Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-02-07
go BACK TO HOME
TOWN" is SLOGAN
Keep Away from the Large
Cities is Advice to All
Discharged Soldiers
Leaving Camps.

| Go back to the home EOWn.f There
is where you will find the real well
come and the real job. The bands
the bright lights and the crowds in
New York, Philadelphia. Chicago and
other big burgs look fine for a few
days, but you are only one of millions
and they must take care of their own
men first. That's fair and natural
When your pay is gone and you are
looking for job in strange city,
you'll wish you had beaten il back 10
the home town as soon as you left
camp-iust as hundreds of other sol
dieIs have wished.
The stories you've heard about the
big salaries and wages to ne had for
the asking in the big cities are bunk.
II you don't believe this, ask the man
who passed up the welcome and che
job the home town job was ready to
give him and took chance in a
strange city. Your opportunity is at
home. Don't miss it,
The United States Employment
Service of the Department OF Labor
has up to the present established over
1900 bureaus for returning soldiers
and sailors at which discharged fight
erS can find assistance in securing
suitable employment. At each of the
bureaus all information as to local
opportunities for employment are
concentrated. In addition, the En-
ployment Service is using its 900regu-
lar branch offices for assisting soldiers,
SO that in virtually every town and
city in the United States there is to-
day special center to which sol
der may go for help after reaching
his home. No charge whatever is
made. Everything is free.
The local units of the national well
fare organizations are cooperating
with the Employment Service in can
vassing employers, whether they have
working force of one or 1000 men,
to learn of tile Immediate and coming
openings for soldiers and sailors. The
entire nation is being covered in this
intelligence drive. In Philadelphia,
for instance, the chief industrial
plants of that section. at a Enesying,
under the auspices of the United
States Employment Service, unani-
mously voted to list their require
ments with the bureau in order that
it may know of available places for
returning fighters.
In the interest of the returning sol
diers, however, efforts are being made
TO induce each man to return to his
home town after discharge. Alreaoy
many men with homes in the south
or west have gone to New York,
Philadelphia and other large Atlantic
seaboards centers after discharge in
the belief that better opportunities
awaited them there. But they are
learning that they made mistake.
These cities have tens of thousands
of their own men to care for and the
home men will, of course, be given
first consideration. 1t is iii mans
home town that he will receive the
most royal welcome and the best job
and it is to a mans best interest to
go home as soon as he is discharged.
The wise soldier will 60 home and
will ask assistance of the local bureau
for returning soldiers and sailors.
Bright lights and crowds are fine for
few days, but real welcome from
the people you know and who have
personal interest in you is going to be
more satisfactory and it is going to
get you better position,
The wise man, too, will get in
touch witt the job-fnding machinery
of the United States Employment
Service before he is discharged be-
fore he leaves the rehabilitation
camp over here. He can do this by
calling on the representative of the
service now stationed in his demohili-
cation camp. Ask for it's location.
AT Camp Grant go per cent of 19, 900
men who were discharged through the
camp representative of the Employ
ment Service there before they left
camp. At the Great Lakes Naval
Training Station $500 out of $500
men were placed in employment be-
fore leaving the station. These are
but two typical instances.
About so per cent of the soldiers
and sailors who are applying at the
branches of the employment Service
throughout the country are being
placed in positions for which they are
qualified and at which they will stick.
1.-THE right man and the right job'
are brought together without any
charge to the man or the employer
through the Bureau and its branches.
"When you leave camp, men, and
have to find new position, don
'shop'-don't go out on your lone
some!" This is the advice that hun
dreds of men are giving to their fell
lows still in the camps. They have
learned that it is disastrous to seek
work alone, especially in strange
city or town. go to the nearest
bureau for returning soldiers or the
nearest regular Office of the . S.
Employment Service, they say.
If you come from a small town go
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