Show j Wyk by Western Newspaper Union U o WHAT VETS WANT IN WAY OF NEW JOBS A SURVEY OF REPRESENTATIVE TIVE cross section of those in the armed forces definitely indicates that a large proportion of those fighting fight fight- fighting fighting ing the nations nation's battles do not want to return to the jobs they held in pre pre- prewar prewar prewar war days That should hould not be sur sur- surprising surprising surprising to those of us on the home front A very large proportion of those fighting men left us as boys just breaking across the threshold of young manhood The jobs they held If any were the jobs assigned to immature im im- immature immature mature youth They represented the ther r starting places in industry and busi busi- ness nes They were the apprentices junior and clerks They did not call 0 for mature ability vision or From such jobs they would advance as maturity and ability de- de devel I vel ned Those who left us as boys will re re- return return return turn if at all as mature men Their years of absence have been filled with stirring soul soul stirring adventure They have had thrust upon them and have accepted responsibility far greater than anything they would have had in the jobs they held in their prewar days They have dem dem- demonstrated demonstrated demonstrated their ability to perform as the mature men they are today It is not to be wondered at and should not be expected that boys whose maturity has been attained In the trying schools of the battle battlefronts battlefronts battlefronts fronts should wish and expect to fill a mans man's job when he returns It was not acquiring a knowledge of the minor details of a business that would have hav assured them advance advance- advancement advancement advancement ment ment had they remained at home It was proven ability to accept and master responsibility to dem dem- demonstrate demonstrate demonstrate leadership to think quick quick- quickly ly and intelligently of problems that faced laced them that would have meant advancement to better than a boys boy's job They have learned and mas mas- mastered mastered mastered all of these things in the hard school of the battlefield They bring back from that school not merely three to five more years of age but half a lifetime or more of develop develop- developing ing experience They left us as boys they return as fully matured men and are entitled to such place in the postwar world as maturity and a sense of responsibility would provide Employers are morally obligated oblIgated gated to provide jobs for those employees who went to war It ItIs ItIs Itis Is not the boys' boys places they left leU but bat the higher places those de de- demanding demanding demanding manding maturity experience ability to accept responsibility they should be given Those who have succeeded as fighting men can be counted upon to capably fill those better jobs of civilian life lite in the postwar world S e e eRATE RATE OF EXCHANGE BETWEEN FRANCE AND U. U S. S THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT appeases General De and the French government at the expense of the American soldier serving in France and Germany The Amer Amer- American American American ican soldier is paid in French francs For GI Joes Joe's 50 monthly pay he receives French francs but the commercial exchange rate on which the price of French merchandise merchandise merchandise dise is based would give Joe francs for his 50 five 50 five times what he receives For the fictitious value we place on the franc in so far as paying pur our soldiers is con con- concerned concerned concerned maintains face for the French it means the American sol sol- soldier soldier sol sol- soldier dier receives only the equivalent of 10 instead of 50 a month Natural- Natural the ly-the the GI Joes do not like the tice Ice He would prefer receiving his pay in American dollars which he could exchange at any French bank for francs It is the French not the American government tha profits at Joes Joe's expense |