Gunnison Valley News | 1922-02-03 | Page 3 | Keep away from the Orient

KEEP AWAY FROM THE ORIENT Ex-Service Men Are Warned That Jobs Are Scarce and Only Natives Are Employed. Whipple S. Hall, who traveled 10,-000 10,-000 miles to represent the department of the Philippines at the national convention con-vention of the American Legion, warns all ex-service men to keep away from the Orient unless they have enough money to bring them back home again. Discharged veterans of the Siberian front, many accompanied bj Russian wives as destitute as their husbands, worked their way to the Islands as merchant sailors and are now in the hands of the Legion and the auxiliary. Many of them, penniless, worked their way down through China In the belief that the Orient blossomed with good jobs. Virtually all mauvfll labor and small clerical work Is pei formed by natives.