The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1919-07-11
BIG JOB TO
FIND JOBS
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS GET
THOUSANDS.
Even Badly Disabled Men Are
Quickly Placed by Earnest
WOrkerS-veteranS Paid
to Find Work.

When James White, q. S. Marine,
was operating machine gun at Cha
teau Thlerry, he did it with vigor and
vim, as every good Marine always does
everything with vigor and vim. Now,
Jimmy White, instead of blazing away
with q machine gun Of war, is blazing
iway with q machine gun Of peace
operating q high-speed mimeograph
machine in high-speed way, and with
one arm.
Jimmy got his at Chateau Thierry-
three pieces Of shrapnel in his arm.
1t had to come off to save Jimmy's
life. Nothing daunted, he let 1t part
company with him. And he was blue,
very blue, for q long time. Until, In
the hospital, looking dolefully at the
place where his arm used to be, Jimmy
was accosted by knights Of Colum-
bus secretary, who told him to cheer
mp mud figure on getting a nice, snappy
job when he returned home.
Jimmy White was cynic. He didn't
believe nice, snappy jobs came to one.
armed men. He thought he was
through as n useful citizen. He was
disillusioned once he struck home. The
X. of G. lined him up with 80 other
veterans, put them in automobiles and
paid them $4 per day to scout for jobs
for their comrades and themselves
Jimmy found job the second day
out-in big advertising plant, operat.
ing the mimeograph - the busiest
mimeograph in the world, Jimmy
thinks.
This idea Of the X. Of @. of paid
veteran job finders is resulting in six
hundred jobs each day for demobilizod
soldiers and sailors, and the same fig
ures, in proportion, holds good in hun.
dreds Of other cities. The Knights
conduct more than 1,700 employment
bureaus throughout the country. Re.
suits on a prOpOrtiOnate scale are be-
ing obtained throughout the country.
1t was rather n bold idea. which the
knights of Columbus put into effect
when they recruited hundreds of young
veterans of the war-soldiers, sailors
and marines--and put them on the
knights of Columbus pay roll at the
rate of 81 per day to find jobs for their
comrades and incidentally for them.
selves. @
While the knights, through their
secretaries and individual members OF
their organization, had already found
hundreds of Jobs for eX-service men,
the same story of doing the right thing
by the returned men was beginning tC
lose something of its punch. So Jos
eph G. Pelletier, X. Of G. supreme ad
vocate and a member of the X. of G.
committee ON war activities, hit upon
the idea of letting the returned men
present their own arguments to en-
ployers The scheme was instantly
adopted, and within week Peter w
Collins, late government industrial ex
pert, who is director of the K.-C. EN-
ployment and reconstruction bureau
had enlisted the one hundred men he
needed, and the drive was started
against the out-of-wOrk line by the
same men who had helped smash the
Hlndenburg line.
Dividing the city into zones of man
ufacturing and commercial centers ant
splitting up the small, compact army
OF 100 into squads of ten, each squat
headed by an experienced K.-C. work
er, who coached the veterans in theil
manner Of approach, the attack was
made.
The men presented themselves II
talking teams of two and three before
employment managers In large Office,
and factory superintendent in large
plants. In as few words as possibl,
they presented the reasons why tn,
men they represented should be givei
immediate employment. On the frs
day, with record of 300 places Wis
tied, a total of 5S7 jobs were captured
All told, the knights have placed owe
5000 veterans In good Jobs all owe
the country. There are $1,000 knights
now organized to find Jobs for veter