El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-01-16
GETTING
SOLDIERS WORK
Y.M.C.A. Man Criticises
Apathy Toward Welfare
of Returning Heroes.

Committees were named TO arrange
for the employment OF returning SOL
diers and sailors, to canvass the local
labor situation and TO appear before
the city council Thursday morning
with a request for an appropriation Of
$500 a month for three months to fl
nance the work, at a meeting in the
I county courtroom Wednesday night.
: On motion Of Prof r J. Tishe an
( executive committee was named 10
I devise means Of providin gemployment
for soldiers and sailors. primarily
: those from Fl Paso. The committee
consists Of r J. Tighe. o. z. Binford,
V. r. Stiles. NJ. Schwartz, H T. Pons-
ford, Rev. P. r. Knickerbocker W. H.
/ Pelphrey, Geo. II. Clements. Henry
Ellis. Rev. Henry Wells. +. J. Sehilling
and n P Carlock. The committee
viii meet again at S p. m Friday
evening in the county court room
Apathy Is Disappointing.
Dr. J. T. Collier, Of the army 7. N.
c. A. said;
Il am disappointed at the little IN
terest shown in this subject I found
the same lack Of interest after the
close Of the Spanish war. for 1 was a
soldier in that and It took me four
years to get back 20 the same position
in civil life that I was in at the time
enlisted ] can not understand this
apathy OF the American people. /
hear there are men who went in from
here and have returned, yet have no
work. 1t is a burning shame You
can't hide behind bonds and war saw |
ing stamps as your bit.
The men who went into the fight (
were the ones who did the real thing /
and yet we have to be begged to do |
what we ought TO do when these same /
men in khaki bought more of bonds |
per capita than civilians did. I can't /
explain, nor do I think any one can I
explain this Indifference to the re-
turning soldiers and sailors"
Conditions Grave.
we are confronted with grave con-
ditions." said George II. Clements. in
response TO proposition made by J.
p Gwin that high school boys and
girls and women who had found work
under the stress Of war be asked TO
give up their jobs and return to their
school rooms in the case Of the boys
and girls and TO their kitchens in the
case Of the women our returning
soldiers are finding themselves out OF
work and in addition We read in the
newspapers that thousands Of miners
in Arizona and New Mexico. right az
our doors. are being laid of. Other
D
thrown on the labor market in Mon
tana and Utah, and they are drifting
this way. This will have the result to
make the pressure on the labor mar
ket in this section OF the country very
binding and we should not lose sight
OF what we viii be called upon TO
face.
From the standpoint OF patriotism
We should see that the returning sol
der or sailor is given back the job
he left when he went away to fight
our battles but IL will not relieve
the situation in an economic sense to
throw another wage Garner out 10
make a place for him Two economic
wrongs will not make an economic
right. What should be done is to
create a desire on the part OF employ
ers OF labor to make jobs for the dis
fighters by expanding their
business and thus avert the dangers
which always lurk where there are
unemployed men or women / believe
that can be done II the right methods
sons OF morals for being careful how
we drive women from employment,
which should not be lost sight Of"
Men VIII Go Home.
Lieut.. Col J. A. Wagner. mastering
out officer at Fl. Bliss. said:
From the military side ] can say
that every discharged soldier is given
money or a ticket back 10 his home, =
and 90 out OF 100 viii go home. It
viii only be a few stragglers who viii
not, so practically each community
VIII have only its own men. at first
AZ least After what the men in
France have gone through they will
come back with broader vision. higher
standards and viii be capable Of ?
greater service than when they went q
n"
z. ". D'Auemand. returned sailor.
said:
The soldier and sailor want no C
only an even break. nothing II
different from other men. When they :
vent in they asked nothing but an