The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-06-02
BACK TO WORK


In an article written for this newspaper
Bruce Cation tells us that 'Jobs are the
Best Cure for the Nations Unrest"
As matter of fact, jobs are the only
permanent cure for unrest and the other
troubles of the country. Any other way
out will bring more unrest and more kinds
of troubles.
The Times-News has been preaching
this doctrine to its limited reader. con-
sttuency for the duration of the "depres-
sion" We have been saying to our peo-
pie, over and over, that the way out OF
our troubles is for all of us, in so far as
possible, to find jobs and get to work. We
have not minimized the Importance OF
finding jobs, either. We have been deeply
impressed by the scarcity of work and the
difficulty of finding jobs. But this news
paper is convinced that the easiest and
most certain way to improvement OF con-
ditions in this section is the way of hard
work, of constant application OF our lndl-
vidual and collective efforts to the solution
of our own problems. If we get busy and
keep busy doing something useful for our
selves and helpful to the community and
section, we shall find little later that we
have struggled out of our difficulties.
Bruce Cations statement is correct If
Jobs can be provided for all the people
who can be induced to work, the country's
unrest will disappear and the country's
problems will be solved. We do not be-
Heye more than small fraction OF the
country's population would suggest a
change in our form of government as de-
sirabIe or necessary at this time. large
majority of the people are satisfied with
the Republic-they are not always salts
fed with the way their public servants run
things-and they are satisfied with the
"capitalistic system" and are convinced
we have a great country, in which there
remain vast natural resources and the
greatest opportunities for Individual lnltla-
tive and effort and the greatest rewards
for the same to be found in any country IN
the world. They do not want to tear down
the government or blast the country with
revolution. They simply want to get back
to normal conditions in business and IN
dustry and to the Jobs they are familiar
with and find great satisfaction in filling.
One thing, however, the people of the
country must remember is that nearly all
government efforts to bring about changed
and improved conditions can afford only
temporary relief. Perhaps the government
can do certain fundamental things to
change. conditions-and the government
may be doing those things at preSent-but
the relief measures of the federal govern
ment are temporary measures. The cOun-
try will be restored to normal and pros
porous conditions when private business
steps up and moves at something like the
pace maintained in pre-" depression days.
It is true, of course, that all the energies
of the federal administration, and the eff
forts of intelligent and far-seeing business
men, are being devoted now to the end OF
putting the people of the country back on
their jobs, where they have been idle. The
President and his advisers, the Congress
and the people of the country no doubt
see this matter as clearly as Bruce Cation
and other newspaper writers. The job is
the thing that looms today. Work is what
the majority of idle people want. Indus
try, commerce, all kinds of business, must