Show 4 III IIII IIII I r I L nere IS on of job training as a put part ot of the ballyhooed War on Poverty So tar little results have been shown compared against the millions of dollars ot of tax funds spent on this activity On the other hand much Is made of the tact fact that the un employment rate is now down downto downto to 37 Yet how valid is this gu figure l Rep Pep Thom r as Curtis of It r 11 1 s sou r I pol points n t S out J h that sITE affecting W this figure is rv x the tact fact that r people 1 0 I have been a put to work c W Harder due to the Vietnam war and that young oung men have als also begin n drafted This he points out is an ar means ot of contracting the force of the unemployed and unless urness It is planned to keep wars going Is not a solution tion to th basic problem The National Federation of Independent Business finds an Interesting development In data from from its current years year's field survey It is finding that 66 00 per cent of the nations nation's independent business proprietors report they when they need employ eec ees they can and are willing to train unskilled workers in their operations without one cent being paid by the ers era to teach to them skills or of course It mu must t be rec that 85 per cent of n c OIl of ith these respondent businesses are located outside the bl big cities largely along Main streets that stretch across the land Thus this sort of data seems to put It a different light on this matter of unskilled workers Is It not possible that the big gest problem Is that the un f skilled are huddled together hi the big cities and that with witha a little push they could spread out Into the countryside and find jobs where they could learn skills while they also earn As It Is now some are seeking to learn skills on to ta money with rID no assurance that the big city cUy of their residence offers a job even II if trained 5 There is nothing in the US Constitution that guarantees that everyone that wants one shall have a job in a big city Is It not possible that many of the present unemployed are in that condition because they lack initiative This Is one of the major paradoxes of our times clans sociologists and others keep promoting slum clearance e In the big cities at taxpayers taxpayer's expenses er on the basis It Is not humanity for the unemployed to live in III such circumstances es But In all an older day when Americans did not like their conditions they struck out across country to find some thing better And so far It seems that there thero Is work worl for tor aU all some where In this land if people just go out looking for It nut But no one can expect a job tu to come looking for them Or Is this perhaps an unreasonable point of view |