The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-18
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Whatever solution the community finds
for the care of the needy, the final cure must
be found not in charity but in work.
There is but one cure for unemployment.
That is job.
The strain upon public resources and
private charities at this time has but one
cause. 1t is lack of work for it's men and
women.
Every official every leader of social or
CARNATIONS, testify to the fact that those
who are compelled to ask aid will riot for
job where they timidly ask for food.
Let it be said that there is no disgrace
nor should there be humiliation for the man
who, after desperate attempts to find work,
is compelled to ask society for relief for his
distressed dependents.
The community will lose much more than
money if any considerable number Of men
now in this position should be placed in such
a state Of mind.
No one should be fooled by any false hope
that help in this situation will come from
the outside Other cities are struggling with
the same desperate problem. They will try
TO save themselves. They will try to put
their own men to work, just as this city is
putting it's own into jobs for which money
can be found.
These men anG women are as much an
asset to this city as it's buildings it's utili-
ties or its business enterprises. They have
helped to make this city what it is. They
have helped to lift it from the second to the
first class. At work, they contribute to the
general prosperity.
One of the two things are inevitable.
If work is impossible here and is eswhere,
they will move away. Then every one loses.
If work is impossible elsewhere, they will
stay here and must be supported. That will
be continuous loss.
The one profitable way for the voorhees,
and for the city is to keep these men and
women in Indianapolis and keep them at
work.
The "made work" committee has per-
formed fine service and given indianapolis
fame in the nation as city of vision and
practically. 1t is one of three communities
which has done something different and not
in desperation.
But the call today is for more magma
ton more leadership, more public planning.
There are needs to be supplied. Some
where is an industry that with some financial
backing can be made successful and put men
to work. Just one new industry might start
things moving and prosperity grows as
rapidly as depression.
Our present industries do not hold the
key to the solution. They are doing their
very best.
But there are vacant plants and idle
machinery and idle men. All that is needed
is an idea and group of practical men who
will put that idea over 1t may be some new
toy for the entertainment of those who have
money, toy which would become fad and
a craze 1t may be new engine, new
means of transportation that would involve
the employment Of thousands. 1t may be
a new method of preserving foods easily
raised in this vicinity. 1t might be any of a
dozen or million things.
Old thinking will not solve the problem.
1t must be new and practical and capable
of attracting national attention.
There are many idle dollars today, pro-
portonately, as there are idle men.
The men want to work. The dollars want
to work, must work or be destroyed just as
men must work or be destroyed.
Here is the way out Idle dollars, idle
men, brought together by new idea, firm
purpose and some deep thinking, will take
men from the bread line and make Indian
apols grow
Indianapolis will lose unless it keeps its
population here-and keeps that population
working
Where is the idea?