Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-02-13 | Page 23 | [Illegible] Veterans Get Real Help

fiS'ZAC VETERANS GET REAL HELP Australian Soldiers Back in Civil Life Start on New Careers (N. E. A. Starf Special)"" LONDON, Feb. 12. Australian soldiers, sol-diers, returning to eivil life, are getting get-ting 100 per cent backing from tho government They are: Shown the way to real jobs-Given jobs-Given financial assistance. Taught trades or farming. Given a chance to buy homes. "Australia has accepted the whole responsibility," snys Senator E D. Mll-len. Mll-len. minister of repatriation in Australia Aus-tralia "My department was created Spec(ally to ue.nl with the subject " Australia's success a f fords . suggestions sugges-tions for dealing with neglect or war veterans In the Colled States of which the American legion has complained. "What have been adopted as definite defi-nite obligations to your war heroes?" h- was asked. Ho listed them in this i ONE; To restore every man to a position comparable to that which he (occupied upon enlistment, and to sustain sus-tain him by money allowance untl! such a Job is secured TWO: To make provision for de-I de-I pendents or deceased soldiers or of those who. owing to injuries, are un-i.able un-i.able to provide Tor them- THREE To provide medical treatment, treat-ment, after discharge, in cases of men iwith recurring disabilities due to war Service FOUR: Retraining of men whose war disabilities prevent their following follow-ing pre-war occupations. Mlllen explained that while the government gov-ernment was finding Jobs, a susten-iftncc susten-iftncc allowance of approximately ?10 Ja week has been given single men. with extra allowance for married men and their children, if any. A hen I left Australia," Millen raid, "only one per cent of 230,000 men who had returned home, and who were 'not physically incapacitated, remained I on allowance The average period during dur-ing which men drew allowance was 'three weeks. "As the result of vocational traln-jing traln-jing 30,00(1 men who would ha . e drilled dril-led into the ranks of the unskilled la- I borers have become skilled workmen." "How did this army of untrained men live while learning trades?" ho I was asked. "They were granted $10 a week Iwhllo ln training." Millen explained. I "They were sent first to a training (.school and afterward to trade schools and absorbed Into Industry by a Joint agreement or the unions and the em- ployera Tho ratio was one such man to oery six journeymen ordinarily employed- "In settling soldiers n land the I commonwealth agreed to help flnan- . chilly. 'We advance 1.000 pounds (nearly $4,000 American money) to each set- tier, of which 62 5 pounds Is for working work-ing capital, plant and Improvements I .Seventeen thousand men have been Veafabllshed on the land and ir is estimated esti-mated l,at 13.000 more will desire to wet land. The total land settlement oou probably cosl the Commonwealth "Jjon 000 pounds. 'arliamunt has approxed ;i plan 'to erect houses It enables any soldier 1 01 his widow to obtain a bouse either I bv purchase or building, up to tho lainount or 800 pound, without dc-J poiitj. , . I 1 "Interest is charged at 5 per cent, plus 1 per cent sinking fund. The amount of arrears has been loss than I 2 per cent. "The program for this year calia Cor 0,000 homes and the uppropritition is; for 5.000,000 pounds. We oxpoct to, appropriate this sum annually fori (several years, as there is no time limit in, winch eligible men may appiyi".