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ALASKA PUBLICITY
BUREAU
Juneau Alaska.
If you want to either hire or be
hired, let us hear from you.
Employers will please state nature
of positions vacant and
wages paid.
Those desiring positions will give
qualifications and nature of
work wanted.
E. J. WHITE.
Chief of Bureau.
By order of the Governor.
ENGLAND SAVING
T N FROM DUMPS
WASHINGTON—Trash heaps in
England, which tiave given up thous
ands of dollars worth of waste fats
for use in making munitions, now
are being robbed of their pictur
esque adornment of tin cans, which
likewise will do their bit toward
putting the German army back where
it belongs.
Necessity for conserving a metal
absolutely indispensable to the con
duct of war virtually has eliminated
the use of new tin from civilian pur
suits. Its place is being taken by
salvaged tin. gathered in the dumps
and alleys of the cities, and by
various substitutes, such as paper
and cloth containers.
Figures supplied by the British
Foreign office to official sources
here attest the great saving effected
in the use of tin plate. In 1913. the
biscuit trade used 12-000 tons of
tin. This year that trade has had
515 tops and will get no more.
Old tins will be utilized or the trade
will do without. Boot polish man
ufactures have received no new tin
whatever, as compared with 6,000
tons annually before the war. Scrap
sent back from the front in France
is being worked up.
Domestic tinware, the housewife's
pride, is receiving 750 tons a quar
ter where 8.000 tons were used in
1913. Printing ink has received 31
tons this year, compared with 237
tons in 1913. No tin has been al
lotted for the civilian tobacco trade,
but the army is being taken care of.
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TOR THE
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WORKERS LEARN
IRADE AT YARD
AT HOG ISLAND
PHILADELPHIA. —The axiom
“Must Makes Master" is getting a
practical demonstration every day at
the Hog Lsland shipbuilding plant,
where a school of instruction has
been established and erstwhile clerks,
barbers, ear conductors and motor
men- policemen, firemen, shoemakers,
butchers, bakers and indeed repre
sentatives of every known enter
prise and endeavor, are converted
into ship builders after brief tuitiorx
Most of these students, taught
by the hundreds in one branch or
another, are taken out of the in
struction- class after a week and
placed with journeymen crews.
While they are being instructed they
receive eleven hours pay for ten
hours work at the rate of 35 cents
an hour. When they have qualified,
their wages immediately advance, so
that men who before were earning
$18 or $20 a week in their own oc
cupations are now making $40, $50
and $60.
Their earning capacitv depends
upon their ability and the amount
of time they put in- Many, in
order to swell their pay envelope,
toil longer than the required ten
hours, and thus frequently receive
as high as $75 a week.
The men find the employment
congenial and fascinating, whether
they are joiners, carpenters, rivet
ers. seamers or otherwise engaged
in helping to turn out ships for
the government.
Approximately 28,000 employees
are on the payroll at Hog Island.
They are not all men and boys.
There is a representative number
of women, whose duties, however,
are confined to office or other light
detail.
Just how large the total of the
weekly payments to the workers is
has not been officially disclosed, but
it is estimated to aggregate more
than $1,000,000.
The plant is the largest of its
kind in the world, and the first ship
of a virtually unending string of
vessels slipped down the ways last
month.
GERMANS GIVING
SUIIS10 CAUSE
AMSTERDAM.—Threats of com
ing confiscation of the contents of
German wardrobes in order to collect
1- 000,000 civilian suits for war
workers, are the subject of satire
in many of the newspapers in Ber
in and elsewhere.
The Vorwaerts chuckles over the
possibility that von Hertling may
have to appear at court in patched
pants and that von Kuehlmann may
arrive at the Peace conference with
holed elbows. One humorist sug
gests that,* to save clothes, all per
sons over 55 years of age be ordered
to remain in bed until eighteen
months after the war. Another
recommends widespread cultivation
of the fig tree.
The threats have, however, had
effect. In Munich, it is reported,
thirteen thousand complete suits of
clothes have been given up, al
though only 11,500 were demanded.
Berlin is still hopelessly behind
and many complaints of unfairness
are made about the number of suits
required from the metropolis, eight
times more than was demanded of
Munich, whereas Berlin is only four
times the size of Munich.
Complaints are manifest of hard
ships on the lower and middle class
es. Radical newspapers accuse the
authorities of undue consideration
to the wealthy classes.
On the other hand, one of the!
emperor's court chamberlains indig
nantly writes to the papers that he
offered a good suit with the lining
somewhat damaged but it was re
fused and he is now wearing it him
self daily.
WAR ACTIVITIES
CAUSE HOUSING
TROUBLE GALORE
PHILADELPHIA—This city is '
crowded as never before. The in- i
flux of strangers from all parts of ■
the United States to toil in the ship
yards, munition plants and other
places where government work is
being done has greatly intensified
the housing problem.
Few houses are available for rent
ers. A "To Let” sign is scarcely
ever seen except in sections well
removed from the industrial plants.
Because of the high cost of build
ing materials, relatively few houses
are going up, apart from those be- !
ing constructed by the government '
for shipyard operations until after
the war.
Withal the problem of finding
accommodations for everyone is
slowly being solved, and after a
time many families who have been
forced to share homes with others ■
probably will be able to get places |
of their own.
Rents, in keeping with other things
have taken an upward bound, sharp
ly in some instances. Steps have
been taken to prevent profiteering,
but there has been no government
objection to advances where con
ditions warranted them.
Perhaps no other city in the coun
try can claim so large a number
of property owners as Philadelphia.
Real estate men figure that within
the past year more homes were pur
chased here than in the three pre
ceding years.
Where it was formerly possible
to clear a real estate transaction
in a few weeks, it now requires as
many months. Clerks in title and
trust company offices have been
compelled to work nights, as well as
days, and even then they have been
unable to keep abreast of their task.
Because of the keen demand for
homes, real estate valuations have
increased many millions, and offi
cial figures which will be published
later on are expected to show a
phnomenal increases in growth
over those of 1917.
The abnormal inquiry by home
seekers is attributed to the high
wages paid to men engaged in gov
ernment work.
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But Better than the Rest."
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