Were they to be discharged and returned to civil life to sink or swim by their own efforts! Those, who were not too much disabled, to return to their former vocations which their efficiency impaired; those who could not pursue their former calling to habituate themselves—if possible—in some other line of endeavor; those who could do neither, to be objects of charity or inmates—come of Soldiers' Homes. The experience of former wars had proven this to be unsatisfactory from both an economic standpoint. Emergency Organizations To meet this emergency there was instituted what was broadly termed organizations for rehabilitation. This work was placed in the hands of three bureaus, viz. the Bureau of War Risk Insurance, the Public Health Service, and the Board for Vocational Education. The work of these three bureaus has now been consolidated and is being placed in the hands of a "The United Single Agency, namely, States Veterans' Bureau," which was created by the passage of what is known as the "Sweet Bill" last July. The extent to which this consolidation will expedite the work cannot be determined. But that it will yet be determined, cut a great amount of "red tape" is assured. One of the things which this law will accomplish will be the decentralization of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance, which will be divided into fourteen districts with a headquarters in each, each case will be settled in that district without recourse to Washington, D.C., except in cases in which it is to search the mill and found necessary. It is the work and the work and the work.  ary records, prospects of the Federal Board for Vocational Education that I wish to discuss in this article. 