The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-06-02
RECONSTRUCTINC
is BUSINESS OF
ALL STATES NOW
Taking Hand in Movement to Get
Bac, to Busines sof Peace
Time.
By United Press.

able angle of the problem of get
ting the nation back into the peace
time form, according to survey be-
gun soon after the armistice by the
national council for defense.
Governors, mayors, state legisla-
lures, churches, boy scouts, cham
bers of commerce, volunteer work
ers and civic bodies are cooperating
in plans to insure a square deal for
demobiized soldiers and get the fac
tories humming again.
No state failed to figure in the
survey.
Alaska, too, is helping, by offer
ing to place 5000 demobilized sol
diers in jobs as teachers, clerks and
watchmen.
great mass of information that
fills yards of filing cabinets piled
ceiling high has been collected by
the defense council describing the
state projects. Collected and edited
for early publication, the informa-
tion for some states fills hundreds
of pages.
Most projects aim at getting sol
diers on the land as farmers and
helpers.
For this work the Colorado legis-
lature appropriated $725,O00, to be
spread over a period Of 20 years.
The money will be administered by
q board which was given $4,000 to
spend in assisting soldiers to take
advantage of the offer during the
first two years. Similar appropria-
tions now being considered by the
legislatures of other states
An appropriation Of $5,000,O0O is
provided for loans to demobilized
soldiers in a bill H. 9duced into the
Iowa legislature Under the bill no
soldier could borrow more than
$1,000 I'd especial provision was
made to- encourage married soldiers
to take advantage of the offer. Rea-
sonable time an dterms are provid-
ed for return of the funds,
Denver is one of several cities
now in the midst of campaigns to
"own-yourown-home' ana help
reopenng of building activities.
One form of reconstruction work
connected with Americanization
projects is exemplified in New Bed
ford, Mass, where cotton millers or
ganzed to teach English to all for
eign born residents. Boy scouts are
planning to help.
Michigan and Ohio were among
the first of the many states that
called reconstruction congresses.
Women are represented equally
with men on a reconstruction board
appointed by the governor of Michi-
gan.
Governor Cox stole move ON
Ohio's congress by personal letters
to 100 mayors, asking their help in
creating a $1,000, 600 fund to public
works to give work to the unem-
ployed.
Twenty-Five Ohio cities now have
Americanization programs.
Job canvassing for retul Iing
doughboys was begun early in New
York city where merchants associa-
tions combined to canvass all manu-
facturers and list openings. Ore
CONS legislature, as one of many
afterthe-war measures, passed "a
bill prohibiting the use, not only in
public, but in private schools as
well, of any language except Eng
lish in general instruction. The bill
however, is not intended to prevent
the teaching of any needed foreign
language.
Pennsylvania legislature appro-
priated $50,OO0,O0O for road building
to make work for unemployed. Erie,
Pa, undertook a building stimula- !
tion campaign and in Philadelphia
poster movement was begun to warn
against selling of war savings
stamps below their face value. Bro
kers, it was found, were encourag-
ing such sales.
The Memphis, Tenn, chamber of
commerce voted $500 to be used
in a campaign to get jobs for sol
diers
Texas among many other recon
struction movements, initiated one
intended to get the children back
to school,"
Vocational education for crippled
soldiers is being undertaken as a !
public measure in many states in
cluding Michigan where all public
machinery is behind a statewide
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