Show I J IS UNEMPLOYMENT E EXAGGERATED RAT RATED D' D From Pittsburgh always recognized recognized recognized re re- cognized as a representative senta tive industrial center r comes a report report report re re- re- re port that reveals some surprising surprising ing r facts The report is the result re re- re- re suIt sult of a house to house survey made by R. R L. L Polk and Company Company Com Com- Company pany pany well known publishers of directories and commercial statistics statistic and it shows that 96 per cent of the famil families es of Pittsburgh have a steady income income in in- income I come at this time with an average average average av av- of 1218 persons gainfully gainful gainful- ly employed per household household- The report shows that Pittsburg wage earners have I to a large extent liquidated their installment obligations In a certain zone of the city i rated low in income and buying buying buying buy buy- ing power it was found that Per cent of the families were owing wing nothing on their Installment purchases and of the remaining per cent the majority have more than half their purchases paid for In this same Pittsburgh area per cent of the families had bad from one to five savings accounts while there were sub substantial substantial substantial deposits in building and loan a associations savings banks and postal savings ac ac- ac- ac counts This zone comprised families with individuals Such figures as these from froma a city which must be regarded as fairly typical among the industrial cities of the country certainly certainTy raises the question whether there has not been gross exaggeration of the nations nation's nations nation's nations nation's na na- tion's present difficulties and I the progress of recovery from I them R. R L. L Polk and Co are experienced and conservative canvassers with lith no political axe to grind v whatever hat ever Their work is accepted accented everywhere as pis dependable and when they then report that 96 36 per cent of the families of such a city as Pitts burgh supposed to be hard hit bv by the depression ha have ve a steady income it cannot but be regarded as most en- en |