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FRIDAY MORNING, DECE.MRUR 20,
THE MILLEDGE !LLE NEWS.
MILLEQQEViLMi. GEORGI
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GIVING EMPLOYMENT TO MUSTERED OUT SOLDIERS
Probably the busiest agency of the United States gov
ernment at this particular juncture is that of the employ
ment bureau. This service is engaged in the important
task cf assisting returning soldiers, sailors and war work
ers in securing immediate employment.
Soldiers are now beginning to turn their faces home
ward and thousands of them will come back into the fields
of the productive element within the next few weeks.
The Department of Labor, co-f perated with by the suite
Councils of Defense, is seeking the opportunity of placing
all soldiers’ bands reference for employment at the time
the men are demobilized. This service it is considered is
just as important and essential to the welfare of the coun
try as uny patriotic effort displayed during the time of
the war. “The integrity of our institutions and the con
tinuing business stability of our states demand the pre
vention of any great degree of unemployment," is the
way the Department cf Labor addresses p,.blic officials,
members of civic and patriotic organuatons on this sub
ject.
It is a matter of much interest to know that the gov
ernment is undertaking to handle the demobilization of
our scldiers in such a systematic and sensible manner.
Should thousands of these men be released to return to
their homes, many of them without positions and a poor
chance to secure employment in any reasonable length of
time, it stands for reason that a gfeat deal of confusion
would take place. Furthermore, such a state of affairs
would no do.ibt seriously effect the goed citizenship of the
country and halt the commerce of the country in no small
way.
For many months, since the beginning of the war
against Germany, America lias experienced a serious short
age of labor and should' thousands of unemployed men be
turned loose without prospects of positions an opposite
effect to what we have experienced during the Iasi Zeal
and a half might well be expected. And it should go
without saying, that should such a state of affairs take
place, general conditions would not be any too desirable,
,as it is necessary to avoid any amount of confusion re.
gamfing the labor situation and the requirements of in
dividual industries and enterprises.
Steps should be taken in Milledgeville, as well as in
every other city in the country, to establish a United
States Employment Service for the purpose of lending aid
to this great and necessary object of co-ordinating and
centralizing the work of denv bllizing our armies. Such a
plan would prove beneficial to the thousands of returning
men and when they have been mustered out the country
Wo.ild be on a decidedly more solid basis.
As far as possible, the government hopes with its na
tion-wlde organization and knowledge of the labor situa.
tlon, to provide bureaus for obtaining additional, data con.
cerning labor requirements in different sections of the
country and what will be known as a clearing house be.
tween the states will be established. Where persons,
whether soldiers or war-workers, cannot secure locally the
kind of employment desired, an eport wiH be made through
the service to find it elsewhere.
There is going to take place some decided changes
following the demobilizing of the armies of this country
£nd the matter of facing the change with an open eye and
a. thinking mind is important. Reconstruction and the ad
justment of conditions following a great war is something
that demands no small amount of study and it is our duty
to stand ready to meet any call that is intended to aid in
bringing about normal conditions.
TURNING LOOSE PUBLIC ENERGY
(BY W. E. JONES, of the United Press Assn.)
President Wilson has addressed a communication to
the Secretary of Agriculture urging that the country re
sume as quickly as possible all essential public works,
and particularly the development of good highways,
“with a view of furnishing employment for laborers who
may be seeking new tasks during the period of readjust
ment." Secretary of War Baker lias also taken up the
question with the Agricultural Department, and he has
asked 1 that the closest possible co-operation may continue
with his department in the building of new roads, in order!
that the highways ol’ the future may be equally valuable [
lor military purposes and the affairs of peace. The Wat
Department lias learned practical lessons in road build-1
ing, and its men who are discharged from the Army, and j
war industries, will carry with them a knowledge that
will be valuable in tiieir employment in road b. ilding.
They know from practical experience that the blast- j
ing of hard earth is a good deal quicker and a more el !
tecUve process than the former plan of resorting entirulj
to the pick and shovel and scraper. Motor truck traffic
has in leased ne hundred per cent in the last two years,
and it is found that the heaviest of our hard-surfaced
roads are built too light to withstand the stranl upon
them by the new motor traffic.
The federal aid road act provides means by which
the government supplies millions i dollars to the state
authorities, which the latter match with their own mil
lions in the building of the new highways. There is a
.veil defined movement in Washington that will make it
self known in the coming few weeks as favoring a nev
system of trunk highways that will extend from ocean t
ocean and from the Canadian boundary to t lie southern
border of states.
Ucod road v tberities are liecoming insistent that
; letter road construction shall be made more systematic
in the future than it has iieen in the past. In view of the
fact that practically all of our main traveled American
highways have broken down under heavy traffic condi
tie ns, it is probable that the attempt to build now roads
on a firm foundation will meet with popular public ap
proval. One road official draws a comparison that high-
way a in the past have been built upon the same pain as
houses that rested on blocks. He says that it is necea-
nry that r ads have good foundations as it is to put im
portant buildings on stone foundations.
Isa
SAFE AND SANE AMERICANISM
GERMANY’S DOWNFALL
As a modern nation, Germany will prcbably set an
example for the present generation that will likely last
for a century to coine, when this European nation has fin
ished its task of paying the price of the great war just
reaching a conclusion.
The German people are beginning to see a light that
has never before dawned upon that country. Even the
chldren there are beginning to clamor for an opportunity
to inject democratic principles into their government and
this fact alone is sufficient to clearly outline the destiny
of Prussianism.
Germany paid a tremendous pree for the lesson she
has learned and the rising generation of that country will
be. the greatest benefactor in the deal, though a great
material debt must yet be paid for the many wrongs that
were wro- ght during the more than your years of struggle.
However, the greatest part of the cost of the ecent war
has been settled by this losing country and the considera
tion already granted Involved a deal that shattered the
nerves of the whole world.
Germany has paid a great price and she will pay
more, but the debt that nation actually owes could never
be settled through the means of human intelligence or
abiiity. Millions of men have been sacrificed by this one
European nation, Germany will pay an indemnity of bil.
lions of dollars, but so long as Germany of todnv lives,
the people of that country can never pay the price neecs
,: ary to relieve the broken hear*, of u others, sisters, fa.
therR and brothers who made the real sacrifice of the ter
rible contlict.
(Frc,m Savannah Press.)
Mr. Taft’s endorsement cf President Wilson’s trip to
the peace conference is an act of patriotism and sane
cadership at a time when a little sanity is like the pro
verbial oil on troubled waters.
The Savannah Press was not wrong in foreseeing that
the quarreling spirit among the Republican members of
congress would evoke disgust and resentment among the
more patriotic Republicans. Mr. Taft, being a Republi
can, is not cf a school of thought which is appreciated
among staunch Democrats, but whatever fault may bje
found with his political creed, it should be said to him
that he is always u gentleman and an American.
Perhaps this does not sound as complimentary us it
might, l' it when we reflect how lew men there ar^ who
can come through the rub of two political campaigns, and
lour years in the White House, without calling anybody
a liar or offending delicate sensibilities in any way, it
must be admitted that “an American and a gentleman" is
an especially high compliment.
There are good party men In both parties, but the
good party iman who is also a good American is well
worth while.
Mr. Taft earnestly desires to see the peace conference
result In a real and lasting unity and harmony between,
the nations. He Is probably thinking more of the bless
ings which may be won from It than of the opportunity it
affords for detracting from President Wilson in the hope
of advantaging the Republican party. If this 1b so, we
hope that his party fellows will forgive him. It should be
remembered that Mr. Taft was among the first, if not the
first, to suggest a league of nations, and rather naturally
his interest in the success of the peace conference is both
strong and earnest. He sees In President Wilson’s pres
ence at the conference the opportunity “to stamp upon it
a democratic character" and allay unrest among the peo
ples of the Allies.
It is assuredly a credit to Mr. Taft’s fairness and his
wholehearted Americanism that he can see this thing
simply and stralghtly. The country Is in need of men
who can think along lines which dot not turn to office.
Until the whole matter of this war and Its reconstruc
tion period are passed there is no need for party divisions.
The problems are new. They cut across party divisions
and new issues will develop. It is quite possible that
neither party will know itaelf except by name alter thees
matters begin to fully engage our attention, but until the
political game is set aside it will not be possible to grasp
them squarely and disores them honestly.
THE NEWSPAPER’S PART
tFr.im Publishers’ Auxiliary)
The newspapers of the United States may well be
proud of the part they played in helping to bring the war
to a successful conclusion. The glorious story of how
American publishers cast aside all politics, buried their
auimosiUes and ignored ail considerations to get behind
the country may never be told. It is immaterial whether
it ever is. The newspapers are not seeking praise for a
duty well performed; the mere performance is sufficient
reward.
It has not been easy at all times for the newspapers
to stand by their duty. Hampered 1 on all sides by re-
strictions, many of them almost submerged by increasing
expens06 and decreasing revenue, constantly harrassed in
mind as to which of several courses to follow, the daily
periodicals nevertheless stood firmly for the right and
carried on.
It is hardly necessary to mention the work diene by
the newspapers In solidifying sentiment for the war, their
labors making the selective draft and the various govern
ment loons successes, and their assumption of the volun
tary censorship which made it possible to move millions
of men about the country and across the strbmarlne-in-
fesled sea without danger.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Opening of Grocery Store
This is to formally announce the opening of our
new grocery store in the building formerly occupied by
Mr. C. K. Greene, on Hancock Street.
We wish to assure the housekeepers of Milledge
ville that it shall be our purpose to give them the best
of goos, the most satisfactory service and fair prices,
at all times. With this we solicit your patronage.
It shall be our purpose to carry a complete and
fresh line of groceries and thereby offer our customers
the best on the market.
Yours for permanent service.
PALACE GROCERY
Claus
HAS LEFT HIS SIGNS IN OUR STORE IN A GREATER MEASURE
THAN EVER BEFORE. WE HAVE L *
Toys For Girls
Loads of Dolls, Doll Carriages, Doll Furs and Muffs, Pianos, Tea Sets,
Toy Tennis Rackets, and everything imaginable for the Little Miss.
Toys For Boys
We have on display a wonderful collection of Toy Trains, Kiddie Kars,
Soldier Outfits, Shooting Galleries, Drums, Toy Guns, Suit Cases, etc.
Holiday Gifts For All
Our counters and shelves are stocked up with Fancy Box Papers,
Manicure Sets, Toilet Sets, Table China, Mirrors, Clocks, Books, Per-
fume Bottles, China Novelties, Brass Jardinieres, Fancy Lamps, etc.
Come and bring the Little Fellows while our stock is so complete.
R. H. WOOTTEN’S