In response to your sincere letter of inquiry to clergy of this country, in itself a mark of democracy's new era, I have talked with representative men of this district of the city and am incorporating their reactions in this letter. To begin with, building trades have taken on new life very decidedly, with corresponding benefit to carpenters, painters, etc., thus relieving unemployment. This is due to the Government loans in accord with the Housing Act.
Carpenters are now busy.
Business conditions are improving pro. The chief opposition to Administration reforms has been the chiseling of big business, the retirement of Republican capital, and the inadequate sense of responsibility on the part of highly influential employers. The new Social Security legislation enacted in felt to be greatly needed, right in principle, but difficult to work out in practical detail. Such legislation must be administered for the benefit of people at large, not of political office holders. Civil Service should run this social good works.