The L'Anse sentinel., 1922-07-14
Government Is Finding Places
for Disabled Men Who Have
Been in School.
ALL VOCATIONS REPRESENTED
More Than 100000 Ars In Training
Now, and Ultimately $4,000 VIII
Have Been Rehabilitated-Find
+ Job to Fit Man.

Washington, ID. CA new kind Of
employment agency is being opened
by the government. Most offices of the
sort start out In business with a list
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
try to fit them into the jobs which are
no doubt available about the coun-
try, but which are just now singularly
elusive.
The new agency Is in the veterans
bureau, and its efforts are to be put
forth in behalf of the disabled 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 vet
erans have been taking three and four
year courses.
To date 18,4S5 men have completed
their training and are employed. More
than 100000 are in training now, and
ultimately 31S,00O will have been re-
babilitated. 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 mouth-fllling title of the
Trainee-Employment Section of the
Rehabilitation division Of the Vet
Grams bureau, has just begun its task.
1t has men of practically every voca-
tion 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
Rre crowded. A partial survey indi-
Gates that training 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 fu-
Iture the bureau will consider supply
and demand In starting It's 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,ihave been
calling for doctorss ~
Considering the need for farmers.
II is als, encouraging to learn that
1900 veterans are studying some
phase of agriculture. Some of them
have already found positions which
they will enter on graduation. A num-
ber are going to teach agricultural sub
jects in high schools and colleges.
One man is going 10 South America ms
salesman of agricultural implements.
The students of farming are being
urged to buy land and start in busi.
ness for themselves, and many are
planning to do no.
The men who have been studying
trades are placed in union shops for
practical experience. When hey are
able to do Gull days work they are
considered resabilitated and given po-
sitions.
A man lea,uing trade or business
Is rehabiltatsC when he has posi-
tion, and thr governments RESPONSE
bility toward him ends. 1t Is more
difficult to s&y when an artist Is re-
habilitated. IA he full-fedged artist
when he PAINS his first promising pic
ture or when he makes his first sale?