Evening star., 1933-08-20

counties; in Ohio in all the SO counties;
in Utah, in 26 of the 90 counties.
Merely to count the men in the road
crews IN calculating the benefits in the
way of employment obtained through
the $400.000,000 road funds would not
give an accurate picture. Recently COM
piled records show that while 10000
man hours of work are required for
construction OF one mile of ge
hours are visible" in the form of men
working at the construction sites.
An idea can be gained Of the amount
OF other work created by road building
or other public construction, aside from
that actually done ION the job," from
an estimate made In connection with a
proposed construction of 5000 miles of
concrete pavement, including bridges
and other necessary structures. This
estimate shows that such construction
would involve transportation of approx
imately 12,Ooo,oOO tons of freight in
cluding all movements of materials
from the raw state to the place of final
use. We can picture more clearly what
tnat would mean, in the way of en-
ployment, when we consider that if this
freight were all put in cars carrying 20
tons each, it would require a train of
100000 freight cars! To move those
cars thousands of men would be needed
IN the railroad service; and to produce
the steel, explosives, gravel, crushed
stone, fuels, sacks and bags, ore, gyp-
sum. sand, asphalt. brick and wire that
would go into that loaded freight train
many more thousands of men would
labor "N'0
The picture is not a fanciful one. a
orait on the imagination. The fact is
tnat road building is actually taking
place. We have pushed ahead as QUICK
~ as possible to transmute mere plans
INTO men taken off the unemployed lists
and put on pay rolls, and paid real
money. later to be spent in real stores.
SO tnat business in every line may be
1904 900 Assigned.
BY the end of July, road funds had
oeen assigned within 80 States. the D:s-
trlct OF Columbia and Hawaii to various
classes OF roads amounting to more than
S304 900 900. Approximately IS per cent
OF tnat money and the other millions
tnat VII! be spent in other States Oh
Ioaos Will go directly and indirectly to
wages. we are coming promises of i'm
pi1vehentS INTO cash for pay envelopes
ror another kind of public improve
ment. We have allotted nearly s45 600 =
oOo 10 the Bureau of Reclamation. The
ereat bulk OF this money will be spent
on the Boulder Canyon proiect-a pl1b-
nc Improvement and utility that will
penent the people of several States for
many years. Ten million dollars of
that money will go for machinerv-and
that means work in factories back East
couple OF thousand miles from the
great great oam. The engineers say that 25.-
o'o man years OF labor will be required
20 complete the Boulder Canyon project
ana Tor every man EMPLOYED at the
Site there are more than twice as many
employed elsewhere for the furnishing
oI tne materials, their transportation
and other services.
"A 1888 000.O0O naval construction
program has been authorized More
than 125 industries and mechanica1
trades will benefit as a result of the
new SHIPS to be built for the NAVY
Inc program has been speeded in or
aer 10 get men at work, and bids have
SCI T;eta opened IN the Navy Department.
~ a'een vessels VIII be constructed in
me governments own Navy wards.
Naval construction experts saw that the
amount spent for labor in the building
oi snip. directly and indirectly. is
aoout IS per cent of the total cost
Nearly 2.5O0.000 man weeks of u,orL
are created by the naval construction
program. ~ '1o1'
IN addition to all this. We distributed
~ July more than 6500O,O0o to IS
governmental agencies and depart-
inehts 1or construction and recondition-
Mlg OF great variety of facilities needed
nmousilout the country for Federal
purposes. In Big String. Tex. for in
stance, the Bureau of Plant Industry
OF the United States Department of 40.
Ilcuiture needs machine shed tn nro-
tect government machinery. So we
nave author1zed that to be built at a
Sos1 OF sl,o00. small item. it is true
put IL represents something that is
needed and something that will furnish
employment. That is only one typicai
smau Item IN many hundreds which fiII
u o. pages OF approved Federal projects.
.ney range from the size first mem
..ousu 10 the huge Boulder Dam ex.
All viii furnish needed Jobs. arrreeai.
ing thousands of days pay for many
thousands of men. '1'0A1'
Housing Disgraceful.
Inc housing conditions under which
great numbers of our people are Obliged
10 exist IN some cities are nothing iesS
Ilan olsgraceful. Several weeks ago We
olganlzed a housing division in the
Fupilc works Administration. Our de-
sire and purpose is to secure nroiects
Which will supply low-cost housing in
sections where it is needed. AT the
mead OF the division we have placed
ROBERT d. kohn, a former president of
Ine American Institute of Architects
Inc construction of such housing will
not only be of benefit to human beings
now living in sordid, wretched sur
roundlngs, but to the people EMPLOYED
IN building such new and better places
to live in
In considering these and other prof.
ects We are asking
/. VIII men be quickly afforded en-
ployment?
z. Will the work contribute some
thing of value to the community and
usefully serve the people who pay for
IL! we DO not want to put up marble
buildings that are not needed merely to
give employment
8. Is the project sound from an en-
glneer1ng standpoint and from a legal
viewpoint? We do not want to waste
the taxpayers money
We are creating jobs-but those Jobs
are not the So-called soft Government
jobs" at Washington that many people
have in mind. Our staff in Washing
ton is and will continue to be compare
lively small. We are not interested in
building up bureaucracy at the Capt.
tai. and SO per cent of those who have
hocked to Washington with the hope or
expectation of becoming attached to a