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NCLE SAM today 1b engaged In tho
beneficent work of securing em
ployment for his unemployed nieces
and nephews, whether native or
foreign born. Uncle Sam's workers
in chief at the problom of connect
ing the JobleBs man with the man
ices job aro William ' I). Wilson,
secretary of the department of la
bor, Anthony CamincttI, tho commissioner gen
oral of Immigration, and T. V. Powderly, chief
of tho division of information of tho immigration
bureau.
Nobody knows definitely how many unemployed
men and womon thorn aro In tho United Statea
today. Ono thing, howovor, la known definitely,
that the number probably is not as great nor any
thing llko as great in proportion to tho popula
tion as it has been at times in the past. 'There
aro enough of tho unemployed, however, to make
tho problem a serious one, but there seems to bo a
belief on the part of government officials that the
broadening of the field of federal effort to help
,men and women to work steadily will sap tho
strength of that dreaded and at times actually de
vouring monster known as
unemployment.
Tho division of informa
tion of tho bureau of immi
gration not only is engaged
in tho work of promoting
tho beneficial distribution of
aliens admitted to tho Unit
ed States, but under th 9 gen
eral power of tho law Is di
recting tho distribution of
residents and citizens of tho
United States "who wish to
avail themselves of oppor
tunities for labor afforded
through Its instrumentality."
Recently tho post office
department and the depart
ment of agriculture have en
tered Into a cooperative ar
rangement with tho depart
ment of labor In aid of the plau "for tho em
ployment and distribution of laborers In tho
United States; tho former through its post
masters, officers In chargo of branch poBt of
fices and rural carriers; and tho latter through
Its field and other sorvices throughout the Unit
ed States."
Every officer of tho department of agriculture,
no matter where ho Is located, Is charged with
tho duty of keeping Washington officials Informed
concerning tho necessity for, workers in tho lo
cality in which he resides Every farmer In the
United Statos through tho post office depart
ment by this tlmo has boon, or soon will bo, fur
nished with application blanks upon which ho
can state any need which he ban of farrn labor
ers or of help of any description, Theso blanks
filled In and forwarded will do the service for
which they aro Intended the connection of some
competent man with work of tho kind which he
Books.
The work which Is being done in connection
with farm labor Is, of course, only ono part of tho
service which tho department, of labor through
Its division of 'Information is performing. Manu
facturers and employers of labor of all kinds aro
furnished with blanks similar to thoso sent to the
farmers, oxcept, of course, that thoy arc ad
justed to meet other kinds of working needs. Tho
correspondence of tho department is tremendous
and tho work of giving men work is going for
ward rapidly.
' Before going Into the detallB of the mecha
nism of tho system by which natives, sometimes
residents, and recently arrived immigrants aro
dlrocted to fields of employment, something
should bo said about tho development of this
groat governmental plan to provide work for tho
workless. For a quarter of a century William D.
Wilson, now a member of President Wilson's
cabinet as tho head of tho department of labor,
has been deeply Interested, concerned, perhaps,
wore a bettor wordt In tho solution of tho prob
lem of forging tho connecting link of Information
between tho man seoklng work and the man seek
ing workmen.
For Just as long and perhaps a longer period
T. V. Powdorly, tho chlof 'of tho division of in
formation, has boon Interested in tho same prob
lem. Mr. Powdorly has been connected with the
government service for some years and has de
veloped a system of getting tho work and the
worklosB worker togother until today the post
olllco department and tho agricultural depart
ment aro co-opcratlng with tho department of la
bor In a broad and comprehensive plan to reduce
tho ovll of unemployment to a minimum which
might u called natural
Perhaps Mr. Powderly will enter no objection
If ono U'lls a story of how ho first becamo Inter
ested to a heart and mind feollng point In plans
to get work for tho workless. To mo the story
Is an Interesting one unci It seems that It ought
to bo to others.
In the your 1873 T. V. Powderly, a machinist by
trade,1 lost his eyesight. For threo months ho sat
u darkness, and being unab,lo to work he lost
his Job. HIb sight came back and ho started on u
tramp looking for work. Ho was a tramp seek
ing work, not a tramp Becking handouts, Ho left
tho United States and went Into Canada. He
found no work. On tho ovo of New Year's day.
If7i!, ho found himsolf In St. ThomaB, Ont., with
no money In his pocket, no food in his stomach
and no place to sloop. A watchman allowed hlm
to Bleep In tho frolghthouso of a depot on a bed
mado or bagging. From there Powderly walked
to Buffalo seeking work. There a good-hearted
Irishman gave him breakfast, tho first ono ho had
had for somo dayB. All this time the tramper
was asking himself why there was not somo
means of lotting him know where thoro was
work. In asking himself this ho was charging
his heart and mind with a purpose in life, tho
saino purposo which Secretary Wilson of tho de
partment of labor fixed In his own mind and
heart a quarter of century ago.
"Tramp" Powderly reached ono town where
thoro woro somo machine shops. Ho applied for
work and thoro woro no vacancloa. Ho loft.
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Shortly afterward
he learned that at
another machine
shop they had need
ed men. If ho had
known it ho could
have secured work
at his trade and
have been clothed,
well fed and happy.
Ho had no means of
knowing except by
direct application
that at this place
thero was iwork.
Today, as a result
of study of systems
and of tho development of ideas formulated
through tho years, a workless man can go to
any post. ofTlco, or soon will be able so to do, In
tho United States and there learn from the
government offlplals of tho employment possibili
ties In the neighborhood. Undo Sam 1b using
his postmasters as a means or getting the will
ing worker to tho waiting job.
Thoro aro many factors in this problem of un
employment. It must be known that thero aro
tramps and tramps. Thero Is tho man who is
looking for work and who seeks it and has to
tramp to do it, and then there is tho man who
has lost his work and has become discouraged
and apparently d6es not caro whether or not ho
ever finds work again. Tho first man has not lost
his self-respect and tho second man has either lost
it or has come pretty close to losing It. It is
not going too far, perhaps, to say that a part of
tho governmental function eventually will bo to
recultlvate a spirit of Bolf-respect in men who
through idleness, enforced Idleness In the first
place, generally, have lost It. Some day these
men will bo brought back to manhood. They
aro In the minority, for experlenco shows that
most of tho Idlo ones aro Idle because they can
not help being Idle. The government through
Its division of Information Is seeking to destroy
idleness.
Tho United States, for tho purposo of con
necting employment seekers with cmploymbnt,
has been divided into distribution zones. Thero
aro IS of theso zone?. Tho official of tho Immi
gration sorvlco already on duty in a city in each
zone attends to tho work of distribution. For a
long tlmo tho labor of distributing workmen
was carried on from New York city, and It Is
true that In tho future a largo part of the supply
of material will corao from Now York, becauBP
it is "a big city and also a great Immigration
port. Tho headquarters cities of tho different
distribution zones nro Now York, Boston, Phila
delphia. Baltimore, Norfolk, Jacksonville, Fla.,
Now Orleans, Galveston, Clevelond, Chicago, Min
neapolis, St Louis, Donver, Helena, Seattle,
Portland, Ore., San Francisco and Los Angeles. '
Let Now York city aB a distributing center and
ns a center of information bo taken as a chief
examplo of how things nro being done in this
effort to connect tho unemployed with employ
ment.' Canon L. Greeno Is tho Inspector In
chargo of tho Information work at the barge
offlco in Now York city. Now, it should be
known that tho government not only tries to
connect workleas onos with work, but It also tries
to put men who have saved a little money and
who want to buy farms In touch with conditions
in any part of tho country In which it scorns
likely that they will make a success of their
farming ellorts. '
A man seeking work on a farm comes Into
I ho bargo oinco In Now York. First, the officials
reod a lesson In humnn natnro from tho man's
face. They try to dlscovor, It Is said, and almost
always succeed, how much sincerity thero Is In
him. Then ho Is asked how much money he
' has. If ho has enough to take him to tho place
of employment all well and good. Tho fact that
ho Is willing to pay tho money to take him thero
In first proof of his desire to work and to stick
to It.
There aro men, however, who have no money,
but who aro capablo, willing, temperate and anx-
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UTILIZING THE BACK YARD
Ingenuity Must Be Displayed In Lay
ing Out the Smhll Space That
Is Available.
The problem of combining porno
semblance of design with tho uses to
which tho average city back yard Is
put Is a difficult one. Tako a trip on
t-ho elevated In summer and consider
tho acres of waste land and tho count
less wasted opportunities In thoso sad,
hot, dusty back yards, Think of tho"
tons of dolIdouB vegetables they
might have ralsod, tho lovely flowers.
Gracious; lot's not think of It any
more let's got out our soed cata
logues and pencil and paper and plan
to have our back yard an oasis this
summer.
Hero are suggestions for tho plant
ing of very small yards. Tho design
shows n garden 25xG0 feet of i lawn,
shrubs and flowers, tho whole com
pletely hidden from tho street by tho
heavy planting In tho northwest cor
ner. Tho yard Is 37x60 feet and wg a
small cold frame at right. f
In tho cold frame can be raised tho
twenty-four tomato plants that later
go against the north fence, tho ear
liest crops of lettuce, radishes and
onions and the first planting of sweet .
corn and cucumbers. "
The six dwarf fruit trees, tho clump
of shrubs at tho end of tho grass walk
and tho bench make an attractivo out
look from tho back porch.
A delightful flower and vegetabl
garden can bo achieved In a planting -space
COxGO feet by dividing them
With a pergola. Suppose thero Is a
long walk down tho iulddlo of tho
lous to work. In many cases the farmer who
needs a special kind of man is willing to ad
vance the transportation which will take ths
employed from the place of his application for
work to the scene of action. Now, of course,
some men might take tho transportation and
never show up and tho government has not funds
to make gobil such petty defalcations. Nearly
every man, however, who applies for work wants
"jjvork, and such men generally have somo per
sonal belongings. He Is told that if he will check
his belongings, which are first examined to sco
If they nro valuable enough to cover tho cost of
.transportation, and will givo tho check to tho
authorities, they will givo him tho money to
send him to his place of omploymont. This sys
tem of baggage checking has been going on for
a long time and almost never has thero" been a
Bjlp. The men go nnd In most case3 make good.
Chief Powderly of tho division of Information
says that in the belongings of most of tho men
who apply for work aro found pictures of a moth
er or a father or of a family group, and that al
most invariably when the baggage Is turned over
for inspection nnd transportation tho workseekcr
says: "Don't lose tho picture" It Is a human trait
and a sign of tho softer nature which underlies
almost every exterior, even If It bo a rugged one
and perhaps seemingly at times a hard ono.
Tho remedy for unemployment Is employment.
This is what Mr. Powdorly says and it scorns as
sharply true as tho Baying of the past In con
nection with the resumption of specie payment,
"The way to resume is to resume." It Is tho ef
fort today of the department of lubor, through Its
division of Information, to ask, all employers In
tho United States, agricultural, commercial, man
ufacturing, to tell tho government what men thoy
want and what they pay. The rural carriers, tho
post offices and every postal means is being
used to get tho Information. The responses have
been moBt gonorous. Tho officials at one distri
bution center when they find that the proper
place for a man or that tho placo to which he
wishes to go is located In another zone communi
cate with tho distribution center of that zone.
Tho work Is systematized and rapidly It Is bo
coming tho most effective agent to dimlnisa tho
condition of unemployment in America.
Tho officials of tho division of Information aro
now seeking doflnlto information concerning
how m'ich repair work on barns and other build
ings on tho farms Is done each winter. Tho
plan is to see if through tho farmors who need
tho holp of carpenters or machinists In winter,
relief cannot bo given to many city workers
who haVo little or nothing to do during the cold
winter months. Tho farmers aro to bo asked
what repalra thoy will need next winter nnd
what kind of a man they would llko to, have.
The federal officials will find tho man and thus
thoy hope to supply with employment during the
slack tlmos In the city mnny mon willing and
nnxlous to labor through tho entire year.
It seemingly 1b a wish of the officials of tho
department of labor that It should bo known
that while the division of Information Is a part
of the bureau of Immigration thnt this work of
connecting tho jobless with the Job does not
t concern Itself alone with tho Immigrant, but alms
' to givo Its Bervlco fully and freely alike to the
Incoming stranger nnd to the man who knows
this ns his native land.
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WON WITH HARD LUCK STORY
Generous Citizen Couldn't Resist Wuch
a Heart-Rendlng Narrative as
Deggar Told.
The genorotiB citizen had been ap
proached throo tlmeB that day by beg
gars who claimed that they woro In
hard luck, and to each of them ho un
hesitatingly gave mouoy, But when
he was accosted by tho fourth alma
jenkor, who nfao asserted that luck
had been against him, tho G. C.'b lib-
ornllty tightened.
"I'll tell you what I'll do," said ho to
tho seedy looking Individual. "You
tell mo tho story of tho cause that
forced you to bog. If It's a case of
genuine hard luck, I'll holp you out;
If it Isn't, I'll call a policeman."
"Holiest. mlBter," said the beggar,
humbly, "It was icnl, downright hard
luck that caused mo to como to youso
a-beggln'.
"A little whilo ago, mister, I was
n-Btandlng' on tho corner, holdln' in
mo hand tho last bit o' money I owned
teu cents. I was tryln' to make up
me mind how I should spond the dime,
but It was hard for mo to decide
'cause I needed three things an' the
coin could only buy one. You see,
mister, I needed somethtn' to ent, I
needed a shave, and needed a
drink.
"By nn' by 1 decided to let chance
settle it; hut the dime had only two
sides, so I had to cut ono o' me needs.
I'll be honest with youse, mister; I cut
out the shave. Then I Hipped the com
Into the air an' said: 'Heads I eat, art
tails I drink.' An' then right then th
most turrbell an unfortchnlt blow thai
could fall upon a human bein' hap
pened to me the dime fell to th
ground an' rolled Into the Boworl Now,
don't youso think, mister, that thai
was genwlne hard luck?" '
The geiierOUB Citizen hnwHW nnllai!
out a dollar and gave It to tho bea
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"Get something to eat nnd gel
shaved, but leave drink alone," he ad
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yard. It will seem less long because
of tho littlo rustic pergola dividing
flower from vegetable garden.
Grass surrounded by flowers and
shrubs would bo employed to make
tho little flower garden In front of
tho pergola restful and beautiful an
outdoor room of great charm.
Tho pergola itself shoula have grapo
vines trained over it.
Behind it would come tho biggest
outdoor workshop Imaginable, tho veg
etable garden.
At tho right an asparagus bed if
tho bed is properly cultivated and fer
tilized. Peppers, eggplant or cauli
flower can bo grown between tho rows
of asparagus.
Against tho fence would be two
towb of tomatoes (oven in a small
garden one must grow many of them,
thoy aro so satisfactory), lettuce, rad
ishes and onions, six hills of rhubarb
and tbo cold frame.
At tho left, Swiss chard, beans,
threo hills of cucumbers, and sweet
corn a quarter of tho garden in sweet
corn, the most delicious vegetable in
the garden.
Protecting Trees oh Highways.
A movement for n law prohibiting
the nailing of advertising signs on
.trees on tho public roads of Rhode
Island, Inaugurated by tho Nntlonrt
Highways Protective society, Is desorv
ing of encouragement. Trees are val
uablo property. Nails and spikes
driven into their trunks, Invite decay,
and tho signs, besides being offensive
to tho eye, afford refugo for insect
pests. The state law proposed has the
merit of protecting tho treeB from In
jury and of making tho roads mora at
tractive. In five states laws against
this kind of outdoor advertising are in
force, and it is stated that tho restric
tions meet with general approval.
Providence Journal.
Plants 56 Miles of Roses.
Fifty-six miles of rosea were added
to tho beautleB of Portland, Ore., with
tho planting recently of 100,000 bushes.
Thoy have been purchased as a result
of the campaign started by the clty
beautlful coramltteo of tho Rose Fes
tival assoclaUon, the purposo being to
mako tho city moro than usually at
tractive In preparation for tho coming
of visitors on their way to and from
the exposition at San Francisco.
Many rosea worth one dollar wero
sold by tho comm)tteo through the co
operation of florists at 12 cents each.
Tho buBhcs sold are largo enough to
bloom in tlmo for tho rose festival
next June.
Sympathetic.
He was mtddle-agod and untraveled.
For 45 years he had lived in tho coun
try. At last ho mado a trip to tho city.
There, for the first time In his ll'jf.
ho saw a schoolgirl go through her
gymnastic exercises for tho amuse
ment of the littlo ones at home. After
gazing nt her with looks of Interest
and compassion for somo time be
nskod a boy who wa3 standing near If
i. l.o.i m Mn " tlm hnv said.
Ijmiom'a gymnastics." "Ah, bow Bad!"
salu tne man. "now ionu u
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