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The Director of District 3 of the Wokks Progress Ad¬
ministration and the staff of the Women's and Profes¬
sional Division cordially invite you to a private ex¬
hibit portraying the work done by the projects of this
division, to be held May fifth and sixth, Nineteen
hundred and thirty eight, from 11:00 A.M. to 8:00 P.M.,
on the second floor in the west wing of the Merchan¬
dise Mart.
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FOR THE COMMON DEFENSE
AND GENERAL WELFARE
A crisis in the history of our country made it mandatory for our
government to assume responsibilities that private agencies could no long¬
er shoulder.
Our frontier has heretofore been the natural cure for depressions
because the unemployed and the venturesome could go to the frontier and
there, by building bridges and cities, escape the effects of the depression.
This time we could not run away, and our great task is to learn how to re¬
adjust our relationships and live together in peace and harmony even
during a depression.
There are only two basic ways in which unemployment relief can
be given — doles or jobs. Give a man a dole and you save his body and
destroy his spirit. Give a man a job and pay him an assured wage, and
you save both the body and the spirit. That is the theory on which the
Works Progress Administration is based. It is a recognition that the un¬
employed are not a class apart, who are to be pitied and done for with
the least possible cost, but are human beings, average run of citizens just
like the rest of us, and with the same hopes, aspirations and appetites.
The Women's and Professional Division was called into being in or¬
der to provide employment for a wider range of the occupational skills
available among professional, technical and clerical groups.
WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION
ILLINOIS
LEGAL SPONSORS — FEDERAL — Department of Agriculture, Weather
Bureau - Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of
Immigration and Naturalization, National Re-employment Service —
STATE — Illinois Industrial Home for the Blind - Institute for Juvenile
Research - Illinois Tax Commission - Illinois State Planning Commission
- Illinois State Employment Service - Illinois Research and Educational
Hospital - Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary - Chicago State Hospital—COUNTY
- Cook County Probate Court - Cook County Circuit Court - Cook County
Treasurer's & Collector's Office - Cook County Recorder's Office - Cook
County Assessor's Office - Cook County Coroner's Office - Cook County
Superior Court - State's Attorney's Office - School of Nursing - Cook County
Hospital - Juvenile Detention Home—CITY—Board of Education - Chicago
Park District - Department of Public Works - Municipal Reference Library
- Chicago Relief Administration Department of Smoke Abatement and
Inspection - Corporation Counsel - City Clerk's Office - Fire Department -
Public Library - Chicago Recreation Commission - Police Department
Sanitary District - Comptroller's Office - Board of Health - Chicago Housing
Authority - Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium Department of Streets
and Electricity - Bureau of Building Maintenance and Repairs - Bureau of
Maps - Bureau of Rivers and Harbors - Bureau of Parks, Recreation and
Aviation - Public Vehicle License Commission - Art Institute of Chicago -
Field Museum of Natural History — COOPERATING SPONSORS— Private
Schools - Universities - Churches - Youth Organizations - Industrial, Social
and Civic Centers-Hotels and Clubs - Social Agencies - Civic, Social and
Cultural Organizations - Business and Service Associations - Hospitals and
Clinics - Veterans' Organizations.
Works Progress Administration
v ILLINOIS
Charles E. Miner, State Administrator
Mary Gillette Moon, State Director of Women's & Professional Projects
DISTRICT 3 - CHICAGO
H. K. Seltzer, Director
V A. Anderson, Asst. Director
WOMEN'S & PROFESSIONAL DIVISION
Wilda A. Sawyer, Supervisor
Amelia H. Baker. Asst. Supervisor. Operations
S. A McKay, Asst. Supervisor. Planning