Show I Mass Moving Burdens Communities By S. S BURTON HEATH NEW YORK YORK About About civilians are going to be transplanted transplanted transplanted trans trans- planted to new homes mostly homes mostly temp temporary temporary-by by by the defense production pro pro- d program They will take some children into communities communities com corn where there are few or orno orno orno no surplus school facilities More than hospital beds are going to be needed where they do not exist These are only afew of the problems problems lems created by the mass migration to rural areas where cantonments and nd industrial plants are being constructed They are complementary complementary comple comple- to but separate from the housing requirements which have received first attention Welfare Coordinator Charles P. P Taft figures that to meet them and similar needs the U. U S. S must prepare to spend this year as much next year and an Indeterminate indeterminate indeterminate minate amount In excess of 7 7 annually for operations as long as the emergency continues Camp Draws Dras Civilians When a c cantonment is training soldiers it it draws to the neighborhood neighborhood neighborhood neighbor neighbor- hood about half as many civilians as there are soldiers in the camp I If men are trained at Fort Bragg for example it will bring some civilians to share the facilities of Fayetteville N N. C. C which are adequate for its present residents And each civilian worker who moves to a booming village takes with him two others to eat drink sleep buy clothes dance and go to the talkies Sudden maSs mass migrations place a tremendous burden upon communities ties which had been getting on very well It comes in ways wars of which one would hardly think until until until un un- un- un til too late Housing is obvious But also there are fire and police service water supply sewage disposal disposal disposal dis dis- dis- dis milk supply hospital and health service transportation If the migration is presumed to be permanent there is temporary in inconvenience inconvenience inconvenience in- in convenience and health menace When it is obviously temporary neither communities nor nor private capital are tempted to provide the necessary facilities Then the situation situation sit sit- nation is serious School Funds Needed To care for the expected defense migrants Coordinator t believes that it will be necessary to spend on schools plus 2200 annually for transportation of f pupils and next year for educational operations It is going to be a real achievement if it these schools are ready to operate by fall Adequate water supplies will wUl cost and sewage disposal another At least 25 milk pasteurization plants to serve civilians and soldiers soldiers sol sal diers will be required at a cost of In many of the communities communities com corn concerned nothing but raw milk ever ever has been used but the U. U S. S doesn't dare risk that under emergency conditions It will cost plus a year ear for operations to control mosquitoes H E Hospitals and clinics will cost almost to build and around a year to operate |