Show THE PROBLEM OF THE there la no question BO full of perplexities as that of the unemployed A man Is not necessarily deserving of because he Is out ot employment unless it can first be shown thail ho aishi H to work and cannot find any v ort to do the number of the unemployed has been and still la very larea but it may be doubted it the deserving and the unfortunate and the t nr re form a very large part ot the w L s to the elucidation of this ques duft i nat loroy scott in the worlds i a has devoted himself and he A that jt Is easier to find work tor the idle than ato find men hr arft to worl special an in chicago results in the opan ion that 80 per cent of the men who aro out of work do not want work that they arc in other words looking tor employment in tho earnest hope that they will not find it the same results were found in pennsylvania out of a largo number of men in the municipal lodging house all of whom professed to too searching for work occupation cu was found for thirty one and of these only six remained at their jobs A number of other men who had made similar professions promptly disappeared when they found that their avowed hopes of employment were about to be realized A well known pennsylvania philanthropist a suit of old clothes that he might ascertain the exact situation tor himself lie went into the street to get work and he secured sixteen lobs before nightfall and he was quite unable to find any among the unemployed nho would take these jobs it Is thus evident that there are a great many men who get their living by being unemployed and a vory good living it usually is thanks to indiscriminate charity we may reasonably doubt it the unemployed problem in the great eastern cities is ever so acute as it sometimes seems to be the real problem is human laziness and duplicity mr scott says that it we subtract from the total number of the unemployed those who are out of work from choice or because they are unfit wo should find that tha remainder the sincere seekers lor work would be but a small fraction of the popular estimate he repeats that the true problem is not to find work for the men but to find men tor the work in such disclosures there is of course no discouragement to charity but charity must discriminate it is not charity to encourage any man to be idle and the truest charity may sometimes take very severe forms at least among the children of the great cities there is very little room tor duplicity and there ts here a field for good deeds in which the competition Is not pressing it some of the so called charity that is now wasted upon able bodied and lazy men were wisely and judiciously directed to the alleviation of child misery and ignorance and squalor it would be good for the men who would be forced to work or to starve and it would be still better tor the children who would not have both to work and to starve |