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Show Chiselers and Barnacle - WE HAVE commented upon the statistical report of W P A showing the decrease in the relief rolls in the past two year. It ahowed 30 per cent fewer clients receiving government gov-ernment aid in January of this year than in January, 193S. During the past week three little stories crept into the news from Buffalo, New York City and Sarasota, Fla., which ma . be taken to indicate that the gains could be much greater If it were not that laziness and avarice still clog dole lists with the name of individual who have no right to be there. The president of a Buffalo industrial plant had been interested in studying crowds of Jobless men hanging around the place. H decided de-cided he would find out what they would do if jobs were offered them. He tried it on 25 men. Only seven stuck it out "These are good workers, work-ers, too," he said. Th rest of the men wanted . to sit at desks or not work at all. If that were the proportion of usable and useless unemployed unem-ployed men in the country there would be no hope whatever of solving the job problem. Seven men out of twenty-five willing to work cannot and should not be expected to carry on so that th other eighteen may rest all the time with living expense granted them out of tax funds. One part of the relief problem is: What Is to be done about the barnacles? In a safe deposit box rented by a New York relief recipient, $250,000 in diamonds were found. In Sarasota, at the horn of Mrs. Margaret Mar-garet Bruce McLain Hughes! a 72-year-old relief client who reputedly was the first woman wo-man to reach the Yukon during the Klondike gold rush, a small fortune in diamonds, rubies, pearls and cameos was discovered. " Such stories dramatize the "chiseling" which is taking place in greater or less degree through-' out the country. It is possible that if all avaricious ava-ricious and lazy reliefers could be dropped from relief rolls, ther would be enough funds to car for the really needy citizens, even after appropriations had been sliced. |