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New-York tribune., 1919-05-18
The Man Who
Wants 4 Rest

Whatever the philosophy Of the SOL
diers reaction in the presence of the
actual job or tho need Of one, those
who are charged with the task of help
ing them out of the military niche into
the civil niche have seen hundreds and
thousands of individual reactions. Here
are some of them:
&I don't want to do anything for q
while" This is the reaction oe the
man who has had so much action, such
a calling forth of reserve strength, such
display Of power that he never
dreamed was in him, that anything he
might do at the moment is too trivial.
great rest seems to him to be the
greatest thing available. This reaction
is normal and will do no harm if it
does not degenerate into impassivity.
II don't want a job, because after a
little while l am going back into the
army" This is the reaction of the
man who has found his trade.
II could get my old job back, but
| won't take it. Pm worth more
money" This is the reaction Of the
man who feels his oats. In most cases
it is justified by the facts. In some
cases it is not. A colored officer who
WAS waiter before the war feels
that he Is an executive. He detests
the thought of doing menial service
again. He has got the habit of COM
mand He will have hard time and
may wind up failure
Almost all Of tho men---soldicrs or
ofticers--expect better pay than they
enjoyed before they went into the
service. They base this expectation on
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18
Interviews and
Consideration

"The fifth distinct idea of the
Baltimore plan concerns itself with
the technique of receiving and inter-
viewing soldier applicants for work.
Here the recipe calls for the use Of
endless common sense, tact, patience
and personal consideration for the
individual veteran.
eve start being considerate to
the soldier before he gets inside our
gates. Every morning, when men
line up outside seeking work, man
is sent out to put soldiers at the
head of the line. These soldiers are
admitted first, and civilian appli-
cants are not considered until all
soldiers have been seen. We do this
because we realize the soldier is
justified in feeling that he should
be given some little preference in
crowd of miscellaneous applicants.
''Inside the gate, we interview
each soldier, in private if possible
We consider this necessary, even if
the soldier is former employe, and
particularly if he is not. For we
find the returning soldier very sem
sitive. He hates to voice his need
for work before other people. Pri-
vately he will say to my face, I've
got to have work Publicly he will
only say, What have you got?' OF
course, private interview also
means a much better chance of
fitting the soldier into the place he
is best suited for.
After a soldier is hired we per-
sonalIy take him to his place in the
yard, introduce him to his foreman
and fellow workers, and do every
thing possible to start him off in a
mood likely to produce harmony,
efficiency and cooperation in his de-
partnent. We want him to have
friends in the plant the first day
and be one Of US. Once the soldier
IS working we keep in touch with
him and arrange for him to see US
at certain intervals.
"The last principle of the Balt-
more plan concerns the means used
to avoid discharging civilians to find
Jobs for soldiers. 1t is our expert
ence that with thriving business con-
ditions and no obligation to hire
transient veterans from other con.
munities, careful study of labor
turnover in any plant or community
will enable employers to place every
returned soldier without displacing
civilians. "
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18

1t takes them a little time to under
stand being orderless. They have been
the faithful servants of the nation.
They expect to have the nation order
them to job. To go out single
handed, on their own initiative. and
rustic job, an ordinary, everyday,
commonplace job, with no excitement,
no inspiration Of lofty ideal, just
routine job, is n terrible wrench. They
have lived in the soldiers world. 1t
took year to get them fully into
That world. You can't expect to get
them back from 1t in a day. Yester-
DAY they were actors in the worlds
greatest tragic drama. They gave
their lives prandlv
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18
The Veteran Seeking
ExQrbifanf Vaqes

when l say, Hello, Jack; glad
to see you back. When are you COM
ing back to work? We're paying
such and SUCH he suspects trick.
The government has just turned him
out into the street, and he is hard
up. He knows I know this, and he
easily believes am capitalizing his
plight to get his labor at less than
it is worth.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18
Like Man From Another Word' The Returning Soldier

and cities to rear, boundaries to ex-
tend and frontiers to guard. They
have painted 'Odysseys on foreign
skies and now they can't even paint
the home town red Give them little
time"
From this great experience we bring
them back to hunt for the little old
job in the little old narrow circle.
They are soldiers still, and they react
like soldiers
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18

q dier react to the Job, tangi-
- e BILE or intangible, offered OF
sought7
Like man from another world"
Says Colonel Arthur Woods, former
Police Commissioner Of New York. who
as assistant to the Secretary Of War Is
charged with translating the soldier
1rom the military world to the civil
world.
Like soldier" says Major William
A. Kobbe. one of Colonel Woods as
sistants, who himself still has tho liob+
Cf that other world in his eyes.
Like rabbit or like a lion." saws
Captain D. E. Nevins, another one OF
Eoionel Woods's assistants.
And they all mean the same.
Ina soldiers were set apart for a
sacrifice by the nation" said Colonel
Woods. ut took tho best Of the vopth
of tho land, devoted them to death
that the country and the world might
DC saved, made Of them a special caste.
demanded all Of them, made them
rease to be as other men, took awav
Inc motive Of civil iife--ths struyc,.
Tor daily bread provided them with
I'll their material needs and gave them
= cause to fight for instead Of a thing
They were materialists and It made
them idealists. To realizs the purnos.
Of their sacrifice it took them an man
And turned them into machines. They
did their duty ard tho nation looked
after them. They have come back
With a devotion to duty.
arhsy hsvs taken ordeys 50 long that
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18
Suitable for Adoption i'm
Decentralization Period

The plan, which has had six
snonths' trial, may be adopted by
the government for national appli-
cation to the problem Of the de-
,nobilized soldier, sailor and marine.
Colonel Arthur Woods, former po-
lice commissioner of New York City,
now working with the Federal en-
ployment service to place discharged
veterans, thinks so highly of the
plan that he recently went to Balti-
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18

N the day the armistice was
declared, the employment
~ manager of a large Balti-
more shipyard inserted
curious advertisement in the
Baltimore papers. To the ordi-
nary business man, drunk with joy
over the news from Europe, it
looked like the work of a crazy man
celebrating the armistice. With the
German surrender clearly foreshad-
owing the possibility of an acute
unemployment problem owing to
the demobilization of the American
army, the Baltimore Drydock and
Shipbuilding Company began spend
ing several thousand dollars adver-
tising for returning soldiers, sailors
and marines from Maryland-for-
mer employees and others-to come
and work in its plant!
That was the beginning of what
has become known as the "Balti-
more Plan" Briefly, it is a "horse
sense" scheme to return the dis
charged veteran to civil life in the
shortest possible time and with a
minimum of disturbance, present
and potential, to the machinery of
industry. AS matter Of fact, the
--plan implies much more. 1t calls
for a man in every large industrial
plant, who may be technically called
an employment manager" to link
labor and industry. He will do this
through seeking the best interests
of both, without unjustly favoring
either, by using common sense, tact,
patience and consideration for labor
as human commodity.
Here are some of the apparent
merits of the Baltimore plan:
First, it benefits the veteran by
quickly reemploying him. 1t aims
not merely to give him job, but
to inoculate him against Bolshevism
and leave him full of enthusiasm
for advancement. 1t means no un-
employed soldiers, no soup lines
Second. to the employer it means
increased labor and factory efficien-
cy-profits. 1t cuts down labor
turnover. 1t builds up a body of
workmen whose loyalty will insure
the plant against future scarcity of
skilled labor, which is already
threatening.
Third, it insures the nation
against Bolshevism. 1t avoids the
critical unemployment problem usu-
ally coincident with rehabilitation.
1t tends to stabilize labor on basis
of inestimable value at time when
the country faces a period Of recon-
struction.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18
Beif7g Prepared for the
Soldiers Return

eve find that if we have to give
a soldier different position from
his old one, he should be told in ad-
vance. The surprise Of returning to
find himself shifted without warning
is often so disconcerting that the
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18
By Herbert Flint

Based on an interview 4uith A.
Mnhlha4sey, employment manager of
the Baltimore DYydock and Ship
building Company.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18

cannot solve the problem for them
selves. 1t must be solved for them.
Neither can Colonel Woods's organl-
zation, the public employment service
or any other organization wholly solve
1t. With the right spirit in every
employer, it could be solved tomorrow.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18
Suiting the Satisfying Job to the
War-Exalted Fighter
By Theodore NJ. Knappen

q n oW does the returning SOL
disr react to the Job, tangi-
- e BILE or intangible, offered or
The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-23
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The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-23

Topeka school teachers are dissat-
iscied with the salaries they are receiv-
ing and they have a right to be. They
will continue to ask for more money
until they get it. If there is any func-
ton OF the government that should be
kept at 100 per cent, says the New
York Journal, it is the public schools
II there is any class of public servants
who should be generously and amply
paid it is the teachers. What
IL increasing the pay of teach
crs will increase taxes? Taxes
arc the insurance premiums we
pay for the protection of person and
property. The most powerful agency
for that protection is the creation and
maintenance of an educated citizen
ship. And the public school is the
place where that training must be
given. Nobody was ever so foolish as
to propose that taxes be cut down by
closing part of the schools, but it
would be a wiser thing to close part
OF the schools that the rest might be
efficient than to have an inefficient
whole. No honest citizen ever wants
to buy anything at less than it's real
value. If he does he wants to cheat
somebody, and therefore is not honest.
The real work OF a teaching force is
being paid for now at less than its real
value. Somebody is being cheated.
II the board of education do not find
n way to pay our teachers what they
are worth the teachers will find a way
to collect it. Why force them into the
formation of a union?
The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-23
HEART AND BEAUTY
PROBLEMS
BY MRS. ELIZABETH THOMPSON.

Dear Mrs. Thompson: I am going
wise me to have one with a vest !?
Some of them are so pretty I thought
1 would like to have one. l have to
wear my things more than one season
and so l want an advanced style.
VOGUE.
Vests are very good this season, as
you have probably noticed. They will
also be worn next year because m lost
people do not discard their garments
after one season. If 1 were you, how
ever, 1 would not have the suit made
with vest. When a style becomes so
very popular, fashion takes another
turn. If your suit is of more conven-
uonal design you will be sureF of its
style for another year.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: am a girl
eighteen years old and have soldier
sweetheart over there. When he lefto
I found civilian I loved better. Give
me a little advice. ANXIOUS. y
aWit until the soldier returns and
again. You may find that after all
he is the one you care for. Absence
does not always make the heart grow
fonder. There is a great chance that
when he returns you will feel all his
old charm again.
If however, you still care for the
civilian after seeing the soldier again,
tell the soldier how you feel and with
out a doubt he will release you from
any promise you may have given.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-23
MY HUSBAND AND |
BY JANE PHELPS

have you heard?"
"It doesn't pay TO push ones self
too hard. To make money too fast.
What do you mean" l would
draw him out
"Oh, that one misses n lot. Enjoy
ment comfort, many things which
mere money do not compensate US
for"
what difference if one gets their
enjoyment in work. Mr.. Forbes fairly
cats work" sazed intently at him as
I spoke. I would give him every
chance. If he had anything TO say
about Neil l wanted to hear it-and
deny it.
"Forbes is wonderful fellow.
Everyone says he is the cleverest
money in town" I did not stop
to consider or look for a double mean
ing in his words. He was praisinS
Neil. that was enough. I felt my lips
curve in a smile. : Even men recog-
nized his ability. I had been silly.
foolish, to listen to what Lorraine and
those women in the decorators shop
had said. Nothing ever could come
between me and Neil, nothing. Ever
since 1 had first met him he had been
all the world to me. | should be proud
that a man whom other men thought
so unusual loved me. l was proud.
Self condemnation had me by the
throat. The revulSion from doubt and
suspicion left me weak and milling.
note signs of happiness upon the faces
of the people we passed. Here was a
man, my husband, who was strenu-
ously fighting his way to the high
places of finance. And because he
didn't follow the beaten path. but
hewed out road for himself, l had
been ready to blame him.
"A penny FOR your thoughts" Mr..
Rayburn's voice startled me. 1 had
forgotten his very existence.
1T is time we turned. Thomas the
University club please"
l dropped my whilom companion.
then went home. l found a message
from Mr.. Frederick
IF convenient 1 will call upon you
about eleven tomorrow morning"
1 knew he was coming to tell me
what he had done for me. I smiled
to think how needless it was My
mood again had changed. No one
cogld make me distrust Neil.
(Tom thoughts keen
Barbara awake.)
The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-23
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION.

Wage increases together with reduc-
ton of hours of labor are said to
amount to a revolution in industrial
conditions in England. Proprietors
are accepting them because the de-
mands for thein are SO general and i'm
perative that refusal would mean So
cial anarchy, and they feel that there
is nothing to do but consent to a trial
and demonstration.
Then, too, all classes learned some
thing during the war about the possi-
bility of increasing production. They
have obtained a clearer grasp than
they ever had before of the great prin-
ciple, which has been demonstrated IN
the leading works of England and this
country, that it is not the wage-rate
per day or per week that counts, but
the rate per unit of product. They
hope to obtain higher efficiency than
ever was realized in the past.
Whether the workers generally rec
ognize the relation of increased pro-
duction to their own welfare, and how
the real value of the concessions they
have won depends upon it. remains to
be seen. Many of the leaders see it.
but it is too much to expect of all the
workers, and therein is the weakness
of the movement.
The arguments of labor all carry
the idea that the concessions are to be
gained at the expense of the employ
ers, but the wage advances during the
war were far beyond what could be
absorbed by the profits of employers.
They were passed on to consumers so
pidly that it was difficult to tell
whether wages or prices were advanc-
ing more quickly.
Labor leaders have generally insist
ed that the wage advances were no
more than compensatory for the high
er cost of living. and in many lines of
industry unQuestiona bly, this was true
But if this has been the case in the
past. what reason is there to expect
| that new wage increases and shortened
hours will improve the condition OF
! the workers?
{ The situation" says a bulletin is
sued by the National City bank of New
York, becomes in reality a struggle
between the groups in various indus
tries to see which will get the most al
| the expense of the others. Not thai
this is the purpose or understanding
of the contestants. They all make g
general demand on cociety, or ain
their declarations at the well-to-do OIL
employing class"
The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-23

to him who refuses to be its bearer!
This is an hour for all who have
heard the Voice to search their own
spirits as to whether they are ready
to declare, at whatever cost, the mes
sage which alone can save our i'm
periled cities and civilization.
City ministers especially face the
danger of becoming Jonahs. The mod
ern city seems to swamp the preach
err He loses his prophetic office. An
occa sional sensationalist, with his eye
on newspaper headlines, gets the pub
lie attention; but seldom is it in order
to cry the people back to God. There
is a strange unrelatedness between
life of the community. Nobody feels
this more deeply than the conscien-
tious minister.
Old Nineyahs and New.
The thing that allied Ninevah the
Great, to which Jonah was sent as a
prophet of repentance, was the very
same thing that ails Paris and all the
ends of the earth that have been car
rying their problems thither-simply
a disregard of God and his righteous
ness. From London to Constantinople
1 have been studying the plight of
capitals and countries; and there is
nothing wrong with any of them that
would not be quickly cured by a sim
cere turning to God. Sin and selfish
ness, pride, cruelty and corruption,
have begotton unhappiness and weak
ness. Prophets Of the living God can
do more for them than even the world
peace conference.
Ninevah is today a ruin. I have
visited it, down on the banks of the
Tigris river. opposite Mosul. AS ]
stood on sthe mound that marks the
sight of Sennacherib's palace, and
looked out over the still remaining
outlines of ancient walls. confirming
hn n
sudden sense of the irresistible Nigh,
of the will of God. This city of pride
which once ruled the world, is gone
and the vaunting self-praise of its
| kings, which remains on the monu-
ments, seems ironical now. All that is
| left alive within the limits of wha'
used to be Ninevah is mound and g
village called "Neby Yunis"-tht
Prophet Jonah! Nobody knows the
| tomb of Sennacherib, but here is the
| reputed grave of the man of God. who
after his dramatic lesson, took his sec
| ond chance and preached the Gospe
| of repentance to Ninevah.
| What will remain of New York and
London and Paris three Thousand
years hence? No man knows. I have
within recent days seen the ruins o.
Troy and of Corinth; and the sigh
makes man wonder. OF this we ar,
sure: the great words uttered there
| the noble lives lived, the sublime deed
done, will abide forever. even as Jo
nah's message of mercy outlives Min
| evah's might. Truth stands, tho cite!
EfaH.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-23
COME HOME. MIR. WILSON.

President Wilson is said to be dis
satisfied with the peace treaty. So
probably is everybody else except
I,loyd George. He has seen to it that
England got what she wanted.
1t has been proven that in diplo-
matte matters our Mr.. Wilson is no
match for the crooked statesmen of
Europe He should not have gone to
Paris. The allies should have been
left to settle with Germany in their
own way
Having won the war for them we
should have washed our hands of the
more creditable to do so, than to en-
ter the peace conference and be out
generated at every turn.
The president lost on the japanese
/ contention and on that of Italy and
his freedom of the seas" proposal
has not been mentioned, so far as the
public has been able to learn. All the
president will have to show for his at
tendance at the peace conference is
the league of nations covenant and the
terms of that are such that they do
not command united support at home.
! Perhaps 1t was such things as have
been going on in Paris that Washing
ton had in mind When he warned us
against European entanglements. The
| difference between other European
nations and Germany in the matter of
unscrupulousness is only one of de-
! gree. Even now it would be better for
the president to pack his trunk and
come home.
There is nothing we want from Ger
many more than we already have. We
could have negotiated a separate peace
treaty with her at such time in the
future as suited both parties If she
chose to remain at war with US Let her
do so. She is now powerless' to hurt
us. The same is true of Austria.
With Turkey and Bulgaria we have
not been at war.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-23

President Wilson's suggestion to
congress regarding the enactment of
protective tariff laws, he makes it
plain, is for the purpose of safeguard
ing business. Nnthing is said in his
message about prof Getting the Ameri-
can workman against the underpaid
labor of Europe. There are good rea-
sons for this. One is that there is no
longer any underpaid labor in Europe.
Another one is, and it is not new, that
when the American workman has been
paid a higher wage than the foreign
workman he has been compelled to
The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-23

Ma was setting in her room rocking
in the rocking chair and darning holes
out of socl.s, and I was setting on the
floor watching her and thinking, and
I sed, Watts you think, ma?
Its too warm to think, sed ma.
Is it easier to think wen its cold.
ma? 1 sed.
If you have enything to tell me, tell
me, sed ma
wife pants with the ink spot on them,
ma?
o. yes, that reminds me, 1 must try
to get that spot out. sed ma, and L
sed, You don't need to. ma, that's wat
1 wunted to tell you, 1 got it aut all
by myself.
wy, the ideer, sed ma. how?
l found a brown bottle of stuff
called Ink Chaser on the label and 1
pored some on my wite pants ware
the spot was, and now you couldent
even see the spot with a telescope, /
sed.
Well. 1 declare, sed ma. Meening
she was serprized, and 1 sed, Yes
nam, oiy the the Ink Chaser made a
CRATE big brown stane about Is times
bigger than wat the ink spot was, and
maybe 20 times.
q deer now I Suppose Ill have a
dredfill time trying to get the brown
stane out, sed ma. and l sed, You don't
haff to try ma. 1 got that stane out,
too.
Well for goodniss sakes. how? sed
ma. and sed. Easy, l jest took OBJ
long peece of sand paper and rubbed
and rubbed and kepp on rubbing and
kepp on rubbing till the brown stane
was out too, watts you think of that,
ma?
Sand paper, I never herd Of sutch
a thing, sed ma, and / sed, Me neither,
ma, but 1 tried it jest the same and
now there aint eny kind of a spot in
my wife pants. ony a big hole. that's
wat 1 wanted to tell you, ma. its a
! good thing 1 never liked those wife
pants mutch enyway, aint it, ma?
Its a good thing you don't like to
| stay in the house after suppir. other
wise it wouldent be eny punishment
sed ma. Meening 1 couldent go out
! after surr'-
Wich I dident.