The Washington times., 1921-10-16
HE FOUND
SIX JOBS
in A WEEK
I'll I'M eS PrOber Finds
Good Paying Places
ON Each of Six Tips
From WANT "AdS."
IN HERE is no army OF unemploy-
ed In Washington In the sense
that the term conveys.

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There are people out OF work here.
They divide themselves naturally
into three classes.
There are people who are anxious
20 get Jobs. And there are people
who don't want to work-wouldn't
work under any circumstances.
. But Washington is fortunate and
the honest working people living
% within her gates are fortunate.
A Washington Times reporter,
taking a leaf from MIR. Ledoux's
book. spent a week In the highways
and byways Of this city looking for
the great army of the unemployed.
1t may be said here that for every
man out of work in Washington,
there is q Job of some kind waiting
for him. In his assumed role of a
"down-and-outer" from Chicago. the
reporter had no trouble in securing
six positions last week and none OF
them paid under 81 per day.
THREE CLASSES OF ,.'
d UNEMPLOYED.
Washington's unemployed can be
divided into three classes. First,
there is that class who always pre-
tend they are looking for work, and
II offered a job would discover a
''friend" they wanted to see at the
other end OF the town. They hang
around the corners all day, telling
each other what rotten city Wash
ington Is and whispering confiden-
tally that a revolution is sure to
come II things don't get better
mighty quick.
Another class is made up of the
ex-soldier who Is in Washington
waiting for Uncle Sam to do some
thing for him. These boys have not
yet adapted themselves to peace
time conditions. They are willing
to work and want jobs, but after
their experiences on the fields Of
France a clerkship in an office and
the regular routine of eight hours a
day does not appeal to them. 90.
In other words. they have not yet
found themselves. They keep put
ting off the search for work from
day to day. 1t is not laziness with
them; 1t is just that 1t Is mighty
far cry from the song Of the shells
to the murmur Of the typewriter
and they are reluctant to start.
WAR WORKERS OFFER
ANOTHER PROBLEM.
The third class is composed Of
the Government clerks who lost
their positions when Uncle Sam
cut down his war time forces.
Many Of them had held down their
desks for years and when they
were dismissed they received the
blow in daze. They just can't
understand 1t. They imagine they
are not fit for anything else and
instead of hustling out and getting
a strangle hold on the first good
lob in sight, they sit around the
house and wonder what in the
deuce is going to happen to them.
Do you remember the little lady
we used to see munching her
lunch on the lawns around the
buildings at noon
time? Well she Is still with US
and you can see her shooting down
# street in her short skirts and
silk stockings any evening. TO be
sure her smile is a bit grirnmcr
and there is a fighting look in her
eyes, but she has given her for
mer masculine co.workers in the
Government departments a splen-
did example.
When she lost her Government
position she did not ruin the car
pet in her hall bedroom by shed.
ding tears all over It. She got out
and hustled ANY old job at any
old salary was tho right little job
for her.
No kind gentleman from Boston
drifted into town, mounted n soap
box and told her troubles to the
world. No bread lines were formed
for her and she never did care for
free soup. She was and is fight.
ing q lone hand and she has won
out. That rent for the hall bed
room Is paid and while perhaps she
don't have chicken to eat three
times a day, the flush of healthy
Young womanhood is still in her
cheeks.
Nothing doing on that back TO
The farm movement for Nellie and
Katie and Gertie. They will stick
light here in Washington and the
weekly letters they write back to
he old folks at home always con.
ain a greenback or two along with
he glowing account OF the won.
lerful times they are having.
The Washington Times reporter,
n his character OF n Chicago bum,
net Lefty" in front of the Indus.