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TRUTH OF VITAL SOCIAL PROBLEM ABLY PRESENTEDSOME FOLKS WO^T: WORK.By Clinch Calkins- Publishers, Har-court, Brace lt;Co., New York- £3It's what almost any one of us has remarked at some time, when the] subject of unemployment was men-’ Uoned, but never would it be said, asserts Clinch Calkins, by one who had actually studied the figures. In 1 only four out of one hundred cases Is t Idleness willful, a-s surveys show.titIn these days when the unemployment situation has arrived at an acute stage, and remains so in. spite of the extreme efforts to alleviate It, such a book as this has a timeliness and Importance that cannot be ovets tressed. Everyone should 6tudy It; that is, everyone to whom, as Miss ^ Calkins says, the word Jlunemployment has but a vague significance, since it is not within their own experience. •'iff*.As she says at the outset, we human beings can be, even voluntarily and willingly, tragic, but a state of discomfort is not to be endured. If this book, therefore, can make us sufficiently uncomfortable—and that Is its design—perhaps it wlLi rouse us to needed action.r,Miss Calkins has made an intensive study of conditions among the unemployed, through the reports of social workers and through personal Investigation, seeking to arrive at the truth of the question: “Do dependability, faithfulness, industry, and initiative invariably find their;rej market, as the moralist believes? tn What Is the composite story of losing the job? Is unemployment due to overproduction, or is it that man'sdlc•yl-niy ; i_ : ii „ i,. ^¥iniwits have for the last century beentoo busy “making substitutes for his working power, or what other factors arc jointly responsible?r-v-leThese are the questions she has held in mind in her analysis of the records compiled by the National Federation of Settlements, to which our Salt Lake organizations have contributed of their experience. Case in5 history is piled upon case history, es pointing out the truth of the ap-ir palling condition, its psychologicalals-ay.* ' effects, and emphasizing the need X for industrial regularization and for^ some form of insurance against un-employmenL This is no dry statistical document; It Is a lucid, succinct statement of hard facts, but is withal so pungent and so human, without approach to iat[false sentimentality, that it absorbs the attention.n-g-* ■' — *
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Salt Lake Tribune
Salt Lake City, Utah, US
Sun, Jan 11, 1931
Page 72
Full Page
Clipped by
Ruth M.
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