The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1918-01-25

November Is, 1918, and as per cent
higher than on November Is, 1914.
During this four-year period corn
meal advanced 127 per cent; flour
100 per cent; lard 1O4 per cent, bacon
n per cent; sugar IS per cent and
potatoes ~ per cent. No articles de-
clined in price.
Men With Trades Have Chance for
Admission Into Signal Corps.
Men qualified along certain lines,
although registered under the select
%ive-service law, may be indicted into
the land division of the signal corps,
which is in need of men for the fol.
lowing duties:
Chauffeurs, motorcycle drivers, and
gas engine repairmen for duty in field
and telegraph battalions; telegraphers,
both wire and radio; telephone men,
including switchboard operators, tele-
phone men, and men skilled in testing
and repairing telephone lines; tele-
phone and telegraph linemen; photo
graphers, still and moving; homing-
pigeon men; radio men who are famil-
lar with installing radio apparatus:
men qualified as cooks, clerks, steno-
graphers, blacksmiths, meteorologists,
cobblers, cable men, etc.
Men indicted for this division, I'M
less otherwise requested by the chief
signal officer of the army, are sent
to Fort Leavenworth, Kans.
Manufacture of Shoes in Italy Stand
ardized by Government
The largest shoe factories in Italy
have started manufacturing the ma
tional standard shoes, using leather
supplied by the cinistry of industry,
commerce and labor. The standard
types were established by the central
shoe committee in Rome, but every
factory is making little notifications,
according to it's mea and system of
manufacturing.
The government is organizing sys-
TENS of sale of shoes to the public.
They provide for the opening of stores
in the principal Italian cities, to be
engaged exclusively in the sale of
national shoes and to be controlled
by the government authorities. 1t is
likely that buyers will have to obtain
cards.
The private shoe stores will be sup
piled with an adequate number OF
shoes and will be granted a reason
able commission.
$4,000 Colored Men Called Into Army
BY Selective.Service Law.
Eight per cent of the 9,586,50S men
registered under the selective-service
law are colored. Of these nearly
200 900 have been called and more
than 10000 have been certified fol-
service.
Out of every 100 colored men called
36 were certified for service and "a
were rejected, exempted or discharg-
err, while out of every 100 white citi-
zens called, % were certified for SER
vice.
Schools and Colleges Offer Wa
Reports from $50 colleges and uni
versities show that many typical wal
courses for women are being given
Among them are landline telegraphy,
wireless biography, automobile me-
chanics, nautical astronomy, naviga'
ton, elementary nursing, first aid
principles of war relief, craftsman
ship, medical laboratory methods
map drawing, surgical dressings.
Usually these courses are given in
time formerly devoted to recreation.
Men Training for Navy v Benefit
of Libraries and Clubs.
The army and navy commission or
training camp activities, in addition tc
the work being done in army camps
and cantonments, now has its repre-
sentatives in every training station Of
the navy and at every place where
enlisted men are preparing for sea
service.
There are SO clubs for sailors al
camps and in adjacent cities. There
are reading and writing rooms, as
sembly halls, and some Of the cities