Evening star., 1923-05-10
RUSH OF TOURISTS
i TO BEAT RECORDS
Labor Turnover Grows.
Women Working on
Farms.
BY j. G. ROYLE

special Glspltcn 10 INC Star
NEW YORK, May 1O.-More people
are going to take longer vacations
and go further afeld on their trips
this summer than ever before in the
history Of the United States. Rail-
roads and steamship lines are prepar-
ing today for the rush of tourists. and
trains on the regular schedules are
being crowded to the limits in GER
tain sections.
Manager of Passenger Traffic Morri
son OF the Atchison, Topeka and Santa
Fe declared today that travel to the
Pacific coast from points east of the
Missouri river already was 20 per
cent heavier than at this time last
year. This percentage is expected to
increase to 25 or 80 per cent by mid
summer. The number of eastern peo
pie expected to tour the west is esti-
mated at between 225,000 and 100000.
Traffic managers of railroads entering
California estimated that 10000 from
east of the Mississippi will visit that
state during the summer months.
Basis for Figures.
These figures are based on reserva-
tions already made and the volume of
traffic now moving, and take no ac-
count of the tremendous number OF
automobile owners who will jam the
highways Of the western section of
the country in their own cars. The
western Pacific and the southern Pa
Cific roads report the heaviest VOL
ume of passenger traffic in years
The Santa Fe is preparing to in
crease its train service from Chicago
TO Colorado points $50 per cent by
June l. Glacier National Park and
the Pacific northwest are the objec-
tives of thousands. and the Canadian
Rockies are putting lower fare sched-
n Of hn Of h 10 ht,g-
ness.
The movement of tourist travel is
heaviest in times of extreme business
depression and times of steady com
mercial prosperity. The latter is the
factor which is sending the vacation
lists far afield this summer. Econom-
ically, manufacturers and producers
are not satisfied with this movement
for they declare that every worker is
needed at the present time, whether
he is an executive or unskilled laborer.
Labor Turnover Increasing.
The present week is approaching the
peak of the turnover in labor. The sea-
Sonal occupations which draw workers
an the winter are slowing down, while
the building trades. the steel mills, the
metal mines are approaching their
greatest period of employment Work
ers are shifting from job to job, hop
ing to better their wage and working
that some sort of a job awaits every
man who wants one.
So severe is the shortage in the agri-
cultural field that farm women in the
northwest are being forced into the fields
by the lack of male workers. This short
age is growing week by week despite
steadily increasing wages Farmers
now are offering $50 a month and board
compete with other employers. Less
than half of the North Dakota wheat
crop has been planted, although nor
lnally at this time seeding would have
been completed.
Auto Men Expect Breathing Space.
By midsummer nearly 100000 new
and used motor cars will have been
sold in the United States since the re-
turn Of prosperity. This means that
there has been purchase of an auto
mobile in one out of every five families
in the country. While this does not
point in motor car demand, it does ex-
plain why motor car manufacturers ex-
pect breathing spell after the bulge
of recent months.
The employment report of the au-
tomobile factories in the great manu-
featuring centers is beginning, for
the first time in months. to show
falling off In the percentage of in
lowing weeks will have to show a
corresponding decrease before it can
be stated that the peak of production
is past, but the change is undoubt-
edly significant.
Sugar Decision Discounted.
The announcement that the courts
had denied the request of the gov
eminent for an injunction against
trading in futures on the New York
coffee and sugar exchange had little
effect on the sugar market, as the at
titude of the judges hearing the case
ar fnir ri lott
decision would be. Traders and deal
ers, therefore, already had discounted
the effect of their action
5000 Workers Lose Jobs.
SEATTLE, May 1o-About three
thousand workers in the lumber
camps of the Pacific northwest have
lost their jobs as a result of the un-
successful attempts of the Industrial
Workers of the World to disrupt the
lumber industry.
Mill executives have weeded out
malcontents and agitators and mills
TO 10 per cent or more above normal |
capacity. For the first eighteen
weeks of this year the new business
OF the northwest mills has been
2OO,oOO,0OO board feet above produce
tion.
Big Lake Business Predicted.
CHICAGO, May 1O.-The arrival
here of the first eastern lake packets
has opened what officials of the
Rutland-L Lake Michigan Transit Com
pany predict will be one of the
busiest seasons for packet freight by
water ever known In the great lakes
section. The first arrivals took fif-
teen days for the voyage from Og-
densburg, n. Y. because of ice which
stiil is impeding navigation. Marine
men say the ice was thicker on the
lakes this year than ever before in
their memory.