The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-03-17
GIVE JOBS TO VETS
/ DAY FOR BIG DRIVE
MARCH 20 Is TIME FOR LIE
GIoN ACTIVITY
Help Will Be Asked; Former Sol
diers Are Anxious To Obtain
Employment; Action On Men
Needing Government Assist
ance; Get Behind Those Who
May Be In Actual Need.

District adjutants and commanders
of the Gopher Legion met at the st.
Paul Athletic club to perfect final
plans for Launching the great state
and nationwide Legion census Of vet
Grams OF the world war, scheduled to
commence March Is. In addition
they discussed new plans and ideas
TOR making a thorough SUCCESS OF
American Legion Employment day,
March 20, so that if possible, every
unemployed veteran may be put to
work.
In giving out this information, DR..
Arthur A. Van Dyke Of st. Paul, state
commander OF Gopher Legionaries
ton wide action, the American Lee
gion hopes to obtain complete and
acchl ate census OF every great war
veteran which will furnish inlorma
ton as TO their need OF government
or other aid, such as compensation,
vocational training, hospital treat
mtpt, back pay, Liberty bonds, and
so on, and Will at the same lime pro-
vide definite information On the
out OF employment and in need OF q
helping hand. The Legion realizes
that taking a census won't help unless
measures are taken to act on their
formation secured" said DIR. Van
Dyke. Therefore, it has arranged that
when the completed queStionaires arc
returned to Gopher Legion headqua'-
tiers at the old capitol, battery OF
Cnlted States VeIeI r..4 o,..,-
wall be on hand to examine each
QUESTIONABLE and get action on cases
Of
treatment. Then, too, each Of our 500
Minnesota Legion posts is prepared
to use the Information secured rela-
tive to unemployed buddies to launch
a campaign whereby the community
will find some way to give them work
or aid. In this connection. l wound
like to emphasize these facts:
Helping The Needy
by using funds realized from the
sale OF Memorial Day peoples in 1921,
from Legion dances and entertain
committees OF the Legion of Mimic
sofa have, during the last year been
able to render food, clothing and shell
ter to more than 10000 temporarily
unemployed comrades, representing
total expenditure of approximately
$4,000. In St. Paul alone, $15, 900 has
been raised and used by the ramsey
county Legion Welfare Bureau in It'd
ing unemployed buddies over the
rough spots. ....-
@However, down and out as many
a veteran is today, the thing that he
longs for is not charity, not voluntary
aid, but job in which he can earn
enough honest dollars to be able 20
hold up his chin, look the world in
the face and take care of himself and
his family like self respecting
American citizen.
> March 20, 1922, is to be American
Legion Employment Day. and will BE-
SO proclaimed by the President of the
United States, the Governor of Min
nesota the Mayors of St. Paul, Min
neapolis, and Duluth and every other
town and village of Minnesota. 1t is
a date which is to mark the Legion's
mightiest effort. More than seven
hundred thousand veterans, our bud.
dies Of the great war, are out or
work and in distress.
Employers will be urged to distri-
butte their work by changing men on
shifts, civic authorities will be urged
to speed UP community projects such
as road repair and bridge building,
Legion posts contemplating club
houses will be urged to start them at
once and employ ex- soldiers. towns
will be urged to start community
truck gardens, and every effort will
be made to encourage back to the
home town and the farm movements"
It is asked that every citizen in the
state do his best in getting back OF
this movement and help in this great
campaign.