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FOUR YEARS OF
WPA Has Spent $69,511,688
On Work In North Carolina
North Carolina's sector of the
United . States' "Maginot Line,"
cost $09,511,088 to JulyM, re
ported State WPA .Administrator
C. C. McGinins. '
"We have been fighting .aw 'eco
nomic war of peacetime planning,''
said Mcliinnis as he reported the
activities and accomplishments of
WPA for a four-year period. "The
WPA has always constituted the
first defense line. In this account,:
ing 'f our stewardship, it is pro
posed to give a detailed picture of
WPA along the North Carolina
'front'." , ' . '
Prom zero in October, 19.55, to a
peak employment of 58,KX) men and
women in December, 19JH, the
WPA has had a 30,000 average en
listed in this direct, frontal attack
to provide work opportunities for
the needy, able-bodied unemployed.
Instead of dcsirucliMi and the
-implements therefor, (these have
been Constructive ' and socially
worthwhile endeavors. Peaceful
work, not regimentation; uselul
work to 'benefit us all. Work
not charity. Work to preserve the
foundation upon which our demo-,
cracy rests the dignity of man as
an individual.
Much WPA work has been und
erground.' Over 400 miles of
trenches have been dug. These sub
terranean passag.es will not contain
the stench of carrion, once men
who smiled. Jnto these trenches
have gone sewers, drains and wat
trmains to protect the health and
provide conveniences for humans
not formerly possessed of these
essentials to modern, .sanitary liv
ing. Over 11.', (XX) sanitary pit privies
dot the countryside. Besides per
sonal convenience, water supply
sources have been protected 1 frtin
contamination; that dread carrier
of typhoid, the common housefly
can no longer, in 112,381 places,
make a trip to unmentionable reg
ions and then proudly tread upon
the dinner' table.
While the hospitals in belligerent
Europe are receiving ' war victims,
the 18 hospitals evolving from
WPA workers are ministering to
those stricken in life's ordinary
pursuits. Three are used as Tuber-,
culosis sanitariums for those who
cannot pay hospitalization charges.
Thirty sewage disposal plants and
26 waterworks plants complete the
aid to healthful living conditions.
During the past four years, Ger
many has employed . thousands
building .military roads to strate
gic positions with now known ob
jectives. Farm "to Market Roadi
The needy unemployed in North
Carolina, approximating one-third,
have been building roads not the
kind to carry artillery but farm-to-market
roads to carry produce
to market, to have easy access to
recreational and cultural centers,
to permit school busses and mail
carriers to make their appointed
rounds during all seasons and all
kinds , of weather, to procure a
doctor when sorely needed. The
men working live in the ; areas
where these 'roads are built. Six
thousand miles, enough to stretch
.further than across the Unit.td
States, is the amazing total of
secondary roads with which WPA
workers .have lifted themselves
and their neighbors "out of the
mud.'' Sponsored by the state
highway and public works com
mission, also, 60 miles of culverts
have been placed and dozens of
bridges built where needed. Two
bridges are one-third mile in
length.
Work relief's advent, also,
found many urban dwellers up to
their ankles in mud, many deep
er in despair for want of work.
Both have been greatly remedied
by WPA-municipal cooperation.
The .score: 298 miles streets sur
faced, 72 miles sidewalks and 125
miles curbs and gutters. Placed
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end to end, they would defeat
the purposes for which they were
constructed. .Instead they benefit
newarly every city and town in
the state.
Work American Symbolism
since Captain John Smith's colony
at Jamestown. ' Work, the , right of
every American, citizen, has been
provided, for needy North Caro
linians. So, they have built' 55
agrhultural buildings .in that many
counties. . With additional govern
mental services provided through
out the stale, many counties had
no ' space in which to house the
farm agent, home demonstration
agent and others serving' agrarian
needs. The counties utilized .WPA
workers' to supply that deficiency
again productive guidance .ele
ments, not destructive implements.
Also, thriugl) .WPA labors, two
court houses and five 'court house
addition; have arisen to taunt
totalitarian ' victims with the fact
.that justice prevails here;, her
temples produced by' the most
economically hard-pressed among
us; that here is not only a po
litical democracy' but a democracy
of economy;- that mans dignity,
as an individual, maintaining him
self 'by worthwhile work, with his
riuhl to have his conflicts justly
determined, exists.
There are craters in North Car
olina. They weren't produced by
rxnlodimr .shells. causing men
women and children to bathe in
their own blood. Eleven craters
are WPA-built concrete swimming
i ilv ls with pure water in which
a haunv citizenry disports itself.
That many more lakes have been
WpA-created for boating and
swimming..' '
Recreational Facilitie
" Gregarious man has always
sought entertainment for himself.
Municipal officials know that
most people are dependent for
recreation upon facilities and
leadership which are provided1 by the
government. Caligula's Roman
Circuses are pale against the present-day
carnage. Jolly i little toys
like aerial bombs afford us little
amusement. Nor do our mtn, wo
men and children carry gas masks
to the 341 WPA athletic fields
and playgrounds, including .560
tennis courts, 70 gymnasiums.
Football and basketball, not "who
kills whom first", are played in
35 stadia, and golf on 11 golf
courses, furnished by benign state,
city and federal governments, car
ing for the unemployed, not char
ity but by needed work to bene
fit, not to destroy us all.
-WPA continues to build monu
ments, but to the living with 45
community houses, four farmers
curb markets, 10 faculty houses
at- colleges, a college dormitory,
90 new school .buildings, mostly
of brick or native stone, 69
vocational workshops, 44 school ad
ditions, 5 tcacherages, 1,402 schools
repaired.
WPA workers, ' further aiding
municipalities, have erected 12 city
halls and fire stations.
All of these edifices are without
bomb-proof cellars.
Conserving and not destroying,
WPA helped to reclaim the oyster
industry by planting eight and one
half million bushels seed oy.sters
and shells; improvements made to
four fish hatcheries; beach erosion
and sand fixation work done.
The modern prison camp built
for the slate is not a concentra
tion cariip but for transgressors of
our criminal law, enacted by duly
chosen representative fur the peo
ple and interpreted by an untrain
meled judiciary.
The authors of book in the four
WPA-conslructed libraries are from
all creeds and derivations.
The difference between an ordi
nary work program and the WPA
is the .intangible field, work under
the Professional and Service divi
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sion. service ana . wime . couar
THE COURTHOUSES BUILT BY
THE FRANKLIN PRESS AND
PEACE
workers' families suffer privation
as well as those of male manual
workers when there isn't a regu
lar pay check.
The workers on the socially use
ful, worthwhile projects are mostb
women, who are economic family
heads. Maintaining individual dig
nity, includes woman's escape from
a subservient status. She is ui the
WPA program is more than a do
mestic or a source for "cannon
fodder."
The section predominantly female
is the sewing projects. WPA work
ers make high quality clothing at
a high-speed rate. Not one band
age for war casualities can be
found among the 6,168,331 article,
produced in WPA sewing rooms.
These were delivered to 'the 'Pub'-,
lie Welfare Department, distributed
to low family-income groups. No.
"ersatz" fabrics were used in this
contribution to the comfort of un
privileged men. women and children.
School Lunchei
Outstanding among the service is
the combined free school lunch
gardening and canning endeavor.
War, yes, we should hate war
which causes children's food to be
lightly rationed. Necessary to the
welfare of our future citizenry, 22,
000,000 hot .school lunches have
gone to nourish 72,578 little bodies
whose parents are unable to pay
for their noontime meal. This has
gone forward in 90 counties, 706
schools. Correlated gardening and
canning, operating in 86 counties,
produced food by tons, to supple
ment sponsors' donated foodstuffs.
Unique among the service pro
jects is matron .service in girls'
rest rooms in high schools all over
the state.
Donated furniture has been re
paired, given to the needy; domes
tics trained for private jobs.
Eight hundred and fifty-two pub
lic buildings have been cleaned and
renovated, janitorial service provid
ed. Twelve score public grounds
are now landscaped as well as 46
miles highways,
In, humane practical work, house
keepers aides have gone into needy
homes where the housewife was
sick. There they have cooked,
washed, tended the children and
performed all domestic chores dur
ing the women's incapacitation.
The country should, be, happy that
many unemployed workers at WPA
enterprises are classed as "white
collar" not garbed in khaki collars.
The writers project has: produc
ed the 600 page "North Carolina
Guide.'' The book is a complete
historic and scenic geography of
the state, picturing the cultural and
industrial aspects of cities and vil
lages. It will be "off" the Univer
sity Press this month. North Caro
lina writers contributed a large
section of the widely acclaimed
WPA
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THE HIGHLANDS MACONJAN
TIME PLANNING
A WPA-BUILT ItASEItALL PARK
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ONF OF THE ELEVEN WPA-CONSTRUCTED SWIMMING POOLS
"These Are Our Lives."
Three volumes published from
the Historical Records Survey
preserves that valuable data for
future generations. It will be im
possible for an. incendiary eriemy
to destroy all volumes distributed.
In 65 counties, availability and
usefulness of public records has
been enhanced by WPA clerical
workers indexing and cataloguing
those records,
Three dozen mineral and geode
tic surveys are now available for
public use.
The municipal practices survey
and codification of city ordinances
and charters are being completed
to supply a pressing need for those
types of municipal information.
Recreational leadership is teach
ing young and old "The .art of
living'' and liovv to spend leisure
time profitably in 172 units, .82
cities and town,, The monthly ac
tivity attendance is 572,648, ' Before
WPA, only six towns had perma
nent recreational programs.
No book akin to "The Manual
of Arms" is included in the two
and three quarter . million books
loaned by the WPA library pro
ject. Knowing that it is socially
worthwhile for good books to be
the privilege for every person, the
project operates in 159 public and
548 school libraries. Sixteen "Book
mobiles"' carry volumes, to rural
homes. The bookmending section
has returned, one and, one-quarter
million discarded tomes tq circtjiar
tion.
Conserving Human Resources
"Conserving human resources" is
the WPA Education Program
theme. Humans are not being plow
ed ' under tout improved for the
state's, the nation's future . good.
The 167,377 adult students who
have enrolled in the 7 phase pro
gram have not been taught the
use of a gas mask, a bom-proof
cellar. From , "Signature X", 55,
351 have advanced to literacy;
while the others were helped to
functional literacy, including 36000
graduates from the safe driving
schools who were taught to pro
tect their lives and the lives of
others travelling along the high
ways. J Thirty units are developing com
munity consciousness jn teaching
music and art,
Over 23 million dollars has been
spent for materials, supplies and
equipment rentals. Stimulating near
ly every branch in capital goods
industry, private ' jobs have been
maintained, created. The balance
of the money has gone into the
WPA worker.s pockets" This has
been termed the "fastest spending
dollar in the world" all must im
mediately go into local trade chan
nels for the bare necessities of
living. .
Recently the North Carolina
League of Municipalities and the
State Planning Board ran a com
munity improvement appraisal.
Cities, towns, and counties and
state departments were requested
to report unbiased opinions on
Federal programs the ERA, CYA
PVA, and VVPA "with no punches
pulled." One hundred : and fifty
nine unit, reported; the censeiisus
of opinion was,. "The WPA is the
Federal Works Program agency
which has proven to have been
the most efficient. . . , The work
has been useful and permanent.
. . . Relief workers have given hon
est labor to the best of their
abilities. . . . The workmanship has
been good. Many instances are not
ed where the finished project were
the equal of. similar jobs done by
private contract. . . . Work relief
is a method bettpr than direct re
lief for caring for tlie unemployed.
. . . The work has helped to keep
relief worker, fjt for private jol?s
and many reports show that work
ers have improved their skill status
by the training given the compe
tent foreman. . . , The public facil
ities built are permanent and are
of such nature that they serve the
majority of people in each subdi
vision. Morale and health standards
of entire communities have been
raised through construction and so
cial welfare projects.'
Europe s boundaries are of lit
tle concern to us," stated Admin
istrator ' McGinnis. ?'Let iis con
tinue to take care of qur unem
ployed jn jhc American way
work of the type whjch wjl niean
a more abundant life for th rank
and file of us, Yes, we shouJ4
build our Navy, Army, air and!
other forces to such strength that
no one would have the temerity to
attack us. Yet, in retrospect, how
glorious it seems to have done all
of this for North Carolina at a
cost slightly more than one battle
ship." ' '
HIGHER
World wheat supplies in 1914
totaled 3,500,000,000 bushels, as
compared with an estimated' 5,
300,000,000 bushels this1 year, ac
cording to a Triple-A announce
ment.
3UGGESTIQN.
Secretary of Agriculture Henry
A. Wallace is' advising American
farmers to go ahead with their
farm plans just as they had plan
ned before the war In Europe
broke out.
After 12 years of experiments on
developing varieties of tomatoes
resistant to fusarium wilt, the Il
linois Experiment Station has re
leased four resistant varietiei for
field uie,
THURSDAY, SEPT. 28, 1939
State College Answers
Timely Farm Questions
Q. How soon after cutting can
I put my hay in the barn?
A. This depends upon the weath
er and the state of curing, but in
most cases the hay will be dry
enough to put in the barn dur
ing the afternoon of the second
day. Green hay, however, should
never be stared in the barn as
this will cause it to mold and some
times cause spontaneous combus
tion. Hay - that is nearly air-dry
will continue to cure in the barn,
if spread out over the floor and it
is better to spread this kind of
hay ' in the barn than to have it
spoiled by rain. '
Q. What amount of light is nec
essary in the poultry laying house
when artificial lights are to be
used? "
A. Two forty-watt bulbs for each
400 square of floor space will give
the most satisfactory light. These
bulbs should be placed in the cen
ter of the house, ten feet apart and
six feet from the floor. A reflector
16 inches in diameter and four
inches deep should be used with
each 'bulb to direct the light down
ward. When lights are used the
feeding hours are necessarily
lengthened and as a result the
mash consumption will be increas
ed and the grain ration should
also be increased to maintain body .
weight and egg production. These
should be carefully watched at all
times.
. Q. How long does it take to get
a beef animal on full feed?
' A. Opinions "differ but as a gen
eral thing the .time varies with
the length of the feeding period.
Cattle that are to be short fed
should be on full feed in about
three weeks, while four or five
weeks and even longer may well
be taken with cattle that are to
be fed for long periods. However,
the successful feeder always studies
and watches his cattle and varies
his feeding schedule to fit condi
tions and individual cases.
HIGH YIELDS
Samples from the high-yielding
corn crops being produced by
Johnston county 4-H corn club
members this year will be on ex
hibit at state and county fairs.
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