New Britain herald., 1930-12-24
Report Compiled From All Areas Shows That Work Will Continue Through Winter.

steel and pick and shovel on hard winter earth is the nations chal- lenge to unemployment.
 Roads that ordinarily would wait for spring are pushing forward in payenvelope drive over the face of the country, and steel and brick are mounting skyward in municipalities, according to year-end reports com piled from all areas.
 Oil pipe lines are stretching from the southwest, new rails are glint- Ing under the Texas sun and public works are dottng the states. At the same time, demands for imme- diate relief are being met with na- tlonal, state, municipal and private aid.
 The country is a network of con- missions and committees pushing forward every bit of public work possible and preventing suffering among those who cannot be put to work. The network begins with the presidents emergency committee, headed by Colonel Arthur Woods, and branches through the states and into the smallest of communities with relief organization.
 Commissions at Work
 Many states have official commis- sions at work on the problem. Cities and counties have raised or are raising official funds and public funds. Many workers high and low from one coast of the nation to the other are contributing part of their pay. Debutantes and Boy Scouts are giving benefits. Even blue law states are permitting Sunday movies that the proceeds may aid in pre- venting winter destitution.
 The federal government plans I24,0OO,000 worth of building in the next F months and for imme- diate expenditure congress has just appropriated sl16,O00,000, not in cluding the s45,0O0,000 voted for drought relief.
 l.. Stein Schnitman, chief statisti- clan for the F. w. Dodge Corpora ton, estimated that in addition there is now under way in the coun- try construction totaling more than s4,700, 900, ,000. This includes work in all stages.
 New England Active
 New England is pouring s330,- 674,0O0 into pay envelopes and ma terials, the New York metropolitan area sS76,40l,O0O, New York up- state s178,757,000, the middle At lantic states s496,254,000 Pitts burgh s549,256, ,00o, southern Michi- gan sl64,038, ,000, Chicago s552, ,117- 900. the central northwest 3,173,- 900. St. Louis, $234,2S8,00o Kansas City s2S7,2440OO, Texas s177,970,- GOO, New Orleans s95,01G, 900, the southwest s260,OlO,00O and so on over the nation. These figures are based on contracts let during the year.
 The federal government has just made available sSO.000,0o0 for the | states to match in highway con- struction, making the total for fed eral aid roads in immediate prospect | $l60, 0,o00.00o.
 From Oklahoma comes the report | that one of the greatest building 1 programs of it's history is necessi- 1 tatcd not by unemployment but by 1 development, and Massa chusetts is putting the finishing touches 10 | s100, ,GO0O0 worth of public build 1 ing-also a record.
 Use Various Methods
 Relief is manifesting itself in | many ways. New York is raising a | fund of sl0,00O,000 and allowing it's | metropolitan unemployed to sell | apples without the usual license. | Pennsylvania is rushing public work 1 and it's cities are employing the idle | to clean them up as well as provid- ing food and shelter from public funds.
 Delaware also is cleaning up to provide work and is raising a public fund. Maryland is rushing road construction and permitting Sunday movies for the benefit of the idle. Rhode Island is speeding construc tion, though it finds existing social agencies can care for the needy. New Jersey has a state committee to help the mayors of its cities who are joined in the work of finding jobs.
 Connecticut's Part
 The unemployed are registered in Massac achusetts. Maine has started ten state employment bureaus. Con- necticut and New Hampshire are advancing spring public work to January and Vermont has a state committee at work.
 Throughout the middle west roads and public works are being pushed at full speed. Ohio has 5000 men works on roads on a four day week basis and 29,000,000 worth of con- struction just starting in Cleveland with d. proportionate amount else where. Free meals are being serv- ed the unemployed in it's principal cities, which raised s2O.0O0,000 in two months Of community chest campaigning.
 Illinois has a state committee re- lieving distress by finding jobs and raising funds. It's employees are loaned without pay by business firms and in Cook county alone it is driving toward $5.000,000 relief goal. Indiana is pushing public inn provements and repairs and so is Wisconsin. ! Minnesota has two official com missions investigating the situation.
 Pays Million Monthly
 Michgan's la bor department has l its inspectors roaming the state to create jobs while Detroit pays out I million a month Cor relief. Waterloo Iowa, is Seining the ( Cedar river, with permission of the state game department, and feeding I the fish 10 the poor Kansas is '