Pflege aktuell/Deutscher Berufsverband für Pflegeberufe 

About: Pflege aktuell/Deutscher Berufsverband für Pflegeberufe is an academic journal. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): MEDLINE & Nurse education. It has an ISSN identifier of 0944-8918. Over the lifetime, 61 publications have been published receiving 868 citations.

The employment situation

Abstract: Director of Operations of the Shipping Board, contends that this handicap is so slight that American ingenuity can readily overcome it. Mr. Rosseter is much more concerned with the first cost of ships and feels certain that if the American shipyards will build as economically as foreign yards there need be no fear as to the future of the American Merchant Marine. We cannot quickly convert the Fleet we have on our hands into a really effective Merchant Marine unless the nation is willing to pay the price. We cannot shift the burden of finding profitable employment for so large a Fleet onto inexperienced private shoulders, for in the end the nation will pay the loss and will suffer from the delay, just as it did in the shipyards. The problem is vastly different from that usually attendant on the development of a business, because there experience grows with the demands upon it; but in this case we have all the facilities for a huge transportation business, and. we lack the experience to make all these facilities immediately available. Shall we therefore use only those vessels which our experience can profitably handle, or shall the government, through temporary retention of title and proper stimulus and encouragement, bring all the vessels into prompt use and then dispose of them in a wider and better market? The total money loss will, I am convinced, be less if we follow this plan, and our foreign trade will be quickened and encouraged. CHARLES PIEZ THE LINK-BELT COMPANY, CHICAGO

Knowledge and action

Abstract: THE disproportion between poverty and unemployment and the abundance made possible by power production is leading men everywhere to question the basis of a political and economic system which permits the existence of such a paradox of maldistribution. It is no longer merely a question whether effective measures could be taken if those in authority possessed sufficient knowledge and understanding of the situation, but whether the present system permits them to take any effective action without the whole system being radically reformed. The non-success which has thus far attended the efforts or pleadings of politicians is not only fast breeding a general distrust of their policies but also a disposition to consider far-reaching changes in the structure of society.