Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-10-20
QUESTION or UNEMPLOYMENT Is
BEING DISCUSSED IN THE
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
MIRACLES CAN'T BE EXPECTED
President Harding and Others Hope,
However, That Some Wise Plan May
Be Formulated to Put the Worthless
at Work.
81 EDWARD 3. CLARK.

or councillors there is safety" There
Is a multitude of counsellOrs here in
washington discussing the question
OF unemployment. Safety, as jeremiah
used it, perhaps means success, and so
Il may be that the truth of the
prophets saying will be put to the
test In Washington considerable
number of years after he delivered
himself of the utterance.
Variety is said to be the spice Of
LIE. There is enough variety in the
occupation of the delegates to the in
dustrial conference to give spice, if
not success. to the outcome.
All kinds, manners and conditions
OF men, and of women, too, for that
matter, are represented about the
board Of council Secretary Of Com
merce Hoover and Secretary Of Labor
Davis represent the administration,
and in a larger sense the government
OF the United States, although presum-
ably, the cOnferees being patriotic
Americans, all of them must be con-
sidered as representing the high inter-
ests Of their country.
President Harding, it is known,
lays, as we ordinary folk frequently
say, great store" on the outcome of
this talk on Industrial conditions and
unemployment, and this active en-
deavor to get some suggestion which
VIII result In putting the jObIess back
at work.
Can't Expect Magic Results.
Some time ago an article was
written which pointed out to the
people Of the United States the fact
that the coming conference Of the
nations In Washington was not a con-
ference to bring about complete dis
armament, but a conference to dis
cuss means of limiting armament. 1t
also was pointed out that because such
a conference is to be held no one
ought to take it as a certainty that
dreadnoughts are to be strapped and
armies disbanded, and that cote full
Of peace doves is certain to rule the
roost, so to speak. in every community
Of the round world
The coming international conference
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to stop the huge outlay every year
for weapons of offense and weapons Of
defense, and the conference which
is assembled in Washington to discuss
the Industrial situation is going to try
to suggest ways and means for giving
every willing person work to do, but
It does not necessarily follow that as
a - kp,n
jobless one in the United States
quickly is to be assured of work to
lay his hand to on Monday, with sure
knowledge that he is to lay his hand
to a pay envelope on the following
Saturday.
This may sound pessimistic, but the
best that can come out of. the con-
ference is some happy suggestion given
by some inspired one which may work
out solution for the present pressing
problem of lack of work.
As to Jobless Veterans.
The American Legion officials say
that there are between 100000 and |
100000 veterans of the World war out
Of jobs today. Recently Secretary of
Labor Davis has said that there has |
been an over-estimate Of the whole |
number OF voorhees, ones in the United |
States. The secretary thinks that it
is only about 100000 whereas the
figures. set It at 100000.
1t would seem that the American
LegIon's figures on unemployment in
the ranks of the ex-soldiers must be
too high. If they are not, the situation
with regard to the men who fought
for their country, or who were willing
to fight for it, is nothing less than
appalling. They are. of course, worse
Of than are the other voorhees, ones
who did not go into the army, because
the latter made plenty of money dur
ing the war, driving rivets, or doing
something else which they fiattered
themselves was essential war work
OF course II may be that the men who
were In civil life during the war and
who now are jobless, have spent all
the excess profits which they made and
that therefore their present condition
is as bad as that of the veterans, hut
the former soldiers were paid only
about a dollar a day while they were
ID the army. and they could not save
any money.
Some of the law makers are ready
enough to declare that the question of
in the United States is
the hardest OF all questions to solve.
and that they actually feel helpless
when confronted with 1t. Others than
the law makers get rather hopeless
over the thing, but to tell the truth
there seems to be some hope here that
ID the conference some inspired person
may suggest something or other which
VII work and put men back to work.
An Support Arms Conferences.
Democrats in congress and out have
that they Will support every
Mort Of the administration to make
he conference on limitation Of arma-
!