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    "ocrText": "YOUR\nHollywood, California, August 5,1929\nof\n6\nmay\nMy Dear Mr. President.\ntothe\nname\nRECEIVED 1929\n8 HOUSE LIFEA\nIhave Pree been particularly interested in press\nnotices regarding your commission for the study of crime. As a\nnewspaper man of about twenty-five years standing and through my\nexperiences as a big brother etc., I have come in contact with many\ncriminals, especially among the younger generation and I have dis-\ncovered that a majority of the boys who become criminals have\nbeen more or less forced into such a life through lack of employ-\nment, attempting to hold down jobs which they were unfitted for and\ndisliked or because they were the product of broken homes.\nPersonally I believe if the unemployment situation\nwas cleaned up crime would decrease very perceptibly. Of course it\nmay be conceit or ego but I believe that I have a solution for the\nunemployment situation. That is the reason for this letter.\nIdle menaand women are like idle machines, a lia-\nbility instead of an asset. Unlike machines, idle humans must eat\nand sleep and, if they can not secure employment, than many of them\ntake other methods of procuring these things. Usually criminal\nmethods.\nNow supposing every merchant, every manufacturer\nand other employers of labor were to put on every man or woman they\ncould what would happen? For a time they would be an expense but\ndoes it not stand to reason that when all of these additional per-\nsons were working and earning money that it would stimulate buy-\ning? And would not all of the companies KITH benefit through this\nemployment? Think of the additional money that would be put into.\ncirculation. Idle men and women do not spend money but men and women\nwho are employed do. It seems to me that if a movement such as I\nsuggest was launched the unemployment situation would be materially\nhelped and business would show a decided improvement.\nI may be way off but at any rate it I thought it would not do\nany harm to lay this idea before your commission. Some good might\ncome of it and that is all I want.\nHaving been a Washington correspondent some years ago I realize\nfull well that this letter stands no chance of falling into your\nhands but it might, by luck, be submitted to the commission.\nVery\ntruly\narthur R.K.O. Arthur Hollywood, Boydes R.Boyden Studios Calif."
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