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...public welfare service than City Delivery, Village Delivery, the Star Routes* or the Railway Mail. Mr. New could not see how this distinction could be made, nor why some people want to have the Rural Free Delivery deficit treated as an extra-postal expense in the national budget...
...work must write home before he can proceed intelligently; ever increasing routine, requiring reports and whatnot, under dire threat of being blacklisted at the Bureau. The tyranny of so-called efficiency has reached new heights this fall with the requirement that applicants file pictures of themselves and a budget for their year's income and proposed expenses with the Secretary for Employment...
...applicant in touch with a possible employer, the Bureau must have on file the information that prospective employers, will need. The age, experience, and even religion are all facts that the employer, and hence the Bureau, is entitled to know. There are others, but among these is hardly the budget of the employee, the amount of money he has in the bank, and where it came from. It may be argued that the Bureau is interested in the thrift of its proteges, and though this interest might be legitimate on the part of the student's parents...
...working their way through college are sensitive, however loudly they may boast of how they "made themselves" once "arrived" and writing for The American Magazine. Others, though they are not unaccustomed to work, are indeed, proud of working, are not willing to allow their private affairs--of which their budget is certainly one--to be placed even on the more or less confidential files of the Bureau. And it is annoying, if nothing else, to have to fill out blanks about one's personal affairs, home address, father's name, and et cetera and ad absurdum. No intelligent employer will...
...Bureau, it would seem, is intended to find work for students desiring it. It is not its province to determine whether the applicant is entitled to work: whether, by a better balanced budget, he might get along without working at all; whether he is solvent; whether he spends his money on charity, the movies, cigarettes, or liquor. Assuming that the Bureau is finding better and more employment for more men--a fact that in the cases of certain individuals has not seemed to be the case--the Bureau can further help those who apply to it and can make itself...