Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-30
Can't Fool
Uncle Sam On
Odd Jobs

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- been to the but that isn't where you'll find such
4 y creatures To look for bush monkey so to
California lumber camp and there he is just human as
you are earning his living by stacking tanbark in neat
piles.
Discovery of lobby hog is easier don't hunt him in
the lounge of good hoteleet dinner invitation at any
lumber camp and you'll him the cooks helper He may
be known the buck bIoook Turnkey or bul-cook de-
pending the camp situated Your host called
bully but he is probably good fellow just the same In
northern logging circles bully is the big boss of the
camp. He is also called the bull-of the-woods.
These names but few of the job titles revealed
by search through two fat books published recently by
the Federal Government Although the lumber industry
to have names some used in other
lines just robust
Go down to the oil and gas fields in Oklahoma and
Texas you may stfleg derrick operator Save
your sympathy this hasn't hurt himself The der
rick has the stiff leg
If you are curious duties of ead-tong
skip visiting Chinatown You might look him up when
you go the stfeg derrick fellow for the eadtong
does something to make drill pipes in wells work bet
ter And rough neck isn't tough guy although ne has
husky TO hold his job He digs mud and sand around
the oil wells and helps on the derrick
Drop into a stocking factory Philadelphia and you
will return boarder but his boarding house may be
terrible just the His work has to do with dyeng
hosiery.
Visiting Chicago? Be careful about asking some little
boy on the daddy for he may "a belly
opener" wouldn't just be doctors trying to be
funny His sire works at of the packing houses Sitting
open hog carcasses
Have you ever heard or seen an agitator? Wait min
may be just good an American as you are Go
to California gold and you win find the agitator
man tending the pneumatic machinery used there.
Are you your wife stepping out tonight and hiring
a neghbor girl watch the children? If so you are en-
gagng the services of child monitor according to Uncle
Sam Someone, however was painfully honest about her
work for the optional title of this job is "bratter"
We are marked and judged to our way Of life, it
in these two volumes America 1884, is there
wish to look since finding out how people earn
their vings gives positive picture of the virtues faults
and handicaps of this $500 kinds of jobs
to be done. although the demarcaon is often shadowy
There are 500 industry titles grouped into general
about jobs printers devil to publisher The con-
industry from the aborer who makes big rocks
into rocks TO the chief contractor, has LAO titles
In making pair of trousers dozen job titles are IN
voved Not that on pair but the business
keeping mans lower half decenty covered gives en-
ployment to in II eategories
Most people think the fellow who takes
fares street Not say the books There are
five divisions Of motormen some of whom don't even
do work wheels
In the glass industry it's no insult to call
teaser and it doesn't mean one fellow
men That's the Of employe who tests melt
ing glass
may page Upper and nobody else listens for any
For the he wants is busy at work putting
lips dePrvssi0ns Tor pouring onto cream OF water
pitchers and other pieces that require it.
Nobody bushes in flour mill when the shutter is men
toned everyone there knows he prepares wheat for
grinding flour by running it separators that
screen out foreign matter
Some names may tonguc-clucking. Two shining
examples are precise descriptions of the work Of
the strp-teaser and the gigoo. The former Miss
Frances Perkins department lady who walks about
the stage accompaniment to music and gradually divests
self Of clothing May dance and sing It's all right
she and sing but these abilities not
sary to win merit in this occupation The ggoo
must versatile He "as professional escort
for women acting as social partner in dining dancing.
attending gambling and other social pastimes
Nav suggest places Of entertainment and for trans
portation and other accommodations
Yet spite Of these thousands Of titles, You won't
catch y,sur government out limb and certainly not
Madame Seexetary Her departments book Dictionary Of
cccupaonsl Titles is specific denying that 4 determines
which man does what job The Go and AFL worry
about that one thank you TIM Alphabetical Index Of
Occupations ami Industries Of the Commerce Department
however takes chance and leaves out that little warning