Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-19
u. s. WILL EXPEDITE
|. HELP FOR JOBLESS
WITH NEW AGENCY
cabinet Chiefs and Meyer to
Map Relief Policy Here
This Week.
STATE AND LOCAL AID
IN OHIO MODEL CITED
Administration Expects to Have
Program Ready for Submis-
sion to Congress.

With Secretary of Commerce Lamont
slated to be their chairman, the six
cabinet officers and Gov. Eugene Meyer
of the Federal Reserve Board who COM
prise President Hoover's Unemployment
Committee will formulate policy pro-
gram early this week, it was stated at
the White House yesterday.
The three branches of activity which
Mr.. Hoover recommended to their at
tention will be pursued simultaneously,
including construction of public works.
encouragement of remedial State action
and promotion of cooperation of pri-
the Federal Governments suggestion
and example. the committee hopes to
see vast new program OF construction
arising throughout the country.
Ohio As An Example.
A primary concern of the committee,
it was indicated, Is to urge the strength
ening of State agencies looking to the
solution of the unemployment problem
so that they will be organized down to
include the smallest communities In
the scope of the construction program.
The organization In the State Of Ohio
to which the President referred with
praise Yesterday will be particularly
held up as the example which might
well be copied.
Labor, industrial, civic and trade
organizations there are joined in the
movement to foster business. A COM
mittee Of nine representatives of these
groups functions in every county in
the State. All the committees are
headed by a Statewide directorate Of
the same representation.
In connection with this part Of the
program, governors will again be inter-
viewed and their aid enlisted. Through
and communities reached for their CO.
operation.
Private Aid Survey.
What the private industries Of the
Nation will be asked to do awaits more
careful study. There may again be
series Of conferences with leaders of
business but the cabinet committee
hopes that private agencies Of industry
such as the United States Chamber Of
Commerce will lead the way A con-
struction conference under its spon-
sorship Is scheduled for November.
More immediate attention will be
given to what the Federal Government
itself can do. The probability is that
new system viii be devised to iron
out technical difficulties which may be
still obstructing the letting Of public
contracts and that ways will be found
to permit the expenditure Of more
money on public works at once.
A policy of legislation Is also likely
to be drawn up so that when Congress
meets In December, the full strength
of the administration can be thrown
behind bills for public buildings and
the improvement Of harbors and rivers.
The Cabinet Committee members are
said to realize that the Government
must take more of the burden of ini-
tiating construction than 1t did in the
depression Of 1921. At that time there
was q shortage Of private houses and
other private establishments, due to
the World War, and private industry
was easily able TO absorb all construc-
ton work.
Hopeful View Taken.
The administration takes a hopeful
view Of what the Government win be
found doing in the way Of construction
work during the next year While
large funds were appropriated at the
last session Of Congress the major part
OF the actual process Of building Is still
ahead.
The last year has been what was
termed in the Department of Commerce
the originating" stage of the program.
Its carrying out still lies ahead for the
most part. In promoting hospitals,
highways, public buildings. park roads
and river and harbor improvement. a
large source of employment Is seen.
It was emphasized that construction is
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