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25 February, 1944
161 Additional Jobs

Returns from the first 24 members
of the Rotary Club of Roswell, New
Mexico, list 161 jobs for which they
are planning to employ that many
additional men when the war closes.
The largest single group is farm help.

These 24 Rotarians also list an av-
erage of $82,225 apiece (a total of
$1,973,400) worth of improvements
planned for their places of business,
and repairs and additions planned
for their lior:<s. Here are the details:

‘laces ©; Business:
$ 11,40) for outside painting
28,000 for inside decoration
37,000 additional space
43,000 for equipment
1,819,000 buildings, machinery, etc.
2,500 miscellaneous

Residences:
$ 1,100 outside painting
1,000 inside decoration
1,000 plumbing and heating equipment
3,200 additions
7,100 repairs and replacements
19,500 new homes

Thesurvey results have been turned
over to the postwar planning com-
mittee of the Chamber of Commerce

' aS a nucleus for their survey.

In Chula Vista, California—

—the Rotary club “primed” the
Work Pile idea, and, as they say, “it
grew from there.” The club con-
tacted other local organizations ex-
plaining the Work Pile project and
induced each to appoint a member
for the general community commit-
tee. The Work Pile has grown as a
snowball. Aside from small items
from individual householders and
merchants, impressive construction
projects needed by the community
have been put on the planning
board. The club reports great satis-
faction with the manner in which
the whole community is supporting
the. Work Pile survey.

In India—

—District Governors Foot (District
88) and Rama Rau (District 91) have
brought the Work Pile project to the
notice of their club officers as a chal-

lenge to the leadership of Rotary in

India. Governor Foot points out that
it is not an easy task nor one quickly
accomplished, and hence it is all the
more important to start it immedi-
ately. Governor Rama Rau empha-
sizes the effect on the boy in the
armed services and states he is plan-
ning for discussion of the subject at
the forthcoming district conference.

Using Survey Results

Some Rotary clubs ask, “How are
we going to use the results of our

Work Pile surveys?”

An answer is provided by the Ro-
tary Club of Savanna, Illinois, which
at the same time shows how the
Work Pile project starts to operate
effectively as soon as the tabulated
results are available.

When local businessmen in Savan-
na learned that a tabulation of the
Work Pile survey results had been
made, they eagerly sought copies of
the figures so that they might ad-
just their own plans and purchases
accordingly, for the immediate post-
war period. These adjustments touch
the wholesaler, the broker, and
eventually the manufacturer, thus
influencing the plans of these sources
of supply.

This suggests that the first step
after completing the tabulation of
the survey results is to make the
tabulation available to interested
local businessmen. They then know
what possibilities there are for get-
ting business right after the war.
Thus they can determine how many
jobs they can provide. There is no
guarantee of the figures. No favo-
rites are played. There is only an
indication that a certain amount of
business is to be had in the city and
in the surrounding rural territory.

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‘It makes no difference who gets the credit so long as the work is dor

No. 7.

7 Projects

The Work Pile activity of the Ro-
tary Club of Neillsville, Wisconsin,

has developed into seven projects on

which the Rotary club is working
with cooperation from city officials
and others. These are:

J. City Planning

a. New high school building—$250,000
b. 5-year program the city has for pav-
ing and for filtration plant. .
2. County Planning

a. Forestry program to employ 50 men
full time, plus as many as revenue
from wood and timber sales permit.

b. 5-year road and building program

3. Reemployment Needs of Men and Wo-
men Now in Service

4. Work Pile Survey of Equipment and Re-
modeling Needs of Business Houses

5. Work Pile Survey of New Building Con-
struction and Repair

6. Work Pile Survey Among Householders
for Consumer Needs and Property Re-
pairs

7. Work Pile Survey Among Farmers
The census figures give Neillsville

a population of some 2600.

In Brunswick, Maine

—the Rotary club sponsored a special
Town Meeting at which a committee
was appointed to carry out a Work
Pile survey. The new committee is
actively engaged in working out the
project on a community-wide basis.

In Tunica, Mississippi—

—the 50 members of the Rotary club
are personally making a Work Pile
survey among the householders in
the city and throughout the rural
sections of the entire county. As re-
ported by the press, Tunica should
be able to provide adequate employ-
ment in farm work when the war
ends, but they want to do more—
they want to learn what the commu-
nity’s deferred wants are so that
distributors and manufacturers can
have the information and plan their
jobs accordingly.