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Show i UNEMPLOYMENT IS WORRYING THE COUNTRY Reins; on one of the great highways across the country, Ogden fools thr first Impulses of prosperity or depression depres-sion in the nation. Lately men have been appearing in Ogden in number seeking employment and begging for an- opportunity to work. The change from more work than there were men to do the tasks to a condition of forced idleness hae come at) swiftly as to leave countless thousands stranded, and. as a result, the count ry is facing a problem of no small magnitude Rail roads are discharging workers by ihe thousands Business concerns, laking alarm, are curtailing down to bare necessities, ne-cessities, and the wave i- sweeping great bodies of men into unemployment. unemploy-ment. Dealing with this question. F J. Haskin says idle men are in ividenc0 everywhere In the United States, ac-cording ac-cording to government rebortl. In New York City 100.000 are out of work in a single industry This observation is made: The man out ol a Job is a significant sig-nificant figure He is the hardest of all radicals tr answer. You may-say may-say that the agitatoi who criticizes criti-cizes our institutions talks bosh. I but the man who wants to work and knows how to work and C8D not find the chance, surely has ;i real case against society. He is the man of all men who will lis ten when someone tries to tell him that the nation is organized on the wrong principle and ought to be made over again There is no Ube asking him to be content, when his stomach is empty and the door to his Job is closed. To prevent unemployment is worth more as ,i step toward sup pressing radicalism than an) amount of red-halting and anarchist anar-chist exporting. Yet unempl" ment i.its us periodically and we have neer yet made any intelli gent effoT to take care of It. The nearert thin: to r,h . tion in that line was the creation of the United States employrncn' aSTY-ice aSTY-ice during the war ai pari or the labor department It was nit provided pro-vided lo take care of unemploy ment but rather to help In o or coming a labor Bhorl N"eor-theless. N"eor-theless. it was an organization for studying labor conditions, and ltn machinery could be used against unemployment as well i igainst shortage The chamber of commerce of tin I United States is understood to ; have indorsed this proceeding i Manufacturers are beginning to realize that the man out of a Job is their worst enemy, if they wish I t to maintain the industrial status I quo in this country, and he is an enemy who cannot be put in Jail or shipped to Russia. The only I way to get rid of him is to find ' him a Job. Hence the manufactur ers favor job hunting machinery li The most direct way of overcom ing unemployment, of course, would be to provide work for all who were willing to work, by state or federal action. Thus it I has been suggested that the unem- I ployed be put to work at the re- clamation, under go eminent su pervision, of swamp and desert I lands a task which muBt be done before long. But this again would be paternalism It would conflict I with our political ideals of indi vidualism. I None the less, the establishment of an employment service by-state by-state and federal co-operation would very likely lead to some-I some-I thing like this. A state govern I ment could very' well leave some of its more ambitious road-build-j lng project and other public lm- i provements, until its employment serlve reported many men in need of work. In other words, state expenditures ex-penditures for public works could be so timed as to relieve unem ploy ment. It begins to appear that at the end nf the war a mistake was made in do- j ing too much road work and public Improvement generallv, under ihe I thought that the soldiers could not be absorbed back In civil life without with-out this greater field of employment being opened to them. I But the demands from foreign -uurces Increased bo rapidly that our manufacturing concerns could not i meet both the foreign and domestic I ardors, and were unable to get work i ere. Consequently there came a time when -wages had to be boosted and J with wages went the price of every - ,f 1 ihing. until industrial conditions be- I came so abnormal as to make busl- I nesB very muoh like a ship without a rudder Then then was an insistent demand for a reduction in prices With a break I in quotations, there rame sudden alarm to all Industries and a stampede lo Financial 'over followed. Now in country Is going through a period of reaction which, nothing more than n scare at first. Is now a stem reality Commercial Amerlea could conn- o r of the depression in a day, if thos. who have means were to start a buy inc move But no one Is purchasinr beyond most pressing needs and th slump is on and will be with us until contldence la restored, and this mav not be attained short of a very much lower scale of prices for commodities oo . |