The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1915-06-02

l pUl tGlloil OIS loullu.
i In the background of the transpol
I tation problem is the Pan-America1
: railway. 1t is neither a financial no
: an engineering impossibility. It's con
struction awaits the day when there
/ is assurance of profitable operation
; Sioux City Journal.
II DEMOCRATIC TEAM WORK (?)
l Washington, June 2-(SpeciaD-
President Wilson's Indianapolis speccl
had good deal to say about "tht
tcam,' and about the way members
of the team" should play the game,
and about What would happen to any
of the players who break training or
otherwise ball up the game. And yet
there is noticeable and lamentable
absence of democratic team work. The
prcsident-captain has evidently given
the signal for a prosperity play all
along the line, with run around the
end to goal, if possible; and some of
1.-THE team have tried to execute the
maneuver.
The game was to convince the peo-
pie that prosperity has returned and
that great job, accompanied by high
wages, is Sherlock Homesing every
| able bodied man. But, all at once, the
play was broken up by the bureau Of
labor statistics in the department Of
labor in a report on unemployment in
New York City. The report is based
on census of 1O4 city blocks selected
to include representative number
of families OF various nationalities and
all classes OF industrial workers, COM
bined with census of all families in
3,703 individual tenement houses and
residences, covering a still wider
range of distribution.
The enumeration was made in the
first half of February, 1915. lnforma-
tion was obtained from 54,S49 families
having total membership OF 1885,
42S persons, OF which number 95,4f3
were wage earners. OF these families
11,723 had one or more wage earners
out of work, showing an aggregate of
15,417 persons, or 1862 per cent of all
wage earners in these families with
out employment OF any kind. The to-
tai number OF wage earners i'll New
York City in 1876 is approximately
2,455,O00. The percentage Of unem-
ployment found among the members
of 54,S49 families visited Q6.2 per
cent applied to this number, shows
that the total number of unemployed
in New York City was about 39S,O0O.
That estimate does not include any OF
the irregular or part time workers.
A tabulation of the unemployed by
periods OF unemployment shows that
more than $50 days; 26.4 per cent
more than 12O days; 1913 per cent
more than 80 days; 55.S per cent more
than 60 days; 1874 per cent more than
80 days: SS.4 per cent more than Is
days, and 92.S per cent were out OF
work at least one week. The occupa-
lions or trades having the largest
number OF persons unemployed out OF
|the total of 1917 We're: Common Ia
borers, 2,44O; building trades, 2,046;
and clothing trades, 1871. The fact
is noted, however, that the figures
were obtained at a season of. the>year
when work in the building trades and
in the clothing trades is normally
slack and that the number out OF work
reported for these trades was affected
to a large extent by the slack season.
In the report are embodied the re-
suits of two Investigations made by
organizations in New York City, the
mayors committee on unemployment,
and the Metropolitan Life Insurance
company. The mayors committee re-
ported that the increase in the num-
Der Of unemployed, based on the de-
crease of employment, was about s
per cent of the total number OF work
ers employed in December, 1913. And
it was estimated that about 100000
more persons were unemployed in New
York in December, 1914, than i'll De
cember, 1913.
At about the same time the Metro
pOlitan Life Insurance company made
an investigation as to unemployment
by canvass OF families of 155,960 pol
icy holders OF the company, and found
that 1921 persons, or is per cent OF
all wage earners in those families,
were out OF employment. The great
err proportion of unemployment report
ed is accounted for largely by the
fact that this survey was made nearly
a month earlier in the season than the
investigation made by the federal
bureau, and at time when the extent
OF unemployment was probably some
what greater. The results OF the
metropolitan company's study are,
therefore, substantially in agreement
with the results OF the investigation
made by the bureau of labor statistics
1t is not yet known whether this
statistical bureau will be put Off the
team" for this piece of offside play;
but it is certain that 1.-The team itself
will be heavily penaliZed by the refer
ee, Mr.. Voter OF Allover.
FACTS FOR FARMERS.
Consul General Frederick NJ. Ryder,
Winnipeg, Canada, reports that much