The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-07

WASHINGTON = At the U. $. Employment Service office in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Mrs. Ruth An dreu, the temporary veterans rep 're5entative in the office, told me of a conversation she had with an ex- service man The veterans represenr tative at U. s. Employment Ser vice Cffice is the person you should see if you seek a new job when you get out.
 I'll tell you about the conversa- tion in minute, but speaking of new jobs made me recall that there is enough confusion about veterans employment floating around to tax the patience of a totem pole. For give me if I wander for few lines to get something straight.
 If a veteran wants his old job back Che's allowed 40 days after his discharge to decide) he should go to his former employer and ask for it.
 If he's told to scram or if his old job dcesn't exist, then he should go to his Selective Service Board = the outfit that probably got him into his trouble in the first place. There, he'll get help.
 But if he had no job before he en- tered the service or if he's looking for a new type of work more suitable to service acquired experiences he should see the veterans representa- tive at U s. Employment Service cffice. The USES has been trying to get that across to ex-service men. True, it's divided responsibility and not too satisfactory from veterans viewpoint. But that's the way it is, and someone is always handy to con- fuse it some more.
 For instance, a Southern news paper account recently said that an official had announced Selective Service Boards were now ready to handle the task of getting jobs for returning service men.
 It's inaccuracies like that that make a guy lose his smoke-ring calm. Selective Service Boards have nothing to do with getting jobs, ex- cept veterans old pre-war jobs. No wonder veteran sometimes feels he's drowning and someone is throw ing him both ends of a rope.
 A job-seeking veteran can get aw- ful mad and when someone tells him he should go to a Service Mems Gen. ter, and there he's told to go to the Red Cross, but on the way a friend stops him to send him to the Ameri- can Legion, which says he should go to the United States Employment Service, but then he reads some thing else, so he goes to his Selec- tive Service Board, and is told to report to the USES. Well, for -. What is this? Troubles in the large economy size.
 Just keep this in mind: if one of us wants his old job-Selective Service Board; if we want another ioh--veterans' representative at the U. s. Employment Service.
 Oh, yes, the conversation at Fort Lauderdale An ex-service man, who had been a seaman 2nd class, in- quired at the USES office about the free training program available to ex-service men. He was in the wrong place = it's handled by the Veter- ans Administrations he was asked:
 What training do you want?"
 1T want to be an actor" he re- turned T can be a good one"
 Why do you think that?"
 Say, have you ever seen Orson Welles? He's making plenty. But I've studied his style, and I'm tell ing you he's the biggest ham there is. I wouldn't have to have half my brains and looks to be better than he isl"
 The ex-seaman, End class, got his information, completed blank to file with the Veterans Administra- ton applying for training in an ac- tors school. A vocational counsel