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National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week, October 6 to 12, is a big occasion for any organization with a forty year history of service to the nation's handicapped and disabled men and women. The autonomous local Goodwill Industries all over America are using the week this year to acquaint the public with the employment and rehabilitation work they do.

In seeking public support, Goodwill Industries are cooperating with other agencies that have the same basic objective: returning handicapped men and women to useful, productive places in society.

The Goodwill objective just begins in a job. It goes much farther. Goodwill Industries are organized to provide for each handicapped person the right combination of employment, rehabilitation training, and spiritual guidance that will result in a complete adjustment of the capacities of that individual to the demands of every day living.

Goodwill Industries recognize the fact that even in the word "Disability," "ABILITY" is what counts.

For the vast majority of the nation's million and a half severely handicapped persons, a job is not enough. What is needed beyond a job is to be found in the Goodwill Industries program of rehabilitation.