Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-02-12
Thousands OF Men
Are Given Employment
Through Camp Bureau

Camp sherman, Ohio. Feb. IA.
More than a thousand discharged
soldiers were put in. touch with Jobs
by the employment section Of Camp
Sherman in December. according to
q report by Arthur G. johnson, sec
ond lieutenant, A. G. d.. in charge
OF the employment section. The re-
port &dds that more than ten thou
sand men have been re-employed
through efforts of the bureau.
The day before leaving camp. dis
charged men are asked to visit. the
employment section and make known
their plans: They are advised by a
representative OF the United States
shipping board asNto the present la
boz, needs a. Red Cross representa-.
tivA explains, the workings Of Ihe
home service section: methods OF
converting government. insurance are
outlined, and the needs Of the met.
chant marine are explained and liter
ature furnished to those planning to
sign up.
The bureau notifies the employer
shortly before q former employee IL
discharged. He is asked whether he
can reinstate the man iii his old po-
sition.
"In the Camp Sherman employ.
ment Office we have information on
approximately 5000 Jobs in Ohio
dlOIi0 dHU hASO ,1cCOltc cuu0SlS '4IOIIl
employers in other states asking that
men be recommended for positions
ranging from grave -diggers in Wash
ington- to college professors in
Maine." said the report.
WOULD RECLAIM MUCH LAND.
Boise, Idaho, Feb. Estate. and
federal cooperation, under favorable
laws in the making may result during
the next biennium in the reclamation
Of 100000 acres Of Idaho land fol-
the benefit Of returning soldiers. and
sailors. This is 100000 acres more
Ethan has been placed under irrigation
in the state in the last decade, and
includes practically all the states re-
naming irrigable undeveloped land.
Three methods Of financing at pres
ent regulate the growth of irrigation
projects in Idaho, but changes tt
turning soldier and sailor probabl!
will be made. Modification Of tn
Carey act as Administered by the stat
may be one of the changes.
Under the district plan, settler
ma organize as a municipal corpor
alton and float bonds to finance con
struction of an irrigation system
Some means OF making a ready mar
ket for the bonds probably will b
provided.
Private companies are permitted t
file on water, construct works an
sell water stock, Conditions whicl
will induce these companies to e.
pand are being sought by agents.
j. One Of the largest Of prosperity
projects is the Pruneau unit, Of MOI
than GAO. 900 acres, in southwestern
> Idaho. Surveys have been made TO
a system to radiate from a huge dar
which it is proposed to build In tn
Snake river neal American Falls.
THE MORAL OF AUSTRIAN PRES
Vienna, Jan. 10.-A glimpse int
the moral. condition. Of the Austria!
press, during the war is contained !
a revelation, in the Arbeiter Zeitunt
the Socialist paper, which prints tn
secret contract between the, forme
Observation-Disclosures . IvonasSeydle
and the pan-Gerinan deputy, Hum
mer, regarding the foundation Of q
organization to be known as tn
press Correspondence" :.
This institution was financed b
DR.: von Seydler with an annual on
lay equivalent to $4,000 and Of 80
200 to Hummer as salary. Humme
! was also made afprivy councillor an
put in the house of lords. His dut
vas to furnish, free, telephone an
telegraph articles, matrices and new
> paper propaganda, to the Austria
: press and it was in. general gladly a.
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