People thrown out of work by changes in the job market, as by layoffs and closings, can sometimes take advantage of the chance to try something else, computers, maybe, or data processing. But not everybody has found retraining to be the answer, or, for that matter, a two-year program. Manufacturing is not what it used to be, and, yet, most people looking for work aren't prepared for anything else. But these are proud people. Throwed away they may be, but it won't do to count them out.
Business is business, and if people still matter less than profits, why they've always known that.
Neither schools nor factories have fulfilled the promises inherent in them. Fairness is something only little children any longer much expect. But blood is thicker than water, and in these youngsters as often different from us as night from day, there may yet survive a farmer's cussedness, his equable and solid understanding of what counts and of who really matters. Others have come into less, surely.