Unemployment in the United States
The Washington correspondent of the Times says that unemployment in the United States is " far worse than has ever been responsibly admitted." The Adminis- tration acts. on the theory " that a doctor should not tell the patient how sick he is." In his Message to Congress President Hoover prophesied a turn of the tide in the spring, but the correspondent remarks that those who agree with the President can be counted on the fingers of one hand. Wall Street and the bankers know better. The commerce of the United States is now so interlocked with that of the rest of the world that the saving tide must be universal. Last Saturday Congress voted £28,200,000 for public works and passed a resolution for raising £9,000,000 later. This £9,000,000 will be earmarked for the relief of sufferers from the drought of last summer and autumn. The President has been given more discretion in the expenditure on public works than at one time seemed possible. No one pretends that the money voted will do much to relieve unemployment, but as the correspondent says the Administration hopes to carry on with the help of " comfortable words "
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