The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1918-12-11
military uniforms on the streets Of
practically every community in the

mll1Cary UNIFORMS OH The SGT0etS Vi
, practically every community in the
, country.
Under the law discharged soldiers
out of employment may wear their
uniforms for season. This rule has
been made so as to lessen the strain
during the period of rehabilitation,
upon civilian clothing fabric mills and
clothing factories. When a discharg-
ed soldier obtains employment, how
ever he is expected to discard his
unifrm. The quicker the uniform is
discarded, therefore, the better, for
the fewer the uniforms seen on the
streets hereafter the greater the as
surance that young men who entered
the military service are getting back
to their former occupation, the soon
err they get back to their former oc-
| cupatin, the nearer will commun-
ity be getting to normal conditions.
The civilian population of the en-
ployment class should cooperate with
the government in the work of dem
OBLIGATION, by finding or making en-
ployment as rapidly as possible, for
the disbanded soldiers and sailors at
home as well as for those who come
from overseas; and it might be wise
if every seaport community had a
citizen organization which would as
sist the government in Fastening the
return of nonresident discharged ser
vice men to their own home towns.
The accumulation of men dismissed
from the army and the navy will il
crease rather than diminish in sea-
ports cities during the next year, un-
less steps are taken to prevent it.
If the men are returned promptly to
the communities from which they
came when they entered the service
they will soon be absorbed by local
activities and industries.
New York recently has had occa-
sion to recognize how great mem
ace the presence of a multitude of
idle men in uniform may be in certain
circumstances and precautions are
taken there to prevent recurrence
of disturbance, not in themselves
very serious, perhaps but liable, I'M
der certain conditions, to become so.
1t will be wise for the civilian pop
ulation to remember that the dem
utilization of four million or five mil
llOLl IIlSIA ID q NCLy 1oi 80 uAAuSA oe%AA
ing. 1t is so, even though not more
than fifty thousand to one hundred
thousand a week are mustered out. !
Even where the discharged soldier or
sailor goes back to his old position,
The disturbance is not greatly lessen
ed, for in a large percentage of cases
lnless employers shall take action to !
he contrary, substitute worker will 5
% supplanted. 3
At first blush it may seem like ask l
ng too much of the employers of e
he country to carry more help than G
hey actually need; but it will be bet :
er for all in the long run if they can S
continue the war sacrifice little S
onger, so as to take up, to the great a
st extent possible, the slack result f
ng from the sudden return of peace i
AZ the most, it cannot be long be-
ore work and workers shall be prop i
,rly adjusted; the widest extention r
# employment that may be adopted r
will help to bring this about. If there l
hall be some shrinkage in net prof S
is by reason of the employment Of t
more help than is actually necessary. a
he sum total of any apparent loss
rom this source will be as nothing I