Show HELPS SOLDIERS TO SECURE JOBS chicago from a report just issued by the bureau for returning and sailors and marines in this city it Is possible to get adequate tion concerning what nhat has been done in behalf of those of our returned defenders who have sought employment and other aid in the district of which chicago Is the headquarter headquarters the plan of the bureau for giving assistance to dis charged service men was formed by maj alaj gen leonard wood who nho acts as the chairman of the headquarters committee and who from the first has taken personal interest in the wort worl the bureau was nas established last april and its records today show that 43 service sen ice men have registered at head quarters of this number 32 asked for assistance in obtaining employment at the present time the flies illes of the bureau show that only 2250 0 men still remain on the not hired list this means that per cent of the men seeking employment have found it through the instrumentality of the bureau rumors are refuted there have been rumors which some people have been busy in passing along to the effect that bureaus tor for aiding the soldiers and sailors to get re established in civil life were ere not doing adequate work nork to a considerable extent this sort of thing it Is said has hag been propaganda for or no good pur pose so far as the district which has chicago for its headquarters Is concerned the attested records which show that 04 3 per cent of the applicants c have found work speak for themselves in the dally daily life of the bureau there Is much to be he found of human interest of the men who registered about asked for assistance along lines other than that of 0 employment they wanted to secure vocational training to be given glen information con berning educational work and in some cases there were requests for or clothing and for temporary loans every case was uns met out of great number of men who applied at the bureau only actually needed food between 3 and 4 of the men did not know how to secure their bonuses from the government every man was wa told how bow to go at it and every man sot got his money of the applicants for us ns sl si stance 3 have entered courses of vocational training much of interest the activities of the bureau as they have gone on day by day are interest ing to watch from the returned sol diers and sailors one gets the after the war viewpoint the comments on the war and its aftermath and the conclusions which the men have drawn show almost invariably thoughtful consideration of the problems involved col halstead Ual stead dorey who served with the third division in france and who was four times wounded is actively in charge of the chicago bu reau with him are maj john S bonner who ho formerly was a united states consul and kleut W E stan ley an aid de camp of maj gen leon ard wood and a son of former governor stanley of kansas |