The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-06-13

new kluu Oh employ IuSuI dScACS II
being opened by the government
Most Offices of the sort start out in
business with a list OF alluring po-
sitions and invite jobless men to APP
ply for them. The government is
J 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 country, but which are just
now singularly elusive.
| The new agency is in the Veter-
ans bureau, and its efforts are to
{ be put forth in behalf OF the dis
abled war veterans who are being
rehabilitated under the direction Of
the bureau.
Although it is more than three
years since the war ended the peak
of rehabilitation has not been
reached. largely because SO many of
the veterans have been taking three
and four year courses. This June
several thousand will be graduated
from universities and technical
schools. and will be back in the
competitive struggle of finding en-
ployment. Next June there will be
still greater number of men re-
leased from the governments SUI
pervision.
To date 16.4S5 men have complet-
ed their training and are employed.
More than 100000 are in training
now, and ultimately 31S.000 will
have been rehabiltated. Many of
the disabled men have not begun
training. They are not yet physi-
cally able, their cases are pending
or for some other reason training
has been deferred
The new agency, which calls it
self by the mouth filling title of
the unemployment section of
the rehabilitation division of the
veterans bureau, has just begun its
task. 1t has men of practically
every vocation on its hands, from
dentists and farmers to stenogra-
piers and shoemakers. To avoid
misunderstanding it announces at
the outset that it will not be able
to help any persons to find posi-
tons except the disabled war vet
Grams who have been under govern
ment training. That Is in itself a
large undertaking.
The employment section has be-
gun to establish contacts with or
CARNATIONS that are in touch with
all angles of the job market. The
civil service commission is report
ing to the bureau on available po-
sitions in the government depart
ments. Already the department of
agriculture has arranged to employ
one young veteran who made a re-
markable record at an agricultural
college. This boy won prizes for
cattle judging, he heads his class
in his studies, and he is regarded
as an expert in cotton breeding
Contacts are being made with in
surance companies, trade journals,
the American Federation of Labor,
professional societies, and big cor
porationS, such as the u. S. ship
house Electric, and the United
States Steel corporation.
Employment experts of the vet
Grams bureau are making a study
of the professions and trades to de-
termine which are crowded. A
partial survey indicates that train
ing has been provided in the past
in some vocations which are badly
overcrowded, 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 work.
A number of doctors are on the
list of rehabilitated men, and these,
at least. should have no difficulty
in establishing connections, since
small towns all over the country
have been calling for doctors.
Considering the need for farm
ers it is also encouraging to learn
that $4,000 veterans are studying
some phase of agriculture. Some
OF them have already secured posi-