The evening world. Newspaper, June 11, 1918, Page 14

TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 1918 Jobs—or Their Own Farms For Soldiers and Sailors Planned for After the War Sergeant Major Greenhut's Proposal, Recommended by Mili- tary Authorities, Would Replenish Any Labor Shortage and Make Agricultural Develop- ment a Military Undertaking. By Sophie Irene Loeb PLAN whereby soldiers and sailors will be turned into proper chan- nels of industry after the war is now before the Secretary of Com~- merce and Labor, and has been reviewed by some of the most prominent railroad men and financiers of the country. ‘The pian 1s based on three contingencies, Should there be # shortage of labor, should there be a surplus of labor, and should ‘there be neither # shortage nor surplus of labor, One of the principal features of the new plan fs a farm army or a “back to the land” proposition after the war, The scheme ts one outlined by Sergt. Major Bugene Greenhut, now stationed at Camp Upton, and is being strongly recommended and approved by military au- thorities. Sergt. Major Greenhut explained the plan to The Evening World as follows: “The gigantic problem of turning millions of fighters back to peaceful parsuits without disturbing the labor market, without creating a tremendous industgial upheaval and without causing a disastrous downward revision of Jabor wages is to-day receiving the attention of the foremost thinkers With the American Army in France SECOND OF A SERIES OF SKETCHES DRAWN “OVER THERE” BY P. D. BROWN, U. S. A., PICTUR- ING THE INTIMATE, SOMETIMES HUMOROUS, SIDE OF LIFE IN “BILLETS.” Copyright, 11% Press Publishing Op. (Mt. Ty Rvening Wert) of modern times. “These farvighted men and women eee the necessity for immodiate adoption of some plan whereby each bonorably-dioharged soldier, sailor Or marine will be assured.a suitable opportunity to earn a I! ‘Sihood for Dimsett and his dependents. “Much attention has been given the returned disabled fighter, so that to-day each who still retains a spark @ Ife 18 asmured a chance to sup-| port himself. He will receive proper training by the Government and pri- vate agencies and an outlet for his energies is guaranteed. But the dis- abled man will be of a great minor- fty. Those who will really need aid wilt be the men who have como out of this war without serious injur- toa, “Engiand has realized the import- ‘ance of making some provision for their future and has formed a parlia- geentary committee and a Ministry of Reconstruction to deal with this problem. Other nations are follow- fag sult. Up to the present America has done nothing definite. “It ls proposed that the President eppoint a permanent commission which will undertake to obtain profit. able employment for all honorably @ischarged soldiers, sailors and ma- vines, “This commission will be compored of a Chairman and one representative identified with each of the following interests: Legislative, labor, banking, agricultural, railroad, steel, mining, restoration, an honorably discharged soldier, sailor or marine will become part owner of the property, assets and Mabilities of the element he has Joined, “This army will retain the ranks, grades and pays prevatiing under present army regulations. However, officers will be appointed in accord- ance with their knowledge of agri- cultural production, distribution and marketing. “The land will be deeded to each el- ment organized in the following pro- portions: Brigade, 8,210 men, 1,313,600 acres; division, 27,152 men, 4,845,000 acres. ‘his will.allow 160 acres for each man in the brigade or division, no more than he could get on a home- stead grant In the United States or Canada. However, all land will be Just as mmuel lay but this isa. pooled and owned by the brigade or division to which {t has been deeded, It will not be divided into quarter sections and a certain quarter section allotted to a certain man, “The money to finance development will be advanced under the Federal Farm Loan Act, to the element un- dertaking the land grant 1fi the same proportion that a lke number of in- dividuol farmers could obtain loans were they to organize for their own ood, Products will be marketed through boards composed of commanding oM- cers of the various elements, along manufacturing, textiles, the press, the | the lines of the successful fruit grow- army, navy. “Th mmission will determine, as far as practicable, from information | obtainable from various lines of in- istry, the number of vacancies there are likely. to occur within a year of the declaration of peace. It ts as- sumed that each industrial factor in planning for that year in advance. Therefore this commission will serve also in the capacity of consolidating the plans for the future of industrial America. “The commission wi!! determine from army, navy and marine records the umber of each of all occupational abilities who are now in any branch of tho service. “The commission will act as a mo- Aium through which men and employ ers may be brought together, “The commission will be in a porition to consolidate the efforts of other na-| in branenes tional agencies int of this work, The aid and be aided by | of Great Britain, France, Italy, Bel- gium and other nation, The commis- gion will be able ts make recom mendations for the rec nstruction of devastated sections uf Europe, It will plan the part America will play in euch work, based upon céfinite knowl- edge of our surplus Iobor power. “Each man in the service will be re este commissions quired, four weeks befiie he receives|end of agricultural o hie discharge, to make a statement in writing of his financia: status and hys prospects of obtaining immediate en- ployment, Based upor this statement, @ man may be reioase! only when em- ployment is secured for him or such other disposition arranged for as out Mned tn the following paragraphs? “AN men may thus be absorbed by the community. However it ts pos- eidle that there may bo a surplu |ers and planters’ associations in this country. “Profits will*be distributed on per- centages computed by the Commis-| gion for five years. They will be dis- tributed according to rank, but not In the same proportion that determines salaries, After flve years the entire management will be turned over to a board made up of commanding off- cers of the various elements if both the Commission and the board so | agree. : “After five years, members may re- enlist or resign. Those resigning may | take a Certificate of Participation for | | thelr interest, Resignation before the |five-year period will cause the mem- ber to lose all claim automatically to [all profits and assets of the element \to which he belonged. fleate of Vartictpation will be an interest bearing negotiable jlong term bond issued against the as- sets of the element | “I have submit \the brie d this matter in x form x \@ problem. Many qu ar may se Yet each factor mentioned in ts based on a thorough know! of the situation, For a period and one-half years previous to vnee into the military service T conducted an exhaustive investiga+ tion of the industrial labor situation lea f on onditions. This |investigation tneh a thorough tudy of the high cost of living prob- m, In January, 1917, I offered the |President a solution to the problem f the high cost of living through th ary of Ag hues. Hea fener ew York's First Mayor HE first Mayor of New York Thora Willett, was inducted You Can Fool Your Elbows, but— FOR 10-DAY—Bullion a la Profiteer; Zeppelin Sausages; Eclipsed Sunfish; Cup Custard, Kaiser Style; War Biscuits; Periscope Duck; Macaroni, Served in Hud- son Tubes; Marble Cake From Our Own War Gardens. Order at Will, but Don’t Stop Buying Thrift Stamps. BY ARTHUR (“BUGS”) BAER Copyright, 191% by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) must have planted pebbles. ‘The war farms on the East Side are still slightly backward In coming forward, owing to the fact that there {isn't much room on a window sill and it 1s hard to teach a carrot to grow sideways. Still, every little bit helps, as the moth said when he ate a 1918 ing Thrift Stamps. your consctence. PROFIT) ui is a gent who thinks that all the medals have Sinking of the hospital boats by the Kaiser is It's Wilhelmful. » zepping around. Ten loots on Beat it for the % tles on the ste around. No cure for that. Although the gate receipts wer sun was entirely successful, that he sprain epp-proof wigwams and play possum, Twenty chor- m jaza horn means the Jersey skeeters are skeetering bathing sult, your elbows, but you can’t short chang You may fool small, Saturday's Fooled an old Connectic nd got his beak ng cup is pewter riin chet making It is no libel to say that da ligament jumping off his roost « sunburned, News that the Kaise is no surprise to anybody who |} chicken ple out of bob veal the old boy is a red-headed cheater, except that he isn't red-headed. Tho latest thiret serum must contain less than 4 per Looks Hke beer when you lift it to your chin, but your ign’t located in your elbow have the strength of Gibraltar a Fee} like regular biscuits when you are derricking ‘en to You may swindle your elbow, but tt is hard to bilk your palate, Get- Realize that you can't make omelettes without breaking to be able to make s ever seen a I Expected that, ense of taste sults now being cooked seem to 4 are about the same complexion. for articles now unobtainable ts| ¢ indicated in an interesting article by correspondent gang,” a Christianta par Jams to put on bread. yer, Deseribing nade and the substances which enter| bad a pro! their manufacture are, however, | obliging cyclist had to bring it from the persons | the village on tho day fixed, I» left | whieh fate Germany mado so much, the writer But you ought teeth, Fair enough. So many periscopes sticking out of Mr. old pond looks like an asparagus bangs his hat on ¢ without breakin, J ‘A surrogate for pepper ts offered for" judged only pearance, seems almost the s who produce them, Atlantic's ocean that the Substitute soap 1s offered for male| What the uproar overhead; no matter /ennul; a truce; and when So thick that a Yank sailor : © perlveope while he chokes another periscope to They make fine souvenirs and it only takes sixty to make @ Tho landlord who owns the Hudson tubes ts trying to raise the ante to 6 cents a copy. nickels made out of the Kaiser's cup, as much to tube from New York to Now Jersey as it is from New Jersey Can't settle the matter until the Ambassador to Bast Orange writes “My Four Years in the Hudson Tubes,” it cost @ cent more to elbow your way from New York to Fumeburg taste have been surprisingly weil {mi- linain ¢ cteristio of soap, "A tea (o shown to which the name of| Tals charsctoriatio of soap, “German tea” has been given Costs 5 cents now, payable in pewter prepared from any one or a otherwise it is very good. Question 1s whether it {s worth to New York, Substitute bicycle Why should like genuine tea, half dozen cups will not produ Sbould this surplus of unemployed into ofce on June 13, 1665, seem likely to be more than100,000 after Oy Rms ry Mefebant | and our industrial neods and those of other | Mer Koveried New York honestly Siete Gaee haan accctinied for, it ia °2° ‘ " his firet term of guggested that the Commission will / 7)" Year Bas Wade Mayor again in recommend that Congr * authoris Th muntetpal t 10 Nelpal government was epening of good fa al “ha eee Wee Jcomposed of five Aldermen, three ns me thas gid may ok aia | Duteh and two English, and a Sheriff, selopment, h police dutte devolved oar critical agricultural situation Sia ihe slay} FMS Lb More than 200,000,000 neres of such abluiniic an eae ae nee lands are availab's, not ttle of |) ‘ wit 1 carcise mua he which is in the vicinity of cantor of police affairs was sub- ments which may thus je much criticinm, a precedent advantage aficr the wa being eutab whed whic h haw been ad- ered to throughout the stra “Upon ro-cniutment period of (Jone of cil of Mayor Willetts sues Ruiiurad connor Gun 10 ine present aay, j or Odortown? You may gyp your elbows, but you can't timulation caused by War gardens along U Fi pper Fifth Avenite are blooming |nogeless nor as cay riding as t ‘rhere are any number of surrogates! ine rubber marble siaiuary in TUESDAY, JUNE 11, ‘Lull Between Battles ' A Boredom to Soldiers Keyed to Fighting Pitch So They Turn Eagerly to Simplest Forms of Amusement to rf" att 1918 Break the Monotony, Iiterrupted Only by Arrival of “Trench Papers,” Says Emmanuel Bourcier in War Book “Under the German Shells.” By Marguerite Mooers Marshall HAT do they do in the trenches when they are not fighting? =“ * i More than any war that ever was fought is this one game tuated with week-long, even month-long, pertods when tar Iaage | sections of the line there literally is “nothing doing.” This stalamete tame ° ‘must hang heavily upon the erstwhile busy hands of | the citizen soldiers who make up the great fighting force of the Allies; men who have been accustomed all their lives to fill their waking hours with certain defi- nite tasks. Human nature abhors a vacuum. How is it filled in the trenches? One of the most detailed and realistic answers to this question is made by Emmanuel Bourcier, the latest of distinguished Frenchmen to give us a war book. His is called “Under the German Shells,” and Is the clear, orderly, logical record of the war from the first mobili- zation in 1914 to and throvgh Verdun. M. Bourcler has a white-@tghted Gallic mind, incapable of, naive, slangy, Anglo-Saxon sportiveness. With the deft precision of the trained man of letters he puts before vs ip werk engravings—not photographs or impressionist sketches—the invastom of France, the Marne victory, the Battle of Champagne and finally the giorieas making true of the glorious phrase, “They shall not pass!” M. Bourcier already had served his country ten years in campaigns t |the East. Nevertheless, he enlisted as a simple private at the outo.eam of the war. Later he became an expert in the telephone and Wireless sevttons and received his commission as an officer of Haison—the impurtant service that co-ordinates the movements of airplanes, artillery and infantry. Be | was sent to this country as a member of the French Military Couwraission and acted as an instructor of liaison at Camp Grant, Rockford, UL, retarne \ing again to France last December. Once more he is “under the German shells.” Meanwhile, he has given new vistas of that life—including a flower garden nd a rat fight in the trenches. There “existence is characterized by a mo- |notony that soon becomes a burden,” he writes in “Under the German Shella” “It is made up of waiting and work. There {s much time for rest and repose. It !s a special type of Ilfe, which recalls that of the sieges of olden days, when armics sat long months at a time facing each other. One does not fight all the time. “What is there to do? Sleep, cer- tainly. Then find amusement, for the time is long, The hours move slowly, night follows day and day night with- out bringing change, Therefore one | must exercise his ingenuity. “Some man who loves the cultiva- tlon of the land cares for a wee patch of garden. A garden—yes, that is what I said, In the midst of the trenches. He has planted some pansies, a sprig of stock and three clumps of pinks. Ho waters them every morning and watches them carefully. Woe to any careless foot that might crush them! These flow- ers, in the sombre surroundings, | breathe perfume and poetry | But other and non-poetic souls | _ crave other diversions, “At anether | spot,” says M. Bourcler, “a fight be-|#ued, f{lustrated. It was eagerty tween a dog and a rat is pulled off. A/S0Usbt, and the coples circulated Lieutenant sets a fox terrier on a|>riskly, carrying gratuitous joey, promising hole of the rodents, A|*moothing knit bro bringing @ group of men look on eagerly. One, |/#ush, @nd, finally, carrying to the armed with a pick, enlarges the |rear the gayety of the front.” opening.. Another removes a stone For it was such diversions thet which was in the way. The dog,|Were the mainstay of that intangible trembling with excitement, snifts, | ‘ing of w paws, digs, buries his nose in the| te Great War—the morale of the sol+ earth, scratches, reaches the animal| ‘ler. Of the boredom of life at the jat the bottom of his retreat—seizes| front, M. Bourcler has an admirable him! Good dog! He shakes the raj|“escription in “Under the German furiously, breaking his back, The| Shells." “We smoke, and dream, and victor is applauded and petted, sew, and clean our arms, We await “There is the man who makes chains | Ur turn at sentry duty. It rains. We of welded wire; the one whose hobby | Yawn. The sun comes out, one risks jis photography. One mysterious fel-|h!8 life to pay a visit to his neighbors, low amuses himself with cookery.|The picturesque ceases to be, by There are some secret pursults, like |"e4#on of famillarity. One sees noth. that of the inveterate hunters, who|!ng of that which at first fixed bie place game traps at twilight and at|@ttention, The deep trench where dawn endanger their lives to go out| Crazy grasses hang {8 a road only tee to empty them. here are fishermen | Well trodden. The meas is stale, the who drop lines in the canal. A hun-|card game stupid. One is bored te |dred avocations are followed on the} death and utterly worthless.” edge of the war, side by side with the] Therefore the flower garden, the rat 8 spaper. “When I look back upon these labors,” the MANUEL BOORCI |eervice, in range of the cannon and] fi punctuated by she , the trench ni place they were eat Tragedy held us jtrench newspapers which various | amazing. | Prench units produced even early in| constantly in its clutch. The man whe |the war, Unlike our own “Stars and|was polishing a ring for his flancee Stripes,” these sheets were not printed | did not finish It; that very evening a al for marmalades, it being a well known| behind the lines but actually in the|ball or a plece of shell shattered the that there Js a scarcity of butter| fighting zone. M. Bourcier found his| work an Most of | personal distraction in b marmalades are prepared from |one of these p: 1 ¢ editor of | man who w stroyed the worker, The carving a walking attele & fruits, and with @ minimum amount o¢| “Title: “I'he War Cry,’ appearing | sant a gr Was a mutilated wreck before his work * instead of from |he insists, gravely. vas finished, The danger was Incege ‘The means by which they are /once a month. Every month, then, I] “In these occupations we sought lem—to get paper, An jdistraction from the thought of {t but one * uld never ward off that ¥ 4 for him, It snatched from it at the foot of a sapling, no matter) was an in one was which 1s said to have been prepared | how large the edition of shrapnel mes- | doing f well, thinking no mere from the oil {n berries and from pum. | sages from the Germans, jot physical discomfort and mental It lacks, however, the one} “Jn one trench the print shop waa! anstish, suddenly tho cannon barked, that of | twenty feet underground, bt was illum- ey tarm was sounded and the dames king up into a rich creamy lather, | inated by three night lamps set in a Under the ¢ Ms y is t t ‘ | ° RO Srer hells” is pub. Substitutes | triangle. At another place the shop ed by Char! mor's Bone ave also to be had for laundry blue-| was on a level with the surface of the | ~~; 2 ground and the bombardment scat- AN EARLY INSTANCE if tires are gome-| tered sand and pebbles over the proof,| “We'd have gotten on alt right if fron | At another timo it wan installed in a/that snake hadn't como along ang springs « between | bedroom of ruined house, As there | taken charge of the apple crop.” sel serviceable on| was no roof to catch the rain, tt fell | By, eres ? e tears on the printe d baipd eplied am, “t * in large he printer and the) original case of the Ultitaate coun ue; u-' printing. leetting the wore o¢ trot iy eee “No matter! The number was ts-|the middlemen.” “Washington Stam % We have heard @f, and some of us}author sums up, “they seem to me */ e4 Im it atio n Pe ppe ran d 7 pales scen, the brilliant and amusing| childish. In t New German Substitutes ) what extent Germany has suc