Evening star., 1940-05-05

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upon the worker over 49," Radio,
press and public-spirited citizens
are cooperating with employment
organizations to find jobs for these
unemployed men over 40.
Last year one-third of a million
workers over 40" were placed in
jobs through the impetus of Ma
tional Employment Week. This
year, with more organizations CO.
operating, twice that number prob
ably will be placed. Employers
throughout the country are urged
to give special consideration to this
problem of the niddle-aged worker,
to examine their policies and de-
termine whether applicants over 40
are being given fair opportunity
to qualify for jobs.
Kind of Training?
Training in veteran c. c. G.
camps has one purpose-to make
the veteran more likely prospect
for Unemployment.
An average veteran enrollee in a
c. c. c. camp is Al years old. He
has two people dependent upon him
for their living. He hasn't been
able to provide them with very
much during the last few years.
He has been out of Job most of
the time. Whenever he applied for
a job the employer told him "too
old" Perhaps as result Of un-
employment he has not been able
to maintain the skill required by
present-day workers. Perhaps he
has his own ways of doing things.
His ways turn out to be quite diff
ferent from modern methods of
working.
In veteran c. C. C. camp this
man is brought up to date in his
trade. This is done by giving each
veteran, whenever possible, tasks to
do on the work project which will
redevolop his original skill. If a
veteran did blacksmith work be-
fore entering the c. c. c. he is
assigned, for instance, to job max
ing molds of cannons to be used
reconstructing a military battlefield
In national park project.
This veteran is encouraged to
bring himself up to date in his
trade by attending welding classes
held in camp at night. He is urged
to attend nearby trade school or
enroll in correspondence courses re-
lated to blacksmithing or welding.
He is provided with job information
in his field as to possible openings,
types of skills required, rates of pay.
He is reminded to keep his appli-
cation active at State, Federal and
local employment agencies. He is
urged to contact employers. He is
encouraged to maintain neat
personal appearance and build up
his general health so as to make
favorable impression upon prospec-
tive employers. He is urged to
remedy his educational deficiencies
so he can write a good letter of
application, so he can read the
want-ad sections of newspapers, so
he can count the cannon balls he
makes in his reconstruction work
on the project.
The need for basic training in
the three RS is readily apparent
when one learns that at one c. C.
G. camp for colored veterans there
are 68 men out of company of
, 200 who cannot read or write. A
work book prepared by the United
States Office of Education enables
these illiterates in G. c. c. to learn
to read newspaper and write
letter in three or four months time.
Washington Veterans.
. Where do these veterans from the
District go to camp? What do they
learn there? For what types of
Jobs are these 600 Washington vet
Grams fitted?
Veterans from the District are
sent to Is different C. c. c. camps
in Maryland, Pennsylvania and Vir-
ginia, where they, receive training
in welding, auto mechanics. wood
working, agriculture and other sub
jects of a vocational nature. In
addition a few veterans are sent to
special training schools, such as the
Sd Corps Area Cooking and Truck
Driving Schools at New Cumber-
land, Pa.
The Veteran c. c. c. camp at
Mount Solon, Va, does fire-control
work in the forest. This includes
building steel, concrete and wooden
bridges, fire lookout towers and
forest roads surfaced with crushed
shale or stone. Work in developing
the recreational facilities in the
forest includes landscaping, making
trails, installing water and drainage
systems. 1t involves building rest
stations and picnic shelters. 1t in
cludes painting signs, stocking and
feeding wild life, seeding and sod
ding the ground. These veterans
gain experience in surveying and
engineering, reading blue prints,
making estimates. They learn to
operate-and keep in good running
condition-trucks, tractors, graders,
bulldozers, dirt leaders, air COM
pressors, drills, cement mixers, stone
crushers. They gain experience IN
carpentry and in telephone lines
man work. A greenhouse, built and
operated by the enrollees, makes it
possible to study horticulture the
year around. BY raising poultry IN
camp veterans learn how to make
. living by operating small poul-
try farm. BY publishing a camp
newspaper experience is gained in
writing, editing, layout work, typ
Ing and mimeographing.
National Forest Project.
Veterans in the c. c. G. camp at
Petersburg, Va, in their work in
the national park gain experience
IN building roads and repairing
motor vehicles. They paint park
signs. They do blacksmithing, car
pentry and cabinetmaking. Some
Of them learn typewriting, some
learn concrete work, some cooking,
some landscaping.
Giovanni L. Paulini was men,
ber of this camp. His experience
Is typical of scores of success stories