Show J h. h SOME SOl REALISTIC FIGURES t There is an aspect of realism r about the way in which Donald iv chairman of the Presidents President's Pr unofficial board that thatis 1 is trying to coordinate Govern m e en n it a 1 I activities approaches It is refreshing to have i a man who understands no amount of ot legislation will keep I human beings from acting like human t bringing a trained train train- ed cd and experienced mind to the nt's problems I We e dont don't know l of course whether the figures which Mr 11 is using in his examination examination exam exam- j of the facts of un employ employ- meat meni and the annual income I that every worker ought to have to Keep himself and his family I en n the Hie right side of the star- star t i not Nation tine line are or 1 We e ha have ve E seen en too many Government Government Govern Govern- ment statistics which turned out tut not to be correct to have wry y much confidence in any official official of of- facial figures that come out of 1 a on and nd nd Republican administrations have been just justas justs w as s i loose with their figures as Democrats LO o w wren when nen Mi 11 takes ass s the present figure ot of unemployment he is more or nr j era s gl nursing lIlg but he lie admits that it is onlY omy a guess and rud we him fir lor that And wh when n nhe he lie puts 1500 a year as a the ther r subsistence level below which a family cannot hev live there l is also a large element of oL o guessing ing which i is also d I I L bUt UI tHe tiis i r. r real Lal al point of f Mr analysis of tha the problem f f lem ox or recovery is that what e eve evor v o r the subsistence level there cant can't be real any recovery a hi high lugh h proportion y incomes r rise se above it For the Lass of ot our past prosperity was d' d I In n t the h e luxury industries industries I which accounted for more than thau I It t perc percent of all employment in Hush times I the 1 Administrations Administration's task as i Mr hir sees it is not I merely to 10 get men back at work butt but to get them employed at wages that will bring their annual incomes enough above the subsistence leven so that they can begin to buy automobiles automobiles auto auto- mobiles radio sets electric refrigerators re re- re- re new houses all of the commodities which come in inthe n the luxury class I Whether that can be done inthe in inthe inthe the case of all of the now unemployed seems s to us to tobe tobe tobe be doubtful Whether it can be bedone bedone bedone done for any high proportion of them without cutting down the 1 incomes ot or everybody who vho is above the subsistence level is I Mr admits a deb debatable debat debat- t- t able auie le que question toll Ir r ail all of the in incomes incomes incomes in- in comes of all the people of the Unit United d States were reduced t to an m equality th there re would not be anybody who would have any money to spend for luxuries I |