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Show HOMESICKNESS IS -BEING OVERCOME Homesickness, according to a wes- j tern investigator, is one of the chief reasons why workmen do not remain on their jobs. H. M. Barratt writes in the Salt Lake Tribune some of the experiences of Utah men who were brought from their native state to jobs in the east The men had. many of themv never j been away from home before, and the change was too much for them. A ' number of them threw up their job3 and went home. Homesickness in the case of some , men is so severe as to become a disease, dis-ease, as physicians have long recognized. recog-nized. The government plant is de ; veloping a means of acclimatizing men " who show signs of nostalgia The victims of tho home-longing are given i the widest latitude, and aro given all the comforts that welfare workers and " the Y. M C. A. can provide them. i Good advice from men who have al- i ready been through the mill, with the II realization that their own distance W from home Is several thousand miles -M less than that of the boys in France m who aro so sorely dependent on them m Tor support, generally banishes tho 9 feeling within a short time, and the 9 erstwhile homesick man becomes one ot of the most competent and efficient m men in the plant. j |