The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-02-20
J. S. Will Stand Firm Against Interference
UNCLE SAM TRYING To- SEND
DELUDED YOUNG MEN BACK
TOFARMS AND PROSPERITY

said that was the kind OF job /
would like.
l.aNrence Wood. The Inspector IN
charge. when We had fillod out the
application blanks. ignored me for
the moment and gave the tattercd
multi-millionaire a much-dcser, cd
lecture
And the Inspector In charge was
perfectly right
Tells Him Hes Fool
With all respect to worthy and
useful class ~ citizens. anybody
with fair health and a modieum OF
brains can be a teamster.
This Young man had been born
and raised on farm. Tie under
stood farming and despised a.
The work he had found hard. the
hours long When the day ended
there Was nothing TO do but so 10
bed The only music he ever heard
on The farm was the croaking OF
frogs The only bright lights he
saw on the farm we're the moon
and the stars.
So he had abandoned farm life
aud come 20 the city tie Eot a
job as tcamster and vas a patron
OF the moving picture theatres
That Vas four years ago He Was
nov "a He had been out OF a Job
four months.
The Inspector In charge told him
young multi.millionairc. In Ian.
guage quite polite. that man who
preferred teaming 10 farming was
several kinds OF fool
Profession and Science
Farming. said the inspector. was
mare than a trade II was q pro
fcssion II was also a science
There we're hig rewards. IN money
] aud satisfaction. in farming
While he didn't say so In so many
words. he said By implication that
farmer Is the skilled assistant In
legerdemain OF the greatest OF All
Magieians. who plants the seed. and
makes the rain TO fall. and the sun
to shine. -presto-chanxo --
there is food where before there wn,
none
Without the farmer. Ne parasite,
city jewellers would starys TO death
tie told The young maltl.million
aire to get a job on farm save
his money. perhaps work land or
shares and some day. VI he stucl
20 Il. be would have a farm Of his
own
I Anybody. he sAid--and he looked
NJ me-a ny body with grain oil
sense could be a teamStor
I And the young multlmillionalre
/ filled out another blank
Trying Big Scheme
J Uncle. In turning employment
agent. Is trying 10 work out a big
I comprehensive scheme
No city. no state could work out
such a scheme \ city canno; see
I beyond It's own limits A state can
not see beyond It's own boundaries
( Uncle has divided these United
E States into IS zones. OF which ths
Seattle zone is the 18th Each
zone has It's head station and a..
substations. Each zone keeps con
stantiy In touch with ali the othei
zones.
Now. II every man could find tbs
right job. and every job tho RICH
man. society would achieve the mil
lennium The trouble IL that II
one rome 10 men scramble for on'
{ job for which maybe only one II
/ aufsoAt uhff. ,,E.r f,ha d, rsho,
zones are going begging
/ Farmer boys crowd into cities
where they compete for Jobs. Cite,
produce nothing. ~ best they onl'
polish off and Improve In appear
snce and usefulness the rav mate
rial which the Great Magician pro
duces out OF the earth
Enough Work for All
Farmers cry out for hands I,
work the farms. and their cry II
heard by the cities. which send Z,
the country out-ofv city Teller
who don't know which end OF tn,
COW the milk comes from.
There IL enough work in IN.
world 10 keep everybody moderate
~ busy. There is enough food Il
the world TO give everybody thre,
square meals a day
But the world will not be food
full. job-full and joyful until vi
have efficient and intelligent distri
button OF men and Jobs n Uncl
Sam eannot bring this about. VIII
CAM
Are bricklayers. cement.workerl
hod-carriers needed In one zone
All the other zones will know o
the need and try to satisfy It, 1871
there can be no PUSHES OF superflr
Gus unemployed TO that zone Ia
cause the zone will notify the othe
zones when The need has beef
filled.