Show UTAH A DOES DO BIT IT ITIN IN rR PROViDING PLACES fO FOR VETERANS Sta Statistics of Department of War Show Show Beehive State Has Has' Not Failed Fai ed in in Duty D to Soldiers that Salt Lake Lak and andO SHOWING i. i O Utah have played important parts in in reabsorbing its fighting lighting mien men men into peacetime industry government statistics of the war war var veterans replaced in in industrial life throughput the nation were announced announced an- an today In Utah service ex-service men registered registered registered regis regis- with the government bureau for lor jobs In In civil life The government was Instrumental en al In il placing 1757 of this number In Jn Salt Lake alone atone there Were jobs found for 1557 57 menThe men The Tb fig figures res' res are announced by bY the e of the assistant as secretary of war In ch charge rge of reemployment for soldiers and sailors WASHINGTON STATI STATISTICS TICS Reports to Washington show that men have applied for employment em- em In twelve months montis at the bureaus Of these have been pl placed ced at work wor or 71 per cent of all seeking employment In the far Western Vest ern and Pacific st states state's tes men have registered for employment and have been put at work ot or 79 per cent of all applyIng apply apply- ing ng It It Is estimated that about 75 5 per percent percent cent ent of Of the more than titan de demobilized demobilized de- de mobilized men went back to their former former for for- mer ncr positions or found employment without asking assistance says Lieutenant Lieutenant Lieu Lieu- tenant Colonel Matthew C C. Smith general taff staff of the service and in- in branch which now handles I the problems problems' of discharged soldiers and ond sailors PATRIOTIC FIRMS We Ve on have-on file to date the names of r 68 firms and Individuals pledging ing ng themselves to take tace back everybody wh who left them to serve In the war ah j the war department has Issued government citations to them in recognItion recognition of this patriotic attitude However How How- 1 ever eer this office has been chiefly concerned concerned con con- since March of of last year with those hoe other men who were not so fortunate fortunate for for- as s to find their old jobs waitIng waitIng wait- wait Ing ng for them The public can Judge of f resu results ts by the figures themselves |