FLIGHT FROM THE CITY 



saved a part of the pay for a rainy day by depositing 

 it in a savings-bank, paying for insurance, or in some 

 cases actually investing it in stocks and bonds. 



After unemployment, John Doe no longer received 

 any wages or salary. If the family had been fortunate 

 and thrifty up to that time and had accumulated 

 something in the way of savings, these savings were 

 drawn upon to meet current expenses. When the sav- 

 ings were exhausted, they began to sell their invest- 

 ments, their automobile, their home, their furniture, 

 in order to get the money with which to maintain the 

 family. Then they began to borrow from friends and 

 relatives in order to do so; they bought on credit from 

 the merchants whom they had formerly been able to 

 pay regularly; finally, when all these means of secur- 

 ing the things they needed to keep body and soul to- 

 gether were exhausted, they turned to the charitable 

 and relief agencies. Then these agencies began to give 

 them the money directly with which to buy them or 

 they gave them indirectly by paying it to those 

 stores upon whom John Doe and his family were 

 given orders for food or by paying it to the landlords 

 who furnished the shelter for the family. 



In the meantime, what had John Doe been doing? 

 He was doing what he was expected to do spending 

 his time looking for employment; going from one 

 factory to another, from one employment agency to 

 the next, answering one help-wanted advertisement 

 after another, and trying to find odd jobs for which 

 he could get some money to help in the emergency. 



