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The jobless huddled in the streets outside of employment offices, outside newspaper buildings, in parks, in relief lines, outside government agencies.

There weren't facilities to take care of them ; ;

there never had been a need felt for such facilities.

That kind of poverty was regarded as the exclusive property of the East, which created depressions with their stock markets and their congested populations and their greedy centralization of industries, protected by discriminatory freight rates.

The East was popularly supposed to have got the country into war and into depression, dragging the west along ; ;

and now the East was creating government agencies for which the West doubtless would have to pay.