Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-10-04
EMPLOYMENT
BUREAU A CERTAINTY
Or. OdeIl Assured of Use of Old
City Hall as Headquarters,
Legion Cooperating.

Or. Joseph II. Odcll, director OF the
United States Employment Service
In this city. this morning received from
Francis 7. Jones, Director General of
the United States Department of
Labor, a communication advising him
that Miss Catharine Smith, an ex-
pert from the Labor Bureau in Wash
ington. win leave that city tomorrow
morning and arrive here about 1i.30
o'clock TO supervise the work of es-
tahlishing the office work i'm connec-
tion with the labor bureau which is to
he created in this city. She is an
expert on the paper work Of the office
and will superintend the task of In
augurating this portion of the work,
she will also instruct someone here
TO take charge Of the work after she
has left the city as she will remain
here for only three months.
The Delaware Historical Society
has formally voted to donate the use
of the old city hall at Sixth and Market
streets as headquarters for the bureau
but as a matter of record Dr. Odell
has been asked 10 make formal writ
ten application to the society for the
use of this building. He stated this
morning that such application will he
made by him during the day, lie is
Of the opinion that the old city hall
will be a better place for employment
headquarters thai the old postofiice
building at Sixth and King streets.
1t will be furnished and fitted up at
once so that the work of the bureau
may he started without further delay.
DIR. Odelrs commission has not arrived
from Washington but he is expecting
10 receive it not later than Thursday
Of this week.
American Legion Helps.
The executive committee of Della
ware Post, No. /, American Legion.
at meeting last night, was instruct
cd to appropriate a certain sum of
money, in conjunction with other
legion posts in the city, to pay the sal
airy of an ex-seryice man who is 10
be located in the employment head
quarters for the special purpose OF
/ looking after the applications Of all
the ex-service men who may file there
in their efforts to locate jobs. The
funds OF the various posts are limited
and the money TO be thus derived is
not going 10 be enough to warrant the
continuing OF this man in the office
! for any great length of time unless
other sources of revenue are found
For this reason the several posts are
hopeful that other organiza tions
| throughout the city win come to their
aid with financial assistance so the
/ services of this man may be con-
tinued until all ex-service men have
been cared for.
| II. Eugene Savery. chairman of the
employment committee of the Ameri.
can Legion, estimates that of the 10.
600 citizens of Delaware who were ii
the service during the way at leasi
5000 are not out OF employment. oi
this number he believes at least 2,50I
are in this city and out of work a
this time. The particular work he hai
been designated by the legion to carry
on was inaugurated about Septembel
1 S. and since that time he has com
piled 115 applications from ex-servic,
men. OF this number he has succeed
ed in placing % men.
The American Legion is going Il
work in close cooperation and har
mony with DR.. Odell in his new offic
and the latter has welcomed the sug
gestion that one Of the ex-service me-
be located in his bureau to look afte
the applications OF the ex-service mer
In placing workmen where a man wit
a family is seeking employment non
others will be given consideration
However, where two single men ar
under consideration and all othe
things are found equal il has been tn
aim of the legion to give preferenc
TO ex-service men and this policy ha
been generally approved not only i
this city but. throughout the countr
where efforts are being made To fin
work for the idle.
The employment bureau to be es
tablished here and directed by ID
odell is not an emergency measure.
will be a permanent thing. 1t is tn
plan throughout the country and sur
ported by the government TO operat
| the employment bureau on the sam
, principle as the Federal reserve. |
other words the man power of tn
nation is TO be tabulated, classified an
conserved for times of emergency a
the present just as the money force
have been conserved and distribute
where needed most and thus avoi
financial panics. The employmer
movement viii be designed to avert
the future unemployment panics sue
as is now sweeping the country.
Just how soon DR.. Odell viii be alb
to declare his bureau of empioymei
formally open and ready to do bus
ness he was unable to state this morr
ing. However he does not propose
lose any time and is anxious TO e
the undertaking started without an
delay. With all interests concernt
4, cooperating to the fullest extent II
, believed this city will within a sho
time be free from specture of chou
E ands Of nlen out of work right at Ii
( beginning of the winter months. a
: intensive campaign is TO be inaugu
v ated which it is hoped will be produ
tive of beneficial results for the enti
n community.