Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-03-01
LIBRARY BOOKS
HELP IN WORK
Returning Soldiers Will Find
Many Books to Aid Them
in Employment

The first thing that confronts a man
who has been discharged from the
service of his country, and is back
home among his folks, is a job. Some
of those who have been released from
service have found positions waiting
for them, but others not so fortunate
have found it necessary to hunt posi-
tons, and in some cases they are still
hunting.
Now Mr.. Returned Soldier and Sail
or, there are books on every trade
n profession at which men have
worked and these books will help you
get that job, or brush up on the one
that's been waiting for you. Some of
these books tell of successes, some of
failures. Read them n learn how
to succeed in YOU work.
If you're undecided as to what to do
the books on opportunities in different
kinds of work will help you choose.
Practical advice about the choice of
work, different kinds of work will help
you choose. Practical advice about
the choice of work, and on making
good. is given in 1.-The Young Man and
His Vocation" by Harris. Then again
a study of the openings in agriculture
commercial occupations, transporta-
ton, civil service, manufacturing,
building and machine trades, engin-
eering, medicine, teaching and other
professions will be found in GOWN
and Wheatley's Occupations"
In Business Employments," by AL
len, is treated the business side of
manufacturing, of modern retail trade
and of finance, with concrete illustra-
tons drawn from a shoe manufacture,
a department store and study of bank
ing institutions. Then Weaver's
profitable Vacations for Boys sug-
gests many possibilities of worth while
work for men.
If ones tates is for professional
work, suggestions concerning training
for law, the ministry, teaching, medi
clne, scientific work, engineering, ag-
ricUlture, journalism and other fields,
and the openings in them, read Brew
sters Vocational Guidance for the
Professions" Work in the public
service, helping to fight disease, crime
and poverty is stirringly presented in
The Youth and the Nation" by
Moore.
Men are needed in all lines, and the
man who is best informed in the line
he desires to take up and make a
life's work usually lands the position.
That's the reason the large plants of
today employ experienced employment
managers, so that the men they hire
will be the best obtainable for the
work desired of them. Here are a
few of the lines in which competent
men are needed: accounting, adver-
Using, automobile work, banking,
building, business, drafting, electrical
work, engineering, farming. foreign
trade, Journalism, machine shop work
railroading, s~alesmanship, seamanship
sheet metal work, shipbuilding, tele-
graphy, telephony, toolmaking.
Now. where can information be OBJ
tanned on these various professions or
trades. The public library of this city
and almost every city in the country |
have a supply of these books cover |
ing the various subjects. These books
are NOT theories compounded by some |
crank who wished to sell books or
put INTO print s55HEfde- special idea on a
subject he may have. but real expert
ences of men who have been thTougn
the mill, and know the facts about
which they are writing. Visit the u.
brary. get The book and benefit npt
only yourself. but also the man who
may employ you and in his way Sc
cure a position with the highest pay
available.