Arizona republican., 1918-12-24
Another Job for Crowder


 The who invents puzzle a problem has start over everybody else in the matter of its solution So herr to be another job Provost Marshal General Crowder He made a conspicuous success of the mobilization of the National Army. It Was accomplished in such way to most slightly disturb business and industry. In that, well in -t. act or bringing great army into being earned tI" undying gratitude of the nation. Why should General Crowder be given charge the work of Rehabilitation That that may be accomplished smoothly: Nobody else seems capable of such an a..ompHshment
 Almost daily some one in authority speaks boast fully, and it into the newspapers, the dispatch uth which armies being demobized. Now ue read that they being turned back civil l.fo ut the rate of 10000 day; then hear that thc rate has risen 10000 day. To the minimizing taat might appear 10 be feat of proportions. Hut really the turning~of the men loose from military camps or that of actually bringing them back from Europe is not a performance requiring the exercise ot eenius skill high degree of forethousht: anybody could do it A sergeant a corporal could -lsiy demobHize army that way.
 We have read two dispatches lately by which we nave been much more stpongy impressed than by all he uoastfn descriptions of the rapidity with which aur fighting men being turned back into the patts 7r peace.
 The other day, Nathan A Smythe assistant Girec- "r general of the United States Employment Service addressed meeting of the. Academy of Political Sci: ence in New York the subject of unemployment Thousands soldiers were being discharged daily he eaId now, almost in mdwfnter, when outdoor jobs time plants are-closed because the can crllatous of and manufacturers are hesi- lart in employing labor because of uncertain ucs of taxation high prices materials and timidty as credit.
 Thousands of soldiers who left jobs to SC to the var find them occupied by or older men 0ho had been taken from the human junk pile and are making good
 Said Alr Smythe Soldiers are being dis charged daily the basis military units (and that is not selective process), with no reference to whether or not they are needed in industry They are being mustered few days notice and -Vcn in money the cost of transportation to their homes. free to buy tickets wherever they please. Already they are turning up in the cities 'trcke,' away from home, without work. applicants for civilian relief There is every prospect that unless remedial measures promptly taken, the sight of stranded moneyless soldiers will be through out the land"
 There is recalled in this picture the provision that made by England for the survivors of the Ma poeonic wars. grateful parliament granted in perpeuity 10 the heroes Waterloo and the Penin- sular campaign the priceless privilege of begging on the highways of England. We suppose the police of our cities would arrest soldiers who fought at Mihiel Seicheprey if they should be reduced to hossary.
 Tho other day telegram read in the house f from Baden Indiana: Several hundred men arrived at West Baden hospital A large number without friends and say they have had no pay for several months. Cannot some plan he put into effect give them money when they ifscnbarkeT
 Representative Sherley of Kentucky said he had already heard of this and similar cases and had made suggestions to the military authorities to plans for tdins the soldiers until they could be paid iut evidently he said. these suggestions had not been carried into effect He added There no pos shle for any large number such cases hap peuing. Here and there. course they are bound to occur but the system ought to be such as to make numerous cases impossible.
 The unemployment problem is by no means an unforeseen one It has been talked about every nor of land ever since We went into the war Volumes have been written about it. Congress has talked about it. The members of the administration have talked about it. and have been assured that would somehow be met It is still under discussion We believe that nowhere has it passed beyond that phase, and the soldiers returning at the of from 10000 to SOOO0 day
 Surely there is work for General Crowder another like him if he be found We do moi mean that he or any other man alone could solv, Inc unemployment problem But he could release the army in such way to relieve the growing acute- of the problem, and he could hold in check the iudiscriminate tide of returning soldiers until the country had ceased discussing 'resoluting" con cerning unemployment and had begun to do some- fhnr
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