Show employment SITUATION IMPROVES PROVES were mere more men empl employed emp loed oled in january than there were viere in december and still more in february than in january the V U S department of 0 labor reports the increase in payroll totals tor for february was vias 7 7 per tent cent that Is encouraging news items of the first order arder it Is the first upward trend rend in fit thel the industrial situation since the stock mar I let ket crash of october 1939 1929 it signifies I 1 it seems to us that people are getting betting over their fear of the future a and 1 I are ir realizing that the bottom actually dropped out I 1 to anybody who mho can call remember clearly tile the conditions under which lallich the average wage mage earner worked marked mid arid lived even thirty bears bears ago low how remote front from his lire viere mere all of the things lie he takes as its ills natural as they nrc today it Is clear that the term distress has been used very loosely in the past bear ear or so in the big cities where people from all over oner tile country went ment to get the free load food still and lodging chich I 1 the charitable 1 were ere handing out there has been more 0 of f an appearance of poverty than in the smaller towns and the country districts arid and of course there lias has been and still 1 Is S a great gibat deal of financial embarrassment among those vi aiho ito hax diac liac e been out of work but outside of the drought stricken regions we me have haic heard or of few cases where men habitually industrious and sober have had biad to turn beggars to keep their families ranil lles irom front starling stanl ng on the other fillol j hand vie lie know of many persons who have a not had regular mork for a near car or more who mho still haie their telephones telephone and electric lights their radios radio and phonographs arid and alio are arc still able to go to a enoile once in fit a mille A good many of them ire still running their cars linies limes have haie heen been hard beyond doubt but they were mere not so hard as many people imagined nor lid did they affect so 50 many as sonic ome agitators would like to have us believe and they are ae definitely finitely getting letter better now nom |