally or partially dependent on others Of these 1570 persons 937 were dependent upon their families and the others upon some form of charityI may say some other form of charity When we see them restored to full selfsupporting status we can easily visualize the greater stability within the families upon whom they were dependent Money which went to support the dis abled member might easily be spent on the brothers and sisters to give them better education and greater opportuni ties in life Or it might be spent on a needed operation to improve the health and lengthen the life of the mother Or it might be put to some other equally desirable and effective use We can easily visualize the effect on the rehabilitant when he ceases to be dependent and becomes a selfsustaining citizen Your excellent Georgia Voca tional Rehabilitation News for August gives us a fine idea of just what that means The cover illustration shows an older son or husband of a family approaching his home on crutches Before the Vocational Rehabilitation Con ference Savannah Ga August 23 1946 10 Gathered on the porch are the mother and several younger members of the family In his hand the man on crutches holds a paper The smiles on the faces of the family group on the porch speak more eloquently than any words of the pleasure they feel for the white paper as your caption tells us is the first paycheck And there is pride in the new wage earners bearing where before there was nothing but despair Children Share Benefits A large proportion of your rehabili tants had families of their own families which normally would have been de pendent upon them Rehabilitating these normal breadwinners will have its beneficial effect down through the generations through the provision of better care and greater opportunities for children whose family life would continue to be distorted except for your successful efforts in rehabilitation I would hesitate to place a dollar and cents value on your total rehabilita tions but I can give some slight indi cation of that value In the year of which I spoke fiscal 1945 our na tional figures showed the average earn ings of rehabilitants at the time serv ice was started to be 24 a month That would make the total earnings of your 2361 men and women 56664 a month at the start of services Your own State figures compiled from ac tual records reveal that this was in creased to 338000 Thats just about sixfold If this comparison were pro jected to a 12 month basis we would have these figures Earnings before rehabilitation 680 000 earnings after rehabilitation 4 000000 That is just one year The gains go on from year to year and they increase each year as more Georgians are re habilitated That process takes Geor gians off the relief and charity rolls off their friends and relatives It converts taxconsumers into taxpayersand that benefits every person in the State Under the direction of Mr Barrett Georgia has had the vision to see the job of vocational rehabilitation in its proper proportions I want to congrat ulate Mr Barrettand Dr Collins on the foresight to recognize the job on the organizing ability to prepare for it and on the energy and determination to do it I know that a vigorous program of public information has had its part in bringing Georgia into the forefront of States which are serving a high propor tion of their people who need rehabili tation services The general public has been informed in Georgia and that will increase the public understanding of the program Employers Sold Those who need services have been informed and that increases the effi ciency and economy of operation in two ways It stimulates early rehabilita tions and these are both more effective and less costly than if services are start ed after disease or injury have wasted hope determination and skills The employers of your State have been informed and there are many tes timonials from them to the effect that the handicapped workerproperly pre pared for a job within his capacities and placed on such a jobis as effective as a nonhandicapped person The objec tive of rehabilitation is to put people who cant work or who cant work effectively because of some disability into position to work effectively and into jobs where they can do good work If the employers are not informed and sold the jobs will not be forthcom ing and much of the rehabilitation effort will have been wasted Your cooperating agenciesthe wel fare agencies the employment service and othershave been informed and that brings early referral of cases so that a good job can be done at lowest cost and it also means that you have help in the placement of your rehabili tated clients Your medical profession has been wellinformed and Georgia has set an enviable record in the number of men and women for whom medical surgical psychiatric prosthetic and related serv ices have been provided Winning the cooneration of the medical profession is vital in any program of rehabilitation So all in all Georgia has measured up admirably to the size of the job I know that all of you probably have too much work to do I know that each of you would feel that if you had a little more time to devote to some cases you could complete more rehabilitations more successfully I know that gen erally the counselors are overburdened John Sutlive editor of representative of Unio m and have too many cases to handle That is one of the things that we must work together to correct More Training During recent years heavy war em ployment and the necessity for quickly productive manpower shortened the training perhaps lessened the physical restoration and certainly made easier the placement of rehabilitated clients Now however we probably will be faced with the necessity for devoting more time to training clients for work Peacetime demands for skill are more strict than those of war production generally We have rehabilitated the most ob vious and the easiest cases up to now We are moving toward the more diffi cult casesthose who need rehabilita tion services most and those whose re habilitation may be slower and more costly As employment and other conditions vary every effort should be made by every member of the staff to interpret to all with whom each comes in contact the trends and their effect upon the efforts of the vocational rehabilitation agency and most of all upon the clients who need the services which you have to offer To achieve that every member of the stafffrom director on down to the lowliest messengershould be kept The Savannah Press with Mrs Sutlive left and n Bag and Paper Company with Mrs Sutlive Capt informed of the trends and of the work of the agency Every employee should be in position to interpret the work that is being done For instance it might well be that one year you will rehabilitate 2500 men and women into employment at an average cost of 270 per person The next year you may rehabilitate the same or a smaller number but the cost per case and the total cost may be higher Where the cost goes up it is essential to make certain that the quality of the job goes up And the cost should go up only when we are giving more and better services to clients When we succeed in rehabilitating a homebound man or woman into self supporting status we know that we have done a bigger job than is done with less seriously disabled persons But we know it takes more time it requires more services and it costs more But the results are greater Investment Pays Dividends When we raise the level of employ ment which our closed cases take we know that it takes more and longer training and costs more The results are greater again however We should set for ourselves the goal of becoming the bestequipped and the bestinformed operating staff in Amer ica we are serving people who need the best services In order to attain Kirk Sutlive public relations aln Miller in background left that goal we must constantly strive to improve ourselves through inservice training and in many other ways As we improve ourselves we must strive also to increase both the quantity and the quality of our work There is great need for itas you people of Georgia recognizeand that need should serve to stimulate every one of you to the greatest possible effort in what I believe to be the greatest public service opportunity in our nation It would not be wise for us to concen trate on quantity alonethe need for thorough rehabilitation is too great Neither would it be wise for us to con centrate on quality alonethe need is too widespread I believe firmly that quality and quantity go hand in hand I know we must have both And Im looking to Georgia with great hope to demon strate that the big job can be done well The work of the Georgia Division of Vocational Rehabilitation has been a great inspiration to me in many ways I am sure it will continue to be And in closing I want to say that I con sider the work done here with such as sistance as we of the Federal staff have been able to give to be a striking dem onstration of the fact that a Federal agency and a State agency can work harmoniously and successfully hand in hand to achieve the highest in humani tarian social and economic results 11OKc 6covqvo9ocoXovcCV ekabilitatiotv Mws Published monthly by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Dr M D Collins State Superintendent of Schools Paul S Barrett Director Division of Vocational Rehabilitation 131 State Office Building ATLANTA DISTRICT Atlanta 305 Peachtree St N E Gainesville414 Jackson Bldg RomeRoom 29 Court House Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School AUGUSTA DISTRICT Augusta 607 Southern Finance Bldg Athens Hardman Hall University Dublin 401 C S Bank Bldg SAVANNAH DISTRICT Savannah2 East Bay Street BrunswickAndrews Bldg Waycross432 Bunn Bldg MACON DISTRICT Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg Columbus411 Flowers Bldg Albany213 Royal Bldg Intensive Training to Get Results Once each year this publication is devoted not so much to portraying the results of Vocational Rehabilitation as it is for 11 months of the year but in larger measure to how the work is done the organization which does it and the reasons why it is necessary This years conference was the most completely satis factory from every standpoint of any ever helda schedule of intensive training which we have a right to expect will pay handsome dividends in better case work Specialists in medicine surgery and psychiatry discussed their phases of rehabilitation Representatives of many state and federal agencies and civic groups with which Vocational Rehabilitation maintains constant contact were on hand to talk over details of cooperating in individual cases To all of them we are deeply grateful We have the same general objective and concernthe wellbeing of the people of Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation is far from an exact science It is as full of foibles and variations from the norm as may be found in each facet of the characters and disabilities of the 25000 clients on the case load Each new client presents a multitude of new problems As in education generally the more one learns about rehabilitation the less he thinks he knowsthe more he sees that there is to learn But a substantial background of understanding of the program is indis pensable That is why the annual conferencesand others of shorter duration must be held particularly for new people on the staff Once they get the subject into their bones they usually want to talk about nothing else In Georgia at least the staff has been remarkably stable over a period of years Few have ever left the work New ones are coming in because the state and federal governments and the Congress have seen the vast need There can be no greater thrill than to see a person down and out or dependent upon others for his livelihood placed in or restored to the selfrespect the dignity and the usefulness to his fellow man of being able to get and hold an agreeable jobM D Collins Georgia Leads in Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia which all too frequently trails far behind other States in realms of progressive action may well take pride in a revelation made this week by Michael J Shortley Director of the U S Office of Vocational Rehabilitation Reports just filed declared Mr Shortley indicate that during the fiscal year just ended Georgia rehabilitated more disabled persons than any other State or territory One knew of course that the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation of the State Department of Education was making great strides in enabling the disabled to overcome their handicaps and secure remunerative employment But one had not realized that Georgia had outstripped even the most populous States in this important field The fact that such progress has been made is indeed encouraging Restoration of the physically handicapped to the point that they can become productive workers of an integrated society gives them security and selfrespect and at the same time insures that they will never be a burden to the StateThe Atlanta Constitution If You Know a Person with a Disability Fill In and Cut Out This Form and Mail It to Us Anyone 16 or over white or Negro is eligible NameAddress I disabilityAge Sex Ra Reported byAddr Division of Vocational Rehabilitation 131 State Office Bldg Atlanta Ga 12Veterans Administration representative Oren C Warren above chief of the Vocational Rehabilitation and Education Division of the regional office of the Veterans Administration discussed correlation of the work for veterans and civilians He compared the methods of the two programs and suggested means by which duplication of efforts could be avoided while at the same time providing all rehabilitation services intended by Congress for both veterans and civilians with handicaps William A Cann manager of the subregional office of the Veterans Administration in Savannah also spoke He is shown seated at left next to Mr Foster Tuberculosis Problems and means of helping the extuber culous to return to or learn occupations not out of line with their disabilities were discussed by L L Young executive sec retary Georgia Tuberculosis Association The association has employed a coordinator R F Manlove for the Vocational Rehabilitation program just getting under way at Battey State Hospital Rome Mr Manlove told of the insanatorium plans for counsel and guidance Dr John L Elliott Savannah spe cialist said that each case of arrested tuberculosis presents varying aspects and must be judged on its individual charac teristics I Visiting Tennessee Director and wife Mr and Mrs L R Schubert above are greeted by Captain Miller Vocational Re habilitation in Tennessee as well as in other states received a tremendous impetus during the war which is carrying over into peace time years handicapped people having dem onstrated their fitness to compete with the nonhandicapped when properly placed Press Conference found State and Fed eral officials in complete agreement on all questions put by newsmen The men who answered the questions lined up for this pictureleft to right Mr Barrett Mr Shortley Dr Collins Mr Thompson and Captain Miller The conference resulted in more publicity state and national than has ever been given a similar gathering and helped spread the message of what Voca tional Rehabilitation is The dinner meet ing at which the addresses on preceding pages were delivered was broadcast over a statewide hookupDennis D Still center is shown receiving charter from Basil Stock bridge of the College Park post Seated are William W Chandler Augusta J R Hampton Clarkesville J B Bowen Atlanta J P Sewell Columbus Capt F A Sams coordinator of veterans educa tion and J F Sosby Augusta Standing are James F Segars Atlanta D Donaldson Rome Dr Collins Mr Still and Mr Stockbridge M R Little Waycross and Alton R Colcord Atlanta Fort E Land Post No 224 Ameri can Legion composed of veterans in the Department of Education was or ganized during the Savannah rehabili tation conference Charter members of the post are vet erans in the Education Department but employes of other state departments are invited to join The post was named in honor of Fort Elmo Land director of Vocational Re habilitation from its inception in 1920 through 1923 and state school superin tendent from 1925 to 1927 and Lieut Commander F E Land Jr who was killed in an airplane crash in 1945 Dennis D Still counselor in the At lanta district office of Vocational Re habilitation was elected post com mander D Donaldson counselor in the Rome office senior vicecommander J J Segars Atlanta counselor junior vicecommander A R Colcord state industrial specialist finance officer M R Little Waycross counselor his torian and Dr M D Collins chap lain Basil Stockbridge of the College Park post acted as temporary chairman and presented the charter Organization of the post was con F E Land F E Land Jr sidered advantageous because of the everincreasing number of veterans em ployed in the Department of Education according to Commander Still Fort Land Sr was born in Twiggs County June 30 1878 He attended Emory College at Oxford and was graduated from Emory University and began his teaching career at Cordele in 1903 He went to Dawson as school superintendent and while there mar ried Mrs Sue Barrow Gurr He be came state supervisor of schools in South Georgia and then organized the Re habilitation Division in 1920 Later he was Director of Vocational Educa tion and while in this position launched the forest service program He is credited with the inauguration of a professional plan of certification of teachers in the state and was the father of the Equalization Act adopted by the legislature in 1926 His efforts in behalf of education led to a break down which was soon followed by his death Governor Hardman other state officials and leading newspapers made statements mourning his passing and commending his services to the state and education in particular Fort E Land Jr was born January 24 1920 at Macon He attended Georgia Tech for a year before win ning a competitive examination for ap pointment to the United States Naval Academy He was graduated from the Academy two weeks after Pearl Harbor and served two years in the Pacific taking part in the Gilbert Islands and Attu engagements He was transferred to the Naval Air Corps in 1943 He was promoted to lieutenant commander two weeks be fore being killed in a plane crash off California in 1945 15Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education 129 State Office Building Atlanta 3 Ga RETURN POSTAGE GUARANTEED Sec 562 P L R U S POSTAGE PAID Atlanta Ga Permit No 935 iss Louisa Fant The University of Athens Ga Heckling by case workers was taken goodnaturedly by Dr Thomas B McKneely Chief Physical Restoration Services Federal Office of Vocational Rehabilitation H B Cummings regional representative in background joins in a grin In these days when misguided people either for notoriety or profit make much of Georgias alleged delinquencies the spreading of good news about Georgia was as refreshing as an ocean breeze And it was good news that came out of the rehabilitation conferencethe state of Georgia leads the nation in vocational rehabilitation It is a mark of the inherent high character humanitarianism and regard for our fellow men that abides in Georgia hearts that this state was ahead of all the others in lending a hand to the physically unfortunate to attain or reachieve their selfrelianceSavannah Evening Press Serials Librarian Ga COVER DESIGN The best of all possible omens for Vocational Rehabilitation in Georgia during the next four years is represented by the picture on the front of seven men in a boat They are left to right Michael J Shortley director Federal Office of Vocational Rehabilitation Paul S Barrett director Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education M E Thompson State Revenue Commissioner and Lieutenant GovernorNominee Mark Walter director of Vocational Rehabilitation in Pennsylvania Governor Nominee Eugene Talmadge and his aide George Wilson and Watson B Miller Federal Security Administrator The group at the bottom is principally the professional staff in this state who are going to have to get out and dig to hold Georgias topranking place in the nation this year First row E C Dendy Atlanta counselor Fred Driver Dublin counselor B R B Davis Columbus counselor Terry C Foster assistant regional representative P S Barrett state director H B Cummings regional representative A L Davis assistant state director C H Parker Savannah counselor for the blind B B Sanders Macon counselor W B Gaines supervisor of services for the blind Second row J P Cooper Augusta counselor for the blind J F Sosby Augusta counselor Robert Ellenberg Savannah placement specialist for the blind F E Wynn Thomasville counselor Ted R Owens Columbus counselor Alton R Colcord state industrial spe cialist Miss Juanita Miles Atlanta interviewer V A Drake Savannah counselor John S Prickett Augusta area supervisor Miss Edith Taylor medical social consultant G E Currie Savan nah counselor J P Millican Brunswick counselor H S McLarty Augusta counselor C E Lancaster Macon counselor J B Cheat ham Rome counselor Third row W L Flannagan Macon counselor for the blind E E Kennedy Macon area supervisor Tom Bingham Atlanta placement specialist for the blind Jerry N Hastings Atlanta counselor E K Bell Savannah area supervisor A P Jarrell assistant state director M R Little Waycross counselor C B Shroyer state supervisor of services for the tuberculous R Watt Albany counselor John Lewis Macon placement specialist for the blind Miss Marjorie Sessions Atlanta interviewer Miss Cassie McCIain Atlanta counselor J P Sewell Columbus counselor Fourth row J B Hnwen Atlanta counselor W W Chandler Augusta counselor B L Smith Savannah counselor Nathan B Nolan Athens counselor C W Bell Waycross counselor Harry Delaney Augusta placement specialist for the blind T J Demp sey Jr Athens counselor Eugene W Able Albany counselor T J Loudermilk Atlanta counselor P D Bush Gainesville counselor Preston Grady supervisor of research and information Glenn E Boggs supervisor of business enterprises Miss Bess Patterson in terviewer J J Segars Atlanta counselor D Donaldson Rome counselor Otis C Dyer Atlanta area supervisor D D Still Atlanta counselor A M Bowen Atlanta counselor W Lee Jones assistant supervisor of business enterprises J R Hampton Clarkes ville counselorol 3 No 2 iickabilitatiotv Mws November 1946 C H Realizing His Ambition to become a bookkeeper is John Oscar ONeal of Donalsonville He lost his left arm in a gun accident and although his school record was good he had no occupational skill Vocational Rehabilitation purchased an artificial arm for him and sent him to Joy Business College Thomasville Two Artificial Legs are no handicap to Ernest M Gurr in the job Vocational Rehabilitation found for him at Friedmans Jewelers Brunswick and he has learned a trade in which he can comfortably support his wife and three children Surgery appliances onthejob training and tools were provided by the Division Outstanding Success has been achieved by Lyle M Brown left below who wears an artificial leg Electrical training and equipment provided by Rehabilitation have made it pos sible for him to build one of the largest electric motor repair businesses in Georgia217 Newcastle Street Brunswickin a few years Shown with him are Client Lester M Knight who has a head injury which precludes outdoor work and Mr Browns secretary Miss Ruby Norris Miss Norris is not a client Mr Brown prefers handicapped employees A Hearing Aid has made it possible for Miss Lillie Cain of Route 3 Baxley to hold her job as a teacher at Liberty School J D Pritchard Appling County school supervisor reports that Miss Cain has been doing fine work since the appliance provided by Vocational Rehabilitation enabled her to overcome her handicap Miss Cains hearing was impaired as a result of influenza and she had previously tried the use of hearing aids without success before receiving Rehabilitation guidance The picture was taken during a regular class Three Handicapped Girls from South Georgia are re ceiving Vocational Rehabilitation training at the Perry Busi ness School in Brunswick They are left to right Miss Martha Cravey Miss Mildred Youmans and Mrs Juanita Barnard Miss Cravey a Brunswick girl was injured in an auto mobile accident and wears a brace on her left leg Her case came to this Division from the Crippled Childrens Division of the State Department of Public Welfare Miss Youmans is from Blackshear She has recurrent asthma She comes from a farm family had some instruction in shorthand and typing in high school and her disability will not be a handicap as a secretary Mrs Barnard from Patterson Ga has two children She has sinusitis and diseased tonsils and Vocational Rehabilita tion has provided medical treatment and a hearing aid for her r Skin Graft and Treatment for a varicose ulcer have restored H T ODillon of Watkinsville to working use fulness Unemployed at the time his case was surveyed by Vocational Rehabilitation he was sent to a specialist to deter mine if his handicap could be corrected The specialist re ported favorable prospects and the physical restoration has been successful Rehabilitation also provided a refresher course at the Athens Business College since Mr ODillons previous experience had been as a clerk of court and now he has Deen placed with the Magnolia Oil Company Ath ens as a bookkeeper Very Poor Sight does not deter Ellis Steed ley left of Nicholls Coffee County from becoming expert in handicrafts He is shown at the North Georgia Vocational School where his proficiency had reached a point at which he was ready for employment Voca tional Rehabilitation previously had sent him to a hospital for an operation for bilateral cataracts and then provided glasses Zoo Keeper through use of leg brace has been enabled to continue on job that other wise he would have had to leave This pic ture of Ayfield C Simmone of Albany was taken through a wire loop of a zoo cage as indicated by light outlines Mr Simmone was in pain all the time due to a slipped bone in his hip but the brace has eliminated the pain and made him much more efficient Trainiii Tuberculosis Cure By Robert F Manlove Rehabilitation Coordinator Battey State Hospital The Battey State Hospital for the tuberculous at Rome is now a reality and the service for those suf fering with the disease is being greatly expanded Dr Rufus Payne Superintendent has long recognized that the patients need more than medical care as impor tant as that is When the greater facilities at Battey became available the limited insanatorium rehabili tation program already begun at Alto under the direc tion of C B Shroyer of the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation was expanded to include occupational therapy more complete social service vocational coun seling academic and vocational education in addition to vocational rehabilitation Representatives from Vocational Rehabilitation and the Georgia Tuberculosis Association met with the superintendent of Battey and decided to secure the services of a rehabilitation coordinator Soon after ward I was employed by the Georgia Tuberculosis Association as coordinator and began work July 1 Dr M D Collins State Superintendent of Schools Paul S Barrett Director of the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation and Dr M D Mobley Director of the Division of Vocational Education offered the services of their Divisions to carry out a complete program of education During the three months that the program has been in operation funds have been set up for the employ ment of home economics industrial art commercial and watch repair instructors A room has already been set aside for the commercial work and patients are being enrolled for a stenographic class A watch re pair class is already organized and will begin work just as soon as an instructor can be obtained A social worker has been employed and a plan is being worked out to help the patients solve their many problems The social worker interprets these problems to the county welfare directors and helps in securing financial assistance dental service glasses and hearing aids for the patients Recreationa very important part of the patients lifehas not been neglected A number of games and some light athletic equipment have been set up in the recreation hall and a schedule for patients use estab lished under the direction of a hostess for the building The State has purchased a number of books for the library Many books have been donated by interested groups and are being assembled in the library These will begin regular circulation just as soon as a libra rian can be employed Funds have already been set up for the salary of the librarian The occupational therapy department has been opened and a nice large room designated for this service A number of bed patients are doing some craft work and an occupational therapist will be secured to control and guide this service Regular religious services are held in the chapel and are well attended Those unable to attend regular church services have had Sunday School classes ar ranged for them in their respective wards With the assistance of D Donaldson Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor who spends two days at the hospital each week 20 patients have been processed for interservice training or correspondence courses With the assistance of Vocational Rehabilitation a barber shop has been put in operation running full capacity and plans are being worked out to get a second barber within the next month The patients store is operating on an expanding program and taking care of the needs of patients most of whom are unable to go outside of the Sanatorium The guesthouse is being operated under an efficient hostess She has four light days but weekends she has an overflow registration smkOKe GcorcovocoivoitcCV AcKabilitatioa iYews Published monthly by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Dr M D Collins Slate Superintendent of Schools Paul S Barrett Director Division of Vocational Rehabilitation 131 State Office Building ATLANTA DISTRICT Atlanta 305 Peachtree St N E Gainesville414 Jackson Bldg RomeRoom 29 Court House Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School AUGUSTA DISTRICT Augusta 607 Southern Finance Bldg Athens Hardman Hall University Dublin 401 C S Bank Bldg It was with some hesitancy that we decided to use the cover design on this issue of the Rehabili tation News There is a point we know at which our desire and duty to portray the program to the public may violate good taste in a periodical of gen eral distribution It is hard to know just where to draw the line On the one hand we are doing a lot of work that the public never learns aboutand maybe the public should know about it On the other hand we do not want to offend anyones sense of propriety Do you think this cover design is shocking If you do it may be that you need to be shocked Be lieve us these are extremely conservative before and after pictures There are pictures of many other cases in our filesrecent oneswhich are far more shock ing and which we will probably never print Doctors use them They are used in medical journals But for the layman they would be too much Every one of them has to do with an occupational handicap Every one of them has to do with a Georgia person with a disability For some cases we have been able to do nothing For others we have provided physical restoration which restored them to or placed them in good jobs For still others we believe we have wroughtor caused to be wroughtmiracles If you want to see the evi dence drop around to 134 State Office Building some day This young man Ferrell Millen of 230 Austin Street Griffin was in an automobile accident in August 1945 He came to our attention in October 1945 He was wearing a towel over his face He had no job Would you have hired him We sent him to one of the best plastic surgeons in the nation and later to a dentist Today he is working and happy Do you wonder that we believe in Vocational Rehabilitation M D Collins SAVANNAH DISTRICT Savannah2 East Bay Street BrunswickAndrews Bldg The Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation News is always a very interesting and Waycross432 Bunn Bldg valuable book but the October 1946 issue just received is certainly the best of its kind ever to go through the mail I am very certain My sincere congratu lations not only on the marvelous job on the News but on the recordbreaking MACON DISTRICT rehabilitation program being done by Georgia I know you must feel a great n D T deal of wellearned satisfaction That sort of record requires inspired leadership Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg n lljill n as well as much hard work by the entire staff Columbus411 Flowers Bldg J Albany213 Royal Bldg Mrs Ruth Grant Editor Journal of Rehabilitation Thomasville 309 Upchurch Bldg Official Organ of the National Rehabilitation Association If You Know a Person with a Disability Fill In and Cut Out This Form and Mail It to Us Any handicapped person 16 or over white or Negro may be eligible NameAddr DisabilityAge Race Reported byAddr Division of Vocational Rehabilitation 131 State Office Bldg Atlanta GaAbove LeftTools purchased by Vocational Rehabilita tion enabled Troy Johnson 1105 North Madison Street Thomasville to expand his furniture repair business which had removed him from Department of Public Welfare rolls Totally blind since being struck in the eyes in childhood he nevertheless has become an expert furniture repairman and upholsterer with a wide clientele of Thomasville stores and families His business has a good location and he more than adequately supports himself and his wife Above RightWith paralysis and arthritis of hips and both legs Charlie D Evans of Haddock near Macon was trying to do farm work A medical examination indicated that he should be following some less strenuous occupation but Charlie had no training or skill for other work Voca tional Rehabilitation sent him to the Ward Street Vocational School and then helped him to buy equipment for a shoe shop Now he has a profitable business and is selfsupporting RightAlbert Carter of Augusta lost his left foot as a result of infantile paralysis At the time his case came to the attention of Vocational Rehabilitation he had no job and no work experience except as a shoe shine boy He was sent to Tuskegee Institute for a year to learn photography and was aided in other training He is pictured above earning a good salary at Sheehans Studio 809 Broad Street Augusta Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education 129 State Office Building Atlanta 3 Ga RETURN POSTAGE GUARANTEED Sec 562 P L R U S POSTAGE PAID Atlanta Ga Permit No 935 Miss Louise Fant Serials Librarian The University of Ga Athens Ga Disabilities Are No Handicap to Arthur G Browning switchboard operator and clerk at the Pershing Hotel 1428 Peachtree Street NE Atlanta His right arm and leg are crip pled as a result of infantile paralysis Employ ers unacquainted with the fine records of han dicapped people were reluctant to hire him until Vocational Rehabilitation stepped in and now Mr Browning has a job that he likes ami his job likes him Office Machine Repairman with a skill that should always make his services in demand is Carl E Simmons of the Athens Office Equip ment Company 268 North Jackson Street During the war he was employed by the Bell Bomber Plant and was among the thousands laid off Vocational Rehabilitation sent him to Remington Rand Inc for training and he quickly became proficient in repairs of adding machines calculators typewriters and tabulat ing machinesVol 3 No 3 December 1946 cKabilitatiotv cAfews UNIVERSITY OF renon QG J4ire the Jrandicappedf ZJhey c4re Steady Jeuable nwt iicttt Xiqq The Office of Vocational Rehabilitation should be sup ported by increased appropriations as rapidly as the program can be expanded it should carry out its work as it now does jointly with the States it must become the real servant champion and defender of the physically handicapped Report of Congressional Committee After Two Years Study of Services for the Handicapped October 10 1946Georgia Leads NationBesides leading all states regard less of population in Vocational Rehabilitation generally Georgia far outstripped any other state in physical restoration in the past fiscal year and here is the Medical Advisory Committee which helps make policies and set up standards At an annual meeting in Atlanta the doctors revised the panel of specialists approved for use by the Division and schedules of fees H B Cummings regional representative Federal Office of Vocational Rehabilitation emphasized that all medical and surgical services authorized must have as their objective making clients employable or more advantageously employable Seated left to right A L Davis the Divisions assistant director of field operations Mr Cummings Dr O F Keen Macon P S Barrett Division director Dr T P Good wyn Atlanta medical consultant for the Division A P Jarrell assistant director of technical services Standing Dr Albert A Rayle Atlanta Dr C C Aven Atlanta Dr Jeff L Richardson Atlanta Dr J T McCall Rome Dr JK Burns Gainesville Dr Ralph Chaney Augusta Dr Edgar H Greene Atlanta Mrs Elizabeth Lunsford Mr Jarrells secretary Dr Edgar F Fincher Atlanta Dr W J Cranston Augusta George Burt superintendent of Piedmont Hospital Dr Ben H Clifton Atlanta Members of the committee not present were Dr Hervey Cleckley Augusta Dr John I Hall Macon Dr J C Patterson Cuthbert Dr T F Abercrombie Atlanta Dr Spencer Kirkland Atlanta Dr Herschel Crawford Atlanta and Dr Julian Quattlebaum Savannah First Training Course in agriculture for counselors for the blind ever held in the nation was completed recently at the North Georgia Trade and Technical School Clarkesville Coun selors for the blind from Alabama Texas Pennsylvania Wyom ing Mississippi Ohio Missouri and Florida attended along with five Georgia trainees Lower left E W Brown Lima Ohio W H Hargrove Millen Ga Charles Brammer Day ton Wyo and Thurman Scarborough Elberton Ga all blind operate a baling machine Upper left Leonard Hoskins Phila delphia Pa and Charles Grider Talladega Ala hang a barn gate Mr Hoskins has partial vision Upper right Luther Pierce Gainesville Ga using a milking machine Lower right Part of a group of new dormitories Southern Ed And Blind Confer s for the Improving rehabilitation methods for the deaf and blind both in and out of schools was the sub ject of a recent conference in Atlanta Officially the meeting was on Integration of Education and Rehabilitation of the Deaf and Blind but actually nearly every phase of the education and prepa ration for employment of these groups was discussed Among the speakers were Michael J Shortley director Federal Office of Vocational Rehabilitation and Norman Elsas president of the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills a director of the Georgia Cooperative Services for the Blind and backer and leading spirit of the Atlanta Community Shop Mr Shortley spoke on objectives and needs of the Vocational Rehabili tation program particularly in relation to the deaf and blind Mr Elsas is shown at upper right Seated is Paul S Barrett Georgia Rehabilitation director who introduced Mr Elsas as a lifetime worker for the interests of the blind as well as one of the Souths leading industrialists The handsonshoulders group in the next picture are heads of schools for the blind called to the front of the meeting by M R Barnett director Florida Council for the Blind to illustrate past methods used in some schools for the blind in getting children from one place to another Mr Barnett suggested that better means might be found of directing groups of blind about buildings so that they can even tually rely on themselves In the next picture E H Gen try Alabama Rehabilitation director J A Moore Tennessee director of Services for the Blind and Carl Harper regional attorney OVR enjoy a joke L R Schubert Tennessee Rehabilitation director is in back ground State directors of Vocational Rehabilitation are shown in the first large picture First row left to right E B Whitten Mississippi director H B Cummings re gional representative OVR Clyde A Erwin North Carolina Superintendent of Public Instruction J M Tubb Mississippi Superintendent of Education Mr Shortley Terry C Foster assistant regional representa tive OVR Second row C M Andrews Florida direc tor Mr Gentry Charles H Warren North Carolina director P G Sherer South Carolina director Mr Schubert Mr Barrett The second large picture is of workers for the deaf First row Robert Gandy chairman of board for Schools for Deaf and Blind Mississippi Leonard M Elstad president Gallandet College for the f Deaf Washington Mrs H T Poore super intendent Tennessee School for the Deaf C J Suttles superintendent School for the Deaf and Blind Florida Mr Shortley Boyce Williams specialist on rehabilitation of the deaf OVR Second row Mr Cummings H G Dowling su perintendent School for the Deaf and Blind Alabama Laurens Walker superintendent School for the Deaf and Blind South Carolina R S Brown superintendent Mississippi School for the Deaf Carl E Rankin superintendent School for the Deaf North Carolina O W Un derbill vocational education director North Caro lina School for the Deaf Mr Foster Roy Parks principal Mississippi School for the Deaf Workers for the blind are shown in bottom picture First row Maurice Tynan chief Busi ness Enterprises Unit Services for the Blind OVR J A Moore director Services for the Blind Tennessee Mrs Madelaine McCrary su pervisor Rehabilitation Services for the Blind North Carolina Robert Irwin director American Foundation for the Blind New York Mrs D W McBryde director Division for the Blind Mississippi Department of Public Welfare John Eakes superintendent Mississippi School for the Blind Robert Gandy chairman of board Schools for the Deaf and Blind Mississippi John Haynes super visor Rehabilitation of the Blind Alabama Second row Mr Cum mings Mr Barnett Harry Sim mons director Rehabilitation of the Blind Florida E J Wood director Rehabilitation of the Blind Tennessee John Herndon superintendent Georgia Acad emy for the Blind J I Rankin supervisor Rehabilitation Serv ices for the Blind Mississippi Egbert Peeler superintendent School for the Blind North Caro lina Laurens Walker superin tendent School for the Deaf and Blind South Carolina R A Rouse supervisor Rehabilitation Services for the Blind South Carolina Mr Shortley Mr Fos ter W B Gaines supervisor Services for the Blind Georgia C J Suttles superintendent School for the Deaf and Blind FloridaBeing Totally Deaf does not prevent J C Weimer from holding down a job as an auditor for the Georgia Highway Department He lost his hearing as a result of shock from lightning and for years was unemployed until Vocational Re habilitation learned of his case He was given a course in lip reading and other training and has been steadily promoted despite his handicap Losing a Leg did not stop Walter Mathis of Brunswick from earning a living for himself and family A shipyard worker he fell off a scaffold and the amputation of his leg was necessary He was without a job when first interviewed An artificial leg was purchased for him and he was enabled to begin a business selling wood and having learned to use the appliance he can drive a truck The Story Behind the Seal CHRISTMASSEALS The year 1946 marks the 40th anniversary of the Tuberculosis Christmas Seal A cheerful lamp lighter symbolizes fresh hope after the darkness of the past years of war Christmas Seals were first sold in this country in 1907 by Miss Emily P Bissell of Wilmington Del for the benefit of patients in a small tuberculosis hospital near Wilmington That year tuberculosis was the first cause of death in this country and in Georgia more than 3000 died each year of this dread disease Tuberculosis today though di minished by three fourths still kills more Americans than all other infections and parasitic diseases combined Legless Eyesight Poor yet Claude N Farrow of Marietta works steadily and earns a living in the Brumby Chair Company as a woodworker He was a victim of a railroad accident in 1913 which so incapacitated him that he cannot be fitted with artificial limbs Rehabilitation provided a steel rollertable and glasses which enabled him to increase his earnings Your purchase of Christmas Seals this year may help buy an Xray unittrain a nursefinance the rehabilitation of a patientor under write laboratory researchsome of the many ways Christmas Seal Funds fight tuberculosis the year round Christmas Seals finance the Georgia Tuberculosis Associations part of the cooperative program with the Division of Vocational Rehabili tation This program finds arrested cases of tuberculosis trains them in vocations suitable to their handicap and establishes them as useful members of society L L Young Executive Secretary Georgia Tuberculosis AssociationOKc 6eovqoVocoXoto ekabilitatiorv Mxus Published monthly by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Dr M D Collins State Superintendent of Schools Paul S Barrett Director Division of Vocational Rehabilitation 131 State Office Building ATLANTA DISTRICT Atlanta 305 Peachtree St N E Gainesville414 Jackson Bldg RomeRoom 29 Court House Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School AUGUSTA DISTRICT Augusta 607 Southern Finance Bldg Athens Hardman Hall University Dublin 401 C S Bank Bldg SAVANNAH DISTRICT Savannah2 East Bay Street BrunswickAndrews Bldg Waycross432 Bunn Bldg MACON DISTRICT Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg Columbus411 Flowers Bldg Albany213 Royal Bldg Thomasville 309 Upchurch Bldg Rehabilitation Information Is Vital Our cover design this month is a probably nottoogood effort to portray pic torially the report of the subcommittee on Aid to the Physically Handicapped House Committee on Labor which has conducted hearings and pursued other investigations in the past two years as a result of an increasingly widespread public awareness of the problem of the handicapped Following are excerpts The inadequacies and lags of our modern society are felt most keenly by the physically handicapped If there are not enough jobs to go around the physically handicapped feel the pinch early Any deficit in the budget for education is reflected in the lack of expensive educational facilities they need When there are not enough medical and hospital services they feel the inadequacy acutely They as much as any group in the community would benefit from full employ ment adequate health and hospital services broadened social securityand well financed and wellplanned educational systems In addition they require special ized services to meet the needs which are peculiar to their handicaps The exist ing inadequacies place a great burden of bitterness sorrow pain waste ignor ance insecurity idleness hopelessness and death upon the physically handicapped and their families Public prejudice against the physically handicapped is one of the things which must be dealt with if the physically handicapped are to be granted the opportunity for normal lives The subcommittee was told for example that many visitors to an exhibit of blind workers at the New York Worlds Fair were afraid to shake hands with the blind workers The general misunderstanding and misinformation about many disabilities adds an extra burden to the lives of these physically handicapped people The agencies of the Federal Government admin istering services to the physically handicapped should devote a portion of their efforts to the removal of psychological and emotional barriers which exist in the public mind and hinder the friendly acceptance of physically handicapped people for their own worth Expanded information services through the imaginative use of modern mediums of information are needed to tell the story of the physi cally handicapped The fine record made by the physically handicapped workers during the war years when employers gave them an opportunity because of the necessity to find manpower should be told and retold to offset the prejudice of employers who have had little or no experience with handicapped workers The Congress should encourage and finance programs of general public in formation so that agencies performing such services as are recommended in this report may be provided with funds for adequate information services to profes sional workers physicians parents employers and the physically handicapped themselves This report is not to be taken lightly by any person who pays taxes in the United States We in Georgia are so convinced of its importance and of the fact that a relatively insignificant investment on the part of the public in behalf of the handicapped members of society will pay almost unbelievable dividends in general productiveness that we heartily commend this committees report to the 80th Congress which convenes in January M D Collins If You Know a Person with a Disability Fill In and Cut Out This Form and Mail It to Us Any handicapped person 16 or over white or Negro may be eligible Ns Address Disability Age Race Reported byAddress Division of Vocational Rehabilitation 131 State Office Bldg Atlanta Gar 4 t 3ot2f r o Would Not Have Lived if Vocational Rehabilitation had not provided surgery which restored her to work ability says Obie Berta Price of Cedartown who cooks for Mrs Tom Fleming 311 North College Street Obie had a tumor which made her unable to support herself and her aged grandmother Vocational Rehabilitation provided hospitalization and surgery Now she is an earner again Dear Mr Dyear she says above Otis C Dyer her counselor at that time I just want to thank Vocational Rehabilitation for my operation If it had not been for it I would not have lived I want you to know how much I thank you for all From Joblessness to 40 weekly has gone George Crawford 410 West Tay lor Street Savannah as a result of rehabilitation He lost a foot in an automobile accident and the condition of the limb became steadily worse He was on crutches Surgery and an artificial limb enabled him to get a good job with Seaboard Air Line Railroad After Three Years of illness with a stomach disorder Wil liam Singleton of Valdosta was restored to working usefulness through Vocational Rehabilitation When his case came to the counselors attention Singletons wife was supporting him and a diagnosis indicated he would die if surgery and treatment were not provided He had not worked in three years although before falling ill he had a splendid work history The necessary surgery and medicine arranged through rehabilitation have put him back on his feet literally and economicallyAbove LeftJames H Merriwether lost his right leg in an automobile accident At the time he had been earning only 5 weekly driving a truck Vocational Rehabilitation sent him to a doctor helped him buy an artificial leg and arranged for train ing in shoe repair From joblessness because of his disability he progressed to economic independence He is employed in the C E Lester Shoe Shop 117 Albany Avenue Waycross Above RightAnother employee of the C E Lester Shop is James Thomas James cannot walk without the aid of crutches Before becoming a Rehabilitation client he had never worked because of paralysis of both feet After several talks in which James was urged to express his choice of a job he was placed in training in shoe repair He is learning work at which he can earn a living without standing or walking RightIn many Georgia cities almost every shoe shop white and colored has one or more former Rehabilitation clients em ployed Isaiah Johnson Jr has worked at the Albert Lester Shoe Shop 874 Tebeau Street Waycross more than four years Albert brother of C E says he wishes he had more workers like Isaiah Isaiah has been crippled since childhood and before Rehabilitation training had no work experience except on a farm where he was not able to get about well enough for chores Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education 129 State Office Building Atlanta 3 Ga RETURN POSTAGE GUARANTEED Sec 562 P L ic R U S POSTAGE PAID Atlanta Ga Permit No 935 Wi3S Louise Fant Serials Librarian The University of Ga Athens Ga m Vending Stand left in Richmond County Court House is oper ated by Gregory Sullivan sponsored by the Georgia Cooperative Services for the Blind Inc and supervised by Vocational Rehabilita tion Mr Sullivan has been blind since birth Previously he was an interpreter for German prisoners of war at the Augusta Arsenal Training in Refrigeration at the North Georgia Trade and Tech nical School has led to employment by the Thomasville Refrigeration Company 118 East Jackson Street for Hayward Roberts left be low He has curvature of the spine the result of an automobile accident and previously had been treated by the Crippled Childrens Division of the Department of Public Welfare Artificial Arm enables Tom Queen of Hoboken to shoe horses do blacksmith work and other jobs in addition to farming thereby in creasing his income and raising living standards for his wife and seven children The appliance was purchased through Vocational Rehabilitation He lost his arm in a sawmill Vol 3 No 4 January 1947 ehabllitatiotv Mxvs Vi ssxW r aix JeC S4 6lSTT4L J2 C2T Paralyzed in Both Legs Virginia Elsberry of Tay lorsville nevertheless has been trained through Voca tional Rehabilitation for a job which does not require standing and is a member of the Georgia Employment Service staff at Cedartown Tuition and maintenance were provided for a business course which led to eco nomic independence for Miss Elsberry wv 9 fiA Curvature of Spine caused by a back injury when a child has not kept David Chapman of Marietta from learning a profitable trade Rehabilitation sponsored his onthejob training which led to permanent employ ment by the Conally Shoe Shop 201 Church Street MariettaDisabled by Atrophy of the muscles which began in his feet and spread through his legs George Candler Hagan of Sa vannah was trained through Vocational Rehabilitation in watch repairing and is now earning 60 weekly as an employee of L Lindauer Jeweler 423 West Broughton Street Savan nah Mr Hagan has not walked since he was 10 years old Vocational Rehabilitation in addition to arranging for his training purchased tools for him He married recently and he and his wife live at 24 West Liberty Street Mrs Hagan pushes him to work each morning home for lunch back to work and home again after work He has to be helped in and out of his wheel chair but in his skill and earning ability the result of Vocational Rehabilitation he needs no help Polio Victim unemployed three years since attack oi infantile paralysis is now operating popular key and gunsmith shop in Rockmart Edwin Everett had work experience only as a doughnut salesman and a window trimmer before being stricken He was left crippled by the disease Vocational Rehabilitation sponsored onthejob training in an Atlanta key and gun shop provided maintenance during training and a back brace which enables Mr Everett to walk with the aid of a cane only When he set up his shop in Rockmart tools were contributed he began to earn and buy more equipment and now he has more business he says than he can handle He has been transformed from dependency on others to skilled crafts manship Sales in Vending Stands Total 128000 in Year Gross sales of vending stands spon sored by the Georgia Cooperative Serv ices for the Blind and supervised by Vo cational Rehabilitation were 128000 in the fiscal year which ended November 17 it was reported at the annual meet ing of the Coop by Glenn E Boggs secretarytreasurer of the Coop and a Rehabilitation supervisor Operators were paid more than 20 000 as salary and profits the statement showed At present there are 19 stands in operation 10 having been opened in the past year Three more will be opened in the near future as soon as equipment is received At least 10 others will be opened in the coming year Directors of the Coop are Ben R Gordon president Clarence E Elsas vicepresident Wiley Moore Frank Neely Hughes Spalding and Norman Elsas Net profit to the Coop during the year the statement showed was 5 29448 which will be used to establish new stands affording other opportunities for employment for blind people The Coop had approximately 7000 invested in equipment stock and petty cash and Vocational Rehabilitation about the same amount as of November 17 Most of the stands operators to tally blind were unemployed before be ing placed in this work Some had never worked before in their lives Now they are taxpaying respected and selfrespect ing citizensTHERE IS A WAY Handicapped by accident or illness ITS NOT WHAT YOUVE LOST BUT WHAT YOU HAVE LEFT THAT COUNTS Rehabilitation builds on what you can do But you can fit yourself for work THERES A JOB YOU CAN DO Mr Davis wears an artificial leg sUmfSrJt tr JJ ejj 7n A IINNG GUIDANCE ML Q ARTIFICIAL 0 APPLIANCES O H CARE 1 MEDICAL I TREATMENT These four steps chart the road back to a self supporting job ft H a 4 i 1 o Cft4 iET YOURSELF IN SHAPE o do your part in a world of peace VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION Provided in all the States for men and women who have disabilities or handicaps which prevent them from earning a living X8isaosi Mr Sheppard 4 feet tall was trained as a linotype operator and employed by the Wrightsville Headlight 1 AGRICULTURE A service made possible by the cooperation of the Federal and State Governments Mr Farrow is legless gets about on a rollerplatform is employed by the Brumby Chair Company 2eZ sfCc o B a 3 u s MJ i OKc GcovfcoAocoxNcCV cKabilitatiou Mws Published monthly by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Dr M D Collins State Superintendent of Schools Paul S Barrett Director Division of Vocational Rehabilitation 131 State Office Building ATLANTA DISTRICT Atlanta 305 Peachtree St N E Gainesville414 Jackson BIdg RomeRoom 29 Court House Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School AUGUSTA DISTRICT Augusta 607 Southern Finance BIdg Athens Hardman Hall University Dublin 401 C S Bank BIdg SAVANNAH DISTRICT Savannah2 East Bay Street BrunswickAndrews BIdg Waycross432 Bunn BIdg MACON DISTRICT Macon 406 Bankers Insurance BIdg Columbus411 Flowers BIdg Albany213 Royal BIdg Thomasville 309 Upchurch BIdg Work Ability the Only True Wealth Let us suppose that John Doe of Crossroads Ga has a million dollars Or more accurately that he is worth a million dollars This wealth however is in stocks and bonds or otherwise invested in big corporations having their prin cipal productive or service units and operations outside Georgia Mr Doe has a big income of dividends interest and other returns on his investments on which he lives handsomely Perhaps he spends a little of his income in his town per haps he has two or three servants but otherwise his wealth produces nothing in or for this state 6 In the same town let us suppose is Richard Roe a blind man This blind man incidentally is not entirely hypothetical He exists in a good many towns m this state Through Vocational Rehabilitation he has set up a business Say a broom shop He makes brooms He has several people blind or sighted work ing tor him By the usual standards he is comparatively worth nothing If he liquidated everything he owned tomorrow he might not realize 200 But he has a going business He is producing The business has good prospects of grow mg of affording employment for more people particularly blind people who might otherwise be charges of the Welfare Department Which of these two men is really worth more to for and in Georgia Which is more of an asset to his state Which is more valuable to the economic growth of his state We make this point merely to emphasize once again the yardstick by which all Vocatona Rehabilitation is measured All medical diagnosis all treatment all surgery all physical restoration of any nature all training all counsel and guid ance 1 he primary rule under which this Division operates is that the ultimate objective the criterion of every small investment in the handicapped individual must be to make him employable or more advantageously employable The humane and the idealistic aspects of rehabilitation are praiseworthy But they are incidental It must and does pay out in dollars and cents Vocational Rehabilitation is demonstrating every day that there is almost no handicap which can bar any person from profitable employmentprofitable both to the person and to the collective productiveness and wealth of his stateif that person takes advantage of this service He may have been a victim of disease whch left him with physica limitations He may be minus an eye an arm or a leg he may be unable to walk unable to see or unable to hear In many cases he can be physically restored to usefulness and where possible that is done In other cases he can be trained to perform tasks within his limitations The true wealth of Georgia is not in its bank deposits its industrial plants nor even in its socalled natural resources Whole nations have been known to prosper completely outside the prevailing monetary system without gold or extensive natural resources when the people were industrious skilled and productive The true wealth of Georgia is the work ability of her people M D Collins If You Know a Person with a Disability Fill In and Cut Out This Form and Mail It to Us Any handicapped person 16 or over white or Negro may be eligible X nanmcaPPed Pson N ame Address Disability Age Race Reported Address Division of Vocational Rehabilitation 131 State Office BIdg Atlanta GaW 2 y2 Z rj Tf 6 2 Before and AfterThc pictures at the top of this page were taken at Ernest Whiteheds home near Attapulgus Ga in his front yard As illustrated that was the only way he could get about He had been crawling since paralyzed at he age of 6 Naturally he had never worked except at odd tasks he could perform in a sitting positon But he s a t ntelligent boy and he and his mother were eager to X dvantage of Vocational Rehabilitation as soon as they and the service existed The picture at right was taken in the State Office Building Atlanta after Ernest had un dergone surgery and been fitted with a special shoe Now he can get a job From a case workers report just after Er nest operation Visited client at Harris Memona Hos PU1 this morning and found him walking just as fast as he could go all over the hospital He does not have h speaal h vet but this does not stop him He has worn out sev eral pairs of socks Client is about the happest boy I have ever seen J JDivision of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education 129 State Office Building Atlanta 3 Ga RETURN POSTAGE GUARANTEED Sec 562 P L R U S POSTAGE PAID Atlanta Ga Permit No 935 Miss Louise Fant Serials Librarian The University of Ga Athens Ga Cutting Keg HeadsJohn Charles Bell of Rome had more than 90 per cent loss of vision in each eye as well as a skin infection and was unable to do any kind of work Voca tional Rehabilitation arranged for an eye operation and skin treatment Both were successful A cataract was removed Now Mr Bell is an earner again He is shown at work in the Etowah Heading Company Broomtnaker and operator of a profitable business for him self and his family is Robert E Baxter totally blind of Cave Spring Vocational Rehabilitation gave him a course at the Atlanta Community Shop and helped him in purchase of equipment to set up his shop at Cave Spring Mr Baxter and members of his family find a ready market for brooms University Training sponsored by Vocational Rehabilita tion led to a job as an accountant for Clarence J Home who lost a leg in the Merchant Marine during the war This clients tuition was paid at the University of Georgia He is employed by Russell L Speights First National Bank Build ing AtlantaVol 3 No 5 JtoKabiUtatiorv Mvt m mmmmmmmm I I fj V i fl a k 1 1 i A JH Circufafion Now 2 700 0Extra Digits RemovedMiss Jane Crosby of Route 1 Brunswick like several of her brothers and sisters had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot She consid ered them to be occupational handicaps and her original rehabilitation plan included training as a nurse Plastic surg ery gave her normal hands and feet Previously she had had to wear very wide shoes But romance intervened before she began her training Dear Mr Millican she wrote her Rehabilitation counselor I received your letter about sign ing up for the nurses training I havent had a chance to go by and see you so I will write instead I have decided not to take the training I am going to be married in the near future I thought of taking the training before getting mar ried but we decided that was too long to wait I sincerely appreciate all you have done for me and wish that I might do something in return My hands are doing nicely Hardly any of the scars are noticeable now and I have much better use of my hands OKo Geovcjvo9ocoovo2V Mabilitatiorv jVews Published monthly by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Dr M D Collins State Superintendent of Schools Paul S Barrett Director Division of Vocational Rehabilitation 131 State Office Building ATLANTA DISTRICT Atlanta 305 Peachtree St N E Gainesville 414 Jackson Bldg RomeRoom 29 Court House Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School Augusta Athens Dublin AUGUSTA DISTRICT 607 Southern Finance Bldg Hardman Hall University 401 C S Bank Bldg SAVANNAH DISTRICT Savannah2 East Bay Street BrunswickAndrews Bldg Waycross432 Bunn Bldg MACON DISTRICT Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg Columbus411 Flowers Bldg Albany213 Royal Bldg Thomasville 309 Upchurch Bldg You Get the Rehabilitation News Volume 3 Number 5or the 29th issue of this publicationfinds it with a circulation of 11 WU Approximately 18000 names have beer added to the 1 mailing list within the past year The size of the 4 publication has been expanded from four to eight pages and the number of pictures of clients in each issue has been multiplied several times The pictures instead of being taken here and there by professional photographers with scant knowledge of rehabilita tion are now taken by a Division staff member often in the clients home which may be in a remote rural section instead of a photographers studio Pictures taken in the clients home we believe usually give a more accurate presentation of facts Every care is exercised that all pictures must be true reflections oi uncolored and uncensored circumstances within the limits of good taste Medical pictures which might be too offensive to the public ThTtaxpSefmight well ask Who pays for all this The answer is obvious He does through the federal government But is it necessary Why do so many government bureaus and agencies spend money on information Etontm have newspapers and radios Why a special publication of a bureau We want t0 The UniteYstates collectively and individually may seem to spend a lot of money on propaganda but actually spend proportionately less than is spent by the agencies of any other nation Most other countries even have ministries of information with heads corresponding to cabinet officers in this country Georgia counselors seldom pass a day on the job meeting the public that they dont have to explain what Vocational Rehabilitation is Most people are dimly aware that something of the sort exists for veterans but apparently the majority of the taxpaying public has never heard of Vocational Rehabilitation for civilians Congress in Public Law 113 has set forth that every person with an occupa tional handicap is entitled to Vocational Rehabilitation services to place him in or restore him to working usefulness to his family and his country The nation pays threefourths of the total costs of the program in each of the states and 1UU per cent of the costs of disseminating information about the program We in Georgia know that there are thousands of cases of handicapped people in this state eligible for Vocational Rehabilitation who are not being reached principally because of lack of thorough public understanding of the services avail able We want to do everything within our power to reach all the eligible and feasible cases to increase the productivity and happiness of our people That is the reason for the existence of this publication It goes to a carefully selected list of people in a position to make referrals or aid the program in a definite way If your name is on the list dont think we just got it out of a telephone book Youre on the list because we have reason to think you can help A congressional committee has urged expanded information services through the imaginative use of modern mediums of information to tell the story of the physically handicapped The Federal Office of Vocational Rehabilitation has urged other states to follow Georgias lead in an information program M u Collins If You Know a Person with a Disability Fill In an 16 or over white or Negro may be eligible d Cut Out This Form and Mail It to Us Any handicapped person Name Disability Address AgeSex Race Address Reported by Division of Vocational Rehabilitation 131 State Office Bldg Atlanta Ga Ji gazine How the mother and father of a South Georgia family were enabled to overcome extreme physical handicaps rear eight chil dren and pay for their farm is told in the current issue of the Journal of Rehabilita tion official organ of the National Rehabilita tion Association The father crippled by a back injury in 1928 and the mother unable to walk with out a crutch since she was two years old be cause of infantile paralysis nevertheless have been restored to health by Vocational Re habilitation and with Farm Security Admin istration assistance have achieved taxpaying independence An automobile screeched to a stop at a very modest North Florida bungalow The driver called Hey Mrs Heard says the article by Preston Grady Supervisor of Re search and Information Division of Voca tional Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education In the kitchen a crippled woman said Move the turnip greens to the side of the stove Cecil My goodness wonder who that is Hope its not a bill collector She took the knee of the crippled leg off the chair which she had been using for sup port picked up her crutch and went to the front door The driver said You Mrs Heard Yes she replied Isnt that somebody on the back seat of your car Whats the her voice rose in terror John She went to the car and opened a rear door The driver said Seems he sorta strained his back lifting an orange crate at the plant where we work maam You better call a doctor I tried to get one but John Heard said Its nothin much Mat tie Lou See I can sit up all right If youll just help me in the house Jim so I can lie down a spell The driver said Dont try to hold him up maam with you on a crutch yourself Gosh looks like theres two cripples in the family now Whos going to look after the kids The boy Cecil came up and said Oh Pa Your hip is all twisted It was three weeks later Theyre bring in your Pa home from the hospital in Bar tow today children Mrs Heard was say ing and from what the doctors tell me hes not goin to be able to walk for a long time But I want you all to smile when he comes in now No cryin or anything like that The baby began to fret Ma it looks bad said nineyearold Cecil It was bad enough before You with your foot no good all your life and walkin on a crutch And now Pa Whatre we goin to do I dont know son Think you could plow a mule Sure I could Ma You may have to son We get back on a farm at least we can raise us a little some thing to eat And Cecil listen Yes Ma Dont you let on a word of this to the other children but Im real worried about your Pa Not about his back specially About him Hes awful moody and depressed Well have to cheer him up son You understand Yes Ma All that happened in 1928 In 9outh Georgia in 1933 things looked better of a summe dusk In the lot the cow mooed con tentedly The guinea hens wandered in from the fields going potrack potrack potrack Mrs Heard said Everett did you feed the chickens and milk Yesm The milks in the well coolin Mrs Heard dragged the chair on which she rested her crippled leg about the kitchen Its about time your Pa and Cecil were comin in from the field I do believe your Pa is improvin a little but land sakes its been five years now since he sprained his back the doctors dont seem to be able to do anything for him and he just purely cant work more than an hour or two a day Reckon we ought to be thankful though At least were not starvin and they say lots of folks in big cities are Nineteen thirtytwo was bad enough but this year looks worse The boy Everett said Ma you gonna let me quit school after this year Im pretty strong for my age No the mother retorted sharply Your Pa and me will never forgive ourselves for takin Cecil out of school when he was nine years old and puttin him to plowin but it couldnt be helped We never got a dimes compensation for Johns accident and all of us had to root or die Whats compensation Ma Thats something some folks get when they are hurt on jobs to sort of make up for what happens to them There was a knock at the door Mrs Heard went and opened it Good evening maam a man said You are Mrs John Heard Yes My names Joines and Im with the Farm Security Administration We help tenant gpr rTa farmers to make better crops and sometimes we help them buy places You and your hus band have been recommended to us as steady reliable people who have had a lot of hard luck Is your husband here Hes comin in right now she answered She turned and called John theres a man out here to see you John Heard limped onto the front porch Howdy I was just telling your wife that I m with the Farm Security Administration the visitor said Pardon me for asking but who does all the work around here The kids mostly said John Heard My back is out of joint or something from an accident loading fruit in 1928 Mrs Heard has been crippled since she had infantile paralysis when she was two years old Well the kids certainly must be hard workers Everything looks spic and spanand the land is in good condition What plans have you for a crop this year About the usual Peanuts mostly The trouble is we cant never get together enough money to start a crop the way it ought to be We wind up in the Fall every year not much better off than we were in the Spring after paying off the debts and every year I think maybe well get ahead a little next year but it never seems to happen Well said Joines maybe the FSA can help you a little this year Well try it for a while and if things work out all right maybe we can eventually help you start to buy a place That sure would be fine mister Have a seat here on the porch Mattie Lou send one of the kids to fetch some grape juice More years went by In a neat pantry one day an FSA home demonstration agent was saying Fiftysix quarts of string beans fortyseven quarts of butter beans twenty one quarts of soup mixturewhat about meat Well we still have plenty of ham and lard to last until we kill hogs this Fall Missdid you say your name was Humph rey Thats right Beulah Humphrey Only its Mrs You like working for the FSA Mrs Humphrey asked Mrs Heard neighborly Very much Particularly when Im deal ing with families like yours How in the world you managed to gather all these fruits and vegetables and can them walking on a crutch is beyond me Oh I didnt do it all The children did most of the work Since we are buyin our own place under FSA they feel like we really own something There were 206 acres on the place It was going to cost a little more than 3000 It was seven miles from Climax Decatur County Georgia Tenyearold Lessie was washing dshes and the FSA lady commented on it Oh said Mrs Heard from the time Lessie and all the others were big enough to push a cloth across a dish or anything else to help out theyve been doin it Mrs Humphrey said she had given this family a lot of thought Badly handicapped and yet making a success She told Mrs Heard she had spoken of the family to a Mr Able in Albany a Vocational Rehabili tation counselor She suggested Mr and Mrs Heard sign an application for Vocational Rehabilitation About that time Mr Heard came in from the field You know said Mrs Humphrey doc tors can do a lot of things now that they thought were impossible a few years ago E W Able counselor in the Albany of fice went to see the Heards Mrs Heard came out to meet him He asked questions Mrs Heard said she had been crippled since she was two years old because of infanti e paralysis It was impossible to touch the sole of her foot to the ground she explained Her right ankle touched instead She showed him what happened when she tried to stand on the crippled foot She took him in the house and introduced him to her husband Mr Heard answered questions and told how he strained his back in 1928 Havent been able to get about very well since Mr Heard said Sometimes it gets worse and Im not able to walk at all for days Mr Able sent both to specialists Mr Heard told the doctor Doc I came here to Emory University hospital with my fingers crossed Didnt think there was much use but didnt have much to lose Now 1 ve had all these examinations and you ought to know if theres any hope What about it Doc A disc in your backbone is ruptured Maybe two This condition should have been attended to long ago You should have an operation Is there any chance I will be able to walk straight afterward I can practically guarantee it the doc In another specialists office Mrs Heard was being told I understand you have raised eight children and run a farm household How you have been able to do it is beyond my comprehension Your ankle pains you considerably doesnt it She said it did She asked the doctor if an operation might help Yes he said but there would have to be two operations And afterward she would have to wear a brace for a while My foot would be straight she asked Yes it will be quite straight and in a few months you should be able to walk almost as well as anybody Both had operations at different times 5o one could stay home and run things They got the best medical and nursing care in the best hospitals In both cases results were far better than had been promised As this is written Mrs Heard is still wearing a brace but she can walk without her knee on a chair or a crutch Soon she can discard the brace Mr Heard the last time a counselor called on him was cutting cane and feeling no pain from his back The bones in his back have healed into their proper places Their home and farm are paid for The children are fine I went to see them and took the pictures which appear with this story As an infor mation representative of the Georgia Divi sion I asked them if they would mind having their stories told in an article or on the radio Well do anything for Vocational Re habilitation they said Appliances Make Earning power for H R Richardson of Savannah He lost a leg when run over by a wagon at the age of 12 Later he lost an arm in a planing mill acci dent Without artificial limbs he could not work Voca tional Rehabilitation helped him buy these appliances Crippled But Fine Nursemaid is Hattie Lee White of Coosa shown above right at her duties in the Open Door Home Rome Hattie comes from a very large family She was referred by the Crippled Childrens Division Depart ment of Public Welfare Vocational Rehabilitation spon sored her training She has made a fine worker with children Operation Gave Normal Foot to Evelyn Stinson of LaGrange She had walked on tiptoe on her left foot since childhood and the operation lengthened the tendon so that she is no longer crippled She is shown at work in Gallant Belk CompanyCyst Removed Brown of Wadley Ga had a neck cyst so large that his life was endangered by the possi bility of its malignancy A farmer he is the sole support of wife and four children He was unable to pay for the neces sary operation Vocational Rehabilitation sent him to a hos pital the growth was excised and he has been restored to health Skin Graft stopped infection and saved leg for Jerry Mitchell of Talbotton He had suffered a third degree burn so bad that he was unable to walk or do any work The condition was becoming worse He had no vocational experience except as a laborer and he has a wife and two children Vocational Rehabilitation arranged for the surgery and treatment atDivision of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education 129 State Office Building Atlanta 3 Ga RETURN POSTAGE GUARANTEED Sec 562 P L R U S POSTAGE PAID Atlanta Ga Permit No 935 Miss Louise Fant Serials Librarian The University of Ga Athens Ga Tornado Vtctttn paralyzed from waist down has turned rom despair to a bright future Augustus Seawright was referred to Vocatonal Rehabilitation by the Red Cross after a storm destroyed his home in Hart County killing his mother and severely injuring his father sister and brother Gus says he doesnt even remember what hit him all he knows s that he was paralyzed from the hips down When tL It17counselorTJ DempseyJrcalled hgh school graduate was sitting in a corner of a home put Tranin CmmUitym hh futUre ted purch se NT Tar W3S 3rranged fM hfm 3nd M xw 1 GtTh lV gd jb WIth the William H Maxwell Gft Shop Elberton He is shown at left on the Jwy rti31 h0mC hlS fath Mr6Vol 3 No 6 March 1947 5 I Jc Kabilltatiotv M The Blind See the Lame Walk Vocational rehabilitation is a sort of trade name for a program of education in Georgia which is performing some of the most interesting miracles of modern times Vocational training is an activity of the Georgia Department of Education Its bus iness is to find physically handicapped men and women and help them to overcome the handicaps The program has really been working miracles for blind lame deformed and dis easestricken persons wherever they could be found in Georgia The blind are taught useful trades which make them selfsup porting Operations by skilled surgeons correct deformities Victims of polio and other forms of paralysis are not only taught such useful trades as watch repairing typ ing and bookkeeping but are furnished wheel chairs leg braces specially designed shoes and other equipment Linotype op erators shoemakers key fitters gunsmiths and auto repairmen are among the hundreds who have become completely selfsupprt ing since receiving courses of training in vocational schools Accountants have been sent to the University for special courses the State paying the bill and all over Geor gia the beneficiaries of vocational training are leading normal lives after having over come grievous handicaps Most education is good though some un doubtedly is better than the rest but what the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation in the Georgia Department of Education is doing for handicapped men and women de serves to be rated very high in any appraisal More than anything that comes immediately to mind does the program mean hope for the hopeless with realization in a great majority of cases of all that the handicapped dared hope for Henry T Mclntosh Editor and Pub lisher in The Albany Herald January 15 1947 Battey State Hospital Patients are taking advantage of the comprehensive program of rehabilitation which is being launched at this largest tuberculosis sana torium in the world by Vocational Rehabilitation the Georgia Tuberculosis Associa tion and cooperating agencies Among the first classes to get started was that in typing and stenography Above Mrs Pauline Tucker Macon Miss Bessie Webb Atlanta Miss LaNelle Redfearn Moultrie right rear and Mrs Jimmie Dowd Wrightsville right foreground are learning typing under instructor C V Lovvorn center with R L Manlove Rehabilitation Coordinator at the sana torium watching in background Below Miss Ruby Baldwin of Cave Spring is dis cussing with Counselor James L Hise of the Division just what occupational read justment she should seek after tuberculosis The extuberculous should not pursue too strenuous occupations but are perfectly capable of competing with the nonhandicapped in jobs which do not drain their vitality over too long periods daily Patients Both are A W Gable of Cumming and Johnnie C Morris of Gainesville Gabe as he is known around the sanatorium visits the wards with his barbering equipment daily For those who can visit his shop in this incredibly immense and sprawling institution bequeathed by the Federal Government to the State Gabe can do a better tonsorial job as he is here demonstrating to Mr Morris Both Mr Gable and Mr Morris have their hours out of bed sharply limited each day but instead of stagnat ing during those leisure hours they are prepar ing to resume profitable employment when dis chargedOKo GcorcosJoco2voto AcKabilitatiorv yVews Published monthly by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Dr M D Collins State Superintendent of Schools Paul S Barriztt Director Division of Vocational Rehabilitation 131 State Office Building ATLANTA DISTRICT Atlanta 305 Peachtree St N E Gainesville414 Jackson Bldg RomeRoom 29 Court House Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School Augusta Athens Dublin AUGUSTA DISTRICT 607 Southern Finance Bldg Hardman Hall University 401 C S Bank Bldg The Men on the Cover Henry T Mclntoshs article on rehabilitation in his Albany Heraldone of the increasingly frequent editorial approvals in the Georgia press of which we are deeply appreciativestruck us so forcefully that we deeded to illustrate it with typical cases in which the blind see and the lame walk Thomas A Youngblood of 1660 Fifteenth Street Augusta had cataracts on both eyes He was virtually blind and about to become totally so He has a wife and two children in school Because of his blindness he was unable to con tinue operation of his wood yard Destitution threatened Vocational Rehabilitation sent him to a surgeon who performed operations removing both cataracts New glasses were purchased for him He regained his sight Now he can perform tasks which require good sight such as riling saws His business has prospered His children were enabled to continue in school From a burden to himself his family and his community he has been transformed into an independent taxpayer who holds his head high His case was chosen from among scores of similar ones for the cover design because he insisted he wanted to express his appreciation publicly Roy DeLoach Jones of 28 Woodward Avenue SW Atlanta lost a leg when an automobile struck him on a sidewalk He had been a remnant salesman He had a wife and baby Minus a leg he was unable to get work Vocational Rehabilitation bought him a leg and sent him to barber college After several years as a barber he now teaches at Moler Barber College 143 Hunter Street SW instructing students in physiology histology light therapy and barbering theory So proficient has he become in use of his artificial limb that many of his students do not realize that his right leg is off above the knee I wouldnt have had a chance if it hadnt been for Vocational Rehabilita tion Mr Jones says These men are not unusual They do not claim to be They did not let their disabilities get them down They can and do compete with the nonhandicapptd in their lines of business every day There are thousands more disabled people in Georgia who deserve the same kind of break Vocational Rehabilitation gave Mr Youngblood and Mr Jones M D Collins SAVANNAH DISTRICT Savannah2 East Bay Street BrunswickAndrews Bldg Waycross32 Bunn Bldg MACON DISTRICT Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg Columbus411 Flowers Bldg Albany213 Royal Bldg Thomasville 309 Upchurch Bldg With 1035 cases closed rehabilitated in the first six months of the current fiscal year this Division is seeking to excel its record total of 2400 cases rehabili tated in the past fiscal year when Georgia led the nation in rehabilitations regardless of larger populations in other states But other states are waking up Frankly says F E Hart Jr supervisor of rehabilitation services in California we dont like the idea of being shoved out of first place in the number of rehabilitations reported by our friends in Georgia We are glad however that the number of disabled receiving service is materially increasing and we have every intention of doing our share California has a professional staff of more than 80 workers compared to Georgias 60 If You Know a Person with a Disability Fill In and Cut Out This Form and Mail It to Us Any handicapped person 16 or over white or Negro may be eligible Address ame Disability Age Sex Race Reported by Address Division of Vocational Rehabilitation 131 State Office Bldg Atlanta GaTotally Blinded by Gunshot wounds in 1944 William Car ter Coggin of Waycross has overcome his handicap and is oper ating one of the 21 vending stands in Georgia sponsored by the Georgia Cooperative Services for the Blind and supervised by Vocational Rehabilitation He is shown here at his place of business in the Ware County Hospital Mr Coggin a policeman was shot by a fugitive He has a wife and two children Waycross civic groups aided in his rehabilitation Confined to Wheelchair as a result of arthritis which left him crippled Gene Mclnvale of Peabody Apartments Columbus has been enabled to learn a craft Vocational Rehabilitation arranged for his training with the B S Jewelry Company and he caught on quickly Within a few months he had acquired a skill which put him in his own business Tools were purchased for him and other guidance given Instead of becoming a helpless invalid he can earn his way in life Both Legs Paralyzed W W McKinnon of Preston Ga is pursuing not one career but two He is an editorial writer proof reader and linotype operator for the StewartWebster Journal a job in which he was trained under Vocational Rehabilitation sponsorshipand at the same time acts as secretary to the Clerk of Superior Court of Webster County Although still in a wheel chair he is able to get about better than before because of braces pur chased for him by the Division Before contact he had never worked His Own Business set up with Vocational Rehabilitation guid ance and training is operated by Ed H Johnson at Haddock and at last report after more than a year in operation he was netting 53 weekly Mr Johnson is totally blind After attending the Acad emy for the Blind at Macon he was employed as an inspector at the naval ordnance plant at Milledgeville but this employment ended with the war He was at loose ends until Rehabilitation helped him start his mill commissary store Determination and Vocational Rehabilitation have led Miss Lucile Gordon of Colquitt from a sharecropper house hold and the bleak prospects of a cripple to physical restora tion and a good job as a secretary at Sears Roebuck and Com pany in Atlanta Upon graduating from high school Miss Gordon had no particular occupational skill Her right kg was four inches shorter than her left as a result of blood poisoning at the age of 11 She had chronically diseased tonsils and was badlv in need of dental work Without voca tional guidance and medical attention her future would have been dismal But she heard about Vocational Rehabilitation and she had the spunk to take full advantage of it Opera tions were performed on her hip to correct the paralytic leg to remove her tonsils and the needed dental work was done She was sent to business college Her ambition and deter mination never wavered Now her ability and her future are as bright as for any young woman her age She has a trained mind in a sound bodyGrowing Business making brooms and mops is operated by R O Hubbard in Waycross Mr Hubbard lost his sight in 1932 He had no work experience except as a laborer There were seven children in his family Vocational Re habilitation sent him to Atlanta for training in a broom shop From Atlanta he went to Augusta where he helped establish a broom shop for blind Negroes which is still in operation and from there back to Waycross to set un his own business Popular Vending Stand in Charity Hospital Savannah is operated by blind Cornelius Carter Cornelius lost his sight in 1944 when potash was thrown in his eyes Previously he had been a porter and iaboTer He w s un employed when referred to Vocational Rehabilitation Trained in the pro gram sponsored by the Georgia Cooperative Services for the Blind he now Pnysicfa g thC fregr0Und f Pkture 1S Dr E J Smith S Surgical Correction a foot plate and a special shoe have enabled Isaac Cenker 79 Davis Street NW Atlanta to continue as the breadwinner for his family despite disabilities resulting from infantile paraly sis His wife and daughters assist him in the operation of a grocery store and the work is not so strenuous as to be inappro priate in the light of his handicap There are not enough words for me to express my appreciation of what Vocational Rehabilita tion has done for me he said in an un solicited letter4rr rm m Muscle Operations on both eyes were necessary to correct the handicap above of George L Gantt His sight has improved also Mr Gantts father is an invalid and his parents are dependent upon him and his brother This client also has a wife and child He is employed by Everdge s Bakery 600 North Jefferson Street Albany With his handicap his economic future was sharply lim ited in all fields which might require meeting the public and his ability to assume responsibility for his family was ham pered although he had all the other attributes for success Now that his handicap has been removed his business ad vancement and his personal happiness have immeasurably brighter prospects t I Double Harelip has been corrected for D J Walters em ployed by the Southern Cooperative Foundry at Rome Mr Walters came to Vocational Rehabilitation after reading a newspaper article He was sent to a specialist He paid tor the operation himself but he says he doubts he ever would have acted without rehabilitation guidance In his first conversation with a counselor Mr Walters said he was satisfactorily employed but that it might be neces sary to change iobs and a new employer might hesitate to hire him After surgery by the specialist his appearance is virtually unmarred Since it was not a case of economic need services were confined to guidance and counsel These photos have not been retouched Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education 129 State Office Building Atlanta 3 Ga RETURN POSTAGE GUARANTEED Sec 562 P L R U S POSTAGE PAID Atlanta Ga Permit No 935 Miss Louise Fant Serials Librarian The University of Ga Athens Ga ss 3Ssss85 Once Bedridden Mrs Annie Belle Clarke of 156 Herring Street Athens is now restored to work abhty and has resumed the arduous dut es of a housekeeper At the time she was referred to Vocat10 Rehabilitation by the Deparlmef f I ubhc Welfare she had been in bed for two years w ha rupture and internal disabilities She was un able to take care of her household consisting of her husband and three children and required constant care She was sent to a hospital and a specialist Tect theTf hCr hadiCapS and PtedPto cor rect them From a chronic invalid she has been transformed mto an ablebodied woman who is able not only to run her home but also to hold down a job ma 11 She says that Vocational Rehabilitat on has changed her hfe from misery to happinessMabilitatioiv Jws iol 3 No 7 April 1947 r APR 14 iuj mmsrt of ceogi Governor M E Thompson Discusses GEORGIAS SOUNDEST INVESTMENTNot Charity But Good Business By Governor M E Thompson I i L National and regional econ omists in both private businesses and government agencies are agreed that Georgia and the Southeast are facing a decade of probable expansion in industry and diversified agriculture which will be unprecedented Barring the unforeseen in national and in ternational affairs if we have the intelligence to guide and control this natural growth it will ac crue to the benefit of all of us With proper leadership and careful appraisal of trends Geor gia can come into a golden age of pros perity and happiness for the states citi zens Or we can fail to plan and an ticipate in which case there will be needless growing pains and drags on economic development One of the principal reasons why ex tensive economic development is bound to come to Georgia is the character of the states people Though many of them lacked industrial skills or ac quaintance with modern farming meth ods until the war they had the native ability and stability to absorb the les sons of the past five years and now com prise one of the most promising popula tion groups in the nation attracting new industries and new agricultural enterprises to the state almost daily In anticipating trends and growth one of the most serious mistakes we might make would be to underestimate the importance of a program of which we have become increasingly aware in the past few yearsVocational Re habilitation All the states in the nation have equal opportunity to share in this federalstate arrangement whereby the federal government pays 100 per cent of administrative and guidance costs and half the costs of case services Geor gia stands at the top of the list of all the states regardless of population in taking advantage of federal grants and in consequent rehabilitations of handi capped civilians Of this record we are all justifiably proud It should be cited to uO 77 socalled intellectuals in other sections who in the past have been inclined to look down their noses at this part of the country for low economic and edu cational standards which had been forced upon us and for which we were generally not to blame but which we have striven to overcome with consid erably more zeal than has been dis played in other sections when one con siders their concentrations of wealth and economic advantage Despite its leadership in Vocational Rehabilitation however Georgia has only begun to reap the profits to the states people possible under this pro gram The small portion of the field which has been harvested so far has been only enough to sample and prove the advantages which will lie in a more comprehensive effort In the past 10 years there have been 10697 successful rehabilitations of handicapped persons mostly civilians but including some veterans with non serviceconnected disabilities in this state Of the total 8982 of these re habilitations were accomplished during the past four fiscal years the big in crease in comparatively recent years be ing due to changes wrought by the war and by liberalization of Public Law 113 by the Congress in permitting federal funds to be used for physical restora tion in which disabilities may be cor rected rather than trained around The comparatively insignificant in vestment by the state in half the costs of case services resulted in almost un believable benefits both financial and in the hardertoestimate terms of the happiness selfrespect and independence attained by handicapped citizens and their families Of those rehabilitated approximately half had histories of unsubstantial parttime em ployment or had never worked and earned a living because of mm their handicaps And in the total F picture average earnings were multiplied more than five times as a result of rehabilitation Aver age annual earnings increased from 260 to 1360 The total cost of the program under which these rehabilitations were accomplished each year was only slightly in excess of total annual earnings before rehabilitation a nonrecurring cost which in many in stances took handicapped people off re lief rolls and made taxpayers of them instead of tax consumers Many paid more taxes the first year after rehabili tation than was spent to rehabilitate them Vocational Rehabilitation is not a welfare or charity program It is sound business investment in the lives of hu man beings who might otherwise be drains on their families their commu nities and their state This experience is only a sample of what might be accomplished Among the states 3100000 citizens it is esti mated that a minimum of 150000 have potentially rehabilitable disabilities and despite all that has been done the back log has been increasing each year These are people with handicaps which keep them from working at all or keep them from full earning abilities which can be obtained by rehabilitation Georgia is proud of what its Division of Vocational Rehabilitation has done In this work national statistics show it to be the most progressive state in the nation But we must not let it lag Rather we must give increasing sup port to its proven power as the economic salvation of a substantial proportion of our people From the standpoint of guaranteed and almost immediate returns state ap propriations for Vocational Rehabilita tion are Georgias soundest investmentMabilitatiotv Mws Published monthly by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Dr M D Collins State Superintendent of Schools Pall S Barrett Director Division of Vocational Rehabilitation 131 State Office Building ATLANTA DISTRICT Atlanta 305 Peachtree St N E Gainesville414 Jackson Bldg RomeRoom 29 Court House Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School Augusta Athens Dublin AUGUSTA DISTRICT 607 Southern Finance Bldg Hardman Hall University 401 C S Bank Bldg SAVANNAH DISTRICT Savannah2 East Bay Street BrunswickAndrews Bldg Waycross32 Bunn Bldg MACON DISTRICT Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg Columbus411 Flowers Bldg Albany213 Royal Bldg Thomasville 309 Unchurch Bldg Na Is there a possible job opportunity for a handicapped person in your business or do you know of such an opportunity elsewhere Your cooperation in proper placement of the handicapped is vital If you think you might help in some way with a placement fill in and cut out this form and mail it to us and a represen tative of the Division will call on you There is no obligation whatever Address Business Remarks Division of Vocational Rehabilitation 131 State Office Building Atlanta 3 Ga Her Own Business s operated by Miss Edna Estelle Greene near iiarnesville Practcally blind Miss Greene had never worked before rehabilitation except for one month packing doughnuts for an Atlanta concern She eft the Atlanta job because of the difficulty in getting to and from work Now she has a little store near her home this Division having helped her get started Cataract Operation enabled Mrs Annie Bell Townsend of Thomaston to return to a job in a textile mill which she had had to leave because of failing sight At the time her case was surveyed she was unemployed Her hus band who also was handicapped held a job in the mill but without her earnings the fam ily including a small daughter was in dire straits Vocational Rehabilitation arranged for removal of Mrs Townsends cataract and for special glasses and now she is earning much more than she ever did before Growing Patronage s swelling the volume done by this store operated by Homer W Starley at 319 West Broad Street Griffin with rehabili tation aid In addition to groceries drinks and confections he has put in poultry and stock feeds Mr Starley had to leave previous jobs be cause of failing sight and he is now almost blind but catarac opera tions have been arranged for him5WQ ft i Latest of Vending Stands to be opened under supervision of Voca n tional Rehabilitation is this one at Washington operated by Robert Roy Bradley totally blind since infancy Before opening the stand Mr Bradley had a very meager income as a magazine salesman The Wilkes i County Lions Club of which Mr Bradley is a member made a sub stantial investment in the business Home Laundry is conducted by Theodore Atkinson and Mrs Atkin son at 64th Street and Middle Ground Road Savannah He is shown with his four children on the porch of the home which he built himselt and inset at an ironer Before rehabilitation he had an unsubstantial work history and was totally blind The Division provided a successful cataract operation and glasses and bought the ironer Although Totally Blind Lloyd C Layton of Statenville earns more than 50 weekly manufacturing concrete blocks with his brother Garland also blind The business was set up through Vocational Rehabilitation assistance the Division purchasing much of the equip ment Previously Mr Layton had been sent by the Division to the North Georgia Trade and Technical School Clarkesville for a pre liminary course in which he demonstrated that he was capable of mechanical work Before rehabilitation he had been unemployedENABLED TO WALK in virtually normal position after fitting of a brace Charlie Murray of Coleman Ran dolph County will be able to take much better care of him self and his aged mother Without the brace with each step he had to bend over and catch his knee with a hand to keep the knee from giving way The left leg was crippled by in fantile paralysis when he was a baby and he had been hob bling all his life until he got the brace He is a farmer but Vocational Rehabilitation may train him for shoe repair I I RESTORED TO HEALTH by a goiter operation Catherine Johnson above her husband Lewis and their eight children are buying a farm through the Farm Security Administration near Oconee The goiter had grown so large that it was exerting pressure and Catherine was unable to do her work The farm payments had been met promptly but two children had been seriously ill entailing considerable ex pense Rehabilitation provided the goiter operation WALKING AND WORKING again after a knee fu sion operation and bone graft is J T Richardson of Cleve land Ga Vocational Rehabilitation also provided a special shoe and leg brace which the client wears at all times even sleeping His knee had been injured in an accident and he was unable to provide for his familv until these services were rendered Now the injured knee has stopped draining and a second operation may enable him to discard the braceTap a New A Georgia dealer has found mechanicswithout ads too By R E BENTLEY in The Southern Automotive Journal a trade publication read by dealers garagemen and distributors in 19 Southern and Southwestern states Tv rnest G Beaudr Inc last month tapped a source of Ej manpower which is expanding at a time when skilled mechanics are in demand throughout the United States General Manager C M Daniel of this Atlanta Ford dealership commenting on the employment of C W Dur ham in the reconditioning department asserted Mr Durham although blind is doing an efficient job of building fuel pumps and points for distributor plates He is also doing some brake and clutch lining work When needed he helps with carburetor work also I am firmly convinced that handicapped workers are reli able conscientious employees And they stick to their jobs They are very anxious to make good and less inclined to waste time gossiping with other workers taking time out to smoke or drink cokes We feel we have given Mr Durham a chance to be self supporting and at the same time we have gained a worker who appreciates his job and who is giving satisfaction on the job And Alvin Bowles reconditioning department foreman says I thought it would take Mr Durham a few days to get into the feel of things before he could start actual work However I was wrong He started in promptly building fuel pumps and there havent been any instructions necessary for him I think he is doing a fine job and all the boys in the department are well pleased with his efficiency and ability and are glad to have hm working with them Mr Daniel believes that in an organization of perhaps 100 employees it should be possible to have six or eight han dicapped persons employed They make good workers and it gives an employer a feeling of doing a little good for hu manity We have had several employees over the years who had disabilities and weve placed them in jobs where they could serve usand themselvesefficiently At present we have a young man whose legs are too bad for him to stand So we found him a job which can be done sitting on a high stool and hes earning himself and his family a living wage Mr Durhama mechanic before he lost his sightwas placed at Beaudrys through the Division of Vocational Re habilitation of the Georgia State Department of Education Georgia lays claim to having led the states regardless of population in rehabilitations in the past fiscal year2400 cases The Office of Vocational Rehabilitation has reported that blind workers have been found to average higher productivity operating machines day in and day out than nonhandicapped mechanics This was attributed partly to the blind person having fewer distractions and therefore to his greater ability to concentrate Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education 129 State Office Building Atlanta 3 Ga RETURN POSTAGE GUARANTEED Sec 562 P L R U S POSTAGE PAID Atlanta Ga Permit No 935 Miss Louise Fant Serials Librarian The University of Ga Athens Ga ttJUiift Charlie Walls of Cordele has a far bet ter than average in come although badly handicapped Rehabil itation provided train ing and supplies which helped him overcome disability He works for Brackins Jewel ers LaGrange JcKabilltatiotv Mws JitKAL UttRAR MAY lA 1947 1 JL Suzce u Seated See Sttcfad Sec P5 In Training as a radio announcer and en gineer at WBIX Rome is Robert V Rogers who is practically blind Mr Rogers tried out as a farm program direc tor put on a good show and with rehabili tation aid is learning other broadcasting work He had no experience except as a student He has a wife and child and is learning a trade in which he and his fam ily can become economically independent Tk Jf ft f Paralyzed in Both Legs as the result of an accident and unable to move about ex cept in a sitting position Carson Folds of Hrinson is homebound but nevertheless has been enabled to earn a substantial income Vocational Rehabilitation provided training and tools He makes cabinets and small boats Physical restoration was not feasible in this case and although severely handi capped Mr Folds has learned a profitable trade f 5I Georgia Leads But Has Only Scratched the Surface By ALFRED L Davis Assistant Director in Charge of Field Operations Georgia leads the nation in the Voca tional Rehabilitation of handicapped per sons and it is time that our great state takes leadership in many other fields of endeavor While we do lead in most of the phases of rehabilitation we feel that we have only scratched the surface in reaching and serving disabled persons in Georgia There are several reasons why Georgia has been able to accomplish more than other states 1 State School Superintendent The progress of any program is no greater than its leadership One of the reasons for Georgias leadership in Vocational Rehabilitation is the fact that in Dr M D Collins we have a real executive who has a vision of service to the people Dr Collins does not attempt to carry out every detail of the work in the many di visions of the State Department of Edu cation He selects without regard to political aspirations persons he believes can do the job He then provides for or assists in providing the wherewithal to do the job 2 State Director of Vocational Re habilitation During the 10 years in which Mr P S Barrett has been Direc tor of Vocational Rehabilitation the work has grown from a very small pro gram to one of the largest divisions with in the Department of Education Before any publicsupported program can secure adequate funds it must be sold to the public generally Through publicity and specific examples which illustrate the value of rehabilitation both to the indi vidual and the community the program has been sold in Georgia Gradually state appropriations have been increased to match Federal funds to serve a large number of disabled persons 3 Organization In 1941 the late President Franklin D Roosevelt recom mended an expansion of the rehabilita tion services in order to recruit handi capped persons for employment in war industries Georgia led most of the other states in starting an expansion of the re habilitation program by obtaining and training personnel to do the job This early expansion of the program in Geor gia has made it possible for Georgia to rehabilitate more individuals than many of the states with larger population For the fiscal year 194344 Georgia rehabili tated 2771 individuals California was the only state which exceeded that num ber In the fiscal year 194445 Georgia rehabilitated 2361 individuals only two states Kentucky and California leading Georgia during this year During the Excerpts from an address by Mr Davis before the Georgia Conference on Social Welfare Mr Davis represented the Di vision in the absence of Director Paul S Barrett chairman of the National Re habilitation Associations legislative com mittee fiscal year 194546 Georgia rehabilitated 2400 persons leading the nation Geor gia now has a trained staff of professional workers composed of 40 counselors and senior counselors carrying a caseload four district supervisors vending stand supervisors placement agents industrial specialist specialist for the tuberculous medical social workers medical consult ant supervisor of research and informa tion and survey interviewers At the present time there are only two states in the nation which have organizations as large and well trained as Georgias 4 Physical Restoration In 1943 the Federal Act was amended to provide physical restoration services Georgia was one of the first states to take advan tage of this expanded service Georgia is at the present time providing more Physical Restoration service than any other state under the leadership of the Assistant Director in Charge of Techni cal Services Mr A P Jarrell 5 Program of Services for the Blind The blind as a group have been very dif ficult to rehabilitate With the expan sion of the program since 1943 a special unit has been established within our agency the personnel of which works en tirely with blind clients under W B Gaines Supervisor of Services for the Blind 6 Publicity The Federal Congress has had a committee investigating the aid to the handicapped for the past three years After a thorough study of the programs for aiding handicapped persons the committee came forth with some very definite criticisms of the programs as now operated and some suggestions for improving the aid to the handicapped It was pointed out in the committees re port that although vocational rehabilita tion had been provided in a limited way for the past 25 years that there are thou sands of disabled individuals who have never heard of the service This has been demonstrated by the Georgia program Three years ago our division held a series of employment clinics for handicapped persons They were held with the objec tive of recruiting handicapped workers for war work The shortage of workers made it imperative that all persons capa ble of being employed be recruited and suitably placed on jobs they could do We advertised the clinics through the local newspapers on the radio by per sonal letters to public and private agencies who might help to locate and send to the clinic disabled persons In Atlanta on one clinic we had over 800 persons apply to the Division for re habilitation services Many of the clinics held in towns of 2000 to 5000 had at tendances at the clinic of more than 100 people The U S Civil Service Com mission cooperated with us in having at the clinics representatives who had au thority to employ workers for various government installations Private em ployers in the community attended the clinics and offered work to such of those applying whom they could use Georgia started the clinic method of reaching the handicapped It spread rapidly to other states In almost every clinic we located a number of persons who had reached the ages of 30 to 45 and had been unable to work for a number of years and had not even heard of our service Many of these were provided with physical restoration services and made employable To try to carry out the definite recom mendation of the Congressional Commit tee Georgia employed a Supervisor of Research and Information whose respon sibility it is to publicize the program Mr Barrett had already instituted the publication of a monthly Rehabilitation News The Supervisor of Research and Information took over the editing of this publication We now have on our mail ing list about 27000 persons who receive the publication each month This has resulted in letting the disabled know that such service is available Georgia was recognized as leading in this field The Federal Office of Voca tional Rehabilitation established in Washington a similar service to make available to the states statistical infor mation and publicity which might be used in publicizing the program The Georgia Supervisor of Research and In formation was invited to Washington for a period of two weeks to help work out on a national level a system of publicity for the states to utilize The Federal Office of Vocational Rehabilitation with the assistance of some of the states pro duced a motion picture film showing han dicapped workers in industry and the services available by the division 7 Program for the Tuberculous Geor gia has again taken the lead in trying toi Steadily Growtng Trade is enjoyed by this store operated by Louis Christie Shaw 921 Reynolds Street Augusta Mr Shaw has been blind since birth Vocational Re habltaton training and other aid including help in getting scarce merchandise played an important role serve the persons disabled by tuberculosis Some few of the sanatoria in the north had started some patient activity pro grams which were designed to meet some of the needs of ambulatory patients still in the sanatorium The sanatorium in Georgia limited by number of beds to such an extent that a patient was dis missed from the sanatorium as soon as he could safely be returned to his home and another patient could have the bed had not been given the chance to set up any kind of rehabilitation program in the sanatorium except to try to treat the patient physically When the state se cured the Battey State Hospital at Rome with a 2200bed capacity we recognized that we might establish some kind of in sanatorium program for the ambulatory patients The Federal Office of Vocational Re habilitation held a training conference for Specialists for Tuberculous and for the Chiefs of Rehabilitation Services in the states I attended the conference with Mr C B Shroyer who is our Specialist for the Tuberculous At this conference each state was expected to work out the plan for service to the tuberculous We worked out a tentative plan and came back and immediately started work to put it into effect Since we started the program representatives of several other states have come to study our insana torium program 8 Vending Stands Georgia is leading the nation in the Business Enterprise Pro gram for employing blind persons A nonprofit corporation has been estab lished which provides the initial inven tory of merchandise and equipment for the stands which cannot be provided by rehabilitation funds The stands are closely supervised by personnel of the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia has recently been asked to assist neighboring states in the establishment of a program of Business Enterprise in those states Thus although ranking nationally at the top in Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia has scarcely touched the prob lem of the handicapped because we know that there are many thousands of people with disabilities in this state we have not reached With carefully evaluated plans investment of rehabilitation funds in these people would we know pay for itself many times over in lives of useful ness steady employment and the moral and financial responsibilities of citizen ship Before and AfterThc facial appearance of Mrs Dew Fordham Stilson Ga housewife had forced her to drop her work helping her husband sell insurance Her nose had been disfigured by disease There are three children and the family income suffered because of Mrs Fordhams having to S meeting the public Vocational Rehabihtation sent her to a plastic surgeon who so improved her nose that she is again working and happy Operation for Bone Disease has enabled Bernce Beeeher to get about and do farm work which he had never done before He was stricken as a child and had never been able to help his family near Baxley Now he must use crutches but can perform light chores and may take training for other employment Dont know what Fd done without rehabilitation says Elemuel Lee of Route 2 Winokur Ga Mr Lee had a severe double rupture and was unable to provide for his wife and three children Now he can do heavy farm work and his neighbors concur in amazement at his change He earns 100 monthly irjjOKc 6corquoooXoNo Mabilitatiotvews Published monthly by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Dr M D Collins State Superintendent of Schools Paul S Barrett Director Division of Vocational Rehabilitation 131 State Office Building TOTALLY DCAF ALMOST BLIND I AND CRIPPLED IN ONE ARM Burton E Blackman of Route 2 Lafayette nevertheless hat one of the neatest farms in his commu nity and a poultry project Voca tional Rehabilitation provided training and supplies This mans dogged determination and reha bilitation aid have led him and his wife into a prosperous business i ATLANTA DISTRICT Atlanta 305 Peachtree St N E Gainesville414 Jackson Bldg RomeRoom 29 Court House Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School jvHV jit jmy bt AUGUSTA DISTRICT Augusta 607 Southern Finance Bldg Athens Hardman Hall University Dublin 401 C S Bank Bldg SAVANNAH DISTRICT Savannah2 East Bay Street BrunswickAndrews Bldg Waycross432 Bunn Bldg MACON DISTRICT Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg Columbus411 Flowers Bldg Albany213 Royal Bldg Thomasville 309 Upchurch Bldg sy tsertis rteis sis d k UstSt sSXi ssr2 itoTSS izt his f d Name Business Addi Remarks Division of Vocational Rehabilitation 131 State Office Building Atlanta 3 GaUnbelievable Amount of Work is done by John Thornton cleaning fish for the Capitol Fish Company 455 Whitehall Street SW Atlanta according to the firms manager John has been totally blind for four years and has w ie and four children Before losing his sight he had been a cook and a janitor Rehabilitation placed him on this job and his employers suggested that other fish companies inves tigate employing the blind Turning All Profits back into his business Clem Pitts Letter cff Haddock in less than a year has bult up a good stock and a wide patronage and his income is more than sufficient for himself and his family Before losing the sight of both eves in two accidents he had been a carpenter and kter a freight truck driver Rehabilitation financed his training and helped him get the merchandise for this now independent venture Growing Business in groceries and caning of chairs is operated by Jesse B Johnson 303 Sycamore Street Way cross Jesse is practically blind in both eyes having light per ception only His loss of vision is due to glaucoma which beean in 1926 Before Vocational Rehabilitation helped him establish this business he had been trying to peddle cosmetics and received a dole Now he is a taxpaying citizen with an economic future Sight Restored by operations removing cataracts from both eyes James Williams of Route 4 Mlledgevlle now can earn a living He became totally blind in 1942 His case was referred to Vocational Rehabilitation as a deserv ing one and a specialist reported favorable prospects In each operation he became able to see out of the affected eye while the surgery was in progress Medicines and glasses also were provided and his vision is improving I I frag Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education 129 State Office Building Atlanta 3 Ga RETURN POSTAGE GUARANTEED Sec 562 P L R U S POSTAGE PAID Atlanta Ga Permit No 935 Kiss Louisa Fant Serials Librarian The University of Ga Athens Ga Attends High School After Physical Restoration Joe Madden who lives near Lavonia in a location he says is like finding a needle in a haystack has a wife and two children When his case first came to the attention of Voca tional Rehabilitation in 1943 there was an urgent need for war workers and although Mr Madden was badly crippled there was little time for physical restoration and he was trained and placed in a war plant where he earned good wages for a year Rut when that was over he was right back where he startedlittle or no peacetime vocational experi ence a history of 5perweek odd jobs and a family to sup port His case was reopened in 1945 He was sent to a hos pital where his practically useless left leg was amputated An artificial leg was purchased for him As a school bus driver he determined to make his rehabilitation complete by a better education and now he is a voluntary and earnest high school student in addition to being able to obtain better employment because of the artificial leg abilitotioa Mxvs June 1947 COMBINATION Diagnosis Guidance Physical Restoration Training PlacementWalks on Feet for First Time in Life after physical restoration Miss Ethel Clements of Tifton had infantile paralysis in infancy and until recently had never been able to get about except on her knees Vocational Rehabilitation sent her to a specialist for two operations The picture at left was taken just before the first operation and the picture at right was taken after the second operation as she prepared to leave an Atlanta hospital to return to her home Even before Vocational Rehabilitation Miss Clements was am bitious and supported herself by making stuffed toys and animals Now that she expects soon to walk without crutches she plans to open a book store in Tifton From Unemployment to a Thriving Business has gone James F Corbett who was a railroad office worker in Atlanta when he lost his vision in 1943 He had no earned income what ever when his case was surveyed by Vocational Rehabilitation He was trained for this Albany post office vending stand of the growing chain of business enter prises sponsored by the Georgia Cooperative Services for the Blind and now is economically independent At left is Eugene W Able Senior Counselor of the Albany office of Vocational Rehabilitation and center Post master Dan L Gibsonckabilitotioiv lAfews Published monthly by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Dr M D Collins State Superintendent of Schools Paul S Barrett Director Division of Vocational Rehabilitation 131 State Office Building ATLANTA DISTRICT Atlanta 305 Peachtree St N E Gainesville414 Jackson Bldg RomeRoom 29 Court House Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School AUGUSTA DISTRICT Augusta 607 Southern Finance Bldg Athens Hardman Hall University Dublin 401 C S Bank Bldg SAVANNAH DISTRICT Savannah2 East Bay Street BrunswickAndrews Bldg Waycross432 Bunn Bldg MACON DISTRICT Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg Columbus411 Flowers Bldg Albany213 Royal Bldg Thomasville 309 Upchurch Bldg Zlie Jromebound Physical restoration as we call it in Vocational Rehabilitation because we can think of no more adequate term is a wonderful thingto find a client with a remediable disability a work handicap and then to provide services which correct or remove the handicap or substantially reduce it thereby enabling the client to broaden his occupational horizon to do work of which he had not pre viously been capable or better work for a better income There are thousands of cases in our files in which the investment of a dis creet amount of money in medical or surgical services for an individualwhich the individual probably never would have been able to have afforded for himself has resulted in earning power which completely rehabilitated the person and often the client has paid more taxes in a year or two after physical restoration than the total cost of his rehabilitation In this appraisal too we must not forget that otherwise the client might have been a charge on his family or com munity so that his rehabilitation has a double significance But what of other thousands of badly disabled persons for whom physical restoration is not feasible What of these cases in which thorough diagnosis shows no reasonable prospect of rehabilitation Many we are sorry to say we have to reject altogether Others however even though not feasible for physical restoration may still he rehabilitated by guidance and training In this group are those who are so badly handicapped that they are homebound There are probably homebound persons in your community if you will stop to think of them You seldom see them but they are therewishing thinking hoping loving praying despairing and sometimes triumphing in their limited way Some ingenious ones have crafts from which they earn a livelihood Others with guidance and training couldwithin the walls of their own homes Just a little practical help in learning a craft and finding markets for products can mean the difference between a life of complete dependence and misery and one of hope resolve profitable occupation and happiness It is the business of Vocational Rehabilitation to help these people no less than those who can go out and take jobs Outstanding cases of rehabilitation may be accomplished among them They may be more difficult the obstacles may be greater but when one attains working usefulness within such limitations the success is that much more important The products of the homebound crafts show integrity fidelity conscien tiousness and devotion to quality by which they can more than compete with industrial machines for those who love fine things Wherever such products are offered for sale we bespeak for them your considered patronage M D Collins Is there a possible job opportunity for a handicapped person in your business or do you know of such an opportunity elsewhere Your cooperation in proper placement of the handicapped is vital If you think you might help in some way with a placement fill in and cut out this form and mail it to us and a represen tative of the Division will call on you There is no obligation whatever Ne Addr Business Remarks Division of Vocational Rehabilitation 131 State Office Building Atlanta 3 Ga BeforeHaving been aided in college training by Vocational Rehabilitation Miss Mary Esther Owens was employed at Warner Robins iield and supporting members of her family An operation for correction of harelip had not been successful She also had a cleft palate and a speech defect These occupational handicaps badly needed correcting but Miss Owens although hardworking and deserving could not undertake the costsAfterNow her educational mental and physical handicaps have been overcome and she is an economic asset to her state Plastic surgery by a specialist chosen by this divisions panel of medical authorities dental work by another specialist simi larly chosen for his qualifications in this particular field and vocational guidance and training have converted tragedy into a bright futureTotally Blind These Men Are Regular Workers in Big Shoe Factory Fred Henson left and Frank Hopper compete with the nonhandicapped and ask no special considerations in their daily tasks pulling shoe lasts at the General Shoe Cor porations huge plant in At lanta Neither had a job of any kind when reached by Vocational Rehabilitation which afforded them training An Unusual Feat as even the appliance manufacturers will admit is this one being performed casually and rou tinelytying shoestrings after a shine jobby Oscar Bil lingslea in his prosperous shop at 908 Hunter Street SW Atlanta Vocational Rehabilitation helped him buy these hooks which led him from uncertain earnings as a newsboy to a substantial income in this shoeshine and dry cleaning business Oscar lost one hand in 1935 and another in 1938 in both instances as a result of osteomyelitis JGrowing Business Making Cement Blocks is oper ated by Horace Griggers at 837 West Harvard Street Col lege Park Mr Griggers has only 10 per cent vision in each eye with glasses He was a policeman at a war plant and lost that job in 1945 when the plant closed Vocational Re habilitation helped him buy the equipment for his business Mr Griggers has a daughter in school Although Blind William B Lewis below operates a bus iness at Douglas with his wife and two children which is prospering and makes the family independent Vocational Rehabilitation helped him get started in this business with merchandise equipment training and guidance Mr Lewis was totally blinded by sewer gas while an electrician for the city of Douglas in 1926 Removal of Cataracts From Both Eyes restored Mrs Nellie H Jeffers 205 Singleton Avenue Sylvania from total blindness to stabilized vision which enables her to earn a good living as a seamstress Vocational Rehabilitation pro vided the operations and purchased glasses and now Mrs Jeffers threads needles without strain and has more business than she can handle Jesup Store established with the aid of Vocational Re habilitation is operated by Lincon B Roberson who is almost blind as a result of an object falling on his head when he was a firemen in 1938 He was a parts inspector for the Naval Ordnance Plant at Milledgeville during the war but after the war had few or no employment opportunities His business is neat and orderly m m k Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education 129 State Office Building Atlanta 3 Ga RETURN POSTAGE GUARANTEED Sec 562 P L R U S POSTAGE PAID Atlanta Ga Permit No 935 Handicaps Which Would Have Defeated any but the most courageous have been lessened in some respects and removed in others for Miss Evelyn Mayers of Brunswick She has practically no hands and she had facial disfigure ments these disabilities presented almost insuperable job dif ficulties OcationaI Rehabilitation sent her to a plastic sur geon whose operations rendered her employable Her dis abilities resulted from burns when a child She has made good on a job with E R Partridge Inc garment manufac turers 1572 Pryor Street SW Atlanta Popular Secretary for the American Machinery Com pany 122 Forsyth Street SW Atlanta is Miss Loree Bat ten who comes from Winokur Georgia Miss Battens han dicap results from infantile paralysis Vocational Rehabili tation and the Warm Springs Foundation provided surgery and other needed hospitalization services Vocational Re habilitation sent Miss Batten to business college after her physical disability had been to a large extent overcome and upon completion of the business course she was readily placed in employmentJuly 1947 cKablLltotioa Mws 1 s im ffrij K ill v if Ja ill raI Defective Vision only 20 per cent of normal does not prevent Miss Miriam Blackburn of Sandy Springs from making good on a job operating a photograph drying machine at the Star Photo Finishing Company 300 Ponce de Leon Ave NE Atlanta Before being placed on this job she had worked as a candy wrapper Both jobs were obtained for her by Vocational Rehabilitation She had no previous work experience Once Blind Now He Can See After 23 years as a mill worker G F Johnson of Tennille had to quit when he lost his sight due to cataracts Vocational Rehabilitation pro vided the operation which restored his sight and furnished glasses Instead of returning to his mill job however he has improved his earnings as a truck farmer and operator of a small store Medical Treatment of a chronic ulcer on her left leg and a skin graft have made Miss Louise Tenney of Manchester employable Before treatment she was unable to work and in danger of losing her leg The infection began with a nail wound An invalid before Vocational Rehabilitation services Miss Tenney has been able to join other members of her family in textile mill employment and housework Threat of Blindness was overcome by surgical removal of eyeball growths for the wife of the man at left Mrs Hattie Bell Johnson was almost blind at the time Vocational Re habilitation averted disaster for both herself and her husband Her vision had been deteriorating for years and she was scarcely able to do housework Now with glasses also fur nished she can read newspapers Regains Use of Arms and Legs through rehabilitation program Floyd Ludlow of Scottdale suffered from con tractions of both hands and both legs as a result of neuritis Vocational Rehabilitation and other agencies worked out an arrangement whereby hospital treatments braces and therapy have virtually restored him to working usefulness and he will soon resume his job in Scottdale Mills Able to Walk and hold down a job after physical restora tion services is Otis Raymond Brown of 108 Addie Street LaGrange Before Vocational Rehabilitation he had defec tive hips could not stand except in an extremely stooped position and his knees knocked together when he tried to walk He was unemployed Now he works at the C L Payne Grocery 300 East Depot Street Business Course in which he made an outstanding rec ord has given Dennis Binion skills in which his handicaps are not of serious significance He is a graduate of Lithonia High School Before Vocational Rehabilitation he had never worked As a result of his training in junior accounting he is working for the Army Air Forces Retirement Records Branch 86 Edgewood Avenue N E Atlanta Hard Farm Work is done by Mrs Otto Ragsdale of Route 3 Lithonia who a few months ago was a nearinvalid Mr and Mrs Ragsdale have five minor children Vocational Rehabilitation arranged for surgery to correct internal dis orders and dental work Now her ability to keep house look after the children and even work in the fields has been restored She faces many unhandicapped yearsNW Atlanta who has very little vision Before attending this Georgia Craft School at Cordele she had had no work experience except in helping keep house with her two sisters She is shown with a sample of her weaving Second from left is Miss Billie Strickland whose home is near Surrency Ga and who is also almost blind as a result of being struck by lightning in 1929 Miss Strickland had no previous work experience except in public school Miss Dora Lee Hayes third from left is from Lawrenceville and is totally blind V v jft CRAFT scHtr JlslliliiHIl llllllll Mrs Madeline Rung operator of the school explains a weaving processShe attended the Georgia Academy for the Blind at Macon In the fourth picture is Miss Mattie Lou Avera of Nash ville Ga who is almost blind She previously worked grad ing cucumbers and as a baby sitter Miss Ina Helen Wil son of 305 Cameron Street SW is shown doing machine cutwork Miss Wilson has artificial legs which the Division helped her to purchase Before receiving this training she had no skill except as a farm worker Miss Marie Burch of Red Oak in the sixth and last picture has bilateral cataracts As these students complete their training Vocational Rehabil itation is authorized to buy looms or other equipment to meet their specific aptitudes and in the use of which they may become earners and taxpayers instead of remaining dependent upon their families or in some cases public welfare organi zations Medical service is rendered in all cases to diagnose the disabilities and corrective surgery and appliances are pro vided when it is feasible through these services to reduce or remove the occupational handicap Students Here are shown threading a loom from a spool rackOKc 6covcoocoiCotcvV ckabilitatiorv Vews Published monthly by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Dr M D Collins State Superintendent of Schools Paul S Barrett Director Division of Vocational Rehabilitation 131 State Office Building Help the N R A Fight for the Handicapped The people shown in the pictures in this and previous bulletins of the Georgia Division of Vocational Rehabilitation are living proofs of the worth of the pro gram Figures are not complete as this is written but approximately 2700 cases have been rehabilitated in the past fiscal year in this state placing Georgia among the leading states of the nation We believe it is a wonderful work especially for a state like Georgia where the per capita income is well below the national average where people with dis abilities are in more need of rehabilitation and where the Federal Governments contribution of threefourths of the total costs can therefore be spent to greater advantage Mr Paul S Barrett Georgia director of Vocational Rehabilitation has just been honored to become presidentelect of the National Rehabilitation Association a tribute to his neverrelenting efforts on behalf of both the national program and Georgias nationleading number of rehabilitations in the fiscal year 194546 Georgians are proud of these honors We would like for the National Re habilitation Association to have more members in Georgia Memberships to support the work are needed Annual dues are 5 for those in professions having some connection with Voca tional Rehabilitation and 2 for others Members will receive both this publica tion and the Journal of the National Rehabilitation Association Mail your check to Mr Paul S Barrett presidentelect of the NRA 131 State Office Build ing Atlanta Ga ATLANTA DISTRICT Atlanta 305 Peachtree St N E Gainesville414 Jackson Bldg RomeRoom 29 Court House Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School AUGUSTA DISTRICT Augusta 607 Southern Finance Bldg Athens Hardman Hall University Dublin 401 C S Bank Bldg SAVANNAH DISTRICT Savannah2 East Bay Street BrunswickAndrews Bldg Waycross432 Bunn Bldg MACON DISTRICT Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg Columbus411 Flowers Bldg Albany213 Royal Bldg Thomasville 309 Upchurch Bldg Teacher Training Gets Cold Shoulder The plight of the schoolteacher in the niggardly pay he gets must surely have been made amply clear to every Georgian by this time We cannot refrain how ever from adding a footnote from Vocational Rehabilitation files Of the 67 handicapped clients aided by this division in teacher training during the past year 38 changed their minds about their objectives before or after their training was completed and took other jobs The 29 who stuck to their teaching objectives wound up with an average weekly wage of only 3160 These figures look just as bad for Vocational Rehabilitation as they do for education generally training for the specific goal of teaching was in some respects wasted Miss GBG after 18 months training took a job as a chemist at 35 weekly Miss HD after 30 months training became an inventory clerk at 32 weekly Miss J V D after 36 months got a job as a kitchen clerk at 38 weekly Mr JBT after three months became an interior decorator at 40 weekly Miss LT after nine months quit to be a secretary at 35 weekly Mr ERS Jr after 36 months in school became a ticket agent at 38 weekly Miss RS after 27 months got a job as an airplane hostess at 38 weekly As we say this is only a footnote The facts and the reasons are already too painfully known M D Collins Is there a possible job opportunity for a handicapped person in your business or do you know of such an opportunity elsewhere Your cooperation in proper placement of the handicapped is vital If you think you might help in some way with a placement fill in and cut out this form and mail it to us and a represen tative of the Division will call on you There is no obligation whatever I NameAdd ress Business Remarks Division of Vocational Rehabilitation 131 State Office Building Atlanta 3 GaArtificial Legs make Dave Pugh able to get about farms which he supervises near McBean Ga Dave lost his legs in an automobile collision in 1945 He had been a sharecropper all his life and three of his six children are old enough to farm their own plots In horse and buggy Dave makes a daily round of the farms and the artificial legs which Voca tional Rehabilitation helped him to buy permit him to do some work himself Short Right Leg is not a serious handicap to James Morris placed by Vocational Rehabilitation as a porter in the South ern Finance Building Augusta James right leg is two inches shorter than his left as a result of injuries received in an automobile accident in 1941 He had no work experience except as a laborer in heavy industryjobs in which he could not continue after being disabled He has made a good man doing odd jobs about this office building Artificial Arm enables Tom Busbee to hold a job as a porter at the University Hospital Augusta Tom was in the Army four years He lost the arm in a gunshot accident after his discharge and was not eligible for an appliance as a veteran because he was a civilian at the time of the accident He had been unable to get or hold a job without the appliance but now has a steady income for the support of himself wife and two children Barber Training has given Willie Turner skill in a profit able trade through which he is better able to provide for his wife and five children A gunshot wound in Willies left leg when he was about 12 years of age caused a tightening of muscles and he has a marked limp He had worked as an elevator operator and as a houseboy in a hotel He now works at College Barber Shop 1209 Railroad Avenue Augusta Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education 129 State Office Building Atlanta 3 Ga RETURN POSTAGE GUARANTEED Sec 562 P L R U S POSTAGE PAID Atlanta Ga Permit No 935 Miss Louise Fant Serials Librarian The University of Ga Athens Ga II Darkroom Technician for big photo developing concern Gastons Photo Service 14 Alexander Street NW is George Emory Taylor who has only 2 per cent vision Training for this job was afforded through Vocational Re habilitation Mr Taylor has a wife and two children Since most of the photo developing work is done in darkness his visual disability is not a great handicap Music Teacher in the schools of Trion Ga is Miss Haze Lorene Cannon who is totally blind She is a graduate o LaGrange College where a large part of her training was received with the assistance of Vocational Rehabilitation She made a fine record in college and now has 25 pupils at Trion Her income is more than completely selfsupporting and she lives with her familyJyol 3 No 11 cKabilitatiotv Mxus August 1947 From Crutches to a Guards Job through Vocational Rehabilitation serv ices has gone Willie G Gailey left shown at his post at the entrance to the Alto Medical Center largest rapid treat ment institution in the world In 1943 Mr Gailey was standing beside a high way with several others when autos crashed and hit the group Three were killed Mr Gaileys leg was crushed Next year his disability appeared perma nent Rehabilitation provided surgery braces and other hospital treatment which put him on his feet then got him this job ExTubercular now making good is H S Long mail clerk at Alto shown at left in the picture at right handing a letter to Jack Stiller the centers man ager Vocational Rehabilitation placed him in this employment He has been treated for other serious disabilities and has been restored to health Once an in valid he is now well strong and in agreeable employment Confined to Wheelchairs But Are They Downhearted No The Misses Jewel left and Agnes Parker 2312 Bull Street Savannah are begin ning a magazine business under the guid ance of Vocational Rehabilitation These young women are victims of muscular atrophy It has not been possible to cor rect their disabilities through medical or surgical treatment but it is possible for them to achieve success in a business transacted by mail and telephone They have arrangements whereby they may take first or renewal subscriptions to any periodical Anyone in the Savannah area subscribing for the first time or entering a renewal should send subscriptions at the regular rates by mail to them or tele phone them at Savannah 31160 I The Road From By Miss Mary E Poindexter Director Chatham County Savannah Department of Public Welfare One morning last week I walked up to the desk of one of our caseworkers She was absorbed in a record Without preliminary I asked What good is Vocational Rehabilitation anyway The reply was as quick as a flash Why Miss Poindex ter you know George C has gone back to work at 250 a month What would I have done with him if Vocational Rehabilitation hadnt taken him I was on my way to another desk to repeat the question when I was called to the telephone The receptionist said Willie G says would you have time to come and look at his new leg I went and was shown how well Willie could manage the new leg He told me the man said it would take four months to learn to use it but he bet hed know in four weeks and then he was going to get a job and go to work and get off the Welfare This from a man who has used a badly con structed wooden leg and been on relief for years Back to my office survey I was told of case after case already back to normal livingcured and arrested tubercu lars replaced in employment others whom surgery had restored to health and usefulness special training and appli ances provided for the handicapped as well as cases on the way to success The final remark was And if Mr Currie ever gets Mrs Z back on her feet he deserves a Congressional Medal Families Suffer Mrs Z has a combination of mental physical and emo tional problems from which she retreated to her bed several years ago The consequences have indeed been serious to her children Agencies and doctors have seen little progress until our friend of Vocational Rehabilitation took over some months ago Indeed he will deserve a medal if he succeeds only in part Some time later in reading annual reports of the case workers I found these In spite of our handicap we have been able and pro vide opportunities for handicapped through our Vocational Rehabilitation office The Vocational Rehabilitation department has been es pecially helpful to this group the blind I feel my greatest accomplishment for the year has been to make our blind recipients realize thev too can have recre ation Mr Parker Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor for the Blind has always helped with this I believe the workers in this agency do know that the Rehabilitation Department does not belong to us though from the above it would be difficult to be sure The staff having spoken it remains only to summarize One of the stated policies of this Welfare Department is not only to provide for basic needs such as food and shelter but to help people develop and use their own talents and resources So we see Vocational Rehabilitation as a neces sary and invaluable part of any taxsupported program of services to people In actual practice we believe that the job of rehabilitation retraining and placement can in a large number of cases be accomplished only by joint efforts of the Welfare Depart ment and the Rehabilitation Department Finances emo tional problems families and many other things must be con sidered along with treatment and training Since we believe this we have proceeded to put it into practice in this county Close Cooperation The Rehabilitation Department and the Welfare Depart ment are located in the same building Referrals are made direct from one agency to the other The workers hold fre quent case conferences Indications are that sometimes these are also visits The full available facilities of each agency are made available to the other And so we are back to the beginning of this article Successfully completed restoration of human beings to normal living Live fleshandblood cases and well be glad to show them to any doubters Mr Editor The values of Vocational Rehabilitation from the standpoint of a Welfare Director my subject can no more be fully covered than any other services to people But they begin with the simple business of smelling out pretend ers and making the most of relief dollars Go all through the list Security for children peace of mind for the old self reliance being achieved by the dependent and significant ac complishments through such help And since we are charged with anything pertaining to the Public Welfare these are indeed concrete values to usShoe Shop above left has in training J B Little ton of Martin Ga who was provided an artificial leg Mr Littleton is shown at inset at his home before getting the appliance second from left James H Howard of Marietta who has only one good eye Ronald D Miller of 393 Dargan Place SW At lanta who has a functional disorder rear at machine William C Mills of Calhoun Ga who stutters and who may be sent to a speech correction school after his Clarkesville course and right foreground Thearon L Moon of Lawrenceville who has bad vision and wears contact lenses Auto Shop center left Clyde V Etheridge Route 3 Thomaston who has only one eye William B Un derwood Columbus defective hearing Omer Pinhol ster Marlow arthritis in both wrists and Tommy Williams Lyerly whose right leg is crippled Laundry lower left Thomas H Scott Ludowici blind and hard of hearing and Ellis Steedley Nicholls who is virtually blind Radio Repair above James H Vaughan Cum ming who has a crippled right leg at left rear and William H Sapp Columbus bad hearing Vocational Rehabilitatio Trade and TechnicsItllj Refrigeration Carl W Cloer left of Young Har ris has a speech defect which he does not believe can be corrected but which he does not think will greatly handicap him in a repair shop He plans to open such a shop at Hiawassee John Richard Gay of Garfield has bad hearing he has been given surgical correction for another major disability Machine Shop Willis Ostell Stew art of Ludowici has limited use of his left leg as the result of a horseback accident Like most Vocation al Rehabilitation cli ents he was given an aptitude test before his training course was chosen lents North Georgia 30I Clarkesville Watch Repair One of the most popular courses for Vocational Rehabilitation stu dents both here and in onthejob training is watch repair since it is a goodpaying tradein which many major disabilities do not count Beginning in foreground Paul T Callaway 864 Stewart Avenue SW Atlanta both legs crippled Robert G Wilbanks LaFayette both legs crippled Roy C Parrish 378 Arizona Avenue Atlanta severe varicose veins Pope M Poppell 931 Pryor Street SW Atlanta back and leg disabilities due to accident Rufus P Donaldson Carters Ga osteomye litis Richard Beard Royston chest disability Carlton A Hart Quitman curvature of spine and Cecil C Bell Thomaston spine condition For more Clarkesville students see next pageekabilitatiotv Mws Published monthly by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Dr M D Collins State Superintendent of Schools Paul S Barrett Director Division of Vocational Rehabilitation 131 State Office Building I ATLANTA DISTRICT Atlanta 305 Peachtree St N E Phone Ja 6572 Gainesville414 Jackson Bldg Phone 816 Rome415 West Bldg Phone 8438 Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School Phone 98R2 AUGUSTA DISTRICT Augusta 607 Southern Finance Bldg Phone 23639 Athens Hardman Hall University Phone 2802 Dublin 401 C S Bank Bldg Phone 119 SAVANNAH DISTRICT Savannah2 East Bay Street Phone 39835 BrunswickAndrews Bldg Phone 1O07 Waycross400 Bunn Bldg Phone 824 MACON DISTRICT Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg Phone 6179 3668 Columbus411 Flowers Bldg Phone 21904 Albany213 Royal Bldg Phone 2782 Thomasville 309 Upchurch Bldg Phone 1274 Photography students at Clarkesville learn all angles of commercial work Top Floyd Nicholson 2810 Fern Street Columbus whose disability has been corrected by surgery Lower left Milton Clark 759 Pryor Street Gainesville bad eyesight at contact printer Lower Right Barney S Alexander Commerce ulcers swabbing negatives before dryingiiSffliil Goiter Removal probably saved the life of Lizzie Swint Wilson wife of a sharecropper near Tennille The operating surgeon said that Lizzies was the worst goiter he had ever seen Pressure symp toms were extreme and the woman was unable to do any work She was referred to Vocational Rehabilitation by the Welfare De partment The operation restored her to health The after picture larger was taken in a field where she was hoeing cotton Artificial Leg enables Layfield Daniel to hold a good job as a laborer for the Knight Scrap Material Company 406 East Broad Street Savannah Before Vocational Rehabilitation assistance his peg leg in bad condition did not permit full employment JSIow he is delighted with his appliance and gets about almost as well as if he had two good legs He enjoys his work and his employers seem to be well satisfied with his performance One Arm One Leg yet a leg appliance furnished by Vocational Rehabilitation enables this man Cary Martin to hold a job at the Texaco Service Station Bull Street and Victory Drive Savannah Before rehabilitation he was unemployed His right arm is off at the shoulder Previously he had had a wooden leg but it wore out Without the new leg he could not work A greaser and washer he makes one arm do the work of two his employer says Once Paralyzed Raymond Wooden of Monroe now is working and happy He had little or no use of his left side when his case was referred to Vocational Rehabilitation He was sent to doctors who eventually diagnosed his trouble as due to a mastoid condition Hospital treatment and surgery were provided and now this man has completely recovered From dependency on others he has gone to a job with Mrs Robert OKellys flower shop HSf ci VDivision of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education 129 State Office Building Atlanta 3 Ga RETURN POSTAGE GUARANTEED Sec 562 P L R U S POSTAGE PAID Atlanta Ga Permit No 935 Miss Louise Fant Serials Librarian The University of Ga Athens Ga Trained As Linotype operator for The Wrightsville Headlight VVrightsville Ga Paul M Sheppard 18 who is only 4 feet tall has made good and is regularly employed His training was sponsored by Vocational Rehabilitation His handicapsmallness in size does not deter him from becoming a proficient typesetteran occu pation in which his physical appearance is of no importance From Joblessness To Profitable Business has gone Carl T Groover of 115 West 42nd Street Savannah who is virtually blind He had never before been employed before entering the Vocational Rehabili tation program His stand in the Chatham County Court House is prospering Shown making a purchase is Judge J P Houlihan chairman of the Chatham County Board of CommissionersVol 3 mitfiiiflj MwijfiMiM From BroomMaking and Turning Sacks to Operator of a Large Business has gone Ralph Wilson center behind counter who is totally blind This stand is in Grady Hospital Atlanta Others in the picture left to right W B Gaines supervisor Services for the Blind in ocational Rehabilitation Frank Wilson hospital superintendent Fred Walker assistant superintendent Glenn E Boggs Vocational Rehabilitation supervisor of business enterprises and A P Jarrell assistant director in charge of technical services I Cover Photo When Dean Wilson blind since childhood came to the attention of Vocational Rehabilitation he had only uncertain and intermittent employment as a piano tuner Today he is operating one of the largest businesses in the group of build ings on Capitol Square He has taken over the lunch and drink concession in the State Office Building with several helpers Like 24 other such stands operated by blind people in Georgia his is supervised by Vocational Rehabilitation and spon sored by the Georgia Cooperative Services for the Blind As his stand was opened Acting Governor M E Thompson and Dr M D Collins bought a box of cigars and after treating each other passed the cigars out to spectators See cover Governor Thompson at left Mr Wil son center and Dr Collins Atlanta newspapers hailed the move as being the first time in state history that such a concession had been as signed without regard to politics Mr Wilson the newspapers said is ad mittedly without any political influence whatever Vocational Rehabilitation hopes to place other clients in businesses on stateowned properties Mr Wilson comes from near McRae He attended the Academy for the Blind at Macon During the war he operated a punch press at a sheet metal plant on Marietta Street in Atlanta When that failed he made coat hangers Then Wending Stand Rehabilitates 25 Twentyfive blind Georgians today are operating profitable businesses as a result of the program supervised by Vocational Rehabilitation and spon sored by the Georgia Cooperative Services for the Blind Inc Many of these persons never worked before or if so irregularly and were in some way dependent upon their families or communities Their earn ings in one year almost equal the total investment since the beginning of the program The first stand was opened on February 9 1945 Gross sales from the stands during the past fiscal year were 176525 gross profits were 42297 Gross prof its represent 24 per cent of sales The Coop is composed of public spirited citizens who make a sideline business of rehabilitating the blind Ben Gordon merchandising manager of Richs is president Other members are Clarence Elsas Hughes Spalding Frank Neely Wiley Moore Norman Elsas and George Craft The Coop has a total investment of 14696 which consists of equipment stock and petty cash Vocational Rehabilitation has an Vocational Rehabilitation put him in a vending stand at the Walker Electrical Company Atlanta He did so well there that when the State Office Building con cession was obtained he was promoted to it and other blind merchants were moved up along the line Program Qeorgians investment of 10600 in equipment and 1433 in training and other services Twentyfour operators paid 2 17227 in withholding taxes in the past fiscal year The 25 stands in operation as of August 12 were E C Archer Atlanta Post Office Miss Pearl Dozier LaGrange Post Of fice Jim Hurst Air Forces Retirement Records Branch 86 Edgewood Avenue Atlanta J D Croker Walker Electri cal Company Atlanta E I Norton Dalton Dean Wilson State Office Building Miss Helen Haynes Musco gee County Court House Miss Eula Mae Hightower Macon Post Office 0 G Cooper Hall County Court House L D Rogers Rome Post Office Miss Mary Birrick Macon City Hall Calvin Colquitt Grady Hospital colored sec tion Atlanta Ralph Wilson Grady Hospital white section Atlanta An drew Barron Atlanta Police Station Gregory Sullivan Richmond County Court House Gadson Floyd Savannah Post Office Talmadge Shepherd Bibb County Court House George McNair Macon City Stockade William Coggin Ware County Court House Cornelius Carter colored Charity Hospital Savannah Jim Corbett Albany Post Office Carl Groover Chatham County Court House Dan Hughes Buchanan Miss Inez Layton Valdosta Post Office and Ernie Oglesby DeKalb County Court HouseIn Training as an auto body and fender repairman at the North Georgia Trade and Tech nical School Clarkesville is Alfred Austin of Alpharetta left who has defective vision He comes from a farm family and had no trade experience ex cept in helping on the farm He is learning a goodpaying skill Client Gets Doctors De gree Because of his defective vision I N Lozier Jr right became interested in optom etry Vocational Rehabilitation helped him with college ex penses Now Dr Lozier prac tices in the office of Dr William W Smith First National Bank Building Atlanta Never Worked Before Miss Mildred Flowers left below who had tuberculosis had never been employed before Voca tional Rehabilitation She was given training and has learned a highly specialized skill She is employed by Georgia Reweav ing Company 22 Cain Street N W Atlanta Once firippled Junior Paul Kirk right of Monroe now is an ablebodied worker at the H M Arnold Fertilizer Plant When Vocational Rehabilitation took the case in 1945 he was able to do no physical work at all A brace and special shoe were provided until plates and dead bone in his leg could be removed The operation later was successful and Mr Kirk now has normal physical abili ties With budgets for the current fiscal year more or less determined admin istrators and supervisors of Vocational Rehabilitation in Region III com prising seven southeastern states and Puerto Ricomet at the Henry Grady Hotel in Atlanta to improve methods and means of making available appro priations go as far as possible in restoring the Souths handicapped citi zens to working usefulness or develop ing suitable occupational skills H B Cummings regional repre sentative of the Federal office empha sized that counselors should take ad vantage of every public or private fa cility when needed services may be obtained without cost to Vocational Rehabilitation or o the client If ser vices cannot be obtained without cost Vocational Rehabilitation has budget ary provisions for any reasonable investment in cases considered to be feasible but every effort should be made to avoid unnecessary or dupli cating purchases of rehabilitation ser vices Mr Cummings said The discussions were led by Mr Cummings and Terry C Foster as sistant regional representative Paul S Barrett chairman of the legislative committee of the National Rehabilita tion Association and presidentelect of the association advised state directors on what may be expected in national legislation and appropriations The Federal government pays approximate ly threefourths the cost of the program in all the states Estimates of needs budgets most profitable to the taxpay ers in rehabilitation of dependents and the handicapped into maximum earners already are being prepared for the 194748 fiscal year Reports were made that several states are almost doubling their appro priations for Vocational Rehabilita tion the legislators of these states hav ing recognized the virtually incalculable benefits of the program to the produc tivity and social wellbeing of these states human resources The picture above taken on the first day of the fourday conference does not include representatives of some state agencies for the blind in some states unlike Georgia services for the blind are administered by a separate agency who held their principal ses sions on the last day of the conference Also missing from the picture are J J Burns chief of the fiscal standards section and W 0 Kincannon chief of information services both of the REGIONAL PROGRAM Federal office who led discussions of the respective phases of the program to which they are assigned Those shown are as follows First row left to right 0 B Brewer advisement training and placement supervisor Jackson Miss W J Mil ler district supervisor Tampa Fla T M Wilson district supervisor Dur ham N C Dodd Pace state super visor Tallahassee Fla A B Starnes district supervisor Charlotte N C W B Gaines supervisor Services for the Blind Georgia Second row C Ketzle district su pervisor Orlando Fla C Mills dis trict supervisor Pensacola Fla C H Clark district supervisor Miami Fla 1 Wilson Waters district supervisor Knoxville Tenn J E Grisham dis trict supervisor Memphis Tenn Al fred L Davis assistant director in charge of field services Georgia M D Carson district supervisor Charles ton S C E E Kennedy district su pervisor Macon Ga Third row John S Prickett district supervisor Augusta Ga Otis C Dyer district supervisor Atlanta Ga J E Hammett supervisor Advise ment Training and Placement Section Columbia S C P B Stephens dis trict supervisor NashvilleTenn E K Bell district supervisor Savannah Ga D H Dabelstein chief of Advise ment Training and Placement Sec tion U S Office of Vocational Rehab ilitation Washington D C R B Hawkins district supervisor Green ville N C H E Springer chief of J INNING CONFERENCE rehabilitation services Raleigh N C E B Whitten state director Jackson Miss J A Rehwinkel district super visor Tallahassee Fla D L Hay district supervisor Gainesville Fla G B Calmes district supervisor Jack sonville Fla Back row Travis McCharen state supervisor Jackson Miss Manuel Hernandez director San Juan Puerto Rico E H Gentry state director Montgomery Ala 0 F Wise assist ant director Birmingham Ala P G Sherer state director Columbia S C J C Collins district supervisor Green ville S C C H Warren state di rector Raleigh N C C M Andrews state director Tallahassee Fla D D Beckman state supervisor Columbia S C J Hank Smith assistant state director Nashville Tenn T T McLean supervisor of Advisement Training and Placement Section Nash ville Tenn Louis R Schubert state director Nashville Tenni ckabilitation Afews Flying Colors Published monthly by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Dr M D Collins State Superintendent of Schools Paul S Barrett Director Division of Vocational Rehabilitation 131 State Office Building ATLANTA DISTRICT Atlanta 305 Peachtree St N E Phone Ja 6572 Gainesville414 Jackson Bldg Phone 816 Rome415 West Bldg Phone 8438 Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School Phone 98R2 AUGUSTA DISTRICT Augusta 607 Southern Finance Bldg Phone 23639 Athens Hardman Hall University Phone 2802 Dublin 401 C S Bank Bldg Phone 119 SAVANNAH DISTRICT Savannah2 East Bay Street Phone 39835 BrunswickAndrews Bldg Phone 1007 Waycross400 Bunn Bldg Phone 824 MACON DISTRICT Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg Phone 6179 3668 Columbus411 Flowers Bldg Phone 21904 Albany213 Royal Bldg Phone 2782 Thomasville 309 Upchurch Bldg Phone 1274 There are failures in Vocational Rehabilitation There are cases on which we fall down completely There have been some in which we bet practically the limit only to see the client fall flat on his occupational and economic face Out of the thousands of clients who are accepted each year there are bound to be a few like that Despite every precaution Despite every preliminary investiga tion on personal background aptitudes and every psychological appraisal wTiich modern science has been able to devise But for every failure there are dozens of successes which more than make the program pay out For instance look over the following letter Dear Friends Sorry I havent written sooner Please forgive me for I know I should have written a long time ago but I just cant express in words how I appreciate what you all done for me although it has been some time since you all came to my aid I havent forgotten and never will for if it had not been for the help of the Rehabilitation I dont believe I could have lived much longer I was in great paincontinually day and night no one knows but me and God what I went through It just didnt seem there was much in life for me I just could not look forward to anything in the future but I just thank God you all came to my rescue in time for I know I couldnt have gone on much longer for I didnt have the means to do what had to be done to make me well again I am so thankful that I am able to walk and work again It just seems like a gift from heaven I cant thank you all enough but I want to try in my weak way to thank everyone for everything that was done for me every visit that was made every encouraging word that was said and the interest you all took in me and may this good work be carried on so a lot more poor people can be helped as I Thanks to you all May God bless everyone is my prayer WILLIAM J BISHOP Stone Mountain RFD 1 Ga Mr Bishop had a diseased right knee He was not able to work Vocational Rehabilitation helped with hospitalization and an amputation operation which made the leg fit for an appliance We bought the appliance for him Instead of being an invalid he has a good job with the C H Martin Company appliance manufacturers 329 Marietta Street N W Atlanta and his wife and seven children are well provided for Fortunately Mr Bishops case is the rule rather than the exception Thats what makes Vocational Rehabilitation records emerge at the end of each year with flying colorsM D Collins Although not at the top of all the states in the number of rehabilitations accomplished as was the case in the 194546 fiscal year Georgia remained among the leaders in rehabilitations in the 194647 period according to figures just released by the Washington office We are proud to note that there was a nationwide increase in rehabilitations reflecting the growing awareness of the social and economic profits of Vocational Rehabilitation California topped the list in 194647 with 3205 rehabilitations Michigan was second with 2972 Georgia was third with 2755 and New York was fourth with 2717 Georgia beat its 194546 total of 2400 by 355 Other states in the fiscal year ended July 1 reported the following rehabilitations Illinois 2082 Pennsylvania 2011 North Carolina 1902 South Carolina 1702 Texas 1574 Alabama 1372 The nationwide total was 43874af l Training as shoe repairers are Boykin King left above and Ozell Wise both of whom have severe disabilities of the back The scene is the Electric Shoe Shop in Swainsboro These boys from farm families are too handicapped for farm work but are learning a profitable occupation Back Brace enables Willie Smith below to get and keep a job He is a counter man and dishwasher at Browns Steak House 146 Ivy Street N E Atlanta Willie was un able to work until Vocational Rehabilitation provided his appliance His back was injured in an accident Artificial Leg provided by Vocational Re habilitation enables Robert Washington 270 Mangum Street N W Atlanta right to increase his earnings in his shoe shine shop Before becoming a client he had been wear ing a homemade pegleg and had considera ble difficulty in working A rtificial A rm has given Willie Hammond below right job opportunities which he has never had since losing his arm in a corn shredder in 1929 He was working at odd jobs around Monroe before rehabilita tion Now he is a janitor and tickettaker at the Rivoli Theatre in Rome imll I iDivision of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education 129 State Office Building Atlanta 3 Ga RETURN POSTAGE GUARANTEED Sec 562 P L R U S POSTAGE PAID Atlanta Ga Permit No 935 Miss Louise Fant Serials Librarian The University of Ga Athens Ga Ears and Fingers Restored Aubrey Simpson 719 Schuyler Avenue S E Atlanta lost both ears and his fingers grew together as the result of severe burns in an automobile accident Vocational Rehabili tation provided plastic surgery to restore the ears and separate the fingers Small inset photos illustrate the condition of an earthe other was the sameand fingers before plastic surgery Now Mr Simpson is an efficient cashier for The Yancey Company Inc 340 West Peachtree Street N W a job to which he was referred by Vocational Rehabilitation lYo GcovoJvoJ Senato WhyReh REHABILITATED WORMS PHYSiCALLY PREPARED MENTALLY CONDfTlONEl THOROUGHLY TRAINED FOR YOUR JOB i ifidi GENERAL UBRJ OCT 11 1947 OMKRSmrOF sjPJ fuii aiMAt tmnsd EM c1 S m wm w TMAH H 1 moThompson uotes from Georgia in the fiscal year just closed again ranked first in the nation in the num ber of rehabilitations per 100000 population and in many ways in the quality of work done As a member of the Federal staff I have watched your program in this state since the beginning of Vocational Rehabilitation for civilians in 1920 You have made tremendous progress in serving the handicappedJohn A Kratz associate director Federal Office of Vocational Rehabilitation The Georgia Department of Public Welfare spends more than a million dollars a month trying to help feed clothe house provide medical care and meet other needs for citizens of the state who are unable financially or physically to help themselves To the extent that you can provide physical restoration and training enabling these people to earn you accomplish a double purposetaking them off relief and making taxpaying earners of themL C Groves director Georgia Department of Public Welfare Georgia has done more than any other state in telling the public of the values of Vocational Rehabilitation Through The Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation News the daily newspapers radio movies exhibits and talks by counselors at public meetings you have done a remarkable job of public relationsR C Thompson director Maryland Division of Vocational Rehabilitation No more than 3 or 4 per cent of the blind population of this state is receiving proper instruction To rehabilitate a blind person it is necessary to begin instruction as soon as possible in childhoodJohn S Herndon superintendent Georgia Academy for the Blind Macon Herndon Glegg Davis seated We are constantly expanding our vocational training facilities at Clarkes ville and a portion of new apartments are being set aside for the families of handicapped clients who may want to be with them there during the training periods Charles Clegg Director North Ga Trade and Technical School Rehabilitation of the tuberculous has many pitfalls Let us keep before us these principles an integrated approach to complex needs dealing always in terms of the individual and the goal of the patients return to normal livingL L loung executive secretary Georgia Tuberculosis Association The Georgia Farm Bureau knows what Vocational Rehabilitation is doing and is ready to go to bat for the pro gram any time the need arisesH L Wingate president Georgia Farm Bu reau Federation photo on cover Young By Senator Richard B Russell of Georgia I wish to express my profound appre ciation for the very kind introduction Dr Collins gave me I would like to say that I do not deserve the very high tribute that he paid I feel very humble in the face of such praise I appreciate the opportunity to meet with this group I have been interested for some time in the work in which you are engaged As a senator I am very proud of my state Several generations of my forefathers sleep beneath this soil It is a source of great pride to me There are occasions when I am not too proud of Georgia but I have never been ashamed of the state I know the people of this state I know the oppor tunities of this state are not equal to those of other states In this work of rehabilitation in which you are engaged Georgians have something about which Georgians can really rejoice Year before last Geor gia led all the states on a numerical basis The year just finished Georgia again led all the states in rehabilitations per 100000 population I believe that Paul Barrett is the best state director of rehabilitation in the United States of America I do not know that for a fact but that is my be lief I do know for a fact that Paul Barrett is one of the most effective men in dealing with the National Congress that I have ever seen There is no tell ing what he has been worth to this pro gram in the task of selling it and main taining interest in it I wish to thank the doctors in Georgia for the part that they have played in the program Dr Crawford Long said that his profession was to him as a min istry from God It is as a ministry direct from heaven It must be a source of gratification to those of you in the field to take part in helping those who have not had opportunities and to see those persons develop into selfsustain ing citizens To take some person who is tired and losing the battle of life and to see that person rehabilitated as a val uable citizen of the community must mean more than the salary checks you draw Freedom Our Goal We have just emerged from the greatest conflict that the world has ever witnessed America has gone forth to bring about lasting peace on earth The reason we have not achieved that aim is because we have not been able to bring individual freedom and unlimited op portunities to all the people of the earth A condensation of an address by Sen ator Russell before the annual confer ence of the Georgia Division of Voca tional Rehabilitation at the General Oglethorpe Hotel Savannah The pic ture luhich serves as a cover design for this issue was snapped during the speech At right on the cover is H L Wingate of Macon president of the Georgia Farm Bureau Federation It has been irritating in the last few months as the Russians have vetoed and blocked every effort we have made to let people of the world live together in peace I have feared that the people of America who are an impatient people would not support the United Nations and say we should rely upon our armed forces or again withdraw into isolation The atomic bombs which destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki are in the bow and arrow stage as compared to the bomb which could be built today I have served as a member of the Atomic En ergy Commission since it was first started by the Congress There are times that I try to wipe out of my mind everything that pertains to atomic en ergy There is a necessity of living to gether or preparing to die together if we can not live together We must con tinue to support the efforts of our lead ers to make the United Nations func tion as an instrument for world peace We cannot afford to give the atom bomb secrets to all the world We must sup port the Baruch Plan that provides for policing every nation of the world be fore we can afford to reveal the secrets of the atomic bomb I am afraid the world will discover it all too soon It has been almost nauseating to me to see others block every effort that is made The difference between the Commu nist government and the American gov ernment is that the Communists can move with greater speed Democracy must wait on the will of the majority of the people where in dictatorship one man rules But in this great democracy of ours if people will devote their en ergies in time of peace to solution of problems with the same determination that they manifested in war we cannot fail to achieve success now that peace has come Wishing Not Enough Men go forth and die that by so do ing they may have permanent peace for their sons and future generations The survivors return to their homes and forget that it is necessary to do more than wish for peace I have no doubt that the average citizen of Russia is just as anxious for peace as the average citi zen of the United States They are sur rounded by a system that permits them to do only that which they are told to do not as we do in a democracy by mak ing up our own minds It is all the more important here that people in this coun try in whatever walk of life give to this problem of working out the peace the same fervent prayers the same spirit as in time of war That is one of the responsibilities that we assume as one of the greatest nations of the earth We are not working for peace when the United Nations are building atomic bombs The only hope of mankind to day is an army strong enough to protect the United States The rest of the world is looking to us for inspiration in the form of government that we have also for the very subsistence that keeps humans living together until they are able to work I was not a follower of Mr Wendell Willkie and disagreed with him in many of his statements but he did make one statement that I believe Only the strong can survive and only the pro ductive can be strong We are called upon to repair other nations factories which will enable them to replace their homes and their cities We are called upon to maintain great military establishments so that the Red armies may not rule the whole world As we go about our daily tasks we must realize that it is the greatest bless ing that any man has to be an Ameri can citizen It is also well to remember that the privilege of American citizen ship is not something that just hap pened We remember how proud Saint Paul was when he said that he was a citizen of Rome It was something to be a citizen of Rome and to be afforded protection of the Roman government To be a citizen of the United States is a greater source of pride than that of any other citizenship We must as in dividuals assume our responsibilities and must constantly keep abreast of the needs of our country in times of peace as well as in times of war I am happy to have been here with you this evening and take pride in the work of Vocational Rehabilitation which is an integral part of our program of equal opportunity for every citizen of the United StatesHOW THE TUBERCULOUS and extuberculous can best be helped to adjust themselves to their limitations in various occu pations was the subject of discussions led by the men above Left to right J L Hise counselor at Battey State Hospital Rome C B Shroyer state supervisor of services for the tuberculous A L Davis assistant director in charge of field operations M D Mobley director Division of Vocational Education Terry C Foster assistant regional representative Federal OVR and L L Young secretary Georgia Tuberculosis Association LEGION POST OFFICERS New officers of the Fort E Land Post American Legion were elected during the conference They are first row left to right James J Segars Buford com mander Dr M D Collins chaplain D Donaldson Rome senior vicecommander Dennis D Still Loganville immediate past commander Second row Alton R Colcord Atlanta finance officer Jerry N Hastings Atlanta adjutant J B Bowen junior vicecommander and M R Little Waycross historian THE STAFF AND A FEW OF THE VISITORS First row left to right J P Cooper counselor for the blind Augusta W C Dendy counselor Atlanta Fred Driver senior counselor Dublin V A Drake counselor Savannah Miss Marjorie Sessions inter viewer Atlanta R C Thompson director Maryland Division of Vocational Rehabilitation John A Kratz associate director Fed eral Office of Vocational Rehabilitation H B Cummings regional representative Federal Office of Vocational Rehabilitation Senator Richard B Russell Dr M D Collins Georgia school superinten dent W W McCay chairman State Board of Education Easta nollee Ga P S Barrett director Georgia Division of Vocational Rehabilitation P D Bush senior counselor Gainesville D Don aldson senior counselor Rome C E Lancaster counselor Macon Second row A M Bowen counselor Atlanta J F Sosby coun selor Augusta B R B Davis wearing glasses counselor Co lumbus Marvin Starr counselor Columbus John S Prickett Jr COUNSELORS TAKE OVER discussions of their problems more and more at the annual conferences getting away from uninterrupted chairmanships by executives Next year the conference will be in charge of district supervisors instead of state administrators Here J P Millican Brunswick counselor extreme right leads a panel on Finding and Preparing Cases for Services Members of the panel left to right J B Cheatham Rome Marvin Starr Columbus W C Dendy Atlanta and J N Hastings Atlantadistrict supervisor Augusta Otis C Dyer district supervisor At 4 Janta G E Currie senior counselor Savannah C B Shroyer i specialist for tuberculous Atlanta Miss Bess Patterson interviewer H Atlanta Miss Cassie McClain counselor Atlanta R Watt K I counselor Albany Jerry Hastings counselor Atlanta Glenn E J fcoggs supervisor of business enterprises Atlanta J L Hise coun seior Battey State Hospital Rome John W Lewis Jr placement specialist for the blind Macon J B Cheatham counselor Rome Third row Ernest E Kennedy district supervisor Macon D D Still counselor Atlanta A L Davis assistant director in charge I tfii field operations Atlanta W B Gaines supervisor of services I for the blind Atlanta M R Little counselor Waycross Mrs j Carol de Montoya supervisor of workshops and home industries 1 I Atlanta Ted R Owens senior counselor Columbus Miss Mabel Dudley district medical social worker Atlanta Alton R Colcord industrial specialist Atlanta E K Bell district supervisor Sa vannah J R Hampton counselor Clarkesville W L Flanagan counselor for the blind Macon Fourth row J J Segars counselor Atlanta W W Chandler counselor Augusta B L Smith counselor Savannah C W Bell senior counselor Waycross T G Loudermilk counselor Atlanta H R McLarty senior counselor Augusta F E Wynn senior counselor Thomasville L L Young executive secretary Georgia Tuberculosis Association Atlanta Mrs Juanita M Curtis inter viewer Atlanta B B Sanders counselor Macon Miss Edith Taylor medical social consultant Atlanta S A Newton senior counselor Macon W Lee Jones assistant supervisor of business enterprises Nathan B Nolan counselor Athens A P Jarrell assistant director in charge of technical services Atlanta Dr T P Goodwyn medical administrative consultant Atlanta Dr William S Boyd Augusta J B Bowen counselor Atlanta SW SERVICES FOR THE BLIND staff was all together in positions suitable for a picture for the first time and the Division photographer snapped the opportunity This also was a panel discussion Left to right facing camera Glenn E Boggs supervisor of business enter lilt 1U1 Hit uium ai viainvJinii v iv i it I 1 LI J specialist and W B Gaines supervisor of services for the blind The placement specialists and Miss Vinson are themselves blind ckabi Litatiorv Afews Published monthly by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Dr M D Collins State Superintendent of Schools Paul S Barrett Director Division of Vocational Rehabilitation 131 State Office Building ATLANTA DISTRICT Atlanta 305 Peachtree St N E Phone LAmar 1545 Gainesville414 Jackson Bldg Phone 816 Rome415 West Bldg Phone 8438 Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School Phone 98R2 AUGUSTA DISTRICT Augusta 607 Southern Finance Bldg Phone 23639 Athens Hardman Hall University Phone 2802 Dublin 401 C S Bank Bldg Phone 119 SAVANNAH DISTRICT Savannah2 East Bay Street Phone 39835 BrunswickAndrews Bldg Phone 1007 Waycross400 Bunn Bldg Phone 824 MACON DISTRICT Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg Phone 6179 3668 Columbus411 Flowers Bldg Phone 21904 Albany213 Royal Bldg Phone 2782 Thomasville 309 Upchurch Bldg Phone 1274 REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVE H B Cummings of the Federal OVR told the counselors that every care should be taken that there is no overlapping with services of other agencies and that full advantage should be taken where services may be ob tained without cost to the client or Voca tional Rehabilitation so the number of clients served may be as large as possible under present budgets GOVERNORS EXECUTIVE secretary Phil Landrum is here shown with Mrs Landrum at the banquet which was the climax of the professional personnels con ference Besides the 63 members of the pro fessional staff there were almost as many guests from over the statedoctors city county and state officials and others having direct interests in rehabilitating the handi capped THE W OMEN of the professional staffall seven of them and it was quite a feat the photographer says to get them to agree to meet at any particular time and then be there fnt sfiH Xt 6 WaT a Smgle excePtion t0 Pve the rule that no woman is ever Mrs Carol He M MS Edith F Tayr medical scial consultant kv dhtrirt rnV yaSVPerVIlSOr ofJvorkshoPs home industries Miss Mabel Dud ley district medical social worker Mrs Juanita M Curtis survey interviewer Miss Bess Patterson survey nterv ewer Miss 1U n c yy viewer ivnss Miss Cassie McCIain SCounselor nS Viewer andFROM NEARBLINDNESS TO NEARNORMAL vision has been the experience of Miss Wilhelmina de Antonio of Collins Tattnall County When Vocational Rehabilitation provided the first examination in 1945 she had 100 per cent loss of vision in one eye and 98 per cent loss in the other because of cataracts iThis condition had been growing worse since she was five years old Operations were performed Now with glasses her vision is almost 2020 and she is being helped in a course at Draughons Business College Savannah VIRTUALLY USELESS LEG RESTORED Jack Stanley be ow was in constant pain and had little control over his right j leg injured in an accident Sur gery straightened the leg consid erably so that now he walks on it without pain and has good control He was placed as a 4 dishwasher and kitchen helper e at Beasleys 381 Moreland Ave nue SW Atlanta TWO SEVERE HANDICAPS have not stopped Miss Inez Layton of Staten ville from Vocational Rehabilitation and a good business operating a vend ing stand in the Valdosta Post Office This is one of the 25 stands sponsored by the Georgia Cooperative Services for the Blind In addition to being totally blind Miss Layton was crippled in an automobile accident She was sent to a specialist who operated to correct the leg injury With the aid of a brace now discarded she learned to walk normally Shown making a purchase is Postmaster J A McLeod A DISABLED KNEE does not interfere with a job as a type writer repairman James L Long was sponsored in his training by Vocational Rehabilitation at the David Typewriter Company 309 Eighth Street Augusta and worked into a regular job Before this training he had experience only as a route man for a newspaper and as a machinists apprentice in both cases jobs ill adapted to his handicap r Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education 129 State Office Building Atlanta 3 Ga RETURN POSTAGE GUARANTEED Sec 562 P L R U S POSTAGE PAID Atlanta Ga i Permit No 935 Miss Louise Fant Serials Librarian The University of Ga Athens Ga VERY POOR EYESIGHT is the handicap of Hoke S Smith shown here operating a machine at the Calvert Iron Works 1195 Victory Drive SW Atlanta He earns a good salary ample to support himself and his family Before being placed by Vocational Rehabili tation he worked at odd jobs ASSEMBLING BOXES is a job which Miss Lois Marie Nichols does well although totally blind since birth She is employed by the Atlanta Box Factory 237 Whitehall Street SW Atlanta where she was placed by Vocational Rehabilitation in 1945 Previousl she had never workedm Vol 4 No 2 November 1947 OYe GcovoJvoJNoooJwoyvo cKabllitatiotv cVews til jj Your Purchases of Christmas Seals Will Help Rehabilitation of the Tuberculous REHABILITANT BECOMES NURSE Miss Felicia Nelson top left of Savannah having recovered from tuberculosis is now a nurse at the ChathamSavannah Tuber culosis Sanatorium Her training was sponsored by Voca tional Rehabilitation in this same hospital and she is now regularly employed PATIENT GETS TREATMENT in pneumo clinic of ChathamSavannah Tuberculosis Sanatorium top right The best of modern equipment is available for those who attend this clinic Left to right Mrs Ruby Head superin tendent of the hospital Dr W W Otto assistant health commissioner and Dr John W Elliott medical director ACADEMIC TEACHER is employed by ChathamSavan nah Tuberculosis Association lower left Sadie Gardner instructs patients in the wards and also holds classes for those able to spend some time up each day NURSE TRAINED under sponsorship of Vocational Re habilitation is Janie Verdree lower right She has recov ered from tuberculosisBy Dr C A Henderson Chatham County Commissioner of Health Substantial rehabilitation of persons who have had tuber culosis is being accomplished all over Georgia today That this is being done is due to joint efforts of the Divi sion of Vocational Rehabilitation of the State Department of Education State Department of Health State Depart ment of Welfare and the Georgia Tuberculosis Association In Savannah there is a cooperative program involving all the above agencies working on the local level to see that every thing possible is done within their limits to rehabilitate these persons recovering or who have recovered from tuberculosis The principal object of the program has been to make these persons employable and selfsustaining The Chatham County Health Department of which I am the head has had extensive cooperation from both the Divi sion of Vocational Rehabilitation of the State Department of Education and the Georgia Tuberculosis Association A person who has had tuberculosis or who is recovering from tuberculosis in Georgia today has better opportunities to restore himself or herself to a useful place in society than has ever before been the case in the history of the state The Chatham County Health Department with the co operation of the local office of Vocational Rehabilitation has been able to provide services which assure that anyone now having or having had tuberculosis will be given every recuper ative care within the means of modern medical science to provide In many cases persons who have had tuberculosis find it inadvisable to resume their former occupations For instance if they have been farmers or laborers or truck drivers the physical strain to which they were formerly sub jected is advised against by doctors However they may be watch repairers shoe repairers photographic workers stenog raphers or in any of a hundred other occupations the duties of which do not subject them to undue strain as persons hav ing recovered from tuberculosis A survey of local needs has been made by representatives of the Vocational Rehabilitation office and the ChathamSavan nah Tuberculosis Association As a result of this survey we hope and believe that every person in the Savannah area hav ing tuberculosis or who has had tuberculosis is being af forded every care that the state the county and the city can provide both to help in recovering from the disease and also to resume a normal place in society Is there a possible job opportunity for a handicapped person in your business or do you know of such an opportunity elsewhere Your cooperation in proper placement of the handicapped is vital If you think you might help in some way with a placement fill in and cut out this form and mail it to us and a represen tative of the Division will call on you There is no obligation whatever Nr Addr Business Remarks Division of Vocational Rehabilitation 131 State Office Building Atlanta 3 GaI STORE IN SANATORIUM operated by the Patients Relations Organization carries a large stock of notions confections and other merchandise in demand among personnel and patients Patients who have developed sufficient work tolerance and feel so inclined work in the store and are paid according to the number of hours worked each day Profits of the store are paid into an account used by the Patients Relations Organization for activities and welfare The store is located in the center of the institution where it is acces sible to patients with dining room privileges and handtrucks with merchandise are wheeled to all wards BUSINESS SCHOOL is conducted in the sanatorium for patients certified by physicians as being able to take an hour or two clerical instruction each day Regular classes for most are held in the mornings This is a special class for two who could not attend morning sessions Schedules are arranged for the convenience of patients in getting to and from the Vocational Rehabilitation sec tion Mrs Bernice Gissendanner left Columbus and Mrs Audrey Motes Hazlehurst are supervised by Kenneth Hippensteel commercial instructor PATIENTS LIBRARY is a pleasant restful room with a homelike atmosphere stocked with more than 7000 books Left to right Mrs Ruby P Stewart librarian J W Ogles by Valdosta seated in rear Miss Bessie Webb Atlanta Miss Dorothy Quillian Ellijay Mrs Lanelle Redfearn Moultrie and Joe Motes Cedartown REHABILITATION STAFF First row left to right Miss Mar garet Ferguson occupational therapist Miss Frances B Broach medical social worker Mrs Elizabeth Hudson acting rehabilita tion coordinator Miss Ruby Stewart librarian Miss Vera Ash worth home economics instructor Second row F P Loman chap lain Dr Rufus F Payne superintendent L L Young executive secretary Georgia Tuberculosis Association Back row Kenneth J Hippensteel commercial instructor Douglas Wynn recreation di rector C B Shroyer tuberculosis specialist of Vocational Rehabili tation and J L Hise rehabilitation counselor READY TO RETURN to private life with a newly acquired skil is George H Ross of Atlanta Vocational Rehabilitation sponsored his training and before leaving the sanatorium he had virtually all the work he could do from personnel and patients Altogether his training period covered nearly two years a large part of which was financed by Vocational Rehabilitation Tools also were pur chased for him to help him get started in his new occupation Mr Shroyer in backgroundOKc GcovqoOocoXotcCV ekabLlitatiorv iVews Published monthly by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Dr M D Collins State Superintendent of Schools Paul S Barrett Director Division of Vocational Rehabilitation 131 State Office Building ATLANTA DISTRICT Atlanta 305 Peachtree St N E Phone LAmar 1545 Gainesville414 Jackson Bldg Phone 816 Rome415 West Bldg Phone 8438 Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School Phone 98R2 AUGUSTA DISTRICT Augusta 607 Southern Finance Bldg Phone 23639 Athens Hardman Hall University Phone 2802 Dublin 401 C S Bank Bldg Phone 119 SAVANNAH DISTRICT Savannah2 East Bay Street Phone 39835 BrunswickAndrews Bldg Phone 1007 Waycross400 Bunn Bldg Phone 824 MACON DISTRICT Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg Phone 61793668 Columbus411 Flowers Bldg Phone 21904 Albany213 Royal Bldg Phone 2782 Thomasville 309 Upchurch Bldg Phone 1274 What the Seal Doesirt Show The cover design of this issue of Rehabilitation News includes a picture of the 1947 Tuberculosis Christmas Seal The yoke of oxen pulling together is symbolic of the won derful cooperation between the Division of Vocational Re habilitation and the Tuberculosis Association on all levels national state and local The purpose of both these organi zations is to bring the freshness of health and happiness to sick and handicapped people beautifully illustrated by the sled loaded with evergreens for the Yule festivities In each county in Georgia the rehabilitation program has no better friend than the local tuberculosis association or committee They lend their support in many tangible ways They help find and report clients to the district offices and assist the counselors in obtaining services Recently in a South Georgia county the Tuberculosis Committee paid the travel expenses for a prospective client to Battey State Hos pital for a complete checkup This was necessary before he could be put on the program and no other funds were available for this service If Seal Sale money had not been ready the man and his family would have been deprived of the benefits of rehabilitation The ChathamSavannah Tuberculosis and Health Association in Savannah furnishes a teacher in the local sanatorium to provide elementary school training for the patients so that they will be better prepared for Vocational Rehabilitation when they are well In a Middle Georgia county the Division discovered a prospective client but upon preparation of the case the tuberculosis of this person did not constitute sufficient disability for training by the Division Because of the family situation where the mother had faradvanced tuberculosis the County Committee made it possible for this bright high school graduate to take a business course and now she is selfsupporting and contributes to the care of her invalid mother On the state level the Georgia Tuberculosis Association and the Division cooperate to the fullest extent There is a written agreement between the two organizations which sets forth the working plan There is always a willingness on the part of the Tuberculosis Association to go beyond this agreement in assist ing the Division The Georgia Tuberculosis Association cooperated with the State Sanatorium and the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation in following up patients discharged from the State Sanatorium from 1939 to 1945 See results on opposite page The status of this backlog of potential clients was determined This also supplied valuable information to the State Department of Health The Georgia Tuberculosis Association supplied the services of a rehabilitation worker at Battey State Hospital Robert F Manlove who gave valuable assist ance in starting the inhospital training program To begin this program required a cash outlay of 1000 for equipment The association was ready with the money with the assistance of the Cobb County Association and training got under way much quicker The National Tuberculosis Association is a staunch supporter of the work of the Federal Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Training courses are con ducted for those who work with tuberculosis clients The national as well as the state association offers the services of staff people for consultation When ever help is needed in Washington particularly in regard to legislation to im prove the work Holland Hudson director of rehabilitation for the National Tuberculosis Association is always on hand to do his part to protect the interests of the handicapped The tuberculosis associations furnish a broad base of support of the federal state program They point the way to new ideas and ideals They are our warm friends We wish to be the first to say Merry Christmas 1947 M D CollinsFollowup of 3492 Sanatorium Discharges from the State Sana torium at Alto from January 1 1940 until January 1 1946 in 157 Counties Two Counties in the State Had No Patients in the Sana torium During That Period of Time 1 Referred for Further Investigation 543 ggg LlSt 2 Closed Referred No Services Indicated 334 O 3 Closed Rehabilitated 68 4 Suitably Employed Self Rehabilitated 232 By C B Shroyer Tuberculosis Specialist 5 On Rehabilitation Service 46 6 Discharged From Sanatorium as NonTuberculous or Suspicious and With No Further Diagnosis of Tuberculosis 454 7 No Diagnosis Beyond a Healed Primary 8 Moved Present Address Unknown 9 Moved Present Address Known 10 Under 16 Years of Age 99 142 82 37 11 No Available Information 365 12 ReAdmitted Battey State Hospital 121 13 In Local or Out of State TB Sanatorium 10 14 In State Hospital for the Mentally 111 Milledgeville 6 15 Far Advanced Active Case in the Home 154 16 Deceased 772 17 Deceased Causes Other Than Tuberculosis 27 492 FOLLOWUP OF 2533 STATE SANATORIUM DISCHARGES 157 COUNTIES January 1 1940January 1 1946 Year of Discharge DISPOSITION 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 Total Percent of Total 1 Referred to district offices for further investigation Rehab service indicated 88 46 86 116 103 104 543 214 2 Now on Rehab Service 3 3 4 13 10 13 46 18 3 Closed Rehabilitated 9 9 12 16 13 9 68 27 4 Suitably Employed selfrehab 46 25 46 48 36 31 232 92 5 No Service Indicated 97 41 65 37 59 35 334 132 6 Moved from Community or State a Present add known 22 13 12 14 11 10 82 32 b Present add unkwn 47 17 23 21 19 15 142 56 7 Readmitted to TB Hospital 15 7 23 33 26 27 131 52 8 No diagnosis beyond healed primary 34 19 29 9 5 3 99 39 9 Discharged as NonTB or SuspiciousNo further diagnosis of TB 119 73 74 57 56 65 454 179 10 Under 16 years of age 8 7 12 8 1 1 37 15 11 No available information 111 54 66 59 40 35 365 144 Totals 599 314 452 441 379 348 2533 Percent of Totals 236 124 179 174 15 137 1000 For perhaps the first time in the nation on so wide a scale Vocational Rehabilitation has made a comprehensive followup study of per sons discharged from the state tuberculosis sanatorium with a view to offering and ren dering rehabilitation services A plan for the survey was worked out with the sanatorium now Battey State Hospital the State Department of Health and the Geor gia Tuberculosis Association last November The studv was to cover discharges from Janu ary 1 1940 to January 1 1946 This study has now been completed by Vocational Re habilitation The sanatorium provided the list of patients discharged during the period by counties This list was printed at the State Office of Vital Sta tistics On each patient dismissed in those years was listed his name race sex year of birth condition on admission condition at dis charge type of sanatorium treatment whether discharge was with or without medical consent date of admission and date of discharge A visit to each of 157 counties which had patients in the sanatorium during the period covered by the survey was made by Vocational Rehabilitation and information on each case was obtained through the cooperation of the state health and welfare departments In many instances no official county records existed and it was necessary to consult post offices rural mail carriers county officials Farm Security tuberculosis committees and relatives or friends of the patients If a former patient appeared feasible for Vocational Rehabilitation the case was re ferred to the vocational counselor serving the county and classified referred for further in vestigation If the person was of advanced age or otherwise nonfeasible for rehabilitation the case was classified closed referred no serv ices indicated Where the person was em ployed investigation was made to determine if the work was consistent with his physical lim itations If so the person was classified as suitably employedselfrehabilitated A summary of each county showing status of each case was written and copies given to the sanatorium the State Division of Tubercu losis Control the Georgia Tuberculosis Asso ciation and the vocational counselor serving the county The summary at left is the result of several months work with all state agencies involved cooperatingDivision of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education 129 State Office Building Atlanta 3 Ga RETURN POSTAGE GUARANTEED Sec 562 P L R U S POSTAGE PAID Atlanta Ga Permit No 935 Miss Louise Fant Serials Librarian The University of Ga Athens Ga FORTYBED SANATORIUM at Bonna Bella near Savannah is operated by the ChathamSavannah Health De partment Newly discovered cases from Savannah and Chat ham County are cared for here by a competent staff until such time as they can be admitted to Battey State Hospital Patients return from Battey to this Savannah sanatorium for continued treatment and convalescence EXPATIENT IS XRAY technician employed in the ChathamSavannah Health Department His training was arranged by Vocational Rehabilitation He is W L Hagan of Savannah QVol 4 No 3 January 1948 y U c Kabi lit atioa Afews GENERAL LfBRAR UNIVERSITY OF GEQRA Terry C Foster Jn ekabilitatiorv Afews Terry Foster Published monthly by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Stale Department of Education Atlanta Dr M D Collins State Superintendent of Schools Paul S Barrett Director Division of Vocational Rehabilitation 131 State Office Building ATLANTA DISTRICT Atlanta 305 Peachtree St N E Phone LAmar 1545 Gainesville414 Jackson Bldg Phone 816 Rome415 West Bldg Phone 8438 Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School Phone 98R2 AUGUSTA DISTRICT Augusta 607 Southern Finance Bldg Phone 23639 Athens Hardman Hall University Phone 2802 Dublin 401 C S Bank Bldg Phone 119 SAVANNAH DISTRICT Savannah2 East Bay Street Phone 39835 BrunswickAndrews Bldg Phone 1007 Waycross400 Bunn Bldg Phone 824 MACON DISTRICT Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg Phone 61793668 Columbus411 Flowers Bldg Phone 21904 Albany213 Royal Bldg Phone 2782 Thomasville 309 Upchurch Bldg Phone 1274 ERRY FOSTER is gone He passed away from a heart attack at his home in Atlanta on December 27 following three months illness Funeral services were conducted by Dr Monroe F Swilley pastor of the SecondPonce de Leon Baptist Church Atlanta Burial was in Arlington Na tional Cemetery Washington D C Surviving are his wife three daughters his father five sisters and a brother For twentyseven years Terry Foster had been engaged in vocational rehabili tation services and at the time of his death was Assistant Regional Representative of the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation Federal Security Agency in Region III comprising seven Southeastern States and Puerto Rico During World War I he held the rank of Captain in the air corps and was shot down at least twice behind the German lines while piloting photographers When the Veterans rehabilitation service was set up Mr Foster was placed in charge of the training center in New Orleans Three years later in 1923 he was appointed State Director of civilian Vocational Rehabilitation in his native state Alabama In 1930 he was transferred to Washington and placed in charge of research and technical services While serving in the Federal office he worked with a committee of the American Medical Association in developing the forms now used by Vocational Rehabilitation With the expansion of the program in 1944 he was assigned to the regional office His friend and coworker for many years H B Cummings Regional Rep resentative said No man in the country knew more about the technical phases of Vocational Rehabilitation than Terry Foster Dr M D Collins State Superintendent of Schools said Terry Foster was one of the finest personalities I have ever known He was able conscientious and efficient His position is going to be exceedingly difficult to fill with a man who will carry forward the program in the fine interesting challenging and constructive way he did At the time of his death Mr Foster was engaged in preparing a review of Dr Henry Kesslers new book Rehabilitation of the Physically Handicapped for the Journal of RehabilitationBy H Earle Gorrevont President National Rehabilitation Association Director Vocational Rehabilitation Michigan This years Annual National Rehabilita tion Association Conference foretells a new era in our organized efforts to further the rehabilitation program for the disabled The Associations Planning Committee pre viously strongly recommended the promotion of Regional meetings as provided in the by laws the further integration of all affiliate groups working in behalf of the rehabilita tion of the disabled and the selection of an Executive Secretary to achieve still greater effectiveness and coordination of the mani fold activities of the Association All three of these recommendations were furthered by official Board action in Chicago on October 4 We are now committed to a National Con ference and eight Regional Conferences this year This in itself should promote greater participation of all affiliate groups and in terested individuals The total membership will now have the Association brought closer to home and the constant demand for direct individual par ticipation will be further recognized The financing of these sessions is to be met in part by the National organization because 10 percent of the membership dues of the prior year collected by the more respective Regions is set aside in the National Rehabili tation budget for the encouragement of Re gional meetings One of the unusual demonstrations during the Chicago Conference of the growing stature and responsibility of the Association was the official request of several groups in the field of the disabled to affiliate with the National Rehabilitation Association Representatives of the Medical Rehabilita tion Service of the Veterans Administration and the American Association of Instructors for the Blind met with the Board of Directors asking for affiliation and membership privi leges Such requests are but an indication of what the future holds in store In order to secure constant day to day lead ership and executive direction the National Rehabilitation Association is officially com mitted to the selection of an Executive Secre tary When this selection is made we shall have a pivotal professional leader to further the purposes of our organization It is hoped a selection may be made shortly after Janu ary 1 1948 Memberships are spiraling toward 7000 Journal of Rehabilitation circulation toward 13000 and all of this is built upon a sound financial policy In a few years the dream of 30000 memberships may be a reality Size alone is unimportant but greater participation of all members and affiliate organizations will directly lead to a better way of life for the disabled The help of every member is solicited par ticularly in the area of Regional Conferences Lets rally around our respective National Rehabilitation Association Regional Board members in organizing and carrying through a live wire Regional program Many Blind Are Rehabilitated From a recent issue of Lions Club News The Lions of Carrollton Ga set up two young blind men in business They made a loan to one of them E H Cole upon his graduation from the Blind Academy for pur chasing broommaking equipment Each Lion bought one of the first lot of brooms manu factured The Lions Club secured a position for the other lad Luther Phillips with a pencil manufacturing concern The Blind Committee works closely with the State Rehabilitation Department in determining the qualifications of the applicants for loans The Carrollton Lions also sponsored a series of band concerts raised 300 toward a fund to purchase high school band uniforms and made donations to a 4H Club the public library and the State streptomycin fund H Earle Correvont Vocational Rehabilitation Placement Agent Tom Bingham made the arrangements for this clients business in Carrollton Reports indicate Coles earnings range from 25 to 50 a week Town Talk From the Atlanta Journals Town Talk by Morris McLemore Events at the police station on Decatur street play a tattoo on the mind and some times the eye With Barney Pop Barron the punch is on the heart Pop is blind But he runs a concession stand with the deftness of a musician with the goods in neat stacks at his hand and complete control of each Mrs Barron his partner for 26 years also is blind yet she goes daily from their home at 56 Memorial Drive to her work at the Atlanta Community Shop on Ormond St where she helps other sightless persons adjust themselves to their talents This remarkable couple has found a niche They have two children Mrs R W Harris of Decatur and J H Barron of Col lege Park The Barrons reared their brood with no outside help and Miss Katie stayed home to do it The things she did back in the days when the children were young would amaze you She cared for them I suspect better than some women who have the advantage of vision As he said this Pop swung a crate of soft drinks from under the counter and plopped the bottles into the coolerRehabilitation of Mentally Deficient Persons By Counselor M R Little Waycross Exce i RIOR to 1943 the rehabilitation of mental cases was ignored almost completely Public Law 113 the BardenLaFollette Act recognized the needs of this group and the economic feasibility of restoring such indi viduals to employability No claim should be made that all or even most mental cases can be rehabilitated with present knowledge but cases can be selected who are both eligible and feasible for service Through the years there have been marked changes in peoples attitude toward mental illness No longer do we feel that a person is possessed of the devil or controlled by some evil influence The mentally sick are not turned out and isolated nor are they now punished for being witches Relatives of the mentally sick still are inclined to feel that occurrence of such an illness is a blot on the family record They hesitate to mention such illnesses openly and attempt to keep such information from being public knowledge They are fearful that they themselves may become mentally ill There are no reliable statistics to show the complete incidence of mental diseases but it is known that slightly more than one half of the 500000 hospital beds in the United States are occupied by mentally ill patients Approximately 12 percent of men between the ages of 18 and 37 years were rejected by Selective Service for mental and personality disorders not including mental deficiency or neurological defects Most physicians will admit that at least one half of the patients whom they are treat ing are suffering partially or primarily from some emotional disorder Psychiatric cases must be selected care fully for rehabilitation in order to achieve the success necessary to justify the confidence of legislators and administrators who have made the present program possible and to avoid the discouragement which failure will bring to the rehabilitation worker and the client In other words we look at the emotionally disabled individual as a human being not greatly different from other human beings except for his disability Every person has a threshold of tolerance for stress but if he faces stress beyond this point he tends to show disturbances of emotion The late Ernie Pyle expressed his feeling when he left the European theatre of war in this way I am leaving for only one reasonbe cause I have just got to stop Ive had it as they say in the Army Ive had all I can take for a while Ive been immersed in it too long My spirit is wobbly and my mind confused The hurt has finally become too great All of a sudden it seemed to me that rpts from paper read at District Conference in Sav if I heard one more shot or saw one more dead man I would go off my nut And if I had to write one more column Id collapse During his life every individual meets difficult situations producing anxiety irrita bility or frustration Vocational Rehabilitation aims at making the individual employable Psychiatrists as a rule are concerned with treating all phases of a patients disability The law requires that hospital treatment be limited to 90 days In most cases vocational training and placement may be carried out some time during the course of psychiatric treatment before treatment is actually ter minated The first question to be answered is Is there a vocational handicap Emotional dis turbances are perhaps the most common cause for employment difficulties The most difficult decision to reach in the consideration of feasibility is the question as to whether or not the condition will respond to treatment within a reasonable period of time In general the outlook for response to treatment is better in the psychoneuroses and the depression states However no hard and fast rules can be made Feasibility of treatment also will depend to a large degree on facilities available Under the provisions of the Mental Health Act recently passed by Congress and signed by the President there will be a gradual ex pansion of psychiatric facilities throughout the country However it has been estimated that it will be fifty years before there are enough trained psychiatrists in the country A person who is feeble minded cannot be made intelligent However many such indi viduals can be placed in more suitable work and assisted to a vocational adjustment in spite of the handicap The problem of placing workers in the right kinds of jobs is not new in industry It is estimated that approximately 50 percent of workers in the United States are not well placed vocationally and are somewhat un happy and inefficient on this account Some veterans who have never found themselves vocationally and who are still suffering from some minor nervous ailment when they seek employment will be floundering and will have no clear idea as to what they want to do or for what they are fitted In addition to the medical history and re port of psychiatrists constructive advice will take into consideration whenever possible the persons mental age his scores in aptitude tests his personality his high school or work history and his social background and con flicts The attitude of the employer and the state of the individual himself must be considered Many employers have shown reluctance in annah accepting employees who have been given psychiatric diagnosis One employee inade quately placed will do more to increase the employers resistance to accepting such cases than productively employed clients could do to decrease this resistance The Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor must not feel that the rehabilitation process is complete when the client has been placed in employment A careful followup must be made to see that the client is selfsufficient independent and able to travel under his own steam Some workers such as the Schizoid type can work more effectively only in places where they are sheltered from distractions and particularly from contact with large groups of people The more intelligent clients are apt to do well in a research job or other position where they are dealing with facts and chemical or mechanical processes rather than with people The slow learner or mentally deficient type should be placed in jobs that do not require much complex thinking Some need a fixed routine and simple situations It has been said that there are more jobs for the feebleminded than there are feeble minded persons to fill them In actual practice it has been demonstrated that persons with mental ages as low as five or six years may be taught to do simple jobs with supervision Over one hundred gainful occupations for men and women with IQs between 25 and 75 have been listed The Federal Office of Vocational Rehabili tation in a recent report for the fiscal year ended June 30 1946 showed cases persons with mental or nervous diseases closed as employed in such occupations as guards watchmen janitors farmers in skilled trades as jewelers carpenters electricians semi skilled trades as in machine shop occupa tions routemen chauffeurs auto repairmen retail managers clerical work sales and kin dred occupations service occupations such as housekeepers maids waitresses barbers professional occupations such as accountants authors chemists teachers semiprofessional occupation such as aviators dancers photog raphers radio operators managerial occu pations such as hotel and restaurants un skilled occupations such as laborers and stevedores The R H Macy Company a department store which employs 13000 persons estab lished a full clinic consisting of psychiatrist psychologist and psychiatric social worker In a fouryear period these professional teams were able to adjust more than half of the problem employees studied while they con tinued to work Mrs Robert J Mullins Jr formerly Dovie Lou Gibbs handicapped by arthritis in arms and limbs is being trained in hairgoods manufacturing at Claytons Beauty Shop At lanta with Vocational Rehabilitation aid Upon completion of the training she expects to carry on the work in her own home 4 Brainard H Ownby of Waycross handicapped by defec tive hearing and paralysis has a job reconditioning electric motors in the Atlanta shop where he was trained through Vocational Rehabilitation He had been a student at the Georgia School for the Deaf 4 XK January 30 is the birthday anniversary of Franklin D Roosevelt His triumph over physical disability inspires hope and courage in the hearts of handicapped people everywhere Under his administration as President the civilian Voca tional Rehabilitation was expanded and extended into new fields of service Franklin D Roosevelt 1882 1945 Ws ssafj rvs itsssff iairout his 0and d Name Business Address Remarks Division of Vocational Rehabilitation 131 State Office Building Atlanta 3 Ga Nelson W Harper of Wilkes County is a successful poultryman although he has defective hearing His story was featured recently by the Constitutions Editor Ralph McGill in Reports from the Country After attending Georgia School for the Deaf Mr Harper was aided by Vocational Rehabilitation in a vocational agriculture course at Washington High and in starting his poultry business 4 Arthritis in the lower limbs has not prevented Maye Reid of Atlanta from achieving her ambition to be a professional dressmaker Through Vocational Rehabilitation she was given special instruction and now serves a growing clientele and members of her family Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education 129 State Office Building Atlanta 3 Ga RETURN POSTAGE GUARANTEED Sec 562 P L R U S POSTAGE PAID Atlanta Ga Permit No 935 Mis3 Louisa Fant Serials Librarian The University of Ga Athens Ga Well Work in 48 Three students at Marsh Business College Atlanta enrolled under Vo cational Rehabilitation look forward to the New Year with prospects of good jobs in spite of their handicaps Left Sylvia Johnson Rt 2 Greens boro handicapped in one limb as the result of infantile paralysis center Vivian Couch Moreland congenital deformity of feet and Robert L Kay 18 Rt 3 Thomaston who is 4 ft 2 in in height 4 No 4 February 1948 OKe GeorcoocoovotV ekabilitatiori Mws Work for the BlindWarren M Banta right Regional Director Goodwill In dustries of America and Superintendent of Atlanta unit demonstrates operation of the Plasticor a device for making plastic golf tees and other plastic articles at a conference of Supervisors of Services for the Blind at Macon W B Gaines State Supervisor exam ines a tee Work for HomeboundMiss Mildred Ledford right Athens Extension Service Home Industries Specialist dis plays baskets trays and metal articles made by homebound workers Mrs Carol de Montoya Supervisor of Work shops and Home Industries Vocational Rehabilitation Division admires metal trayVocational Rehabilitation really fixed me up says C 0 Stone Atlanta painter who had an operation for hernia and was provided with hearing aid and glasses He is now back on the job with a contract painter And he adds I can sit on the back seat and enjoy picture shows Willie B Folsom of Rome handicapped by a leg disa bility following infantile paralysis was trained as an automotive body and fender repairman by Thomas Motor Company Rome and afterwards employed in the same establishment Is there a possible job opportunity for a handicapped person in your business or do you know of such an opportunity elsewhere Your cooperation in proper placement of the handicapped is vital If you think you might help in some way with a placement fill in and cut out this form and mail it to us and a represen tative of the Division will call on you There is no obligation whatever Name Address Bi Remarks Division of Vocational Rehabilitation 131 State Office Building Atlanta 3 Gaekabilitatioiv lAfews Published monthly by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation IN A fouryear period through the services of the StateFederal program of Vocational Rehabilitation for civilians 7000 men and women who had been disabled by cardiac disorders were prepared for and placed in safe and suitable occupations so they could make their own living Federal Security Adminis trator Oscar R Ewing disclosed in a statement issued in connection with National Heart Week State Department of Education Atlanta Dr M D Collins State Superintendent of Schools Paul S Barrett Director Division of Vocational Rehabilitation 131 State Office Building ATLANTA DISTRICT Atlanta 305 Peachtree St N E Phone LAmar 1545 Gainesville414 Jackson Bldg Phone 816 Rome 415 West Bldg Phone 8438 Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School Phone 98R2 AUGUSTA DISTRICT Augusta 607 Southern Finance Bldg Phone 23639 Athens Hardman Hall University Phone 2802 Dublin 401 C S Bank Bldg Phone 119 Michael J Shortley Director of FSAs Office of Vocational Rehabilitation expressed the belief that greater numbers of sufferers from heart disease will be rehabilitated as the availability of the StateFederal services become more gen erally known He added The seven thousand men and women all of working age were rehabilitated between 1943 when the program of vocational rehabilitation for civilians was expanded and 1947 Most of the 7000 were unemployed when they requested services from their homestate rehabilitation agencies In one year alone a group of 1264 men and women with cardiac disorders profited from vocational rehabilitation by a 670 percent increase in their rate of earnings Before rehabilitation only 214 were employed and their earnings were at the rate of 287000 a year The others were unemployed After rehabili tation was completed the rate of earnings for 1215 of the group was estimated at 2220000 annually the others became farmers or family workers whose earnings could not be estimated Men and women with cardiac disorders have been prepared for and placed many kinds of gainful occupations They are working as accountants editors pharmacists teachers draftsmen laboratory technicians radio operators retail managers advertising agents bookkeepers clerks secretaries stenographers office machine operators salespeople domestics waiters and waitresses ship stewards barbers beauticians guards watchmen farmers and farm hands jewelers watchmakers carpenters miners lens grinders bus drivers and house wives SAVANNAH DISTRICT Savannah2 East Bay Street Phone 39835 BrunswickAndrews Bldg Phone 1007 Waycross400 Bunn Bldg Phone 824 MACON DISTRICT Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg Phone 6179 3668 Columbus411 Flowers Bldg Phone 21904 Albany213 Royal Bldg Phone 2782 Thomasville 309 Upchurch Bldg Phone 1274 COVER PICTURE The front page picture on this issue of the NEWS shows Miss Vella Pullen right teacher of dress and pattern making at Columbus Occupational School who was voted The Woman of the Year by the Business and Professional Womens Club for her work with the Christian Fellowship Association in designing and making cos tumes for the Chattahoochee Valley Caval cade presented last spring Handicapped by a spine disability Miss Pullen was aided by Vocational Rehabilitation in a training course at a New York school of dress design She is shown here instructing Miss Odessa Moore a Vocational Rehabilitation client enrolled in her classes Tthmaiy 1 OVG Gv9occdwKcCv cKobltltatioa Mms T WINDOW DISPLAY The window display reproduced on page 8 was set up by the AugustaRichmond Tuberculosis Association during a con ference of Vocational Rehabilitation Division Supervisors and Counselors in Augusta recently It shows some of the attractive articles made by patients of the occupational therapy depart ment at Battey State Hospital Rome The display was in the Georgia Power Company Building where the conference was held AN OPERATION and brace provided by Vocational Rehabilitation enabled Ira L Aldridge above of Douglas to overcome the handicap of osteomyelitis of the right leg He is foreman of the Service Department of Douglas Motor Company Ive gained fifty pounds since my operation he said recentlyREHABILITATION OF THE TUBERCULOUS By COUNSELOR C W BELL of Waycross Highlights jrom paper read at District Conference FEAR OF tuberculosis coupled with ignor ance regarding its treatment results in an attitude toward the tuberculous which finds both individual and community expression The latter manifests itself often in locating the tuberculosis hospitals on wastelands far from other human habitation Too often patients who have been arrested and are ready for training or placement are neglected and avoided by those who are responsible for their rehabilitation ft requires courage and fortitude to meet all the new situations that confront one when he starts the longdrawnout battle with the in visible elusive hordes of tubercle bacilli that have invaded his physical domain There must be a willingness to pay the price of health by adherence to a strict regimen for the sake of future freedom Rest rest and more rest this is the first and most important remedy in the treatment of tuberculosis The sort of rest that tuberculosis patients must have is not the casual sort that most of us are accustomed to like stretching out for a few hours or taking things easy now and then Rest for the tuberculosis victim often lasts for months or longer and must be a complete rest in bed for twentyfour hours each day as long as the doctor recommends it Approximately one third of those who are afflicted with pulmonary tuberculosis can re cover successfully by means of bed rest when surrounded with the discipline the planned nutrition and absolute rest periods of the mod ern tuberculosis sanatorium If the disease were discovered in an early stage the propor tion of recoveries would be higher Approximately another third of tuberculosis patients have little or no chance for recovery Of most of these the tragedy is that appro priate treatment was not begun until the progress of the disease had outrun the possi bilities of healing Many others some of them in an early stage lack capacity to cope with their disease Between these two groups is another about equal in number These people have demon strated by one means or another an innate capacity to cope with the disease For this group of patients a variety of artificial aids has been evolved ranging from pneumothorax to complicated chest surgery In regard to the question as to which type of the tuberculous case is more feasible for re habilitation only broad general principles can be stated Any patient with tuberculosis is suitable for rehabilitation provided the disease has been satisfactorily arrested or even quies cent both as to physical findings and Xray for eighteen to twentyfour months The tuberculous individuals loss of earning power and the economic consequences of this loss to the family are facts which pervade the medical and social management of the illness from the moment the diagnosis is established until economic selfsufficiency is restored In deed if any plan for the mass treatment and rehabilitation of the tuberculous is to operate to its full potentialities some provision must be included to eliminate the financial inse curity of the patient and his family At the present time public assistance and free hospitalization are fairly widespread al though the latter is still unavailable in many sections of the country where tuberculosis rates are high Nevertheless even with public assistance the gap between the family income before the illness and the stipend granted the family while the patient is under treatment is often so great that many patients are loathe to accept hospitalization while the disease is still amenable to treatment Economic pressure likewise frequently causes the patient to leave the sanatorium be fore a definite result of treatment has been obtained Moreover even after treatment has been completed patients may be deterred from undertaking the medically prescribed parttime work or training schedule because they can not support themselves through such parttime efforts Because of the present lack of parttime work training or hardening facilities the successfully discharged patient often is con demned to prolonged periods of idleness until he is medically suited for a full days work Too frequently because of financial stress or sheer boredom the patient disregards the physicians counsel and undertakes fulltime work at a job which is not at all suitable for him Disastrous consequences follow At the same time other patients having full time work capacity are rejected by some em ployers in spite of their satisfactory condition and oftimes they accept a job having unsuit able working conditions at a wage insufficient to maintain optimal health The hardships which the good chronic in fective patient must face at the present time are almost insuperable since he is refused employment in industry Because of the lack of opportunity to work in sheltered industry he frequently migrates to a community where his past tuberculous history is not known and obtains employment At the same time he risks the recurrence of disease often with fatal outcome The Rehabilitation Counselor is no solo per former he works in concert with the medical staff occupational therapist and medical social worker After the patient is dismissed from the sanatorium as arrested the Counselor works with the agencies in the patients com munity the family employers or training agencies and others who can and will con tribute in the overall rehabilitation of an individual In order to evolve suitable rehabilitation planning a Counselor studies the patient population of a sanatorium Records provide data regarding age sex race marital status medical findings and outlook for recovery Education previous employment avocations circumstances of families job interests and ambitions are determined by interviews Such data provide a preliminary basis for a co ordinated rehabilitation program by appro priate community agencies The questionwhen should a rehabilitation program begin for the tuberculous is one which has prompted quite a bit of discussion We believe that rehabilitation should be an integral part of therapy and should begin with the diagnosis In this connection we refer to our rehabilitation program at Battey State Hospital in Rome The earlier we begin coun selling and guidance the more effective program we will be able to work out The ambulant patient begins some form of prevocational training once his interests and needs are de termined and so the Rehabilitation Counselor can cooperate with the physician and the patient to plan a suitable posthospital sequel Like all other prospective trainees ex tuberculous patients should be judged by their physical mental and intellectual abilities whether or not they train for a certain trade or profession This is taking into considera tion of course that the case is well arrested or otherwise the training should be graduated to fit the patients physical ability after all other factors have been considered In considering the selective placement of workers with inactive or apparently healed tuberculosis no general rule can be found applicable to all types of jobs As a matter of fact the list of jobs in which the person with inactive tuberculosis can be placed safely is almost endless There are only a few types of work from which he must be excluded be cause they may reactivate the disease Persons with apparently arrested arrested or apparently cured tuberculosis lesions may be employed with safety to themselves in non industry work which is not too ardous The degree of physical activity allowable naturally depends upon the general condition of the individual on the character and extent of lung evolvement and upon the length of time since his infection was active Nothing could contribute more to the suc cess of the clients holding his job than to be frank with his employer and give him the whole story regarding his disabilityassuring him that periodic checkup examinations will be made in accordance with the physicians recommendations Experience proves that properly placed the person wtih inactive tuberculosis is valuable to industry He is on his mettle to demonstrate that he can hold his own with his fellow workers If he has had sanatorium treatment he has learned to conserve his strength for the job and does not misuse his leisure hours The result is usually a loyal employee who will stay on the job is proud of achievement cheer fully accepts assignments and welcomes super vision Sf Trained in automotive mechanics at North Georgia Trade Vocational School Clarkes ville Robert Golden left above handicapped by defective hearing in early childhood now works at McMichens Auto Service Atlanta Here he is shown with W E McMichen pro prietor of the establishment At left Lee Davis Effingham County disabled by paralysis in both legs in 1938 and forced to crawl on his knees was fitted with braces by Vocational Rehabilitation and again is able to carry on farm workDivision of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education 129 State Office Building Atlanta 3 Ga RETURN POSTAGE GUARANTEED Sec 562 P L R U S POSTAGE PAID Atlanta Ga Permit No 935 MissLouise Fant Serials Librarian The University of Ga Athens Ga Window Display by AugustaRichmond TB Association See Story on Page 5ikabllitatiorv Mws GENERAL LIBRAE AP yy 1948 NNER9 OF Vol 4 No 5Plastic surgery provided through Vocational Rehabilita tion transformed the features of Myrtle Shelnutt top left of LaGrange a student nurse at Candler Hospital Savannah An early ambition to be a trained nurse will be achieved when she graduates in June of this year The facial disfigurement carried since childhood resulted from the accidental discharge of a gun in the hands of her little brother Miss Shelnutt plans to take a postgraduate course before engaging in her profession Attractive Peggy Joyce Thornton left below is stenog rapher and business machine operator in the office of Aycocks Department Store Monroe despite a disability of hips and limbs since childhood After graduating from Monroe High School she was assisted by Vocational Re habilitation in a commerce course While in school she gained business experience working during vacations and on Saturdays Frances Mortonsons job as saleslady in the Franklin Store Waycross was in jeopardy because of defective hearing An aid supplied by Vocational Rehabilitation enables her to hear customers voices clearly and she now feels secure in her position She is shown below with Mr and Mrs Frank Tassone proprietors of the storeLeft AboveTwo former clients of Vocational Rehabilitation work together in the trade for which they were trained ten years apart through Vocational Rehabilitation services They are standing E E Cassidy proprietor of Cassidys Radio Shop Brunswick who took a correspondence course in radio repairing and seated Arthur L Manning trained in the same vocation at a Chicago school before Georgias trade schools were established Manning has an arm disability resulting from infantile paralysis Right AboveDefective hearing is no longer a vocational handicap to Robert E Lee right salesman in the luggage department of Adlers department store Savannah since being provided with an aid by Vocational Rehabilitation He is shown waiting on an un identified customer Mr Lee has been hard of hearing since childhood By Counselor Nathan B Nolan of Athens Highlights from paper read at District Conference An estimate places the number of people in the United States today with heart disease at four million An additional four million have high blood pressure or other diseases of cir culation Diseases of the heart and blood vessels including cerebral hemorrhage ac counted for five hundred and seventyfive thousand deaths in 1944 Rehabilitation agencies are not finding and serving enough cases of heart disease There are perhaps several outstanding reasons why this is the case 1 People are afraid of it associate it with total disability sudden death and invalidism 2 Most people believe heart disease is associated with old age 3 Many referral agencies for Vocational Re habilitation think primarily in terms of physi cal restoration by surgery and do not realize that Rehabilitation can serve cardiac cases In analyzing these reasons we find that the popular fear of heart disease at least to a large extent is unwarranted If you talk a little about heart disease you will find that many of your associates are affected with it in one degree or another and yet carry on fairly normal lives The association of heart disease with old age is perhaps best contradicted by the U S Public Health Service Report that seventy five per cent of all cardiac disabilities de velop before the age of ten and only twelve per cent after the age of forty Of course those who develop cardiac conditions early in life often find that as old age approaches it becomes acute The case finding problem can probably best be met by a closer canvassing of our high schools and explaining the Rehabilitation pro gram to teachers and students Public health nurses can and will aid in locating cases if they realize what Rehabilitation can offer people with cardiac conditions Doc tors can help tremendously in finding cases They have contributed materially to our case finding procedures When the case is found that is determined that an individual who has been referred to Vocational Rehabilitation for any reason has heart trouble the Counselor needs the opinion of a cardiologist From this med ical report we will determine eligibility pro vided no other disability is involved The information obtained from the car diologists examination also will determine the treatment that is necessary or desirable Arrangements should be made for these rec ommendations to be followed and this must be kept in mind in any training or placement program In selecting an objective there are certain pitfalls that in general are to be avoided Jobs involving sudden spurts of energy jobs that involve climbing working at high altitudes or with machinery Dusty occu pations Occupations involving changes in temperatures It will be well to keep in mind that a person with heart trouble is more likely to succeed on a job that has regular hours places the strain on the lower extremities rather than the upper that he has become accustomed to or to which he can easily be adapted and that is not likely to cause anxiety With the ending of World War II and the return of a more adequate labor supply em ployers again started catering to the lower age groups If Rehabilitation can locate this group of young people who will some day be old folks with heart trouble much can be done to avoid the plague of dependent old age If the proper guidance and placement is ren dered these people should engage in the busi ness of earning a living many additional yearsOYvo 6corcoocoXvotvcCV cKabilitatiorv Afews Published monthly by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Dr M D Collins State Superintendent of Schools Paul S Barrett Director Division of Vocational Rehabilitation 131 State Office Building ATLANTA DISTRICT Atlanta305 Peachtree St NE Phone LAraar 1545 Gainesville414 Jackson Bldg Phone 816 Rome415 West Bldg Phone 8438 Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School Phone 98R2 AUGUSTA DISTRICT Augusta 607 Southern Finance Bldg Phone 23639 Athens Hardman Hall University Phone 2802 Dublin 401 C S Bank Bldg Phone 119 SAVANNAH DISTRICT Savannah2 East Bay Street Phone 39835 BrunswickAndrews Bldg Phone 1007 Waycross400 Bunn Bldg Phone 824 MACON DISTRICT Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg Phone 61793668 Columbus411 Flowers Bldg Phone 21904 Albany213 Royal Bldg Phone 2782 Thomasville 309 Upchurch Bldg Phone 1274 The front page picture on this issue of the News shows another former client of the Vocational Rehabilitation Division helping a handicapped trainee over lifes hurdles They are standing Lewis P Chick head of Chick Piano Company Athens attorney and former Representative from Walton County in the General Assembly and at piano Billy V Shepherd re SVtC GcovovowVocAaoscCV ekabilitaUotv Mws ceiving on technician the job training as a piano In 1923 Lewis Chick of Monroe ap plied for assistance from the Vocational Rehabilitation Division which had been established barely three years earlier His application was the 289th filed with the Division He was then 21 and had been blind since childhood as the result of an eye injury with a stick In spite of the handicap young Chick had graduated from the Georgia Acad emy for the Blind at Macon and received training in piano tuning at Overbrook School Philadelphia He also had accu mulated enough units at Monroe High School for admission to the University of Georgia At that time the blind youth was offering his services as a piano tuner in the Monroe area but finding few customers There just wasnt much demand for this type of technician in those days Lewis was eager to study law and needed financial assistance for tuition books and a reader Vocational Rehabilitation solved this problem for the ambitious young man and soon he was enrolled in the Law School Student Chicks chief difficulty at the University seems to have been finding other students who were willing to read to him several hours a day even for the fees offered A reader would undertake the job and then after a few weeks or months it seems he would give up the task and another would have to be found Although forced to study under such conditions Lewis made top grades gradu ated in June 1926 and was admitted to the bar before Judge Blanton Fortson A news dispatch from Athens at that time said Mr Chick made an excel lent record in the Law School and does not consider his handicap sufficient to keep him from making progress in his chosen profession Returning to his home in Monroe Attorney Chick opened an office Soon he was elected Justice of the Peace In 1928 he was elected Representative in the Legisla ture and served two terms in that body Seven years ago he moved to Athens and entered the piano business If I have had any degree of success I attribute it largely to the Rehabilitation Division and the Academy for the Blind he said recently Eager to aid others somewhat similarly handicapped Mr Chick cooperates with the Vocational Rehabilitation Division in giving clients the benefit of his knowledge and experience in overcoming visual handicaps Billy Shepherd the young man now in training is blind in one eye and has lim ited vision in the other He graduated from University High School at Athens and attended the Academy for the Blind before being enrolled for special training last fall The Athens Lions Club assisted in furnishing him with special glasses to help correct the little vision he has left Mr Chick says Billy has unusual aptitude as a piano technician and should make a success in his chosen vocationSurry E Wingate above had worked in a Savannah industrial plant for twentyfive years when an infection made it necessary to amputate his left leg With this disability it was impossible for him to go back to his old job Vocational Rehabilitation provided an artificial limb and advised with him in the 1 choice of a new vocation Now Mr Wingate operates the Southern Fish Market and is building up a satisfactory business Its a long jump from driving trucks to repairing watches but William J Peacock above of Manchester made the transition Ten years ago he was struck by a ditching shovel resulting in a spine disability He tried working in a textile mill and dairy but found he couldnt do the heavy lifting required on the jobs Referred to Vocational Re habilitation by the Employment Service Mr Peacock was trained in watch repairing in Columbus and upon completion of the course placed with Moores Jewelry Joint Action on TB Various phases of tuberculosis control and rehabilitation of the tuberculous in Georgia were considered recently at a series of five district conferences sponsored by the Divi sion of Vocational Rehabilitation the State Department of Health and the Georgia Tu berculosis Association Meetings were held in Atlanta Savannah Albany Swainsboro and Battey Hospital In attendance were representatives of the Voca tional Rehabilitation Division the Tubercu losis Division of the State Department of Public Health and the Georgia Tuberculosis Association together with public health nurses and social welfare workers in the dis tricts Subjects discussed included casefinding diagnosis treatment rehabilitation nutrition diet social aspects of the disease and record keeping The conferences it is reported resulted in a better understanding of the problems in volved in services to the tuberculous and the needs on state and local levels Seriously Handicapped Rehabilitation of Seriously Handicapped Persons will be the theme of district confer ences of Vocational Rehabilitation Supervis ors and Counselors in May Dates and places of the meetings are May 3 Augusta May 5 Savannah May 10 Ma con and May 12 Atlanta At similar conferences in the past staff members have given special study to cases involving mental and cardiac diseases tuber culosis epilepsy and infantile paralysis ar thritis and arm disabilities and rehabilitation of the blind Is there a possible job opportunity for a handicapped person in your business or do you know of such an opportunity elsewhere Your cooperation in proper placement of the handicapped is vital If you think you might help in some way with a placement fill in and cut out this form and mail it to us and a represen tative of the Division will call on you There is no obligation whatever NameAddress Bi Remarks Division of Vocational Rehabilitation 131 State Office Building Atlanta 3 GaREGIONAL INSTITUTE ON TB PROGRAM Representatives of public and private agencies for services to the tuberculous will hold a threeday Southeastern regional insti tute in Atlanta beginning April 12 to con sider a comprehensive program of rehabili tation H B Cummings of Atlanta Regional Representative Office of Vocational Rehabil itation Federal Security Agency has an nounced The institute is sponsored by the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation in cooperation with State Rehabilitation Agencies the National Tuberculosis Association State Tuberculosis Associations and State Departments of Health The opening address will be made by Dr M D Collins State Superintendent of Schools His subject The Needs of the Tuberculous Challenge the State Rehabilita tion Agency Purposes and objectives of the institute will be outlined by Mr Cummings Dr George Comstock of Columbus Tu berculosis Control Officer of the State De partment of Health will speak at the morn ing session on the Role of Vocational Re habilitation in the Program of Tuberculosis Control Discussions of cooperation between the State Rehabilitation Agencies the State Divi sions of Tuberculosis Control and Tubercu losis Associations will be led by Mr Cum mings and Holland Hudson of New York Director of Rehabilitation Service of the Na tional Tuberculosis Association Reports on the cooperative activities of the agencies will be made by representatives of the various states Steps procedures and responsibility in the rehabilitation of the tuberculous will be the subject of another discussion led by E B Porter of Washington Training Specialist Office of Vocational Rehabilitation Subjects scheduled for consideration at the second days sessions include policies and practices in accepting the tuberculous for re habilitation services national regional and state statistics on results of programs sana toria rehabilitation programs and planning complete case referral coverage of entire state The last day of the institute will be devoted largely to consideration of committee reports and a plan of action C B Shroyer of At lanta Supervisor for the Tuberculous Voca tional Rehabilitation Division will speak at this session on a Method of Surveying the Backlog of Unserved Cases MAKES RECORD IN COLLEGE William H Bill Burson of Thomaston a student who is being aided by the Voca tional Rehabilitation Division is making a double name for himself at the University I 1 as an outstanding student and 2 in his chosen profession editorial journalism His disability was hernia Only 19 years old Bill holds down a full time position as director of the University News Bureau At the same time he is setting a scholastic pace with an overall average of 940 So far as he has been able to ascertain he is the youngest college public relations director in the nation The youthful journalist will receive the Bachelor of Arts Degree in Journalism in June of this year after only two and onehalf years of study His scholastic standing as sures him of graduation with Phi Beta Kap pa and Phi Kappa Phi honors Other recognitions which have come Bills way during college include membership in Sphinx highest nonscholastic honor society for men Omicron Delta Kappa national honor society Blue Key national honor fra ternity Phi Eta Sigma national scholarship fraternity Sigma Delta Chi professional journalistic fraternity Whos Who Among Students in American Universities and Col leges X Club local honor society for up per classmen Biftad local honor society for freshmen men and Alpha Phi Omega na tional service fraternity He has served as president of the local Chapter of Sigma Delta Chi vicepresident of X Club secretary treasurer of Phi Eta Sigma and correspond ing secretary of Alpha Phi Omega On the side Burson has been campus cor respondent for the Atlanta Constitution and a member of the Pic Magazine College Edi torial Board He was the winner of Pics 1947 Collegiate Writing Contest for the southeast He graduated from Robert E Lee Institute of Thomaston in 1945 as first honor graduate setting a scholastic mark of 970 which it is said has yet to be equaled in that institution There his feats were comparable with those of college In addition to his studies he held down a position with the Thomaston Times first as circulation manager and staff writer and later as editorial columnist and news editor His other journalistic experience in cludes three months on the copy desk of the Athens BannerHerald as Upson County correspondent for the Atlanta Journal and a three months summer internship with the Atlanta Constitution Asked if he plans to follow up his success in the public relations field after graduation Burson replied No Im going to forsake the big money this journalistic phase offers for the skullcracking pace of the wire services My ultimate vocational ambition lies in that line and I intend to find out early in life whether or not I have the ability to go to the top If I can make the grade I intend to expend every effort to develop myself into a national assignment feature writer If I find out that I havent what it takes my alternate ambitions include staff writer for a metro politan daily news director for a regional radio station or owner and editor of my own community weekly Bill is leaving the University of Georgia for a staff writers post with United Press His first assignment will be with the Southern Division Headquarters in Atlanta If determination means anything Bill Bur son has at least made one step in the direc tion he has chosen to travelBlindness forced Timothy Wright left above of Columbus to give up his job as au tomobile mechanic after fifteen years employ ment with one service station He was receiv ing assistance from DPW when referred to Vocational Rehabilitation Arrangements were made for a suitable neighborhood store loca tion fixtures stock and training in retail oper ations Now hes doing businessand earning his own living again Although still in training Nellie Richards right above of Atlanta is becoming self supporting as a home seamstress after being dependent upon relatives and friends for years while under treatment for tuberculosis Voca tional Rehabilitation provided the power ma chine and training fees Formerly she was a laundress An artificial leg provided by Vocational Rehabilitation enables Dupree Rakestraw left to work as front elevator operator at the Georgian Hotel Athens His right leg was amputated because of blood poisoning at tributed to trimming a corn on his foot Im the proudest man in the world he said after getting back on a jobDivision of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education 129 State Office Building Atlanta 3 Ga RETURN POSTAGE GUARANTEED Sec 562 P L R U S POSTAGE PAID Atlanta Ga Permit No 935 Hiss Louise Fant Serials Librarian The University of Ga Athens Ga Bill Burson on Job at University News Bureau See story on page 6 i 1 GENERAL LIBRARY OKc OCOVOYCXrjQCOYOtVCvV JUN101948 UNIVERSITY Of GWA Vol 4 No 6 April 1948 sorbon Lchattoooa I t J P C K r N rf BAWSON frMKiAK I J L BASKS JA8 7tied tPtuufaOWc GeorqoVocootv AeKabilitatiotv yVews Published monthly by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Dr M D Collins State Superintendent of Schools Paul S Barrett Director Division of Vocational Rehabilitation 131 State Office Building ATLANTA DISTRICT Atlanta305 Peachtree St NE Phone LAmar 1545 Gainesville1 Jackson Bldg Phone 816 Rome15 West Bldg Phone 838 Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School Phone 98R2 AUGUSTA DISTRICT Augusta 607 Southern Finance Bldg Phone 23639 Athens Hardman Hall University Phone 2802 Dublin 01 C S Bank Bldg Phone 119 SAVANNAH DISTRICT Savannah2 East Bay Street Phone 39835 BrunswickAndrews Bldg Phone 1007 Waycross00 Bunn Bldg Phone 82 MACON DISTRICT Macon 06 Bankers Insurance Bldg Phone 61793668 Columbus11 Flowers Bldg Phone 2190 Albany213 Royal Bldg Phone 2782 Thomasville 309 Upchurch Bldg Phone 127 The National Rehabilitation Association as the name implies is an organization of professional workers in the field of rehabilitation Over a span of some twenty years the membership has grown from a bakers dozen to nearly 9000 It is composed of men and women on the staffs of public and private agencies men and women whose lives are dedicated to the welfare of disabled persons Heretofore NRA has held only national conventions This year the association has adopted a new policy In order to give members a better opportunity to get the benefit of convention discussions of various phases of rehabilitation make new contacts with coworkers and exchange experiences eight regional conferences have been scheduled for this summer The first of the series of regional conferences will be held in Atlanta in June It will bring to Atlanta representatives of rehabilitation agencies from seven states and Puerto Rico and some other distinguished visitors These men and women are engaged in a vital service to humanity Their work requires a high degree of technical skill It is only through such meetings that they may keep abreast of daytoday developments and gain new knowledge to guide them in their efforts on behalf of those whose bodies and minds have been impaired by accident war and disease Atlantaand Georgiawill extend a warm welcome to all who come to this first regional conference of NRA eKabilitatiotv Mws Vol 4 No 6 Aprrf 1948 7ied The Cover The Creator says Edward V Lucas English essayist in The Voice of the Hand must smile a little when He thinks of activities which the hands that He made chiefly as I suppose to delve to spin and to convey food to the mouth have added to those primitive functions Hands symbolize vocational training The history of occupational therapy shows clearly that there is a definite rela tionship between handmanipulation ac tivities and mental health Hands tell so much It would be wrong to say that one looks at hands before eyes but very often after None shall make a yoke or plow Better than mine own But this child whose sunlit brow Holds the kiss of angels now He will build a throne Mine to teach His little hands He shall learn the whole Craft the workman understands But in this and wider lands He will guide the soul Mary Brent Whiteside The Son of Joseph Rehabilitation workers from seven South eastern States and Puerto Rico will hold a threeday conference in Atlanta beginning June 3 under the joint sponsorship of the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation Federal Security Agency and the National Rehabilita tion Association It is expected that upward of two hundred representatives of public and private agencies will attend Topics relating to every phase of services to handicapped persons will be discussed in general sessions and group meetings The first days program will be conducted by the National Rehabilitation Association This will be the first regional conference pro jected by NRA and will be followed by somewhat similar meetings in other geo graphical areas In the past the association has held national meetings only The program for Friday June 4 and Sat urday June 5 will be conducted by represen tatives of the Office of Vocational Rehabili tation A highlight of the convention will be a luncheon at noon on the first day in the Empire Room of the Biltmore Hotel At that time Congressman Graham A Barden of North Carolina coauthor of Public Law 113amendments to the Vocational Rehabili tation Actwill be presented a life member ship in the National Rehabilitation Associa tion The presentation will be made by H Earle Correvont of Lansing Mich President of NRA and State Director of Vocational Rehabilitation in Michigan The ceremony will be followed by ad dresses by Congressman Barden and Gov ernor M E Thompson Dr M D Collins State Superintendent of Schools will preside at the luncheon Morgan Blake Atlanta Journal columnist will offer the invocation The presentation ceremony and addresses will be broadcast over station WBGE The first general session from 930 to 1130 AM will be presided over by Paul S Barrett Georgia Director of Vocational Re habilitation and Presidentelect of NRA Dr Collins will deliver the address of welcome Other speakers for that session will be Mr Correvont on Your Associa tion Today and Tomorrow and John A Kratz of Washington Associate Director of Vocational Rehabilitation on Rehabilitation a Cooperative Effort Following the luncheon Louis R Schubert of Nashville Secretary of NRA and Tennes see Director of Vocational Rehabilitation will preside at a general session featuring the rehabilitation services of the Veterans Administration Dr Robert L Bennett Chief Physical Medicine Section Rehabilitation Di vision of the Veterans Administration At lanta and Director of Physical Medicine Warm Springs Foundation will put on a Demonstration of Physical Medicine in which a group of patients from the Atlanta Plugging the ConventionCenter Glenn B Calmes of Jacksonville Chairman Re gional Conference Committee and NRA Board member and left Jack E Jones of At lanta Executive Assistant Physical Medicine Section Veterans Administration being interviewed by Stan Raymond at radio station WBGE Atlanta hospitals will participate A film Rehabili tation of Chronic Neurological Cases will be shown Business Session In the evening Glenn B Clmes of Jack sonville NRA Board member and Chairman of the Regional Conference Committee will preside at a general session at which Mr Barrett will speak on National Trends in Vocational Rehabilitation Mr Barrett is Chairman of the NRA legislative Committee A business meeting of the NRA will follow this session The second days conference will be opened by H B Cummings of Atlanta Re gional Representative of the Office of Voca tional Rehabilitation P G Sherer of Co lumbus Regional Member Executive Com mittee States Rehabilitation Council and South Carolina Director of Vocational Re habilitation will preside over a program featuring as speakers Louis R Shubert of Nashville Tennessee Director of Vocational Rehabilitation on Evaluation of State Pro grams of Vocational Rehabilitation and E B Whitten of Jackson Mississippi Di rector of Vocational Rehabilitation on Con tinuing Staff Development Charles H Warren of Raleigh North Carolina Director of Vocational Rehabilita tion will preside over a general session pro gram with Dr Thomas B McKneely of Washington Chief Medical Officer Office of Vocational Rehabilitation and D H Dabel stein of Washington Assistant Director H Earle Correvont of Lansing Mich Presi dent of NRA and State Director of Vocational Rehabilitation Office of Vocational Rehabilitation as speak ers Dr McKneely will discuss The Place of Medical Services in a Vocational rehabili tation Program Mr Dabelsteins subject will be Development of Standards of Case work Performance Group Meetings In the afternoon on the second day the three group meetings will be held 1 Rep resentatives of agencies for services to the Continued on Page 5Regional TB Conference DelegatesFront row left to right Dr Rodriguez Pastor of Puerto Rico Vocational Rehabilitation Medical consultant Holland Hudson of New York Director of Rehabilitation Service National Tuberculosis Association H P Cummings of Atlanta Regional Representative Office of Vocational Rehabilitation E B Porter of Washington Training Spe cialist OVR and L L Young of Atlanta Executive Secretary Georgia Tuberculosis Association Better Service To TBs Planned PLANS for developing closer cooperation between agencies serving the tuberculous in seven Southeastern States were formulated at the threeday regional institute sponsored by the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation Federal Security Agency in Atlanta early in April Agencies represented at the conference in cluded Vocational Rehabilitation State De partments of Health National Tuberculosis Association State Tuberculosis Associations and Veterans Administration Following discussions of various phases of tuberculosis control and the rehabilitation of the tuberculous the delegates from each state meeting in separate groups worked out sug gested plans of action Some recommendations made by the Geor gia committee were Promote better commun ity organization to meet the total needs of the tuberculous in the whole scope of rehabilita tion promote regular conferences between staffs of various agencies concerned with re habilitation of the tuberculous for exchange of information and planning expand the services at Battey State Hospital Rome refer suspects and contacts to the Health Depart ment follow up discharges from sanatorium and follow up cases reported in survey made by Vocational Rehabilitation and Georgia Tuberculosis Association About fifty representatives of the various agencies attended the conference and took part in the discussions of problems relating to the rehabilitation of the tuberculous The institute was opened by H B Cum mings of Atlanta Regional Representative Office of Vocational Rehabilitation Dr M D Collins State Superintendent of Schools gave the visitors a warm welcome to Georgia The need of expanded programs for the rehabilitation of the tuberculous and closer cooperation between the agencies was graph ically presented by Holland Hudson of New York Director of Rehabilitation Service National Tuberculosis Association with a series of statistical reports on each state in the region and the United States Another highlight was an illustrated lec ture by Dr Rodriguez Pastor of Puerto Rico tuberculosis specialist and Vocational Re habilitation Medical Consultant on causes of death among residents of the island It was brought out that tuberculosis is the first cause and that the mortality rate from this disease is five times higher than that of con tinental United States Visit to Battey The institute was followed by a conference at Battey State Hospital on the rehabilitation program at that institution This meeting called by Dr T F Sellers Director of the State Department of Public Health was at tended by representatives of OVR the State Health Department National Tuberculosis Association and Georgia Vocational Rehabili tation Division The visitors had an opportunity to see the hospital facilities to study the program be ing developed there and to discuss the prog ress and problems Vocational training is now being given to patients who are far enough on the road to recovery to accept the services There are classes for women in sewing cooking and other homemaking arts and in commercial courses The barber and beauty shops set up for service to patients offer training for those desiring to be barbers and beauticians after discharge from the hospital The shoe repair shop also is used as a training school for boys Correspondence courses also are being used in the vocational program Correspondence training has been provided patients in the following fields 1 Account ing 2 Radio Repair 3 Refrigeration with electric drive 4 Refrigeration and air conditioning 5 Industrial electronics 6 Hotel training and management 7 Speedwriting 8 College work from the University of Georgia Extension Onthe job training in the following fields has been provided 1 Greenhouse care and opera tion 2 Radio transmission announcing and control board operation 3 Nurses aide 4 Tailoring and 7 Radio Repair For class room instruction a minimum of two hours exercise tolerance must be reached by the patients However in several cases permission has been granted for patients to begin training with less time For correspondence training only the doc tors approval is required plus assurance that the patient probably will be ready for em ployment upon completion of the course and a reasonable assurance that the patient can succeed in this training field For onthejob training a minimum of five hours is required for training in Rome un less the patient can live in the immediate vicinity of the training establishment and in the latter cases a leave of absence from the hospital is secured with periodic return for checkupAboveMr Hudson leads discussion on cooperation be tween State Rehabilitation Agencies and TB Associations RightMr Cummings outlines purposes and objectives of institute J Continued from Page 3 blind 2 Administrative and Supervisor Personnel and 3 Counselors and Consul tants The speakers and subjects for these group meetings will be Group 1H A Wood Executive Secretary North Carolina Com mission for the Blind presiding W B Gaines Georgia State Supervisor Rehabili tation of the Blind Need for Orientation PreVocational and Vocational Training Possible Regional Facilities at North Georgia Vocational School M R Barnett Execu tive Director Florida Council for the Blind Operation of an Adjustment Center for the Blind Mrs Anne B Owings Director Division of Services for the Blind South Carolina Department of Public Welfare presiding Joseph Clunk Chief Division of Services for the Blind OVR Relation of Counselor to Employment Counselor reports by states on Unusual Employment Opportunities for the Blind Group 2E H Gentry Alabama Super visor of Vocational Rehabilitation presiding James J Burns Chief Fiscal Standards Di vision OVR The Annual Budget an Ad ministrative Tool Claud M Andrews Florida Director of Vocational Rehabilitation presiding Charles H Warren Effect of Decentralization on State Programs of Vocational Rehabilita tion E E Kennedy of Georgia P B Stephens of Tennessee and C J Collins of South Carolina on The Functions and Du ties of a District Supervisor of Vocational Rehabilitation Group 3E B Whitten Mississippi Di rector of Vocational Rehabilitation will pre side at a panel discussion on Functions of the Physical Restoration Staff in a Vocational Rehabilitation Program Speakers Mrs Margaret Washington Tennessee Supervisor of Physical Restoration Dodd Pace Florida Supervisor of Field Operations and E K Bell of Savannah Georgia District Super visor Dr Thomas B McKneely will preside at a panel discussion on The Physical Restora tion Unit in a Vocational Rehabilitation Pro gram Speakers Dr Meredith Mallory Florida Administrative Medical Consultant D H Dabelstein Assistant Director OVR and H B Cummings Regional Representa tive OVR Saturday Program Another series of group conferences will be held Saturday morning June 5 The speakers and topics are Group 1J A Moore Director Division of Services for the Blind Tennessee Depart ment of Public Welfare presiding Joseph Clunk The Business Enterprise for the Blindthe Federal Viewpoint G E Boggs Georgia Supervisor Business Enterprises The State Viewpoint Mrs D W McBryde Director Division for the Blind Mississippi Department of Public Welfare presiding Harry E Sim mons Director of Rehabilitation Florida Council for the Blind Evaluation of the Total Individual H B Cummings Re habilitation of the Blind Versus Welfare for the Blind Group 2A L Davis Georgia Assistant Director in charge of Field Operations pre siding D H Dabelstein Standards of Casework Supervision Manuel Hernandez Puerto Rico Director of Vocational Rehabilitation presiding E II Gentry Management of Caseload Dr S Marion Salley Florida District Medical Con sultant Effective Use of Consultants Group 3D D Beckman South Carolina Chief of Rehabilitation Services presiding D H Dabelstein Content and Form of a Complete Plan of Rehabilitation Dr Mc Kneely Analysis and Use of Medical Re ports A P Jarrell Georgia Assistant Director in charge of Technical Services presiding Dr C C Aven Tuberculosis Specialist and Member of the Georgia Professional Advis ory Committee Rehabilitation of the Tu berculous Dr Edgar Greene President Georgia Medical Association and Member of the Georgia Professional Advisory Com mittee Rehabilitation of Cases Suffering from Female Disorders The conference will be concluded with a general session Saturday afternoon Mr Kratz will preside The speakers and theii subjects H B Cummings Program Plan ning for 1949 James J Burns Funds and Management in Relation to 199 Program D H Dabelstein Casework Standards in Relation to 1949 ProgramLeftDr M D Collins State Superintendent of Schools welcomes the visitors AhoveMr Porter speaks on steps procedures and responsibility in rehabilitation of the tuberculous Left AboveDr George Comstock of Columbus Tuberculosis Control Officer Department of Health speaks on role of Vocational Rehabilitation in program of tuberculosis control Aboveleft Miss Anne Mann of Raleigh Field Secretary North Carolina TB Association and Miss Blanca Roura of Puerto Rico TB Specialist Division of Vocational RehabilitationOFFICERS NATIONAL REHABILITATION ASSOCIATION President H Earle Correvont Lansing Mich PresidentElect Paul S Barrett Atlanta Ga VicePresident Hon Graham Barden Washington O C VicePresident Tom L Anderson San Francisco Cal Treasurer Ashley S Ross Little Rock Ark Secretary Louis R Schubert Nashville Tenn Conference Committee Glenn B Calmes Jacksonville Fla Chairman Louis R Schubert Nashville Tenn P G Sherer Columbia S C Owen F Wise Birmingham Ala H B Cummings Atlanta Ga Congressman Barden Here is a thumbnail sketch of Congress man Barden lifted from the NRA News Letter Graham Arthur Barden New Bern North Carolina Representative U S Congress is joint author of Public Law 113 He served in the U S Navy during World War I was licensed to practice law in 1920 taught school in New Bern High School one year for three terms was Judge of County Court of Craven County North Carolina represent ing that County in the State General Assem bly in 1933 He has served the Third District as U S Congressional Representative through the 74th Congress and all those suc ceeding to the 80th where he is at present serving At Battey State Hospitalleft Mrs Howard Bailey Librarian with Mr Cummings and Dr T F Sellers Director Department of Public Health Secretary on Job See picture on page 8 Miss Dorris Jaynes of Arnoldsville smiles as she works at her desk in the Motion Picture Division of the Extension Service Athens She had a disability of the feet and ankles was treated at Athens General Hos pital and the Scottish Rite Hospital Decatur Through Vocational Rehabilitation arrange ments were made for a commercial course at Athens Business College where she made a splendid record Blind Dispatcher See picture on page 8 Talmadge Sumner of Dublin has been blind since early childhood He has a par tial disability of his left arm and right leg as the result of infantile paralysis Mr Sumner received his early training at the Georgia Academy for the Blind Macon For more than three years he has been working as dispatcher for the Quick Service Taxi stand He depends entirely upon his memory in accepting calls for service and says he has handled as many as thirtyfive at one time without error Is there a possible job opportunity for a handicapped person in your business or do you know of such an opportunity elsewhere Your cooperation in proper placement of the handicapped is vital If you think you might help in some way with a placement rill in and cut out this form and mail it to us and a represen tative of the Division will call on you There is no obligation whatever NameAddress Bi Remarks Division of Vocational Rehabilitation U State Office Building Atlanta 3 GaDivision of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education 129 State Office Building Atlanta 3 Ga RETURN POSTAGE GUARANTEED Sec 562 P L R U S POSTAGE PAID Atlanta Ga Permit No 935 Miss Louise Fant Serials Librarian The University of Ga Athens GaHiH r OYc CeovoJvoJVoooiCvotvoCV RlftCftflFT EnCltlE 9 MECHflritCS f t commERcifli art neon siGns fltmr MECHflnics DIESEL EflGinE MECHflniCS UPHOlSTEftiriG wood FimsHinc t fllftCPtflFT GEflEftfiL MECHflniCS J B YINGLING Director We shall train gooo workers with extra effort if we must at a saving of time If we can But always GOOD WORKERS COOKinG BflhiriG HAW A South Georgia Trade iPu SKc 6coyqoVoooXotcCV ckabilitatioa Afews Published monthly by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Dr M D Collins State Superintendent of Schools Paul S Barrett Director Division of Vocational Rehabilitation 131 State Office Building ATLANTA DISTRICT Atlanta305 Peachtree St NE Phone LAmar 1545 Gainesville41 Jackson Bldg Phone 816 Rome415 West Bldg Phone 8438 Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School Phone 98R2 AUGUSTA DISTRICT Augusta 607 Southern Finance Bldg Phone 23639 Athens Hardman Hall University Phone 2802 Dublin 401 C S Bank Bldg Phone 119 SAVANNAH DISTRICT Savannah2 East Bay Street Phone 39835 BrunswickAndrews Bldg Phone 1007 Waycross400 Bunn Bldg Phone 824 MACON DISTRICT Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg Phone 61793668 Columbus 411 Flowers Bldg Phone 21904 Albany213 Royal Bldg Phone 2782 Thomasville 309 Upchurch Bldg Phone 1274 modern vocational school offering youths and adults trade training in a wide range of skilled occupations has been developed at old Souther Field near Americus site of two wartime aviation centers The South Georgia Trade and Vocational School is operated by the State Board of Education through an experienced administrative staff a faculty of highly trained instructors and advisory committees of outstanding business and industrial leaders Its services are offered to 1 handicapped clients of the Vocational Rehabili tation Division 2 Veterans qualified under PL 16 or PL 346 3 Boys 16 to 18 recommended by their local school authorities and 4 other men and women who can profit by the training courses The physical properties comprise three shop buildings two dormitories dining hall and kitchen administrative building recreation hall library gymnasium health clinic and 345 acres of farm land deeded to the State by Sumter County for develop ment as a source of dairy poultry livestock and garden products for the school Shops and class rooms are equipped with modern machinery laboratory facili ties and furnishings valued at more than 1000000 Most of it was obtained from the Federal Government without cost to the State The new gymnasiumauditorium was built by the Federal Works Agency Old buildings on the campus have been remodeled to meet the new peacetime needs of the school The dormitories are furnished with single beds dressers reading tables and lamps They have central heating outside ventilation showers and toilets The health clinic is under the supervision of a trained nurse with medical assistance available at all times Courses offered are Auto mechanics auto machinists Diesel engine mechanics upholstering and wood finishing general sheet metal basic radio repair radio com munications cabinet making and joinery aircraft engine mechanics aircraft gen eral mechanics commercial art and sign painting and handicraft Other courses being developed include auto body and fender repair auto painting machine shop practice carpentry machine and architectural drafting painting and interior decorating printing trades air conditioning plumbing and pipe fitting refrigeration cooking and baking laundry and dry cleaning tailoring shoe repair welding and beauty culture For each course offered an advisory committee assists in developing the course of study making shop layouts and selecting equipment and instructors The air craft engine mechanics course was planned with the cooperation of the Civil Aero nautics Administration and has the approval of that body And the radio com munications course has the approval of the Federal Communications Commission The school is under the direction of Jed B Yingling who served as State Supervisor of Trade and Industrial Education in the State Department of Educa tion for four years His assistant is H F Tommy Thompson who was assistant supervisor of Trade and Industrial Education before being transferred to Americus The school is located just six miles from Americus on State Highway 49 Americus and Sumter County officials and civic groups have given enthusiastic cooperation in getting the school established and in operation Georgia now has two educational institutions of this type The otherNorth Georgia Trade and Vocational Schoolis located near Clarkesville aKabilltatiotv Msns COVER The cover design on this issue of the News was produced in the Commercial Art Class at the South Georgia Trade and Vocational School Pictured in the center is Director Jed B YinglingTopOne of two dormitory buildings on campus This unit houses dining hall and kitchen heft and AboveIn auto machine shops Auto me chanics courses offer complete training in manipula tive skills and technical phases of the trade One of three shop buildings on campus This old hangar has been converted into modern shopDiesel Engine MechanicsStudents receive complete manipulative and technical training hi skills for properly servic ing and repairing modern engines and power train equipment Course content and instructional arrangement organ ized through craft consultants representing leading Diesel equipment manufacturers and service departments Instruc tor O P Orr in white coatTopTwo views in upholstering class Course includes problems in spring construction pads sponge rubber cushions and slip covers for stools chairs sofas and other furniture pieces Instructor J A McLain in white coat Above at rightStudents receiving instruction in finishing wood surfaces in upholstering and wood finishing classes leftCordie Bell Jones visually handicapped works at a loom in the handicraft class She is being trained under the Vocational Rehabilitation programLeft aboveCecil Fender Vocational Rehabilitation trainee enrolled in commercial art and sign painting class Right Group of students with Instructor W H Giddings in white coat Complete training in Neon tube bending charging scaling and installing signs also offered LeftInstructor J S Lewis supervising group of students in radio classes Students are required to successfully com plete course in basic principles of radio service repair before enrolling in radio communications course Right Ruth Scott Vocational Rehabilitation trainee enrolled in the handicraft class Upper leftStudents line up for Xray test for tuberculosis Upper rightScene in girls dormitory LeftHot table tennis game in recreation hall BelowSteam tables in dining hall BottomChef E G Rose center and aides at work in modern kitchen MI Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education 129 State Office Building Atlanta 3 Ga RETURN POSTAGE GUARANTEED Sec 562 P L R U S POSTAGE PAID Atlanta Ga Permit No 935 Miss Louise Fant Serials Librarian The University of Ga Athens Ga South Georgia Trade and Vocational School Americus Top Temporary quarters of Director and end view of administration building Lower New gymnasiumauditorium constructed by the Federal Works Agencyekabilitatioa Mws Vol 4 No 8 June 1948 GENERAL LIBRARY AUG 5 1948 if 1 NJJPjW w JT j f JSational Jeltabllitation c4teociation i a NRA Conference Scenes Right Earle Correvont President pre sents life membership to Con gressman Graham A Bar den of North Carolina coauthor of Public Law 113amendments to vocational rehabilitation act AboveOn WSBs Views of the News Left to rightJohn A Kratz of Washington Associate Director Office of Voca tional Rehabilitation Odom Panning Atlanta Journal Science Editor Congressman Barden and H B Cummings of Atlanta Regional Representative OVR RightM R Barnett Execu tive Director Florida Council for Blind and Harry Simmons Director of Rehabilitation Florida Council for Blind Below D H Dabelstein Washington Assistant Director OVR James J Burns Chief Fiscal Standards OVR and Dr R L Bennett of Atlanta Chief Physical Medicine Section Veterans Adminis tration speaking at group conferences m Clfebv One wing of the speakers table at the National Rehabilitation Association luncheon at Biltmore Hotel Rehabilitation Services Given Impetus fow rehabilitation services for handi capped citizens may be improved was the theme of the Southeastern regional con ference sponsored jointly by the National Rehabilitation Association and the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation in Atlanta June 35 inclusive Congressman Graham A Barden of North Carolina coauthor of Public Law 113 un der which vocational rehabilitation services were expanded in 193 and Governor M E Thompson were the principal speakers at the first days luncheon at the Biltmore Hotel Congressman Barden said one of the con structive features of the rehabilitation pro gram is that it sets a definite objective to ward which a handicapped person may work and provides assistance in reaching the goal When the BardenLaFollette bill was un der consideration in the Congress he said one of the biggest scarecrows set up by opponents of the measure was that the physi cal restoration provisions would become a form of socialized medicine In the five years since the passage of the amendments he said there has not been one hint of social ized medicine Congressman Barden discussed the tech nical provisions of the act and its adminis tration He said he took pride in having had a part in shaping this legislation The speaker made some humorous refer ences to a previous visit to Atlanta as a member of the University of North Carolina football squad in a game with Georgia Tech He was presented with a life membership in the National Rehabilitation Association by H Earle Correvont of Lansing Mich pres ident of NRA and State Director of Voca tional Rehabilitation President Correvont paid a glowing tribute to Congressman Bar dens services to the nations handicapped citizens Governor Thompson stressed the influence of education in the agricultural and indus trial development of Georgia Years ago he said Georgia leaders looked forward to the time when there would be a balance be tween agriculture and industry in the states economy Through educational progress he said that goal has been reached He called attention to Georgias record in the field of vocational education and voca tional rehabilitation and lauded the services of Paul S Barrett State Director of Voca tional Rehabilitation The Governor an nounced that additional State funds for vo cational rehabilitation would be made avail able Dr M D Collins State Superintendent of Schools was master of ceremonies at the luncheon Georgia he said was one of the first states to take advantage of the National Civilian Vocational Rehabilitation Act passed by Congress and signed by President Wood row Wilson just twentyeight years ago From a small beginning this program has devel oped into a vital farreaching state and Fed eral service to men and women with impaired bodies and minds Vocational Rehabilitation was given its greatest impetus by the enactment of Public Law 113 Through the years our State Legislature has increased its appropriations for voca tional rehabilitation to match funds available to us through the Federal Government This progressive farsighted policy of our General Assembly has made it possible for Georgia to stand at the forefront among states in restoring disabled citizens to social and economic usefulness While we take pride in what has been accomplished we realize that we have barely scratched the surface Records show that more than fifteen thousand handicapped Georgians have been rehabilitated We know that there are fifty thousand or more Georgia citizens who are desperately in need of this type of service The luncheon program was broadcast through the courtesy of station WBGE At the opening session of NRA President Correvont traced the growth of the associa tion outlined some of its accomplishments and urged an increase in membership The afternoon session was devoted to a demonstration of physical therapy methods in restoring disabled persons to useful activity The demonstration was staged by the Vet erans Administration under the direction of Dr Robert L Bennett Chief Physical Medi cine Section VA and director of Physical Medicine Warm Springs Foundation Doc tors nurses and patients from Lawson Hos pital and Atlanta VA hospital demonstrated the various methods of treatment Presidentelect Barrett who is chairman of the associations legislative committee spoke at the evening session on trends in vocational rehabilitation He reviewed the bills pre sented during the sessions of the SOth Con gress and urged support of the associations legislative program Regional officers elected were Chairman Glenn B Calmes of Jacksonville Fla Dis trict Supervisor of Vocational Rehabilitation ViceChairman Charles H Warren of Ra leigh N C State Director of Vocational Rehabilitation SecretaryTreasurer P D Bush of Gainesville Ga Senior Counselor Vocational Rehabilitation Executive Board J Hank Smith of Nashville Tenn Dr Rob ert L Bennett of Atlanta Dr M D Bonner of Greensboro N C P G Shearer of Co lumbia S C J I Rankin of Jackson Miss and Les Waller of Birmingham Ala Resolutions adopted by the association ex pressed its deep feeling of loss at the pass ing of Terry C Foster Assistant Regional Representative of the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation who was for twentyone years associated with rehabilitation in this region and recognized as one of the nations greatest leaders in the field of rehabilitation Appropriate resolutions also were passed ex Continued on Page 7dKc GeovcoVoeoonoV Aekabilitotiorv Mws Published monthly by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Dr M D Collins State Superintendent of Schools Paul S Barrett Director Division of Vocational Rehabilitation 131 State Office Building ATLANTA DISTRICT Atlanta305 Peachtree St NE Phone LAmar 1545 Gainesville414 Jackson Bldg Phone 816 Rome415 West Bldg Phone 8438 Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School Phone 98R2 AUGUSTA DISTRICT Augusta 607 Southern Finance Bldg Phone 23639 Athens Hardman Hall University Phone 2802 Dublin401 C S Bank Bldg Phone 119 SAVANNAH DISTRICT Savannah2 East Bay Street Phone 39835 BrunswickAndrews Bldg Phone 1007 Waycross400 Bunn Bldg Phone 824 MACON DISTRICT Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg Phone 61793668 Columbus411 Flowers Bldg Phone 21904 Albany213 Royal Bldg Phone 2782 Thomasville 309 Upchurch Bldg Phone 1274 Georgias Vocational Rehabilitation services lost an able conscientious and faithful worker in the passing of T Jack Dempsey Jr Senior Counselor in the Athens area on June 9 after being confined to his home in Watkinsville for more than a year For nearly ten years his life had been consecrated to the welfare of handicapped men and women in the territory he served Through his efforts hundreds of disabled persons were re stored to economic usefulness to them selves their families and their com munities Mr Dempsey began his career as an educator in 192 2 when he became instructor coach and principal of the Jackson High School He was super intendent of schools in Butts County from 192 8 to 1933 and later served as Director of State School Supervision in the Department of Education He also served as SecretaryTreasurer of Georgia and Southern High School As sociation and as SecretaryTreasurer of T the National Association of High School Supervisors In 1939 he was president of the Southern Commission of Secondary Schools J Mr Dempsey was born in Jackson November 3 1886 the son of Thomas Jackson and America Smith Dempsey His brother was the late Dr Elam F Dempsey and his sister the late Miss Ernestine Dempsey He received his A B degree from Old Emory College Oxford and Emory University He took graduate work at Mercer Emory and the University of Chicago and received his M A de gree from the University of Georgia in 1934 Mr Dempsey is survived by his widow Mrs Bertha Carmichael Dempsey five daughters and four sons Funeral services were held at the home in Watkinsville with Rev Henry T Smith pastor of the Kirkwood Methodist Church officiating Interment was in the cemetery in Jackson Pallbearers were selected from among his friends and associates in the Department of Education Among Jacks personal papers and documents was a letter addressed to his children in stressing the importance of character in building a successful life SKc 6eorovaQcVaoV cKabiiitatiot Mws Americus South Georgia Trade Vocational School COVER The front page on this issue of the News portrays Governor M E Thompson speaking at the luncheon of the regional conference of the National Rehabilita tion Association in Atlanta Paul Barrett Director of Vocational Rehabilitation displays chart showing Georgias progress in rehabilitation to left Earle Correvont President of NRA and right Congressman Barden Above rightDr M D Collins State Superintendent of Schools Governor M E Thompson center and Congress man Barden Group picture right shows Director Barrett center with ielegates from Puerto Rico to NRA conference Back rowR Sotomayor Supervisor Air Barrett and Manuel Hernandez Director of Vocational Rehabilitation in Puerto Rico front row Miss Maria Ponton Specialist Services for the Blind and D Colluzo Assistant Director Scenes from Veterans Administration demonstration of physical medicine heftF J Brown of Lakeland veteran with one leg shows how he learned to walk up steps RightJudy Taylor assistant Recreation Director Lawson Hospital shows how leg injury was corrected through use of weights with her is Doyle P Robinson Corrective Therapy aideI Dr Mark A Smith in white coat Superintendent of Bihb County Schools speaking at banquet marking formal opening of South Georgia Trade and Vocational School Americus Trade School Holds Formal Opening More than three hundred business and industrial leaders educators and public officials attended the formal opening of the South Georgia Trade and Vocational School in Americus on May 2 8 The colorful ceremonies included an open house dedication of the new gym nasiumauditorium presentation of flags and banquet Visitors were conducted on tours of inspection of shops and classrooms to view samples of work by students Keys to the gymnasiumauditorium built by the Federal Works Agency were presented to Dr M D Collins State Superintendent of Schools by O T Ray Regional Director of FWA Mr Ray reviewed briefly some of the permanent building projects made possi ble through the use of surplus war ma terials Dr M D Mobley State Director of Vocational Education presided at the ded icatory ceremonies It was announced that the State Board of Education had desig nated the Building as W T Anderson Hall in honor of W T Anderson of Leslie a member of the Board Dr Mark A Smith Superintendent of Bibb County Schools was principal speaker at the banquet Excerpts from his address appear elsewhere in this issue of the News Dr Collins acted as master of ceremonies The banquet was served by a group of home economic students from Georgia Southwestern College The Americus High School band played at both the gymnasium and flag cere monies O T Ray Regional Director Federal Works Agency presents key to new gymnasiumauditorium to Dr M D Collins State Superintendent of Schools Among the visitors were executives from the nations outstanding industries who are serving as members of advisory committees in shaping courses at the new school The Americus TimesRecorder issued a special edition featuring the school facili ties in stories pictures and congratulatory advertisements by local business establish ments In an editorial this progressive daily nevspaper said We are afraid too many of our citizens fail to realize the magnitude and the importance of the South Georgia Trade and Vocational School It is only natural that they do because the school has been built gradually over a period of nearly a year Had it been moved in over night every person in Americus and Sumter County would be talking about the big new institution in our midst The South Georgia Trade and Voca tional School is destined to become one of the leading institutions of its kind in the entire United States It has equipment in variety quantity and value second to none Director Jed B Yingling has as sembled a staff of instructors who are thoroughly skilled in their line Mr Ying ling himself and his assistant H F Thompson are widely experienced and trained in vocational education They have had the valuable cooperation of large manufacturing corporations in setting up courses for the school Expansion and development of indus try in Georgia and throughout the South long has been handicapped by lack of skilled workmen The South Georgia Trade and Vocational School and other trade schools being established will do much to eliminate this handicap The citizens of Americus are happy to have this splendid institution located in our midst It will contribute much to the cultural business and economic life of our community We wish the school and its entire personnel the best of luck and we congratulate the State Board of Education on its forwardlooking action in establishing the schoolEducation Increases Desire For Better Things5 ere are some excerpts from the ad dress of Dr Mark A Smith Super intendent of Bibb County Schools at the formal opening of the South Georgia Trade and Vocational School Americus Education is the will and the equip ment of living at ones best every day and getting out of life all that life has to offer The schools of our country must go to work on the personality and character of their students as well as the subjects taught There must be as much or more inspiration as there is information and those who teach must be compelling ex amples We must train ourselves to see the overall picture and offer youth the things vital and pertinent to them Education alone has made democracy workable in the United States In no other place in the world have people governed themselves as completely as harmoniously and as progressively as in the United States Education alone has made it possible to fuse people from many lands many races many languages many cultures and many traditions into one people All of this has been accomplished while our Na tion has increased in population since our National birth date forty times our popu lation This is proof that we can make and have made human progress Some coun tries think of our progress as technological and the only kind we know how to make This progress can be attributed only to education universal free education Education did much for us and we have done much for education in the United States Through this fine arrange ment we have made more progress than any other country in the world The mainstay of democracy is the educated citizen National standards of education and national prosperity go hand in hand Education increases the desire for better things Then education increases income and also increases productivity We may say then that business depends upon education not only to provide more profitable markets but to provide more productive manpower Business and in dustry must draw upon a large reservoir of educated manpower or be handicapped in every operation A basic trouble of education in Geor gia is public indifference We must do something about educating ourselves re garding the problem We must understand it better because the job of education will not be done by those in this room alone but must be done by all the people of this state Education and vocational and trade education deserve the best in all of us If lip service were dollars the cause of education in trades would be rich If we are leaders then we must make things hap pen in education Things are happening in Americus to day in an educational way Georgia is in the lead in the United States from the standpoint of vocational and trades edu cation Thousands of communities in the United States are without the benefit which this school will give to this com munity and section of Georgia Many states are without this type of school Vocational education which this school will provide must be available to all not only to prepare each worker for his career but to provide upgrading and refresher courses as long as he needs them We hear talk daily of unemployment This school will do more in South Georgia to cut down unemployment in my opin ion than any other school in this part of the state This school will train and educate for full employment prosperity and happi ness This school is the culmination of a great dream in South Georgia Rehabilitation Services Given Impetus pressing appreciation to those who contrib uted to the success of the conference Atlanta Constitution Columnist Ralph T Jones devoted his June 3 corner to the con ference He said in part On various occasions ip the past this col umn has turned its attention to the general subject of vocational rehabilitation Primar ily because there is no division in all the broad field of education which is so packed with human interest In the reports and pub lications of the division there are innumer able stories which though given in barest outline require only a little imagination to become thrilling sagas of individual lives The man or woman who has because of physical disability faced life with no pros pect other than lifelong dependence upon charity whether public or private must ex perience one of the greatest revelations pos sible for a human being when the realization comes that there is a way despite the handi cap to become a selfsupporting independent citizen A lifter in short rather than a leaner in life When added to that is the knowledge that the newlyacquired earning capacity provides not only for self but for dependents and fam ily also the thrill is enhanced Georgia holds a high place among all the States in the achievements of her vocational rehabilitation organization Literally hun dreds of blind of crippled individuals have been rescued have been taught an occupation they can follow despite their physical lacks an occupation at which they can make a good living Therefore it is of exceptional interest that Atlanta this year is host to the confer ence of Region Three of the Office of Voca Continued from Page 3 tional Rehabilitation and the National Re habilitation Association It is quite a compliment to Georgias Divi sion of Vocational Rehabilitation as well as a recognition of its leadership in the field that the conference should be held here And even more complimentary is the selection of a Georgian Director Barrett to become pres ident of the national body Atlanta Journal Columnist Morgan Blake who offered the invocation at the luncheon later gave his impressions of the conference Here are some excerpts from his column There is no cross harder to bear than for a man of honor and pride to be so handi capped that he is dependent upon his rela tives or outside agencies for subsistence And I am sure that no greater happiness can come to such a man than when he is so rehabilitated that he can take his place in society and support himself and family Last year in the United States some 50000 handicapped people were so restored I had the pleasure of attending a session of Region 3 of the National Rehabilitation Association At this session Congressman Graham A Barden of North Carolina the author of Public Law 113 which created this wonderful work was the speaker Last year in Georgia 2755 people had their handicaps removed and were placed in jobs Our state is one of the Souths leaders in this great work Every field of the handicapped is reached The first step usually is medical or surgical treatment to remove the handicap or dimin ish its effect Then vocational training for some job then placing the man or woman in the job The 50000 so rehabilitated each year represent about onefifth of those need ing it It is estimated that some 250000 Americans become handicapped each year through accidents and disease Each State is a unit in the administration of this work In Georgia Vocational Re habilitation is under the State Department of Education of which the one and only Dr M D Collins is the head The work is limited only by the amount of appropriations Governor Thompson in an address to the delegates to the convention here promised that he would set aside addi tional funds for this blessed service to handi capped Georgians When the Governor made this statement Dr Collins kindly face was wreathed in smiles This great leader in the field of education is so consistently alert for opportunities to get cash for the expansion of all phases of educational advantages for young and old alike that one of the speakers at the convention said his initials MD stood for More Dough It was a thrilling experience for me to realize that such a wonderful service was in operation in our state and nation and my prayers are that enough money will ulti mately be appropriated so that all the 250000 handicapped Americans each year will re ceive its blessings Here is certainly an outstanding demon stration of what can be accomplished under a free government for the people The na tional government is assisting the states finan cially and in an advisory capacity but with no invasion of states rights Each state con ducts its own vocational rehabilitation Such services as this will do more to destroy the bugaboo of communism in this country and strengthen American democracy than all other efforts combinedDivision if Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education 129 State Office Building Atlanta 3 Ga RETURN POSTAGE GUARANTEED Sec 562 P L R U S POSTAGE PAID Atlanta Ga Permit No 935 s Miss Louise Fant Serials Librarian The University of Ga Athens Ga Defective hearing and vision made Marion Ray Thrasher of Bishop Ga eligible for vocational rehabilitation services Through surgery his hearing was improved Glasses corrected his vision Then he was given training in laundry management at the North Georgia Trade and Vocational School Clarkesville Now at 21 Marion is manager of the dry cleaning depart ment of the Athens Laundry and Dry Cleaning Co Athens and looks for ward to a successful career in his chosen vocation 1 certainly appreciate the help of the Rehabilitation Division dont know what I would have done without it he said recently Annual Conference fiutnberp m K Medical QuizDoctors shown above and on opposite page answered numerous ques tions relating to physical restoration From leftDr Jeff Richardson Atlanta Dr H C Crawford Atlanta Dr O F Keen Macon Dr Harry Harper Augusta Dr Charles Hock A ugusta LeftJohn A Kratz Washington Asso ciate Director OVR H B Cummings Atlanta Regional Representative OVR and Tommy Thompson Assistant Direc tor South Georgia Trade Vocational School Americus talk over training meth ods for handicapped persons BelowBetter services for the blind were discussed by this panel From left Counselor C H Parker Savannah at mike Counselor J P Cooper Augusta Counselor F G Nelms Atlanta Super visor W B Gaines Atlanta Business Enterprises Supervisor Glenn Boggs and State Director Paul Barrett Medical panelAbove Dr T P Good wyn Atlanta Chief Medical Consultant Dr W E Mayher Columbus Dr Ben Clifton Atlanta Dr C C Aven Atlanta Dr Bert Brown Savannah Dr W G Hamm Atlanta Dr Charles Rushin At lanta and Dr T P McKneely Washing ton Chief Medical Officer OVR 1 i PROBLEMS relating to all phases of re habilitation from case finding to job placement were studied intensively at the Vocational Rehabilitation Divisions annual staff conference near Savannah August 914 Some of the most difficult cases encountered by Supervisors and Counselors in their day today experience in working with disabled men and women were brought up for dis cussionand suggested line of action On the final day fifteen outstanding physi cians surgeons and specialists formed a quiz panel after several members of the group had spoken previously on assigned subjects They answered numerous questions on physical restoration Typical of the ques tions was When is a goiter a vocational handicap Representatives of State and Federal agen cies and institutionsWelfare Health Em ployment Veterans Office of Vocational Re habilitation and trade schoolsled discus sions on subjects relating to their joint ac tivities with the Rehabilitation Division One period during the conference was de voted to services to the blind Among the topics discussed were opportunities for the blind in industry supervision of vending stands and farm projects for persons with visual handicaps Another period was given over to consideration of the services for the tuberculous and another to the training pro grams at the State trade and vocational schools at Americus and Clarkesville It was emphasized over and over again that the goal of all rehabilitation services is profitable employment for the person who had or has a disability Governor M E Thompson was principal speaker at the annual dinner When I became associated with the State Department of Education in 1932 the Voca tional Rehabilitation Division was the step child of education he said Few school men cared to leave their posi tions in the general school system to become a part of it Today posts in the Vocational Rehabilitation program are filled by some of our ablest men who are contributing im measurably to the economy of our State by helping handicapped persons find their places in our economic system He referred to the increased allocation of State funds for education this year and em phasized the need of a unified program from kindergarten through the university Dr M D Collins State Superintendent of Schools was master of ceremonies at the dinner REHABILITATION PAYS During the fiscal year ended June 30 2490 handicapped citizens of Georgia were re habilitated into profitable employment The figure represents an increase of 265 over the previous fiveyears average Records show that 1783 of those rehabili tated last year were either wholly or par tially dependent upon welfare agencies fami lies or friends 1334 had an educational level of less than eighth grade 764 had lost limbs or had other orthopedic impairments 498 were blind or had other visual disabilities 156 had defective hearing In the process of rehabilitation 1848 re ceived some type of trainingin schools or business establishmentsto prepare them for new vocations More than one thousand needed and received some type of surgical services following medical examinations and diagnosis More than seven hundred were provided with artificial appliances Many others received medical treatment to correct their disabilities Georgia citizens who received the benefit of this service are employed in a wide range of vocations on farms in factories stores offices service enterprises public services and professions Records show they will earn during the first year after rehabilitation more than 3500000 QUOTES FROM CONFERENCE Here are some excerpts from speeches John A Kratz Washington Associate Di rector Office of Vocational Rehabilitation The original concept of Rehabilitation was to retrain workers who had been handi capped in industry Money compensation does not result in the restoration of disabled individuals to employment There is no service which requires such a diversity of knowledge and understanding of human be ings industry and other agencies as does Vocational Rehabilitation Dr Y H Yarborough of Milledgeville Director State Hospital Remember we dont raise people there in the State Hos pital They come from the outside At the present rate of admissions at institutions for the mentally ill one out of every twenty children now in school will be an inmate of an institution Dr M D Collins State Suprintendent of Schools The Minimum Foundation Program of Education is a blood transfusion for every phase of education It will expand the Vocational Rehabilitation program Begin ning July 1 1949 we will get 750000 of state funds for this service instead of 400000 we are getting this year Education doesnt costit pays Tax dollars spent for educa tion and health pay larger dividends than any other kind of investment H B Cummings of Atlanta Regional Representative Office of Vocational Rehabili tation The purpose of all these rehabili tation services medical surgical counsel ing guidance training is to make the handi capped person employable Dr Harry Harper of Augusta speaking on Heart Diseases in Young People Rheumatic fever which produces a heart condition is the No 1 killer in Georgia among children up to 14 Parents and teachers should be trained to look for it W E Ireland Director State Welfare Department The Welfare Department and Continued on page 6ckabilitatiorv Afews Vol 4 JulyAugust 1948 No 9 Published by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Dr M D Collins State Superintendent of Schools Paul S Barrett Director Division of Vocational Rehabilitation 131 State Office Huildinc ATLANTA DISTRICT Atlanta305 Peachtree St NE Phone LAmar 1545 Gainesville414 Jackson Bldg Phone 816 Rome415 West Bldg Phone 8438 Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School Phone 98R2 AUGUSTA DISTRICT Augusta 607 Southern Finance Bldg Phone 23639 Athens Hardman Hall University Phone 2802 Dublin401 C S Bank Bldg Phone 119 SAVANNAH DISTRICT Savannah2 East Bay Street Phone 39835 BrunswickAndrews Bldg Phone 1007 Waycross400 Bunn Bldg Phone 824 MACON DISTRICT Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg Phone 61793668 Columbus411 Flowers Bldg Phone 21904 Albany213 Royal Bldg Phone 2782 Thomasville 309 Upchurch Bldg Phone 1274 Americus South Georgia Trade Vocational School T the beginning of the current fiscal year on July 1 Governor M E Thompson announced approval of the State Department of Education budget of 40558500 for public schools and Vocational Rehabilitation The allocation represents an increase of 3308600 over the State funds made available to the Department of Education last year Its the largest appro priation for school purposes in the history of the State Items in the budget were Teachers salaries Equalization and administration36280000 Textbooks 1783221 School Libraries 300000 Rural Libraries 300000 Visual Aid 75000 Vocational Education 500000 State Trade Schools 300000 Vocational Rehabilitation 400000 Department of Education 200000 County School Superintendents 275000 Lunch and Health and Surplus Commodities 80000 Certification and Curriculum Division 47500 Surplus Property 18500 The amount set aside for Vocational Rehabilitation is an increase of 100000 over the appropriation for the previous year In expressing his gratification and appreciation of the additional funds for education Dr M D Collins State Superintendent of Schools said It helps to meet pressing needs in some phases of education For instance the schools have been operating with approximately seven hun dred fewer teachers than they were entitled to under average daily attendance records The increased funds for teachers salaries will help to meet this shortage Typical of press comments on the action of the Governor is the following excerpt from an Atlanta Constitution editorial With State revenue for the fiscal year ended June 30 at an alltime high there was a surplus of several million dollars even after extra appropria tions had been made for various purposes during the course of the year It was only proper that the bulk of this money should go to the States schools which have been hardpressed to meet the influx of war babies and the competition of other states for qualified teachers The State has taken over in the past decade an everincreasing proportion of the school load Local contributions have declined in dollars as well as per centagewise Many communities have managed to shift the entire burden to the State Others are endeavoring to do so Since approval of this budget an additional 100000 has been allocated to Vocational Education ftKo GoorjvoiocoJwo Rehabilitation service for patients discharged from the State Hospital at Milledgeville is the subject being discussed by this group in oval Dr Y H Yarborough center vete ran Superintendent of the hospital flanked by Counselor S A Newton left Macon Industrial Specialist A R Colcord Atlanta and Counselor F E Wynn Thomasville In background view of General Oglethorpe Hotel where conference was held At candlelit speakers table From leftMrs Charles W Curry Savannah Thai Buchanan aide to Gov Thompson Miss Mary Poindexter Savannah Dr T P Goodwyn Atlanta M E Thompson Jr Mrs M E Thompson Governor Thompson Paul Barrett standing and Dr M D Collins RightVocational training is the subject of this confab From left C G Clegg Director North Georgia Trade Vocational School Clarkes ville Frank Underwood Savannah Director Savannah Vocational School and Presidentelect Georgia Vocational Association and Dr M D Mobley Director of Vocational Education State Department of Education Removal of cataracts was the subject of discussion and demon stration conducted by Dr B H Minchew Waycross holding flashlight The patients seated are Ellis Steedley Waycross who was trained at Clarkesville under Vocational Rehabilitation and W B Lynch Alma another Rehabilitation client In the left background are Counselors Marvin Starr Columbus and J B Bowen AtlantaGOVERNOR M E THOMPSON W E IRELAND Director State Welfare Department BelowDr T P Goodwyn Atlanta Chief Medical Consultant DVR and Dr T P McKneely Washington Chief Medical Officer OVR talk over physical restoration problems AboveA L Davis Atlanta Assistant Director Rehabilitation Division and E K Bell Savannah District Supervisor confer on case services Continued from page 3 the Division of Rehabilitation are working on a common basis trying to bring about social and economic rehabilitation We deal with the aged and crippled and de pendent children you of the Vocational Re habilitation Division deal with those from whom the hazards of living have taken toll We feel there has been great progress in Georgia in Welfare and in Rehabilitation Miss Mary Poindexter Welfare Director in Savannah always uses the pronoun we in speaking of rehabilitation services That indicates the type of teamwork carried on by representatives of these two agencies in that area Dr E L Sunkes State Health Department It has been said that the work being done in Vocational Rehabilitation in Georgia has been outstanding in the Nation We in the Health Department are proud of this record and happy that our services in some small way have contributed to your success Both the Division of Vocational Rehabili tation and the State Health Department are concerned with the health and welfare of the people in our State In order to succeed in our efforts a high degree of cooperation must be maintained between the two groups I am confident that a review of your accom plishments will prove that the cooperation on both sides has been excellent and gratify ing to all concerned If anyone doubts the value of Vocational Rehabilitation he should be taken to Battey State Hospital and there observe the almost miraculous change in the patients mental at titude when he once again sees an opportun ity to regain his place in society as a self supporting wage earner Miss E Worrill Dudley Director Savan nah School of Speech Correction Never in the history of man has correct speech played such an important part in mans suc cess in life Educators have sensed this and today the world is speech conscious Regard less of what social or business career the child may select speech will always be essen tial One may succeed without a thorough knowledge of written language by employing the services of a secretary in fact many men and women have made good in the business world with scarcely a grammar school edu cation But rare indeed are those who have succeeded without the ability to speak intel ligibly Speech defects and slovenly speech militates strongly against ones social and business success It is pathetic when one with a serious speech defect tries to face the critical world and there are numbers who do J D Paulk Operations Supervisor Geor gia Cooperative Services for the Blind Inc Problems of adaptation of the client to blindness and a new occupation are greatly relieved by the good work of the Counselor and by our training course which each client takes before being assigned to a vending stand It is in this training course lasting from four to eight weeks that we try to make up for any lack of business ex perience on the part of the blind person Many times it is here that the client first learns the importance of record keeping in the successful operation of a business It is in this period of training conducted in the actual place of business that the client is taught the fundamental principles of success ful management We have twentyeight business establish ments vending stands each under a sepa Continued on next pageMercer Men at staff conference From left C E Lancaster Macon H R McLarty Augusta W B Gaines Atlanta John Lewis Macon Nathan Nolan Athens B B Sanders Macon A P Jarrell Atlanta G E Currie Savannah J R Hampton Clarkesville M R Little Waycross C W Bell Waycross and B L Smith Savannah RightRehabilitation of the tuberculous was the subject of a discussion led by Dr C C Aven Atlanta He is shown with Counselors C W Bell Waycross center and A M Bowen Atlanta Below right Dr Ben Clifton Atlanta left is welcomed to conference by A P Jarrell Assistant Director Continued from page 6 rate manager They have their weak nesses and shortcomings just as would be found in a cross section of people employed in private enterprise Many now em ployed as vending stand operators have some natural talents or have learned ways of in creasing sales or improving profits Through supervision the advantages gained in one stand are passed on to the other stands IN MEMORIAM Vocational Rehabilitation workers at tending the State conference held a brief memorial service for two co workers who had died during the year Terry Foster of Atlanta Assistant Re gional Representative office of Voca tional Rehabilitation and Jack Demp sey of Watkinsville Senior Counselor with headquarters in Athens H B Cummings of Atlanta Re gional Representative OVR paid high tribute to the life and service of his friend Terry Foster in the field of rehabilitation Paul S Barrett State Director lauded the services of Jack Dempsey as an educator and Rehabilitation Coun selor Appropriate resolutions presented by Counselor P D Bush of Gaines ville were adopted unanimously tDivision of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education 129 State Office Building Atlanta 3 Ga RETURN POSTAGE GUARANTEED Sec 562 P L R U S POSTAGE PAID Atlanta Ga Permit No 935 K Miss Louise Fant Serials Librarian The University of Ga Athens Ga Blind since birth Earl H Cole 20 of Carrollton operates a profitable broomdistributing business in the Farmers Store Market He is shown at left with Mayor William Traylor proprietor of the store where Coles stand is located A graduate from the Georgia Academy for the Blind the young man was assisted by Vocational Rehabilitation and a loan from the Lions Club for stock In less than a year he repaid the loan O0M5 SUTOR Jfere itekabilitatiorv Mws HIRE THE HANDICAPPED ITS GOOD BUSINESS wiiiumm i Sure 3 11 give him a Chance I 1 National Employ the Physically Jfandicapped WeekIn Industry CLARK BRADY is shown working on two different sizes of stators at the GE service plant In the lower picture is C I Hies left armature winder leader Thirtyyearold Clark Brady lives in total darkness but he is happy to lie hack on the joh he had for eleven years before losing his sight Brady is an armature winder at the General Electric Com panys service plant on Glenn Street SW Atlanta Its a job that requires a high degree of knowledge and skill Two years ago his sight began to fail from a nerve condition Finally he was unable to do the intricate work in rewinding operations With a wife and son to support he felt desperate Then he sought the aid of Vocational Rehabilitation The first step in the rehabilitation of the blind is to teach them selfreliance So Brady was enrolled in the North Georgia Trade and Voca tional School at Clarkesville for special training There he learned to get around from place to place without constant assistance He was taught Braille and finger dexterity And in a few months he was ready to think about a new voca tionor a job that would utilize the skill he possessed General Electric Company officials were willing to give him an opportunity on his old job He has been back about three months What is his production record J L Carmen Jr shop superintendent and C L Giles arma ture winder leader say Bradys rewinding time has been checked and found to equal or better that of sighted workers They say he is the first blind person to be placed in a GE service plant according to their records And they are glad to have him back and take pride in his accomplishment Brady carries a white cane now But once in the plant in the morning he hangs it up near his work bench and goes about his business in the familiar surroundings His old buddies are always willing to lend him any little aid he may need in han dling equipment Brady is one of 131 blind persons placed on jobs last year through Vocational Rehabilitation services He was one of thirtythree placed in industry and business Some of the other major occupational classifications and the number placed were vending stands 10 sales work and kindred jobs 16 profes sional clerical and trades 11 farming 12 home projects 12 grocery business 11 piano tuning 7 and furniture repair 3 His production record is in line with the national experience in vocational rehabilitation A study made by the Bureau of Labor Statistics U S Depart ment of Labor and published in a report The Performance of Physically Impaired Workers in Manufacturing Industries says The findings of the present study indicate that practicallv any job in any plant is potentially a job for an impaired worker of one kind or another The output relative for this group of 895 impaired workers surveyed is 1010 against 1000 for the unimpaired workers with whom they were matched Clearly the impaired workers as a group were well able to hold their own with respect to volume of production Among the disabling injuries recorded among the impaired workers of the survey group there was no evidence that any had been caused or contributed by a fellow workers impairment The conclusion seems warranted that the impaired worker was no more likely to be the cause of injury to either himself or others than was his fellow worker who had no such impairment non disabling injuries of the same nature and severity were experienced with equal frequency by these groups of im paired and unimpaired workers matched on identical jobs and exposed to the same hazards The group of 11028 impaired workers had an absenteeism rate of 38 as against 34 for the 18258 unimpaired workers matched with them Absenteeism rate computed as days lost per 100 scheduled work days The study also brought out the fact that the emphasis in placement is upon finding the job in which the impaired person can exercise his special abilities to best advantagePerilous Operation Restores Heart Reprint from Atlanta Journal By ODOM FANNING Science Editor Too sick all his life to work or play like other kids a 19yearold Atlantan is busy at a mans job now laying brick Atlanta sur geons restored him to health by performing a rare and hazardous operation on the aorta near the heart As a child Jerry H Faucett of 775 Pul liam St SW got his biggest kick laying brick with mud for mortar He wanted noth ing so much as to follow the trade of his father E T Faucett one of the best brick layers in Atlanta But Jerry was not healthy like his play mates He suffered from a rare condition called coarctation a congenital defect of the aorta the great artery supplying blood to all organs footward of the heart A constricting ring was gradually squeez ing that vessel closed cutting down the amount of blood it could carry Tie a string around a sausage pull it tight and you get an idea of what was hap pening to his aorta explained the doctor Quit School Jerry had to quit school in 1942 He was overnervous his blood pressure was high and he had no discernible pulse in the feet In that condition he could expect to die by the time he was 40 doctors told his mother Mrs G T Murdock On the other hand an operation was so perilous he had about one chance in four of dying on the operating table The family talked it over for eight months before deciding to take the risk Because it kept him from earning a living Jerrys mal ady was as much a crippling condition as poliomyelitis or heart disease He was there fore eligible for assistance from the State Vocational Rehabilitation division of the De partment of Education They paid for every thing except his private duty nursing Last Jan 14 Jerry was operated on Through an 18inch incision reaching from the middle of his chest to the middle of his back the surgeons clipped out a quarterinch section of the aorta and rejoined the open ends Although the defect was some eight inches from where the aorta joins the heart the operation was particularly dangerous be cause that vessel doubles back and lies peril ously close to the heart at the point where it had to be severed Down to Normal His blood pressure before the operation averaged 180 over 100 The doctors said it probably would be six months before he could do any work But in half that time his blood pressure was down to a normal 130 over 82 JERRY FAUCETT IS NOW ABLE TO DO A MANS JOB and he began laying brick with his father In another three months he expects to get his journeymans card Tall sandyhaired Jerry Faucett works every day runs a little whenever he feels like it swims well and hopes to start playing ball soon He even got married to pretty Miss Betty Pace Doctors say his life ex pectancy is normal now The operation on the aorta was first per formed in 1944 by one surgeon in Stockholm and another in Boston working indepen dently Since then some 200 have been done in this country and Europe At least six have been performed at Emory University Hos pital where Jerry was operated on Handicapped Workers Do Make Good Give em a ChanceI t c Kabi Litatiorv Mxvs Vol 4 SeptOct 1948 No 10 Published by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Dr M D Collins State Superintendent of Schools Paul S Barrett Director Division of Vocational Rehabilitation 131 State Office Building ATLANTA DISTRICT Atlanta305 Peachtree St NE Phone LAmar 1545 Gainesville414 Jackson Bldg Phone 816 Rome415 West Bldg Phone 8438 Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School Phone 98R2 AUGUSTA DISTRICT Augusta 607 Southern Finance Bldg Phone 23639 Athens Hardman Hall University Phone 2802 Dublin401 C S Bank Bldg Phone 119 SAVANNAH DISTRICT Savannah2 East Bay Street Phone 39835 BrunswickAndrews Bldg Phone 1007 Waycross400 Bunn Bldg Phone 824 MACON DISTRICT Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg Phone 61793668 Columbus411 Flowers Bldg Phone 21904 Albany213 Royal Bldg Phone 2782 Thomasville 309 Upchurch Bldg Phone 1274 Americus South Georgia Trade Vocational School resolution adopted by Congress designates the first week in October of each year as National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week and requests the President to issue a suitable proclamation The purpose is to focus the attention of responsible community leadership on the desirability of using the developed abilities of handicapped persons In his proclamation this year President Truman pointed out Our Nation would be materially strengthened and our democracy enriched if all citizens capable of performing any kind of useful labor were afforded opportunities for suitable employment The millions of disabled persons in the United States both military and civilian should be encouraged to avail themselves of the facilities for rehabili tation and training as vell as the services for placement provided by our Federal State and local governments War production records and recent industrial surveys show that handi capped workers when selectively placed perform their tasks as well or better than those without handicaps Acceptance of the handicapped by employers will be the means of bring ing opportunities for economic independence and full participation in our democratic life to citizens who despite physical impairments are willing and able to perform a wide variety of essential tasks Governor M E Thompson pointed out that Georgia is one of the fore most states in the Nation in the rehabilitation of disabled citizens He called upon the mayors of all cities and other public officials as well as leaders of industry and labor of civic Veterans farm womens and fra ternal organizations and other groups representative of our national life to lend full support to the observance of the week in order to enlist public in terest in effectuating full employment of the handicapped In Georgia NEPH Week committees were organized under the leader ship of outstanding business men They were supported by representatives of various agencies interested in rehabilitation and employmentVocational Rehabilitation Georgia State Employment Service Veterans Administration American Legion Disabled American Veterans and others NEPH Week is not a charity campaign or a drive to get employers to find some little piddling job for a disabled person It is an effort to demon strate to employers that handicapped workers properly trained and placed can measure up to the work standards of those without impairments a com munity effort to show employers that its the workers abilities and not his disabilities that count tVc GttOrqJoNoocotCv AekobilMion Mws Cover Clark Brady blind armature winder left being welcomed back to the General Electric Company Service plant by C L Carmen Jr shop superintendent See story on page 2 Mulianul tmpUy ike fttyjUitUff ManAie eJ Wui MAKES GOOD IN BUSINESS For three years Clarence J Home right has been em ployed as an accountant with Russell L Speights Atlanta and looks forward to a successful business career although he wears an artificial limb When war was declared he had a berth on a merchant ship during college vacation period While unloading war materials in Manchester England his leg was severed by a ships cable Upon his return to Geor gia he was hospitalized in Savannah and afterwards aided by Vocational Rehabilitation in a course in business administra tion and accounting at the University of Georgia where he received his BBA Degree MRS CATHERINE JORDAN McCLELLEN of Waycross left has defective hearing She was supplied with an invisible ear piece and trained in the operation of the audiometer She is employed as a doctors aide in a hospital The picture shows her making a test WILSON OLIVE right on crutches had infantile paralysis He completed his training in watch repair at the B S Jew elry Columbus four years ago Since that time he has acquired the business Claud Yancey left foreground lost a leg in a fire truck accident He is shown in train ing in watch repair under the Vocational Rehabilitation program He too has gone in business for himself In the background is J D Olive a veteran trainee Ability Not Disability CountsFor more than twenty years the National Rehabilitation Association has served as a clearing house for the efforts of State and Federal agencies in behalf of disabled persons Association activities include 1 the Journal of Rehabili tation a professional magazine containing articles on the medical social educational and employment phases of work with the handicapped 2 State and National forums 3 promotion of legislation 4 cooperation with State and Federal offices of Vocational Rehabilitation Membership fees Professionalanyone engaged in work with the disabled 500 a year Activeanyone interested in the work of the association 200 Life membership 10000 Paul S Barrett State Director of Vocational Rehabilitation is Presidentelect of the Association MAKES GOOD IN SERVICE TRADES IN NEW VOCATIONRaymond Finch of Amtell worked on a farm and in a textile mill until stricken with tuberculosis When he recovered Vocational Rehabilitation aided him in a training course in bothering He now has a chair in Rutherfords Barber Shop 13 Beauty Parlor MISS HAZEL KEEN of Vidalia is shown above on the job in the Ideal Laundry Except for a builtup shoe theres no evidence that she had infantile paralysis when about one year of age She teas treated at Warm Springs WILLIAM M WINN SR is past 60 but he works as foreman at the J F Browning Lumber Co Riceboro De fective vision caused by cataracts jeopardized his position until Voca tional Rehabilitation made it possible for him to have the operationsHire the Business IN SKILLED JOBSRoscoe Searcy left had paralysis of the left leu and arm see picture Dur ing World War II when industries were desperately in need of work ers he was trained as a welder and worked in a shipyard in Brunswick Afterwards he moved to Detroit where he worked for a while Two years ago he sought the aid of Vo cational Rehabilitation in Atlanta With a wife and child to support his outlook was not bright to say the least But Searcy had confidence in his ability to make good in business for himself if he could get a start Vocational Rehabilitation assisted him in getting some equipment for a fender and body shop Searcy worked hard and his business grew He succeeded in acquiring a lot on Griffin Street and with the help of hired workers con structed a cement block garage and apartment building His shop is on the ground floor with living quarters above He now has a hired helper on the job most of the time f V tm IN SERVICE TRADESWillie Terry in jured his back and leg when pinned under an overturned hay wagon He was no longer able to carry on as a farm laborer or long shoreman in Savannah Vocational Rehabil itation guided him in a course at State Col lege in shoe rebuilding and he was placed with the Abraham Shoe Shop about a year ago In 1932 Jessie Dennisons left arm was in jured in an automobile accident It was nec essary to amputate the limb near the shoul der For years he worked at odd jobs as yard man and janitor Through Vocational Rehabilitation he was placed as freight ele vator operator in the Savannah Hoteland made good on the jobDivision of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education 129 State Office Building Atlanta 3 Ga RETURN POSTAGE GUARANTEED Sec 562 P L R U S POSTAGE PAID Atlanta Ga Permit No 935 r Serials Librarian le University of Ga Athens Ua ABILITY COUNTS HUE THE HANDICAPPED ITS GOOD BUSINESS Ability Not Disability Count BEFORE AND AFTER Ralph Chambers 31 of Milner was han dicapped as a textile mill worker by a harelip which affected his breathing Plastic surgery provided by Vocational Rehabilitation cor rected the condition He was placed with the Dundee Mills and looks forward to years of produc tive work Tor Distinguished By M D Collins Vocational Rehabilitation workers and friends of re habilitation everywhere will applaud the selections for high honors at the annual conference of the National Re habilitation Association in Madison Wis December 610 The Meritorious Awards for distinguished service in the field of rehabilitation were presented to 1 Dr H B Cummings Regional Representative Office of Vocational Rehabilitation in the Southeastern States and Puerto Rico nd 2 Dr Howard A Rusk Professor and Chairman Department of Rehabilitation and Physical Medicine New York College of Medicine At the same time Georgias Paul Barrett Director of ocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education vas elevated to the Presidency of the Association which comprises some twelve thousand professional workers and others interested in rehabilitation services They richly deserve the honors bestowed upon them by heir coworkers I have been intimately associated with Dr Cummings and Paul Barrett for more than sixteen years so I have a keen personal interest in the national recognition given hem Dr Rusks fame extends beyond the borders of our wn and he Southeast is the nations No 1 region in the number jf disabled persons annually restored to social and eco lomic usefulness through Vocational Rehabilitation In fhe oast ten years the program in this area has increased ven fold The growth and effectiveness of this joint StateFederal jervice in this section may be traced largely to the inspiring leadership of H B Cummings With exception of a few years when he taught English at the Memphis State College in his native state Tennessee his entire professional career has been devoted to educa tional work with the handicapped As rin Army Captain during World War I he super vised the work of a group of psychological examiners in testing and classifying soldiers Afterwards he supervised the first Veterans Training program under the Federal Board of Vocational Education in Texas Oklahoma and Arkansas The first Civilian Vocational Rehabilitation Act was passed in 1920 and Dr Cummings was appointed super visor for the Southern Region embracing thirteen states and Puerto Rico In recent years the program has de veloped to such proportions that a division of the territory served by the Federal representative became necessary It is deeply gratifying to us that Dr Cummings has remained in our region throughout the years In my opinion no one knows more about Vocational Rehabilitation than H B Cummings His knowledge of the needs of the handicapped his diplomacy in dealing with state officials his administrative ability his genial person ality and his scholarly attainments are reflected in the scope and effectiveness of the program Moreover he has made an outstanding contribution in shaping policies and raising standards of service on the national level Dr Cummings graduated from Valparaiso University earned an A B Degree at Yale his Masters at Harvard and did postgraduate work in psychology and education at the University of Chicago and Columbia r9s Dr Cummings Dr Rusk Dr Rusk is Chief of Rehabilitation Service at Bellevue Hospital and Director of the New York UniversityBellevue Medical Center Institute of Rehabilitation and Physical Medicine He is also Associate Editor of the New York Times and consultant in medical rehabilitation to the Sec retariat of the United Nations the Veterans Administration and the Department of Hospitals New York City Dr Rusk has many firsts to his credit in the field of Continued on Page 6 OKo 6covqooooiCo acCV Rehabilitation Afews Vol 4 NovDec 1948 No 11 Published by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Dr M D Collins State Superintendent of Schools Paul S Barrett Director Division of Vocational Rehabilitation 131 State Office Building ATLANTA DISTRICT Atlanta305 Peachtree St NE Phone LAmar 1545 Gainesville414 Jackson Bldg Phone 816 Rome415 West Bldg Phone 8438 Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School Phone 98R2 AUGUSTA DISTRICT Augusta 607 Southern Finance Bldg Phone 23639 Athens Hardman Hall University Phone 2802 Dublin401 C S Bank Bldg Phone 119 SAVANNAH DISTRICT Savannah2 East Bay Street Phone 39835 BrunswickAndrews Bldg Phone 1007 Waycross400 Bunn Bldg Phone 824 MACON DISTRICT Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg Phone 61793668 Columbus411 Flowers Bldg Phone 21904 Albany213 Royal Bldg Phone 2782 Thomasville 309 Upchurch Bldg Phone 1274 Americus South Georgia Trade Vocational School For President of NEA The Representative Assembly of the Georgia Education Association last March adopted a resolution endorsing Dr M D Collins State Superin tendent of Schools for the presidency of the National Education Association in recognition of his loyal devoted and unselfish service to the children and teachers of Georgia and to the State and National associations Since that time similar action has been taken by the State Board of Educa tion the Southern States Workshop Conference comprising educators from fourteen states the Georgia Association of School Administrators the Georgia Vocational Association the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation staff con ference and numerous other groups Individual educators in all sections of the country have pledged their sup port to Dr Collins candidacy Definite plans have been made by a committee representing the various asso ciations to present his name at the NEA convention in Boston next Julyand to charter a special train to take his friends and delegates to the meeting The movement among educators in Georgia and elsewhere to honor the State Superintendent of Schools with the highest office in this professional group has been wholly spontaneous Only two educators from the South ever have been president of the National associationDr Willis Sutton former Superintendent of Atlanta schools and Dr A C Flora Superintendent of Columbia S C schools Those who are backing Dr Collins candidacy point to the outstanding progress in all phases of education in Georgia under his administration as State Superintendent of Schools They cite his recognized ability to harmonize conflicting interests inspire united efforts on behalf of education and secure funds for expanded programs They are confident that he will bring to education on a National level the type of leadership needed next year Vocational Rehabilitation workers and friends of rehabilitation have every reason to lend encouragement and support to Dr Collins for the Presidency of NEA He has labored unceasingly to advance the Vocational Rehabilitation pro gram in Georgia to its present preeminent position among the states He be lieves special service to disabled citizens is not only a humanitarian effort but sound economy In local state regional and National conferences he has given rehabilitation workers the benefit of his leadership counsel and efforts And he holds a life membership in the National Rehabilitation Association OKe OcorevoOocoAOYNoCv Mabilitatioa Mus This months cover picture is a repro duction of the 1948 Tuberculosis Christmas Seal Poster See story of Seal sale plan on page 6 PROTECT YOUR HOME TUBERCULOSISThe Tiiberculoiis By Dr R W McGee Fulton County Commissioner of Health person suffering from tuberculosis frequently regains his health but in many instances will retain the tuber cular organism in the tissues of his body for life His nor mal standard of health is greatly reduced and subjected to change in the stress of making a living or perhaps worry over financial matters He is really a handicapped indi vidual for many years and must be careful regarding his physical exertion This in many cases requires a change from the normal avocation before his tubercular infection Thus we can readily see that many persons will be in great need of help and guidance during this period of transition into home and business life anew Those who will benefit from such guidance are those individuals who have had an early diagnosis before the sputum has become positive or those with positive sputum who after early treatment have been converted to a nega tive case In my opinion this type of case of tuberculosis would be the type where the most good could be accomplished by rehabilitation Another factor to be considered in rehabili tating a tubercular case would be the degree of education ambition and above all the cooperation a patient will give in fitting themselves for a new life and frequently new po sitions in life The responsibility for rehabilitation first rests with the doctor then will follow the rehabilitation worker the teacher the social worker and occupational worker The rehabilitation worker has a broad field to cover dur ing this period of conversion They should gather all in formation possible from the patient and all other sources thus being in the best position to outline the course best suited to each individual Rehabilitation should begin in the sanatorium as soon as the physician thinks the patient is ready to begin such a course of study One phase of this study which gives good Dr McGee results is craft work This can be begun while the patient is still in bed or it may be started in the work shop accord ing to the patients physical condition This provides recre ation and helps the patient to be more content with his surroundings During the time the individual is in the sanatorium the rehabilitation worker is offered a great op portunity to study the patient relative to fitness and where he will fit in line of various avocations Rehabilitation work should be closely coordinated with sanatorium care and when the time comes for the patient to again begin normal life he is equipped to make a useful citizen in his home community The Seal That Lives and Lets Live By L L Young Executive Secretary Georgia Tuberculosis Association The happy child portrayed on the 1948 Tuberculosis Christmas Seal will have special significance for Geor gia residents Children have been per haps the chief beneficiaries of the Christmas Seal In 1907 the first seals were sold for the purpose of keeping open a small hospital for tuberculous children Today the picture has changed and now only about 2 per cent of the victims of tuberculosis are found among children although this conta gious disease still causes more deaths under 15 years of age than scarlet fe ver or diphtheria The hospital beds formerly main tained for the use of children have been converted for older patients Another great gain in favor of children is the in crease in the average age of tuberculo sis deaths among men which has been postponed until after 45 when most families no longer have young children Unfortunately the peak in death rate among women still occurs in the child bearing years and the disease still takes a heavy toll among young mothers This years Christmas Seal was de signed by the wellknown American artist and illustrator Barry Bart of South Kent Connecticut Mr Barts inspiration was his young nephew who had slipped quietly downstairs on a Christmas Eve to set up his vigil near the three empty stockings hanging over the fireplace Christmas Seal Funds are used to support the yearround tuberculosis work of 3000 associations affiliated with the National Tuberculosis Asso ciation Of the money raised in Geor gia each year 75 per cent is used with in the county of origin 20 per cent sup ports the work of the State Association and five per cent is allocated to the Na tional Association The work supported by Christmas Seals falls into five general categories Education Casefinding Social Serv ice Rehabilitation and Medical Re search Continued on Page 6For Distinguished Service to the Disabled Continued from Page 3 rehabilitation The department of rehabilitation and physi cal medicine at New York University College of Medi cine which he organized and directs was the first major department of its type in any medical school in the United States The Bellevue Hospital rehabilitation program is recog nized as the first in any civilian hospital Likewise the institute he heads was the first comprehen sive medical rehabilitation center in the United States Dr Rusk established the Convalescent Training program in the Army Air Force which served as a basis for the reconditioning program of the Army Air Forces the re habilitation program of the Navy and the Medical Rehabili tation program of the Veterans Administration He held the rank of Colonel while in the Army Air Forces In 1945 he was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal A year earlier he was given the American Design Award and was cited by the American Academy of Physi cal Education for his work in the field of rehabilitation In April of this year the National Conference of Social Work presented him the annual Survey Award Before entering the Army Air Forces Dr Rusk was engaged in the practice of internal medicine in St Louis and was instructor in Medicine at Washington University Paul Barrett the new President of the National Rehabili tation Association had been a member of its legislative committee for twelve years and during the past two years was Committee Chairman On numerous occasions he has been called to Washington to appear before Senate and House Committees considering rehabilitation legislation He is held in high esteem by Senators and Representatives and his services there attracted national attention Mr Barrett has been an executive in the Department of Education since soon after I became Superintendent of Schools For twelve years he has been Director of the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Under his direction the rehabilitation program in Georgia has ranked at or near the top among the States in this specialized phase of education He is a Veteran of the First World War Soon after his discharge from the Army he was appointed on the staff of the American Relief Administration and placed in charge of receipts and distribution of supplies in Russia with headquarters at Norvorsiisk He is a native Georgian son of the late Charles S Bar rett who was President of the National Farmers Union for more than thirty years Paul has made a conspicuous contribution to the re habilitation of handicapped citizens in the state and nation We love himand are proud of his record The Seal That Lives Continued from Page 5 A continuous program of education of all the people about tuberculosis goes on the yearround in Georgia Hundreds of thousands of pieces of lit erature and posters are distributed through county associations and com mittees Motion pictures on tubercu losis are shown each year to audiences totalling thousands The radio through local stations and nationwide net works reaches countless numbers of Georgians with information that will help them avoid tuberculosis The search for unknown cases must go on continuously Christmas Seal Funds provided over 15500 chest X rays and tuberculin tests for high school students teachers and other school personnel during 1948 Seal Sale Funds provided promotional literature for countywide mass surveys carried on by the State and County Depart ments of Health in several counties County associations put up sums of money to assist County Health Depart ments to finance surveys Many of the 3312 new cases found during 1947 had to have financial aid to be able to secure the necessary arti cles of clothing and other items to carry with them to the hospital Seal Sale Funds help provide these and in some instances paid the transportation to Battey Hospital so they could take ad vantage of the treatment furnished by the State In order to help solve patients per sonal problems and contribute to their peace of mind so necessary to success ful recovery from tuberculosis Seal Sale Funds pay the salary of a full time worker at Battey Hospital to help patients handle these problems This staff member of the State Association also supervises recreational activities and assists in editing the patients monthly newspaper Christmas Seals helped provide equipment at Battey to start off a Home Economics School which has been so excellently conducted under the direc tion of the State Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor In this school women patients learn to be bet ter homemakers and do much of their sewing The search must continue for new methods of treatment new ways of prevention and any new types of ba cillus so research is carried on contin uously supported by Christmas Seal Sales The microscope and the test tube are powerful weapons in this war against tuberculosis and in them will be found the means of more rapid prog ress toward the goalEradication of Tuberculosis All the expenditures of Seal Sale Funds are carefully supervised by vol untary boards of directors and commit tees and programs of work are planned by professionally trained and techni cally skilled workers so that the maxi mum value may be received from ev ery dollar paid by Christmas Seal pur chasers AboveFor eighteen years Joseph Baldwin of Millwood hobbled about with malformations of arm and leg Through the cooperation of Vocational Rehabilitation and the Crippled Childrens Division DPW he was supplied with metal extension or stilt for his left leg Now he operates a little store in Ware County RightHere are two amputees working in the same establishmentLesters Shoe Shop Way cross James Merrewether foreground lost his right leg in a motor accident Willie Kitch ens left leg was amputated because of disease BelowFour hundred residents of Atlantas West Side crowded Antioch Baptist Church to see Comeback Vocational Rehabilitation motion picture and a display of garments made by Nellie Gray Richards left and Mattie James who were aided by Vocational Rehabilita tion in sewing courses after recovering from tuberculosis Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education 129 State Office Building Atlanta 3 Ga RETURN POSTAGE GUARANTEED Sec 562 P L R U S POSTAGE PAID Atlanta Ga Permit No 935 Bi93 Louisa Fant Serials Librarian The University of Ga Athens Ga eKabllitatiotv Mxvs LIBRARY viAR 14 1949 GEORGIA Handicapped Workers Do Make Good pCrippled by arthritis Clarence Brock left is forced to use crutches but he looks for ward to a successful career in photography With Vocational Rehabilitation aid he is being trained at Birdsong Studio Carrollton Hes the most dependable man Ive ever worked with says W E Birdsong studio proprietor Shown with Clarence is J B Bowen former DVR Counselor now Carroll County School Superintendent An oil stove explosion left William E Reid 32 above with impaired hands and leg He was unable to continue farming so hes being trained in watchmaking by H B Can trell standing Bremen jeweler Typewriter mechanicsis the vocation chosen by Edmond Staley of Waycross who had infantile paralysis He is shown lower left in training at the R J Thomas Typewriter Co Waycross Lee V Whitton 32 below was born with nubs instead of fingers on his left hand but for nine years he has been a successful shoe rebuildera trade learned under Vocational Rehabilitation guidance Not long ago he sold his shop in Buchanan and opened another business in Bremen The above picture shows the condition of Dave Tanners legs when he sought Vocational Re habilitation aid In the center he is shown after two operations and at right working in a gar age in Kirkland Restored by Modern Surgery Twentynineyearold Dave Tanner of Kirkland Rt 1 is back on his feet after being bedridden or on crutches for nearly three years He now works as a mechanic in a ga rage near his home stands without pain and earns enough to provide for his wife and little daughter To Dave Tanners relatives and neigh bors his restoration to physical wellbeing is a miracle To the medical profession it is an example of modern orthopedic surgery Dave Tanner was an ablebodied young man accustomed to hard work on the farm and railroad until one fateful day in 1945 when he sustained compound frac tures of his legs in an automobile accident which nearly cost his life Records show his right leg was broken in six places and his left in two places All fractures were below the knees Hospital and doctors bills quickly ex hausted his resources His legs were so badly twisted he was unable to stand with out crutches and of course couldnt work When referred to the Vocational Re habilitation Division Dave and his family were living with Mrs Tanners parents An examination by an orthopedist indi cated a bone graft on each leg to correct the disability He was brought to Atlanta for the operations and for a while had to wear braces while his legs regained strength When dismissed by the orthopedist Tan ner was able to walk again and eager to get home and on a job Georgia Near Top In Rehabilitations During the six months period ended December 31 vocational rehabilitation agencies in the United States restored 25695 handicapped persons to produc tive enterprises a report from the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation Federal Security Agency shows Georgia ranked fourth among the states in the number of rehabilitations during the period Georgia closed 1523 cases a gain of 86 over the corresponding period the previous year The three states which surpassed Geor gias record in this respect and the number rehabilitated were Michigan 2437 California 2205 and Illinois 1746 FiftySeven Enrolled There were fiftyseven clients of the Vocational Rehabilitation Division in the student body at North Georgia Trade and Vocational School Clarkesville in Janu ary The types of training for which they enrolled and the number in each class were automobile mechanics 7 refrigera tion 7 radio 8 watch repair 15 photog raphy 2 auto body and fender 6 ma chine shop 4 dry cleaning 1 shoe re pair 4 prevocational for the blind 2 woodwork 1 OKo 6covcivoVooakotcCV cKabilitatiorVcAfews They Do Make Good Vol 4 JanFeb 1949 No 12 Published by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Dr M D Collins State Superintendent of Schools Paul S Barrett Director Division of Vocational Rehabilitation 131 State Office Building ATLANTA DISTRICT Atlanta305 Peachtree St NE Phone LAmar 1545 Gainesville414 Jackson Bldg Phone 816 Rome415 West Bldg Phone 8438 Clarkesville N Ga Vocational School Phone 98R2 AUGUSTA DISTRICT Augusta 607 Southern Finance Bldg Phone 23639 Athens Hardman Hall University Phone 2802 Dublin401 C S Bank Bldg Phone 119 SAVANNAH DISTRICT Savannah2 East Bay Street Phone 39835 BrunswickAndrews Bldg Phone 1007 Waycross400 Bunn Bldg Phone 824 MACON DISTRICT Macon 406 Bankers Insurance Bldg Phone 61793668 Columbu9411 Flowers Bldg Phone 21904 Albany213 Royal Bldg Phone 2782 Thomasville 309 Upchurch Bldg Phone 1274 Americus South Georgia Trade Vocational School Mabilitatioa Mws FOR thirteen years the two seriously handicapped men shown on the front pags of this issue of the News have fol lowed successfully the trades they learned under the guidance of Vocational Re habilitation They are left William H Harkins 48 who had infantile paralysis and right Arthur L DeLoach 35 whose leg was crushed by a motor truck Both are watchmakers employed by Kay Jewelry Co 3 Peachtree St Atlanta Mr Harkins has been with this establish ment for six years and is manager of the watch repair department Mr DeLoach has been on his present job for nearly three years Prior to their present connec tions they were employed by other jewelry stores in Atlanta Their record duplicated time and again in our case histories answers the question Do handicapped workers make good They demonstrate too that there is almost no disability which bars from profitable employment a person who takes advantage of Vocational Rehabili tation services Clients trained under the Georgia program may be found in all types of occupationson farms in factories stores offices and professions Training programs in all cases were carefully planned after taking into consideration the clients disabilities preferences and aptitudes Most of them like Harkins and DeLoach were given onthejob train ing Others were sent to schools and colleges Upon completion of the courses many of them found employment in the establishments in which they were trained Employers have found that welltrained handicapped workers as a rule want no preferential treatment are just as capable as workers without dis abilities and frequently more attentive to their duties and responsibilities When William Harkins and Arthur DeLoach came to the Vocational Re habilitation Division seeking assistance the nation was in the grip of a great depression In every city and town skilled workers and professional men and women as well as unskilled laborers were looking for jobs It was no time for a disabled untrained person to even hope to find employment Young Harkins had been on crutches since he was three years of age His parents and their six children had recently moved from Walhalla S C to Forest Park Young DeLoach had a permanent impairment of his leg and foot growing out of an accident while working as delivery boy for an East Point druggist Both showed an interest in and aptitude for watch repairing They were placed in training in the same establishment and completed their courses about the same time in 1936 With the aid of the Vocational Rehabilitation Coun selor the former was soon placed on a job in a downtown jewelry store The latter was given employment in the establishment where he was trained and for a while had an interest in the business Mr Harkness drives a car and leads a normal life in spite of his disabilities He married just a few weeks ago They are happy to be working together and attribute their success to the aid they received through Vocational Rehabilitation at a time they needed it most Paul S Barrett State Director of Vo cational Rehabilitation was honored with a testimonial dinner at the Henry Grady Hotel on January 5 in recognition of his election to the presidency of the National Rehabilitation Association Sponsored by his associates in the State Department of Education the dinner was attended by State officials school adminis trators representatives of the Office of Vo cational Rehabilitation Vocational Re habilitation Directors from adjoining states and some outstanding physicians and surgeons Governor Herman Talmadge the prin cipal speaker lauded Mr Barrett for bringing national recognition to Georgia through constructive leadership in the field of rehabilitation For years Georgia has ranked at or near the top among states in the number of physically handicapped per sons annually restored to productive en terprises The Governor also gave assur ances he would ask the General Assembly to provide for an expanded educational program Dr M D Collins State Superintendent of Schools acted as master of ceremonies Dr J G Garrison president of the Geor gia Educational Association offered the invocation and later in an informal talk warned that certain interests were op posing the Minimum Foundation Pro gram for education Mr Barretts associates in the State Department of Education presented him with a silver service Entertainment features included vocal selections by Mrs John Lewis of Macon piano solo by Mr Lewis Placement Specialist for the Blind and blackface special numbers by Miss Elsie Peacock The Office of Vocational Rehabilitation was represented at the dinner by Joseph Hunt of Washington Assistant Director and H B Cummings of Atlanta Re gional Representative Vocational Re habilitation Directors from other states were P G Shearer of Columbia S C Charles H Warren of Raleigh N C and Henry Smith of Nashville Tenn Commenting editorially upon the din ner the Atlanta Constitution said On numerous occasions The Constitution has emphasized the need for more career men in State Government State Auditor B E Thrasher Jr often is cited as an official whose long and effi cient service to the State has paid rich dividends Another is Paul S Barrett State Di rector of Vocational Rehabilitation who Surprised Vocational Re habilitation Director Paul S Barrett second from left recently installed as presi dent of the National Rehabil has just been elevated to the presidency of the National Rehabilitation Association His associates including Gov Tal madge State School Superintendent M D Collins and others paid deserved tribute to Mr Barrett at a dinner Wednesday night Entering State Government in 1933 he has served as Director of Vocational Rehabilitation since 1937 and is well known throughout the nation for his work with the physically handicapped Georgia has led the United States several different years in this field of service Certainly the State could use more public servants of this type A United Press dispatch under a Chi cago date line recently said Physically handicapped persons are safer and better workers than socalled physically perfect employees the medical director of the Oak Ridge National Atomic Laboratories reports Writing in Occupational Medicine publication of the American Medical As sociation Dr Jean S Felton reported on a study of job performances of 600 work ers half of whom were physically im paired The employees represented all job groups including clerical laboring and professional They were scored on quality and quan tity of work job knowledge adaptability judgment dependability attitude attend ance punctuality and ability Study of the scoring factors revealed no significant differences between the two groups Felton said with the exception of quantity of work wherein the impaired employees definitely scored higher There also was a significant differ ence in the total number of workers who sustained injuries Felton said The un impaired workers had a 58 percent acci dent ratio10 percent more than their physically disabled colleagues Industry must realign its employment philosophy to consider disabled persons as valuable productive and safe Felton saidREHABILITATION FOR THE BLIND By C H Parker Jr of Savannah District Counselor for the Blind It is commonly thought that blindness was much less prevalent in ancient times than at present While we have no definite information on the subject rec ords of the last one hundred years indicate that blindness especially in infants has been reduced and is subject to control Some historians have called Egypt the Land of the Blind because in ancient times one percent of the population suf fered from visual disabilities The oldest book of healing a papryus said to have been written about 15531550 BC lists some twenty eye diseases The Greek physician Hippocrates father of scien tific medicine was acquainted with some thirty diseases of the eye An ancient Hindu medical work lists seventysix eye disorders During the early periods of history no specific care was given to people who were visually handicapped As civilization de veloped and the Christian religion became established the blind received special care and consideration Education of the blind is not a recent undertaking Efforts were made as early as the eighteenth century to provide some type of educational system for these peo ple In 1749 a Frenchman Diderot more or less accidentally discovered two truths that have become firmly established 1 that the senses of the blind are not espe cially sharpened by the loss of sight but that the loss of one sense compels in creased attention on what remains 2 that we should build education on what the blind person has rather than on what he has not The first school for the blind was founded in France by Valentin Hauy who later was assisted by a brilliant blind woman Marie von Paradis Americans who visited France began a campaign to establish schools of this type in America The first school for the blind in America was established in Boston in 1832 The evolution of the Braille system of writing is an interesting phase of the edu cational facilities for the blind This method of writing has proven to be a valuable asset in the effort to set up feasible schools for the blind While there is no census of the blind in Georgia it is estimated that there are six thousand blind persons in this state The figure covers the known blind in all age groups Ten percent of these are capable of planning their own work and activities and do not need the assistance of Voca tional Rehabilitation As the total figure includes aged persons and those who have disabilities other than blindness it may be said that thirtyfive percent are non feasible for Vocational Rehabilitation services Eight percent of the known blind are feasible for industrial employment and other jobs because of acquired skill or the possession of a high degree of manual dexterity Experts who have worked with the blind tell us that fortyfive percent could do some work in connection with home industry or workshop projects The Business Enterprise Vending Stand pro gram of the Vocational Rehabilitation Di vision can use about two percent of the blind Eligibility for the Vocational Rehabili tation program for the blind is based on visual acuity of 20200 or less for dis tance and reading in the better eye A case that will progress to this degree of blindness within a year may be eligible for the program Some common diseases of the eye that cause severe visual difficulty are those that may cause opacity Keratitis or inflamma tion of the cornea Iritis or inflammation of the Iris Glaucoma and Cataracts De fects in the external muscles of the eye may cause Nystagmus or dancing eyes and Strabismus or crosseyes Defects in the shape of the eye may cause farsight edness or nearsightedness It is almost impossible for people gen erally to comprehend the difficulties of the blind especially those who lost their vision in later years to make adjustments Blind persons do not have a sixth sense They cant feel color nor distinguish a one dollar bill from a fifty dollar bill The senses of the blind are not mystically developed as some believe Although many intelligent blind people are able to travel from place to place with out assistance and live normal lives in every respect the compensation for the loss of sight is not a free gift but a reward for hard tedious effort Any adjustment is a personal matter In some instances it may be related to the age in which blind ness occurred The blind are affected as are sighted people by mental social physical and spiritual influences It is a mistaken idea to group all the blind in one category One drunken blind man is not proof that all blind people are alcoholics One blind musician does not necessarily mean that all blind people are musically inclined While we feel that the rehabilitation procedure is much the same for blind and sighted clients there are several problems peculiar to the services for the blind Few blind clients have had any previous work history Their educational experiences as a rule have been limited The majority have led sheltered lives at home This gives them a feeling of insecurity and dis trust for those with whom they come in contact outside the home It is an out standing problem in connection with counseling and guidance We feel there is a vital need for more employment opportunitiesfor those who are employable It is imperative that the service organizations and other groups ac cept cooperative responsibility for referral and placement of the blind as well as for those who are otherwise physically handi capped Is there a possible job opportunity for a handicapped person in your business or do you know of such an opportunity elsewhere Your cooperation in proper placement of the handicapped is vital If you think you might help in some way with a placement fill in and cut out this form and mail it to us and a represen tative of the Division will call on you There is no obligation whatever NameAddr Hi Remarks Division of Vocational Rehabilitation 131 State Office Building Atlanta 3 GaA W David T Matthews 29 above worked as a cement finisher and in other jobs until stricken with tuberculosis A change in voca tions was indicated after his recovery A high school graduate he was able to successfully complete a correspondence course as radio technician and was placed with Empire Radio Specialty Co Savannah Loss of a limb from blood poisoning incapacitated Ethel L Smith of Dublin shown at right in group above for work in a box fac tory Beauty culture was the new vocation selected She is shown in training at Madam Freemans Savannah with Catherine Spence left instructor Blind since birth Joe Brooks 40 below operates a modern home laundry equipped through Vocational Rehabilitation with the cooperation of Waycross civic clubs Previously he had worked in a mattress factory and lumber yard but developed hernia and was advised to change his occupation His wife and children help with the laundry work ii nmn BelowJack Thorntons speech was affected by harelip Through Vocational Rehabilitation services the disability was corrected He was placed as a dishwasher in an Atlanta restaurant and later took a job as carpenters helper at higher wages Division 01 Georgia Departm 129 State Office Building Atlanta 3 Ga RETURN POSTAGE GUARANTEED Sec 562 P L R U S POSTAGE PAID Atlanta Ga Permit No 935 HUnrtOHTse Fant Serials Librarian The University of Ga Athens Ga til hdaiSi4L 5f Toccoa lost his sight as the result of an explosion of a peach tree spray gun Under the guidance of Vocational Rehahili Ws family 6StabllShed a grOCery business ln a buildig ted on the roadside a his home andVperates it with little assLanctam memtrs of i PP