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Show 'Grand Hotel' 1942 Emergency Model Because of insufficient living accommodations, these weary workers In a small Virginia town are forced to sleep around the stove of a general store. This condition exists in many other crowded defense areas. In a Pennsylvania town, jammed with war workers, a pumper and fire fighting equipment were required immediately to reduce the hazard of a possible general conflagration; a Kentucky hamlet had to arrange for an extension of its sewerage facilities facili-ties or suffer the consequences; a Colorado town, a Wisconsin city, and a Texas county were confronted with the need for new schools at once. The patriotism and morale of these workers are high, but so are their American standards of living. For their families, these war work- f Id of public works or equipment for public works necessary to the health, safety or welfare of persons per-sons engaged in national defense exists ex-ists or Impends, FWA is authorized, with' the approval of the President, to relieve such shortage. This authorization au-thorization is conditioned on evidence evi-dence that the necessary works or services could not "otherwise be obtained ob-tained when needed, or could not be provided without the imposition of an increased excessive tax burden, or an unusual or excessive increase in the debt limit of the taxing or borrowing authority." Need for Construction. Assistant FWA Administrator Baird Snyder, acting for Administrator Adminis-trator Philip B. Fleming, has pointed point-ed out that: "Inseparable from the lives of modern industrial workers and their families from transportation, transporta-tion, education, health and recreationare recrea-tionare prosaic roads, sewers, schools, hospitals and many other types of public construction." War as an industrial process, says Mr. Snyder, means that community facilities have to be built not only to accommodate expanded armed forces, but to take care of the mobile mo-bile and increasingly numerous armies ar-mies of war workers. Without such construction, those who have studied the problem declare, de-clare, the efficiency of industry would be seriously impaired and labor la-bor would float from one town to another in fruitless search for decent de-cent living conditions. In the last four months, FWA has quickened the pace of work in response to imperative im-perative war needs. Today, throughout through-out the nation, this federal agency Is building or ready to build all the war works that can be provided with $300,000,000 worth of federal funds plus whatever local contributions contribu-tions are available. - A great deal of red tape has been cut in FWA since war was declared. The Man with the shears in the Great Lakes region and Middle West, for instance, is Markley Shaw, former assistant to the director of the old FWA defense housing division, divi-sion, who casts as personal representative repre-sentative of the administrator. Full-Scale Wartime Basis. "Public works are now being handled han-dled on a full-scale wartime basis," explained Mr. Shaw, whose headquarters head-quarters are in Chicago. "My instructions in-structions are to let nothing stand in the way of prompt, efficient development de-velopment of war projects. Under new regulations no federal funds will be allotted for the construction of a permanent building under the Baird Snyder, assistant administrator adminis-trator of the Federal Works agency. ers ask for livable quarters, good water and sanitary facilities; there must be classrooms for their children, chil-dren, recreation, beds in hospitals for them when they fall sick. Congress has recognized both the needs of the mobile armies engaged in war production, and the problems of the localities affected through the enactment of the Amended Lanham act In the hands of the Federal Works agency the legislators have placed a great part of the job of keeping ahead of the vast community commu-nity requirements of these industrial legions of Joneses, Cohens, Murphys and Kozlowskis. Title 2 of the Amended Lanham act provides that in any area or locality where an acute shortage war public works program, if a temporary or semi-permanent one will suffice. This applies even though the applicant proposes to contribute the full amount of the difference. "Except where a structure is an addition to an existing facility, negotiations ne-gotiations will be opened on the basis ba-sis of simplified standard plans of the Federal Works agency. Elimination Elimi-nation of all building material beyond be-yond absolute necessity in war public pub-lic works construction recently has been ordered throughout the nation, and this step is expected materially to reduce the use of critical war materials ma-terials as well as to free man-hours of labor for other war production." Assistant Administrator Snyder has listed the following types of projects proj-ects directly attributable to war activities ac-tivities as eligible for federal allotment allot-ment of funds: Schools, hospitals, health centers, detention hospitals! fire department buildings and certain cer-tain equipment except radio equip-ment equip-ment recreation buildings, water and sewer facilities, and maintenance mainte-nance and operation of schools and hospitals where necessary. In recent months, the Federal Works agency has built or contracted contract-ed to build scores of community facilities in every section of the nation where production wheels turn. The U. S. Public Health Serv-ice. Serv-ice. in co-operation with the state departments of health, is intensifying intensify-ing the application of general health plans in strategic localities Co-operating in the genenl nlan to assist individual localities and provide living facilities for war workers is the National Housing agency. whch is building thousands I of houses and dormitories |