Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-05-19
South Dakota and Nebraska
Both Short of Men to Do
Work of the Farms
YOUNG MEN ARE ENLIsTiNe
Government Recruiting Office Doing a
Big Business While the Farmers
Seek in Vain to Get Sufficient Help
to Plant and Cultivate Their Crops
Prefer Army Life.

Sioux City. Ia, May 19-Farmers
from Iowa. Nebraska and South Da-
kota are coming into Sioux City for
help. The employment offices are de-
luged with applications from every pa TT
of the state to secure help to put in the
| crop, but there are few who are apply
ing for work along that line.
The farmers are offering $25 per
month, and will guarantee work until
the last ear of corn is in the crib, or
from now until Christmas. Some of
them will do dollar or two better
than $25 and some of them will take
good man into the family, give him $25
per during the summer and $15 or bet
ter while he is putting on fat this
winter and driving the teams around
to dances and having a picnic in gener-
al with enough work feeding stock to
keep the idea OF work from departing.
Within the last four or five days one
employment office in the city has had
applications from fifty farmers for
help, but hundreds of able bodied fell
lows have passed the door without
looking in and the bureau has been
able to supply three farm hands who
have agreed to work until corn is laid
in July.
AT the recruiting office OF the United
States army. where men are offered S13
per month, there have been all kinds of
applications for enlistment Fifteen
men We're sent last month. despite the
strict physical examinations and the
moral requirements now being en-
forced. A farmer will take most any
man. washed or unwashed, black or
white, good or bad. while the recruit
ing officer is throwing out men who
cannot show evidence of 4 bath Within
a week, but even then he gets the most
and has lot weeping because they
can't secure job at s13 per with the
possibility af a raise after six years
of service to SIS per month.
The average man who goes to the
farm can own 100 acres of the finest
land In the county after six years of
service. The first year he will own a
team and perhaps farmers daughter:
by the third year he has rented piece
OF ground and is tending 1t and work.
Ing around in the neighborhood with
his team. receiving as much every
week as he would in the army IN a
there is little or no desire
for such life: men are going to the
army and drilling beneath the pink
dome of the Philippine skies, where 1t
is twice as hot and where they are iso-
lated from the green fields of the best
country on which the sun has ever
sipone.
Sergeant Wilmer Blackett recently
made a trip thru the western part OF
Iowa and the eastern section of Ne
braska. He opened up his office for a
few days in Nebraska City Neb.,
Shenandoah, Ciarinda and Red Oak
Ia, and the men poured In TO enlist
in the army, accepting the best offer
which the representatives OF Uncle Sam
could make them-s13 per month and
no home cooking. He was not very
long in picking up nearly enough men
10 form a company, and all of them
could have made full hands on the |
farm. During the past month the re-
,ruiting stations of the United States |
nave been enlisting men at the rate OF |
800 per week There has been only |
slight decrease this month, tho the |
lumber of hobo applicants has shown |
/ marked falling off caused by the APP !
oroach of summer, which allows them |
% continue their march In the great |
ramp army with comparative comfort. |