Load of Distress

President Hoover last week worked on Work. To get a running start on Congress where dole demands are sure to appear next winter, he held conference after conference on unemployment and relief. From the Treasury he got a report which showed that $453,000,000 had been authorized for 758 public building projects, that at least $300,000,000 worth of this work would be actively started before snow flies. To the White House, Secretary of Labor Doak brought another report showing that in the last four months the U. S. Employment Service "by combing the highways and byways has succeeded in finding jobs for 281,769 unemployed." Next the President called in Julius Barnes, board chairman and Silas Strawn, president of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce to see what that organization could offer in the way of jobless relief. Anxiously discussed was the probability that a Federal dole would have serious Congressional backing. Declared Mr. Strawn as he emerged: "It would be deplorable if this country ever voted a dole. When we do that, we've hit the toboggan as a nation."

To sum up his week's work President Hoover told the Press "The problem of unemployment and relief, whatever it may be, will be met. With the organized co-operation of local, State and Federal authorities, the problem was successfully handled last winter. We shall adapt organization methods in such manner as may be necessary for the coming winter.

"The first of the facts to be determined is the probable volume of the load of distress to be provided for. Economic changes will materially improve certain areas and others may be worse. ... I have been canvassing the situation. . . . The completion of these conferences and inquiries will require another month. By that time all the facts should be clear. . . ."

The President took the problem with him over the weekend to his Rapidan Camp where he pondered unemployment insurance methods with Rhode Island's Senator Felix Hebert, just back from a European study.

P: "I christen thee Akron," declared Mrs. Hoover last week at the Goodyear-Zep-pelin plant at Akron as she pulled a red, white and blue cord which released 48 pigeons from the Navy's new dirigible. P:President Hoover appointed Frank Evans of Salt Lake City, onetime executive secretary of American Farm Bureau Federation, to the fruit-&-vegetable vacancy on the Federal Farm Board.

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