The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-10

and of the development of ideas formulated
through the years, a voorhees, man can go TO
any post office, or soon will be able so to do, in
the United States and there learn from the
government officials of the employment possibii-
ties in the neighborhood. Uncle Sam is using
his postmasters as a means of getting the will
ing worker to the waiting job.
There are many factors in this problem of I'M
employment. 1t must be known that there are
tramps and tramps. There is the man who is
looking for work and who seeks it and has to
tramp to do it, and then there is the man who
has lost his work and has become discouraged
and apparently does not care whether or not he
ever finds work again. The first man has not lost
his selfrespect and the second man has either lost
it or has come pretty close to losing it. 1t IS
not going too far, perhaps, to say that a part of
the governmental function eventually will be TO
recultivate a spirit of self-respect in men who
through idleness, enforced idleness in the first
place, generally, have lost it. Some day these
men will be brought back to manhood. They
are in the minority. for experience shows that
most of the idle ones are idle because they can
not help being idle. The government through
its division of information is seeking to destroy
idleness.
The United States, for the purpose of con-
Meeting employment seekers with employment,
has been divided into distribution zones. There
are 1S of these zones. The official OF the fmmi'
grafton service already on duty In a city in each
zone attends to the work Of distribution. For a
long time the labor of distributing workmen
was carried on from New York city, and 1t is
true that in the future a large part of the supply
of material will come from New York, because
it is a big city and also a great immigration
port. The headquarters cities of the different
distribution zones are New York, Boston, Pbila-
delphia, Baltimore, Norfolk, Jacksonville, Fla,
New Orleans, Galveston, Cleveland, Chicago, Min
neapolis, st. Louis, Denver, Helena, Seattle,
Portland, Ore, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Let New York city as a distributing center and
as a center OF information be taken as a chief
example of how things are being done in this
effort to connect the unemployed with employ
ment. Canon l.. Greene is the inspector in
charge of the information work at the barge
office in New York city. Now, it should be
known that the government not only tries to
co-nnectsworkless ones with work, but it also tries
to put men who have saved a little money and
who want to buy farms in touch with conditions
in any part of the country in which it seems
likely that they will make a success Of their
farming efforts.
"A man seeking work on a farm comes into
the barge office in New York. First, the officials
read a lesson in human nature from the mans
face. They try to discover. it is said. and almost
always succeed, how much sincerity there is in
him.. Then he is asked how much money he
has. If he has enough to take him to the place
of employment all well and good. The fact that
he is willing to pay the money to take him there
to it.
There are men. however, who have no money,
but who are capable. willing, temperate and anx-