Unemployment, nowadays, is a national evil; but at present there is a local aspect of it which is of more concern to Ithacans and Cornellians than the national problem. The Cornell University Employment Bureau in Barnes Hall is faced with hundreds of applicants for work, with very few positions to fill. There are many students in the University who are dependent on what they can earn to pay their way through college. Their predicament is no slight one if they cannot find work.

The situation is in a sense a reflection of the national job shortage; for there are many students who could not earn the money during the summer they had expected to, and who today are more than ever in need of work. Cornell takes pride, and justly, in the number of her students who work their way through college. But the present outlook is none too cheerful for these students.

The solution is easy if only the employers will recognize it. There is plenty of work to be done, and there are plenty of jobs for students, if one simple truth is understood. There is a prejudice against student workers because they are believed to be inefficient. But it is a well-recognized economic fact that prevalence of unemployment produces efficient labor. This fact is perfectly applicable to the local situation. And it is perfectly fair to the student worker. He is not asking for charity. He expects to give a satisfactory day's wages. Looked at from either side, it is a business transaction. If the worker fails to do his share, he cannot expect to keep his job. Competition for jobs is the best assurance of efficiency; and if employers will remember this fact there will be ample demand for student labor. Cornell Daily Sun.