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Show Let's Shorten the Gap Renewed hope has been brought to Utah county unemployed unem-ployed as the federal civil works administration is launched,, or rather catapulted into being, providing "regular work at regular wages" for more than 1500 men in the county. While this figure has not yet been reached, more than that many will be working after December 1. The move is without a doubt the most dramatic and far-reaching the administration has yet undertaken. Putting Put-ting idle men to work wrought a transformation in Provo where the usual loafing places were deserted Friday for the first time in years. It's a grand and glorious feeling to people peo-ple who have been eking out an existence on inadequate and distasteful relief for months and years, and a great feeling of relief to many others who have sacrificed and saved and stinted and endured while frantically searching for a job, any job. While the federal government is launching the plan in a determined winter campaign against destitution and want, we should lose no time in getting the Deer Creek and Utah lake diking projects under way. Such portions of the projects pro-jects as lend themselves to early clearance should be under way at once. Legal technicalities, red tape, stipulations and other barriers should be swept away, permitting men to go to work on projects like these which are largely self-liquidating self-liquidating and whose construction will be of lasting benefit in the development of the resources of the state. |