Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1910 — SWISS TRAMPS FEW. [ARTICLE]

SWISS TRAMPS FEW.

A Poor Place for the Man Who Doesn’t Wnnt to Work. Switzerland is not a place for tramps, because the man out of employment and who makes no effort to find work is not tolerated for a moment in that country. The district authorities will secure him a job at hard labor and little pay, and such an ofTer can be refused only under the penalty of going to a penal workhouse. These Institutions are under military discipline, the work severe, the wages a penny or threepence per day, and release is granted only upon the advice of those in charge. No difficulty Is experienced In determining between beggars and unemployed, because all legitimate laborers have papers given them by the district in which they live containing Information concerning the position they have held. In every part of Switzerland are established “relief in kind” stations for the exclusive use of respectable unemployed. Only those are admitted who have had regular work during the previous three months and have been out of employment for at least five days. These men must be on the lookout for work and accept any situation that is offered, because the chronic loafer Is soon detected by the police and his papers are marked so that he can .never again seek refuge in a "station.” —Exchange. Many a woman who Is gentle with other people is rough with her husband. M