Evening star., 1935-05-19
SET-UP EXPANDED
TO HANDLE RELIEF
Emergency Councils Staff
Increased to Speed Up
Prosperity.

named 1OC clOSeQ DdnK, plans are
being Matched for spending $4,000
100000 to catapult the country back
into prosperity.
Frank C. Walker, sphinxlike chair
man of the National Emergency Coun-
Gil and its Division of Applications
and Information, operates from suite
300 of the Commercial National Bank
Building, at Fourteenth and G streets.
Z. To grease the way for swifter spread
ing of the good times money, the
Emergency Councils Offices have been
expanded and supplied with new desks,
new typewriters, new telephones and
new workers.
= To make room for the agency's
new work, other space has been pro-
Wded for the personnel, consumers
and information divisions of the coun-
Gil, which is an offShot of the N. r. A.
> These three groups have moved to
F street, across from the Washington
Hotel Long, bare rooms, which once
served to display women's clothing sold
In department store farther up the
street, have been rented by Uncle Sam
TO enable him to do his business.
Pass Out Job Blanks.
The Consumers Division of the
Emergency Council is in the forepart
of a second-f1oor loft above one of
the stores, the downstairs portion of
which is partitioned off into small
rooms where Emergency Council rou-
tine correspondence is answered and
filed.
A few doors away is the beehive
busy personnel office, where three girls
pass out thousands of blue job-appli-
cation blanks, which are filed by five
other girls while four more copy their
most salient information on blue, sal
mon and white cards.
Upstairs, Is girls sit at long, deal
table and put together the Govern
Ynent Manual, the Emergency Coun-
ellis chief publication, filled with de-
tailed information on the set-up and
duties of the United States Gov
eminent and its various branches and
agencies.
Mimeograph machines whir all day
long here, and the green covered man
uals are piled high on shelves that
reach the ceiling and extend the
length of the side wall.
10000 Applications Received.
Downstairs more than 10000 ap.
plications for administrative jobs have
been received The Office is packed
daily with a milling crowd of hope
fuls. Two men interview as many as
possible of the applicants who lack
political sponsorship. Behind a pill
lar, unseen from the front of the
room, sits a special interviewer, who
sees only Senators and Representatives
and men sent by Senators and Repre-
Bentatives.
While the applications pile up. few
Jobs have yet been given. Primary
consideration is given to applications
Received from the F. E. r. A. if the
qualifications of the job seeker seem
TO At him for the type of work that
might arise in the administration of
the $4,000 100000 fund
However, it is freely stated at the
Emergency Council that few persons
on relief rolls are qualified for the
Jobs. most of which are scheduled to
60 to the pick of the doctors, lawyers,
editors, statisticians, engineers, hold
ers of A. M. and Phi. D. degrees and
other similar applicants whose names
are in the employment Office files.
+ Business Goes on Apace.
+ Two blocks away the tremendous
business of putting the Nation back
on its economic feet through the vast
expenditure goes on apace.
y The division of applications and in
formation is the spark plug of the
work-relief organization. 1t co-ordi-
mates the work of so separate Gov
,ernmental agencies which will cut
piece of the $4,000, 100000 pie.
!. Every project, Federal or non-Fed-
eral. must come under the scrutiny of
the D. A. I. The so bureaus send it
every allotment application after
thorough preliminary examination and
,feview.
. The D. A. I. then puts the allotment
application under its microscope. If
1t finds the application satisfactory, it
forwards its recommendations to the
Works Progress Administration, the
pailiwick of Harry Hopkins.
: President Must Approve.
: AS soon as the w. P. A. reports on
the extent the proposed project would
slighten the relief load, the application
is transmitted by the D. A. I. to the
Advisory Committee on Allotments for
recommendation to the President.
This A. c. A. is made up of cabinet
officers, the budget director and lead
ing emergency agency heads.
Z After the President approves the
application, the money is allotted and
work. in theory, soon begins.
Regional Offices set up in every State
of the Union and in Alaska will be
large factors in the success of project
applications. These State offices must
review the applications closely to de-
stermine whether they are in conflict
with other already-approved projects
in the region and whether the pro-
sposal comes within the scope of the
general policy set forth by the Presi-
dent as his ideal for the work relief
program.