Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-03-13
LEGION OUT TO
find JOBS FOR
IDLE VETERANS
Major Fort, State Commander
Asks Governor To Proclaim
Employment Day

Voicing an appeal for "jobs for the
iobless," Major James A. Fort, COM
mander of the Georgia division OF the
American Legion, today declared that
sfoaters and transients should be IN
formed that they must get home, II
they expect to receive consideration
With the great cities already swarm
inc with unemployment, the service
man must get out of the cities, ac-
cording to Major Fort, who ADDS tflaC
Jack of profitable employment at
home has already caused large num-
bers of veterans to go to the cues
seeking employment, thereby swelling
the ranks of the unemployed,
unemployment in the United
States, has reached a point, where II
Is of vital concern to every citizen,
said Major Fort. "There are over
700, ,0O0'veterans out of work ana IN
distress. The American Legion IS
undertaking to put the jobless vet
eran to work with the least possible
delay in his own community.
Home Place For Him.
Gone of the greatest works me
Legion hopes to accomplish is to eS-
tablish in the mind of the service man
that his home community is the place
for MIN. The great cities are swarm
.ne with the unemployed. The ser
vice man must get out OF the cities
His home town is the place for him.
"The American Legion has SGT
Monday, March 20, as the day on
which every post will bring to cl-"
max its efforts to find employment Tor
the service men in it's community
This lack of profitable employment
at home has caused large numbers OF
veterans to go to the cities seeking
employment, thereby swelling the
ranks of the unemployed.
Every post of the Legion In Geor-
gia is urged to care for its own. Let
the word go out that every veteran
will be given employment at home.
Floaters and transients should be in :
formed that they must get home If
they expect to receive consideration.
Every post is urged to solve its own
local problem. Don't worry about the
United States Take care of your
own, and let that fact be known.
What Posts Must Do.
''To bring our efforts to a success
full conclusion on March 20 every
post must act generally in the fol-
lowing manner: o. survey home
conditions and formulate suggestions
for remedy; G2) focus attention OF
entire community on this situation;
(3l mobilize all available employ
ment resources; (4) utilize all posi-
lie forms of emergency employment;
(5) develop permanent employment;
60 coordinate all community organ
izations and influential individuals III
accomplishing these things; CD adj
vertise the fact that each community
will care for its own. Floaters and
transients should get back home if
they expect consideration"
Major Fort views the unemploy
ment situation as one Of unusual Sc
riousness, and in view of this fact he
today telegraphed Governor Thomas
w. Hardwick, requesting that he is
sue an official proclamation setting
aside Monday, March 20, as Amer
lean Legion Employment Day" in
Georgia, He anticipates that state
and county officials will cooperate
with the Legion in this effort to find
employment for all jobless veterans,
John D. Mathis Post, the local
American Legion organization, has
prepared its campaign for jobs for
the jobless and it is believed that
every Americus and Sumter county
veteran, whether he is member of
the Legion or not, will be given sus-
tanning employment by next Monday
when the campaign will reach its eli
max throughout the state.