GOING A BIT MAD
UNEMPLOYED YOUTH IDLE HANDS AND IDLE LANDS (United Press Association. —Copyi^jht.) LONDON, 12th March. "The numbers of young people who are unemployed is the most perplexing and most challenging problem to-day. It is with me night *.nd day. lam no such fool as to think that emigration will provide a complete remedy, but when I think of the vacant lands and opportunities in the Dominions I feel the Empire must be going a little mad not to make use of the workless youngsters._" This striking passage is contained in a message by General Booth on. his seventy-first birthday. "Much as I detest birth control as it is ordinarily understood, which is merely the quintessence of selfishness, I sometimes wonder whether it would not be preferable to these crowds of young unemployed men."
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 61, 14 March 1927, Page 9
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136GOING A BIT MAD Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 61, 14 March 1927, Page 9
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