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THE MUNCIE SUNDAY STAR. MARCH 23, 1941 Indiana University Dedicates New Auditorium WPA JOBS STILL SOUGHT IN BOOM JUNIORS TO AID THE RED CROSS Participation In Production Program Discussed. tee spoke on that work which is being carried on in the Masonic Temple. Cookies Made by Pupils. Representatives visited the war relief rooms on the second floor of the Community Center where that work was explained by Mrs.

Ethel Vlas-kamp, executive secretary. Students at Wilson Junior High School made cookies which were served as part of the refreshments. Junior Red Cross school representatives are: Blaine. Mrs. Elinor Douth-itt; Emerson, Miss Katherine Shoemaker; Garfield.

Mrs. Ethel Newman; Forest Park, Leon Scott; Har committee are Miss Rosa Burma ster, chairman; Miss Adeline Cates. Mis Belle Todd and Mrs. George Dyke. SALVATION ARMY MUSIC CONGRESS AT CHICAGO The Muncie Salvation Army Corps Commander, Captain J.

H. Rowland, is participating in the first annual Bandmasters' Council and Territorial Music Congress of the Salvation Army held in Chicago today and yesterday. Captain Rowland was accompanied to Chicago by Mrs. Rowland and his family. Idleness Continues Despite i 1' Captain Rowland and daughter, Betty, selected to play in the Indiana State Salvation Army Band, which participated in a musical program Saturday at the Crane High School Auditorium.

Leslie Rowland, 13, will play a cornet solo at' the afternoon program of the congress today. Evangelist Walter Zvola is in charge of the local Salvation post meetings during the absence of Captain Rowland. Junior Red Cross school representatives met Friday In the Red Cross office at the Community Center. Miss Rosa Burmaster, chairman of Junior Red Cross for the Muncie Chapter, presided. Mrs.

Cora Phillips reported on the Junior Red Cross session held in Indianapolis March 5. Livingston Blair, assistant to the national director of Junior Red Cross, spoke and Miss Maude Lewis, field representative for the eastern area was in charge of discussions. The group discussed plans for participation of juniors in the adult war relief production program and plans were made for representatives from rison. Miss Geneveieve Hanna; Jefferson, Miss Velma Sherry; Lincoln, Miss Lena Houseman: Longfellow, Miss Vandella Heller; McKinley, Mrs. Alice Rettig; McKinley Junior High.

Mrs. Charline Rector; Riley, Mrs. Martha Lindsay; Roosevelt, Mrs. Gladys Broyles; Stevenson. Miss Mary Alice Cox; Wilson Junior High, Miss Blanche Hazelrigg: Washington, Mrs.

Cora G. Phillips; Burris. Miss Lucille Knotts; St. Lawrence. Mrs.

Alice Lacey; Central High School. Miss Ola Courtney and Miss Margaret Ryan; Selma School. L. H. Clark, principal; Gaston, G.

S. McCreery, principal: Eaton, Ho-bart E. Black, principal; Royerton, 1 i ll i ,1 1' srrr Worker Shortage. Washington. March 22 (JP) Industries are begging for workers with certain skills.

Yet 1,000,000 men are asking to be put on WPA jobs and more jobless men than ever before re hunting work in many areas with big defense orders. This is a pair of the sharply conflicting facts that government agencies are turning up in their studies of the effect of bulging national defense orders upon the vast army of job-hunters which the turn in the economic tide found clinging to precarious relief jobs or clutching for them. The apparent slowness with which the WPA snowman melts under the sun of defense jobs is explained in several ways by WPA officials. They say contributing factors are: 1. The piling up of huge stacks of defense orders in a few areas of the country through primary contracts and the slow diffusion of these orders through sub-contracts.

The jobs have not yet reached the areas in which the big bulk of WPA men are located. 2. Lack of training by WPA workers for the jobs that are open. 3. The high ages of men on WPA.

WOMAN DIES OF BURNS. Wabash, March 22 (JP) Mrs. Abraham Fingerle, 71, who fell into a pile of burning leaves at her home various schools to assist in the work room after school hours and Saturday ciiifora c. French, principal. near North Manchester, died of burns mornings Mrs.

George Dyke, chairman of the surgical dressing commit Members of the Junior Red Cross 'today in the Wabash County Hospital. 35- i I it fill Winn 11 I rimwmiiuMWiim in mm nniiniii jiniiii-nn A I KEEP SMARTLY DRY AND COMFORTABLE! 4. Emergence of new workers upon the scene. Estimates Vary Widely. The over-all picture is not shot through with rainbow colors as viewed from the spot in which the WPA man stands.

Estimates of the number of defense jobs on the griddle and the number of unemployed vary widely. Conservative statisticians put the number of jobs coming up at a peak total of from 5.000,000 to in 1941 and 1942. They figure there are 9,000,000 unemployed. Now. take a look at WPA.

It has 1.800,000 of that 9,000.000 who would like to get jobs in private employment. It has another 1,000,000 waiting for a chance to get on WPA. Men are going off its rolls voluntarily at the rate of about 90.000 a month. On the I SHOE l. -1, i 1111 IN "BROGANDI" A clean lined casual shoe with a walled last.

The Transparent eather selected other side, new men are coming on WPA at the rate of about 40,000 a month. A total of 1.000.000 men went off WPA in 1940. Almost 500,000 new ones came on. Officials expect another 600.000 to go off before the end of June. At the present rate, almost half that many would come on.

But the fact that 1.000.000 men left the WPA rolls of their own accord in 1940 does not mean that they all got J0K5. WPA officials figure that about 600.000 of them went into other' jobs. The others quit because some other 1 i 1 1 1. A PRIS BUS -TEX is "Brogandi," a new Evans tannage of goatskin, which is rugged and durable soft and comfortable. L.Mi vim VUwWSifaijiMa mil i in mm i t.i.M.n i irnrrKiiiinnii im iihuiii Kimr nu.i.,iw1 irt mwr.Hu..J (Trodffiark) Mod from "VtnytHm" Brand memoer 01 inrir idnm s- Hoosier leaders in education, art.

and official life gathered at Blooming- caue they died, or because they some way found some other means of tn last night for the dedication of Indiana University's new auditorium, support. interior views of the new structure, second largest building on the I. U. RAINCOATS $6-75 by the University's division of drama and speech, and, lower right, the main foyer of the auditorium. Dedication ceremonies included addres-s by Governor Henry F.

Schricker, President Herman B. Wells. Judge Ora L. Wildermuth, Gary, president of the university's board of trustees, and Dr. Walter A.

Jessup, first dean of the I. U. school of education and now president of the Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of Teaching. Four other dedicatory programs will be given, starting tonight with a sacred concert and an address by Bishop James E. Freeman of the National Episcopal Cathedral of Washington, D.

C. campus, are shown above as follows: Top, looking toward the stage of the auditorium proper, which has a seating capacity of lower left, the hall of murals, so-named because It is the permanent setting for the famous Benton murals displayed in the Indiana Building at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair: middle right, the auditorium theater, which seats 400 and will be used One Out of Three Plated. Whether they happened to be in an area with big defense contracts had a strong bearing upon their chances for getting a job and upon their wages when they did get one. In counties with defense contracts, three-fifths of those who left WPA voluntarily went into private jobs. In counties OGKJ 219 South Walnut Street jOj ISO a county with defense contracts was S21.45 a week.

Those who took jobs in counties without defense contracts got an average of $12.66 a week. Three-fourths of those leaving WPA in defense contract counties got more than they were getting on WPA. Only the mere fact that a defense contract, or several of them, opens up thousands of jobs in a locality does not mean that the WPA load in that vicinity automatically disappears. The load lessens and sometimes comes close to the vanishing point, but it rarely goes out of sight altogether. up to Jan.

1 were in 20 industrial areas that hold only 22 per cent of the nation's population and only 19 per cent of the WPA workers. Or, put it in reverse: Only about a fourth ol the defense contracts were spread over the areas that hold four-fifths of the WPA workers. However, the WPA ha found that Good News for Fistula Sufferers without defense contracts, only half of those who left WPA got jobs. One of everj7 three workers who left WPA during the year got defense jobs. The direct effect of defense work upon job getting is reflected by WPA studies in New Haven, where 85 per cent of those leaving WPA got jobs, and St.

Louis, where only 25 cent of those leaving in 1940 got jobs. New Haven, in the middle of the machine tool producing region, was loaded down with defense orders I half of those leaving got more pay The McCleary Clinic. E. 2220 Elms Excelsior Springs. is putting out an up-to-the-minute 122-pese book on Fistula.

Hemorrhoids (Piles), related ailments and colon than on WPA if they lived in non-defense industry counties. The WPA worker is required to take any private job with reasonable pay that may be offered, even though it be only temporary. WPA Areas Slightly Touched. But a WPA study indicate that 73 per cent of the defense contract let OFFICERS ELECTED BY THE ELKS LODGE disorders. You can have a copy of where the work started moving early, this book bv asking for it on a post- St.

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Adv. (worker who went into a private job In Committee Recommends Purchase Of Building. Muncie Elks elected officers at the Before the First Signs of Spring jb.mi- W8! ii 1 I tf Ml i i. regular lodge meeting Wednesday i night at the Elks home. Mulberry and Washington streets.

The meeting was designed as Hayden-Pittenger Night, and a banquet was served in honor of these two members. The building committee, under the chairmanship of Frank Lang, recom-', mended that the building now occupied by the lodge rooms be purchased by the lodge. The building was re-i cently remodeled, is now entirely occupied by the lodge and club. Officers elected were: Robert Marsh, exalted ruler; Elmer Overmire, esteemed leading knight; Everett Hall, i esteemed loyal knight; Wood row Wilson, esteemed lecturing knight; Car- roll Norris, secretary; Frank Lang, treasurer; Earl Rabus, trustee for I three years, and Claude Roberts, tyler. Officers will be Installed at the first meeting in April.

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