The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-05
,Job-Making,
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tOD~maAlu8, tue CEuA VI IS~SA17 ployment and prosperity, is com munity responsibility and problem which should not be relegated to the federal government but solved through local teamwork and enter prise, Gov. Raymond E. Baldwin de- clares in a signed article in the November issue of The American Magazine.
 "Job-maIxing is the one big dones- tic problem that must be solved in the days ahead" writes the Repub- lican Governor who tells of the va- rious job-makers that teamwork has developed in his own state. T am convinced that 1t can be solved only when the local community gets to- gether on a basis of self-help and stops looking to Washington as the magical fount from which all bles- sings flow.
 T repeat, that while the federal government has an important role to play as co-ordinator in this fight against unemployment, that in nc wise relieves us of our own respon- abilities at the grass-roots. The ma .chinery for prosperity is in your conl- smunity and mine. We must run that machinery ourselves"
 COnnecticut's Problem Toughest
 Governor Baldwin regards Con- necticut's problem of finding new employment for at least 48.7 per cent of her working population as "the thorniest in the United States" aside from Michigan's. He feels the pat tern of his states job-making ac- complishments can be applied profit ably in creating work elsewhere be- cause ''our problem is not basically different from any other state."
 ITO solve the problem" he as- serts, i've must have job-makers .. a man who takes risks. Our respon- sibility to the job-maker is to re- duce his risk as much as possible. We must remove every impeachment to his success We must do this because our future prosperity de- bends on the willingness of 1000, 900 additional men to take the big jump from enploye to employer"
 Governor Baldwin points to the fact that about 45 per cent of the total business employment in the United States is accounted for by enterprises which hire fewer than 100 persons each as proof that pros perity does depend on the efforts of the little job-maxers."
 The primary needs of these job- makers-what he terms "the back bone of prosperity" are capital at reasonable cost, technical services for marketing, packaging, selling, and, says MT. Baldwin, "a govern ment that at every level-whether local, state, or national-will act as a helpmeet, not an enemy"
 Connecticut banks, for example, have formed giant loan pool rep- resenting more than 80 per cent of the total lending capacity of the states banks and they encourage granting of credit. "The originating bank passes on the loan application to a committee representing the pool, and, when the loan is ap- proved it is participated in by all the member banks on a pro.rata basis" explains Governor Baldwin. This makes available even to the smallest job-maker the immense credit resources of the state"
 State University A Help
 Then President Albert N. Jorgen- sen has made available to business and industry the various technical skills to be found ct his University of Connecticut, @ state institution. Technicians in the state Develop ment Commission have been helpful in fostering new business, and cours- es in saleSmanship, accounting. re- pairing of household appliances, and in the various trades have been con- Nducted under direction of the Con- necticut Unemployment Commis- sion.
 Several displaced workers and returning veterans have already gone through the mill of our trade schools and have emerged not only as Job.holders, but several are al- ready making jobs for others" the Governor asserts.
 As typical of what has been done, Governor Baldwin tells how two young men with not much money but plenty of get-up-and-get came to me with an Idea to make a new Kind of plastic insulated wire.
 "Our staff technicians in the State Development Commission were put to work. Engineers studied the job processes and worked out a plant layout. Others came up with an unsued plant in Norwich Fi- nancial experts worked out their needs and helped them borrow work Ing capital. We helped them set up their machinery; then we recruited eheir labor. One of our men helped