Bisbee daily review., 1916-10-26
Federal Employment Bureau But One of Many Achieve mentS of the Wilson
 Administration.
MONEY FOR CROP MOVING
Rural Credits, Federal Reserve Act, Good Roads, Grain Standards and Many Other
 Benefits.
By FRANK G. ODELL.
Editor of the Nebraska Farm Magazine

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 is now an employment bureau? That
 is one of the new things Uncle Sam has started during the present Ad-
 ministratiOn. Secretary Wilson of the | Department of Labor has tackled the | task of bringing the joblesS man and the manless job together. and now every post office is an agency of the United States employment service. | The postmaster is equipped with | blanks for listing applications for la
 bor or for employment and is instruct ed to help get the worker and the job | in contact.
 While this might appear to be prin- cipally in the interest of the worker, | it is really one Of the numerous far ] reaching things started for the bene- | fit of the farmer by the A6ministra- ton of President Wilson. The increas- | ing scarcity of farm labor has become d problem to the farmer. especially
 in the wheat-growing and fruit-grow- ing sections. This labor, which is of a seasonal character. necessarily must
 he performed largely by itinerant workers. Some agency which will meet this demand and relieve the la borer of the graft of employment agencies is necessary. Uncle Sam has started it.
 single illustration will show how the system works; in the Willamette Valley of Oregon thousands of tenn porary workers are needed in hop picking time On August 20 the Ore gen Journal of Portland printed news article about the new govern ment employment agency. stating that six hundred families could Ob- tain immediate employment in the hop yards by applying ut the Portland division of the Federal employment service.
 This is another item added to the mass of accommodating evidence which shows that the Wilson Administration has tried to give roth labor and the farmer square deal. For the first time in history, this Administration has placed the nee6s of rural districts squareIy before Congress as of equal importance with the interests of finan-
 cial centers.
 And why not? Financial centers
 would not amount to much without the
 nine-billion-dOllar crop of the Ameri- tslli put AiiN iAiARt NFftH pA AAiC
 farmer have not always been so prOni-
 nently and favOrably considered by Congress as they have during the past
 three years. The record of Democrat
 ic claims for farmer support is a rec
 ord of accomplishment. It reads like
 this in the passage of laws and admin iStrative acts:
 What Has Been Done for the Farmer.
 CURRENCY REFORM: The Fed
 eral Reserve Act under which the
 farmers paper is given special con-
 sideration, including permission to
 National Banks to loan on the security of farm lands.
 RURAL CREDITS: An epoch-mak- ing legislative measure which will re- lieve the farmer of the incubus of the
 short-time loan at eXtortionate inter- est This measure alone, when in full force will save the farmers of the
 United States one hundred and fifty
 million dollars annually in interest charges.
 GOOD ROADS: Seventy-five mil
 lion dollars made available for the development of roads from the farm to the market, under conditions which VIII prevent Ns hSN VI Aht AhphNt.
 AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION:
 The passage of the Smith-Lever Act brings to every American farm, through the joint cooperation of the Federal Government and the States, the help of these agencies in solving the business problems of the farmer.
 COTTON FUTURES ACT: Deals death blow to gambling in this great staple.
 UNITED STATES WAREHOUSE ACT: Enables owners of stored prod ucts to obtain loans on warehouse receipts more nearly approXimating the full value of the product.
 GRAIN STANDARDS: A law en- acted last August authorizes the See retary of Agriculture to establish Oili- cial grain standards. This law k working. The farmer who has been robbed through jugged grain grades for years will appreciate its value.
 CROP MOVING: The surplus funds of the Treasury Department have been placed directly in the banks of the South and West to aid in moving crops during the customary season of money shortage.
 INTEREST ON GOVERNMENT DE POSITS: Banks holding government deposits are now required to pay two per cent interest. This cuts off big graft which formerly came from the free use of huge sums of the peoples money. More than one million dollars revenue annually is now derived from this source alone.
 IMPROVED MARKETING SIS ITEM: The farmer has for years felt the power of the market combine,
 with its waste, inefliciency and dis honesty. The office of Markets and the Rural Organization Service, es- tabiished in the Department of Agri- culture during this Administration, are working on scientific lines to promote better marketing and cooperative busi- ness organization among farmers. These beneficient measures, with many others, show why the farmer is pretty well satisfied with the Will