Government Efforts to Reduce National Expenditure: No Dole in France and Work for All: An Assumption Day Holiday From Our Own Paris, Aug. 19, While members of the Govern ment are heidi to discover means number of functionaries and oth wise bringing the national expen" ture down to more' reasonable limits, the labour statistics point to conditions of at least one form of prosperity which make one won. der why the coming grnide tence ly necessary. Since the beginning of the summer there has been a steady increase in the numbers of workers who have found employment in the building, metal, clothing, food and other trades. "At the middle of this month, only 251 persons were reported as receiving out~ of-work assistance throughout the country. One reason for the smallness of this figure is that the relief given to unemployed in France is insignificant in amount. The French working class, unlike that of Britain, has not yet been demoralized by a dole which makes work unnecessary, To put it bluntly, the French are too sensible to allow able-bodied men and women to live like drones ut the expense of the community, This combina tion of industrious habits and common sense is one of Fran ost assets and will help her through the present financial crisis, more effectively than any of the quack remedies proposed on all sides. Someone has ventured to suggest that all the 8,000,000 married Frenchmen and Frenchwomen should immolate their gold wedding-rings on the altar of the country. He calculates that these rings represent something like $80,000,000 gold francs, cynically flaunted in the face of the revenue authorities without paying taxes or serving: in any way to relieve the national necessities, but he does not tell us how a country with no unemployment is to be convinced of the necessity of sacrificing its wedding-rings.
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