Show THE ARMY OF THE unemployed by THOMAS ARKLE CLARK dean of mon men university of illinois Lir ronD was wanting to leave col lego lege though ila ho was doing well and win was only ohly in tho the middle of hir ear ills mother wag a widow lie explained to me and she eho was oric working hurd hard it was not that her work was unpleasant or that tho the task slip wa performing was avas un an undue tax upon her strength Cliff clifford oril did it t like ike tile tho idt a of her working it wa a humiliation to him and he tell felt that lie ho should go eo to work at once oace and so bo be able to support the two of them how old la Is your mother I 1 asked F orty forty eight 10 ia 18 eho alto well she is 19 quite well and strong ani an she mind working only I 1 dont like her having to do it id rather she had nothing to do lie ile had tho the idea that a person with nothing to do would bobora bo moro respect ville ihlo and happier than ono one who hoa haa ft j regular agular daily task to perform unemployment brings leisure ho he argued inird and leisure begets contentment i j quite tho the contrary to Is truo true I 1 know that many people look forward to the time when they will bo through wl wil koll when they can give up bustnes busine 5 jima and to a life of eato caso and un employment and happiness but such I 1 people if they realize this ambition of t having lothing to do seldom find lr ill complete leisure the joy and the con which they anticipated I 1 havo have known a few men who after a 0 life of activity in business or in a pro gave up their work retired j und land settled down to do nothing they idere were in most cases unhappy and j longed for the old activity to w which itch they had been used they had to too 0 iauch much time to think and thinking grow grew j tiresome most of them having no active interest left in life folded theli hands shortly and died died with a longing for something to do the uz un employed are seldom happy whether this condition Is tho the result of circumstances or of their own deliberate choice I 1 eat for a time not long ago in a hotel with rind and maiden J arid obligations except to cow on a flaw few buttons or to crochet a strip of insertion for a guest towel or to knit a sweater to bo be laid away la in bione tione paper paper flioy were to a woman goo goa RIPY and critical and like a bunch of cats randy to scratch over the britt bono thrown into their midst net nat one of them was ana really happy each ull ht have boon been had she had a bome end and regular thing to do they ney were nero n ero rill nil strong enough to work some of thein felt perhaps that thoy they would have lost social by doing voi BO tonic had no ambition for none DODO of od then them unfortunately was there any economic necessity and so they continued in unemployed discontent cliffords mother kept her job ard was happy and lie he finished ula his education I 1 A 1026 western newspaper union |