Rehabilitation

Brigadier General Frank T. Hines, on whose shoulders fell the difficult task of reorganizing the Veterans' Bureau, has been traveling, investigating, organizing ever since taking office last March. Already he has something to show for his work. He announced from Washington that of 19,401 veterans rehabilitated by the Bureau, jobs have been secured for 97%.

General Hines has been engaged not only in organizing his Bureau and putting it on an efficient basis, but has been cooperating with General John F. O'Ryan, who as counsel for a special committee of the Senate is investigating the previous con-duct of the Veterans' Bureau.

Personal surveys of tuberculosis hospitals, notably those at Oteen, N. C., and Greenville, S. C., led General Hines to order a thorough investigation of all tuberculosis hospitals.

Meanwhile he has secured the co-operation of many large firms--notably steel plants and automobile companies--in finding work for rehabilitated veterans. He declared; " I believe, and am working on the plan that no man is rehabilitated until he has been placed in employment and is able to sustain himself."

The figures collected by the Bureau showed that on June 1 only 961 rehabilitated veterans were unemployed. Of this number 547 were out of work for reasons not under the Bureau's control (i. e., vacation, sickness, etc.), leaving a balance of only 414 for whom the Bureau had not found positions.