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0 0 4 THE MUNCIE SUNDAY STAR. MARCH 23, 1941. WPA JOBS STILL SOUGHT IN BOOM Idleness Continues Despite Worker Shortage. Washington, March 22 (P)-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 are hunting work in many areas with big defense orders.

is a pair of the sharply conflicting facts that government agencies turning up in their studies of effect of bulging national dethere fense 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 defense jobs is explained in several ways by WPA officials. They say, The contributing piling up factors are: 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. 4. Emergence of new workers upon the scenc.

Estimates Vary Widely. The -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 griddie 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 000.000 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 0 0 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 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 WPA officials figure that about 600.000 of them went into other jobs. The others quit because some other member of their family got jobs, because they died. or because they in some way found some other means of support. One Out of Three Placed. 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.

counties with defense contracts, three-fifths of those who left WPA voluntarily went into private jobs. In counties Good News for Fistula Sufferers The McCleary Clinic. E. 2220 Elms Excelsior Springs, is putting out an up-to-the-minute 122- page book on Fistula. Hemorrhoids (Piles), related ailments and colon disorders.

You can have a copy of this book by asking for it on a postcard sent to the above address. No charge. It may save you much suffering and money. Write Indiana University Dedicates New Auditorium and official life gathered at BloomingIndiana University's new auditorium. second largest building on the I.

U. Top, looking toward the stage of the capacity of lower left, the hall the permanent setting for the famous Building at the 1933 Chicago World's theater, which seats 400 and will be a county with defense contracts was $21.45 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 half of those leaving got more pay than on WPA if they lived in nondefense 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 indicates that 73 per cent of the defense contracts let Before the First Signs of Spring YOUR HOME Funds Are Available Quickly Now is an ideal time to think provements you'd like to make, ahead to spring and beautify your then come to Mutual Home where modernizing dollars are home this month so that when available immediately, repayable warm sunny days beckon you a little each week from income. outdoors your "rejuvinating Isn't that an ideal way to plans" realities. realize your modernizing ideas? will be Decide how much money Be sure to come in soon for comyou'll need for the home im- plete details.

THE MUTUAL HOME AND SAVINGS ASSN. Charles Street at Mulberry, Muncie MEMBER FEDERAL HOME LOAN BANK SYSTEM JUNIORS TO AID THE RED CROSS Participation In Production Program Discussed. 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 various schools to assist in the work room after school hours and Saturday mornings. Mrs. George Dyke, chairman of the surgical dressing committee spoke on that work which is being carried on in the Masonic Temple.

Cookies Made by Pupils. Representatives visited the war lief rooms on the second floor of the Community Center where that work was explained by Mrs. Ethel Vlaskamp, executive secretary. Students at Wilson Junior High School made cookies which were served as part of the refreshments. Junior Red Cross school representatives Blaine.

Mrs. Elinor Douthitt: Emerson, Miss Katherine Shoemaker; Garfield, Mrs. Ethel Newman: Forest Park, Leon Scott; Harson, Velma Sherry; Lincoln, Miss rison, Missy Geneveieve Hanna; JefferLena 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, Hobart E. Black, principal: Royerton, Clifford C. French, principal. Members of the Junior Red Cross committee are Miss Rosa Burmaster, chairman; Miss Adeline Cates, Miss 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.

Captain Rowland and daughter, Betty, were selected to play in the Indiana a State Salvation Army Band, which participated 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. WOMAN DIES OF BURNS. Wabash, March 22 -Mrs.

Abraham Fingerle, 71, who fell into a pile of burning leaves at her home near North Manchester, died of burns today in the Wabash County Hospital. Avenues Of Fashion with Esquire KEEP SMARTLY DRY AND "Taylor SHOE Made COMFORTABLE! Chemistry's IN "BROGANDI" Sensational A clean lined casual shoe with Achievement a walled lasf. The Transparent leather selected is "Brogandi," a new Evans tanPARIS nage of goatskin, and durable--soft which is rugged GLAS-TEX and comfortable. (Trademark) Made from 'Vinylite" Brand Resins RAINCOATS $6.75 $595 Walnut Street 219 South RICHEY'S CLOTHES Hoosier leaders in education, art, ton last night for the dedication of Interior views of the new structure, campus, are shown above as follows: auditorium proper, which has a seating of murals, so-named because it is Benton murals displayed in the Indiana Fair: middle right, the auditorium without defense contracts, only half of those who left WPA got jobs. One of every 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, Conn, where 85 per cent of those leaving WPA got jobs, and St. Louis, where only 25 per 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 where the work started moving early. St. Louis is just beginning to step now.

The average pay for the WPA worker who went into a private job in the University's division of drama and speech, and, lower right, the main foyer of the auditorium. Dedication ceremonies included addresses 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 1 of Washington, D. C. 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 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 has found that OFFICERS ELECTED BY THE ELKS LODGE Committee Recommends Purchase Of Building.

Muncie Elks elected officers at the regular lodge meeting Wednesday 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, recommended that the building now occupied by the lodge rooms be purchased by the lodge. The building was recently remodeled, is now entirely occupied by the lodge and club. Officers elected were: Robert Marsh, exalted ruler; Elmer Overmire, esteemed leading knight; Hall, esteemed loyal knight; Woodrow Wilson, esteemed knight; Carroll Norris, secretary; Frank Lang, treasurer; Earl for three years, and Claude Roberts, tyler. Officers will be installed the first meeting in April.

In conjunction with the installation, a social session will be held. McClellan Class Banquet Speaker Floyd I. McMurray, above, until recently state superintendent of public instruction, will speak on "Pathways of Our Presidents," his latest book, at the annual homecoming banquet of the McClellan Bible Class in the parish hall of the High Street Methodist Church at 6:30 o'clock Thursday night. Mr. McMurray has traveled extensively throughout the United States as well as foreign countries.

His particular hobby is the lives of Ameri" can Presidents, and because of the fact he has visited the birthplace and burial place or shrine of every President of the United States, he is particularly well qualified to speak on the subject, "Pathways of Our Presidents." The dinner is a stag affair and men of the church and the city are invited. Reservations must be made not later than Tuesday morning. 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. NEW CHEVROLET TRUCKS 60 MODELS 9 WHEELBASES ALL OF THEM "POWER LEADERS" IN THEIR FIELD! 174 FOOT POUNDS HORSEPOWER TORQUE STANDARD ENGINE These new Chevrolet trucks for 1941 have 93- the most powerful truck engines in the HORSEPOWER 192 POUNDS HEAVY DUTY entire lowest-price They out- FOOT TORQUE ENGINE pull all others, and they also out-value on (Available Heavy at extra cost Duty models) all That's why many owners PASSENGER TRUCKS WITH say they're the best money-saving CAR STEERING NEW EASE trucks you can possibly LEG ROOM for CABS WITH SPACIOUS greater MORE Thrift-Carriers for the Nation!" comfort and WORLD'S LEADING safety TRUCK BUILDER VALUE OUT- SELL Grieger Chevrolet Co.

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