The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-06-13
Frederick Haskin's Letter
TRAINED MEN FOR HIRE

! tons which they will enter on
graduation. A number are going
to teach agricultural subjects in
high schools and colleges. One
man is going 10 South America as
a salesman of agricultural imple-
ments. The students of farming
are being urged to buy land and
start in business for themselves.
and many are planning to do so.
The men VINO have been studying
trades are placed in union shops
! for practical experience, When
! they are able TO do a full DAYS
work they are considered rehabili-
| tated and given positions.
A man learning a trade or bust
ness is rehabilitated when he has
a position, and the governments
responsibility toward him ends. It
is more difficult to say when an
artist is rehabilitated. Is he full
fiedged artist when he paints his
first promising picture; or when
he makes his first sale? The gov
eminent has a number of students
of the arts among its proteges. One
group Of men is studying at
school of illustrating in New York
with such well, known artists as
Charles Dana Gibson and Howard
Chandler Christy as their! teachers.
Another veteran, d Baltimore tailor,
has spent two years studying scuIB-
ture, in which he has always been
greatly interested. and now he has
gone to work in Rome.
All of the men whom the govern
ed were unable to return 10 their
old positions on a competitive basis
with other men. These veterans
have not been permitted to take
up new lines of work in which they
would be handicapped.
Right Men for the Jobs.
The bureau is trying to impress
on the public the fact that it need
not hesitate to employ the rehabili-
tated men. The government is not
sending out any One-legged park
gardeners. A man who was so
badly injured about the face that
| he is at a disadvantage in meeting
people is not trained to be a trav-
cling salesman. On the other hand
the loss of a leg does not affect the
work of a craftsman and a disfg-
ured face is not a handicap to a
stock breeder.
The disabilities of the men are
of all kinds and degrees, from the
loss of members or faculties to
chronic bronchitis and asthma, and
special attention has been given to
finding them suitable and congenial
vocationS.
The employment section is DIS
tinctly proud of the fact that so
many of the bureaus traineeS have
a greater earning capacity now
than they had in their pre-wsr Oc-
equations. A typical case is that
of a man who had been a landscape
gardener on a large estate. He lost
one arm and is now an RzAa5t3r IN
the government service at 81 200
more a year than he was earning
before the war.
The veterans bureau says that
it is starting its employment seTV-
ice with men of fine caliber. 4 Ts-
port has Just come from the Uni
versity Of Florida stating that the
average of scholarship in its law
department bureau is $50 per cent
IOE II dIneSS Oi tie F0teI ais O-4-
reau, while other students aver
aged 70 per cent.
At the Carnegie Institute OF
Technology this spring II out Of
the 20 war veterans in the grad
uation class are honor men. Sim
liar records are being made by the
governments students in other
schools.
This is attributed partly 10 the
fact that the veterans average 26
years in age. They are more ma
ture, therefore. than the ordinary
run of college students. Taen. -,
they appreciate the advantage Of
training. They keep at their stud
les with the single aim of getting
back into the worlds work. The
government is confident that its
proteges can make good.