Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), March 27, 1919
VICTOR LIBERTY LOAN WILL BE NEEDED TO REBUILD GALLANT AMERICAN SOLDIERS L opyrignt Underwood Underwood N Y ARTIFICIAL LEGS FOR SOLDIERS MAILED TO ENABLE THF1M TO EARN A LIVING The soldier who lost a leg over there need not wrorry about being able to work for the government fits him out with an artificial leg And soon he is walking about as before The above shows a man being fitted for an artificial leg Reconstruction is one of the great items for which the country is spend ing money now Spending It gladly and with the aid of the best surgeons It is not the reconstruction for which devastated France plans It is reconstruction rehabilitation so far as it can be wrought out of the galiant American soldiers returning early wounded and broken from doing their share in the great war One feels after a tour of one of the military hospitals that he has been permitted a visit to a divine work shop where men are fashioned in parts put together and taught to function It is done with safest skill When it is accomplished out of this hospital walks a man who was a machinist before his legs