Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-18
OSLERIzINC IS DENOUNCED
Government Age Limit Raped at
Charity Conference.
UNEMPLOYED PROBLEM is THEME
Affiliated Charitable Associations
Meet a e Council Chamber I'm city
Hall and Formulate Plan for
Local Relief.

"Oslerizing' by the United states gov
eminent was roundly denounced by j. j.
Ryder. former deputy state labor commits
sioner, in an address Friday afternoon
before the affiliated charities associations
al the city hall.
ut was a deplorable day when the gov
ernment OF the country itself fell into step
with this Goddess proposition; a damnable
conception put into effect by what we are
fond OF. calling the most Christian govern
meut on earth; an act which stands against
us on the books Of heaven.
The man out Of work and with a family
on his hands is the man who should be
considered first. Inability to find work at
the wrong time fills bawdy houses and in
~creases the prison population. BY the
wrong time 1 mean this; That any man or
any woman, any boy or any girl, may be
out Of work in pleasant weather, with a
home in which they are welcome, and still
keep cheerful, retain all their moral stam-
Ina But let them be out of work under
stress. inanoial or physical, in oppressive
climatic conditions. and there is the time
of temptstion that no guardian angel
can brighten. In this connection, be II
understood, Il have not in mind the born
fderelicts Of the'race, for they can have no
serious consideration in any discussion OF
the unemployed. They may not be saved;
they win not work, and will not ask any
body to find them work. They'll damn you
Iif you dofr y F-t'
Besides Ryder. who made the principal
address. the problem of the unemployed
was discussed by Mayor Dahlman, G. C.
Belden. Rabbi Frederick Cohn. Rev. John
Albert Williams, Judge Lee Estelle, Mrs.
Dodds of the Salvation Army, Miss Ida
! Jontz OF the Associated Charities mad Gen.
Feral Charles +. Henderson, who presided.
Relief Plan Formulated.
IL After a prolonged discussion 1t was de-
clded to, confer with the city and county
authorities In the hope that unemployed
might be given temporary work on a
municipal wood pile or a county stone pile,
primarily to find out whether the appli-
cant really wanted work and was in need
Of 1t. II he worked faithfully then effor,
would be made to find permanent employ
ment for the man.
In discussing the problem. Mr.. Ryder
said:
What Is the remedy? 1 know that state
| employment offices, kept open all the year
round under sympathetic management, have
done a grand work, but while the state
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keep a person in prison. II doles out with
most srudging land the money to keep its
citizens working and healthy and happy
Pen them up like pigs, where they take in
badness through every pore. and the legis-
lature will soak the taxpayer to the limit
TO keep idle people comfortably in de.
graduation; will even go to the limit OF
danger by throwing their slave output, in.
ferior and practically unpaid for, into com.
petition with the product of free, decent
struggling home-makers. Cost of prisons
money spent lavishly at the unraveled enc
of. life for poor houses as well as jails
might be spent at the front end, in the
day before hope was dead, with vasti,
more satisfactory results.
Some Private Agencies Good.
Privately conducted employment offices
have been discredited. even the best o.
them, by the v~ultures who lie awake nighti
work every day In the year that the!
can. There are honestly conducted EN-
ployment offices and they perform a use
full service when decent people run them
but they do not do what the state, tn,
county and the city ought to do jointly
and that Is to hire workers whose on
and only duty will be to investigate op
portunities and open them to seekers TO
labor of this kind or that. Such bureaus
under official and responsible control, ar
the ultimate solution, ! believe, for tn
disheartening state of mind OF the averae
mechanic, who, beginning in boyhood, ex
pending his energies and exploiting hi
thews and intelligence during many gram
years Of faithful service, one day find
himself out OF work.