Getting Organized

All through the land last week there was bustle among the employed and wealthy, organizing to help the unemployed. The industrial depression lent added seriousness to launching the annual Red Cross $1 membership drive and brought out an unprecedented number of volunteer solicitors. Directors of city Community Chests redoubled their efforts.

Chairman Arthur Woods of the President's Unemployment Committee:

P: Announced that estimates of the total unemployed in the U. S. were nearing completion. In September 100,000 had been cut from the President's figure of 3,500,000 unemployed.

P: Warned jobless against seeking employment in strange cities, where they stand less chance than at home.

P: Received from mayors of cities & towns "a large number of preliminary messages" reporting on local relief projects.

P: Was pledged aid by 1) the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs and 2) the Association of Junior Leagues of America.

P: Obtained from the Post Office Department authorization to have postal employes solicit and collect relief funds.

Notable local developments last week were:

P: Assumption by Alfred Emanuel Smith of a coordinating chairmanship of all relief organizations in New York City ex cept Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker's municipal committee, but including the emergency committee headed by Seward Prosser of potent Banker's Trust Co.

P: Appointment of President Philip Ream Clarke of Central Trust Co. of Illinois, to supervise a Statewide campaign for a $5,000,000 fund.

P: Report by the Wilmington, Del. Chamber of Commerce that during the first month of a campaign urging people to find and go ahead with construction jobs, such as getting the porch fixed, putting in a new bathroom, paving the driveway, it had succeeded in locating 450 jobs big enough to require building permits.

P: Opening of a $300-a-day soup kitchen in Chicago by Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone.

P: Announcement that to help 25,000 idle actors, Author Louis Bromfield (The Green Bay Tree), Publisher Conde Nast, Novelist Fannie Hurst (Lummox), Dramatist Owen Davis (Icebound) would charge $15 the season to people who wanted to see their homes, themselves.

Notable industrial developments last week were:

P: Hiring of 3,000 more men by President William Joseph McAneeny of Hudson Motor Car Co., who said: "Business is beginning to come back in a normal fashion."

P: Addition of about 500 men to the Peerless Motor Car Corp. payroll, of 3,000 by Oakland Motor Car Co. and Fisher Body Corp.

P: Switch to a 24-hour working schedule by Ford Motor Co.'s airplane factory, announcement that its force has been increased in three months from 150 to 500 men.

P: Beginning of a $2,000,000 building program at Hershey, Pa. by the Hershey (chocolate) estate.

P: Address to a newsgatherer by big, husky, breezy John Jeremiah Pelley, president of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad: "Get me right. I'm not going to talk bullish. I can't see myself sitting on a pink cloud right now. But people are overdoing this pessimism business. . . . Now is the time to show the stuff we Americans are supposed to be made of."

P: Address by Morgan Partner Thomas W. Lamont: "Our community as a whole has manifestly got back to a sober sense of realities. In that respect the situation is far sounder than it was 14 months ago. . . . Our economic, our financial, our banking worlds are far better ordered . . . than they have been in the past."

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