England, France, Germany, Bavaria, New Zealand, Australia, and even Russia, representatives alike of the oldest and of the youngest civilizations, as well as numerous states in this country, have all reached the common conviction by a common experience, that the needs of the unemployed are of legitimate concern to the State. Illinois is the seat of the second city, in size and consequence, in the country, having an industrial population conglomerate in character, always congested, restless, largely transient, drawn from everywhere by the allurement of possible employment which it is always difficult to obtain. No field could be wider, no need more imperative, than this for the permanent establishment of state employment offices for the gratuitous guidance and assistance of that large contingent which must always be out of work, and always seeking, often blindly for it. |