South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-03-15

government. efficiently conducted en-
ployment bureaus, and more careful
planning OF work by the heads Of in
dustries were proposed by Rabbi
Cronbach as cures for the evils of un-
employment at Temple Beth FL sun
day morning.
DR.. Cronbach gave a thorough study
OF the question OF unemployment. dis
cussing all Of the related evils and the
possible ways OF alternating condi-
tiOns.
Unemployment" he said. makes
not only for starvation and humiia-
ton. it makes also for physical sick
ness and moral degenercy- not only
is unemployment crushing evil in it
self, but more than this. other evils
following in its train are even greater
Unemployment creates commercial
stagnation and further unemployment.
1t is a self-aggravating calamity.
Paradox of Life.
Unemployment is situation
which brings TO hellish vividness the
irony and paradox Of modern econCm-
ic life; how people can starVe because
there is too much food, freeze because
clothing IS too abundant and perish
for want because there is too much
wealth
THE hope has been expressed by
persons in a position to understand
that the present disastrous war may
be the death blow to war. 1 wish
there might be appended the hope
that the present spell of unempioy-
ment might be the end of unemplCy-
ment spells in this and other cOun-
tries of civilization.
Happily, there are some grounds
for the hope. Perhaps never before
has the the subject of unemployment
Il
fully as during the present crisis.
The subject has happily been taken
out of the field of political clap trap.
Everybody seems to have gotten
whOlesOmely tired OF the dash
smash opinions on the subject, the
upshot of which used to be that the
only remedy for unemployment IS 10
vote out of office the party that is in
and to vote into office the party
is out: as though the party in pow n
did have equally much reason to fear
industrial depression as the party out
OF power-in fact. greater reason.
Unemployment Not Sought
NO political party desires unem-
plOyment: no political policy seeks
such were the case is TO talk bEndly.
Political partisanship does indeed,
somewhat like the prOverbial bride in
the Bible, blind the eyes of them that
see.
Unemployment is being studied
now calmly and carefully. Some ex-
ceilent books and pamphlets have been
issued on the subject recently. How
different from the old time partisan
ebulitions are the writings on the
subject by John b. Andrews, Sidney
Webb Edward Seager and others.
There is also a national association on
unemployment. It is being studied
not with a view to making political
capital but with view TO evolving
practical measures for prevention.
I'VE shall have to use our own way
OF approaching and tackling what the
experts have said. Let me ask you
TO start by making an important dis
tinction between the unemployed and
the nOn-emplOyed. The term nOn-em-
plOyed We shall apply 10 those %ho
are not working but whose income is
still secure, or at least not disastrous
~ impaired When lack Of work re-
suits in complete or serious curtail-
ment of income, the unemployed
shall be used.
In NOn-EmplOyed Glass.
Among the nOn-emplOyed we may
class children and aged people who
are supported by other members of
the family. Nothing disastrous in
that's there? We may also class
people living on the proceeds Of their
investments, although we must be
careful in this designation here. The
making of wise investments and the
watching of investments may be a
highly arduous form of employment.
There may be moral perSls in living
on ones investments, but there are no
economic perils barring depreciation
of values, etc.
Another form of the non-emplOyed
are the people who are resting or tax
ing vacations. These people may not
Ii IA
Instead they may be enjoying them
selves. Personally, i am not sure that
vacations are more enjoyable than
work.
Ponder on this vacation idea.
Somebody has suggested a systematic
zation of vacation as n cure for unem-
plOyment. It has been figured that a
months vacation annually for every
body in slack years ard two weeks va
cation in good years would so distrib-
ute the unavoidable amount of unem-
ployment as TO rob it of its terrors.
The idea is that il is better to have
. people work only IL months a year
than TO have IL people working u
months a year. wearing themselves out
while a twelfth person starves him
self out in JOblessness. The same
amount Of time would be put in,
which ever arrangement you adopt
One In Twelve Absent.
Notice how one person in twelve
could always be absent on vacation.
that is. $ Is per cent. Thus, IL the. e
are 10000 wage earners in South
Bend. S33 could be out Of work con-
stantly without disaster beyond that
of having a months vacation. If 90
goo is the number OF wage earners, -
SIS could be Odt OF work all year
round with a similarly slight draw
back This means the same as 5000
people out of work four months at a
stretch. Yes. 5000 people out of work
four months at a stretch is mathemat-