The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-10-12
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 c. oDELL.
Editor of the Nebraska Farm Magazine

Do you know that your post Office
is now an employment bureau? That
is one of the new things Uncle Sam
has started during the present Adj
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
Dor or for employment and is instruct |
ed to help get the worker and the job i
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 Adminstra-
ton of President Wilson. The increas-
ing scarcity of farm labor has become
problem to the farmer, especially
in the wheat-grOwing and fruit-grow-
ing sections. This labor, which is of Il
seasonal character, necessarily must
be 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
gon Journal of Portland printed a
news article about the new govern
ment employment agency, stating
that six hundred families could OBJ
tain immediate employment in the
hop yards by applying at 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 both labor and the
farmer a square deal For the first
time in history, this Administration
has placed the needs of rural districts
squarely before Congress as of equal
Importance with the interests of finan-
ciaI centers.
And why not? Financial centers
would not amount to much without the
nine-billion-dolar crop of the Ameri-
can farmer But the interests of the
farmer have not always been so prOmi-
nently and favOrably considered by
Congress as they have during the past
three years. The record of Democrat
ic claims for farmer support is rec
, ord of accomplishment. 1t reads like
this in the passage of laws and admin
strative acts
CURRENCY REFORM: The Fed
eral Reserve Act under which the
farmers paper is given special con
sideration, including permission tc
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
e short-time loan at eXtortionate inter
est This measure alone, when II
full force, will save the farmers of the
= United States one hundred and fit,
= million dollars annually in interes
S charges.
/. GOOD ROADS: Seventy-five mil
:. lion dollars made available for thu
|, DEVELOPMENT of roads from the farm
to the market, under conditions which
will prevent wastefu use of the money
AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION
The passage of the Smith-Lever Ac
brings to every American farm
through the joint cooperation of tn
Federal Government and the States
the help of these agencies in SOLVING
the business problems of the farmer
COTTON FUTURES ACT: Deal
death blow to gambling in this grea
staple.
UNITED STATES WAREHOUSE
ACT: Enables owners of stored prod
ucts to obtain loans on warehous
receipts more nearly approximating tn
full value of the product.
GRAIN STANDARDS: A law en-
acted last August authorizes the Sec
g nj to ocfa 1fch of
cial grain standards. This law
working. The farmer who has bee
robbed through juggIed grain grade
for years will appreciate its value.
CROP MOVING: The surplus fund
of the Treasury Department have bee
placed directly in the banks of tn
South and West to aid in moving crop
during the customary season of none
shortage.
INTEREST ON GOVERNMENT DE
POSTTS: Banks holding government
deposits are now required to pay tw
. per cent interest This cuts off bi
graft which formerly came from tn
free use of huge sums of the people
money. More than one million dollar
revenue annually is now derived froI
this source alone.
IMPROVED MARKETING SYS
TEN The farmer has Tor years Re
the power of the market combine
with its waste, inefficiency and di'
honesty. The Office of Markets an
the Rural Organization Service, e'
tabished in the Department of Ayr
culture during this Administration, ar
working on scientific lines to promot
better marketing and cooperative bus
ness organization among farmers.
These beneficient measures, wit
many others, show why the farmt
is pretty well satisfied with the Wi
son Administration