Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-16
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Graduates Dictionary {.
The Jobs 1raiiabie :.

WASHINGTON. - Boy and girl
graduates desiring to keep off
WPA may get some ideas out Of a
dictionary of occupations. which
the Department OF Labor will pub
lsh in about a month.
At least 25.O0O types of jobs are
being listed and defined, although
there's no guide to any particular
place where one might be found.
Anyone unsme whether he would
like to be a bulldozer operator,
gin hand. powder monkey. fettler.
green pipe-off bearer. dinkey op-
orator, pipe passer, empty pallet
boy. pu2ger sagger or special
shapes man can lind out what
these jobs are by consulting the
dictionary.
In the brick and tile industry
it will be found, are jobs such as
sponger. tosser wicket man. catch
er. and soft mud-molder. Some
workers are pea pnshers. The
dictionary will also list pueilist,
boxer. prize fighter and fisticuffer.
And hustler, busker, cat man,
mammal man and deer man. If
you want TO know what a grip or
an emcee does for a living, again
you must consult the dictionary.
Apple trucker, another job, sug-
gestS the big apple-erroneously.
Draw your own conclusions from
bone picker, gang g-knife man, bab-
bitter. tub tester. smoker, soaker
silker and giYer out.
For young ladies there are such
jobs as bushel girl, inside pocket
girl flume girl, bundle girl bind
ing girl, jar girl, punch girl, can
girl, sample girl, and cutting-in
girl Not considering it an occu-
patton the dictionary will fail TO
list dream girl.
If you We're one of 100000
school kids who contributed in
1922 and 1928 a $4,000 collection
for a Navy and Marine Memorial,
you'll be interested to know there's
still a chance Of getting it finish
ed The memorial was cast in
Cleveland, a green bronze assem-
blage of waves and underpinned
seagulls in flight and planted
down near the Potomac river three
years ago, surrounded by dirt.
CONGRESSMAN Arthur jerks of New
Hampshire seeks a $4,000 appro-
priation to provide steps and other
finishing touches
1T is one of the worst looking
things I have ever seem says
Congressman John Taber of New
York. I'VE ought not to 60 on with
its construction
IF the gentleman had bought
only a suit of clothes and got only
a coat and vest, leaving the suit
standing at that, it would not look |
very we'll either retorts Congress
man Kent Keller of Illinois. at
is a beautiful piece Of work and
ought to be completed
Temporarily buried in the House
by Tabers objection, the bill TO
complete the memorial will be
brought up in the senate.
The bootleg problem, theoreti-
cally eliminated by prohibition re-
peal, has popped up again II new
and startling fashion under the
shadow of the Capitol dome. Fed
eral agents have arrested a hard
ware dealer who was selling liquid
paint and rust remover as a cheap |
for Whiskey at 9 cents
a half pint. Customers were in
Structed to set fire to the stuff to
burn out impurities and then fill
ter it through a crustleSs loaf OF |
bread
Congressman Mary Norton, the
gentleWoman from New Jersey |
has a Womanly distaste for cater
pillars. When a resolution directing
the CCC to make war on tent cat
erpillarS was referred to her |
House Labor Committee she quick
~ joined with Congressman Mar
vim Jones to get the bill trans
ferred to his Committee on hgri-