Show Wallace Urges U. U S. S Aid Underdeveloped Areas WASHINGTON ASHINGTON V May 3 UP- UP Secy of ot Commerce Wallace Vallace Friday Friday Fri Fri- day urged federal aid to promote industrialization of what he called underdeveloped areas of ot the na na- tion Uon Wallace in a statement presented present present- ed to a senate commerce subcommittee subcommittee in support of a bill having having haying hav hay ing that aim said the war Industrial industrial indus Indus- trial program had made such aid more necessary than ever Today it il is a commonplace statement that we wc are entering a tremendous boom Wallace Vallace said but few who make this statement statement statement state state- ment consider that expansion is of necessity Uneven n and that i Isolated isolated Iso iso- o- o spots and even sizable areas of ot depression and unemployment can accompany such a general upsurge upsurge up up- surge of economic activity The new war facilities facUlties built bum in underdeveloped areas resulted in tremendous increases in industrial industrial indus indus- trial production and employment Trained LaborThe Labor LaborThe The uThe war program not only provided provided pro pro- vided industrial capacity which had been previously lacking but it also created the trained labor force necessary for manning such capacity The people in many of these areas have accumulated forthe forthe for forthe the first time the capital necessary necessary sary to undertake new enterprises Now all they are lacking in inmany inmany inmany many cases is full awareness of the opportunities available to them or knowledge of the processes by which such enterprises can be organized organized or or- and successfully run run Wallace declared that need for industrial expansion had been brought to a head by the great shifts in population and industry which began in the early war years and have yet to be completely complete complete- ly worked out Peace Businesses This me means diversification of industries and the establishment of new time peace businesses in inthe tho the war centers to which many of them have migrated he said adding adding adding add add- ing It also means industrialization in tho the agricultural areas to which many of them have already re re- turned Wallace cited an agriculture department department de de- de estimate that to new Jobs would be required off oft the farm to provide for displaced farm workers in increased increased in in- creased population and a hangover hangover hangover hang hang- over of at unemployment from the prewar period especially in the south In cities were war baby fa factories factories fac fac- tories were centralized and population population population lation mushroomed he said new Jobs are needed to provide for those laid of off from war assignments assignments assign assign- ments new Industries are needed to utilize war time W facilities particularly par par- in the south and on the west coast |