The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1916-10-27
Federal Employment Bureau
But One of Many Achieve
mentc of the Wilson
Administration.
TM0NEY FOR CROP MOVING
Rural Credits, Federal Reserve Act,
Good Eoads, Grain Standards
and Many Other
Benefits.
BY FRANK G. ODESL.
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 Ia
| Dor or for employment and is instruct
| ed to help get the worker and the job
| in contact.
While this might appear TO be prin-
| cipaIly 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 fruitgrow
! ing sections. This labor, which is of a
| 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
news article about the new govern
ment employment agency. stating
| that six hundred families could O0-
tain immediate employment in the
| hop yards by applying at the Portland
| division of the Federal employment
! service.
This is another item added 10 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
| Importance with the interests Of finan-
| cial centers.
And why not? Financial eenters
| would not amount to much without the.
| nine-billion-dOllar crop of the Amerl-
can farmer. But the interests of the
| farmer have not always been SO prOmf-
nently and favorably considered by
Congress rs they have during the past
three years. The record of Democrat
ic claims for farmer support - rec
ord of accomplishment. 1t 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
J development OF roads from the farm
TO the market, under conditions which
will prevent wasteful use of the money.
AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION :
, The passage of the SmithLever 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
q 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.
2 GRAIN STANDARDS: a law en-
acted last August authorizes the Sec
rotary of Agriculture To establish Off
cial grain standards. This law is
: working. The farmer who has been
:, robbed through juegled grain grades
for years will appreciate its value
I, 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
q during the customary season OF money
+, shortage.
8 INTEREST on GOVERNMENT DE
= POSTS: Banks holding government
: deposits are now required TO pay two
per cent interest This cuts oil bie
graft which formerly came from th'
! free use of huge sums of the people
money. More than one million dollars
0, revenue annually is now derived IRON
= this source alone.
IMPROVED MARKETING SlS
TEN: The farmer has for years Eel
&c the power Of the market combine
= with its waste, inefiiciency anu DIS
Is honesty. The office of Markets an'
e. the Rnral Organization Service, es
n tabkshed in he Department OF Agrl
q culture during this Administration. ar
- working on scientific lines to promot
!. better marketing and cooperative ousi
. ness organization among farmers.
These beueficient measures, VIII
* many others. show why the farme
20 Is pretty well satisfied with the WI
son Administration.