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Thursday, February 6, 1931 URGE ACTIVITY IN CONSTRUCTION WORK Report on Dist. of Columbia ls Taken as Samigle of U. 8.: Hope to emedy Upon the theory that each $5,000 m construction work will afford year- around employment to at least one workman, as revelled in the prelim- inary report on the construction cen- ills for the District of Columbia just made public by the United States Census Bureau, Edward J. Harding. managing director of the Associated General Contractors of America, hos announced that his association will vigorously push plans for increasing construction volume as an unemploy- ment relief measure at its twelfth annual convention. January M to M, at San Francisco. ‘February ilth to 14th marks the 21st birthday of the Boy Scouts of America. Scouts all over the coun- try 'are celebrating the occasion. In the local Community many churches are bringing scouting into their February gth Sunday service. During the week, schools and troops. are giving special scouting demon- strations. Many troops are having fathers and sons banquets. , The big event of the celebration will be the spout mobilization con- ducted in each district by the dis- trict commissioners. This will be held sometime after 2:00 o’clock on Saturday afternoon, Feb. T. The call will come from the district commissioners to all the scoutinns- tors, who will in turn call their boys. On assembling at the desig- nated place there will be plenty of activity. Scouts are to wear their uniforms all during the anniversary week. Watch for the mobilization and other scouting activities. Ratio Typical l In as is believed probable, the ratio shown in the census for the Na- tional Capital is typical of the em- ployment ratio in the industry at large, Mr. Harding points out that each million dollars worth of con- struction means steady employment for 200 workmen in the building trades alone. _ On this basis, he states. the $1,162.- Tb3,000 decrease in construction con- tracts during the first ll months of 1930, as compared with the previous year, easily can be seen to account for more than 230,000 unemployed efteeted in the industries supplying building materials. ”mun... ......c........ In the highway construction fUld the census returns indie-be that In even smaller volume of construction is required to furnish steady employ- ment to a workman and Mr. Harding estimates that the $160,000,000 in un- used Federal aid road funds now available to the various all“: through the bureau of publicrrosdu will give direct employment to Ip- proximately 40,000 men. Not Istduerimintste [ The Associated General Contrlcv tors feel that construction promo- tionnl efforts, however, should not be indiscriminate, Mr. Birding states. He points out that much of the decreased volume has been in Scouting; 21st Birthday ]1 OUR OWN AMERICA BEST PLACE TO LIVE Our own America, with all its faults, economic, political and other- wise, is a better place in which to live than many other lands-China, Egypt. India and all Asia seethe with dread and trouble. Europe is an armed camp. For those who are, or who may be, intrigued by the glam- our of Fascism the spectacle is pre- sented of the Italian ttovernment's petty persecution of the wives and children of exiled anti-Fascists. They, _ are made to tnstter for the alleged, crimes of their husbands. These wives and mothers do not make an easy living, cut oft from their hus- bands. They are held prisoners of [ the government. They may not leaves, Italy, says the Cincinnati Enquirer. i There is violence and horror in, (Russia, where shooting of eminent' 1 men of science is charged in a strong‘ ‘protest just now signed by a numberl of distinguished Germans, which pro-r teat alleges that the facts "seem to: prove that every seientifie activity} ‘claiminz even the moat modest meas- l ure of intellectual freedom is becom- ine impossible in the Soviet Union." Terror Abroad _ There is terror in Poland. In East- ern Galicia, whose population is over- whelminzly Ukranian, a reign of "paeifieation" by Polish troops goes merrily on, while at_Warsaw the majority of the opponents of Mar- shal Pilsudski are either dead or are in prison. The "punitive" expeditions into Galicia have terrorized the in. hoitantir-ftoitgintts, killings of in- nocent Ukranian peasant farmers are' said to be the rule of the hour, the burning of private households a com- mon pastime of brutal soldiery. In all Poland the politics of the people are infitteneed, it is said, not so much by persuasion as by intimidation. It is stated by an English authority that the arrests of opposition deputies have been continued recently until about 12 per cent of the members ot ', the last parliament are now in pri- ', son on vague or unspecified chances. Iincinnati Enquirer Points Out Advantages ere,,',' Inter- nationalist owls and swiftly coming prosperity, a steady crushing of “enthuskstic pes- simism." "isiGtiiii'i"i, in' iurmoil. South America reeks Ind revels in revolu- tion. In the United sum is-peace The lure of foreign propuundn should fall on deafened ears in our America. even where citizens hive the right to compilin of inept poli- cies and disrupted economic condi- tions. The Boy Scout program is o plot avnilabhe for the use of the various churches and other institutions of their community, but scouting does not set itself up u I sew-nu initi- tution. 7 the field ofymeeu'astite building con- struction, the lack of regulntion of which his been I decided detriment to both the construction industry and business generally. “Organized eontrttetorit wunt to see private construction 30 thud.” Mr. Rttrdintt explained, "but they do not desire to see u resumption of the speculntive building fever that was so prominent during the put decnde. THE PRESS We suggest that you make up a list of the hole: you will require for ay/ht and your fomily and Nut you te, your order AT ON 48. 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