The Washington times., 1932-12-16

lcts on Halstead Street (many of
oLHERr srlDrs them pushed there by no 1aut 5 OF
their own these days) not at all spectacular anu
have no power to make themselves artculate'
"An American Tragedy
"orce upon time l was toolmaker and an engineer
hut in recent years have been designer and executive
/ have burnt the midnight oil and acquired gooo
sound technical education and lnougeo IN suo!s az
tives that once hoped would give me the security OF
The man who is never of job But all these things
find have been vain activities and vain dreams Tor
have sought work franticay and consistently Tor oyer
two years and failed to find any,
"And to cap ALL about months ago my bank closed
I'm and left me penness and if had not been for the
kindness of some friends (who until then did not know
were friends at the time were almost strangers
to each other) should be in the flophouse and the
bread line or at the bottom of the lake. in suicides
grave where believe quite few stung bank depositors
have'been thrust.
Danger Signals
80 if Worker has been angry and venomous in his
letter to you it is nothing to what should like TO oe
for have been living for months now on undlluted
charity and for many weeks now nave NOT even nao
enough money me to buy postage stamp Tor aette1
so my activities in looking for job have been very much
curtailed And if to express myself as would
like to about bankers and the rulers OF this country the
language would burn up the paper as put the words
down. For if I had nv way about things would take
the damned lot of them and hang them to the nearest
lamp-posts; and going to sign my name to this
esteem it favor if you would inform them OF my SEN
tients or better STILL publish this letter and my
but that would be too good to be true.
Out of the Depths
"Now returning to Worker and perhaps myself. When
we feel poaded into writing to gentleman like yourself
there must be forces behind this act much greater than
merely an empty inclination There must be huge bit
terness and resentment at present conditions must
pull ourselves out of death-ke despondency and hope
lessness to do this thing. ..
"And it is not easy for to be coherent clear
about it, for there many aspects to this thing
suppose it could be called the social problem And there
is nothing that do about except down to the
bread line or to the fraternity of derects to the
suicides grave in its grip And perhaps we take our
last despairng look at this earh from out of the sordd
have been plunged ntO we look at such items
in the newspapers Cancellation of War Debts, Going
Off the Gold Standard' and think bitterly that while
rulers playing about with those things there
several million human bodies in the country to be fed
and several million souls to be saved. And perhaps
day will when these latter will be considered the
more important y
Clear Enough ...- ~,-. F..
"It is not easy for Worker and to be coherent and
clear for this sort of thing wants discussing item at
time, in which becomes selfsatisfed econ
omst, sefsasfed financer or sef-satisfied Pres
ldent OF the United States sesatsfied labor leader
or sefSatSfled cOumnist, all of whom do nothing but
write and talk but hope that such people as Worker
and land there must be millions of us) will do some
thing just now, matter how blind and ncoherent it
1s possibly in the way of taking the whole lot of you
ana hanging you to lamppOsS and l0otng the stores
and markets and feeding the hungry and destitute and
possibly the more capable, and intelligent of US taking
over the Government and solving the problem of pro-
ductlon distribution and consumption for that surely
the most urgent problem to which government could
devote ITSELF"
Like the writer of the letter to which this one is an
addition Mr. Averne strikes me as having expressed what
many others feel That is why print It, as nearly COM
te as space allows There many things to be said
UNEMPLOYED he fhO