JANUARY
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Help 18 J
anted in. Canada ns well
United States. T ypes of Hindoos
wvi'frni xrona sia to worK on the
.racinc s tracks
Help is wanted 'to buiW 6ted
ftkyscrapers. Photograph of a on-
sfrucfion ganff at work 2tX) feet:
at)QTe the jjoiind in v YorK.
THIS presrnt yotuhtul century is the
llvtst the world has known, and Its
neventli yer Is srolnft to be itn most
latei-rstlntr ono. 90 tr. Tln ia eiMcially
tme or the united States, the busiest land
in the world-
Wut while the Interest In ,h .
oountrles centers nmlnlv I
troubles, foreign and tostlc. herd the
vO)lf
Interest In conncn traced
upon the
affair
eace and Induntrv. lXu.rrli.s-
the fading cJouds that stiado tho l'aolrto
fcf6 its tm wash th eastrrn
f 'ar-away Janan. t-hrm i.
mntr- for the American people to worrv
ShiMlt a nvt tlmt ( 1. .
w-. ...u wmV i3 nuoiu anu ilOtV 10 gCt
Ihe workers to lo tho work th
at la wait-
"K for them to do.
-AJI Asia, it in a ferment.
Even Oliina
wa Persia are talking about constitution.
a covernme
! on m. col
Ru.sia, torn and bleeding and uncertain
ft 4Vs
w.c inuiiun. is iaiiins into a worse
. " or anarchy uan ever.
,t " "r m u the aillat or the elec-
wn oruorta ior a now Rcictwtag to taHe
tne plac of the one dissolved by th.
" 1 1 wouldn't vote money
w. . 7 on ma pet African colo-
lrnc.
ith. 1 1
In the throng or her mrunls
Vatican. . Cr.-v.r
5ht up over the quarrel between the
Lorun and . Commons SanJ wondering
Whether the uneasiness m India will be
UcB" h,- the general Aal-
wic frrmcnt,
But In America "Hefp W.ntsd- Is the
""""'",',lm'rr cry. K,l to dant ana h.r
vat such food crots as hi&vn . ,
now in any otHcManlHfilo to aiB
orce end the coal to smelt them with.
Mel . ,ay railroad, to oarr,- the orop.
Jter they ere Harvested; the ores and the
coal liter .toy tvre dug. aftd the Iron and
th eoppor and the lead -after they are
malted. Help to tuJld homee ana sky.
ertiptra; churcHei ana Ho-pltule; art gal
Uries and universities and museums Help
to bore tunnels and Jia canals. Hlp to
. www m. every sort thai
n-tr done under th. Bun; umiied and
unskilled and more of It than was ever
employed by any ono nation alnca the
world baian. All this mBV nt v.. ' "
flawed upon you, but it's true as gospel,,
every word. Uncle Sam may no lontrer
t rich enough In land "to give us nil a
rm." but there aurely Is work enough
lierc to give ui ftU tt JoD-lt weU take
what w cn ret- And moro of us have
Jobs today than ever before since there
Was an Undo Sam.
Help vantca by the Railroads,
The railroads have mora freight to
miry than their cars will hold. They
cairt (fct tlie cars they have over the
rails fast enough ana the carbulldew are
two years behind the orders for new
ones.
Tho 12,000.000 or 14.000.ot-bale cotton
crop, the ToO.W.wo bushel wheat crop,
the a.O00.000.0rt00 bushel corn crop, the
BOO.O0O.OOO bushel potato crop, added to the
coal and iron and lumber, tho monufac-
turcd products and the general merchan
dise that hag to be hauled up und down
the country has swamped tho roads com-
as the
now rpinpr
Cahadua
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pletoly. They have simply Kot to lay
thouBttndH ot miles or ntw tracKage or
the country's business will be swamped.
was nearly swamped all the 1-. 11.
siilte the lierolc efforts which have been
Win on the mi few nn to get trucks
cars ana engines enough Into the
-"-rvl.-o ro handle it e-3ciuaavt:nly. Peonies
ro rreesing in some parta or the Weht
for lacK of roal, wlilcli the roads can t
Ret to them and the Interstate Commerce
(.."omuilSMion la now trying- to find out the
real reasons fov f li situation
it has been the thousands of unskilled
labmer:! needed by tha railroads to ex-
tend their mUeaxe and to keep their
trat-lc I n order no rot-arc rlnr r .-.a. .
thousands employed on New York's
barp canal unit the really vast muniel-
pal Improvrmentfi going on In nearly
very olty in the land, that have made
I poxnlhle to absorb the iinnr.rvrian.a
current ot ImmiRratlon,
It was tlie great cry for hcln fraw lh
railroads that made It a physical Impos
sibility for uncounted ' ...... .....
Bast, South and W est, to harvest all their
com and cotton, their wheat and pota-
ituta nay last -'alI. The tlg-ht money
trltet Is laraely due to the enormous
ms Of currenrv nhlh thA
have had to use, and are still using, to
pay wages with, thou-rh certain mr in
all street have contributed to the situ
ion, ana eo has thn nci .... i.
money "to move tho Crops." But WithOUt
the current vast
manipulators would have had little chance
' " riwe as liiey Have. .
The Cauaaian rttllrondR hav. .An
hard put to It for heln AD thnaa In ihs
United States. The Canadian Pad ft a has
found It so difficult to set Kraders. track
laborers and other unskilled "help" that
i ims lawn w miporune H ndoos nnt
coolies, but men of better rraa. a .
news of this move has reached the fnl
ted States, though a Darairanh am
the rounds not long- ago telllne of tho
death from cold of some of these sons
of India' sunn- clime, who had i..n
4 ,,d
V a
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ir1 a? i-v .ffiw
5"H w
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Hrlp is wantVd to yrrale the new
railroads. From a -photograph
taken In DeccwW.
ti-iiii.portwl to ?anada-s bleak shores. I
.. no complete ngures by me, Out the
nrst shipment of Hind
56S to VanonuvAr'
to be
'Zr woric on the railroad num-
300 or 00 Man- -,t vm
leen
In some
ort or Indian mtlltarv
'Tice, cnaaa'B exclusion m were
not enforced
BO
rigorously
aralnst
the
nnt
-ast Indians as they
AiiKTicaas imported Into
b ds on acr
lilglier srado of railroad work:
tne
m than 10 per cent of the Hlhdoo were
turned back, and they were rejected be.
r'T. r InsulTIclent physique. or poor
health not because of the contract labor
laws,
An official of the Canadian Pacific
i.,r.-l t0,'d "'' th" ther day that these
men are slender, tall, without fat and
good worKerf, although, icKln somQ
what In stamina as compared with white
men. They aet S1.S5 a day. Their loda
1B, In bunk cara or in ehaheks built bv
tne railroad, ls thrown In. They have to
buy their own food, which Is cooked by
their own cooks. There are Brahmins
Sikhs and Mohammedan among them.
Compared wltn what they can earn In
India, their pay s enormous. The death,
irom tne Canadian cold, he said
had
arm
. . majniy Dy tne lack of
clothing. Thits. he added. in ns.
the
fault of the railroad company, however;
it nas Been Its policy to furnish them
with heavy, warm clothing- immediately
on their landing: at Vancouver, tout not
being accustomed to the cumbrous garb
necessary In this climate, many refuse to
wear It. to their own undoing.
Women Workers Scarce, Too. ' .- '
Tho oldest employment "tor in Amer-
lea Is about the scarcity of women serv
ants. Today there la arr unprecedented
sliortage of women workers of every
Tnere ie a certain concern o
oated tn. one of the larger cities whose
Whfle vOther Nation
Uncte Sam's Greatest Difficulty
Necessary-
Some Official
the Wage Earners of the United
Prosperity
r n - r r .1 it i . it ,i & .p wib i-tyji hi r i in i iir,.f - m ii a
h.
4 H
r - t"-fc JT'H
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i
manager recently found this out to hts
great inconvenience.
Xate every Fall he needs to add some
ISO women to trio clerical force, their du
ties being mainly to address envelopes for
the mailing1 of circular.. In past yean
nL.hafl been able to get all the address
wrfte"M lred by Inncrtlna; a four-line
advertisement one time In a single local
newspaper, Th nrj)t rjRV rtcr tllQ llj-
SSr'0"?' the "ad" there would be from
30O to BOO applleants. Inside of three days
'hf extra. U.t would be satisfactorily
fined. This season the advertisement.
Identical In wording with the advertise.
ment used every year for the last decade
was Inserted. How many replies do you
suppose the firm received? Six.
Next flay the advertisement was in-
serted in three or four other papers. The
eroes result from all the advertisements
was 31 applicants. It took ten days to
ft" the ejtra list, na all sorte ot means
h&A to be employed
ances of the regula
Importuned to come 1
ters had to be wrltt
Women acouaint.
ances of the reaular clerks had to be
Importuned to come In and help out. Lt-
tere fcaa to be written, to friemle In the
suburbs, and It was with the greatest dlf-
f Iculty that the extra work was got out
at all. Another unprecedented feature
of the situation was tho inefficiency of
the applicants. Not more than half a
dozen of the 31
vertlsements cot
the head of the
on its envelopes,
31 who answered the ad-
writo a hand that
willing to soe
At first he thought this meant deter
ioration. Later he concluded that most
of the competent workers of the class
he. wished to draw from were already
employed regularly, and that none who
wanted work were left earcent those
could not da It satisfactorily -
wnoiner reason; undoubtedly,- Is that In
thesa day, of. work. at good wages for
very man who Is able and willing: to do
It. many men . are unwilling- to allow
wives, slaters and daughters to work
for themselves.' This is often as true of
he man who works for day's wages as
s of any other man. and today. In
Face
is to Get Men to Do the i-iif
on Sa vines . ' " LVNW'V Slie .-JtY
Figures
XXelp ia wanted to mine tlie eoatf.
Minora leaving a shaft in. the an
thracite region.
ii r', rt
TT .3r
every great city of the country,
as every-
thousands of
iiuuaewives
their own housework.
their own scrubbing ana their own. wash
Ins. because the women they used to
employ will not work. The -"men folk"
are dolna so well that they will not
have It,
There are probably U barber shops In
ew York whose outfit includes a boot-
s chair, where the patrons can no
longer Bt their shoes ahlned. Ask the
'boss of such a shop why he hai no one
to attend to the bootblack's chair, and
J"" will say: -All the boys sot steady
Jobba. Won't shlna shoes no more."
Highest Wages, Great Savings.
It is because there Isn't help enough to
go round, despite the million or more Im
migrants of 1906, that waa-eu are higher
here than anywhere else, or ever, before-
so hig-h that In some American cities
rteiclayre earn more mone- than profes
sors in some foreign universities; that the
wages of tho men who put up tho steel
frames of skyscrapers are larger than the
salaries of government department heads
in some European kingdoms. Do you
doubt this? There are skilled structural
Iron men who earn J10 a day at least 200
days In the year, which counts up SS-M
more than the siago salary of one of Den.
mark's most valued department chiefs.
There are plenty f skilled workmen In
the Plttsbura; steel mills who are much
better paid than, the members of the
Swedish "academies" which awarded the
Nobel peace prize to Theodore Roosevelt
last December.
It Is these high wages that enable the '
States Since the Era of WJMZ
w Mm
tTTT
lifllllli
Heir
aleA io man
id is wanted to man
ries From a recent photograplt
t Gloucester. Mass.
American with calloused hands and
blackened finger nails to send his son to
college. Consequently more professional
men herd than anywhere else are spring.
ing from shoemakers and stonemasons
and tne like If the Hons are ashamed of
this to much the worse for them and, of
course, It's the h!&h wages, lately, that
make the high prices. Not altogether.
though: the high prlees are partly due to
the American workman' desire to eat as
good food aa that which goes upon the
rich man's table.
If tho
buy ate.
worktngman didn't continue to
pits of tne rise, do you
suppose t would sell
In INew Torlt . at
from 20 cents to Jj cents a pound an nox,
no matter what the beef trust did? Would
eggs he 63 cents a docen. as thev were in
New York: in mid-December, and higher,
at they have teen since?
You may not fully comprehend the in
crease that has taken place In wages In
this country since the low water mark, of
a few years ago. Nobody does, In fact.
You could get some Idea by studying
"Qulletln 6R." Issued by the Department
of Labor, but Mr. H. C. Watson of New
YorU, a member of tho Civic Federation,
who has given the subject mdeh atten
tion, puta the case vivld-ly- when be says:
"When the army of the unemployed
was greatest a prominent labor leader
estimated It at 3,000,000. Practically all
the men making? up this vast number are
now at work. To ii;t at the true advance
V?,
! "4 111
you must 'cure tn their wae...
i ? '.V';": ero.". fm nothlnar to rrom
s- to 3 a day. Prices have font up. but
tney are etui lower than they were In
1S80. and really the purchasing- power of
the workers has Krown much faster than
prices have advanced."
There are plenty to say, when they talK
about the American workln.man's high
llvlna. when they compare his custom or
VV" m'-"t every day In the year, bis
ood clothes and hts clears with the
cheaper food, the poorer clothes and the
pipe that must content his European
brother. that the American worker Is
wasteful and extravagant. Well, perhaps;
but have you looked into the savings
banks' figures lately? .
Nt. to dive deeply Into statistics here,
doesn t It strike you that the American
wommjman is aotny pretty well, in
eplte of the high prices wiien you under
stand, as Mr. Watson pointed out to rue.
that in the past ten years the number of
savings bank, depositors here has grown
frohi- K.'0eSL494 to iOK.lM. or about fiO per
cent? And that. In the same time, the
SiS"ta Increased In amount from
Sl.907,156,277 to S3. 482,137,198, or about SO
per cent? This means, counting five to
the family, that about half the families
Nor Is this all; the savings invested by
1.600.000 Individual in the building and
1" associations count up more than
SO0O.000.00O. It la all right to admire the
great savings of the French, accumulated
by dint of economy and self-denial that
(Ooncludcil on ?aa SI.)