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Show CIVIL WOIIKS I'liCXiKAM I ENTERS SECOND KHA.st I " The Civil Works program in Utah enters upon its second phase this week, when February loth marks the exhaustion of the firs; appropriation of $400,000,-ii $400,000,-ii 00.00. The second phase is expected ex-pected to continue until May 1st at least, though probably on a diminishing schedule. The Administration of the 700 or more projects in the various counties of the state, which have emnloved upwards of IS, 000 men. is under the direction of the State Civil Works Committee. Commit-tee. Mr. Marriner S. Eccles, now. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Trea-sury, was the first chairman of the committee, named by Mr. Harry L. Hopkins. Federal Administrator. Ad-ministrator. He has recently been succeeded by Mr. Stephen L. Richards. Mr. Richards and the other members of the State Committee serve entirely without pay or compensation of any sort whatever. what-ever. The same is true of the C. W. A. committees in charge of the administration of the program pro-gram in every county of the state. No Civil Works committeeman commit-teeman is employed for pay in the direction of any part of the work. These committees function much along the same patriotic lines as did the Liberty Loan Committees during the World War, their only compensation being be-ing their satisfaction in this high type of community service. The actual administration of the work is under Robert H. Hinckley, Director of both the State Civil Works Administration and the Governor's Committee on Public Welfare and Emergency Relief. With him is a paid staff of men and women chosen both for thpir fitness for their jobs and their need for employment. This is true of both the state administration ad-ministration and the various county administrations. The federal funds involved are safeguarded; by every possible precaution, both as to the handling handl-ing of the ', money and its close auditing. The money is disbursed disburs-ed by bonded representatives of the United States Treasury, whose every step is carefully checked. As the second phase is entered, enter-ed, social utility becomes a more dominant feature of the undertaking, under-taking, with engineering and other such' details being more carefully watched in the inception incep-tion and direction of the projects. The undertaking was launched primarily as a means of providing provid-ing some measure of work to the vast army of the unemployed and speed was the essential factor fac-tor in putting the men on the payroll. Since November 20th, a capable and efficient organization organiza-tion has been set up which will give the state increasing value for the work to be preformed. |
