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Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1919-11-14

Peter Bacewicz and Annie Bacewicz,
his wife, Defendants.
STATE OF WISCONSIN, TO THE
SAID DEFENDANTS
You are hereby summoned to appear
within 20 days after the service
of this summons. exclusive of the
day of service of this summons, and de-
fend the above entitled action in the
court aforesaid; and in case of your
failure so to do, judgment will be rem
dered against you according to the de-
mand of the complaint, copy of which
is herewith served upon you.
J. w. CAROW. Atty. for Plaintiff.
p. O. Address: Ladysmith, Rusk COun-
ty. Wisconsin.
First insertion Oct 10, 1919. 26-3D
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1919-11-14
FOR SALE-LIVESTOCK

FORTY-FOUR Grey Toulouse Geese
for sale Can at once and get choice
of my large flock. or send me your or
der for nice Thanksgiving goose
Prices reasonable. MRS. NJ. e. LIE
COUNT. miles northeast of Lady
smith. 31-32*
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CLEARING CONTRACTS TO LET

SIXTY ACRES of easy clearing to let
to some good contractor by the day
or job. NJ O. EMMONS, Ladysmith.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1919-11-14

FORD Delivery Truck. 1910, for sale
MARK r. BELL.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1919-11-14
FOR SALE-REAL ESTATE.
FOR SALE-AUTOMOBILES

MODEL 400 CHEVROLET $797, war
tax and freight included.-NELS
THOMPSON, Agent, Ladysmith. loft
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18
Higher Positions
Wanted

Others, who do not aspire to be ex-
ecutives, detest the dirty, drudging
jobs they had of old. They refuse
them. Thousands of such Jobs are
ready in the presence of thousands of
men who reject them. The farm boy
hates to go back to the farm. The
street cleaner who has been cleaning
up machine gun nests wants no more
of the streets. The man who has
bathed by command for two years now
insists on job with shower bath.
Roughly, it may said that there
are Jobs enough but not enough suit
able jobs. The problem is rather one
of fitting than Of finding.
Many men write in similar strain
to the following. paragraph taken from
a letter from former employc of one
Of the largest manufacturing COM
panics in America:
MY old employers, the -, were
unable to return me to my former
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18
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gardlng complaints filed with it, 1t
might also limit its consideration ex-
cluslvely to those cases where the
complaint consists of the fact that
soldiers have been refused work by
their former employers, or that the
terms of unemployment are so I'M
fair or onerous that the mere offer
ing of such terms is tantamount to
a refusal of employment. In Balti-
more only cases involving Maryland
soldiers are considered
''This type Of board, used on a
small scale at our plant, has sal
vaged many a dependent soldier.
Its existence recognized the human
fact that soldier may get job
without getting square deal. Now,
1t is my observation that the soldier
needs way to get his troubles off
his chest. If he cannot find some
one responsible to hear his story, he
is likely to be guided by the harpies
of Bolshevism, who exaggerate and
play upon his injured feelings until
he may become irresponsible and
dangerous A board of review
such as we have would justify its
existence in every community a
thousand times over by preventing
returning soldiers from becoming
prey for Bolshevist agitators with
INSCRIPTIONS motives.
"The fourth principle Of the Bal
timore plan is that the firm should,
if possible, know IN advance how
many of its soldier employees are
actually coming back to their old
jobs. This can be done through the
soldiers family. The man can be
told his job awaits him and asked if
he will come back to it, and when.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18

building yard on the Atlantic Coast.
Of 1900 returning soldiers, some
former employees, who have applied
to him, 1900 have gone to work.
To-day, according to MI. Null
hauser, Baltimore has no unemploy-
ed soldier who wants to work. And
he sees no reason why other cities
should have them, granted no panics
occur and that discharged troops
are not recklessly dumped upon a
few isolated communities. 1t is his
conviction that, with an even break
on business conditions, every soldier
can be reabsorbed into the indus
tries of this country and the com
munity from which he came with
out displacing civilian workers.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18

several ideas. One is that better nav
is their just recognition. They have
lost year or two in the natural
seniority of job evolution. They think
1t Is part of the reward they are
entitled to for what they have done.
They are startled by the decreased pur-
chasing power of the dollar. Accus-
toned to having the essentials provided
and their pay as fun money, they can't
see how they can make the old salary
go around.
Generally, too, they expect positions
on higher plane. Thousands of them
especially the officers and non-com-
mlssioned officers-feel that they are
now executives. Even the corporal who
knew how to hold seven men steady in
a gas attack is real example. But
there aren't enough executive posi-
tions to go around. There is no rail
road building going on, building is not
active, the basic industries are not
booming. They reject the minor lob
they might have while waiting for the
major job they want to turn up.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18
Long Ordered,
Now OrderIess

Yes, they arc men from another
world. Life was theirs only to give.
Now it Is theirs only to maintain.
From glorious spenders they must be-
come cautious savers. Think of going
back to operating an elevator after
operating a machine gun: think of
running typewriter after rafting a
machine gun in an avion duel Think
OF driving a delivery wagon up back
alleys after driving tank into the
crash Of battlel
And yet they have lived hard lives
and they abhor soft lives. They have
lived big lives and they detest little
lives. They don't want to be pitied
or patronized or babied. They want
worthwhile work. The jobs that await
many Of them are not worth while
Jobs, according to their new ideas.
"Thcy are conquerors. TIA q pity
that we haven't some big conquering
sob to give them, West to win, an
Eldorado TO explore. states to build
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18

'The first principle Of the Bal
timore plan is that the employer
shall publicly acknowledge his OBJ
legation to former employees in SER
vice, and unqualifiedly indicate that
he will cheerfully welcome them
back in their old jobs, or to posi-
tons Of equal rank and pay. In
this connection ! am glad to see
that the Army and Navy depart
ments are going to send an official
letter of commentator to all firms
which will thus go on record.
"This statement is especially
needed, because it tends at once to
stabilize labor. Men will come back
to their old places if they are sure
Of them. AS matter Of fact, the
real problem Of the returning soldier
is the exceptional ELSEWHERE no
specific job is open, where men are
too numerous for jobs, or the old
job no longer exists, or where men
feel they are being bought too
cheaply.
81 would emphasize the cheerful
recognition of this obligation as be-
ing absolutely necessary to the sue
cess of reinstating soldiers in their
former jobs without ultimate loss
to the concern. 1t is only logical
that soldiers be taken back. Every
firm in the country proudly hung out
service flags for employees who went.
Could there be any clearer evidence
Of moral obligation to give the re-
turning soldier his old place, it mat
ters not how inconvenient it may be?
cat the same time, the soldier
himself should understand that this
express or implied promise of his
old position goes no further than
willingness to give him chance on
the old footing. No employer has
promised to give anybody a fat, easy
job. The soldier is fully entitled to
a fair chance ahead of any civilian,
but has no right to expect easy
snaps He is entitled to his old Job,
but on the basis of present dav con-
ditions, that is ALL When he comes
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18
Why Some
Are Bitter

They are mostly fine and deserving
men. If they could only find their
places they would make good. They
feel that they are entitled to be placed
And they are. But how to do it? Some
of them are bitter. They have come
back to find the stay-at- homes-some-
times slackers and slickers-grown into
better and bigger jobs, and they, who
preserved those jobs and the whole
fabric of which they are parts, have to
search and beg for-just a chance to
do what they have it in them to do.
Some of them wonder if it is worth
while. The flag waving, the cheering,
the flowers and candy in the hospitals,
the "Welcome- Home Our Heroes" leg
ends in the shop windows are to them
merely the cheap Haunting of spuri-
Gus patriotism and expressions of o
sham sentimentality. They have done
greatly, achieved nobly, sacrificed them
selves thoughtlessly -and now they are
denied chance to earn living. 1t is
to curse! Better to have died plori-
ously in the Argonne than to beg
servilely for a chance to work to live!
The Civil War evolved the tramp.
VIII the legacy OF this war be more
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18

Again, | have had men frankly
tell me they think they deserve spe-
cial pay and consideration. They
have been risking their lives for $50
a month, while employers have been
growing wealthy, and men exempted
on account Of families have been
making equal wages in a week. But
if you will point out that the man
at home with family, at present
prices, often comes out at the end
of the war little better off financially
than the returning soldier, your dis
satisfied applicant is likely to admit
there is some truth in what you say
and become more reasonable.
"The third principle of the Balti-
more plan would require in every
community, as we have in our plant,
what might be called a board of
review to which the returned SOL
der, employed or unemployed,
could go with his grievances, real or
alleged, regarding employment I
conceive Of this board as a trouble
shooting committee, BIASED neither
in favor of the employee nor the
employer.
cit should have three sorts Of
members. It's nucleus should be
representatives of the industries Of
the community-employment man
ayers, for eXample-who can speak
instantly for the various plants.
Civic bodies should also be repre-
scented. In Baltimore we included
such organizations as the Merchants
and Manufacturers Association, the
Federation of Labor, the Women's
Civic League, the Chamber of Com
merce, the Builders Exchange and
the Public Service Commission. A
third member Of this board should
be some one who will link it direct
ly with the Federal Employment
Service, so that men asking employ
ment in one community can be
speedily directed to vacancies in
other places.
Locally, it would be preferable
that this board fix its own rules re-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18
M aking W0rkmen
Out of Anarchists

AS for Bolshevism, he snaps his
fingers.
81 talked with an anarchist re-
GENTLY" he said last week, land
now he is at work for me-
The successful development of
his plan is largely due, he thinks,
to his knowledge OF the feelings of
discharged soldiers, g at h G d
through six months of personal in
terviews with all types of men since
the armistice.
81 90 to work at 40 in the
morning." said Mr.. Muhlhauser. Il
get right next to the returned sol
dier's point Of view, usually through
hearing his complaints. Many times
he is sore--on the army, and on the
public in general. ] know he has
some reason to be. | listen to him.
I hear them all patketically
from disgruntled and patriotic men
to those tainted with Bolshevism and
anarchism. AS result. I am con-
WINGED that other employers have
got to alter their treatment of ap-
plicants for employment, particu-
larly toward the returning soldier,
if industry in this country is going
to avoid costly labor troubles.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18

more to learn more of its principles.
AS result Of his findings, he
shortly afterward stood before the
executive committee of the National
Association of Employment Mana
gers in New York City urging closer
cooperation between the govern
ment and these men.
The plan is largely the result of
SIX months experience in employ
ing returning soldiers on the part
Of A. Muhlhauser, specialist in en-
ployment and labor construction
problems, who is now employment
manager of the Baltimore Drydock
and Shipbuilding Company. During
the war Mr.. Muhlhauser was called
by the government to help stabilize
labor needs In American shipyards
and formulate policies for govern
ment departments, such as the
United States Shipping Board. That
work was the exact opposite of what
he is now doing.
For example, the cry then was
for riveters for the fast building
shipyards. Trained riveters had to
be combed from less essential in
dustries for shipyard needs, without
leaving the former helpless. Mr..
Muhlhauser applied the industrial
leech so skilfully that the lesser in
dustries never felt the blood-letting.
To-day he is proving that the re-
verse is equally possible-that an
apparent excess Of labor can be re-
absorbed into industry with positive
benefits rather than evil results.
With the declaration of the armis-
tlce Mr.. Muhlhauser saw the need
of finding means to fit the return
ing soldier back into industry, both
without having colossal unemploy-
ment problem and without Great
ing inestimable friction and confu-
sion in Americas industrial ma
chinery. Playing the role of en-
ployment manager in his plant, he
has been so successful that the
plant has earned the highest rating
in labor efficiency of any steel ship
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18
Those Left
TO Drift

The experience Of Colonel Woodss
Office shows the good that can be &C
comphshed when potential employers
have the will to study ways and means
to do their part. One employer at
first refused to take back an officer
on the ground that his place vas filed
acceptably. The right kind 81 letter
opened his heart and mind. He placed
that officer and wrote that h could
take care of several more good men.
The right spirit does prevail in most
businesses. That is proved by the fact
that so per cent of the returning SOL
diers are going back TO their old
homes and to their old jobs or to new
ones IN the home community. Al the
last ditch. too, in the most desperate
cases. direct appeal to a possible en-
ployer brings its rich reward.
But at the best the war with It's
huge dislocations, will leave sort OF
human wreckage that never knew the
military hospitals. 1t can be reduced
to very small minimum, however. by
the cooperation of individuals and cor
roratisns with the organized efforts OF
government and societies Jobs-and
suitable jobs-can be provided Tor
men who gave up jobs to take long
chance on giving up their lives Il
took money. patience, infinite effort 10
turn the civilian into soldier. II
Will take some of all three to reverse
the process.
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back into the business world he
should exhibit sound common sense
and win on his merits, not his uni
form. Then if after a fair trail he
does not make good, there is no
reason for retaining him, any more
SO than any other employee.
''The returning soldier should also
realize that in fairness to employers
he should, if possible, seek reemploy-
ment first in his own community,
where the first obligation to reem-
ploy him rests. By seeking employ
ment first in strange communities
he IS trying to get job that belongs
first to the soldier who actually left
it.
THE second principle of the Balti-
more plan is based upon my belief,
confirmed by interviews, that the re-
turning soldier presents quite as
grave a psychological as a financial
problem. First of all, I find that
soldiers like to feel their employers
are sincerely glad to have them re-
turn to work. But parades and
banquets do not seem to convince
service men of this. The test of the
employers and the community's
sincerity really comes when the SOL
der returns to ask for his old lob.
Time and again I have seen the
suspicion crop out that in welcom-
ing the soldier to his old job I am
doing so primarily because it is to
my selfish interest to do so, and that
my glad hand of welcome is hypo-
critical and insinccre.
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work. They gave as the only reason
for not returning me that their desks
were flled-and | should look else
where"
1t is easy to imagine the state of
mind of a man who went away to fight
for that business and returns to find
his place permanently filled by a man
who never felt twinge of war pain
man who is employed but dissatis-
fed writes:
Il was farmer. During the war
was battalion intelligence officer of the
- Infantry; rank, second lieutenant,
and gave perfect satisfaction The
amount of real brains and study neces-
sary to perform the duties of an in
telligence officer, ! believe has fitted
me for good employment in life"
"Please get me something in which
can make use of my past training
and get it quick" writes college man
of exceptional qualifications and ex-
rerience-a linguist and scholar
THE fellows who stayed at home have
good positions at good salaries 1t is
very hard after months of active train
ing in the army to sit idle"
There's a man who has been doing
soul satisfying work-and now he's got
to the point where he is willing to do
almost anything. And the fellows that
stayed at home have all the good posi-
tons.
II am with the firm with which |
was employed" writes a soldier to
whom the war has given a wider out
look, "but the work which I do is not
at all satisfactory to me, as | am
capable of doing higher class work"
high grade engineer who left a
state position. has come back from the
war to find that even the public ser
vice itself does not take back it's en-
ployes who left work to fight. ~ feel"
he writes, that after my long and
faithful service am entitled to some
position"
railroad man writes that his old
company won't provide him place and
that everybody else asks him why 1t
doesn't take him back He demands
that the railroad administration give
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18
Real Complicated Problem in Psy-
chOlOgy, Says Col. Arthur Woods

tramps? A contented citizen-a 900
soldler-then tramp. Is that the in
evltable course of patriotism for thou
sands in land that has roads to build.
canals to dig, forests to clear, swamps
to drain, deserts to water, ports to
make, ships to build, farms to work?
Congress appropriated s56,ooO,Oo0 900
to wage successful war, but it didn't
have time last winter to appropriate
Sloo,00O,00O for a forty-year loan at
per cent to add billions to the national
wealth and provide the grandest sort
OF transition from soldering to civil
lanlzing. Secretary Lanes great land
reclamation scheme would have been
worth every cent of the proposed initial
appropriation of 100000, 900, even if
it had failed in the end permanently to
reclaim a single acre or put a single
soldier on a farm. The big outdoor
work of reclamation on vast scale
the camp life, the community of eff
tort, the chance to participate in a
high enterprise, comparable to the
epochal effort in France, would have
been an ideal stepping stone from the
soldiers life to the prosaic civil life.
1t would have provided attractive work
for the humber sort of soldiers. and
numerous executive places, large and
small, for the men who are CAPABLE of
flllng them. While they were thus en-
ployed they would have been "tapering"
back into the old life, forming new
connections and new associations. OMEN
ing up n line of connections for artic
ulation into the vast machine of indus
try and commerce, which seems now to
present to them precipitous and gran
lite front.
The problem of placing the returning
soldier is serious only for small per-
centage, but that percentage, if APP
Piled to 100000 men. means perhaps
100000 left to drift. These 400 900
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18

him the consideration II rightfully
Deserve" He also feels that his ex-
perience as an officer in the air ser
vice has qualified him for something
much better than he had, but he finds
it hard to realize that he can't even
get that. To make matters worse he
was definitely promised replacement in
his old position at the time he en-
listed.
So it goes through hundreds Of files
that constitute puzzling and harrow
ing record of djustment, no adj
justment, broken pledges, cold .ndif-
ference and partially for the men who
stayed at home. The fact that these
are the exception rather than the rule
of experience is no consolation TO the
exceptions. Who will deny their re-
peated assertions that jobs are theirs
by right?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18
Out of the Uniform Into Overas by the Baltimore Pl

soldier, who is often oversensit;v.
about seeming to ask for some.
thing goes back to work under
sort of cloud.
"Then, too, many former soldier
employees are offended by the offer
of an equivalent position, suspect.
ing some subterfuge. Many believe
the employer hopes the soldier will
be offended and refuse the position
thus freeing the employer from anv
further obligation.
eve find that where a substifns.
job must be offered most men Will
respond to the argument that in of.
fering it to them you are showing
your faith in their ability to hands,
two different jobs with entire sat,s.
faction to the firm. At any rate. we
always explain the reason for sub.
situations, thus removing suspicion.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 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 mental 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