"Put a Neighbor to Work"

Washington, D. C., Februar.v 2S.-suggested uses for lumber play a prominent part in the odd jobs campaign of the President's Emergency Committee for Employment, one of the largest national advertising progral.ns r,vhich has been launched in recent years. A series of four advertisements, to appear over the next ferv rveeks, has been sent to a list of 2000 daily newspapers in all parts of the United States urging readers to create employment by expediting constru'ction and repair rvork rvithin their orvn homes.

Widespread circulation is assured b_t. the ,co-operation either of the newspapers themselves or of local 'citizens sponsoring the insertions. Speeches, radio talks, ancl other forms of advertising appeal rvill enter the program. Following up the movement through its nran1. co-operating agencies, the Committee is confident of a general respollse among those who can help relieve unemployment by giving odd jobs.

Under the caption 1'Put a Neighbor to Work," 10O tvpical jobs are listed, sorne of which, it is believed, should be applicable norv to almost every house in the Uniterl States. Of the 61 suggestions lvhich clefinitely inclicate the use of materials inside and outside the honre. at least 26 involve the direct use of lumber or u'oocl Droclucts ancl ser-eral of the others should promote seconclaiv uses.

The suggestions proruoting direct use of lurnber are as follorvs : build shelves ; build bookcases ; build ,cupboards; construct ne.rv partitions ; construct tvoocl boxes. etc. ; repair furniture ; repair u'alls ; rebuild rvater tanks ; constrnct iun parlor; construct sleeping porch ; nrentl cellar stairrvar' ; rebuild coal bins; patch roof; reshingle roof; repair fences; rnend shutters; repair sicling; renew .rveather strips ; repair garage; construct outltuildings; constnlct sheds ; ltuild n'indow boxes; repair foot-boards; insulate the attic; build clothes reel; and nrencl cellar doors. Such iobs as the laving of concrete sidervalks represent important seconclail' tuse of lumber.

In placing these suggestions l;e{ore the public, Clolonel Arthur Woods, Chairman of the Presiclent's Emergency Committee for Employrnent, has asked ..\rnerican ciiizens not to think of unemployment in terms of the national problem but simply as 'concerns the uner.nltloved people in the immediate neighborhood. He sa-vs :

"Put those people back to work anrl that ends the unemployment problem in your vicinity. Donlt rvorry about other communities. They will take care of their froblem in t!9 same way-in fact they are cloing so in ever-ri part of the United States.

"The-government and local communities are cloing their part. What about you ? Norv, for instance. is the title to make additions, improvements, repairs. to have odd jobs done around your home-to increase the worth of your property while materials are lorv pricecl-to increase tl.re countrv's buying power-to give a neighl>or a job."