How ilIanv ilIillion Johs?

The *,ords "sixty million jobs" have been bandied about in this country for the past year in every possible fashion, reprinted untolcl millions o{ times, and given complete national circulation by the rvell known conversation route.

There is an old saying that if you repeat a story often enough you rvill get to believing it yourself. It is certain that if you read and hear a statement frequently enough, you sort of instinctively take it for granted.

So it is with this idea that we are going to have to produce sixty million jobs when the war ends in order to provide jobs and security for our people. The idea carne in the first place from people who knerv very little about jobs; and has been accepted by many people who DO simply because they have not taken the time to thoughtfully consider the matter.

The other day a friend of mine who has the habit of thinking very highly developed, and 'r,vho is inclined to think in practical and logical terms (a habit not too prevalent in this age in rvhich u'e live), handed me some figures he had arrived at by considerable digging and investigation. You rvill find these figures to be close enough for foundation purposes, and impressive enough to shorv you the folll' of the "sixty million job" thing.

We have in this country a great number of what are termed "socially unemployable" people, the young, the old, the infirm. etc.. and he lists them in this fashion: