Show washington WAb HINGTON N law IT 0 FROM OUR congressman AN W K GRANGER c property owners made use of program it has recently been announced that more than five million property owners have been enabled to make improvements repairs and alterations te amounting to almost aim 0 st two billion dollars under the program ram of the federal housing administration this program was performed under title 11 0 of the national housing agency which provided for the repair and modernization of homes and the results have not only helped to keep property in repair but also to provide additional ac to millions of war workers in congested areas atomic bomb project while we have read much about I 1 the t h e intricacies 0 of the super secret atomic bomb and have had a glimpse of its destructive possibilities we have thought little of the personnel who perfected the mammoth project which made its production possible we are now told that one hundred seventy nine thousand persons worked on this project and yet it was by far the best guarded secret of this war of course it is true that many did not know what the final product of this project was to be but to those who did we are indeed indebted for the way they guarded the secret back lo school drive so acute has been the drop in enrollment of high school students during these years of national emergency that the childrens bureau of the U S department of labor now seeks to overcome that delinquency by a BACK TO SCHOOL DRIVE it is the aim of this agency to enroll more than two hundred fifty thousand more boys and girls in in the high schools of our nation this year than were enrolled last year with hostilities at an end this goal should be easily reached and every thinking american will do his best to oen courage encourage the boys and girls of high school age to return to school now that the emergency has passed nor should we bo be stinting in our praise of the job these young people have done during this manpower crisis everywhere one turned these young boys were seen manning farm machinery of our country in the greatest food production era of all time |