Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1914 — Deep Rooted Discontent of Country Due to People Not Having Found Their Jobs [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Deep Rooted Discontent of Country Due to People Not Having Found Their Jobs

By WINSTON CHURCHILL, Author

THE hell in which so many persons are suffering is the fact that they are going through the world WITHOUT REALIZING THEMSELVES, WITHOUT HAVING “FOUND THEIR JOB.” They have developed nothing—no significance, no personality. They have no philosophy on which to lean, not to mention a religion. This leads to DEEP ROOTED DISCONTENT, A FEVERISH DESPAIR, of which examples are not lacking in all walks of life, from the woman of leisure who rushes to the bridge table to the working girl who seeks the public fiance hall. Onlv there is more excuse for the working girl. She lives in a civilization which denies her the outlet of a natural craving—which fails to provide her with interesting and healthful amusements.- * * * ONE OF THE MOST HOPEFUL SIGNS OF THIS AGE IS THE CHANGE VtEMICH IS TAKING PLACE IN UNIVERSITY LIFE. THE ATTITUDE OF THE UNDERGRADUATE TOWARD THE SERIOUS AND VITAL PROBLEMS OF CITY, STATE AND NATION IS VERY DIFFERENT FROM WHAT IT WAS IN MY DAY. THE UNIVERSITIES, AS MIGHT BE EXPECTED, ARE IN THE FOREFRONT OF THE MOVEMENT OF WHICH I HAVE SPOKEN. IN MY STATE AS WELL AS IN OTHER STATES THEY HAVE BEEN AN INVALUABLE AID IN THE BETTERMENT OF POLITICAL CONDITIONS. EVERY DAY THEY ARE TENDING MORE AND MORE TO BECOME THE CENfERS OF TRANSFORMATION.