The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-03-27

Autobiography of a MAN
MMo Aas Been SeSkiNaa Sob
BY CHARLES W. WOOD.

A twopsge contribution to the April American Magazine called Locking
for a Job" by Charles Wood s a% on ,a an st FSonIs "t h H s@ essaSlsw a.
ing man. who hs.t tried his best for he lasts six months to inc lob Job, lsrs r..
OF three millions of the unemployed. He frs the following souuon'
p ow for the, solution. It is evident that society must do something to
IN ward off the possible and ever probable resuIts of keeping too man
d ' of US out o. work.. To the superficial thinker TIL simplest mdhod
would seem to be to shoot, hang or electrocute the unemployed. III "ouha
never do Not only would it involve a tremendous expense, IL outd
practically run business throughout the nation; for, nondescripts though we
be-. we are, nevertheless, almost indispensable to society.
imprisonment is hardly less Objectionable 1t is being tried today In q
number of States, but the results IRE lot encouraging, I have several
friends in New York State who have been convicted OF looking Tor a JOB
ton, while it has been fairly satisfactory to the incarcerated, has been any,
hing but satisfactory to the public. When a mar has been locked out all
eventually becomes more attractive than the rigorous hardships o. a job.
Understand. do rot question the right of society to Kill oil imprison
lection o us citizens, but no me but q fool woulda ccuse us Of citizenship. We
may have votes but W don't know what they mean, and lot having he
right to work. it follows that W. haven't even thu right % live. Crazy
sentmentahsts persist in saying that the man who wants clothes is Will.
in to make them should be allowed tn opportunity, ina ne VINO wants 1000
and is willing to raise it should have access to the land, and that ven he
to the machinery. But these fools ignore thu fundameht lgnts OF prop
ery. We now that it is far better that a few million OF us should starve
Granting us thu right to create wealth would be the next thing to giving
US the wealth which we create. and we wnkngmens, mpoyed am linen en-
a aires a" an AZ" ae1rved of hat mt eraeetatfo what would our lives amount tor
time: n surely this would be a sorry honor if We could lot se. by way Of
contrast our ar-starved subjects looking for a job. 1t stands to reason that
n Insane theory which proposes equal opportunities for all will lot solve
the problem of the jobess President Eliot. of Harvard, has also demons
srated that socialism is Incompatible with human nature, although his demon
strauon Ia neither 81 thorough nor so simple al my own.
To my mind there is only n solution of thu problem, and that solution
the religious one. IN m way the church nus get h Of the workngman.
He must be thoroughly inpregnated with a spirit of nonTeIstance; a re-
hereafter j. he presumes to complain OF as proVldeniai poauon,. nv I
above ILL., a hope must be extended that, If he smeekly suffers everything IN
carelcssy drifting away ron the old gospels and If it does not return
society will inevitably pay the penalty Let those who have been blessed With
stance to spread the gospel of patience and forbearance' of contentment With
perience. for al an unbeiever and ] have aready confessed hat / may %
decide to strive, while, IT, still had the faith which / lost twenty year !"
al sure / would die SubmisSvey.