The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1922-08-03
BUREAU BIG AID
TO EX-SOLDIERS
Government Is Finding Places
for Disabled Men Who Have
Been in School.
ALL VACATIONS REPRESENTED
More Than 100000 Are in Training
Now, and Ultimately $4,000 viii
Have Been notwithstanding
job to Fit Man.

Washington, D. Ca new kind o
. employment agency is being opene,
by the government Most offices of tn
sort start out in business with a lis
of alluring positions and invite jobles
men to apply for them. The govern
ment is beginning at the other end.
has a group of well trained men on III
hands and its employment agency vii
try to fit them into the jobs which arr
no doubt available about the cOun
try but which are just now singalarl!
elusive.
The new agency is in the veterans
bureau, and its efforts are to be put
forth in behalf of the disabled wal
veterans who are being rehabilltateC
under the direction Of the bureau.
Although 1t is more than three
years since the war ended, the peak
of rehabilitation has not been reached
largely because so many Of the vet
Grams have been taking three and four
year courses.
To date 16, 485 men have completed
their training and are employed. More
than 100000 are in training now, and
ultimately 318,000 will have been re-
habilitated. 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-fllllng title of the
Trainee- Employment Section of the
Rehabilitation division of the Vet
Grams bureau, has just begun It's task.
It has men of practically every yOca-
tIon on its hands, from dentists and
farmers to stenographers and shoe
makers.
The employment section has begun
to establish contracts with organiza-
lions 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-
fesslons and trades to determine which
are 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 flu
ture 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 es-
tablishing connections, since small
towns all over the country have been
calling for doctors.
Considering the need for farmers,
it is also encouraging to learn that
$4,000 veterans are studying some
phase of agriculture. Some of them
have already found positions which
they will enter on graduation. A num-
Der are going to teach agricultural sub
jects in high schools and colleges.
One man is going to South America as
salesman of agricultural implements.
The students of farming are being
urged to buy land and start in bust
ness 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 po-
sitions.
A man learning trade or business
Is rehabilitated when he has posi-
ton, and the governments RESPONSE
bllity toward him ends. 1t Is more
difficult to say when an artist is re-
habilitated. Is he full-fedged artist
when he paints his first promising pic
ture or when he makes his first salef
All of the men whom the government
has undertaken to have trained were
unable to return to their old positions
on competitive basis with other
men.
Right Men for the Jobs.
The tNreau is trying to impress on
the public the fact that it 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 disadvantage
in meeting people is not trained to be
travelling salesman. On the other
hand, the loss of a leg does not az
feet the work of craftsman and a
disfgured face Is not a handicap to
stock breeder.
The employment section is distinctly
proud Of the fact that 80 many of the
bureah's trainees have a greater earn
ing capacity now than they had In
their pre-war occupations A typical
case is that Of a man who had been
landscape gardener on a large es-
tate. 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 1t Is
starting its employment services with
men Of fine CALDER. A report has Just |
come from the University of Florida
stating that the average scholarship |
in It's law department Is 85.5 per cent
for trainees Of the Veterans bureau,
while other students averaged 70 per