The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-01-05
WANTS PUBLIC ACTION
Bismarck, N. D.
Dec, %, 1881,

Editor, Tribune:
I am just an ordinary man with
, out work and unable to get work. I
. have always been silent partner in
, anything that has pertained to public
, welfare of any kind, but believe now
that silence is what causes lot of
things to come about that should not
, be and could be avoided. I am going
10 be very plain in expressing myself,
so II the shoe should happen to fit
anyone who reads this article, please
wear it.
Nowadays, it is unemployment that
is foremost in the minds of everyone
but few, 1t seems We hear this
and that and the other thing in re-
. gard to how to remedy this situation
and the more we hear. the worse it
.. gets. I will agree that a large per-
centage of unemployment cannot be
avoided, but if common sense was
practiced instead of crooked politics
in employing people there would be
large number OF married women out
Of work, who now are working and
whose husbands are dragging down a
nice salary also, and these people are
holding public offices, mostly, if you
please. AS I said at the beginning,
I am Just an ordinary man without
work and unable to get work. I have
q wife and three small children to
support. I have been in close touch
with a certain state department for
at least five months to go to work
for them. Each and every time I
have been In there, have been given
q nice welcome and a lot of promises
but nothing has resulted. Soft-soap-
ing seems to be the going thing in a
place Of this kind as people have Sc
cured jobs In this department since
started to keep in touch with them
in spite OF the fact that myself and
several othel married men who have
tried to get In with this same depart
ment have each and every one of us
been told that we were first on the
list for q job because Of 50 and so and
50 on.
I can name people by name, both
In county and state offices right here
in the city Of Bismarck who are en-
ployiug plenty Of people out of their
own family in public office where they
can secure plenty Of competent help
among married men who are without
work and keep their women at home
to attend to their household duties.
Would not this plan seem to relieve
a lot Of the unemployment facing us
today? Sit down and figure it out.
But we never hear anything along
these lines, because it might help to
stir up something. But, I tell you,
that is what we need today, real
good stirring up as these political
pots have been left unstirred so long
now that they are actually rotten.
II the unemployed continue to listen
to the old line Of stuff that things
are getting better where we really
know better, we cannot expect any,
thing else. Don't we all know that
II some prominent man in public Of
flee has q friend who feels he or she
wants to 60 to work, that he or she
does 20 to work and gets real nice
Job at that? What is the answer?
POLITICAL PULL. Can you imagine
anything that tends to rob the public
Of more money than political pull?
Can you figure out that it Is not a
crime to rob public office of its
rightful funds through political pull?
I cannot for the life of me figure out
Why those so-called political jobs
should be allowed to continue as such,
and keep honest working men out OF
work. We need house cleaning In
all our public offices and that means
city, county and state. If the ordin-
airy man really knew what is going