El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-08-23
KEEPING THE SOLDIERS JOB
FOR HIM WILL HELP HIM FIGHT

~ PASO IS full Of vacancies places where young men
- were but not They are not dead, but they
- are out Of commercial life and most Of them, out Of
social life also They in the army navy or the
marine corps They board ship OF IN naval training
school in a regiment or an officers training camp
The FL Paso Southwestern general offices have lost
many who enlisted have gone to officers train
ing camps and the working force will be further depleted
By the draft the with every other large
poyer in the city. Not single large business but that
many Of its young men have gone into military service ano
are going
why I found half my friends out at Fort Bliss" said
young Pasoan who enlisted The statement was not
strictly accurate conveyed the desired impression
The young fellows, and many Of the older ones the PICK
of the town, going to war.
The vacancies are to be filled Some Of them already
have been filled either by by ineligible men This
is the great day the elderly who had beel wored
out Of the running by younger faster He IS coming
back into his own He needed and If he is ntei
gent and wiling, there is premium his services;
premium too, those Of the who can work like
But IN this closing Of the breaches IN business
industrial life provision should be made for the re-
turning soldier sailor marine His job should be held
open for him He should know from he enlists
his employer looking out for him to that extent It
would him bitter and poor soldier to think he had
the sacrifice to fight for his country only to ind
that another had been given permanently his place IN
civil life, 10 enjoy and profit therefrom.
Little is heard Of employers contnU the pay OF men
ensng It proved too great burden IN most instances
during the Mexican mobilization, where firms carried
their payTOs many heavy salary charges from which no
received, dead weight and sometimes almost
paralyzng Much they dsked to do it. some such
remove their soldier employees from the payrolIs.
That lesson learned before the with Germany
came upon Us. None knows how long it viii last. En-
ployers fearful Obgae themselves far into the fu
by undertaking to keep salaries going to the families
those who have enlisted. If they could do vOlun-
tary snlstments would be stimulated for there is
than Of military age and fighting instinctsore
than that convinced be ought to be fighting for the night
this world for freedOm-whO restrained from
existing who feels he must claim exemption because the
cessation of his civil life would reduce his depend
sHts pauPersm He would be glad to in the fnan-
cial problem solved.
But most employers feel they unable to carry that
burden addition those of high Of materials high
wages very high taxation and they must be the judges
Of what they afford
At least one FL Paso firm and possibly others hold
ing positions open to all who have gone into military
service and the know they return their employment
waiting them and they viii be the recipients, also, Of
any advantages which they would have been entitled had
they remained continuously in employment, Just the
Southern Pacific Railroad company IN computing pension
time does intend to deduct for the period any employee
may have spent IN the service Of his country.
Every man woman who Is employed to fill
vacancy should be allowed to understand that the employ