The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-07-30
BAD OUTLOOK For WINTER
Commander Booth Of Salvation Arm
Predicts

Commander Booth OF Salvation Army
Predicts
New York, July 30.-"To those men
and women who are earning remuncr.
alive salaries | would say save every
possible penny for the outlook for the
coming winter is anything but promis
ing.
Commander Eyangellne Booth has
given this warning after a conference
with Salvation Army executives, which
revealed a bad outlook for the winter
months. aA Laa
1.-The United States is facing the
worst winter 1t has known in fifteen
years. Commander Booth said "Un
less conditions take a quick change
for the better 1t will be the worst
winter we have known in all my OK
perience with the Salvation Army,
Iand that covers many years.
Jobless Flock TO New York
rlt is est mated there are about
100000 persons out Of work in New
York city. Judging by the applica'
tons made TO us at least sixty per
cent of them have come from other
cities. For some strange reason the
jobless flock to this city whenever
there Is business depression There
is some strange magic OF hope In the
very name of New York.
But New York cannot take care
OF her own. How can she be expect
cd to take care OF the hordes of
trangers? Employers are not to
blame for the unemployment situa-
ton, we find. In many cases they
created jobs that were not needed
to keep good men from the bread
4 line Firms that used to employ hun
dreds have gone to the wall We
are getting 500 applications for. reg.
ular employment every week, and
We do not register the translents. the
Iunskilled or the countle IS hundreds
who come to us daily for food and
lodging. ,a'.,.o
\ Different Level Of Social Straits.
I'VE are handling an entirey DIR
ferent level OF the social strata,
Commander Booth continued
Among the requests for jobs any
sort OF steady job--were thirty-four
professional men public account
ants, auditors, expert stenographers
men who never before had to apply
TO an employment bureau. One OF
the men who came in here was a
$4,000 a year man two months ago
To day he is holding Sl2 a week
job and Is glad to get that"
Adjutant George Darby head OF
the Salvation Army's employment
, bureau. said after the conference
that applications for work made sc
far this month we're seventy pei
cent, greater than for July, 1920
sAnd we are able to place only about
twenty-five per cent OF the ap
lplfcants,' The Adjutant added.
Another Angle Of Situation
Commissioner Thomas EstIll. hoa,
OF Salvation Army work for th'
Eastern territory; spoke OF the situa
ton from another angle.
Ordinarily IN summer months on
industrial homes operate on a fift.
per cent. capacity Now they ar
ovcrcrowded and men as eep on tn
floor and benches Formerly tn
homes were for the physica ly unii
or mentally unfit To-day the in
mates are young for the most part
men under forty who would willing
= y work and whopnever before aske
aid OF nobody. They are not bumI
We know that typso THEW are Jus
good American mon driven to tn
wall by business depression The re
lief department has never been s
hard pressed IN summer months
There are hundreds OF applicants 10
a mcai or single nights lodgin.
not profession beggars, re en-
lphasize. Whole families are comm
to us; eighty four last week.
The conference di icussod plans 70
the coming fall and winter. and 70
, the great expansion Of effort the Sd