Evening star., 1933-08-06
Trade Bodies Shoulder Task
of Lining Up Public, in Lieu
of N. R. A. Board.
PULPIT, SCREEN, PRESS
AND RADIO TO BE USED
Organization Meeting Will Be Held
Tomorrow and General Chair.
man Chosen.

Inc groundwork IOr an aggressive
campaign to put ever" the Presidents
re-employment campaign 100 per cent
in the Capital will be laid by the city's
trade and civic groups tomorrow.
With no N. r. A.-appointed board
here to take the initiative, such as is
the case in every other State and city,
the task Of whipping laggard employers
into line behind the National Recovery
Administration and at the same time
stimulating public interest in the move
ment has fallen to the trade bodies.
From church pulpit, theater screen,
radio loud speakers and through the
medium Of the press the drive for ma
tional rehabilitation will be carried to
every Washingtonian within the next
week. as these activities, reminiscent
Of liberty loan campaign days, get
under way
The question of whether Washington
is to have board appointed by the
administration, similar to those named
IN 48 States and "a geographical re-
glons last Tuesday. has been put up to
the trade bodies here by Secretary of
Commerce Roper. who yesterday asked
for an expression from these groups on
the matter.
Thought Unnecessary Here.
N1L- khOPCi odlu W dS1llIlBt BtOIl Udu De6n
deliberately omitted in the setting-up
Of these boards because it was felt they
would be unnecessary with the admin
lstration headquarters located here. He
Is still willing, however. to recommend
the naming of a board here if II is
thought necessary.
Representatives Of the Board Of
Trade. Chamber of Commerce, Mer-
chants and Manufacturers Association
and Federation of Citizens Associations
Will take this question up tomorrow at
an organization meeting in the Board
OF Trade offices at ii am.
The first problem of this Volunteer
Committee will be to select a general
chairman who can devote four or five
weeks to the huge task Of directing
the campaign here. Under the chair
man. 1t is proposed to set up a COM
pete drive organization. headed BY
general and lieutenant-general, the
latter woman.
Under these, three colonies will be In
charge Of a Publicity Committee, vol
unteer national recovery sales army and
Educational Committee The Publicity
Committee will set up a newspaper bu-
reau, radio bureau, poster bureau and
amusement bureau. The huge task of
ctty-wide campaigning through teams
will fall to the volunteer national re-
covery sales army, under which a series
of division chairmen will direct the
activities of number of teams, each
with its own captain.
Speakers Bureau Plan.
The Educational Committee will or
ganiZe a speakers bureau. information
bureau and appointment bureau. The
entire set-up is drafted along the lines
of a framework suggested by the
Bureau of Public Relations, National
Recovery Administration.
washington Is several days behind
the rest of the country in campaigning
for Unemployment under the Presidents
program, due to a misunderstanding
which grew out of the omission of the
District in the State and regional board
set-ups. This left no one here to take
the initiative in formulating a cam
paign.
Because the Capital had no central
trade or commercial organization it was
learned last night that the N. r. A.
neglected to request cooperation of
groups in this city when it telegraphed
trade organizations in cities all over the
country July 81.
The first contact with local civic
leaders was made Thursday when rep
resentatives of the three leading trade
bodies here and the Federation of
Citizens Associations were brought to-
gether at the Department Of Commerce
by Frank r. Wilson of the N. R. A.
Bureau of Public Relations. Wilson has
charge Of contracting chambers of COM
merce and such trade groups in leading
cities 70 aid in the Unemployment
drive.
The meeting tomorrow is the out
growth of this session, and the organi-
zation to be set up will take the form
of advisory committees which have
been created under State boards in
other cities.
The half holiday yesterday saw the
number of Blue Eagle emblems to be
distributed at the Benjamin Franklin
Post Office drop to 253, as. the substa-
ton closed at 2 o'clock. bringing the
total number Of employers to obtain
them to 1868 or approximately half OF
all employers here.