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(Continued from Page 7) countless thousands that the Government has put to work of late have had relief of soul and mind and body. But I can't dodge the thought of how much better it would be to put these men to work BUILDING SOMETHING. fnstead of sending a thousand men out to clean out ditches, dig up weeds, improve rights-of-way, etc., why not have them build things that people may use-things that will be there when they get through?

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Most of the new work consists simply of employing men and paying them. But instead of digging holes and filling them up again, it seems that so many human needs could be served by having them build things that could be used; highways, roads, houses, shacks, or what not. And the workers would like it better. Driving nails or laying bricks or pouring concrete is really doing something for somebody.

A million dollars spent in building five hundred small houses at two thousand each would employ just as many

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