Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-02-11
GIGANTIC HUNT
FOR JOBS PLAN
BY NE W WORKERS
Ten thousand Active Agents
to Take 9ield to Find Work
for Men Who Are Being Set
Free From the Army.
10y MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED WIRE

New York, Feb. 10.--Forecasting
unemployment upheavaIs that may
soon force the most serious situation
that ever surrounded this city, econo-
mic experts began to plan intensive
job-hunting efforts together with des-
perate efforts to shove all employers
from stagnation with activity. To find
jobs for the men from service, and
men in uniform fit for the jobs, is to
be the task of active agents here, who
have volunteered to give this practi-
cal push to the theoretical projects of
the government and most private
agencies. Unless business begins TO
move and make work and wages for
the hundreds of thousands of men
discharged from overseas service and
munition plants, ii Is declared that
New Workers must face crisis III
economic and social suffering that
may leave its mark on the metropolis
for many years.
Structures Stuntcd.
Opening new apartment houses to
hold only six thousand persons, where
similar quarters for hundred and
fifty thousand were made ready for
occupancy in the last year before the
war, the face builders here last year
reached the low limit of such con-
struction in a whole generation. While
less than five billion dollars were
spent in 1913 to erect flat houses for
families moving here in 1919, almost
hundred millions were devoted to
such preparations for fresh flat
dwelltrs in the year 1915. That only
nine new apartments are now opening
throughout the whole of Manhattan
island is hailed by real estate men
here is a sure sign that the growth
of Greater New York was more nearly
paralyzed by the war than anyone
had realized.
Answer Attacks.
BY attacking the war work of the
Salvation Army specifically, and that
of other welfare agencies by innuendo,
DR.. Stires, whose pulpit, rather than
public utterances, command attention
here, has this week aroused a storm
Of indignant protest from the lads who
have returned from France in khaki
and navy blue, Whatever the good
doctor may do to defend his Y. n. c..
A. organization, the men from over
seas apparently do not propose to al
low him to slur such sterling services
as those they got from the lads and
lassies of the salvation Army, with,
out vigorous contradiction. Since the
men in service alone have started all
the "Y'' stories and seem to think
they have a grievance, few people who
stayed at home here have ventured to
express any opinion, pro or con, much
less to criticise other organizations,
whose work abroad is almost univer-
sally commended by the boys who
went over to fight for their country.
Modest Manbird.
That nothing, not even the record
fete for him the other night, canI
change Eddie Rickenbacker from the
simple. modest boy he always was,
is now asserted by all his old pals in
the automobile world, who have been
cheering this american ACE of Aces, "
ever since he came here In the days.
of his daredevil whirls about the auto
race tracks, Eddie proved to be all
ways the most quiet and unassumngl
man who hdngs about the pits before
and after his dashing drives, they tes-
tify: and they find he cannot begin
to pose now. even under his distin-I
guished laurel wreath. Dash, daringl
and tremendous technical skill are
qualities that this premier ace shows
at the wheel ofsccar or airplane and
does not parade elsewhere. the racingl
men declare.