The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1919-07-11
Bis JOB 70 FIND JOBS,
k.0F c. GET THOUSANDS
Even Badly Disabled Msn Are
Quickly Placed BY Earnest
Workers; Veterans Paid
To Find Work

whcr James white. b. \ Marine
was ops.ating machine sun at cha
teau rhlerr,. he did Il with siger ane
I'm. as every good Marine always doe.
everything With ,lvor and vim Now
Jimmy White. Instead OF blazing away
With a machine gun of war. Is hm ala: /:
away with a machine gun of peace
operating hish'speed mlmccgraph
machine In high.specd way. aud with
one arm
Jiuny got his at Chateau Thlcrry--.
ihreo pieces ef shrapnsl Ia his arm.
/ II had 10 come OF 10 save Jimmy :
life Nothing dduntsd. he let Il part
company With him. And he was blue.
very blue. for a long time. un,ll. Ia
the hospital. looking dolefully a, the
place where his arm used to be- Jimmy
was accosted by a knights Of Colurs,
bus secretary. who told him 10 cheer
up and hgure on getting n nice. snappy
job when he returned home.
Jimmy White was cynic. He didn't
believe nice. snappy Jobs came TO one.
armed mcr, lie thought he was
through as useful citizen. He was
disillusloned once he struck home. The
h. OF Z. lined him up with 30 other
veterans. put them In automobiles and
paid them 81 per day TO scout for Jobs
for their comrades aud themselves,
Jimmy found Job the second day
out---in Sig advertising plant. opefa,-
Ing the mimeograph the busiest
mlmeograph In tho world. Jimmy
thinks.
This idea Of the X. Of c. of paid
veteran Job finders Is resulting IN six
hundred jobs each day for ,emobill xed, |
soldiers and sailors, and the same fig.
ures. In proportion. holds good 10 hun.
,lreds OF other cities. The knights |
conduct more than LOO employment
bureaus throughout the country. Re-
suits on prcportionatc scale are be-
Ing obtained throughout the country.
II was rather a bold idea which The
knights Of Columbus put Into effect
when they recruited hundreds ~ Young
veterans OF the r~-sodIcrs. sailors
aud marines--and put them on the
Knights of Columbus my roll nj the
rate OF 81 per day TO ind Jobs FOR their
comrades and incidentally for them
selves.
While the KnIglr<s through their
secretaries aud individual members ~
heir organization, had already found
OF Jobs for ex.seryice men,
he same story Of doing The right thing
~ the returned men was beginning to
ose something Of its punch So Jos-i i
'ph G. Pelletier. X. OF G. supreme ad.
'ocatc and member Of the X. Of e., i
on war activities. hit upon /
he idea OF letting the returned men
resent their own arguments 20 em.sl
loyers. The scheme was Instantly i
lopted. and within week Peter w
'ollIns, late government industrial ex
ert, who IL director of the k-C en-
loymcnt and reconstruction bureau,
ad enlisted the one hundred men hn q
ceded, and the drive was started v
eSthrt Wv l@itt Wy tI}F
ame men who had helped smash the n
line. !.
Dividing the city into zones of man.
featuring and commercial centers and
hitting up the small, compact army z
100 into squads OF ten. each squad y
saded by an experienced K.-c. work. q
! who coached the veterans In their
amer OF appronci, tho attack was q,
adc
The men presented themselves In
king teams OF two and three before 80
nployment managers IN large Offices W
d factory superintendent In large
ants In as few words as possible
ey presented the reasons why The III
N they represented should be given %
mediate employment. On the FIRST