Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-07-18
BIC 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 a machine gun at Cha
teau Thierry, 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 a machine gun Of war, is blazing
away with a machine gun of peace
operating a high-speed mimeograph
machine in a high-speed way, and with
n arm.
Jimmy got his at Chateau Thierry-
three pieces of shrapnel N his arm.
It had to come off to save Jimmy's
life. Nothing daunted, he let it part
company with him. And he was blue,
very blue, for a long time. Until, In
the hospital, looking dolefully at the
place where his arm used to be, Jimmy
was accosted by a Knights of Column
bus secretary, who told him to cheer
up and figure on getting a nice, snappy
job when he returned home.
Jimmy White was a cynic. He didn't
believe nice, snappy jobs came to one
armed men. He thought he was
through as a useful citizen. He was
disillusioned once he struck home. The
K. of G. lined him up with 80 other
veterans, put them in automobiles and
paid them 81 per day to scout for jobs
for their comrades and themselves.
Jimmy found a job the second day
out-in a big advertising plant, operat-
ing the Monograph the. busiest
mimeograph in the world, Jimmy
thinks.
This Idea Of the K. of G. Of paid
veteran job finders is resulting in six
hundred jobs each day for demobilized
soldiers and sailors, and the same fig
ures,s in proportion, holds good in hum
dreds Of other cities. The Knights
conduct more than LOO employment
bureaus throughout the country. Re
suits on a proportionate scale are be-
ing obtained throughout the country.
It was rather a 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 to
lose something of its punch. So JOS
eph G. Pelletier, Il. of G. supreme adj
vocate and a member of the K. of G.
committee on war activities, hit upon
the idea of letting the returned men
present their own arguments to m
ployers. The scheme was instantly
adopted, and within a 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 vas started
against the o~ut-of-work line by the
same men who had helped smash the
Hindenburg line.
Dividing the city into zones of man.
ufacturing and commercial centers and
splitting up the small, compact army
lof 100 into squads Of ten, each squad
headed by an experienced K.7C. work
er, who coached the veterans in their
manner of approach, the attack was
made.
The men presented themselves in
talking teams Of two and three before
employment managers in large offices
land factory superintendent in large
plants. In as few words as possible
they presented the reasons why the
linen they represented should be given
Immediate employment. On the first
day, with a record Of 300 places WIS.,
|ited, a total Of 587 jobs were captured.
All told, the Knights have placed over
$4,000 veterans in good jobs all over
the country. There r $4,000 Knights
now organized to find jobs for veter-
ans.
Annapolis Very English.
Annapolis, Maryland's quiet, color
full little capital, has a flavor amazing
" English, writes Harrison Rhodes in
Harper's Magazine, accompanying his
comment with a suggestion that the
town would be q suitable site for some
friendly small celebration of the re-
newed Anglo-American tie welded in
the fire of war. The names Of An
napolis streets as well as the archi-
lecture, lack of excitement, and man
ner of many Of the people intensifes
the old country atmosphere of the
town. The names are intimately rem
iniscent of the English queen for
whom the town was named. Prince
George street is for her husband, and
Duke Of Gloucester Cor her little son,
the only one of her II children who
survived ~babyhood. He died when
eleven years DID, Other streets, King
George, Fleet street, Conduit, Han
over, Cornhill and Shipwright street, !