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Show December 23, X9SS A By L. H. Kirkpatrick Most Americans who have not come into contact with the actual regulations governing the conditions of Welfare and Employment are startled when they hear some actual cases. Generally speaking, the trained workers in charge of these programs are far more liberal than the average American realizes. In order to test sentiment about treatment of the unemployed, two questions were asked people: 1. If a skilled worker is on relief and can find no work in Salt Lake City, should he be required to take a job which opens up in his line in Logan? 2. If a man can be made employable by a simple, free should told he to be to submit the operation or operation else lose his welfare payments? Those who have studied what happens when a whole community gets stranded, as Park City did a few years ago, will realize that it is pretty hard to tell people that they must abandon their homes and simply take to the road. Leaders in industry and government worked long and hard to make it possible for the people of Park City to remain there. Yet the average man when asked will say that an unemployed worker should be told to take a job in another town. In'other words, the average citizen will endorse die position of Charles Wilson if its put right. Yet as pointed out in a recent column by Holmes Alexander, many a depressed New England community is receiving special congressional attention because the established leaders' of the community dont want their workers to all move away to places where jobs are plentiful. The interesting thing is that a man is eligible for welfare payment so long as he does not refuse work in his own line in his own community. As I understand it, he can refuse a job which would take him away from his family and force him to THE 0 Fii S UTAH STATESMAN 0 move. The response to the second case was almost overwhelming in favor of forcing the man to submit to an operation. People seemed to feel that if a fellow had strong convictions against medical and surgical treatment he should be willing to pay for these convictions by going hungry as need be. Trained social workers with whom I have talked shuddered with horror. Typical answers as: Why that's as bad as killing off the defectives under Hitler, that's being totalitarian". In fact one man in this field said: "why we have a case like that in Salt Lake City. We have a man who has been on relief for 15 years now. He needs an operation on his back. ,But when he was a youngster he had an operation on his face and a nerve was severed and one side of his face is without feeling. He says he will never submit to another operation. When the case worker was asked "How is he doing with regard to increasing his family size?, the answer was: He has had eleven children on relief and of course they are being supported by the tax payers too. Now do you think it is fair to starve this man's children as well as him if he won't undergo the operation. If you don't agree that the whole family has to starve , don't you think that they would share their welfare payments with Father P Those to whom other answers occur should be reminded that public opinion is pretty tricky. Probably, people should have been asked if they would be willing to pay extra for psychiatric treatment for this gentleman to bring him around to voluntary submission to this operation. It is really true that this man could be earning his own living if he would undergo the operation. As it is, he seems to be enjoying the right not to work. Don't View, Do Eisenhower Says We must not stand still, absorbed in the contemplation of what we have done," President Dwight D. Eisenhower told the Republican National Committee at their December meeting. 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