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Such social convictions cannot be changed by preaching. Yet it is fitting considering the frequent bleakness of the world of the jobless to mourn the nation's way of casually accepting increased unemployment as an unavoidable trade-off cost in the effort to achieve monetary stability and defeat inflation. News paper Columnist Russell Baker had the notion of that trade-off in mind a few years back when he wrote: "It is obvious that unemployment is an honorable form of service to the nation." The pity is that he spoke more truth than humor. —By Frank Trippett