The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-07-28
EMPLOYERS
ASKED TO
HELP VETERANS
Frank Hines Makes Appeal
For 2,712 Service Men Com
pleting Vocational Training

Washington, July 20. "a. PD-With
view to aiding the 2,712 former SER
vice men who will complete their
vocational training this month and
the 1882 additional to be rehabi
litated from now until the first of
the new year, Frank T. Hines, Direc-
tor of the Veterans Bureau, today
appealed to employers throughout
the country to give the veterans an
opportunity to start life anew by pro-
viding them with positions for which
they have been trained.
"These men and women served
their country at time of great need
and they now ask only a fair chance
to find employment along the lines
in which they have received their
training" said the directors appeal.
Director Hines expressed his ap-
probation of the assistance already
rendered by the nations employers
in finding places for the disabled men
and called attention to the fact that
only $50 Of the $1,000 men and wo
men instructed by the bureau in its
IA districts were unemployed on
June /. One month later there re-
NAMED to be completely rehabilited
along new lines $4,000 disabled veter-
: ans, who, as result of wounds suf-
fered in battle or sickness ana in
juries received during service in the
world war, were rendered incapable
of continuing their pre-war Occupa-
tions following the armistice.
"The Veterans Bureau can go only
so far in the rehabilitation of these
former service men," General Hines
said. cit can take them and tain
them up to the point Of employability
and then it must call upon the vari
Gus employing agencies of the cCun-
try to carry on from that point"
Less than five per cent Of the
veterans being rehabilitated have
visible disabilities, he said, while 80
per cent are able men. The appar-
ent disabilities, however, consist
ing only Of handicaps insofar as their
pre-war occupations were concerned.
Of the veterans in training on July
1, professional instruction was being
given 100; along commercial lines,
1900; in the trades and industries,
$4,000, and in agriculture, 1900. The
majority of these have been in train
ing two years, some three years, and
others as long as four years, being
taught in the country's best universe
ties, colleges, trade and commercial
schools and in factories and work
shops.
A recapitulation by districts Of
prospective rehabilitations from July
1 to January /, 1925, follows:
District i, comprising Maine, Mas
sachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode
Island, and Vermont, with headquar-
tiers at Boston: July, 1858; August,
November, 1873, and December, 403;
total 1867
District 2, Connecticut, New York
and New Jersey, headquarters New
York City; July, 467; August, 446;
September, 435; October, 279; Novcm-
Der, 256, and December, 374; total g.
25S.
District 3, Delaware and Pennsyl-
vania, headquarters Philadelphia:
July, 318; August, 296; September,
$40; October, PIG; November, 1875,
and December, 357; total 1922.
District a, Maryland, Virginia, West
Virginia and District of Columbia,
headquarters District Of Columbia:
July, 113; August, Id; September,
1870; October, 1872; November, 66, and
December, 1926; total 757.
n;c%r;,t EIor;Io Nor+ h
Carolina, South Carolina and Tennes-
see, headquarters Atlanta: July, 149;
August, 1871; September, 305; October,
1879; November, 142, and December,
207; total 1888.
. District 6, Alabama, Louisiana and
Mississippi, headquarters New Or
leans; July, 1856; August, 1853; Sep
TENDER, 1871; October, 1863; November,
LOG, and December, 1872; total 936.
District Z, Indiana, Kentucky and
Ohio, headquarters Cincinnati: July,
146; August, 200; September, 1877;
October, 244; November, 1O2, and De-
cember, 1876; total 975.
District 8, Illinois, Michigan and
Wisconsin, headquarters Chicago:
july, 235; August, 244; September
2S3; October, ITS; November, 124, and
December, 233; total 1924.
District 9, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri
and Nebraska, Headquarters St
Louis: July, 172; August, 214; Sep
TENDER, 1863; October, 1856; November
g., and December, 219; total 974.
District 10, Minnesota, Montana
North and South Dakota, headquar-
tiers Denver: July, 121; August, 173;
September. JAP; October, 1872; No
vember, 70, and December, ia; total
745.
District IL, Arizona, California and
Nevada, headquarters San Francisco:
July, 100; August, 204; September
236; October, l65; November, 1873
and December, 254; total LIT.
District 10, Idaho, Oregon and
Washington, headquarters Seattle
July, 50; August, Ct; September, 11s;
October 49,; November, 40, and De-
cember, 81; total 1914.
District IA, Arkansas, Oklahoma
and Texas, headquarters Dallas: July
lis: August, 1866; September, 1856;
October, 140; November, 116, and
December, 23s; total s6l.
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