The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-12

tl1es ysaass.u4- an extra. appropriation for streeH o1eau3ng. aa1dt sb5,0D0 has bean voted for this purpose Recoz11- nNnda4f onS- such>ae these have ueIle1-s Iy been accompanied by Cha gE1EBss-' ton that the work be#gfven to resi- deaxts and hea21s of families, and, that the choice of work ers2 be in. strict accord with the prtnc4pies of business, efficiency.
 In Minneapolis a mayors coEnTntt- tee secured increased city work and new work st sewer building. In Rd- dftion the Park Board turned over to the Associated Charities, for tha employment Of men whose families were in. distress, the task of clearing Ia strip Of Iow1and soon to be flooded by the building of a dam in the N1s> sissippi. There were no commercial bids for this clearing; it will improve the city's appearance and sanitzti en- and the work itself is interesting-a thing which cannot be said of most task work.
 Next to furnishing additional pub lie employment under good work con dftions, the most important ser vice. probably, that "a city or state can render at time Ike this Is to apply science. and brains to the dis organised business of finding eraa- ployment. But in most cities the de- velopnentt of public employment bu- reaus is. coming too slowly to affect this winters situation. The ex1aer- gency has given this form of service
 a new stt1ntalszs however
 Hornelesss Wanderers.
 Nothing dennoranzes a sIocaI suneqn- l p1oynaent and relief situation EfI1 any licity more completely than the crowd ling in of homeless wanderers for whom no special provision has been planned. The municipality can do much to steady this situation by pro- isvid1ng separate care and a wor15-test Efor the homeless. St, Louis reports a
 re-opened municipal lodging house: Buffalo a special conferences with of-
 ficials to close the police stations to Iodgers and to increase tfe right kind | of accommodation provided for them | by the County Lodging House, where there are baths and the 1ndivfd1a1iz-
 ed service that can ba rendered by social workers. Chicago has given Erecognftton to the need of such ser Twice by adding quite a large staff of social workers to her municipal Ios1E- ling house equipment E All of tho foreguisng public work, Employment exchanges, decent and I fdiscip1fnary care Of the honeIessE l are examples Of the things the gov Iernnent can do at a tune like this
 zxaInples of public acxion. of a sort lconsi dered unwfse by raEfef experts
 areN few in the cities repor ting. Pitts i1burgh.S mayor arrangSd a Bundle
 Day and encouraged the collection ot nineteen carloads of fclothing for the kpoor; and PhiIade1phiass emphasis l3upon the non on-constructfve side of . grave situation has alFeady been
 mentioned.
 But what Of private efforts Con spieaaoxs, as a good sign of the. times lsis tie circuiar letter of the Min. Eneapolis Civic and Conane cree Asso. Ectatton azking all employers, large land sla1alE to do two things: (1)s Te Eeonaider carefuIIy whether it is no EpossibIe to. keep every seKnp1oye as
 work t1lroug1lont the winter, ana urging this as a civic responsibility (2l To decrease work, # decreased Eoutput is an absoIute necessity, by
 diminishing the number Of hour. work per day ratl CT than the mum zlber of workeTss Sinailar appeals tt Etheir membership have. been made b, Icommercta4 bodies elsewhere