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50 Pol. Sci. Q. 1 (1935)

handle is hein.journals/pclscceqry50 and id is 1 raw text is: March, 1935 Volume L] POLITICAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY * NEW ASPECTS OF UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE EVENTS change attitudes. Unemployment compensa- tion is no longer regarded as a disreputable interloper. Perhaps it is because she contrasts favorably with the newcomers at the economic table. Government relief on an enormous scale or its rivals, public works or civil works relief, have elbowed their way in. They have very bad manners indeed, and make unemployment compensation seem relatively modest and sensible. It must be confessed that unemployment insurance had innately certain obvious disadvantages that her apologetic friends found it difficult to explain away. She was by no means as impeccable as her arrive'e relative, workmen's com- pensation insurance, despite the striking resemblance to that participant at the community table who was for a long time accepted as a most respected and respectable member. For this resemblance though striking was superficial. For ex- ample there is little danger of malingering under a workmen's compensation scheme, which only provides a man with benefits during his incapacity because of physical injury. A normal man does not deliberately cut off his hand or maim himself. On the other hand, as a very distinguished English authority on unemployment insurance stated to the writer in an expan- sive moment, everybody loves a vacation. Indeed the objections to unemployment compensation alias unemployment insurance were formidable. Even advocates were perplexed as to how to avoid decreasing the mobility * Part of this article appeared in The New York Times of Sunday, Nov. 18, 1934. I [ N~umber z