Show ge H DOLES IN CAUSING ALARM When the world war closed Rug Eng England's Rugland's lands land's returning soldiers were eto with with- without out employment and even een ten the staat stay stay- at homes h mes who worked at the thIngs oi o war were without jobs Two mu lion men word were Idle In the Sudden Budden change wa by led fed federal etal tal government g state sUre and city cre- cre creating creating public works Work Ogden did It itt fu roll l share by b toting heavy bond itChes ISsUes to b ba be spent on waterworks towers and paving As All a result there was no extreme distress In Inthis Inthis this country until tho winter 1920 21 when six million men and wo wo- women women wo- wo women men were Idle With the tho coming of sprIng in 1921 1821 much muth ot of the unemployment unemployment disappeared being abs ab s bed on works I But in England there was little litno opportunity to create extensive mu activities to give work to th the multitude and so the govern govern- mont turn turned d to the granting Of t doles An ho has been In England at of late declares that man many men of o the poorer class have be- be become become be come indifferent to the welfare ot of o their t families s and have hate lost aU all am- am ambition am bitten because ot or the system m ot of o doles doles which cultivates laziness and breaks down pride Students ot of o public affairs who have investigated conditions In 1 England Scotland and Wales are wondering ari-wondering wondering whether the British na can come out ot of the slump England has something tar far wore more desperate than an army of ot unemployed unemployed This is the comm comment nt of the Los Angeles Times which says No longer do the idle millions in England consist of ot men and wo women wo- wo women women men temporal t ily of ot of Jobs and willing and able to return to work as s soon as the whistle blows again Three years of government doles have produced a swarm of ot para para- parasites parasites para para- parasites sites as flies files are bred from tram compost or mosquitoes in a swamp The idle millions in England con con- consist consist consist of ot those who have haTe lost the spir spir- spirIt spir- spir spirit spirit It it to work Lloyd Loyd Georges George's social social- stio I stio measure has produced a new and terrible leisure class consist consIst- consisting consIsting lug ing ing ot of state bred beggars and loaf loaf- loafers loafers loafers ers Government doles have made England a paradise for tor the Men and women doped with the morphia of compulsory tax paid charity are every week set set- settling settling settling down In greater numbers to permanent idleness and anc depend depend- dependency dependency I ency The Tho contagion of ot their piti pitiful ful tul example Infects and poisons the v Bhole hole Industrial atmosphere Since the armistice the British government has spent more than of o the workers money to support these ables These have lived in Idleness for tor three years Plenty Penty o ot of cheap food tood Is la at their disposal Some have received as much as 20 20 a week They have deteriorated to such an extent that they are no longer worth employing England through these artificially acquired pension pension- pensioners pensioners pensioners ers faces moral paralysis more sod sodden den than that which has sUbmerged RussIa England should have been the thelast thelast thelast last England Rugland country to apply doles as Rug Eng land was the first country to dis dis- discover disCover dis- dis disCover cover that charity persIstently maintained brought helplessness An entire village In England fifty years ago was reduced to chronIc poverty by misdirected alms be bestowed stowed by men of ot wealth |