The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1915-04-09

and Of the development Of ideas formulated
through the years, a voorhees, man can go 10
any post ONCE. or 9oon will be able so to do, in
the United States and there learn from the
government oficials Of the employment possibui
ties in the neighborhood. Uncle Sam is using
his postmaster as O means Of getting the VIII
ing worker to the waiting Job.
There are many factors in this problem OF un.
employment. It must be known that there are
tramps and tramps. There is the man who Is
looking for work and who seeks II and has to
tramp to do II, and then there 10 the man VINO
has lost his work and has become discouraged
and apparently does not care whether or not ne
ever hnds work again. The first man has not lost
his self-respect and the second man has either LOST
II or has come pretty close to losing It II IS
not going too far, perhaps, to say that a part III
the governmental function eventually VIII be 10
recultIyate a spirit Of self.respeet In men VINO
through idleness, enforced idleness In the hrst
place, generally, have lost II. Some day these
men will be brought back to manhood. They
are I'm 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 Ihere
are is of these zones. The official OF the imml
grafton service already on duty In a city IN each
zone attends to the work Of distribution For q
long time the labor Of distributing workmen
was carried on from New York city, and It Is
true that in the future a large part OF the supply
Of material viii come from New YORK. because
n IL a big city and also a great immigration
mort The headquarters cities Of the different
dIstribution zones are New York, Boston Phila'
delphia. Baltimore. Norfolk. Jacksonville tla,
New Orleans. Galveston. Cleveland Chicago MIN
neapolls. st. Louis, Denver, Helena seatte'
Portland. Ore. San Francisco and Los Angeles
Let New York city as a distributing center ana
rs a center of rma 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 Dafse
ONCE In New York city. Now, u should oe
known that the government not only tries 70
connect voorhees, ones with work, but II also tries
10 nut men who have saved a little money and
who want 10 buy farms in touch with condiuohs
in any part OF the country In which Il seema
likely that they will make a success OF theii
farming efforts.
A man seeking work on a farm comes int
the barge Office In New York. First, the officials
read a lesson in human nature from the man'i
face. They try TO discover, II is said, and almosi
always succeed, how much sincerity there Is II
him. Then he Is asked how much money h'
has. IL he has enough 10 take him 70 the place
of employment all wen and good. The fact tina
ne is willing TO pay the money TO take him Their
IL first proof Of HIS desire 70 work and 10 stiel
to a.
There arc men, however. who have no money
but who are capable, willing. temperate and ana