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British Columbia is Canada's California. Like California, this westernmost province welcomes visitors with full purses, turns a cold shoulder on the many jobless who immigrate in hope of work and of enjoying a comparatively mild climate. Unlike the U. S., Canada has no unified federal system of unemployment relief. Although from the Dominion capital at Ottawa come periodic donations, relief administration is left largely to the provinces and localities...
Work: The commission estimated that 3,000,000 U. S. youngsters between 16 and 24 today are unemployed. Three out of ten in Maryland were jobless, and some had been looking as long as seven years for their first full-time job. Median pay of the youngsters with jobs was $12.96 a week...
...years a widow, to clarify a complex situation. She had already had twelve children. Eight of those, ranging from 18 to two years of age, were living. She could not tell whether the father of her latest pair was one Luis Ersing, 24. or one Lanzarin Timoteo, 26, both jobless Spaniards. Luis' mother had been minding the babies after a fashion since they were born last month. And somebody had named them José de Jesus and Ana Maria...
...even think much of the blood tests." As for the widow, whose name Dr. Bundesen kept private, 'I think she has a preference [between the men]. But she's leaving the decision to me." Meanwhile, Chicago, whose relief funds are exhausted, had on its hands the jobless men, the helpless twins, the widow and her eight other children...
...COURAGE - Joseph Vogel - Knopf ($2.50). Written with a straight left, with humor and talent also, this story of a powerful, slow-but-sure-witted jobless Pole is by the author of At Madame Bonnard's, who looks like the best bet among present proletarian novelists...