Idle Men Dig Up Past
Ireland has her troubles, the unemployed among them, but she has found one way of dealing with them lever thought of before. She put them on the land. That is all very well, an objector might say; but what were they to do there, when all the Irish farmers are complaining that they cannot make a living out of it? The unemployed were set to dig the past. There is a great work of excavating ancient sites going on in Ireland, set in motion largely by an American archaeologist, and labour for this expensive work is much in need. So the unemployed supplied it, and are now busy unearthing the traces of Celts, Iberians, Piets, and of the earliest Christians.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21242, 12 October 1940, Page 14 (Supplement)
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125Idle Men Dig Up Past Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21242, 12 October 1940, Page 14 (Supplement)
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