The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-06-03

The meeting unanimously urged that
appropriations be made for postwar
public works programs, that national
leadership be kept available to local
planning agencies and that urban de-
velopment be part of postwar public
works.
Declaring that an annual volume of
100000 to 100000 new homes Il
year would provide direct or Indirect
employment for two to three million
workers, as well as an annual outlet
for several billion dollars of invest
ments, the head Of the National HouS-
ing Agency added that such Il program
could be an important instrument for
attaining full employment and full
production after the war"
"But I am not IL believer in auto
matte economic miracles" said Bland
ford. Il do not believe that we will
inevitably have a postwar program OF
the size and quality needed simply be-
cause the overwhelming majority of
our people want To live in good houses,
or simply because the materials, man
power and money are potentially avail
able TO produce and finance those
houses. Instead, we must develop tn"
ways and means to fuse those elements
i'm the most effective manner possible.
"We must work on the problem III
labor, in industry, in finance, in gov
ernment, and above all in our com
munities. We must strengthen those
Instruments of housing production and
financing which have proved effective
and have the courage To discard lhoS,
which have proved ineffective.
Stresses Preparations Now
"Above all, without i'm any sense
slackening in our concentration on the
main immediate job of helping win the
war, we must somehow find the time
and energy to begin To prepare now II
housing is to be ready to carry its
share of building Il better postwar
world"
Discussing the future, Blandford
said: tuI
There are goingeto be millions ol
young Americans coming home frou
overseas one of these days and they're
going TO count on Il lot of things mil
lions OF other young people didn't have
yesterday-among them good homes {,
live in and raise families in.
"rhese are other millions Of yuunl
and not so-young men and womeI
working in our war production planl'
working, they have been assured
f,r "a hnttnr and frpnI and moro whole
some world That pledge to then
means decent, livable homes, you an,
] can both be sure. don't think W.
can afford TO fail them; | don't thinl
they'll permit us to fail them long
and, with courage and foresight, W.
will not fail them
Hold War Housing Vital
Blandford said that the war housing
program from July, l9lO to July
1913, involved the shelter of 3OOO,OO'
migrating war workers, about l,3OO,
600 of whom have been or will b,
cared for in new construction. From
July, 1913 to July, 1914, another 100,
600 Immigrant workers will have to b'
housed, he said.
The job of providing adequate
shelter for war workers is as vital Il
the achievement of production SEIZED
ulcS aS the provision of plants in,
equipments" BlandfOrd added. 1T ha'
been and continues To be Il difficult
complex and engroSsing job. But W.
cannot afford to lose sight of on
larger obicciiycs for the period aftc
victory, when housing can again rs
sumo its rightful position as an in
strument of peaceful society ralhe
than an instrument of war;