The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-02-19
(By Richard Spillane)

1--WE are going to have bread lines In
every industrial center by May ].
| If there were basis for such q dire
prediction the outlook would be dis
tressing. But is it true?
Let us see what the facts are and
what the views are Of men as well
qualified, if not better qualified than
MIR. Morrison, to read the signs Of the
/ times.
i 1t is less than 80 days to the LIST OF
May. Two Of the great centers Of in
dustry in America are New York and
Philadelphia. RIf there was q surplus
of labor or hard times were impend-
ing. surely some evidence of it would
be manifest there.
Both cities have known bread lines.
There are no bread lines today. Both
cities have known stree beggars OF
many kinds and characters. Moth
ing is so rare now as the street beg
gar.
The principal newspapers have col
umns and columns Of male help
, wanted" ads.
Employers Advertise
New York employers, despairing Of
getting all the workers they require,
4 have advertised In papers In other
cities.
!. Philadelphia is the biggest center
= OF shipbuilding in the world today.
On the day this article was written
the U. S. employment Office was adj
] yertising in the Philadelphia newspa.
I pers for not only trained workers,
but for unframed men to learn the
J shipbuilding trades and the Mer
chant Shipbuilding corporation was
I advertising for shipfitters, linerman
i wood calkers, riverters and copper
= smiths.
\ From st. Louis comes the informa
4 ton that the shortage of labor is tn
a outstanding problem in the railroad
Il tie industry The business was para
i lyzed by the war. Now every RAJ
Il road needs new ties by the tens o
thousands and hundreds of thOus
I sands. They must have them. Tn
demand Is so great that ]. w. Fri!
q toe declares 100000 men could b
II used in various lumber camps for til
d making.
Every textile mill in America ha
- all the orders 1t can fill. Fuller Ca
.Ilaway, the largest cotton mill ma
of the south, is running all his mil
"a hours day and will keep the
4 running to their fullest capacity Il
months to come.
i Our Clothing Supply
II Never in half a century was the
such shortage of clothing as the
is today. America Is the only nati'
fairly we'll supplied, and the Anne
lean supply is far below normal.
John s. Lawrence of the great fl
, OF Lawrence & Co., of Boston, is {
thority for the statement that frt
!. the ward-robes of Americans $500
- 900 garments of gross weight of
100000 pounds have been gifts to
stricken people of Belgium. AT
n low estimate he puts the value
y these goods at SO pound, or
Ds tol clothing value of $40,000000.
Mr. Lawrence has been director
the clothing division of the Conn
sion for Relief in Belgium He as
" if Belgium is in such need of eli
ing, what must be conditions in
!. rest of Europe? He answers by
s ing.
4. Before the war continental
ropes exports of textiles were
!. siderably larger than their impt
{ Now she must import textiles
" 1875, 100000 destitute people, and
!. extent of her imports for the
!, year will be her ability to pay
the worlds ability to ship.
! The great textile mill centers
:! France, Belgium, Russia and Pc
~ are wrecked. German is without
ton or wool. England's mills will
be transformed from war work
peace work for months to come.
erica and Japan must strive to
the vacuum. Only in America
Japan are the cotton and wooleI
dustries intact. In America nj
100000 persons are employed
extile lines.
More Men Needed
The largest single industry in
erica is farming. Government
ports show the largest planting
- winter wheat on record, and the
condition, Likewise they show
best feedingg of cattle in many y
IN. The indications are for an