THOUSANDS OF
IDLE MEN ARE
NOWJN EAST
Harry I. O’Neill is in receipt of a
letter from his brother, Frank J.
O’Neill, a member of the Twenty-sec
ond machine gun bataliion, stationed
at Camp Lee, Virginia, in which he
depicts the labor conditions in the
east and the feeling of the discharged
soldiers, as follows:
"If they would only wake up in
Washington, D. C., and pass a bill
whereby the sailors and soldiers
would get at least a month’s pay as
bonus, it would help out a lot, as there
are hundreds of thousands being
turned out Of the army without a dime
in their pockets and it is causing lots
of discontent among sailors and sol
diers here in the east Every other
. country did something for its dis
discharged men.
“All of the big men in the east say
they are letting the boys out of the
service too fast and flooding the labor
market. You can’t blame the fellows
for wanting to be discharged, but
they have to take on any kind of work
to make a few dollars.. A. number
if the big cities in the east have sent
word to the War Department warning
the men coming to those cities, say
ing that there are thousands of idle
men around.”
Frank also stated that if everything
went well he would be back in Camp
Lewis in about ten days and hoped to
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be discharged a couple of weeks later. (
He will likely return to Cordova.
NEVADA WOMEN WORKERS
TO BE ELIMINATED
RENO, Nev., Feb. 17 (by Associated
Press).—The"war-time” woman prom
ises to maintain her place in Nevada
despite the fact that the end of hos
tilities is in sight. In Reno restaurants
and cafes were forced by necessity
to employ young women to wait on
tables and lunch counters and man
agers announced that many of them
will be retained.
In the Southern Pacific Company's
shops at Sparks about fifty women
have been employed since the first
draft. These women will be retained
in case they wish to stay under
changed conditions, company officials
state. They indicate that “ehonged
conditions” means that the wages of
the women will be cut to such an ex
tent that they probably will seek
lighter and more suitable work.
During the preceding summer
women and girls were employed quite
freely on farms all over the state. It
was a common sight to see a majority
of the harvest hands in the large fields
composed of women. Women oper
ated gang-plows and harvesters, and
did most of the work in putting in
crops and cutting hay and grain.
With the return of the harvest sea
son next year it is likely, however,
that few women will be seen in the
various vocations attached to ranch
ing.
Women undoubtedly will be re
tained in capacities as clerks by many
of the larger corporations, more par
ticularly the railroad and express com
panies.
Wages paid to women who per
formed the work of men were prac
tically the same as given the men
whom they superceded.
FAIRBANKS NEWSPAPER
SUPS BOUQUET TO EAMES
■ It would seem that the trouble with
our mail service this year is that it is
“made in Seattle” instead of by Alas
kans in the past years. Until this
year Alvah Eames at Cordova used to
boss the mail shipments into Fair
banks. He had" been on the job so
long that' he knew what was best for
the people and he sent it. He had
Alaskans on the boats to Cordova
sorting*the mail on the way up, and
when that mail reached Cordova he
resorted it and corrected any mis
takes the boat clerks had made. If
he found that some federal official
was getting a lot of “franked” stuff
that was of no real value to the camp,
Mr. Eames sidetracked that mail and
the other Montgomery-Ward catalogs
and sent in the more desirable mail
first. So long as there was worth
while mail to send the "bunc” mail
was kept in Cordova. This year they
have taken it out of his hands—all our
mail is sorted in Seattle and sent
through from there by the freight
route. October papers are arriving
now, and there is no system of any
worth-while kind in the Seattle way.
And there’s no chance to change
things this year.—Fairbanks News
Miner.
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FIND WORK FOR SOLDIERS
AND PRESERVE HISTORY
BOISE, Idaho, Feb. 17 (by Associ
ated Press).—“Matters which have
most recently engaged the attention
af the State Council of Defense,” says
Chairman Joseph T. Pence, "are de
mobilization, Americanization and the
preparation of Idaho’s war history.
The council has turned its machin
ery over to the director of the United
States employment service to aid in
finding work for returned soldiers and
sailors.
“The present session of the legis
lature will enact laws for the educa
tion of aliens. In this way the‘duties
of the council in this respect will be
brought \o a close.
“Perhaps the most important work
left for the council is the preparation
of Idaho’s war history. There is no
organization whose ramifications
were so great during the war, none
that came in such close contact with
the whole people of the state in their
various activities as the State Coun
cil of Defense. The history of these
activities must be preserved, and that
work falls to the lot of the State
Council of Defense.
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CROPS OF LAST 1 R
HAD ENORMOUS VALUE
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 (by Associ
ietd Press).—High prices and in
creased production swelled the total
value of the farm crops of tho country
in 1918 half a billion dollars more
than the total of any previous year.
This aggregate value of farm crops
for the year has been placed at $14,
900,769,000 by the bureau of crop esti
mates of the Department of Agricul
ture. The previous record value year
was 1917. The value of last year’s crop
was double the average value for the
five years, 1912 to 1916.
Illinois ranked first in the value of
all crops as did that state in 1917.
Iowa, Texas and Georgia were second,
third and fourth, holding the same
rank they did in 1917. Minnesota took
fifth rank, jumping from ninth place
which she held in 1917. Ohio dropped
back into sixth place from the fifth
rank. North Carolina moved up into
Missouri dropped into ninth rank from
sixth place she held the previous year.
Pennsylvania moved into tenth place
from the fourteenth position. Neb
raska, which held seventh place in
1917, dropped back to the seventeenth
rank California dropped from tenth
rank to twenty-first.
The thirteen principal farm crops—
corn, wheat, oats, barley, rye, buck
wheat, flaxseed, rice, potatoes, sweet
potatoes, tame hay, tobacco and lint
cotton—which formed almost 80 per
cent of the value of all of the coun
try’s crops in 1909, as reported by the
census bureau, were valued in 1918 at
$11,125,996,000.
The total value of all crops as given
is the hypothetical value, based upon
the ratio of the thirteen principal
crops to all crops in the 1909 census
bureau’s report.
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