Hemingray pays it's emplolyees attending National Guard & the Officers' Training Corps.

COMMENT

o   o   o   o   o

By Wilber E. Sutton

PAYING CITIZEN SOLDIERS.

EMPLOYES of the Hemingray Glass Company in Muncie do not lose money by attending the ananual [sic] annual camps of the National Guard and the Officers’ Training Corps. Differ­ences betweetn [sic] between the pay received for military service in the camps and the wages of soldiers receive for their work at the factory are made up by the company, it is said. This, of course, costs the company consider­able money each year, but doubtless it believes it is a patriotic thing to do, as it is.

The young men who attend the mili­tary camps for training are doing so to equip themselves to benefit all of us, as well as themselves, in case of war. Everybody cannot take this course, and nobody is compelled to do so unless he is part of the National military machine and he does not have to be a part of that.

It hardly seem right that these young men who acquire this training which may be at any time be employ­ed for the protection of all the people should be penalized financially for doing so as they are where they leave good paying jobs in which their pay ceases during the time of their absence in training.

The Hemingray plan might well be put into general use by all employers who can afford to do so.