The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-02
NEA Service Writer

WdSulu6 u6tuu.--OptuAun may VII
 fer as to the likely usefulness of
 the Presidents Organization on
 Unemployment Relief, but when you take look at 1t you find about
 30 persons, all of them busy, in a proportionate number of offices.
 Just about enough furniture and supplies have been gathered ] from various government depart ments and barely enough money has been made available from the department of commerce to pay clerks and others wiio aren't pri- vately paid or on Q voluntary basis. Most of the layout is in the Walker-Johnson building, first built for the marines, and now occupied by other branches of sovernmnet. The unemployment organization has a publicity man and a separate press room in which 1t will one day place typewriters for the use of newspapermen.
 E Instead of directing the work frem New York where he Is presi- dent of the American Telephone 6 Telegraph company, Director Wal ter s. Clifford has moved into an office here with a personal secre- tariai staff and handles his A. T. C T. job from Washington. He uses a direct telephone wire and a couple of teletype machines to keep in touch with his New York offices.
 Gifford's job IS to stimulate community and state activities in this winters fight against distress He sits with his coat eff, confer ring by telephone or in person with one or anohter of his advisory committee or 100, with other wis., ,itors important enough to warrant his attention or with members of his four active cammittees"--- Owen Foung's on mobilization of relief resources, Fred c. Croxtons on administration of relief funds, Harry A. Wheeler's on plans and suggestions and Eliot Wadsworth's 2 on mpbiliEing national groups and organizations. Quite a few of the advisory members have been in to ask what they are supposed to do or to make suggestions of their own. And many a business man to argue that national salvation de- bends on some scheme that will revive his own industry first of all Clifford has brought his personal assistant, w. J. O'Conner, to work with him, and a secretary and a couple of stenographers.
 Young has his committee head quarters in New York, but a mem- Der of his personal stan, John P. Gregg, represents him at the of- fees here. Wadsworth, after his appointment. came right down and opened UP in Washington. Merle Thorpe, editor of a national busir ness magazine, volunteered his services and appears nearly every day. He will be liaison man be- tween the central headquarters and the organizations state rep- resentatives.
 Thousands of persons are send ing in proposed relief plans, soma of them good and most of them cockeyed. which are all turned over to Wheeler.
 Although the organizations work is generally confined to as- sistance in the form of advice and information, good slant on the type of work it is doing and ex. poets to do can be found in the office occupied by Miss Olga A. Jones and Mrs Bernice O. Davis, who got started with the recently absorbed Woods committee. Mrs Davis, a home economies expert and teacher for 20 years who head. ed the canning work in post-war European relief, supervises the present national movement for canning the surplus' of fruits and Miss Jones, an edu- cator and former neWspa perwo, man, has been orEanisinR the Back to School" movement. some. times known as the ''Stick to Schoor' movement.
 The canning movement is under way in at least 50 cities, rsports show. Mrs Davis says the double object is to make 1t possible for the unemployed to can their own winter food and to Eet others to contribute extra jars of stun. She sent out about 5000 preliminary appeals to state and local conn1it- tees and social agencies and is now receiving active co-operation from tee General Federation of Womep's clubs, the Junior Red Cross--which promises a million cans, federal home demonstration akents and the home economics section of the board of vocational education. one important effort. she says, Ia to make sure food is properly canned DO that this form of relief won't re .ult in 2 lot of ptomains deaths during the winter.
 The national campaign to keep young people in soheoI this fail Iz receiving active co-oref&lIon from sducators everyWhere. FIrsl reports from university ana c6II1rn urori-