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Show RELIEF FOR THE UNFORTUNATE. Where the United States Is Behind European Countries. The plan for establishing a state labor colony Incidentally calls attention atten-tion to the backwardness of the now world In two Important matteis, tho relief of honest men out of emplo-ment emplo-ment and the suppression of agrants. Save for the work dono chlell) by prl-vate prl-vate organizations, in a few largo rltles, there would be absolutely nothing noth-ing In the United States which a Swiss, German or Dutch charlt worker work-er might compare to tho labor colonies of his native land Even a French men, whucc countr Is oenun by vngnuonilc, cut point with pride to relief meaaiires which hao already done much to reduce tho suffering duo to tho enforced continuous Idleness Idle-ness of from fi I! per cent, to seven per cent of all woiklngmcn. Tho Idea of allotting Binall gardens to men out of work was conceived and put into practice by Gen. van den Bosch In Holland un far back as ISIS; today more than 2,000 poor families are thus supported In tho little kingdom Tho environs of Paris are dotted with biuno 7,000 plots assigned by the Workmen's Garden Socletv to the unemployed, f Ithcr gratis or at a nominal cost. |