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Show Kennedy I t By LYLE C. WILSON United Press International - many hands. And, somehow, the unemployed mostly remained without jobs. Unemployment Melts The problem of unemployment remained acute and beyond FDR's ability to handle until the United States slipped into the role of arsenal of democracy in the j Presi(UPI) a big dent Kennedy's plan for of make-wor- k program Spending should appublic improvements pease some unhappy leaders of organized labor. They have been Insisting- that the administration Is not aggressively attacking the problem of unemployment. This eppeasement easily is predictable although it may not last. j Whether, when and how many Jobs wiU be created is not predictable at all. The President has proposed a $600 million program. This prois not part of the "substance posal ' New Frontier. the pt ' I This is a proposal lifted from that old frontiersman, Franklin pelano Roosevelt, whose basic remedy for unemployment in the 1930's was spending government money to make work and create jobs. (This was part of the New Peal pump priming policy. $ As a remedy for unemployment, FDR's spending was an unhappy bust. Great sums were spent, treat construction projects' were put in being. The government money, passed thrcmgh a great WASHINGTON late 1930's. Then came the war. or now. War absorbs manpower into jobs, into armies and, too often, . into graves. The numbers of unemployed melted away until in 1944 there were fewer than 700,000 employables without jobs. Too bad that these 700,000 could not be identified adequately then - fast-movin- th g, 4 Today's Chuckle Engineers Have 'Snake Exit7 million in 1933. That was 24.9 per cent of the civilian labor force. In 1940 the unemployed had been reduced to 8.1 million, 14.6 percent of the civilian laboiyforce. Tie arsenal of democracy jobs were' beginning to take effect. Unemployment seems to baffle JFK as it did FDR. There are about as many jobless today as when Kennedy was elected. It has been suggested was that the U. S. Bureau of Labor statistics standards are not satisfactory for determining just who is employable and who is' not employed. t The argument is that individuals who are not truly part of the employable labor force are counted among the unemployed in the bureau's reports. There are two sides to this argument. Against the validity of the bu reau s figures is the fact that there were 700,000 reported as unemployed in 1944, a time of. all-owar when industry and the fighting forces wanted men, men, men and women. FDR's Problem However that may be, there is no argument about FDR's inability to spend tha UnitedJStates out of unemployment. He could and did improve the situation. 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