Loose item - News clipping, "Doctors go to . . . " continued
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Continuation of article about soldiers returning from the war front.
- (ml sinned from Page One.) which h all be assigned the care of the rein led soldier and. re-equip him for civ ) .ife. Thatt he dual authority under which h e soldier is finding himself at the p resent time cannot go on longer s admitted by both the sol- diers oi the A.M.C. and the civil ad- ministn tors of the M.H.C. The point of view of the Army Medical Corps toward the Hospitals Comm/* non was expressed to The Star o> Lieut.«-Col. Ryerson, A.D.M. S.ASvho said: ; “When we want a job in engineer- ing; etc p v;e cal\ on me Royal Engin- j eers, and when we want our men ; ! fed we call on the Army Service j Corps. If we can call on the Hos- j ™n he Commission to provide hospi- j ,iS for us our difficulties will be_4 over.” The position taken by the Hospi- tals Commission authorities is that the time has come when there is a tremendous work to be done which is not a military job at all. It is in a sense the exact reverse of the mili- tary department’s work, which is to make soldiers out of civilians, while this new work is to make civilians out of soldiers. It is a work so large that a new department of Government is necessary to carry it out. “I would call it a department of demobilization,1’ said Mr. Armstrong to The Star. “It would have under it the land sjettlement of the return-j ed soldiers, the employment of the: men, the hospitals, and pensions and; in fact all matters pertaining to the returned men. Such a department, like the Militia Department of norm- al times, would be headed by a Cab- inet Minister and would be to that extent under civilian control. An of- ficial who might be called the Direc- tor-General of Invalids could be ap- pointed who would be responsible to the Adjutant-General in matters of discipline only and to the commis- sion in all other matters.” Making Better Progress Now. That comparatively rapid progress in caring for returned men is being made in Canada, is shown according to Mr. Armstrong by figures just re- ceived from England. Under the War Pensions Board there, 2,400 soldiers are being re-educated and in all in- stitutions outside the control of the War Pensions Board there are 900 re- turned men being re-educated. The Military Hospitals Commission in Canada has a total of 944 men being re-educated and 2,199 under convales- cent training at $he present time, making a total number of men under instruction of 3,143. In addition 2,285 men have been surveyed for re-edu- cation and 1,945 have been recom- mended for it. “It has been stated that the Mili- tary Hospitals Commission had a political tinge,” said the reporter. “That is absolutely untrue,” re- plied Mr. Armstrong. “The commis- sion has been entirely without poli- tical bias, and I do not know the politics of many of our men. When I was in Manitoba I spent money like water—wisely, of course—-for the commission, and the contracts were let to the lowest tender. I have never seen even a patronhge list.” 1 “You have said, that a solution the difficulties between the commis- sion and the A. M. C. is about to be found. What is the solution?” he wajs deked. “That I am unable to say. I am only a servant of the Government, and it is the Government which must be asked in this case,” he replied. ????????
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