The American Legion Weekly [Volume 1, No13 (September 26, 1919)] . , presentinghimself in person at the district office, ismet by an interviewer of the vocational advisors staff. This class of interviewermay be distinguished from a newspaperreporter by the salary he draws. The pay-roll of District No. 2 rates an interviewerat $3,600 a year. His task is to assist theapplicant in filling out a form, not quiteso difficult for the average mind to graspas a morning report. He indicates on thesurvey, or form, his best judgment as tothe most suitable occupation for the dis-abled man in question and t
The American Legion Weekly [Volume 1, No13 (September 26, 1919)] . , presentinghimself in person at the district office, ismet by an interviewer of the vocational advisors staff. This class of interviewermay be distinguished from a newspaperreporter by the salary he draws. The pay-roll of District No. 2 rates an interviewerat $3,600 a year. His task is to assist theapplicant in filling out a form, not quiteso difficult for the average mind to graspas a morning report. He indicates on thesurvey, or form, his best judgment as tothe most suitable occupation for the dis-abled man in question and the trainingnecessary to qualify him for such an occu-pation. The papers then go to the district medi-cal officer, who usually works on the medical officer deems the data in-sufficient to enable him to attain a decisionas to whether the applicant is sufficientlydisabled to be entitled to training, the manmust furnish without cost to the Boarda physicians statement of his physicalcondition, on forms prescribed and fur-nished by the Board. If still in doubt. September 26, 1919 11 the medical officer may call the appli-cant in for another examination. The placement officer then takes thecase. He is a $3,500 man in New York. Hechecks the recommendations of the voca-tional advisor and passes the matter onto the case board. In District No. 2 thesecretary of the case board draws $3, salary of members is not listed. Inmost districts they draw around $2, board passes on the wisdom of thefindings of the vocational advisor, themedical officer and the placement officerand forwards the survey to the Centraloffice at Washington. AT the Central office a higher rankingcase board considers the august body has power to recom-mend that the disabled man be placed intraining, in which case the papers are re-turned to the district office. They againfind their way into the hands of the place-ment officer who this time actually placesthe man in training. The papers in
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