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The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-07-04
RECRUITING
COMMON LABOR
The Government Will Maintain
Labor Organization Bureaus
for the Benefit of Unskilled.
Labor. hi
WILL STANDARDIZE WAGES
Farmers Patriotic Response.
Progressives in Washington
<Heartened by the News From
North Dakota.

Washington, D. c., June s.
A great forward step is helping
the men find the job was taken
when the President issued an
order centralizing the recruiting
and supplying of workers Of all
kinds for war production in the
United States Employment SER
vice..
After August 1 no employer
with war business who has a
force Of more than 100 workers
will be permitted to recruit COM
mon labor but all such employ
ers will be required to use gov
ernment agencies, while the re-
striction against private recruit
ing for the present applies only
to unskilled labor; as soon as
possible it will be extended to
include skilled labor, and even
tually no employer may be per-
mitted to employ men unless the
latter have permit cards from
the government service. This
will put an end to the stealing
and poaching Of employers which
has demoralized war work,
which is already well in hand by
means Of regulating orders.
Because Of the haphazard, in-
dividualistic method now in use
it is estimated that from 25 to 40
per cent Of the common labor
has been rendered potentially
idle because it has been rushed
from place to place by private
ploynent agencies.
Will Standardize Wages.
Wage Standardization is to be
the next step to be taken by the
War Labor policies board which
has had this matter under con-
sideration for some time. The
question Of hours and labor con-
ditions will also be regulated. In
short, as soon as the system is
in full operation the United
States government will be COM
|plete master Of all of the workers
in war industries regulating
hours and wages and making
them uniform for all workers in
the same class Of WORK, regard
less Of where they are located.
The national organization Of
the Employers service has a
main Office il Washington, but
lit. carries out its program with
the state As 8 ,lnit. The states
Ia turn are grouped into tllir-
teen districts. By this method
labor can 81 shifted shout with
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-07-04
VOLUNTEER HELP
FOR FARMERS
State Council of Defense, As
sisted by State Bankers As
s0ciation and Department of
Labor, to Organize.
A FARM LABOR RESERVE.
In North Dakita in Order to
Provide the Requisite Number
Of Farm Laborers to Secure
the Present Crop.

Bismarck, July 1.-Organiza-
tion of an active Farm Labor
Reserve in North Dakota for
harvest and threshing work has
been launched by the State
Council of Defense, cooperating
with the North Dakota Bankers
Association, the Department of
Agriculture and Labor, and the
Federal Department of Labor.
The purpose of the organization,
which will be carried into every
city, town and village in the
state, is to enroll volunteers for
agricultural work in case of an
emergency during the harvest
and threshing periods.
John B. Brown, Federal Farm
Help Specialist for the state of
North Dakota, under whose di-
rection the Labor Reserve is be-
ing organized, states that indi-
cations are at the present time
that it will be utterly impossible
to draw sufficient labor from
without the state to take care
of this years crop, and that in
order to assure the preservation
of every bushel of grain for the
use of our armies and the armies
of our Allies, that it is absolute
ly essential that the citizens of
our cities, towns and villages
volunteer for service in the
fields in case of an emergency.
'The state of Kansas, which
is the second largest wheat pro-
ducing state in the union," says
Mr.. Brown, ''has raised an ar
my of rs, 900 volunteers to aid
in wheat preservation in that
state. This army has been re-
cruited among the business, pro-
fessional and laboring men of
their cities, towns and villages.
North Dakota must do likewise
or there will be many thousands
of bushels of wheat lost on ac-
count of a labor shortage"
The organization of Farm
Labor Reserve in this state will
be undertaken by a county COM
mittee named by the Chairman
of the County Council of De-
fense. The County Labor Re-
serve Committee, in turn, will Sc
lect a chairman for every town
in their respective counties, and
it will be the duty of this chair
man to superintend the actual
enrolment of the volunteers.
The enrolment cards will be kept
on file with the municipal chair
man who will be held respon-
sible for calling out the reserves
whenever an emergency arises
within the county.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-07-04

Cheered By North Dakota.
There is general rejoicing
among the progressives in Con-
gress and in Washington over
the returns from North Dakota
and particularly over the re-nom-
ination of Congressman Baer
who will be the center of a group
that is bound to be formed in
the next Congress to take hold
of progressive legislation.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-07-04

J That persons posing as gov
ernment agents have been per-
petrating frauds connected with
war risk insurance on selected
men before they arrive at the
environments has come to the no
Hce of military authorities at
Camp Dodge. All men selected
for military service are warned
that they should not attempt to
take out war risk insurance poll
cies before they arrive at the
environments to which they are
assigned. The applications can
not ~ legally taken except by "A
officer a the sleryics MT thorized
~ handle this worl ii at lent
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-07-04

11LLlC Wd0CO VI L11l1O SsAAA tAAO AAN
cessities of the entire country
can be taken into consideration.
Farmers will be one Of the
classes benefited by the new
regulations. In many sections,
notably in the East and South,
farms have been swept bare of
labor by private agencies. This
practice will be ended by the
government agencies who will
see that there is sufficient help
left on the farm for the har-
vest.
Only one who has studied the
situation will appreciate the
chaos that has existed in the
labor market. California draws
unskilled labor from as far east
as Buffalo and New York brings
it from west of the Mississippi.
Thus labor has lost both time
and money and has made need
less work for the railroads.
Farmers Patriotic Response
Farm production will be large
ly increased because Of the wide
spread response to the patriotic
appeals. This is the report of
G.. l. Christie of the Department
of Agriculture who has just re-
turned from a survey Of the
west. In Montana there is an
increase Of 43 per cent in the
wheat acreage and 100 in rye.
The harvest labor problem is be-
ing solved in Kansas and Illinois
where the harvest is now on by
volunteer workers from the cit
les, and the harvest crews are
being fed by women who volun-
teer their services as cooks.
There is a large wheat in
crease in Minnesota and North
Dakota and it is estimated that
100000 additional acresin North
Dakota was being cultivated as
a result Of the action of the
Council of Defense of that state,
which has commandeered the
Stacker acres of nonresident
spectators.
1t is, estimated that this years
wheat crop will be 900,O00,00O
as against 54O,0OO,OOO bushels
last year. All over the north
west farmers have cut down on
crops that would have been more
profitable and planted more
wheat than ever before.
Announcement is made that
profiteering in cheese will not be
permitted hereafter by the ma
tional food administration. It
is interesting to note how close
ly the lines advocated by the
Nonpartisan league are followed
in bringing about this reform.
Useless Iniddlemen, who per-
form no service, are to be elm
mated. Commissions will not be
allowed to enter into costs, ac-
cording to the new rules. Reas-
enable margins have been fixed
to prevent speculation and 1'dum-
my" sales have been prohibited.
The producers Of cheese will
come very near to getting the en-
+i,.o ,n,,ss.,<a rryf tn1. <I.. ,.,n IL, ~
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-07-04

When two hearts beat O. one you
can't always tell which 10 going u =
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-09-17
RED CROSS WORK IN ITALY
Organization Performs Big Task In
Helping the Unfortunates in
That Country.

Washington.-In the historic Palazzo
Vecchio of Florence, Italy, the Ameri-
can Red Cross distributed clothing to
more than 10000 refugees and pow
erty-stricken Italians In two days. The
contents of each parcel covered a
vide variety of needs, from underwear
to layettes for children yet unborn.
Part of the supply came from this
country, part from stocks in neutral
countries, where industrial Red Cross
agents have been able to satisfy
portion Of their needs, and part
from the italian market, now nearly
exhausted. In addition, orders for
food were distributed to persons whose
needs were guaranteed, small certifi-
Gates good for five lire worth of rice,
canned meat or condensed milk, when
presented at the city storehouses. To
pay for this draft on the municipal
provisions, the American Red Cross
deposited 10000 lire with the city as
SCISSOR.
The press of the country comment
ed on this relief work of the Ameri
can people as "the greatest single gift
on record to any Italian city during
the war"
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-09-17
STOCK AND CROP NOTES.

T. G. Reid shipped carload of hogs
from Pennington to Spokane last week
for which he received $20.25 per cwt.,
an average of $4S.60 head.
Stark & Neace of Winona shipped 26
steers averaging 114S pounds to Ar
mour & Co., Spokane, Sept. 4. The
bunch brought $19S4.S0 at the Winona
stockyards.
Approximately $4,000 will be real
lied by c. f. Smith of the widely
famed Deer Flat potato community
which is tributary to Caldwell. Idaho,
for his potato crop Of 40 acres this
year, which has just been purchased
by Sewell-Yost company. of Boise, at
SIZE per hundred. 1t is estimated
that the crop, which is now being ship
ped at the rate of from three to four
cars a day, will have an average yield
per acre in excess of 375 bushels.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-09-17
MINING NOTES

The Consolidated Mining and Smelt-
ing Co. received 55S7 tons of ore in
the week ended September 7, according
to a report from Trail, B. c. Wash
ington contributed ga tons, all from
the Electric Point mine.
With minor amendments the bill
providing government stimulation of
production and distribution of min
erals needed in the prosecution of the
war was passed Sept IL by the sen
ate without a record vote A similar
measure has passed the house and diff
ferences now will be adjusted in con-
ference.
The CRANKY Consolidated Mining,
Smelling and Power Co. has begun
preparations to take ore from its Vel
vet mine, near Rossland, B. c., ac-
cording to a report from that place
The work has been started with so
men. Only after long intervals has
work been performed on the Velvet
for nearly 20 years in spite of its gen
erous promise of ore. The higher price
for copper and the comparative con-
venionc of tn min to tn Grand Forks
smlter encourage operations at this
| time.
The Financial Post of Canada, says
that rumors have been circulated to
the effect that the Consolidated Min
ing and Smelling company, or the in
| terest behind that concern, were con-
templating the establishment of an
important steel industry in the noun
tains big order for material for this
purpose was being placed. Whether
the new plant would be established in
connection with the companys smelteI
at Trail, B. c.. or whether it would &c
to some other point was matter fol
conjecture.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-09-17
ARE DOOMED FOR WORKHOUSE
Frustrated Suicides in New Jersey
Are Sent UP by Police
Magistrate.

Trenton, N. J.-Despondent saloon
keepers will be committed to the work
house by Magistrate Geraghty If they
fail In attempts to kill themselves. An
example was furnished recently when
Michael Curley, at one time the pro-
prietor of a prominent drinking place
in the city, was sent to the institu-
ton to serve three months because he
tried to drown himself In creek. He
was pulled out in the nick of time by
policeman.
When arraigned in court, clad only
in blanket, Curley delivered brief
speech in which he said: 81 am So
Der. all right. 1 attended a funeral
few days ago, and then decided
there was nothing more to live for,
so I jumped into the creek. No one
cares for me, and I'm just in the
way"
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-09-17
HIGH COST OF GOVERNMENT
Operation Expense Has Increased 35
Per Cent in the Last Fiji
teen Years.

Washingten.-Now we have the high
cost of government. 1t has risen 35
per cent in the last 10. years, accord
ing to recent department of com
meree report on financial conditions
of 219 cities In the country.
The report shows that the average
American city is in healthy financial
condition, run on good, business-like
lines. The total revenues were 81 ,065,-
537, JAP, or $32.04 per capita, and total
expenditures 1921, 491 SIS, or $24.7O per
capita. The total outlay for the 219
cities was $3.50, 529,99O, or $S.61 per
capita. From this last returns could
be expected which, on the average
would still further reduce the expen'
ditures.
Next to taxes, the largest item OF
which was the tax on the liquor traf-
fic, the greatest source of revenue fol
the cities was public service enter
prises, the bulk of which came from
public water systems, which doubled
the amount of money spent on them.
The net Indebtedness of New York
city alone, s9s7,347610, was three
fifths as great as all other cities Of
over 10000 inhabitants taken together
The per capita Indebtedness for Chi
cago was $3.50, and st. Louis $25.07
both of these cities having an indebt
edness which was smaller. than mos
of the small cities and far below tn,
large ones.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-09-17
"13" FIGURES IN SINKING
FatefuI Number Plays Prominent Part
in Connection With Loss of
Oransa.

Pittsburgh, Pa.-The figure 13 was
very prominent in connection with the
sinking of the steamship Oransa, on
which were the 81 Y. M. G. A. war
workers. The following is part of a
letter received at the Metropolitan
headquarters of the Pittsburgh Y NJ.
G. A. from one of the secretaries In
London.
1.-THE sailors said they were not SUI
perstitious, but
The passengers went ON board on
a Friday.
1.-THE Oransa left America on April
10.
Thirteen vessels were in the con-
voy.
Thirteen preachers were on board
the Oransa, also thirteen Methodists.
"It was the thirteenth round-trip for
the commander of the convoy and the
thirteenth trip for an cscorting war
ship.
''R. G. Bennett, of New York, assign
ed to berth No. 10, was the only sea.
sick passenger. He moved out. Thorn
as B. Dawson of Providence, r. l., who
took on No. 10, had the narrowest es
cape.
1.-THE torpedo struck at / :03 a. m.
sinking the Oransa In thirteen min
utes.
'Tifeboat No. 10 alone was destroy
ed by the explosion.
upon reaching shore conference
was called In Room No. 10, and one
man received hat check No. 10.
ION the thirteenth day out blacl
cat on board increased the passenger
by three black kittens. Aside from
that there was nothing connected will
superstition"
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-09-17

its height and under the firm opinions
of holders, prices have advanced to
60@S0c.
Other egetables-Celery is lower.
Eggplant is on the market. other
vegetables seasonable and unchanged
Grain, Flour and Feed.
Wheat-New wheat is moving to
market freely and harvesting in this
section is drawing to close with no
material changes in aggregate crop
estimates from the late revised fig
ures. Mills are buying and have lit
tie difficulty in securing good milling
grades. Relief in the shipping situa-
ton is permitting the moving OF con-
| siderable quantities of Australian and
Argentine wheat to this coast for mill
ing. Quotations locally are unchanged
at $2.09, S2.07, $2.05 and $2.02 for the
four grades.
Flour-Mills now are generally run
ming to capacity again with the pros
pect, under the new rules, of a much
| larger domestic trade than was pos
sible the last season. Quotations on
local patents are off 10c, to $1,000,
due to reduction in grain sacks, but
if infreight is allowed, the figures will
be zoe higher. Substitute flours would
naturally be weak but the shortage of
oat and barley crops here and corn
in the east, is maintaining firm mar
ket on them.
Feed There are no material
changes this week. Oats and barley
are scarce here and firm in the east
With an active milling season in
prospect, working both on domestic
and import wheat, much relief Is ex'
pected in the millfeed situation as
: compared with the last season.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-09-17
HOW A PARTISAN
AIR RAID FEELS

to SIP he calls. A half dozen voices
yell out that there is.
els everybody here from those
numbers? Was there anyone left In
either of those buildingsT
There Is an anxious calling back
and forth and rapid counting of
noses. All here is the answerI
Send Victims to Poor Sisters.
Good Not much left of those two
buildings. Don't enter the ruins I'M
til they have been inspected by the
engineering department. Go to the
Sisters of the Poor If you want food
or place to sleep.
"a half-mile away bright red glow
gets larger and larger and lights the
sky. A fire has broken out In the
railroad yards and Is making great
Roadway. Several cars of oil are burn
ing fercely and spreading to cars of
merchandise.
1.-Two railroaders have got hold of a
switch engine and are shunting out
whole strings of cars.
ado you know anything about
thcot 1ichNu tHSiuts, Slli uShS Tue
impromptu engineer. L can't find the
d brake
1.-THE fire Is eating its way toward
a pier on which stands a line OF
drums of gasoline.
"'Come on, boys roll these kegs o
gas outa here yells the corporal, and
the line of drums starts trundling
down the pier. 1t is Internally hot
and the average man knows just how
hot gasoline can get before 1t begins
to misbehave; but the line never wa
vers.
"Roll 'em along, boysl Keep EN-
going. Everybody has got to die some
time
Little by little things become quiet
err. The fires die down. The Arches
stop. Now the tocsin sounds again
this time with slow, stately measured
beats. This is the 'all's clear signal
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-09-17
State Commercial News.

J. o. Taft has succeeded A. Thomp-
son, Seattle grocer.
P. Schlesser has succeeded Christ
Perovich, Seattle grocer.
Geo. p Wilbur has succeeded ]. B.
Finlay. Seattle grocer.
w. P. Murphy has succeeded T: j.
Bison, Seattle gracer.
Mary f. Govern has succeeded c. r.
Tolliver, Seattle grocer.
e. t. Cawles has succeeded c. B.
Bagnall, Raymond grocer.
w. E Bullock, Bremerton grocer, ad-
vertises retiring from business.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-09-17
GRAIN AND MILLING NEWS.

Threshing has started in the east
ern section of the Nelson country.
Winter wheat so far has been of excel
lent quality and runs from 20 to %
bushels. The wheat and oat crop
throughout the Nelson Chesaw country
this season is much better than last
year and the grade is excellent.
Announcement has been made from
Buenos Aires by the ministry of agri-
culture that Argentina has still avail
able for export 1000, 900 tons of wheat
from the last crop and 100000 tons
of other cereals. This is in addition
to the 100000 tons bought by the
entente allies in the grain convention
and already shipped.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-09-17
Red Cross Inspector Tells Thrill
ing Story Of Desperate
Moments.
NOISE ACCOMPANIES ATTACK
Yank Engineers Go About Unperturbed
While Rcscuing InJured-Victims
Are Sent to the Sisters
of the Poor.

Washington.-Writ of German
air raid on Paris, one of the American
Red Cross inspectors gives thrilling
account of how American troops and
Red Cross workers give aid to the city
In such desperate moments. He de-
scribes an air raid in this fashion:
Nowhere is there any sound but the
echoes of footsteps. Not street light
is to be seen, not a single ray of light
nothing but the inkiest and most i'm
penetrable darkness. Then all of the
noise in the world seems to break loose.
Clang-clang- clang booms the tocsin-
like a gigantic pneumatic riveter work
ing on a colossal bell. -Whooo-o
shrieks the siren, running up and down
the scale in an awful wall.
1.-THE streets come to life. Doors
open and slam shut. The sidewalks
are full of ghostly figures hurrying to-
ward the caves, where the inhabit-
ants have fitted up cots and hunks.
They get up now to make sitting
place for the newcomers. The chill
dren go to sleep with their heads on
their mothers shoulders, and girl
in the uniform of a street car conduc-
tor swaps yarns with Poilu in dingy
blue. In the last raid the front trucks
of her car were thrown from the rails
by the displacement of air caused by
an exploding torpedo. The car and
its inmates were unhurt. The Poilu
looks a mite incredulous and muir
murs: Il can we'll believe you, made
moiselle.'
Arches Barrage Sky.
!. "Outside the noise continues for
about three or four minutes and then
subsidies as a new noise starts-the
Arches, or antiaircrft guns, which
commence to bark furiously from hall
dozen different points. Searchlights
rake the sky. The Arches continue
their clamor but they are not firing
at anything, merely keeping up bar
rage fire to prevent the Boches flying
over the city.
Suddenly there is an earthrock
ing whoom. No doubt as to where the
Boches are. Whom, whom, whoom
One involuntarily ducks and tries
turtlewise to cover his head with hi!
shoulders. A hideous noise resound
up and down the deserted street
falling walls, and the tinkling ant
crash of showers of broken glass ant
roofing tiles.
Through the glass and litter of TIL
street an American Red Cross camoi
nette comes blowing its way. One o
the city firemen stands on the running
board.
"Anybody here from numbers A
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-09-17
FAIRS AND EXHIBITIONS.

The Idaho State fair will be held in
Boise, Sept. 81 to 2S.
Arrangements being completed indi-
cate a successful First annual Mission
Valley fair to be held at Roman, Mont.
Sept. Is and 10.
Displays. of agricultural products
and livestock will be especially com
plete at the annual Washington State
fair at Yakima Sept 16 to 81. The
sheep school, every morning from 10
to II, promises to be one of the most
important features of the fair. A rate
of one and one-half fare for the round
trip is arranged on all railroads