Arizona republican., 1922-06-02
TRAINED MEN FOR HIRE

I some vocations which are badly over.
| crowded, while other lines in which
| trained personnel is needed have been
overlooked. In future the bureau
will consider supply and demand in
starting its disabled men on new
1 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 70
| is also encouraging to learn that i5..
| 600 veterans are studying some phase
| of agriculture. Some of them have
already secured positions which they
| will enter on graduation. A number
are going to teach agricultural SUBJ.
| jects in high schools and colleges.
| One man is going to South America
as salesman OF agricultural imple,
ments. The students of farming are
being urged to buy land and start I'm
business 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 they are
| able to do a full days work they are
considered rehabilitated and given
positions.
A man learning trade or business
| is rehabilitated when he has posi-
! ton. and the governments respon-
sibility toward him ends. 1t is more
| difficult to say when an artist is re-
! habilitated. Is he full-fiedged ar
| tist when he paints his first promis-
| ing picture: or when he makes his<
first sale2 The government has q
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| its proteges. One group of men IN
! studying at a school OF illustrating in
| New York with such well known ar
/ lists as Charles Dana Gibson and
Howard Christy as their teachers.
Another veteran, a Baltimore tailor,
has spent two years studying sculp-
ture. in which he has always been
/ crafty interested. and now he hax
gone to work in Rome.
| All OF the men whom the govern
ment has undertaken to have trained
were unable to return to 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 han
dicapped.
Right Men for The Jobs
The bureau is trying to impress on
| the public the fact that il need not
hesitate to employ the rehabilitated
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 dis
advantage in meeting people is not
| trained to be a travelling salesman.
| On the other hand the loss of leg
| does not affect the work of a drafts
man and disfigured face is not
1 ha Y16iaar - a cfnrIr hrpadaF
| 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 voca-
! tons
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-war occupa-
tions. A typical case is that or
man who had been a landscape gar
| dener on a large estate. He lost one
arm and is now an auditor in the
| government service at $1,000 more
| a year than he was earning before
| the war
The veterans bureau says that ii is
| starting it's employment service with
men of fine caliber. A report mas
| just come from the University OF
| Florida stating that the average OF
scholarship in its law department is
| S5.5 per cent for the trainees of the
veterans bureau. while other stu
dents averaged 70 per cent.
At the Carnegie Institute of Tech
| nology this spring II out Of the 20
war veterans in the graduation class
are honor men, Similar records are
being made by the governments stu
| dents in other schools.
This is attributed partly to the fact
| that the veterans average 26 years in
age. They are more mature. there
fore. than the ordinary run of college
students. Then, too. they appreciate
the advantage of training. They keep
at their studies with the single aim
of getting back into the worlds work.
| The government is confident that us
proteges- can make good.
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