The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-24
QUEER OCCUPATIONS
PROVIDED BY
UNCLE SAM.
Uncle Sans Many ClerkS-Law-
yerS, Doctors, Bankers, Paint
erS and Writers Who Are in
His Employ.

There is hardly any kind of labor or
knowledge that Uncle Sam cannot use
Possibly there is not single profess
sion or occupation in the United States
that has not at least one representa-
tive who is in the employ of the
United States government.
OF course you all know that he has
lots of doctors and lawyers and bank
ers in his service. The doctors are in
the army and the navy, in his revenue
and immigration service and scattered
through all his various departments.
Thousands of them are drawing his
pay from the polar seas to the Philip
pines.
His lawyers are represented almost
| everywhere too. Many of them are in
the Philippines, and they must be good
ones. for they have important quest
lions to answer. A mistake might not
only cost Uncle Sam a great deal of
| money, but involve him in deep trouble
| with other nations. The lawyers who
are in Uncle Sans employ in Wash
| ington have to be sharp ones, for there
are many extremely shrewd and clever
lawyers in Congress who would be
| quick enough, you may be sure, to
| catch Uncle Sam mapping.
Uncle Sans bankers are scattered
| everywhere, like his lawyers and doc
tors. Some of them sit in places called
subtreasures. Others are here and
there under all kinds of titles. Some
good ones have been working lately in
the new possessions trying to put af-
fairs there in order. They had to
know all about the currency of various
countries and just how much actual
money the dependencies could raise at
q pinch and how to provide against
| recklessness and extravaganza and I'M
| expected misfortunes.
Uncle Sam has lots of bookkeepers,
| of course. He employees an army of
errand boys. He has thousands of
stenogra piers. He has porters and
| shipping clerks and all the other help
ers needed by great business concerns.
In his printing shops he has every
grade of help from the printers devil,
who is the boy that runs around with
| copy for the compositor, to high grade
| photographers and color artists.
| He has hundreds of literary men in
his employ. Some famous artists
have been glad to paint pitures for
! him. They have painted his fish and
his game and his forests and his In
! dams. Their work has been repro
| duced by Uncle Sam in beautiful books
that would cost many dollars a copy
| if they had not been printed by the
| government for distribution among
| citizens.
Besides the well-known occupations,
| Uncle Sam provides many that are not
known in ordinary commercial life.
For instance, he has a small army
| of foreste-s-men who go all over his
| country year in, year out, studying his
forests. This is a compare lively new
business, but it is going to be a most
important one for the United States.
for the forests are vital to the life of
! the land. Reckless destruction of
| them, such as has been almost the
| rule through generations, would mean
| foods and drouths without cessation
in the end. The trees are great bal
ancers. The woods are like immense
| reservoirs. Without them there would
be no little streams, but instead the
waters that gather from the rains
would rush down the barren hillsides
| in torrents and drown the cities at
their bases. In hot, dry weather
there would be no moisture seeping
down through the earth as there is
now when the woods preserve IT,
And. then. too. II We keep on chop
ping down all our trees, there will
| come a time when no more wood is TO
be had, and that would mean ruin FOR
nearly every Industry, for, although
men call this the age OF steel. yet II
you will look around you you will find
that almost every other thing that
you see has some part in II OF wood
Uncle Sans foresters have learned
all about trees-how long they live
/ how they should be treated. how many
may BE- cut each year IN a forest with
cut harm. and What trees are the best