In Helena, Arkansas — |

—the survey in the rural territory is
to be carried out through the office
of the county agricultural agent;
and the survey among householders
is to be made through a house-to-
house canvass by local women’s or-
ganizations.

In Nacogdoches, Texas —

—the Rotary club invited represent-
atives from other civic organizations
to its regular meeting to hear an
explanation of the Work Pile project.
Result: Chamber of Commerce will
be a clearinghouse for the project,
all other organizations cooperating;
boy scouts and girl scouts will have
a part with other civic organizations
in getting the survey questionnaires
into the hands of property owners
and businessmen and pick them up
again. Their questionnaires or check
sheets are among the most detailed
that have been used thus far.

In Selkirk, Manitoba —

—the Work Pile check sheet is to
be sent to every householder and
businessman by mail and will be
returned by mail. This is being
preceded by articles in both local
newspapers.

In Pittsford, New York —
—the Rotary club is laying plans

for a complete house-to-house sur- -

vey to develop its reemployment
program to take care of returning
servicemen and women. The club is

coordinating its Work Pile program

with that of the Rotary Club of
Rochester and with the C.E.D. pro-
gram for the entire county of
Monroe.

ii Oukland: California —

—the Rotary club invited to a
meeting on the Work Pile program,
-the presidents of the local Kiwanis,
Lions and Exchange Clubs, and
president of the local Chamber of
Commerce. The meeting was ad-
dressed by. four members of the
Rotary Club of San Francisco,
' including the president of the San
Francisco Chamber of Commerce.
Eight members of the Oakland Club

are serving as chairmen of the post-

war planning committees of the local
Chamber, and 31 other members are
serving on other committees. In the
Rotary club corresponding commit-
tees have been appointed:to facili-
tate cooperation.

A Practical Suggestion

Every Rotarian can begin his own
Work Pile. President Eric Johnston
of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce,
writing in “Coronet,” suggests:

“If you are the owner of a busi-
ness, large or small, set aside a file
in your office today. Mark it ‘Work
Pile’ and begin to build up your in-
ventory of post-war projects — not
just a collection of nebulous ideas
but a group of concrete plans in the
blueprint stage, ready to be put in
work the day the war ends. No busi-
ness is so small that-it cannot do
something to help take up the dan-
gerous slack of post-war unemploy-
ment. ...No one is without obliga-
tion in this practical erusade on
behalf of his company, his commu-
nity and his nation.”

In Idaho Falls, Idaho —

—The Rotary club reports that the
Work Pile survey questionnaires be-
ing, returned to the Chamber of
Commerce show construction work
amounting to an average of $1,500
for each questionnaire.

In Lexington, Virginia —

—the service clubs and other civic
organizations are working with the
Chamber of Commerce to carry out
a complete fact-finding survey for
postwar employment and to ac-
quaint the local people with the en-
tire project.

In Colton, California —

“the Work Pile survey is being
‘carried out with the full cooperation

‘of other Service clubs, women’s
cltibs, the Union High School, the
Chamber of Commerce, and other
groups. The survey among house-
holders will be followed promptly
by a survey’ among business houses.
The householder survey plan” is
headed, “Be Patriotically Helpful
By Doing Your Share To Provide
Immediate Jobs For Men Of The
Armed Forces When They Return

From The Fields of Battle.”

In District 130 (East Texas) —

-—the Rotary Clubs of Beaumont,

Galveston, and Houston, are giving
their active support to the planning

being done by their local Chambers

of Commerce for postwar employ-
ment. They are preparing fact-
finding surveys.

The Place of
Public Works

The chairman of the postwar
planning committee at Alpena,
Michigan, Past R.I. Director Emmet
Richards, says that their city is
working on the idea that their pri-
mary task is to stimulate private
industry and that their feeling is
that public works projects are more
the work of local governmental
bodies, although, of course, the com-
mittee will have suggestions to make
to those bodies.

 

In lowa City, lowa —

—a citizen’s planning committee of
over 70 representatives of civic and
community organizations under the
chairmanship of a member of the
Rotary club, emphasized to the com-
munity the need for general com-
munity-wide interest and for active
participation by private business,
industry, and individuals, and called
for making definite plans now for
future expansion, alteration, repairs,
etc.—in short a Work Pile survey.

In Montgomery, Pa.—

—there has been established as the
result of the initiative taken long
ago by the president of the Rotary
club, supported by the club mem-
bers, a postwar planning institute
which has been named the Mont-
gomery Town Meeting. Thirty-five
civic organizations participate in
this planning group sponsored by
the interclub council. Public meet-
ings will be along the procedure
followed by the famed Town Meet-

ing of the Air. Smaller weekly study

groups are suggested to augment
the work of the general assembly.

In Weymouth, Mass.—

—the chairman of the Rotary club
committee for the Work Pile is
chairman of the postwar planning
committee of the town of Wey-
mouth, established in a Town Meet-
ing to consider “needs which could
be translated into employment sit-
uations during the interim between
the cessation. of military endeavor
and peacetime DUrsults.” = =.

In Webster City, lowa —
—committees of the Rotary and
Kiwanis clubs, the Chamber of
Commerce, and the American
Legion, are all working One to
build a Work Pile.