Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-02-16
GOVERNMENT URGES 4 REVIVAL OF
 PUBLIC BUILDING
Governors and Mayors Co., Operate With Depart
 ment of Labor.

In it's effort to stimulate local and private initiative in the industrial re- adjustment, the Department of La Dor is supporting and cooperating with many Governors and Mayors. Recent correspondence between State and municipal executives and the h. formation and Education Service of the Department discloses an enthusias- tic approval of aims of the recently created Division of Public Works and Construction Developments, a branch of the Information and Education Service, which has been placed at the disposal of State, municipal and pri- vate interests desiring informaton on industrial conditions.
 Governors Charles H. Brough of Arkansas, Marcus H. Holcomb of Connecticut, Sidney ' Catts of Flor ida, D. w Davis of Idano, Frank O. Lowden, of Illinois, James P. Goodrich, of Indiana, w. L. Harding of Iowa, Henry J. Allen, of Kansas, Emerson c. Harrington of Maryland, Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts, Theodore G. Bilbo of Mississippi, Frederick D. Gardner of Missouri, s. R. McKelvie of Nebraska, Alfred E. Smith of New York, o. A. Larrazola, of New Mexico Lynn J. Frazier of North Dakota, James M. Cox of Ohio are among the chief executives who are in touch with interested in the work of the De- partment of Labor in stimulating pub- lie construction work.
 Governor Frazier of North Dakota advises the Division of Public Works and Construction Developments his State now proposes "a permanent in. dustrial commission shall undertake program of public works and of State industries together with spec ial drive for home building and farm improvement" Governor Withycombe of Oregon writes that his State has a comprehensive road building pro- gram for this season which will em- ploy thirty-eight hundred men. In all States where legislatures now are in session the subject of eXpediting pub lie work and encouraging private building is being discussed, specal at- tention being given to the possibilities of this public work as stimulus to industry and its effect on the labor situation.
 ! importance Of WOrk.
 In his message to the California legislature, Governor Stephens em- phasized the importance of immediate work on public undertakings in the following language:
 !. Immediate employment for our re- turning men may be provided by pushing forward with utmost speed the completion of the State highways for which the people already have voted bonds. On this necessary work employment can be found for every , California soldier who does not se- cure work immediately upon his re- turn"
 : With reparts from the industrial centers showing an increase in the labor surplus, the Department of La. bor submits it is prudent for States and municipalities to be devising a way to do, what Governor Stephens says road building will do in Califor- r nia-provide employment for every returning soldier until industry gets back to normal
 Hon. Ernest Lister, Governor oi Washington, in his message to tho State legislature made a statemen, of the industrial problem which is very similar to the representations now being made by the U. $. Depart, ment of Labor. He said;
 Means National Welfare. | "The problem of readjustment has been discussed by many persons sole ly on the basis of providing properly for ana furnishing employment to tho ssfetlir4sii:s soldiess sk1atg sisesftion o1 the problem Involves otii'fssense oi honor. 1t is imperative and primary and must have first attention But ths bringing about of such a result is only