Show i idle labor is the worlds most wanton waste I 1 we all want the things labor ca could uld make we want more and better houses automobiles clothes shoes hats caviar oysters carpets beds arid and silk stockings idle dpn and women are eager t to 0 make them the dilemma is that we cannot exchange the wheat or coal or energy of which we have a surplus for shoes or caviar of which we have a shortage this exasperating pe rating miscarriage that baffles us is recurrent no one has mastered the difficulty but our thinking on the subject is progressing there was a time when no one except the unemployed was vitally upset by the e evil vil of unemployment loy ment the condition was fatalistically accepted by all now w we e acknowledge that involuntary idleness is a crime and ci a monstrous waste necessity is tile the mother of invention the modem attitude is that we must solve this problem that has plagued mankind with increasing fury since the beginning of the industrial age what must be done will be done and can be done |