The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-04-19
Places 100000 Men
 In Jobs

Indianapolis, Ind, April 19 - The predominance of the temporary job and the pitifu1 lacak of permanent means of earning 8 livelfood are se- verely handicapping the American Legion in its present campaign to provide employment for the coun- try's 100000 jobless veterans of the World War. Lenue1 Bolles, national adjutant of the, Legion, declared to- day. in formal statement from the organizations headquarters here. Probably the country never be- fore has seen a time when the steady the distressing conditions that exist among ex-service men. four years ago proclaimed saviors of the wor1d,'' Bol1es said. Despite our efforts to find continuous employment for the former soldiers there still remain at least 500.000 of them who have no jobs.
 Our estimate of the number of jobless veterans placed since the Le- gions offensive in their behalf is nearly 100000. This figure in no way, however, can be taken to mean tat but 300,0OO are now out of work. The temporary job has caused these figures to ascend one day and drop down to distressing depths the next.
 Aim for Permanent Jobs.
 Reports reacing us from all parts of the country show that many com munitfes have no men out of work one ddy, the next 8 QOZen or more are begging for jobs. We are thank full that these spare jobs have been found. It shows that the civic agen- cies are behind us in our work. Our aim is to get a. permanent place of employment for every one of these veterans.
 Many of the men now idle drifted. into the big cities to look for work which was not to be had. To combat this situation we are trying by every means possible to get these transients to go home. In doing this we have adopted the slogan, Let every com- munity take care of its own.' If these men will go nome they will be taken care of, given work by the citizens of the cities and towns that said good bye to them in 1917 and 1918.
 "Only few sections of the United States are entirely free of veteran unemployment. our reports show. The District of Columbia, Louisiana and South Dakota alone have gone over the top.
 Detroit. Mich. likewise has done wond erful work. Henry Ford gave preference to ex-service men when he hired large numbers in his Detroit factory. All told we estimate Detroit has found jobs for fully 5000 ex-
 Connecticut 100 Per Gent.
 ''Connecticut, a strictly industrial territory, has also sent us encourag- ing reports Fifteen cities there, our 6tolC oIiIC1d1S tSll us, nave rGdcn0O 100 per cent. in the campaign
 Virginia. is one of several states which cut in half the number Of un- employed former service men it had when the campaign opened two weeks ago.
 Reports from Wyoming and Mon tana say that these two states expect to have minimum of unemployment by the middle of this month
 'In forming an estimate of how many men have been taken care of to | date we cannot report on New York. | Philadelphia and Chicago. With t11eir huge populations and changing con- ditfonS 1t is nearly impossible to 1 check closely what has been done. In New York state more than 150,OOo i ex-service men were hunting work | We know that many of these have | been placed. but thousands vet re- l main."