. Personnel and employment problems in industrial management ... ures, such steps maypossibly be necessary, in unusually severe times, in order to pre-vent suffering. At such times we face a fact, not a we must not consider charity as a satisfactory way to meetunemployment. Such a program tends to pauperize a community,invite shiftlessness and discourage self-reliance. As Jeff Davis,king of the hoboes and manager of the Hotel De Gink in New York,puts it, If you pay people to beg they will beg; if you pay em towork, theyll work. It furthermore tends to disgrace self-respect-ing worke
. Personnel and employment problems in industrial management ... ures, such steps maypossibly be necessary, in unusually severe times, in order to pre-vent suffering. At such times we face a fact, not a we must not consider charity as a satisfactory way to meetunemployment. Such a program tends to pauperize a community,invite shiftlessness and discourage self-reliance. As Jeff Davis,king of the hoboes and manager of the Hotel De Gink in New York,puts it, If you pay people to beg they will beg; if you pay em towork, theyll work. It furthermore tends to disgrace self-respect-ing workers and to injure their pride permanently. Emergencycommittees and public aid can be justified only in cases of severeextremity, under conditions analogous to those in a hospital, wherea very dangerous and unusual operation is sometimes resorted to inorder to save a dying patients life. The necessity of resorting tocharity to handle unemployment, instead of being a solution of theproblem, is an admission that we have not solved it. It is a mortify- [51] tZ -JdV. Steadying Employment 63 ing evidence that we have not been sufficiently on the job tocreate an industrial society in which such catastrophes cannotoccur. Unemployment catastrophes are the punishment for ourneglect. The effect that highly advertised charity has in destroyingself-reliance and in teaching people to become voluntary paupersis abundantly found in the citys experience during the winter of1914-15. Shortly after the first appropriation of $50,000 by Coun-cils, large numbers of foreigners appeared before the branch of-fices of the Society for Organizing Charity in South Philadelphiaand demanded some of the city money as their inalienableright. Of 94 new applications that came in to the southeastdistrict immediately after the donation of public aid was fea-tured in the newspapers, one of the heads of the Society for Or-ganizing Charity selected at random nine cases that would beroughly typical. Investigation showe
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