Recreation Center As a result of initiative taken by the Rotary Club of Dallas Center, Iowa, a project for constructing quarters for the recreational center they inaugurated, has become an important item in the community’s postwar Work Pile. The club reports $7,000 in cash and $22,000 in pledges already obtained for building the center as soon as labor and mate- rials are available. In Lindsborg, Kansas — —the survey questionnaire will be distributed and gathered by volun- teer workers who will have the names of everyone in the city, so that no one will be omitted from the survey. The rural territory also will be covered. Information to local boys in the armed forces will be sent by letter with special provision for obtaining responses from them, so as to help the local committee es- timate employment needs. If the Work Pile which is devel- oped appears insufficient, then, with the assistance of experts from the Kansas State Industrial Develop- ment Commission, plans will be worked out for increasing employ- ment possibilities. In Kitchener-Waterloo, Ont. —members of the Rotary club are almost 100% into the effort of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce to make a fact-finding survey for post- war employment which may serve as a model for all Canadian com- munities. Householders, small mer- chants and farmers, as well as the large industrial concerns, will be contacted, so that a fairly accurate picture should result. The slogan for the survey is, “Give us the facts so we can help to provide the jobs.” In Alpena, Michigan — —the Rotary club called a meeting of representatives of all service clubs, fraternal organizations, Granges, veterans’ organizations, Chamber of Commerce, and City and County of- ficials, to discuss plans for assisting demobilized men and women to ob- tain employment when the war ceases. Results: the formation of the Alpena postwar planning com- mittee with the membership of some 50, divided into over a dozen sub- committees. Work was begun at once to gather information and statistics through a Work Pile survey. Results in Savanna, Illinois Here are a few final figures ob- tained through the Work Pile sur- vey in Savanna, Illinois. Juniors and Seniors in high school made the canvass of the entire township. Construction and purchases planned: URBAN (Pop. 5,130) New homes..... 86 Telephone Outside extensions .... 55 painting ...... 362) *:- Radios ©5...2:2.52 160 Inside Pianos: 3 .s25< 6.35 42 decorating ...382 New plumbing or heating eaiD: MENG ooo Additions and improvements 203 New curtains and draperies ..... 423 Vacuum cleaners ...... 177 Refrigerators ..190 Washi ing machines ..... 161 WrOners. 205335. 92 Clocks 3:73.52: 162 Toasters ..322..¢< 127 Mixers: 205.526 109 Electric heaters 34 Electric fans.... 66 Light fixtures ..145 Automobile Items Repair work....141 ATES? esos pend 241 New cars....... 236 Radios (automobile) . 50 Yard and Garden Items HOSe 250550 133 Lawn mowers. .120 Garden tools.... 93 RURAL (Pop. 444) New homes..... 11 Outside painting: ...... 65 Inside decorating ... 55 New plumbing and heating equipment ... 27 Additions and improvements. 47 Curtains and draperies ..... 63 Telephone extensions.... 11 Vacuum cleaners ...... 25 Radios x22. .31c.. 40 Pianos). co5 ae 9 Refrigerators ... 25 Washing machines ..... 41 froners 25.-... 17 Clocks 22320224 36 Toasters ........ Mixers. oc se... 22 Electric heaters. 9 Electric fans.... 18 Light fixtures... 24 Automobile Items Repair work.... 42 New cars....... 37 EEIPES OOo oo AB's. “Radios =. si5655. 12 Garden and Yard Equipment Hose 25.25 15 Garden tools.... 14 Lawn mowers... 24 Farm Equipment and Machinery Fencing ........ 69 Fertilizers ...... 3 Machinery ..... 55 Landes See 6 Equipment ..... 30 New buildings.. 27 The Rotary club of Savanna, Illi- nois, developed a unique plan for carrying out the survey among householders and farmers. With the backing of the Rotary and Lions clubs and the Chamber of Com- merce, the Township High School coached students of social problems, economics, and United States his- tory through special studies of com- mercial and public opinion surveys, and by reviewing various depression periods in the history of the U.S.A. and possible ways of avoiding one following the present war. The junior and senior students were released from school one day to make the survey. The rural terri- tory was handled through visits by those students who live in the country. Providing Leadership Reports from all districts in Can- ada and the U.S.A. reveal how commonly Rotarians are chosen to formulate committees of the Cham- ber of Commerce or other bodies making Work Pile surveys. To illus- trate: In district 107 (Los Angeles area) a report covering a few of the ‘clubs shows: —Rotary club committee selected by Chamber of Commerce to study probable sources of unemployment. —Rotary club committee constitutes half of Chamber of Commerce committee for postwar employment plans. —Rotary club committee represented on general committee of Chamber of Com- merce for Work Pile. —Half of the board of the Chamber are Rotarians leading Work Pile activity. —All 9 members of the community Work Pile committee of the Chamber are Ro- tarians. —Rotarian named general chairman of the community-wide committee to handle Work Pile survey. In Blytheville, Arkansas — —the mailing of Work Pile ques- tionnaires was preceded by a pub- licity program carried out by per- sonal contact and by letter, in order to pave the way so as to get the most valuable answers to the question- naire. In Gaffney, South Carolina— —the Rotary club brought to its meeting for discussion of the Work Pile, the heads of the park commis- sion, Lions club, the intercivic coun- cil, the Royal Arcanum, and the civilian defense organization. The visitors met afterward with the Rotary club board of directors, the high school principal, the farm agent, the college dean and other local leaders in the club, and ap- pointed a community-wide commit- tee of five to handle the Work Pile survey. In Keyser, West Virginia — —the Rotary club appointed a spe- cial Work Pile committee which called a meeting of representatives of other civic groups and set up a definite organization on planning. Thus there came into being the “Upper Potomac Planning Commis- sion,” one of whose responsibilities is the creation of a Work Pile. Other citizens of the Upper Potomac area, both householders and businessmen, will. be given an opportunity to participate in an effort to provide for private enterprise to absorb the greatest proportion of returning servicemen and disemployed war workers.