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Show PLANS THAT WELL FOREVER SOLVE UNEMPLOYMENT ' The Pabst Brewing Co., is offering big money prizes for a post war employment plan. Of course it must be within with-in the capitalist set up and strictly within "free" enterprise. We fear they will not get a single plan that will work. We know of four plans that will work and solve the problem easily. We shall set these forth in our brief way. First, the plan of the American writer and thinker, Edward Bellamy, as given in Looking Backward. No. 1 The Bellamy Plan This plan ontlines the Cooperative Commonwealth and sets it out as the evolution from capitalism. All people are . expected to work daily a limited number of hours between the ages of 21 and 45, all to be paid alike and all to share alike. There will be no money as we know it but a plentiful supply of vouchers for every one, good for all human physical needs at state stores and warehouses. The state, composed of we, the people, will be the great producing agent of all things needed. It will be highly efficient, without politics as we know it. It will take over all resources, all utilities, all manufacturing and all distribution, working under plans which will be much like a family budget. All citizens will be organized into an industrial army, each an important member mem-ber of the big family. There will be no need for banks, investment in-vestment companies, stock markets or insurance, as all would be perfectly secure. No criminals, no courts and no lawyers, no salesmen or advertising, no armies or navies. Production controlled by consumption and need. No regimentation. regi-mentation. All would own their private homes and might . eat there or in public dining halls. The government would take no profit so prices would be low. There would be a perfect educational system for every child and young person up to the age of 21. Health, culture and intellectual pursuits would be given full attention and stressed to the limit. Mr. Bellamy does not take religion or God into consideration, as he believes that true religion and Christianity lie in action such as he proposes in the working out of his plan. There never would be any unemployment under his system. So far America has sidetracked it. |
