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VOCATIONAL PROBLEMS
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provide his own job, will if necessary
provide an outfit of tools, for him.
While this work has just begun in
the United States, in Canada, where
it has been in operation for three
years, it has attained high efficiency
and numberless cases are cited where
by this re-education, many men for
merly occupying unskilled positions
have been made over so that they are
earning more money than before being
disabled.
Now let us consider what proportion
of our army may come under this
class. According to the figures from
all beligerents, based upon more than
three years of warfare, there will be
every 100000 enlisted. This, on the
present enlistment of 100000, would
be $4,000 annually.
This does not include all who are
seriously injured by any means. The
majority are able to return to their
former vocations, if they are so dis
abled as not to be of further military
service.
1t is only the man unable to re-enter
his former vocation prior to entering
the army who is the subject of re-edu-
cation.
The man who has not been rendered
unfit for his former work, may have
developed weak lungs, incipient tuber-
culosis, or who has a weakened heart,
or rheumatism, and would be poten-
tial garden student, as will those
whose nerves have been shattered by
shell shock or have been badly gassed.
These men will have to do some
pretty close figuring as to their after
war status, and although they may
not need re-education, they will have
to understand plainly that if they
would remain long on the land instead
of under it they had better get closer
to it than city flat, and also let up on
confining work indoors.
So these men may possibly turn to
gardening from the standpoint of in
creasing health and household economy
as well as the monetary prospects it
may afford.
It is very likely among this class of
men that many of our boys may be
found and will need our personal as
sistance and encouragement.
Next we must consider the boy re-
turning sound in limb and wind, husky
and strong, but jobless.
When these boys gave up their po-
sitions for U. S. service they were as
sured that their positions would be
open for them in their return, and
without question every employer
meant just what he said and will carry
out his promise insofar as able and as
quickly as possible. Nevertheless,
we must expect temporary depressions
in manufacturing and trade and a
period when labor cannot be fully en-
ployed, following the close of the war
and until business returns into its
former channels.
This readjustment of business and
the returning of some 100000 men
to their places in industry, for it
means also the returning of men now
wol kers in war industries, will require
great care and foresight. 1T is during
this readjustmenl period and,following
the return of our boys until they are
again back on their jobs that we
should prepare for, and not only for
the boys but their families as well, so
that anticipating what we may be
called upon to do we should at once
prepare fund for this purpose.
Perrysburg is proud of her soldier
boys. She is proud OF them for their
loyalty and what they have done, and
when they return every employer and
every citizen will see to it that the
promises made when they left their
homes will be kept and it is for this
reason that we should not wait for
their return, but begin making our
at once to see that our
promises will be kept.
CITIZEN.