Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-07-18

ADVERTISING THE BUREAU.

An open letter to the editor OF
the Minneapolis Journal from B.
H." Of Huron, calls attention to
our state bureau of information
created by an act written by R. O..
Richards and given life and vitali-
ty at the last session ofsthe legisla-
ture. The letter is as follows:
TO the Editor OF The Journal:
"A seedy, bedraggled individual
is hailed before the Judge. A police
man testiGes he FOUND the man
proving in hallway searching for
a place to sleep. The Judge i'll
auires whether the man has job.
He has not. Money? He has not.
Friends? Mo; his home is thous-
and miles away. SO the court
.pronounces the man a vagrant and
sends him to prison.
"A Christian government? No.
a government which furnishes no
assistance to the jobless, but pun
isfes them for its own delinquency.
South Dakota is the first state
in the union to take the initiative
in enacting law. as a Transform
measure, for temporary relief. IN
the interest OF labor until better
opportunities can be accomplished
through state government. This
law went into effect July I and is
called the state bureau of informa-
ton act. Anyone under this law
can write or telephone the register
of deeds at any county seat OF his
or her want pertaining to employ
men. as employer or employee in
any line, or desire to purchase or
sell any kind of livestock or celeals
and seeds. All this information is
sent daily from each county to the
state commissioner, who brings to-
gether the man and the job and the
buver and the seller by notifying
each by postal card. This is done
free of charge to either party OF the
transaction.
If one wants teacher, steno-
grapher, hired girl, carpenter Or
hired man, or someone to come
and bid on livestock. corn or seed
grain in South Dakota one need
only TO communicate ones wants
to the register of deeds i'll any
county.
I'm short, the law provides the
opportunity of free, general, state
wide information 50 that labor can
find employment, employers may
find laborers. sellers may find buy
ers, and buyers may find sellers.
Huron. S. D. 3. II. "
After reading the above letter if
one will also take the time to go
through the law itself. he will be
deeply impressed with the VIVID
imagination of "B. H. One
might get the understanding from
a mere reading of the letter that
the law repealed everything which
existed up to the time OF its pas
sage respecting vagrancy and if a
man were found sleeping in the
lobby of the postoffice. for instance
the marshal should awaken him
with all gentleness: take him to the
nearest lunch counter for a feed
and thereafter to the office Of reg
lister of deeds where job shall be
secured, to the end that he may
live happy ever after. The law
reads we'll and will be good one
if it works out. One thing assure
it will work out the register Of
deeds and with no extra pay either
1t is stated on what appears tc
be a credible basis that the posta
department at Washington il
changing republican postmasters te
democratic one at the rate of ove1
one hundred and sixty each day
At this rate it will not be man,
moons before Boss Burleson get
around to look after affairs ant
officials in South Dakota. -Dakot;
Republican.