The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 24, 1929, Page 10

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE | THE GUMPS—BEWARE! : “| WELL ~ TEACHER = Cart Your CLASS ‘TO OR! Re YF THERE i$ A SCHOOL FISW STILL IN SESSION — CLEAN THE BLACK BOARD = i PLAIN NOW = MY CONSCIENCE IS CLEAR —. I'VE WARRED THEM =, IVE DONE MY DUTY ASA SPORTS MAN— Now LEY THEIR CONSCIENCE the country and speaking the lan- guage, working for from 50 cents to The cost for the same By RODNEY DUTCHER : (NEA Service Writer) ‘Washington, June 24.—Just as mil-} $2 4 day. lions of people in the Old World have | in the past looked toward the United | than in the city of Washington. States as a land of promise and profits, thousands of Americans are now turning toward South America. standard of living runs from 50 to 85 per cent higher in South America This covers the prospect of the untrained man who goes down looking for a job. A certain small demand for young "Two evidences are at hand here in-| men of requisite experience and qual- dicating the increasing and wide- spread interest in opportunities for employment and small business cn- terprise on the southern continent. The postoffice department has had, to check up on numerous agencies which haye pretended to be able to steer applicants into South Ameri- can jobs, but which, as a matter of} fact, have been primarily interested | in picking up a $2 or $3 registration fee from the unsuspecting seckers of employment. Frauds Are Prosecuted ‘The department of commerce ha produced a comprehensive pamphic on “Employment for Americans 1: Latin-America,” which is worth ing by anyone who has the yen toe igrate. It was written by George J | Eder, chief of the department's Latin- American section. Fraud orders have been is the postoffice department some of the persons and ace’ gaged in selling South / “employment service.” It has been | the custom of these agencies to accept | fees and broadcast long e0- | graphed names of applicants to; American firms doing business inj Central and South America. The de- | partment of commerce has found that few, if any, such firms ever pay any | attention to these li: The “employment remarkably — seductive climate. development and opportu ties of “this great virgin land,” pre- jureaus draw | pictures of | ifications alv 2 exists among the many Amer: companies doing bus- iness in South America, but Eder ad- vis hat it behooves the applicant for such a position to obtain a satis- factory written contract before leav- ing the United States and to make sure that the company is both re- sponsible and fair to its personnel. No Chance for Unskilled Publications which might offer sug- gestions can be recommended by dis- trict and cooperative department of commerce offices over the country. Sometimes South American opportun- ities appear in employment advertise- ments in New York newspapers. There are virtually no opportunities | for unskilled or agricultural labor, | because of the great supply of native | peon labor. Ed iggests that a married man :! without children should not accept a South American clerical position at less than $4,000 a year and sets $2,400 as the minimum for a young man without family responsibilities. There is a limited demand among wealthy American residents for tu- tors for their children, and a large demand for the jobs, though there is no demand for American teachers in local schools. Only a few profes- sors from the United States have been able to find positions in Latin-Ameri- can universities. A certain number of excellent op- portunities exist for trained engi- neers, geologists, chemists and other senting lengthy lists of positions in| scientific workers and qualified engi- various industries. But here is the low-down on the sit- uation, as given by Eder: | Don't be misled into supposing that 2 minimum of effort in South Amer- fea will produce a maximum of golden returns. Latin-America’s true wealth is not found in pleasant trop- ical atmospheres, but in the strenu- ous ‘industries of more temperate There are about 3000 positions available in the United States for American citizens for every one open in South America. The prospective worker who goes armed only with health, courage and ambition will meet the almost insurmountable ob- neers may apply to the American En- gineering Societies’ employment serv- ice in New York, Chicago, or San Francisco. Similarly there are op- portunities for physicians and dentists with larger American organizations abroad and steamship lines. It takes some time to build up practice in Latin-American cities, however, and: full knowledge of Spanish or Portu- guese is required for a license. Employment opportunities for Anferican women are “exceedingly limited,” consisting mostly of a few secretarial positions with American firms. The working woman is likely to find her social position difficult, except in American and English col- stacle of native labor, accustomed to onies in the larger cities. Crystal, so painfully new to new Paper work, was fearful of missing her appointment—if it could be called such—with Colin Grant. His ungra- 7 {she were an artist she could draw | every: line of his face, of his tall, thin, ;slouching figure. And she had only seen him twice! If she never saw him cious, almost angry words still rang in | again, every line of that portrait her her ears: “I usually grab a sandwich | fingers could not draw was etched on and a cup of coffee after the home edition’s in. At Charlie's Coffee Pot.” Crystal waited in the city room u her heart. A waiter thrust a greasy card before her, and pride made her order. He til she heard Harry Blaine baw! over | must not think she had waited for ® phone: “Sorry! Too late! The home him, expected him to pay her check, edition’s just gone down.” Gone down | perhaps! When the thick sandwich where? Crystal wondered, but she had | and the muddy-looking tea came, had her tip. Had she missed Grant? | however, she found she could not eat She had been waiting since half past |a bite. But she drank the tea, very three and had not seen him, but her | slowly, for it was atrocious—strong brief experience in the office had |and stale, as if it had been brewed taught her that newspaper men fre- | from ancient hay. And still he did not quently phoned in their stories, leav- | come. Other reporters drifted in, Har- ing the actual writing to “rewrite” | ned among them, but after the first men. Her hands shook with haste and | swift glance at each newcomer she cold nervousness as she adjusted the perky little brown and orange hat which Faith had given her. She raced down the narrow, dark stairway, her heart leaping ahead of her feet to the little hole-in-the-wall lunch room across the street. Her first glance the table-crowded room told | the long counter. Once her heart | sickeningly, for she thought saw him, but a moment later the man whirled on his stool and revealed Iife-scarred face nothing at all like Grant’s dark young furious . So furious he was—with life and’ himself, Harry had explained. smiled tenderly at the mem- of that face, as she took her place one of the little wall tables for two. What an amazing it was to in love! Why, she told herself, if CANT BLAME THE CAT Calcutta, India, June 24.—A cat was le for the burning | - of a whole village of 400 cottages in| Province recently. An old caught it and tied a piece of She then lit it and on a thatched roof, ig- this manner the other dune 24—Mrs. Geo. Cad- the following list | dropped her eyes to her plate to dis- | courage camaraderie. If Colin Grant did not come she wanted to speak to |no one; would never want another man sitting opposite to her. Then anger came to the rescue of her sadly humbled pride. He had sought her out, hadn't he? He had |sent her on an errand of mercy, hadn't he? He needn't worry! She wasn't running after him! But it did seem as if he might have the decency to thank her for what she had done, | would want to hear the end of poor Callie Barrett's story! And just then, when her hazel eyes were glinting with the anger she had deliberately whipped up against him, | Colin Grant appeared in the doorway. Her heart leaped with joy. Tears of relief put out the flames of anger. | NEXT: Strange talk. | (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) cently given a sanitary hearing in court. * ° LITTLE JOE .7 MAN (S WISE TO VELL HIS WEE EVERYTHING HE FIGORES SHE'LL FIND OUT. Yo ate AKE ALL RIGUT.-IM READY == How FAR IS IT TO THE RAILROAD WHERE Youre Fis ON GENEVA Wow) 00 You une WORSE BACK RIDING, TAG THINK. LOOK THROUGH SOME OF THESE WHILE 1 Ste HOW FALOA 1S COMING WITH THE Yi, UL “ ’ Jumeos! t WHATS "THAT HISSIN’ NOISE? —————\ S ———— BE TH! GUIDE = a—_———— = THEIR Gosh, WEOt's A BEAUT! BY ALAKE-TEN ACRES ON A HILL —FOUR ACRES BY A RIVER Us Pi rah ea Or the Cheugs Teor iy Bans \ W535 h \