Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-12-19 | Page 4 | It's a Lot of Money-But

Its It's a Lot of Money Money But But knows how v many workers in the N NOBODY NOBODY United States want want but cannot find em em- The department of f agric agriculture has one set of figures The American Federation of Labor has another set et vastly different The national industrial conference board has still Another nother Other fact finding orga organizations iz p putout pUt pUtout t tout out differing tabu tabulations Each set of f figures may be used to support various types of ganda To take the average of all is meaningless meaning- meaning I less because the average of inaccurate statistics is bound to be inaccurate itself It would be a wholesome thing all round to know not only how many unemployed the na nation nation na- na tion lion has but also why they are unemployed With these data to go to work on we would have havea a basis for an intelligent effort to solve the great problem and a great many self-seeking self propagandists would be silenced That in it itself itself itself it- it self would be worth almost any cost The government has set aside for a survey to determine the effects of re recent recent reent re- re cent ent changes in the techniques of production upon the volume of employment and production tion lion N Now W that is a lot of money for anybody's survey survey but but it may turn out ut to be worth all it will vill cost We certainly need the information badly When it is finished if it produces the facts sought and points to direct cures ures which are not experimental there will be little ground f for r criticism of the additional ti n l spending There will be individuals put to J work k to dig out the information called for By no means will the money be well spent if it only means mearis the employment of this army of workers It mu must t be more than a new enterprise in made work The country has had just about its fill of that kind of spending With re recovery overy at its present st stage ge all work paid for out of public funds must stand the test as to whether it is necessary wise vise and productive for present and future Future generations will have to pa pay for fora a huge slice of government sponsored work and they ought to get gel something for their money There have been millions of words uttered and printed about technological ment Many gloomy prophets have stroked their beards as they have ave told us that even if production should bounce back back to to th the 1929 1029 level there still would be an of army unemployed unemployed unemployed for whom some form of assistance would have tobe worked out Nobody knows whether t that al would be bc true or not The figures this survey should produce ought t to shed needed light on the subject We ought to 10 know for the fut future aS t tas as as we already know for the present- present th that t we cant can't go on with a system that presupposes presupposes poses th that t the workers of the nation naHon must carry carry on their backs the burden o of a vast num ber DU ei 6 oL l idle 51 s