Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-28

are trying to do something about unempIoEs
ment:
First Establish in each community public
employment clinic where people out of wore
may register. Before they can be helped, they
shall be physically examined, and If they suffer
from any remediable troubles. let arrangements
be made to improve their condition.
Second. During the period they are out OF
work provide schools for adult education which
they may attend. Our present school buildings
might offer facilities at night, together with
special industrial schools where the unemployed
could improve themselves in their trades or
learn new ones. In brief, instead of wasting the
jobleSs, let them this period of idleneSs in
preparing themselves for the future.
Third. Have the State, plus their former
employer (each contributing one-half), pay
them small wage, enough for food and rent.
As it should be very small, with the employer
forced to pay half, every effort will be made
by all to get business back to normal as soon
Is possible
IF this suggestion costs a little money re-
member that one way or another the COM
munity always pays the cost Of periods of I'M
employment. Idleness breeds crime. And
crime not only degrades human beings, but it
increases taxation costs and makes us support
more prisons, police courts poor houses, hos
pitals and welfare workers"
MR.. BABSON is famed as a practical man.
Practical men supposed to be hard
boiled and not given to romantic dreams But
Mr.. Babson is both religious and a romanticist.
He believes in prayer and spiritual power. And
to prove that cold-blooded science Is turning
its mind to God he tells little story about
Charles p Steinmetz the great electrical engi-
neer. SteinmetZ, as everybody knows, was
one Of the brainieSt men of our age Shortly
before his death he visited Mr.. BabSon and
during their conversation Babson asked what
line of research Steinmetz believed would see
the greatest development during the next SO
years.
The little wizards eyes kindIed behind his
horn trimmed spectacles.
1--WE scientific men, he said, "have spent
our lives studying physical forces. We have
made the most sensational discoveries in the
history Of the world. And our knowledge has
not brought happiness People are fed up on
material things. What America needs now Is
a development of the spiritual side of life.
II believe that the greatest discoveries-of
the next generation will be made along spiritual
lines. Scientists must turn their laboratories
over to the study of spiritual forces. Here is
the field ewhere miracles are going to occur.
Spiritual power is the greatest Of undeveIoped
powers and has the greatest future"
Now the contemplation of spiritual power
may unfortunately, leave you cold. But BUSH
are surely inspirational.
81 have in mind so new industries in the
making" declares the great Statistician "They
will furnish antidotes for the So-called evils
of the machine age. And incidentally there's
a fortune in each of them.
1--WE hear great deal today of the unems
ployment brought about by the increasing use
of labor saving machinery. Labor cries that
millions of workers have been thrown out OF
mills and factories by machines. But labor
fails to add that new industries are continually
developing to absorb the jobless The autos
mobile, for instance, made work for all the
stagecoach drivers and million men besides.
AS we replace men by machines we must go on
developing new industries.
young people wonder whether as many ops
portunities exist today as existed generation
ago. I heard the question so many youthful
lips that decided to find out. Now after
good deal of research work I want to tell the
world that there are more and greater oppor-
tunities today than there were when I was
boy. And right here want to urge people to go
to public libraries to read and study There isn't
man or woman on earth who couldn't increase
his or her income by simple course of reading
in the line of work in which they are EN-.
ployed"
First of all among his so new ways of max
ing money Mr.. Babson lists the statistical field.
Present indications are that the statistical
industry is in its infancy" he says Statistics
today are where the use of electricity was 1OO
years ago. There are thousands of inventions
devoted to the elimination Of manual labor. but
almost none to eliminate mental labor. Show
men how to multiply their intellectual power
and your fortune is made. It can be donel
Another great way to make money is in
aviation. Bigger, faster, safer aifplanes are
sure to come. The whole industry abounds In