Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 266, 19 September 1918 — Page 14
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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, THURSDAYSEPT. 19, 1918.
PROVISION FOR EXEMPTION OF FARM WORKERS
War Department Makes Special Arrangement in Order to Keep Up Production.
Other Nations Will Owe U.S. , $9,000,000,000 If War Ends in Year
WASHINGTON, D. C, Sept. 19. Under the rules of the war department for executing the new draft law, special provision is made for Informing the district boards in regard to farm
labor requirements In order that necessary food production may be maintained, says a statement issued by the department of agriculture.- The statement continues: In the new draft the district boards are charged with the duty of putting Into deferred classes those persons who are more likely to further the war by remaining in civilian occupations than by entering the army. Accordingly, three advisers are to be selected for each district board one for agriculture, one for labor, and one for other occupations. The agricultural adviser will be appointed by the board upon the recommendation of the secretary of agriculture. The advisers are not members of the board but may, when invited, attend its meetings. The duties of the agricultural adviser will be to furnish to the board facts relative to farm labor requirements, not only of his own district, but of the whole country. He should be the repository of all facts having relation to the deferment of agricultural workers, whether these be necessary farm laborers, managers or operators. He will be expected to advise the district boards as to a shortage or surplus of necessary farm workers for any given district, as well as for the entire nation. Such information will be supplied to the advisers by the department of agriculture. This will make it possible to have necessary workers
transferred from districts in which they may not be necessary to other
districts In which they are sorely need
ed. Duties of Advisor.
The adviser may also concern himself with Individual cases that come before the district board. He will have the right, under certain condi
tions, to examine the questionnaires and other records in the files of the local board for the purpose of ascer
taining whether persons entitled to deferred classification have actually claimed it. In cae he finds the names of such registrants he may file for them a claim for deferred classification with the district board, which. In turn, may require the local board to certify the questionnaire and record of any such registrants for consideration. Reasonable time will be given for the purpose of obtaining information and supplying the affidavits required. If a local board determines to consider a case for deferred classification because a registrant is engaged in a necessary occupation, notwithstanding ro claim for deferred classification on that ground has been made, it shall ondorse the recommendation on the questionnaire of the registrant and forward it to the district board having Jurisdiction. The district board will thereupon consider the case and proceed to classify the registrant, notwithstanding the fact that no claim for deferred classification by or In respect of the registrant has been made. A further duty with which the adviser Is charged is to confer with employers of necessary farm workers,
and to instruct them as to their right under the regulations to file a claim for deferred classification in respect of any registrant who has failed or refused to file a claim for deferred classification in his own behalf. This, in the opinion of the war department, is a very Important matter. The apparent injustice of placing many registrants in Class 1 is often due to the fact that employers have failed to make claims for deferred classification on behalf of necessary workers. It Is to avoid a repetition of this
trouble that farmers should see that all of their necessary employees, whether sons or other laborers, of the draft age, have made for them Just claims for deferred classification. Skilled Farm Labor. One important explanation is made In the new selective service regulations in connection with the expression "skilled farm laborer." The questionnaire provides deferred classifi-
(By Aasoclatod Press i DENVER, Col., Sept. 19. Other nations probably will owe the United States nearly $9,000,000,000 at the end of the war if it should come about a year hence, John E. Rovensky, of New York, told the bankers assembled here today in the national convention of the American Institute of Bankers. Mr. Rovensky is vice president of the National Bank of Commerce, of New York. The world now owes the United States about $5765,000,000, Mr. Rovensky said and he estimated that this would be increased within a year
by about $3,000,000,000.
By the time the war is over, saia
Mr. Rovensky, "America will be one of the leading creditor nations of the world, a financial center from which a large part of the world's economic
forces will be directed; where the
debits and credits of the world's trade will to a large extent be cast up and be settled.
"World banking on a scale heretofore undreaned of will be the order of the day. The star of financial and economic supremacy that has been traveling westward since the dawn of civilization and that now rests over London, will again move onward in its course and cross the Atlantic. In contemplating this picture there spreads before our eyes a vista of a world of boundless opportunities which awaits young American bankers of the present generation. Mr. Rovensky reached these conclusions by an Interesting analysis of the International financial position of the United States. He said that when the war began the United States' net debt to the world was about $3,500,000,000. The United States paid annually to foreign countries a net amount of $500,000,000 in interest on our debt.
abroad. "It is probable that our net debt to foreign countries was practically extinguished about two years ago." declared Mr. Rovensky. During the war, up to July 1, 1918 the United tates exported merchandise in excess of its imports to the extent of about $10,000,000,000. In return the United States arranged to lend its Allies and other foreign countries about $7500.000,000, it received
American securities to the amount of
about $2,000,000,000 and $1,000,000,000 In eold: a total of $10,500,000,000.
Mr. Rovensky estimated that after
the war the United States would re
ceive from foreign nations annually
$450,000,000 in interest on its loans; instead of having to nay about $175,-
000,000 annually in interest as it did hffnra the war. Against this there
would be charged items of payment to foreign countries amounting to $325.000,000, leaving a net annual income to the United States of about $175,000,-
000. To this added . an annual net trade balance in favor of the United
States of about $490,000,000. This
made a total of credits annually piling
up in favor of the United States, of
$665,000,000. Mr. Rovensky intimated that the United States would find it profitable after the war to leave its $9,000,000,000 Investment abroad and to reinvest abroad the Income from it by purchase
EIGHT-HOUR DAY IS UPHELD BY LABORfUMPIRE Decision Affecting Molders Strike Expected to Determine Future.
Hungary Insists on Adoption of Wilson's Fourteen Peace Points
elgn laborers, expenditures of Amer
ican tourists, Insurance premiums and sundry items. After the beginning of the war the United States repaid its debt to foreign countries "very rapidly by purchasing American. securities held
NEW YORK, Sept 19 The general
application of tne principles of a basic eight-hour day by the War Labor Board in settling all future working hour disputes was forecast here last night by Frank P. Walsh, Joint chairman of the board, in announcing the decision of Chief Justice Walter Clark, of North Carolina, umpire appointed by the board to settle a working dispute between the Moulders' Union and the Wheeling Moulders and Foundry Company, of Wheeling, W. Va. Justice Clark's decision, which becomes automatically the ruling of the
War Labor Board, directed that, in !
the future moulders should be required to work more than eight hours a day "only when an emergency exists," and directed appointment of a permanent committee of four to decide when an emergency actually exists. This committee is to comprise two repre-
(By Associated Press.) AMSTERDAM, Sept. 19. Count Michael Karolyl, the Huncarlan opposition leader, has reiterated his '!eclaration that the central powers should accept President Wilson's fourteen peace points as the basis for peace negotiations, according to a Budapest dispatch to the Frankfort Gazette. An
other essential, he says, is for "serious democratic governments" ' iu AustriaHungary and Germany to take the helm. The reactionaries, he Insists, must be sent to the rear. The situation, he adds, also calls for the abro
gation of the Brest-Litovsk and Bucharest-peace treaties:"' "Thus only can peace come," the count declares.
Fear of Yankees Shown in Letters of Germans . . .(By Associated Press.) WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY ON THE LORRAINE FRONT, Sept. 19 Fear lest the Americans would advance and overwhelm them, bitter complaints at bad food, and general despondency at the prospects of the war are the keynotes of letters writen home by German soldiers and found on their persons when they were captured.' A certain American division, which took more than its quota of prisoners
has made an exhaustive examination of these letters and found that th morale, even of the men in the Tenth German regiment conceded to be the best opposing-the Americans is de. cidedly low. if it can be judged from private letters" never Intended lot) American consumption. ' v Norwegian Steamship Is ; Fired on by V-Boat COPENHAGEN, Thursday. Sept. 19 The Norwegian steamship Bjorn-Btjerna-Bjornson. In the service of the Belgian relief commission, has ar rived at a Norwegian port for repairs, having been fired on by a German submarine, according to tbej Berlingske Yidende. The steamer, was attacked outside the war zone,
LONDON, England, Sept. 19 On
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a decision that an emergency exists. In announcing the decision, Mr. Walsh said it will serve "as a strong precedent in the adjudication by the War Labor Board of future controversies involving the quesion of he lengh of he working day." According to Mr. Walsh, there are 300 such cases pending. Justice Clark is the first umpire chosen by the War Labor Board for adjudication of a controversy which could not be settled unanimously by the board.
steamship cc
mining and other enterprises.
WELFARE HOUSE FOR AMERICAN SOLDIERS
cation for the "necessary skilled farm laborer In necessary agricultural enterprise." The new regulations provide that in Class 2 shall be placed any registrant found to be engaged in a "necessary" agricultural enterprise, and found to be necessary to such enterprise in the capacity of a farm laborer "especially fitted for the work in which he is engaged." This quoted phrase constitutes an explanation of what is meant by "skilled" as applied to farm laborer. . The expression will make easier the determination of the status of many registrants. War Service in Right Place. The purpose in the appointing of advisers is to place men where they can do most to help win the war. These advisers will be able to help greatly the district boards to keep in agriculture the necessary workers. These workers, whatever may be their inclination to enter military service, should stand ready to serve in any capacity in which they can contribute most toward a speedy ending of the war. In order that this may be done a frank statement should, in each case, be made to the boards. It is believed that it will frequently require as much courage on the part of many men to remain in their civilian occupations as to waive deferment.
This effort to keep men in industry, rather than to send them to the camps and the trenches, should not be abused
so as to permit the slacker to escape military duty. The necessities for raising an army are paramount. Every man that can be spared will be needed and needed badly to bring the enemy to his senses. The adviser should be assisted in every possible way by every legitimate agricultural interest to find the mene that can bee spared for military duty, but also to keep those that are essential to the maintenance of a proper food supply.
cable dispatch to 'ine tnristian Science Monitor, the Christian Science Welfare House, for the use of the allied forces, was opened at 112 Eaton Square, London S. W. 1. Week after week fresh contingents are being added to the vast American army already transported across the Atlantic; con-
KPonpnt.lv thousands of soldiers and
sailors now find a temporary home in the little island from which their forefathers set sail in quest of liberty three centuries ago. The Welfare House is primarily intended for the convenience of those officers and men of the United States army and navy who are interested in Christian Science, but a welcome will also be extended to any sailor or soldier who desires to come. The Christian Science Welfare House is situated in a convenient center, close to the American Embassy and the busy thoroughfare around Victoria Station. The house is designed to help and befriend In every way the men of the allied forces. It is actuated by the desire to do everything to make the men feel as much at home as possible. The reception rooms, it is hoped, will provide an accessible place where friends can meet, while for the convenience of the men an information bureau will be open from 10 a. m. till 6 p. m., and a register will be kept of the addresses of those who let rooms or take in boarders. The bureau will also be prepared to make arrangements for those officers or men on leave who wish to spend a quiet
time in the country, while for those
anxious to see something of the sights of London expeditions to interesting parts of the city, including picture galleries and museums, will be planned, and the bureau will always be ready with the names of hosts and hostesses willing to invite officers . and men, singly or in small parties, to their houses, so that all . who desire may share the social intercourse that can only be enjoyed in the midst of home life.
BOSTON, iND.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Frazee and children visited relatives at Miami last week Mrs. Martha Cramer left last week for a visit with her son, Lieutenant Calvin Cramer and wife, who is stationed at Camp Lee, Va Mrs. Claude Ballenger visited relatives at Converse last week James Sibold has gone to Virginia for a two weeks' visit with, relatives.
..John Druley, who has been stationed at a camp in Michigan, has been transferred to Fort Benjamin Harrison... Mrs. Louise Demorest of Shandon, Ohio, was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Nelson Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Beard spent the week with Mr. and Mrs. P. L. Beard Mr. and Mrs. N. Gabbard and son, Gayl, have returned home after a visit at Bedford, Ind Miss Grace Potenger of Eldorado was the week end guest of her parents Mrs. George Mitchell and son James, spent Sunday in Richmond Mrs. Harry Peck has returned home after visiting her parents at Elkhart, Ind.
INJURED IN FALL.
Fourth Ward Loan Solicitors Meet Friday
. i A meeting of ail Liberty Loan sollcitors in the seventh ward, north ot Main street, will be held tomorrow evening at 7:30 o'clock in Baxter school. Vice chairman A. M. Gardner will have charge of the meeting. Instructions and supplies will be given out and every worker is expected to be present.
The fire department at Arlington, Mass., is believed to be the first in the country to discard the proverbial blue for khaki uniforms.
Mrs. Carl Essemacher is confined to her bed at her home, 1005 South A street, as the result of falling down stairs, Tuesday morning. She received internal injuries but her condition is not considered "serious.
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