The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-04-10
IF MONEY is YOUR ONLY OBJECT
TRY PLAsTeRiNo AS AN occU.
PATTON
YOUNG MEN GET S5 A DAY
Learn a Trade. Get More Money
Than School Teachers and Clerks
and Work Shorter Hours--A Good
Workman in Four Years.

Learn a trade. young man. and
live comfortably Unless your par
cnts are a part of the beef trust.
the chances are that YOU will have
to work for your living. Therefore.
learn trade. Join union and
draw each week between slS and
Si5 for your services
Proofs? Plenty cf 'cm. Take.
for example. the school teacher and
the stonccutter.
The school teacher has devoted
his early life to acquiring an edu.
cation lie has served as bell
hop sold books. worked in harvest
fields or waited table to keep the
breath of life in him until the time
of his graduation. At - he is grad
uated from college and is employed
to teacn eight months in the year al
S3j a month. II he is a teacher in
is $50 month and the school term
is ten months. The ante for the
second year is raised to $3.50. the
third 5000. the fourth $500 and $40
year thereafter, provided each year
shows satisfactory Advancement
says the board OF education. When
his salary has reached 1920 a year
the teacher rs % years old.
Observe the stone cutters appren-
tice. BY the time he has finished
the ward school he is taken into the
stone yard. His work Is under the
supervision of the journeymen stone
cutters. and if the boy is apt he is
skilled workman at the end of his
i-ycar apprenticeship. He is then
paid from 81 to So "A day. If he is
able 10 do stone carving his pay is
much more.
Compared with the hotel clerk or
the man who sells table linen in the
dry go ds stores. the plasterer has
either uf them beaten country
block. The plasterer works only
eight hours a day and receives $36
Overalls and doesn't spend cent to
have his nails manicnred. The
chances are that ii the coroner were
to be called to identify his body be
would find in his pockets, instead of
an engraved calling card. roll of
yellow money. and receipt for
union dues.
The lather who nails up the little
strips for the plasterer TO hang his
plaster on, receives only s2i week.
but all he has 10 do is to hammer
and saw.
Kansas City painters who belong
to the unicn are paid 81 day How
ever, there Is always risk of CON
tracing painters collie, and phys.
clans charge real money for their
be "A physician.
Just now the artisan most sought
after Is the cement worker. Requests
are telephoned to labor headquarters
every day for them. Cement work.
crs lay cement floors, sidewalks and
curbing. TO the layman. the work
? looks easy. Just mixing sand and
cement and spreading il about over
! pulyerized stone. II takes a cement
worker three or four years to learn
/ how to spread the cement so that
when il hardens il won't crumble or
! crack Fer his knowledge he re.
ceives 81 day,
The quips about the plumber s
wages and the time he consumes
have become tattered and worn. but
/ still have some grounds tor circula
ton. In Kansas City a plumber Is
paid siXty-two and one half cents an
hour.
Two artistic branches of skilled
labor are tile setting and gas,
working. At one time the Italian
mosaic worker who made bcautiiu
designs on doorsteps with small bits
OF mable that he set in cement haC
the business cornered. Within tn,
last fifteen years the tile manufac
turer has driven out the Italian
American tile settlers now lay floor,
in designs and colors that make tn.
dark skinned men gaze in wonder