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JOB-FINDING AND MAN-HUNTING

he lives. Advertisements may also be placed at the rate of twenty-five cents for fifteen words in the weekly bulletin, which is authorized by the bill to be issued by the central bureau at Washington, and to go to every postoffice in the United States. Thus, at a cost of seventy-five cents, any employer, or any would-be employe, may make his wants known to the whole country.

The Bureau is authorized under this bill to furnish transportation to persons obtaining employment through its service, the amount to be paid back in full or in installments, under such regulations as may be determined to be practicable. The Bureau is also authorized to furnish transportation at a reduced rate, or even free, when circumstances warrant. The Commissioners are to have powers of investigation and mediation in cases of strikes and labor disturbances.

The bill has the advantage of presenting a plan which will be cheap in operation, and yet efficient from the start. In many cases no additional employes would be needed. The posting of the blanks each day could be done by the postmaster in a few moments. It is estimated that the modest fee of fifty cents, charged only to those who have an income of one dollar a day, together with the fee paid by the employers who use the service, will provide practically all the money necessary to make the service entirely self-supporting.

The bill would undoubtedly have one result that is enormously important to the United States-that is, it would tend to keep the farm laborer on the farm. Mr. D. B. Wheeler, of Washington, D. C., who helped Representative MacDonald in drawing the proposed bill, pointed out this feature before the committee during the hearings. He said: "You take the rural communities and the labor there necessarily must be trained. Now, when the farm laborer gets out of employment and goes to the great cities, he does not as

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DAVID J. LEWIS, CHAIRMAN OF THE HOUSE COMMITTEE He went into the mines as a breaker boy in his youth.

a rule go back, because he finds a new environment that is very attractive to him; he is lured by the Great White Way, he has movies and other cheap. . attractions, and he thinks of the short hours, and all that. This is the way the bill takes care of that situation: the man is under no necessity of going to the big centers to get a job. When a farm laborer looks for a situation he naturally looks for work at farming, and any system that would quickly put him in touch with the kind of work to which he is accustomed would generally keep him in that field of labor. But when the rural worker goes to the city he is desperate for a job, and he will take anything he can get. Now,

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MOTOR trucks used by the Schenectady, New York, Street Railway Company have been equipped with an antiskidding device which does not wear out the tires but which is, nevertheless, as effectual as the ordinary chains. Cross bars are fastened to an ordinary cable chain. The chain is placed in the trough between the two tires on each wheel of the truck. The device can be placed on the wheel without jacking it up and after it is fastened, as the wheel goes around, the frogs are constantly changing their position, thus preventing wear on any single spot on the tire. The invention is one that should prove of wide-spread interest to all owners of trucks and, with the development of the power-driven car, there are now a good many thousand of them in the United States.

PRIMITIVE METHOD OF CARRYING WATER USED AT MAZATALAN, MEXICO, DURING A SIEGE The besieging rebels had completely shut off the water supply of the city. The only water which the inhabitants were able to obtain, and then only in very small quantities, was drawn in the manner shown in the photograph across dreary

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The company which turns out a large number of these boats every year, on practically the same lines, guarantees that each boat is speedy enough to "run circles" around the fastest ocean liner.

T was at the Paris Exposition of 1889 that the first motor boat, one with a Daimler engine, was exhibited as a sort of marine curiosity.

By 1903, and particularly in the United States, wealthy yachtsmen began to build speedy twenty-one-mile toys like Napier I and cruising launches that often refused to cruise at all.

A few years later in 1907-Albert Hickman, seeing a boy sculling swiftly over the water on a flat boat of six spruce boards, got the idea for the revolutionary Viper I, a rude V-shaped box

with a cheap two-horsepower motor, that ran over the water at a twenty-five-milean-hour speed. Since that time there have been other boats of this type that race at fifty miles an hour. When first introduced, this sea sled was as new to the marine world as was the first iron ship, which the wiseacres declared would not float.

In the past only a J. Pierpont Morgan, a James Gordon Bennett, a Vanderbilt, or an Astor could afford the luxury of a steam yacht, costing anywhere from one hundred thousand to a million dollars,

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