, 1922-07-12
Government Is Finding Places
for Disabled Men Who Have
Been in School.
ALL VOCATIONS REPRESENTED
More Than 100000 Are in Training
Now. and Ultimately $4,000 Will
Have Been notwithstanding
Job to Fit Man.

Washington, d. CA new kind of
employment agency is being opened
oyr the government. Most offices of the
Of ~alluring positions and invite jobless
men to apply for them. The govern
ment is beginning at the other end. 1t
has a group of well trained men on its
hands and its employment agency will
try to fit them into the Jobs which are
no doubt available about the coun-
try. but which are just now si~ngularly
elusive.
The new agency is In the veterans
bureau, and its efforts are to be put
forth in behalf of the disabled war
seterans who are being rehabilitated
under the direction of the bureau.
Although 1t is more than three
years since the war ended, the peak
OF rehabilitation has not been reached.
largely because so many of the vet
Grams have been taking three and four
year courses.
To date 16,4S5 men have completed
their training and are employed. More
than 100000 are in training now, and
ultimately 31S,000 will have been re-
habilitated. Many of the disabled
men have not begun training. They
are not yet physically able, their cases
are pending. or for some other reason
training has been deferred.
The new agency, which calls itself
by the m%outh-nlling title of the
ainee-Employment Section of the
Rehabilitation division of the Vet
Grams bureau, has just begun Its task.
It has men of practically every voca-
ton on its hands. from dentists and
farmers to stenographers and shoe
makers.
The employment section has begun
to establish contracts with organiza-
tions that are in touch with all angles
of the job market.
Where Men Are Needed.
Employment experts of the Veterans
bureau are making "a study of the pro-
fessions and trades to determine which
are crowded. A partial survey indi-
Gates that training has been provided
In the past in some vacations which
are badly overcrowded, while other
lines in which trained personnel is
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u the bureau will consider supply
and demand in starting its disabled
men on new work. -
A number of doctors are on the list
Of rehabilitated men, and these, at
least, should have no difficulty in es-
tablishing connections, since small
towns all over the country have been
calling for doctors.
Considering the need for farmers,
n is also encouraging to learn that
$4,000 veterans are studying some
phase of agriculture. Some of them
have already found positions which
they will enter on graduation. A num-
per are going to teach agricultural sub
iects in high schools md colleges.
Une man is going TO South America as
salesman Of agricultural implements.
The students If farming are being
urged to buy land and start in bust,
ness for themselves. and many are
planning to do so.
The men who have been studying
trades are placed In union shops for
practical experience. When hey are
able to do a full days work they are
considered rehabilitated and given po-
sitions.
A man learning a trade or business
tn rehabilltnted when he has a posi-
don, and the governments RESPONSE
oility TOWARD him ends. 1t is more
difficult to say when an artist is re-
facilitated. Is he a full-fiedged artist
rhen he paints his first promising pic
lure or when he makes his 1rst sale?