The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-07
SOL. Wing The
Problem OF THE
UNEMPLOYED

UNEMPLUYEU
The Department of Labor's efforts
TO solve the problem of-the unemp1oy-
ed is making rapid Roadway. AL
Enough a new work largely unorga-
mixed and not adequately provided
flor by appropriations: places for 12,-
900 applicants were found by the
government during the last year.
Eight labor distribution branches
have been established in eighteen
large cities as follows: Boston, New
ork. Philadelphia, Baltimore, Nor
folk Jacksonville, $NeWs Orleans, Gall
polls, St Louis, Denver, Helena,
Seattle. Portland, San Francisco and
Lies Angeles.
After the disastrous fire at Salem.
Massa chusetts a little over a. year
ago, 1870 vase earners were thrown
out of employment Through the
Departmen soft Labor, positions were
found almost Immediately for 1900
Of these men.
The Post OFFICE Department has
thrown open IT'S 10000 post5eoff1ces
Ito assist the advertising programme
of the Department. Of Labor in its
work This assisted materially to-
create a netWork of comm unication
between employers needing help with
out knowing where to- get it and work
ers wanting employment without
knowing w.eere to find it
The harvesting of last FANS grain
crop was materially assisted by the
government Posters were placed in
all federal public buildings in labor
Scenters advertising the number of
Jobs available and the wages offered
in the harvest regions A represen--
ta.tiye of the Division of f1nfprmation,
ssDepartnlent of Labor. went to the
Nwheat belt in order to direct apph-
Giants for employment. All this was
Sdone in cooperation with the states
land made haryestehe1p distribution
much more effective than it was be-.
fore.
In the far North West the work or.
picking and packing fruit was hand
led in a similar manner. State Off
Gals and business organizations IN
that section have given emphatic
praise to the departments service
wholesale Agricultural Education,
The Department of Agriculture
plans to have a deputy Secretary of
Agriculture in every agricultural
county in the United States eventu-;
ally The new Agricultural Exten-g
sion Act has made possible 2 long
step forward in this direction.
It Is by this means only that the
entire farming population of the
tion of how to increase the profits
OF farming by the application of SET
entific methods The Deputy Secre-
tary of Agriculture. in each case, will
be known as the County Agent
Nearly $2,5O0,0O is being spent by
the Department of Agriculture DUR
ing this fiscal year to assist in paying
#he salaries of the present force of
County Agents.
D oes this pay Is it a good invest
ment?
The answer is found in many coun-
lies where agricultural methods are
far advanced. Thus sin DeKa1b
County, Illinois. the annual bill for
the maintenance of a county agent,
an assistant, rent of quarters, labor,
seed onstratfon work. etc. is $10,-
600. OF this stirn the Department of
agriculture provides $1,000, the State
of Illinois 81, zoo and DeKalb Goun-
ty $780, Would public sentiment in
DeKalb County uphold the expendi-
ture OF thfslsHn of money if 1T didn't
pay and pay big?
"a week for the Babies
The first week in March win be
Baby Week throughout the country
More than 400 communities repre-
senting every State in the Union are
already laying their plans for it's OBJ
servance, according to the ChiIdrens
Bureau Of the u 8. Department of
Labor in order that during these sew
en- days the needs of the babies may
be presented so that all the parents
IN these communities viii learn a lit
tie better how to care for their babies.
It is confidently believed by those
who are interested in this. nationwide
Baby Week that the remainder of the
year Will be marked by a strengthen
ing Of all community activities for
saving babies lives and giving them
q better chance to grow to a healthy
maturity. The Baby Week idea orr
ginated in Chicago not quite two
years ago
Worldwide Field for American Banks
Far-seeing f1nanciers think the
time is coming soon when American
banks will flourish in all parts of the
world. The Federal Reserve Act
makes this possible
institutions have already been estab-
1ished in the largest cities of South
4 America tsThere is no reason why
during the next ten years., said Will
sMa1n G.. Ma1burn, First Assistant Sec
l&eIary of the Treasury. recently. we,
Should not have banks also in Hong
kong in Yokahona, in Calcutta
even in Paris, Berlin and London
Heretofore our importers and ex-
portersS have been required to do their
foreign business through English,
French or German banks. Now. UNI
der the terms of the Reserve Act, our
banks make drafts bills of ex-
sale of goods imported and export
ed This will enable us in time to
s nnance ali our foreign trade.
Make An End Of the 1Deestrict sEnIe''
.sThe old fashioned one-roomed
schooIhoase. which holds 40 or SO un-
graded, pupils having but a single /