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The sun., 1918-12-30
ALABAMA HAS WELL
ORGANIZED SYSTEM

The employment service in Alabama,
in cooperation with the state Council OF
Defence, the Public Service Reserve,
commercial organizations and the varl-
Gus war activities, and State, county and
city officials everywhere, is establishing
local bureaus.
Information on Alabama employers
needs Is being furnished to all the camps
and antonmen In the nation where
Alabama boys are known TO be. as well
as 10 the employment service offices
throughout the State. The information
is secured through the community labor
boards. and some OF the welfare organi-
cations, with help from others OF per-
manent existence.
A newspaper campaign was made in
Alabama calling upon employers not only
TO clear out employees taken on to re-
place those who went into the army but
to make place for returning soldiers not
previously employed by firing employees
who didn't serve their country. What
results this experiment will nave the
director, George Il. Tarrant. does not
state.
with few exceptions the men who
have thus far returned have been placed.
and IL Is expected they will continue to
be as they are released. Special induce
ments are being made to ex-soldiers to
go on the farms and increase food pro-
duction.
The sun., 1918-12-30
SERVICE AGENTS ARE
T IN INDIANA

In Indiana the soldier or sailor dis
charged or the civilian released from
wal work Is asked at the point Of de-
mobilization by a United states Employ
ment Service agent whether he has a
job In sight. II he has not he is urged
to use the service facilities and offered
n card to sign.
The cards 90 straight to the State d.
rector, l.. c. Housman, from whose OF
fee they are distributed 10 one or n
dozen clearance district OFFICES. and so on
to home communities, by way OF the ap-
propriate one of 1917 community lahor
boar ds. On these boards both workers
and employees are represented. betore
the armistice the boards made a survey
OF industry. with a view to advising EN-
pioyers on the release OF employees the
Government might requisition for war
essentials. TIE result is that the United
states Employment Service bureau In In
diana has an unusual supply OF WORKING
information.
A ma IS meeting Of representative eiti-
gems from every walk OF life mas neen
tried in one Indiana community 10 ek'
pedite the anyas OF employment posi-
bilities. I'D to this time, THE SUN Is
informed. indications are that the prob
lem will be less onerous than was az
frst anticipated. a large number OF the
men released from local demobiliBatio
points either have arranged for their
own future or have displayed little IN
terest In the offer OF the employment
, service. Q~uestionnatfes sent out ny the
local draft boards have disclosed a gen
eral Willingness on the part OF employers
TO reengag their former employees
The sun., 1918-12-30

near nj hand, and there to take a card
record OF his capabilities and wishes.
The cards are checked against another
index Of jobs open.
Nationally speaking. the welfare and
Government organizations which have
pooled their efforts are:
American Red Cross.
Y. NJ. C. A.
Y. w. c. A.
National Catholic War Council, in
Guiding the Knights OF Columbus.
Jewish Welfare Board.
War Camp Community Service.
Wal Time Commission of the
Churches.
salvation Army,
Trade unions of the American Fed
Grafton Of Labor.
Council Of National Defence and its
State and local units. .
Women's Committee, Council OF Ma
tlonal Defence.
American Council Of Education.
Federal Board for Vocational
Training.
War Department (Adjutant-Gen-
erals STAN, morale. personnel and
demobllizatlon divisions. and Commit
tee on Education and Special Train
ing Services).
Navy Department.
Department of Agriculture.
War Labor Policies Board Of the
Department Of Labor.
A weekly bulletin, like q magazine
ls published at Washington by the "
s. Employment service, 1t gives news
OF all the local developments along re
constructive. and readjustlye lines A
mid-December issue Includes a complets
directory OF the national and State Fed.
eral directors and of city employment
Offices.
The sun., 1918-12-30
FAST PROGRESS MADE
IN NEW YORK STATE

Henry Bruere, New York State Fed
eral Director, with Offices at 400 Fifth
avenue. lists the following welfare and
other organizations already cooperating
In his State: War Camp Community
Service. National Catholic Wal Coun-
Gil and Knights OF Columbus, National
League for TWoman's Service. Jewish
Welfare Board, Mayors Committee on
National Defence, the New York city
Board of Education. the Y. NJ. c. A. the
Y. W. c. a, the draft boards, the Ma
tional Security League. the Salvation
Army, the Federation OF Churches n
the trade unions.
Every Office and station OF each Of
these organizations in New York and all
the larger upstate cities and towns
where soldiers In any number may re-
turn In either an enrolment bureau for
employment applications or an informa-
ton bureau to help the soldier to find
n place to enroll. Each organization
has a representative on the permanent
Council of Unemployment, OF which Mr.,
Bruere Is chairman. The work Is under
way at each of the camps and through
out New York city and as rapidly as
possible II is being ~eXtended'up State.
Statistics OF the enrolments and the
employers wants. compiled about three
oCGho dlbtl NtE tllDAog liltll StlNlAt EON
going. showed 21,l90 employees wanted
at once. against which was a registra-
ton OF l5.50S discharged soldiers or war
workers whose Jobs had dropped from
under them.
In the week ended December "A
Is. 493 applicants were referred to en-
ployers and 1854 OF them were reported
placed. AT the same time 1900 women's
jobs were open, against which there
were $500 women. former war workers
In munitions or gas defence plants, &c.
registered.
Reports OF situations of any impor-
lance in upstate cities have not yet
begun to come in. Buffalo for the first
week of December reported that 5000
persons thrown out of work by the
closing down. Of an aircraft plant had
been promptly reabsorbed by local in
dustries.
There has been expression OF a fear
hat the entire national scheme of re-
adjustment was gravely TO be thrown
out OF balance. since 1t is possible for a
soldier who was indicted into the army
in Kankakee or Butte and returns to
the land of the free via the port Of New
York TO spend his railroad fare allow
ance as he likes and stay and look for
work in New York II the spirit OF adj
venture so moves him. symptoms OF
this tendency. however. are wanting.
The sun., 1918-12-30
ENTERS INTO
NEW JERSEY A

State Federal Director Lewis F.
Bryant, with headquarters at . Franklin
street, Newark. tells THE Sun there is
"A comprehensive detail programme in
operation at Camp Dix. where it is eN-
pected many of the men returning from
oversee service Will be demobilized.
The bureaus examiner in charge,
William r. Banks. has II special building
at the ~cantonment. The military
authorities ave ordered all commanders
to cooperate and a working arrangement
has been made with representatives of
the Emergency Fleet Corporation and OF
the welfare bodies.
All service men at Camp Dix who
have not arranged to go back to their
The sun., 1918-12-30
SEES %INDIVIDUALISM
AS LEAGUE MENACE
Lord Robert Cecil Says Nations
Must Sacrifice 1t to In
sure Success.

LoNDoN, Dec. 29.-Lord Robert Cecil
who Is to deal at the peace congress
with questions affecting a league OF
nations, in an interview ty a correspond
ent Of the Observer, after affirming the
necessity for carrying the principle OF
n league of nations into effect. dealt
| with what he termed the difficulties
| connected with the details Of such a
plan. =, "'". 's' '
1.-THE moment you try 10 devise the
machinery OF a league OF nations" Lord
Robert said, you are struck by the
existence of complete International an
archy. The great difficulty In providing
an alternative to war lier in the diff
Guilty of providing effective action to
compel obedience to any regulation which
may be made on the subject.
IF there existed any system of inter-
| national cooperation with formal, or even
informal regulations, this difficulty would
be surmounted easily. 1t is therefore
4 mistake to look upon the prevention
Of war as the sole function Of nations.
THE essential thing is to obtain recog-
milton OF the fact that the interests
Of humanity as a whole really exist.
We rave to work IN order hat the
nations shall not forget that they are
a part of one another.
ANY one who makes an attempt TO
sketch out the terms OF the peace settle
ment will meet at every turn problems
that ran be solved only by international
cooperation. Take, for instance. the
tropical countries inhabited by barbar-
Gus populations. In a world ruled by
international cooperation II will be real
| lied that giIrh OOiIntFlaa must he ad-
ministered for the benefit of their own
people and their products made avail
able for the whole world, If this is
done II will matter little by which ma
ton they are administered
I'm the cast OF the vast countries OF
Asia without good government, in the
period before independence can be exer-
cised there must be assistance from the
outside, and this is bound to lead to in
ternational difficulties unless some Power
10 entrusted by the nations of the world
with the duty of providing this assist
ance.
international waterways will be more
important under any future settlement In
Europe than in the past. More than one
case can he cited besides the Dardanelles
and the Danube where possession by one
Power Of means of access to the ocean
OF another Power has been a contrihu-
tory cause TO European unrest. The
Danube has been regulated by an inter-
national commission. with a league of
nations there is no reason why all other
similar problems should not be similarly
disposed OF.
LAS TO the most dificult question Of all.
namely disarmament, nothing can be
done unless Joint. action by all nations
OF the world IL assured unless II is real
lied that the interests OF humanity are
greater han the interests of any one ma
ton.
"If the nations can be persuaded to put
away their excessive ~individualisfn. II
international cooperation becomes n real
force. then there. is hope that we can es-
tablish the machinery which will be an
effective safeguard against war, and even
diminish and render relatively innocu-
Gus the causes Of international quarrels."
The sun., 1918-12-30
HOW pennsylvania
COVERS THE E L

Tho bureau OF employment of the
Pennsylvania Department OF Labor and
Industry at Harrisburg, has issued a
bulletin outlining its reconstruction ef-
forts. The bulletin, by task and locality,
analyses 10000 employment opportuni-
ties offered by 300 employers IN sixty
counties. to soldiers variously disa bled.
1t goes into the problem of the disabled
man, and OF his chance in life, from
both his own point Of view and an
employers, and gives illustrations of
what has been done in Canada.
The Pennsylvania Federal Employ
ment Service director Ia L. c. FELTON,,
Finance Building, Philadelphia Nine
teen branch offices are open in Phila-
delphia and eleven in Pittsburg. The
total number In the State is seventy
five.
The sun., 1918-12-30
OHIO SYSTEM FINDS
POSITIONS FOR ALL

Ohio reports that the sudden peace
problem found her well organized. with
twenty employment offices in as many
cities. and that the plan devised in
VOWED first, establishing contact with
the soldier while still in camp and Civ
ing him full information on positions
open in his home community second,
immediate notification OF former EN-
p!oyers upon the discharge of their
former employees from the army, and
Information on how 10 get in touch
with them third, a follow-up system,
to reach the homes of any soldiers who
ralled to avail themselves of the camp
employment offices, and to offer them
help in hiding work. II needed.
with the cooperation OF the army au-
thorities at Camp sherman, where 81, 900
soldiers were In training, a complete
camp employment Office was set up. II
gets daily reports from each branch in
the State on openings for men seeking
work, The army authorities every morn
ing call together the soldiers who are 10
be discharged next day, and an employ
ment man explains about the Office and
distributes folders. The men then have
the entire day to line up a job II they
wish. Posters and movies are used 10
spread the knowledge OF the chance for
assistance.
A soldier hailing from Cleveland. for
instance. who wants 10 go back there to
work. is Informed of all Jobs open in his
Old line or any other line hat interests
him. II he likes the looks Of any he Is
given a card to present at the Cleveland
Office, which puts him In touch with the
employer.
Soldiers from other States are directed
to the employment Offices in their hons
communities. Through the daily report
from the local Offices In the State. hu-
reau headquarters at Columbus has the
entire situation before il like a cam
patgn map at all times. and will be able
to tell the moment the situation any
where approaches the danger point.
About 100 men use the Camp Sherman
The sun., 1918-12-30
ALL STATES LINE UP
JOBS FOR SOLDIERS
Welfare and Other War Units
Help in the Work.

Stating it briefly. the task OF the L.
z Employment Service, or whatever or
ganization handles its work In anv
State, is 70 canvass employers and find
out what jobs they have open, and
OF what kinds, to get In touch with all
discharged, DOT loose and able bodied
soldiers and find out what sort of work
they can do n what they want to
40. and then to get employers and SOL
diers together.
For making this canvass or survey.
most states appear to he using the ex-
istins statewide l~nachineries OF the war
work and other organizations. which
arc being brought 20 cooperate under
inc states director Of his service.
Details OF tho rcadjustment plans NAV
olneI among the States. One At least.
connecticut. reports no present read
lnS'neui problem, explaining that all
al'ng Jobs have heen ~ much more
numerous than Candidates that every
discharged soldier wanting employment
has been getting II with ease.
Everywhere The first prtncipal ls an
arrangement to have all the war vor,,
headquarters and stations direct tbe snI'
disu 10 the proper Office. which is usuaIIy
The sun., 1918-12-30

old jobs receive a card bearing a list Of
Employment Service Offices In the state
and a blank form; This card 10 pre-
scented by (soldier's name and address)
who Ia being released from military SER
vice and whose previous occupation
was ....... Every effort should be
made to place this man in satisfactory
employment"
Cards received from men from New
Jersey are forwarded by a clearing
house to the office nearest the soldiers or
sailors home. Cards relating to men
from other States are the basis of in
formation nightly telegraphed from the
camp TO the employment directors OF
the States concerned. A thoroughgolng
publicity campaign Is under way to in
form the men OF what IL available for
their assistance and to get every New
Jersey community In line.
The sun., 1918-12-30
ELEVATED TRAIN KILLS MAN.
Victim Had Transport Pass Issued
TO Joseph spIiht.

An unidentified man about 25 years
old was killed last night when run over
BY a Second avenue levated railway
train at the First street station. A
United States Army transport pass with
the name "Joserh Spliht. Pier S, North
River was found in his pocket.
The man fell from the platform as a
northbound train was nearing the sta
ton.
The sun., 1918-12-30
ITALY FOR NATIONS LEAGUE,
Government Commission Returns
Favorable Report.

D ROME. Dec. 29,-The After the War
Commission which, at the Governments
request. examined into plans for con-
stitutinR a society Of nations. has re-
ported in favor of the constitution OF
such a body. The report OF the commits
sion considers such a plan the best
method for preventing conflicts.
The sun., 1918-12-30
FARLEY FOR SERVICE BOARD.
Binghamton Man Said TO he
slated for Appointment.
Special Despdfch 10 THE Sus

BINGHAMToN, y. Y, Dec. 29.-Will-
lam w. Farley. former State excise
commissioner. Of this city. is said to be
slated for AN appointment on the up
State Public Service Commission short
ly after January /. Mr., Farley has
been prominently mentioned IN oonnec-
ton with the appointment OF commits
sioner of public works but is understood
70 have declined.
The Public Service Commissionersh!p
will come to this city and will serve
for recognition of southern tier Demo-
Gratis.
The sun., 1918-12-30

reported about 1000 had been referred to
positions through the ofiees in their
home communities. Men are being dis
charged now at the rate of 1900 q day.
Ohio employers without exception are
said to be reporting they will take on
their former employees.
The sun., 1918-12-30
AMERICAS FOREMOST THEATRE

ShIbert. Ejy era B'way h 9th. Tvs. sI5.
S"'se'' 'u'''o Mat. To-m'w. N Years, Thu.
Highest Price Orchestra Seals 81 Evenings
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-01-07
Auto License Figures
That Caused Trouble

Figures will not lie, save of course
female figures, but they will do some
queer tricks sometimes. Last week
Manager C. D. Butler of the auto de-
partment of the secretary of state s
office ran against one of these An
auto license was sent A. X. Earhart,
of Rogue River, the number being
90S6. In few days one of the number
plates was returned, Mr.. Earhart writ
ing that some mistake had evidently
been made. His license called for num-
ber 9086 and one Of the plates bore
that number and the other 9S06. He
sent the one with the latter number
back with the request that the mis-
take be corrected. Mr.. Butler at once
got busy and found that humber 9806
belonged to the Associated Oil COM
pany. He called the company up but
while trying to explain that they prob
ably had one wrong plate, glanced
down at the plate that had been re-
turned and which he held in his hand
and was surprised to learn that in
stead of il being $500 it was 90S6. He
was so astOnished that he could hard
ly finish his conversation but telling
the parties he wclld call them later
he held an inquest on the measly plate
to find if possible, what kind of a deal
it was giving him He soon found out.
The plate had been looked at upside
down by the man TO whom it belong
ed at Rogue River not only by him bus
half dozen who looked at it in the
L
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-01-07
CANADIAN Of ffICERS
WILL HOLD MEETINGS
IN SALEM WEDNESDAY
Addresses VIII Be Delivered
at ArmOry During After
noon and Evening

The Journal has been asked to cor
rect the report published in the morn
ing paper that the three Canadian army
Officers, Major F. B. Edwards, Lieuten-
ant Colonel Mcmillan and Captain E. ].
Cook, would arrive in Salem today and
speak this afternoon and evening at the
armory. The officers will arrive in Sa-
lem Wednesday forenoon and hold pat
riotic meetings at the armory in the af-
ternoon and evening, as first announc-
ed in the Journal Saturday.
Manager Mcdaniel of the Commercial
club, has taken the matter up with the
Southern Pacific in an effort to have
special trains run Monday afternoon and
evening to give the residents from
across the river an opportunity to at
tend the meetings. Mr.. Mcdaniel stat
ed this afternoon he could not say def
initely whether the special trains would
be run or not. The Pacific Telephone &
Telegraph company have notified free
of charge all farmers reached by their
lines in Marion county and adjacent sec
tions of Polk county, of the meetings
to be held here.
Governor Withycombe will preside at
the meetings. There will be no admission
charged, funds solicited or campaigns
inaugurated. The officers are direct
from the trenches and will tell the story
of the war at first hand. The men are
sent out by the Canadian and British
governments for educational purposes.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-01-07
AURORA NEWS NOTES

Percy Catlett returned Saturday
from the Siuslaw valley where he and
Otto Blosser have been hunting beal
and trapping some. Just before he left
Mr.. Catlett, senior, Joined the party
Messrs. Blosser and Catlett, ST., will
remain for time.
Leland r.. Sacket, who formerly
worked here for the Southern Pacific
has joined the third ordnance class at
the University of Oregon. After a few
weeks instruction, the students are in
Quoted into the military service in the
ordnance department.
Lieut. NJ. E. Phillips left Friday for
Camp Lee, Petersburg, Virginia, where
he joins the engineers corps. Several
other officers have been ordered to
the same camp. Whether they will be
ordered to France upon the conclusion
of their training or whether they will
be given industrial work in the United
States is not known
VIM. Charles Maskeil, whose post
office address is Aurora, has been
classified in class V as a person in
the military or naval service of the
United States. Hjalmer j. Erickson oe
Barlow is given place in class l as a
single man without dependents. Benz
r. Wolfer of Aurora has been placed
in class IV as a man whose wife and
children an maiAly dependent on his
labor for support. These three are all
Claekamas county men.-Observer
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-01-07
OPERATION
CURE FOR SHORTAGE
OF COAL SAYS THOONE
Expert Says That Is Only Way
to Relieve Present Short
age Of Fuel

Washington. Jan. 7.---Fed6ral oper
alton Of America s coal fields was ad
vocated today as cure for the Goa
shortage by Clifford Thorne. rate ex
pert, in testimony before the senat,
coal probers.
| Purchase or control of the pooled
mines, products and equipment must
come, he said, to offset the evils re
sulting from six months of ATTEMPTED
federal regulation of privately oper
ated coal fields.
The regulation, Thorne told the coal
committee, has resulted as follows:
Instead of reducing the exorbitant
price Of coal, it mas actually increas
ed these prices-in some cases as
much as 100 per cent above voluntary
lprices in 1916.
Prices fixed by the government are
excessive compared to cost Of produc.
tion.
Operators are refusing to make con,
tracts for coal because under the full
regulations they get more for "free
coal
Thorne bitterly assailed what he
called the seeretive methods of feder-
al authorities in handling the coal sit
uatiOn.
He charged that all data was gath
cred in secret and kept from the pub
lie. The right Of representatives cf the
public to cross examine operators as
to cost Of production is denied, he
said.
Thorne said if the present profit Of
Missouri operators was typical of the
entire country, it would represent a
profit " S360,000, ,000-$l, 900, 600 al
day-on coal products this year. In
October, he said, an increase Of 45
cents ton had been allowed Missouri
operators. Thorne said that conditions
varied throughout the country.
The witness explained that his state
ment referred to conditions in western
mine fields.
''What s your idea Of government
price fixing ,/howl" asked Senator
Reed.
ITS absurd, unjust and un-Amer-l
can he answered To borrow an |
Illustration, you might as well put
negro in a watermelon patch and tell /
lim not to eat-thc temptation is too
yreat. -
OF the three methods Of handling
he situation sugg red by Thorne,
government purchase Of all coal at
mines, government purchase of output
# weaker mines and Communicating II
# all mines-Thorne said he consider
d the first probably the best. !
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-01-07
Steel Trust Attempt
In Court Failed Today

Washington, Jan. THE attempt of
the United States Steel Corporation to
force an immediate decision by the
supreme court on the government dis
solution suit against the trust failed
today when the court continued the
case until the October term The steel
corporation attorneys last week pro-
tested the government motion, asking
the postponement of all cases until
after the war.
The court granted the motion in op-
position to the governments step in
the case of the United Shoe MachiD-
cry company, one of the antitrust
suits, and it will be argued this week
All the other cases have been post
poned,