VETERAN’S
GUIDE
By MAJOR THOMAS M. NIAI.
WASHINGTON — This story
about Joe — multiplied several
thousand times—gives a glimpse of
one of the major problems being
encountered by veterans returning
to civilian life.
Joe’s boss, the editor of an im
portant magazine, told me about
this;.how Joe has been discharged
from the Air Forces because of a
disability, how before the war he
had been an enterprising young
fellow, in the magazine’s research
department, and how four years
later, at 20, he reached the rank
of liutenant colonel before leaving
the army.
Joe returned to his old office—
looking, of course, for a job.
; “You know” Joe said. “I’m sup
posed to have the right to my old
job. But I wasn’t making much in
those days, so I though maybe you
might have something more im
portant for me.”
“I recognize yoar rights, Joe,”
the editor said, “and the promise
that your old job would be here for
you still holds.
"There’s a future for you here,
Joe. You were a hard worker. You
can go a long way with us. But re
member we’re publishing a maga
zine—not flying P51’s. I know you
! can learn the business, and we’ll
be glad to put you back on your
old job, not at your old salary of
j $25 a week, but at $35.”
"But,” Joe interrupted, "do you
realize what I’ve been earning? I
got $291.67 a month base pay, plus
rental and subsistence allowances
of $126. Then I got flying pay.
overseas pay and a fogie. I was
making over $600 a month—and
you offer about $150.”
Joe’s prbolem represents a sort
of compound fracture of the illu
sions. Accustomed to an income of
more than $7,200 a year, he is con
fused and chagrined at prospects of
adjusting himself to a civilian in
come of less than $2000.
He had been a pursuit pilot and
a good one. He had learned plenty
about small planes and fighting1
and how to handle men. But he
knew no more about the business
of publishing a magazine than he
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tered the army.
remaps more typical than Joe’s
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store on Main Street after high
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$163 a month plus clothes and
keep, which added another estim
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tical equivalent of $65 a week.
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vet in many cases will have to give
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money that he developed in the
service. We can’t start resting on 1
our laurels—we can’t sit back
thinking the country owes us a liv
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Our practical readjustment is to
take the most suitable job we can
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