The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-02-18
UNEMPLOY-
MENT PROBLEM
IN SUMTER
Suggestions For Relief of
Those. Who Are Out of
Work. Made by Secretary
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81: I. Reardon

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will be glad. TO. take the a,:ne OF
every unemployed individual Ct
5 Sumter who IS hunting q -cl.-;h.;l
IS bunting any Kind OF q job that
can. be secured until tho individual
can do better, and who is w;;lins
to- accept ss.before the ,:ac. o. af-
the. .wax::,, wages-bu, th': tnoSc
who expect 20 secure wages >ach
as. were paid during t':v wa1 on
government encafrpment or other
war work. rand for Al otltar classes
tofs work during the war and soon
after, and to- work as every man
pieaxes and to DO the work any
old way need not expect. antll
tfers iS another World war ~ Sc
cure any s2ch jobs or any such
wages. \ plain statement OF the
[ employ7iSenf situation might well
be made for information Of all in
terested
Est: How can employment be Sc
cured fs: those who want work
The anssyer is that some relief
can be given by hundreds OF prop
erty owners spending some money,
az much. as possible and as may he
necessary in..repairs TO residences,
out buildings, stores, fences and IN
grhnewashing and in painting
where, tiaeslatter will tend TO pre-
serve MOOD work and metal work,
and where repairs will prevent
er.aeterioration Of property.
There are. numerous houses and
bus; ness csta bhshments and roofs
OF same needing painting, and some
kind Of repairs.
1he cost of lumber has decreased
two: hundred per cent. Labor is
I. nndouBtedfy, by. force of necessity.
wonderfuffy lower and within the
reich Of All who contemplate faN-
Ing work done. Build now what you
need and pu. money in circulation.
Building smateriai requires labor TO
nanufacture.
and. BY Sumter people keeping
at home their money by not sending
cut of:Sunlter for things that can
be p1rchased at heme-and by not
Efging-out contracts for work to out
off town concerns. when Sumter
concerns OF contractors can do the
work s3usr as chea por cheaper
and at ehe same time employ home
skilled: affd unskiiled labor TO do
the work. In zone line alone, hav-
nns job printing done in Sumter will
give nfaf3y twice: as many men
wcrk>as are now engaged i'm busi-
ness, il estimates Of job work
sent souts6f Sumter are correct This
Ia tISt one instance OF That patron
IiHs Home enterprise will accom-
nfissi I'm. sot..ing to great extent
the Unemployment problems Of
sumter There sre many others
IA labor. retaik wholesale. and in
austriaI lines. Employ honae car
penterx, painters, macbinists and
Sahef home labor-skilled and un-
skilled. sas,@ i-7
:3rd. By purchasing frbm Sum-
ter county. farmers, as far as pos
ss5le an of our hay; vegetables,
chickens ;esss, beef, pork. potatoes,
1nd ofheF home raised products
and food and feed stuffs provided
that prices Of home. products are as
low as out OF town products deliv-
ered-in Sumter either a, the stores
or at The homes of Sumter people
gnaiisy. weight, measure. cleanli-
ness all being equal
AS a .concrete illustration Of buy
ing athezne: A local marble and
stone. works told the writer few
days ago that on five hundred
loifsr monument and coping job
tie writer Is interested in that if
this concern secured the job that
the actual cost OF the granite, in
Guiding freight and hauling from
the depot to the Sumter factory
the hauling money OF course going
50 "a Sumter drayman-would be
about one hundred dollars, and the
rest of the money would so TO sum
ter stone cutters. IN other words
by buying at home. we would be in
strun1ental in keeping four hundred
6foHars Of the Ave hundred dollars
IN Sumter. If we buy from a mar
bic, and stone concern outside of
Sumter, we would be sending prac-
tically all of this FIVE hundred dol
bars Of Sumter money out Of SUM-
te- Z suppose that out of every
dollars worth OF job work sent out
OF Snnater-t1at il the work was
done :'Ir Sumter JOB work houses.
at least sevcnty-fiye cents on the
dollar would stay in Sumter to be
paid tout, printers. bookkcet,erS.
stenographers. and for city and
county taxes and electric power.
s. city license taxes, etc. The out OF
town concerns do not pay Il cent
OF county or <city taXes-they fur
nish no man in Sumter Or no wo-
man. any employment-they con-
tribute nothing except hotel bills
OF occas;ossal repreSentatives-or
very Attle else l know of-towards
maintaining Sumter's stores, elec-
fric. plant. professional people, gas
and water plant. schools, police,
health, fire and other municipal
depas1xsseSats. streets. etc. Yet hun
areds- Of thousands of dollars Of
Sumter money ere annually sent
out N Sunst+r for goods and work
that loui6 be kept IN Sumter to
furnish employment. TO many Sun'-
ter men and women. to pay house
rent. doctors bills. fuel bills. and
TO keep up our stores and to help