How Much It Will Cost to Prepare for Practice of Medicine
If you are a soldier or a sailor discharged from the service since October 6, 1917, with a disability for which the Bureau of War-Risk Insurance will grant you compensation, and if a course in medicine is approved for you by the Federal Board, your education will be furnished free by the Government. The Bureau of War-Risk Insurance, through its compensation, will meet a part of the expense, and the Federal Board for Vocational Education will add to that amount to a minimum of $65 a month with the purpose of meeting all of your expenses for living, clothing, transportation, tuition, and incidentals.
PLAN No. 916. SAFETY AND FIRE PROTECTION ENGINEERING
Acknowledgment
This monograph was prepared by J. Albert Robinson, Special Agent for Safety and Hygiene. Acknowledgment is due Mr. Jos. B. Finnegan, Professor of Fire Protection Engineering, Armour Institute of Technology; to Mr. R. M. Little, Director of the American Museum of Safety; and to Mr. F. M. Griswold for excerpts from his address entitled “The Inspector and the Insured.” For editorial assistance acknowledgment is due to Dr. John Cummings, of the Research Division of the Federal Board.
You who have been under fire at the front and have come back disabled have had an insight into life that of necessity affects your outlook on the future. Things which once assumed importance in your mind have lost their appeal. Positions which you held before going over may now seem ineffectual after the vision of war which you have beheld. In the months of facing death and later of adjustment to a new condition, your outlook has broadened beyond a mere material view. You have been in the fight for world peace and safety, and the impetus gained in helping the other fellow still carries you on. This feeling is not a weak sentiment, but an appreciation of the fact that life has more windows than the one which looks out on material welfare.
Perhaps no form of work offers more opportunity for a combination of success in material and altruistic lines than safety and fire protection engineering. Especially in safety engineering, a man himself disabled carries to everyone with whom he comes in contact a warning and an encouragement. There is nothing more inspirational than a man who has ignored or made use of his handicap in his own forging ahead. Handicapped himself, he may prevent others becoming so. The safety engineer is a guardian of the people’s happiness and future. The work offers to those who have the insight an opportunity to join in the general drive for world safety from an industrial point of view and for conserving human power.
This same inner purpose holds also in the case of the fire protection engineer. To him falls in large part the work of saving the created and natural resources of the nation. While it is true that men disabled by amputation can not so easily take up this profession as that of safety engineering, the war’s statistics show a larger percentage of the returned men to be disabled by disease and internal wounds which have undermined their strength than by dismemberments. For these men, the vocation of fire protection engineer is particularly suitable.
No work which is done for the material gain alone can satisfy a man’s ambition, and these two important professions are doors which open to service as well as to material welfare.