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terial account. The employment SER
vice has organized within the past few
months force of between 1900, 600
and 100000 men for tn. United States
Public Service Reserves. This indus
trial army is subject to call at any
moment. 1t consists of men of draft
age and volunteers above draft age. It
is composed of men who have no en-
ployment because their financial nosi.
ton is such that they don't have to
work, skilled workmen who are not
engaged in useful occupations. and
men whose feet are rather heavy and
who like to serve as anchors for bar
room and hotel chairs, expert whittlcrs.
daylight economists, park squatters
and such ilk. The Public Service Re-
serves have been recruited under the
direction Of William E. Hall, who has
also organized the Boys Working Re-
serve, composed Of lads between the
ages of sixteen and twenty-one who
are being summoned for farm labor
j. l.. Rafetto, of this city, is tho
local director of the Public Service
Reserves. He has bakers dozen of
millionairss on his list seeking Jobs
where they can make Themselves most
useful to Uncle Sam. One of these
millionaires made his fortune in the
glass business. Another is a moving
picture magnate. Both are ready to
sign up for the duration of the war
at salary of 81 per year.
We'll see that they don't die of
govt till after the Kaiser is licked. :"
said Mr.. Rafetto discussing his million
aire proteges.
The Public Service Reserves have
been registered by occupations. 1t is
from this force that the United States
government will draw it's skilled work
ers in the course of the war. There
are thousands of highly expert me-
chanics on this register-men now en-
gagged in producing luxurias such as
jewelry. high class china or glassware.
Some of these men may be classed
more properly as artisans than me-
chshics, but their trained brains and
hands can be turned with excellent
results to many tasks in shipyards,
munition and airplane factories.
The New York branch of the Federal
Employment Service is also serving as
useful auxiliary to the recruiting
bureaus of the army and navy and
marine corps. The military and naval
authorities find it simpler to send their
demands for tradesmen to the EN-
ployment Service than to secure them
through the exemption boards of the
country. When the army needs cooks
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will simply have to begin life over
again, start at the bottom of the lad
der in most cases. Their life work
has been weighed and found wanting
their occupations, temporarily at least,
scrapped. But the men cannot be
scrapped. They must be salvagcd for
useful work.
What can gambler do, except work
with his wits? He scorns perhaps
visiting the Federal Employment Blu.
reau and seeking advice from men who
have never made as much money as
he has done. Officials of the Federal
bureau here say they have been hon
ored by visits from many representa-
tives of the sporting fraternity. Thee
have left dissatisfied with the first
visit, telling the Federal representa-.
tives that they can get better occu-
pations than are offered by the gov
eminent bureau.
"Ninety-fve per cent of these men
come back" said one employment SER
vice Official. "They can't get Jobs to
suit them, and they have to accent our
assistance.
practically all of the younger men
OF this class who are physically fit
JOIN the army or navy or the marines.
for they are intensely patriotic. The
poor devils are certainly willing to
help, but they hate to give up their
old comforts. They are willing to
work, but they don't know how to
work, and they all want big money"
General Crowder's order may virtual
~ wipe out certain industries, the use
less ones. Others, semi-useful, are
likely to be most seriously affected.
Take, for example, the sporting goods
trade
All clerks Of draft age employed in
selling sporting goods will have to
change their occupation, whether or
not they have been exempted from mill
tary service. This may not affect more
Than hundred or two men in New
York State. But the operation of Gem
eral Crowder's order goes further than
the retail business. 1t applies to all
men Of draft age employed in any
branch OF useless trade. The whole
sale and jobbing houses handling sport
ing goods will have to surrender their
draft age men. General Crowder's
mandate reaches into the factory where
sporting goods are made, taking away
all mechanics and workers of military
age. The sitting process goes further
still. The men who make the machin-
cry for making sporting goods are af-
fected in exactly the same way as the
clerk who sells the finished product.
Federal officials here believe that tho
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indirect effects of tao provost marshal
generals order will force thousands
and thousands Of women to change
their occupations. Certain industries.
depending largely on woman labor, can
not escape the effects Of the war and
labor drafts.
The employment service in it's ma
tional scope has been rebuilt, or rather
built, by Director General John B.
Densmore. of Washington, D. c., ably
assisted by force of district superin-
tendents, Of which there are thirteen.
The man who has built up the service
in District No. g. embracing New York,
New Jersey and Connecticut, is John
4. OLeary, in charge of the central
Office, in Twenty second Street. Mr..
O'Leary had the advantage of the most
promising and most populous field, but
even making full allowance for that
advantage he has done fairly we'll.
And Mr.. OLeary is ready for the
drive Of the unemployed which will
two or three weeks.
There are tens of thousands of men
of draft age in the states of New York,
New Jersey and Connecticut who have
not been called to the colors, who have
been exempted from military service
because they had dependent relatives
n nj,
"One of my special hobbies is max
ing the port Of New York 100 per cent
efficient" said Mr.. O'Leary. "I think
we can do it, too, so far as it is
humanity possible. We have estab-
lished central clearing house for
marine workers, and several branch
offices with experienced marine men
In charge. The marine employers are
invited to communicate their labor
needs to the nearest branch Office.
The marine workers are invited to reg
lister at the branch Office nearest their
home. The demands of the EMPLOYER.
and the applications of the workmen
are forwarded Immediately to the ma
rine central of1ice-the clearing house
and employer and employee are in
this way put in communication with
each other. If shipping man IN
Hoboken needs ten longshoremen, and
there are ten longshoremen cooling
their heads at Whitestone Landing,
we'll see to it that the men at White
stone will take the first train for Ho-
boken."
But the activities of this employ
ment service is by no means confined
either to marine labor or to nursing
the young men who have hitherto been
wasting their time doing nothing, or
wasting it doing something of no ma
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-23
Whose
Are We?'
BY (. f. Hartman
Of The Vigitcmtss

VIZ Rad parade in our city last
w Saturday, a long, jointed ps-
rsde, each joint made up Of
somc organization engaged in war
work. I stood on the corner of two
OF our principal streets when a man
OF my acquaintance came along. He
mas a German name. His father and
mother were both born over there, ia
HunIand.
Looks good. doesn't it, If" be
said to me, as he gave me a real grip
OF the hand. "This should open the
eyes OF some of our DUNN Dutch
men, Ell? Guess they will begin 70
learn whom we belong to. Ell? To me
the surest proof of the absolute in
sanity of the Kaiser is his fool mo-
ton that about nine out of ten OF the
men with German names over herr
would acknowledge that he owned US
Internal idiot! I've got two boys 10
the navy and another near crying be-
cause he is too young to help liz
Won Tirpitz.''
The flag reached our sector and my
friend stepped close to some men ii
group. He locked at them and then
at the flag. They failed TO take the
hint. He crowded close.
Hats off while the flag is passinG
if you pleased" he said, and waited.
All but one hat came off on the In
slant. He leaned closer.
Whom do you belong to, Uncle Ssn
or the Kaiser?" he asked in low tones
The man looked at him ard snatchss
his hat OF.
Uncle Sam, by thunder. but I'm 2
little thick headed, and didn't quite
get you at first" the man said.
at is good thing to let evcryDooy
see whose man you are" said my friene
with the German name. Having o Ger
man name have to be mite NOR
careful to show it than most men. put
it is worth while TO keep your crsns
where it is easily read"
My friend of the Germanie coEnos
men was right. This is no time =
leave such matters in doubt. Let 3eut
neighbors know whose man you So
Are we going to be less outspokss
in our own land, for our own Ices.
than this German in America Wa 81
hiss
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around the chnscrs and Squadron Z
had begun it's job of towing the French
men within range Of Rendezvous D.
On her first day out, according to the
war diary she kept, the yacht A "com-
mcnced using auxiliary sails to save
coal, which proved to steady ship very
much. Using hand steering gear during
daylight hours to save coal :.
Started ships force making extra sails
and cut down to one boiler to save coal.
Wind and sea increasing In
order to conserve coal, started plan Of
locking bunkers after issuing enough
fer each watch. Conserving water sup
ply and steam by shutting down ell
unnecessary machinery, preparing for
long voyage TO-"
Nor was that all they did "to save
COAL" They stopped their dynamos in
the day time. They stopped their ash
electors and the deck gang got up the
ashes in buckets. They stopped the
evaporators and before they reached
Rendezvous D the crew had to open
the water breakers in the lifeboats for
fresh water to make coffee and clean
their teeth with. They stopped their ice
machines and let The beef spoil in their
ceboxes, so that for two weeks they
had to live on "provisiors other than
frcah." In fact, when they finally an
chored inside the breakwater at
Rendezvous D on December 6, the first
thing the working party they sent
ashore saw was load Of onions slung
across donkey's back. That working
party fell on that load Of onions and
devoured it to the last onion. "They
tasted better than anything ever ate
before, bar nothing" said the petty Of
ticer in charge of that working party.
It was their first fresh food in days.
It was their Croix de Guerre.
But hardest Of all, they took the
steam of their winches and handled all
their tow lines by hand on capstans
which were never intended for such
work and were far from big enough.
Once, when wire hawser came
kinked, they had to cut it adrift be-
cause they had neither men nor winch
nor steam enough to get it aboard. One
day out FROM Rendezvous D, when the
flagship signalled the yacht A to make
the best of your way in,' &nd The
yacht A replied by Offering to bet the
flagship on the finish, A parted three
hawsers in one midwatcn, trying to
make speed in seas which were carry
ing away her boats. You can imagine
what heartbreaking job it is to break
out new hawsers by hand--around and
around rolling deckhousc, falling
asleep in their tracks-green men, wet
and salty and sick, their hands cut by
the Observation-Disclosures at sea, their
CUTS coming out through their eyes.
Then came Thanksgiving day at sea.
And here is the programme as I have
it from one of ten AS officers: The
dinner consisted OF two cold storage
turkeys, with raspberry jam intead of
cranberries; lucent cigars and no
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partment chose to ship Kansas farmers
and Brooklyn clerks and send them to
sea TO let their schooling break over
them like q green sea over fo'c'stla.
Which is the better way, I don't pre-
tend to know. l do know that the two
and-a-half and three stripers who
brought these crews across believe In
them to the point Of profanity. "Offcr
me a regular navy crew." one captain
said last night, land I wouldn't take
them. My crew has been through one
hell of schooling and they know their
jobs"
Well, the squadron rendczvoused at
n certain American base, and last fall
three of its yachts (wc'l call them the
yachts A, B and II, although their
owners names are on the front pages
frequently took their departure. with
their three chascrs, for Rendezvous B.
When they made Rendezvous 3, five
days later, two Of the chasers had
parted their hawsers and the yacht II,
with a permanent list and bucket
brigade, was in tow by the yacht A,
along with the third chaser Two days
out H had gone to baling water in her
engine room because of plugged pump
ctrainers. A few hours later her steam
steering gear was carried away and she
lay to. A little after that she found that
her seams had opened and let sea
water into her fresh water tanks. And
about this time the sea valve in her
Nicholson log opened and landsman
in her crew, who had won dozen
medals for diving, went down a two
foot shaft into ten feet Of water to
plug the valve--a feat for which he was
later awarded the Congressional Gold
Medal. Congressional Gold Medals
don't grow on trees, either.
Two Yachts Are
Found Unfit
At Rendezvous B they were Joined
by the other yachts and Che other
chasers. Here two of the yachts we're
found unfit to continue the trip and
yard. worknen came aboard to make
urgent repairs" ON the other nine.
On November 18, the surviving yachts
stood out for Rendezvous C. where the
chasers, tended by the yacht II, were
to join them at sea to be taken in tow
after one day on their own (their fue,
capacity was not sufficient to enable
them to make the complete trip or
their own). But the chasers had beer
at sea only a few hours when lis sol,
md only sextant rolled off the chart
table to the deck, and after that H's
captain WAS never sure Of it; so it was
daybreak Of the third day out before
the flagship found H and the chasers
Then each of the yachts Except the
yacht G, whose bunkers were of INSULT.
cient capacity Tor the trip, and which
had itself to be taken in tow by the
yacht Az began AAting 200 fathoms OF
eight-inch manila hawser, attached tt
lifcbelts, astern, for the chasers te
grapple for-an operation of some
nicely in twenty-five foot seas. By dark
the hawsers were fast to brides rugged
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This method of shipping crew is
typical Of the United States Navy.
We're the British Royal Navy to ship
crews for such crsft. in all probability
he Admiralty would choose lot Of
Deal fishermen who at least knew some
thing about fish. But the Navy De-
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table racks. The sing song opened with
something from "Tosca" by college
graduate, sung to the meowing of sea-
gulls and the creaking Of the ship.
Then fireman from the Bowery sang
song which required an East Side &C.
cent and cigar stub in one corner of
the mouth; New Hampshire mess at
tendant, who had been an altar boy,
sang an "Ave Maria" and d violin soloist
from the New York Hippodrome chewej
up an So violin. Then what the navy
calls Tough Guy sang parody
called, "What Do We Tow From Here,
Boys. What Do We Tow From Here ?"
which was so good that the admiral
almost drowned out the black gang
on the chorus. There was another par
ody which had TO do with the shortage
Of food called, Don't Bite the Hand
That's Feeding YOU" during the sing
ing of which the sun shone for the first
time since leaving Rendezvous E.
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worst ("twice I thought we were sink
ing" one captain told nc, "and once I
knew we We're done for'') that the
landsmen thought everything was 60
ing quite according to Hoyle, while
the seamen Topped on the deck and
went to praying.
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By John C. Holme

r T NCLE SAM has suddenly be-
come the worlds greatest en-
ployment agent, seeking, Sc
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the Hudson River, but she1f nsvz-
e,gnt again. The yacht HIS chase, ~ -.
three Frenchmen overheard al
yacht saw two men 20 ov.-s
one to be picked up by it's cbas.r 80
the other TO be lost. Four dav.
Inc captains held conference.
aboard tho flagship. as the r.xr,.
which four Of the yachts WE'RE o.Ss
to abandon the trip and put io.o ~. s
base for refuge, "their condition g. - (.
ing it Imnossiblc for them to en;.l
mainder Of trip" ~:
And on the fifth day out, at g.,.s
a. M, the two remaining yachts ana AZ
chasers ran at sixteen knots sn..
convoy.
wonder if you know what II 49,
10 see a convoy dead ahead Of Won ,-,.s'
its running lights switched IN f~.rf
ut up like lot of drug storess,. la
the captain on the bridge in hi. :.
'amas; the gun crews working .shs !. L
many men cranking Fords; the rb..., !.
blinking out recognition signals q
orally to cave their lives; and .v..~.
snip at general quarters in that 49,.
OF suspense in which a gnaner A..
first and tells the bridge about il s4,.. !:
ward. !.
All the war diary says about !. =.
Sseered on various courses for 6vs
minutes to avoid ships in convov-e.. =
tain coming. Went TO general r,.. 4
tiers at 5:fo-secure at 5:55-and al,
8 resumed course 1o9 PSC."
A Christmas Hunt
For Lost Chasers
Well, the upshot of it Was that ~,
chasers went astray. And on Chris.
mas morning, the sixth day out. aft.,s
lylng TO- trying to recover an even re.,
for four hours, "this vesseIn 1.-THE e.r-
tain OF the s. S. Olympic might h.s.
used the same expression) was e,d.,..
20 md them. Shortly after noon. shah
ing to the beating Of tremendous h..s,
seas and the booming roar of a M "a 4
"'na' she found two of them. on.
ieao'ng the other along by the hand
one was short Of food and she gave &, |
something to eat. The other was sho,4
OF gas and she passed it anothe. :,
these 2& inch wire hawsers. Thar
she set out to find eight others. Shs
hunted all afternoon christmas aftsv.
hoon) and found none. Just as If II.
were a dreadnought, she challenged !.
french cruiser at dark md de,nand.a
TO know whether the cruiser had se.,
any submarine chagers.
Eyes. 1 escorted eight into = chi.
morning" said the French cruiser
"hereupon the captain went TO NJ.
emergency cabin ahaft the chartb ou..
ana allowed himself brief period of
sleep.
The two yachts made a EurorA.,
base that night in time to send !.
Christmas liberty party ashore. IN,
heXS day they formally turned owe,
their brood of chasers to the French
government and received their frxt
mall since leaving Rendezvous B. Four
Gays later, crusted white to the ton.
OF their stacks, they came bobb;ne !
howdydo into the breakwater hers md
eied up near the other four yacht, 81
Squadron X.
when will you be ready for dutyr
the oase asked Squadron X-cr what
was left Of it-by way Of greeting
We were ready yesterday, said
squadron K. Which may not have been
strictly true, but which showed wher.
Squadron As heart was.
fcopy'sl.t. 1913. b. Edward MARSHALL
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come the worlds greatest EN-
ployment agent, seeking, Sc
Letting and drafting labor. His en-
ployment agency is not exactly new
venture, but it might as we'll have been
brand new war job, for it was moth
ing much year ago. 1t is an example
of the many government institutions
which have grown so phenomenally
during the past few months that it's
own department heads can hardly rec
ognize it.
Six months ago the New York branch
of the United States Employment Ser
vice occupied obscure and cramped
quarters in the Barge Office, at the
Battery. 1t was a moribund little af-
fair, apparently with little spirit or
energy. Nobody heard or saw much of
it, 1t couldn't help displaying q little
activity from time to time, for labor
was hard to procure, and shipping en-
ployers along New York City's 700-mile
waterfront were constantly clamoring
for men. When trade was brisk the
United States Employment Service in
New York City did almost as we'll as
the less enterprising Of the private la
Dor agencies. In view of that state
ment, consider the fact that it's COM
petitors were certainly Of mixed repute
They charged exorbitant commissions,
were constantly under charges of bad
faith, while the Federal Employment
ureau was absolutely honest, even il
it was bit Sleepy, and what little
work it did it did for nothing. Neither
employer nor employe paid one cent
for its services.
Then Came the
Shock of Great Need
The high-water mark of business in
the New York branch of the United
States Employment Service was the
placing of 600 persons in positions in
single month up to April 80, 1917.
Some time during the early months
of this year the United States EN-
ployment Service received shock of
that galvanizing war energy which,
despite much lack of experience and
many mistakes, has built up formida-
Bile war machine in the course of four
teen months.
1t certainly must have been DO
tent shock, for during the month of
May, this year, the New York branch
of the United States Employment Ser
vice placed 1896 men in useful occu-
pations. and directed 1914 women to
positions where their services are of
direct or indirect value in the prosecu-
ton of the war.
And Now York City is only one
branch of the many branches of the
service. extending its activities to
every state In the Union, the District
Of Columbia, Porto Rico and Hawaii
Tho same metamorphosis has taken
place in all the other districts of the
service. They are all on a war basis,
humning like munition factory. re-
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Rescuing Forty-two
Shipwrecked Men

So on December they picked up
Rendezvous D, and on December IL
the yacht A, which had barely had time
enough to put in a couple of days in
The engine room, was ordered out on
little chore which had nothing to do
with the war. In "heavy sea, with
full gale blowing from the ENE,"
this silAen little spit-kid, with. a lady
figurehead, ton of ammunition in her
magazine, two feet of green water rae
ing aft on deck. and six officers, pro-
ceeded eighty miles to pick up the
survivors of wrecked freighter.
She anchored for the night in the lee
of headland. riding to both anchors
and 100 fathoms of chain, with jagged
ROCKS all about her and everybody dead
asleep except the watch. The next
| day she took aboard forty-two ship
wrecked men and ran before the wind
| for her rendezvous with every pump
. clanking. A sea filled her we'll deck
and sent the shipwrecked Chinese wal
i lowing about neck deep. A sea short
circuited her electric wiring, rang all
her alarm gongs and sent her gunners
zigzagging to general quarters. And
at p. N. she shot through the break
water "hell bent for election" as her
captain said Cor making all possible
speed" as her war diary has it), with
the native pilot under the cushions on
the wardroom trsnsom, cursing his
boss and calling on Heaven to
save him. But all that, of course, had
nothing to do with the war.
On December 10. with allies (sub-
marine warnings) going to the chart
| house every half hour and the weeds
full Of S SIS, Squadron x, now con-
sisting Of six yachts and ten chasers,
stood out on its final lap to Euro
pean port.
Two days out the yacht BIS deck
house was stove in by sea, and she
put her stern to it and was smashed in
aft. ! have seen her at the base here.
She used to do her eighteen knots in
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Fleet of Wabbly Pre-War
Pleasure Craft Safeguards
Eleven U-Boat Chasers in
Storms to Home Ports

Forty of them had to be trans
shipped at Rendezvous D for transpor-
tation back home as chemically sea-
sick, although four men who insisted
on sticking through to this base were
put ashore here after having been sea-
sick to the point of emaciation.
Landsmen Thought
1t According to Hoyle
AS between the 10 per cent of sea-
men and the 80 per cent of landsmen, it
turned out when the worst came to the