"In one instance a blacksmith's union published the picture of the
deserting man in its official journal and asked that information
regarding him be sent to the local unit here. This proved
successful. In another instance a union gave us access to its books
and helped us to trace all the men of a given name listed there. By
this means we found the man we were looking for. One man, a
vaudeville performer, we traced through the _Bill Board_ (a trade
paper) by discovering the movements of the show with which he had
been connected."

Another society succeeded in getting a certain trade union to post a
description and photograph of a missing man on its bulletin boards. This
aided in finding the man. Fraternal orders may be; used in the same way,
though for many reasons they cannot be so helpful as the trades unions.

Employment agencies should not be forgotten in seeking to trace a man
through his industrial record. The extension of the federal employment
service, with free inter-city communication, should be of assistance in
getting upon the track of deserters.

The co-operation of newspapers can be secured to good effect in tracing
missing men.

Herbert McCann, who had been doing railway construction in Russia,
returned to this country and disappeared while en route from an
eastern city to his home in Canada. There was reason to think that
he might have left the train in an intoxicated condition at an
important junction point; and the family social agency of that city
was asked to trace him. No information was secured from the police,
lodging houses, employment agencies, etc., and finally the following