Vagabond Editorials

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Before the day of the type-setting and type-making machines the number of people employed in printing plants was very small. But perfected machinery developed and created the printing business on a huge scale, a hundred times more printing being done than a generation ago, and a hundred times more people employed.

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Look at the ice business. A generation ago it amounted to almost nothing. Today it is a huge industry, when all the ramifications of the'refrigerating industry are considered. You will find a great army of people working every day in the year in this business where only a handful worked twenty years ago.

Take aeronautics, as another example, a great employer of skilled people. all over the country. This employment is 100 per cent new. And, radio. Millions of them being manufactured. And, the materials had to be made first. And, the machines have to be shipped' and sold, and serviced, and it requires an army of people all over the country to handle the work. All new. All due to new invention and machines.

The motor cars put horses and mules on the shelf ; but there are rnore animal doctors and hospitals in the country today than were ever dreamed of in the old horse and mule days. We've taken up doctoring our cats and dogs. That's new.

How many people u" ;"- ",inno* our modern beauty parlors furnish employment for? I don't know, but it's a tremendous number. 'We've gotten to a point where none are so poor they cannot afford a finger wave. And behind them is the enorrnous investment and employment in the production and distribution of. lotions and cosmetics. All new. All from modern invention.

Hundreds of thousands of men all over this country are continually employed in the brand-new business of building and maintaining highways. And, bac! of every man who constructs a highway there is another man manufacturing, preparing, refining and delivering the materials for road work. So here's another army-all in the last few years. All from machines.

Reconstruction ol Dam.ged Coos B.y Lumber Co. Opens Schools to Start Soon Office in Los Angeles

Funds to finance the reconstruction of fifty school building projects in twenty-one school districts in Los Angeles and Orange counties have been received from the Unified Rehabilitation Corporation, according to Vierling Kersey of the State Board of Education. The rebuilding of the schools will give safe and modern housing to some 15,000 children now in temporary school houses. The funds were received March 12 in the form of a check for $2,480,321 and will be expended under the direction of the Board of Public Building Reconstruction for reconstructing school buildings damaged by the earthquake on March 10, 1933.

Mr. Kersey states that eleven architectural concerns in the Los Angeles area are making the plans for the buildings. He says that construction will start soon, and he estimates that 2,000 men rvill be employed for a period of five months.

Twelve school districts in Los Angeles county share in the Federal funds. They are the elementary school districts of Bellflower, $ffi,126; Clearwater, $30,000; Compton, $D2,146; Hermosa Beach, $117,000; Lynwood, $163'150; Norwalk, $140,000; Ranchito, $15,900; Rivera, $5000; West Whittier, $20,000, and Willowbrook, $35,700.

Two county high school districts will receive funds as follows: Compton Union High, $484,000; Excelsior, $21,600.

The Coos Bay Lumber Company has opened an office at 421 Garfield Building, Los Angeles, rvith Stuart Smith in charge.

Mr. Smith is well known to the lumber trade in Los Angeles and Southern California, having formerly been a salesman for the company in Los Angeles for some time. He covered the Sacramento Valley and Coast Counties territories after leaving Los Angeles.

The telephone number of the new office is TUcker 8688.

Official Copies of Labor Provisions Must be Posted

Washington, D. C., April 18.-The period for filing applications by employers for official copies of labor provisions in the Codes under which they operate, has been extended by NRA until May 15. Any employer who has not yet received an application form should request one from his administrative agency or the State NRA Compliance Director. All employers are required to post in conspicuous places throughout their plants or buildings official NRA placards quoting the labor provisions of the code applicable to the establishment.