Vagabond Editorials

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They say that they are searching for fresh vegetables or fruits that are forbidden to be imported into California. But why should a man be suspected and searched when he travels in a car, and not when he travels by train? A train traveler can carry fruits, fowers, vegetables, or anything he likes, and it's O.K. If there is someone who can explain this thing to make it look a little less futile and unfair, I'd really like to learn the answer. The border search makes most folks mad enough to turn round and go back (if it were not so far).

And do you know what most of the employers and industrialists I call on in California tell me today? That it's hard to get help. There are something like half a million people on all sorts of relief in Los Angeles County, they tell me, yet it's hard to get help. Today I sat in the office of a manufacturer I know. He pointed to a freight car out on the siding near his office. "I've been trying all day to get men to unload that car, my gang being unusually busy, and I can't get them. I've phoned the relief organizations for laborers who want to work. Haven't got a man so far"t

One large employer said something to me yesterday that impressed me. He was talking about the difficulty he and others are experiencing in getting satisfactory help, and he said: "The trouble is that for five years we have all been working with skeleton organizations, and WE HAVE NOT BEEN BUILDING MEN TO FIT OUR NEEDS. WE HAVE GOT TO START ALL OVER, BUILDING MEN.''

I think he has hit the nail on the head. In the old days every institution that employed many people was a deliberate school for the education of their own men. They