Growth and Jobs Pg- A12  
President KennedyÛªs warning that we face a 7 per cent unemployment rate even without a recession unless we step up our rate of economic growth ought to waken the whole country to the importance of a reduction now in the war-born tax rates that are dragging down the national economy.</br></br>Tiie consequences of a slow rate of growth become more understandable then staled in human terms of rising unemployment. As the President pointed out, an economy expanding at the rate of 3 per cent is producing jobs at the rate of 10 million in 15 years while the civilian labor force is growing at the rate of 12 million in 15 years. Even with relative prosperity, the result is going to be rising unemployment. The country lost as much by the idleness of those willing but unable to find work in 1962, the President told an audience in Chicago last Saturday, as it would lose from shut-ing down the whole country and suspending all production, services and pay for three weeks. This is an intolerable waste which a civilized state cannot countenance.</br></br>200.000	jobs a year, from the schools which will put 26 million new young workers on the labor market in the 60s, from automation which is enabling 800,000 fewer workers to produce 20 per cent more manufactured goods.</br></br>There are many specific projects required to take care of the particular needs of different pools of labor, but none of these narrow approaches will have the total effect on employment that could be achieved by a tax cut of $10 billion which the President has recommended. To attack separately the problem of each idle group, in the long run, will be as ineffective as meeting the problems of a leaky roof with a bucket for each drip. Some of this may have to be done, in areas and age-groups and labor elements with special and peculiar problems that even relatively full employment will not solve. But this is a clean-up job, a mopping-up operation, a bit of social tidying up to be done in addition to raising general employment to acceptable levels.</br></br>Such benefits as those contemplated in the bill to set up a Youth Conservation Corps and a Home Town Youth Corps for example are only patches on the main problem. Last year there were 3.8	million youths will become 16 in 1963. The sponsors of the Youth Conservation Corps are talking about 15,000 youths in the first year and