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Show Lions Clubs Sponsor Confidence Week October 25-31 has been set aside as j Business Confidence week, and plans are completed by the international j association of Lions clubs to observe I the week through a week's program ', of activities. The movement is launched at this j time to bring .to the focus of public attention the need for confidence in American business institutions and t for the need of active steps in reliev-: reliev-: ing unemployment. i 1 Walter -S. Gifford, director of th- j president's organization on unemployment unemploy-ment relief, states that observance of I Business Confidence week as planned, will render substantial aid to unem-i unem-i ployment. ! Unemployment is to be dealt with by each localcommunity and through the cooperation of all local forces such as service clubs, commercial, social, and religious organizations, working in a united local effort. The American Bankers' association gave early approval and commendation commenda-tion of Business Confidence week. (Continued on last page) LionsClubs Sponsor Confidence Week (Continued from page 1) Railroads, telephone companies, telegraph tele-graph companies, industrial corporations, corpora-tions, public utilities and wholesale houses have pledged cooperation in launching and giving support to the week. Business Confidence week opens on Sunday, October 25, as Community Church day, followed by Confidence and Civic Consciousness day, Labor and Industry day, Agricultural day, Professional and Health day, Your Town day, and the week will end with Jubilee day on Saturday. The week will encourage buying, not for the sole sake of buying, but because of its favorable reaction on unemployment unemploy-ment and because it will act as a check for the present drain on charities. chari-ties. Emphasis will also be given to local advertising during the week, consumption of local produce, organized organ-ized care of community destitute, and campaigns to gather clothing and canned goods for distribution to the needy during the coming winter. A community benefit entertainment will be held one night during the week to swell funds to aid community poor. Group and mass meetings will be held with four-minute speakers on economic subjects, these subjects being be-ing chosen with a view to give proper consideration to those more healthy community, state, and national conditions con-ditions inspiring confidence, and calling call-ing for earnest work towards economic eco-nomic stabilization. A community survey of unemployment unemploy-ment will be made upon which to base unemployment relief and charity work for the coming winter. The Lions association, with its membership of 81,000 business men in 2,600 clubs, contemplates setting club quotas for providing employment during that week. Th average club's quota will be five jobs, which will make a total of 13,000 jobs provided for unemployed during Business Confidence Con-fidence week. Included in the activities of Business Busi-ness Confidence wTeek will be a back-to-school compaign. All cases where students have failed to return to school, either high school or colleges and universities, are to be investigated. investigat-ed. These students will be encouraged to return to school, and if financial aid is needed, a loan or scholarship will be secured if possible. Concerted attention to this problem during Business Confidence week should make a considerable cut in the yotmg men who would otherwise be among those unemployed. |