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Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1918-06-07
FRUITDALE

Rev. Glazier, OF Grants Pass, was
a visitor at the George +. Potts
home on Monday.
The Alonzo Jones family received
as callers. Attorney Miller and wife,
and Charlie Williams and family OF
Grants Pass on Thursday evening
and Mr.. and Mrs. Charlie Peterson
and daughter. Helen. Sunday even
ing and the Redding and Hagen fam
lilies Monday evening.
Rev. Finch and family Of Grants
Pass and Rev. Black were callers at
the wardrip home Wednesday after
noon.
Mrs. Rogers left Wednesday morn
Ing for her new home at Engel mine.
California.
Mrs Mary Hoare was an all day
guest OF Mrs. Robert Nelson We'd
nesday.
A. c. Crews, principal of the Hood
River high school and his family
spent Saturday night and Sunday
with his sister. Mrs. II. II. Wardrip.
and family.
Robert Nelson Jr. went to Central
Point Friday night with the Knights
and Ladies' OF Security to help with
the musical part OF the evening s
program.
w. F. Woodstock was dinner guest
Sunday of Alonzo Jones and family
Mrs. Wallis Reynolds and baby re-
turned to their home in Waldo last
Thursday.
e. c. Silliman. wife and two chill
dren OF Medford. were all day Sun
day visitors at the Nelson home.
! Andrew Gigler and family OF
Grants Pass were Picket-view cal.
lers Sunday afternoon.
Miss Mary Oakes. OF Hugo, called
on Mrs. Charlie Peterson Wednes.
day.
Miss Anna Nelson spent Sunday
and Monday in town the guest oi
Carlotta Wiseman while assistlnn
her Sunday school class in setting
up and turning over to the Red Cross
fund the money they made selling
ice cream at the Chautauqua last
week
I. ]. Hagen Is spending this weel
at home attending to his alfalfa hay
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1918-06-07
SCHOOL ELECTION

Interest In the coming school
election Is growing and taking more
definite form as the event draws
near. Patrons OF the schools feel
the great need OF securing the ser
vices Of the best men for the posi-
tion OF school director in these days
when the importance Of the schools
cannot be over emphasized.
The men most prominently men
toned for the positions vacant on
the board are DR.. l.. o. Clement and
A. c. Holcomb, two prominent men
and well fitted for the work.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1918-06-07
KERRY

summer weather. Vegetation
booming. Complaints OF hot wealth
err"
Deputy Sheriff Lister visited Ker-
by and attended to the enrolment
OF the young men who have reached
their sist birthday since last en-
rollment. Seven names we're en-
rolled, Some who have become Of
age have already enrolled and gone
into the service Earl McCallister
Alfred McCallister. Bill Gran and
John Masters have all gone within
the last week or so. Kerby Is ready
to do her BIT toward winning the
war.
Miss Mccormick. the food savlnr
demonstration, met number OF the
Kerby ladies' at the Pioneer hotel
on Tuesday afternoon and In the
evening met an appointment at the
church to rehearse tho workings OF
the women OF Josephine and Jackson
counties who were interested in no,
only tho food saving proposition but
In the general improvement OF the
different neighborhoods In social and
sanitary matters as well, Miss Me-
cormick had an interesting message
but there were only few who we're
interested sufiiciently to come out
and hear her.
Miss Alice Tycer who went to
Doris. Cal, some weeks ago has
returned home.
Mrs. F. b. Hogue who went to
Sacramento some weeks since re-
turned home about ten days ago. Her
daughter Miss Minnier. remained In
the city.
Word has been received from the
ONCE OF the state superintendent
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1918-06-07
AN INSULT TO PATRIOTISM

In an editorial entitled. "Prohi-
bition Sabotage" the Medford Mail
Tribune attacks the position taken
By q Grants Pass minister in rela-
tion to food conservation. Like
other answers published, the writer
entirely ignores the issue raised and,
erecting straw man. proceeds to
give 1t a knockout blow to his own
entire satisfaction and to immense
amusement OF people who think and
observe. The minister referred to
voices the growing demand OF thohs-
ands of just as patriotic men and
women as the fiery and illogical ed
itor Of the Mail Tribune. With the
acknowledged demand for every
ounce OF foodstuffs to be utilized
lest our brave allies be forced to the
wall through food shortage what is
the defense OF those who confess the
waste OF -four million bushels Of
grain monthly" by the breweries.
The editor exhibits a fine type OF the
provincial mind when he can see no
further than the borders OF Oregon
in this national matter.
The quotation from Mr.. Hoover
in the editorial is an insult to the
great American people in its plain
Inference that their patriotism in
this matter has to be bribed by way
of the brewers product and that un-
less they get their beer they will
sink to the level of sots and drunk
ards by sleeping themselves in whis--
key and gin. America is going to
win this war and win 1t sober and
Industrious. Patriotism is not for
sale either to the breweries and GER
tainly is not dependent for its pres
ervation on the pickling qualities Of
alcohol.
We are not asking for wartime
prohibition, but only that the food
administration exercise on the brew.
cries the same authority that 1t ap-
plies to American homes and save
the grain wasted in brewing of beer
and kindred drinks during this ex-
treme shortage of food grains.
Such noble rage and forsakine
of reasoning is confession Of alb
ject fear, born of the knowledge that
his defenses are broken down and
that cool reasoning is impossible
Friends Of food conservation have
to thank the editor for displaying
so well the impossibility OF defend
ing the waste of food by the brew
cries.
Quite characteristic Of the edi-
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1918-06-07

torial brother Is this eloquent out
burst. None quite so fanatical per-
haps as those who lacking logic and
reason. take refuge In abuse and
railing. Froth and foam are not
the measure OF the resistless power
Of the incoming tide.
However. let George do 1t.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1918-06-07
BRIDGING THE ATLANTIC

London, June Merchant ton
mage completed in the United King
dom yards and entered for service
during May. 1918, was 1924 gross
tons. the highest figure for any
month during the last year.
Official figures published today
show that the competitions for May
marked an increase In tonnage over
April, 1918, Of S5,741 tons.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1918-06-07
Duty and Beauty.

dip your fingers iD strong alum
water to harden them" advises the
beauty expert Of Western contem.
pOury. Then apply vasellne over
night and In the morning after wash
ing in snap suds. polish them with
iulctlm powder" Just to combine
'uiy with beauty and as an item Of
helpful preparedness. those who fol-
~" suggestions might use the
soup suds that appear In the dish wa
&. .iuuncing the suds vigorously over
iie dishes. Providence Journal.
All kinds OF le-al blanks at the
Courier
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1918-06-07
Build Character Firmly.

The character which you are con.
structing is not your own. II IL the
building material out OF which other
generations win quarry stones Tor the
temple Of life. See TO II. therefore.
that II be granite aud not shale.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1918-06-07

that the Kerby high school has been
standardized, This news Is received
with rejoicing by the people of Ker-
by, and the pupils look forward with
much encouragement,
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1918-06-07
OREGON WEATHER

\ Fair. except probably show =
= ers in extreme northeast por- =
= ton. Cooler tonight In east =
\ portion. Gentle southwester.y =
= winds.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-08-10

States flung itself into the great war,
an international students secretary
of the YouAg Mems Christian Associa-
ton. Two months after we entered
the conflict he and Mrs. Kennedy went
to France, she for canteen work with
the Y. NJ. C. A, he to become divis-
ional secretary for the organization
in France. When they reached Paris,
she was sent to seaboard town,
where American transports carrying
American soldiers arrived later. He
was sent clear across the country from
her, to take charge of his division,
which covered a thirteenth of all the
country. He had eighty-five secre-
taries, and several hundred workers
under his supervision.
And the two workers saw the Amer
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-08-10

Ana do you know. when I was two
weeks old, lying there in the Ameri-
can hospital in Paris, those awful
Boches came flying over, sixty planes
in ali, and dropped dreadful bombs
all about us. My bed shook and shook
and mamma, staggering because the
building rocked so. rushed over and
seized me in her arms and Just stood
there waiting. Mamma was iii and
had to arise from her own bed, but
do you know she didn't seem at all
frightened. She just stood there and
smiled-and waited.
And after it was all over every
body was so nice to me-except they
kept insisting on kissing and hugging
me, and l didn't like that. / toler-
ated 1t, tho, because they seemed to
be so glad ! wasn't hurt. After that
raid we had several others. tho none
so near to the hospital, but got used
to it after awhile, and didn't mind it
a bit. could go to sleep quite nicely
with the machines whirring up above,
and every once in n while n loud deto-
nation that knew was bomb drop
ping somewhere upon helpless victims.
First Baby on Troop Ship.
AFTER awhile, about a month ago,
mamma and papa and left Paris and
came home on great big ship. 1t
was an army transport. And l was
the first American baby to be al
lowed to ride on one of those soldier
ships. am quite honored-tho Of
course not bit lconceited about it.
that had that distinction, too. There
were about sixty poor soldiers riding
on our transport who had been
But they didn't seem at all
sorry. They laughed and joked and
played with ME, and told me the most
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-08-10

interesting stories about the fighting,
and how they had-had-what was
that word-oh, yes, walloped the Hun.
And when l grow up won't have a
perfectly lovely time telling folk all
my experiences
The inquisitive stranger tried to in
terpollate a question, but Marjory
turned away with utter indifference,
a stray shaft Of sunlight that sifted
thru the interstices of the lace cur
tain that she tried to catch in dimpled
fingers claiming all her attention. So
the rest of the story about Marjory,
and her father, Kenneth Kennedy, and
Mrs. Kennedy had to be told by the
mother.
Father in Y. NJ. C. A. Work.
Mr.. Kennedy was, before the United
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-08-10

his unskilled labor thru the United States
employment service
The Presidents Statement
Industry plays as essential and honorable
a role in this great struggle as do Our military
ornaments. We all recognize the truth of
this, but we must also see its necessary i'm
plications-namely, that industry, doing
vital task for the nation, must receive the sup
port and assistance of the nation"
Therefore, solemnly urge all employers en-
gagged in war work to refrain after August 1.
1918 from recruiting unskilled labor in any
manner except thru this central agency (the
United States employment service.) urge
labor to respond as Loyalty as heretofore to
any calls issued by this agency for voluntary
enlistment in essential industry. And l ask
them both alike to remember that no sacrifice
will have been in vain, if are able to prove
beyond all question that the highest and best
form OF efficiency is the spontaneous co-opera-
ton OF free people.
WOODROW WILSON"
Federal Service in Colorado.
The service is just six months old and has
over 500 branch offices and 10000 agents
The United States employment service in
Colorado is under the direction OF Roady Ken
chan. Under Mr. Kenehan are the following
examiners: w. F. Evans, Thomas P. Rodgers,
Walter s. Matthews L. H. Fitzgerald, T
Ryan and Earl R. Hoage. Miss Anna Dunn
is the official stenographer.
There are several other departments co-op-
Grating with and under the supervision of Di-
rector Kenehan and from time to time others
are being organized and will be added to the
service. The service is cooperating with the
state of Colorado, under the secretary of states
Office. Colorado free employment bureau
branches maintained in Colorado Springs
Pueblo and Grand Junction In addition to
the three branches, two offices are maintained
IN Denver, one at 1874 Stout street. under the
supervision of Frank c. Cox, and the other at
1921 Eighteenth street, under the supervision
OF ]. L. Hennessy.
Director Kenehan has offices at room eoo,
Barclay building. The other divisions, such
as sugar, coal, railroad and public reserve
service, are in the same building
The service here is assisting both employ
ers and employees to secure the best results
possible and the success of the service has
been due in large measure to the willing
ness OF both employer and employe to CO.
operate with the state director to the end that
Colorado will stand in the foremost ranks of
states that coming up to the require
ments OF the federal government
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-08-10

in obtaining enrollments OF men in advance OF
war labor needs, in each enrollnnt the kind
OF need and the sort OF occupation wanted be-
ing stated in advance The reserve has so
far conducted three enrolments: one of the
engineers and technical men for army needs,
one OF ship workers, and the last for men to
work on farms. In all these special enroll
ments the assistance OF organizations OF work
ers has been solicited and freely given. More
than 1000 agents selected by labor unions thru
out the country worked with the reserve un-
der commission as its enrolling agents and
supplied very large number of skilled work
ers, who were enrolled, classified and made
available to the shipyards. The reserve does
not place men directly in employment and it
is not intended that it shall do so. 1t is the
purpose to first place men seeking employ
ment thru the employment offices, and such
employment offices have been authorized when
ever they have call for war industries for
kind of worker not applying for work, to
thereafter call upon the public service reserve
registration to supply from its files the neces-
sary worker. The reason for this arrangement
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-08-10
SECRETARY OF LABOR WILSON NAMES
MISS THORNE TO EXECUTIVE OFFICE
Was Associate Editor American Federatonist
Samuel Gompers; Joins Grant Hamilton in the Work
ing Conditions Service of United
States Labor Department.

OF Chicago, with two wears to her
credit also at Oberlin college, Ohio
Prior to that she was a high school
teacher at her home in Hannibal Mo
1t was thru her graduate researrb
work IN economies. under the late Prof.
ROBERT +. Hoxie, at the University of
Onicago, that President Gompers rec
ognlzed her abilities and offered her.
IN 1917, the assistant editorship of the
American Federationist. In that ca
pacity she has both edited and con-
tributed articles and reports on labor
conditions and labor questions which
are of national and international hear
ing.
-Four Others Appointed.
The appointment of Miss Thorne to
one or the most responsible executive
positions in the war labor admins
tration is regarded by women of or
ganized labor as another Significant
recognition by the federal government
OF the need for the expression of wom-
ems point of view in the national Ia
Dor policies, as well as for the work
of their hands.
-Four other women have recently
been appointed to positions of such
character-namely. Miss Mary Van
kleeck, chief of the women-in-indns-
try service, and Miss Mary Anderson.
assistant chief; Miss Gertrude BAR
mum, assistant director of the new in
spection and investigation service, and
Mrs: Margaretta Neale, the new chief
OF the women's division Of the United
States employment service.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-08-10

lean expeditionary forces grow from
its little handful of men that the Ger
mans could laugh at to the mighty
aggregation of man power that now
is making the Hun pay penalty for
that laugh on the western front. In
the port of Decentralization where she
was assigned to an unfinished canteen,
Mrs. Kennedy saw, and helped to
serve, the first $4,000 men who
landed. She says she can never for
get that hour.
Canteens Ready for Boys.
The canteen was not yet completed
and even had it been it would not
have been sufficiently large to care
for the men who thronged from the
transports and into the town." she
Continued on Page Four)
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The United States Employment Seruic

S825,ooo The employment division then
taken from under the immigration bureau and
made separate bureau. Secretary Wilson
appointed John B. Densmore chief OF the bu-
reau and Charles I. Clayton and Robert Wat
as assistants
The operation OF the national labor distri-
button machinery will be under eight divisions.
The names of these divisions and their chiefs
as follows:
Division of Information-T " Powderly
OF Pennsylvania, chief
Woman's Division-Mrs. Hilda NJ Richards
OF Ohio, chief.
Division OF Reserves-William E Hall of
New York, national director of the United
States public service reserve and the United
States boys working reserve, chief.
Farm Service Divisional L. Barkman of
Missouri. chief.
Division OF stigation-Alexander D.
Chiquoine, Jr., OF Pennsylvania, chief.
Division OF Service Offices-In charge of Mr..
Clayton assistant director OF field work and
quasi-official bodies.
Statistical Division-In charge OF the bu-
reau OF labor statistics OF the department OF
labor.
The administrative organization OF the serv-
ice is as follows:
/. Secretary OF labor.
,. Director general OF employment.
3. Thirteen district superintendents, each
states.
1. Federal directors OF employment within
each state. In some cases these officers on
nominal salaries and in others regular en-
ployes OF the service. Where the officers are
nominally paid there is generally paid super
intendent OF state Offices on the federal rolls.
5. Examinersi in charge OF each local Office.
The administrative organization OF the
ice is described by the department OF labor as
follows:
In addition to these regular officers, news
papers in towns OF $4,000 population and
larger, have been requested to nominate farm
labor agent each, and 100 of these newspapers
have complied. Under this arrangement the
newspapers appointed farm labor agencies are
using portions OF their publication space
in efforts to obtain farm labor to meet their
local needs, and report to the nearest Office OF
the United States employment service. BY
agreement with the postoffice department, all
third and fourth class postmasters author
lied also to act farm labor agents and re-
port to the nearest offices of the United States
employment service.
Excepting the offices last described-news-
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-08-10

is that those registered in the public service
reserve files are men already having employ
ment and if they called on first, it would
remove them from possible employment while
other of the same occupation might be
seeking work thru the employment offices but
thus might be prevented from finding it.
The policy of the department as carried out
by the employment service embraces these
points of particular interest to labor organi-
cations:
1. Men not drectedeo strike of their
craft Nor they directed to plant in
which there is strike affecting allied crafts.
?. Particular emphasis is laid upon analy
sis OF applicants qualifications. 1t is felt that
men should not be sent to an employer unless
there is good reason to believe that they can
make good" The policy OF the employment
service is to encourage efficient workers. 1t
is hoped that the employment service may
prove another element in melting men towards
a thoro understanding OF the technique of
their crafts.
3. 1t is the policy OF the department to
make distinction between union and nom
union in services. If an employer is running
a closed shop, non-union workers will not be
directed to that employer. If the employer
Is running open shop, union and non-union
workers will be directed to him without any
discrimination.
1t is proper to state that in supplying the
heavy calls which, with increasing frequency.
ice, the assistance OF the various information
ais has regularly been requested and cheer
fully given. Very large numbers OF workers
to be sent to distant points upon transporta-
ton furnished by government departments are
supplied by the unions upon requests thru
the employment service. This patriotic CO.
operation is very helpful indeed.
One of the most salient features of the serv-
ice is the fact that it is entirely free to both
employees and employers, thus eliminating the
pay or fee employment agencies, which has
been menace to the laboring people OF the
country and especially the so-called unskilled
worker who has spent most of his time going
from place to place seeking employment and
has often been sent from one state to another
by unscrupulous labor agents at a loss OF time
and expense OF transportation, when the
worker could have secured employment in the
community from which he was sent. All of
these ueeless movements are being done away
with since the United States service has been
established and beginning August I of this
year all employers OF labor on war work hav-
ing 100 or more employees will have to secure
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-08-10
lspecisl corrs.pendencsl

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.-Another
woman executive has been appointed
by Secretary of Labor Wilson in the
war labor administration. This is Miss
Florence C. Thorne of this city and
formerly of Hannibal. Mo-. who for
the past six years las been on the
personal staff of President Gompers
as assistant editor of the American
Federationist, the official organ of the
American Federation of Labor. Miss
Thorne will be assistant director of
the working conditions service in the
department of labor, the function of
which is to examine into the working
conditions in the war industries, de-
termine the standards which should
be maintained, and adopt rules and
means for enforcing such standards.
Grant Hamilton, formerly legisla-
tive chairman for the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, is director of the
service, which will have offices in the
Oufay building in Washington, to-
gether with several other new
branches Of the United States labor
department.
Is n College Woman.
Miss Thorne, a member of the News
Writers Union and of the executive
board of the Washington committee
Of the National Women's Trade Union
League, is one of the increasing num-
Der Of college women in the organized
labor movement. By reason further
of her exceptional experience at the
editorial desk of the national organ of
the United States, she has an equip
ment for her new position which is
probably unique.
She is a graduate Of the University
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-08-10

paper and postal farm labor agencies-the
services of the offices of the employment serv-
ice are at the disposal OF all employers, whether
engaged in war work ordinary and mon
essential industries. Because OF the war
needs, however, the offices generally have been
rather driven to specialize upon supply OF
labor for such needs.
In addition to the employment Offices there
is the public service reserve, which is engaged