The literary digest . laborers can, by becoming proficient as farm mechanics, qualifyfor positions paying from $100 to $125 a month, with steady em-ployment the year around. It is an exceedingly interestingdevelopment of our national rural life brought about by forcesof necessity, and is but another iUustratiou of the fact that the 30 The Literary Digest for March 22, 1919 emergency is usually met in one form or another. Farm-boyswho have been discharged and are disabled as a result of theirservices, either by sickness, accident, or disease,would do well towrite to the Federal Board for Vocati
The literary digest . laborers can, by becoming proficient as farm mechanics, qualifyfor positions paying from $100 to $125 a month, with steady em-ployment the year around. It is an exceedingly interestingdevelopment of our national rural life brought about by forcesof necessity, and is but another iUustratiou of the fact that the 30 The Literary Digest for March 22, 1919 emergency is usually met in one form or another. Farm-boyswho have been discharged and are disabled as a result of theirservices, either by sickness, accident, or disease,would do well towrite to the Federal Board for Vocational Education, Washing-ton, D. C, and obtain the particulars of this training, whichthe Government provides free for its disabled men. TO ARGENTINA BY RAIL WITHIN THE MEMORY of living men a raihoadacross the United States to the Pacific coast seemeda foolhardy undertaking. To-day a line of rails northand south through the two Americas seems a stupendous scheme;yet it is actually nearer accomplishment than the Pacific. After a map in the New Yi>rk Min. BRIDGE THE GAPS AND THE FEAT IS DONE. The United States has rail connp<;lions to the City of Mexico. The solid black lineshows completed portions of Pau-Ainorican railroad. The dotted lines denote gaps. Railway was at the close of the Civil War. A description ofthe present status of the project, contributed by Robert to the New York Sun, contains some surprizes for theordinary reader. It is to be understood, of course, that the Pan-American railway scheme is not a plan to build a long singleline, but simply to construct enough connecting links to furnishcontinuous rail travel from New York, say, to Buenos Aires,about 10,000 miles. Unless signs fail, Mr. Skerrett thinks,we shall be making this very trip before long. Railroad-builders,he says, have been busy in South America during the last fewyears, and month by month they have been expanding the steelgrid which is unifying the rapid transit of our neighbor con-ti
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