The Ohio Idea

W HEN an effective system of unemployment insurance will have become a standard aspect of America's industrial situation, the future historian of social trends will recognize the important part played by the Report of the Ohio Commission on Unemployment Insurance. Though no great social discovery may be claimed on its behalf, the Report appeared at a moment of singular significance: almost on the eve of a Presidential election, fought out largely over an unprecedented unemployment situation; with the two major political parties in conflict, one having declared in favor of unemployment insurance, while the party in power refused even to refer to it in its platform; almost simultaneous with the dramatic reversal by the American Federation of Labor from violent antagonism to decided advocacy; and followed within a few weeks by the annual meetings of the American Economic Association and the American Statistical Association, at which discussion of the problem of depression and unemployment was inevitable, and unemployment insurance demonstrated its strength, at least in American scientific thought

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