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UNEMPLOYED AND UNEMPLOYABLE.
My life has been one of activity; from an early age I have known what it was to be constantly at work.

To have the certainty of regular work, and to have the discipline of constant duty, seem to me an ideal state for mind and body.

Labour, we are sometimes told, is one of God's chastisements upon a fallen race; I believe it to be one of our choicest blessings.

I can conceive only one greater tragedy than the man who has nothing to do, and that is the man who, earnestly longing for work, seeks it day by day, and fails to find it.
Imagine his position, and imagine also, if you possibly can, the great qualities that are demanded if such a man is to go through a lengthened period of unemployment without losing his dignity, his manhood and his desire for work.
I can tell at a glance the man who has had this experience.