Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1919-05-10


ments of over 1000 tons EACH
The United States Bureau of Labor
Statistics has published series Of hand
books which are proving Of great value to
employers in hiring men. They are entitled
Prescriptions of Occupations, each book
being devoted to one particular line of
business or industry and containing detailed
descriptions Of the jobs in that particular
line.
The 1000 residents of the Yakima, Wash,
Indian Reservation, majority of whom are
well off through land holdings and 400
of whom own motor cars and live in modern
houses, now have substantial bank of their
own, managed exclusively by red men and
for red men. It is called the Commercial
Bank of Wapato Wash
After the Association to Promote Proper
Housing for Girls opened big Community
Club House'-three old dwellings made
into one-and "Model Rooming House,
for girls, on East Thirteenth street. both
houses were filled within a fortnight and
for weeks applications continued at the rate
OF from five to ten a day.
When the United States Supreme Court
mandate ordering that Eugene V. Debs be
taken to the Moundsville, w. Va. Federal
Pricson to begin a ten-year sentence for
violating the Espionage Act, was announced
to the Socialist leader, he said: "During my
incarceration my comrades will be true and
my enemies will be satisfied, and therefore,
as far as l am concerned, all is we'll with the
world''
From his 23-acre farm near Athol, Kans.,
an enterprising farmer makes as much as the
average man on 100 acres He plants
diversity of crops, though the acreage of
each is necessarily small. Last year his best
money-maker was four acres of cane From
1t he made 400 gallons of sorghum that sold
readily at his home at IS cents gallon, or
$500. The seed he had threshold and the
last Of it, $50 bushels, has just been sold
at So bushel.
Wages and the cost of food have not adj
vanced in like ratio, according to the
Bureau of Labor Statistics Between 1913
and 1918 average union wage rates in
creased 30 per cent whereas retail food
prices advanced 68 per cent Between 1907
and 1918 the corresponding advances were
40 per cent. and 1O5 per cent In terms
OF purchasing power a weeks wages pur-
chased only II per cent as much food as in
1913 and only 50 per cent as much as in
1907
The Ontario Legislature has granted the
petition Of Ottawa, and passed an act en-
poWerlng the city to submit to the voters
an ordinance exempting personal property
and improvements from all taxes except
those for water and schools The exemp-
ton is to be at the rate of 25 per cent a
year, reaching total exemption in the fourth
year. 1t is considered Indicative of the
change in public sentiment that the COM
mittee which hitherto had thrown out
similar bills was this time unanimous in
it's approval
The Reform Union in Cleveland has un-
earthed conspiracy to defeat the ends Of
justice in the common courts. It's nature
seems to have been that of collision between
convlcts and officials. After number Of
rules Of court had been amended and the
Cleveland Bar Association had taken up the
matter, Governor Cox at the request of the
Bar Association and the Chamber of Com
merce decided to act in the matter, and a
plan was worked out by which change
was made in the law by the Legislature of
Ohio enabling the Attorney General to
appoint special officers to make such an
investigation.