EMPLOYMENT

The Charity Ball planned by the Phillips Brooks House to help the unemployed has met the official approval of the City of Cambridge represented by Mayor Russell, and a useful place to put the money received has been suggested. Four thousand of the American unemployed, excluding the students of Harvard College, are Cantabridgian. The City Industries Board, which could best handle the proceeds of the proposed dance is meeting the situation in two ways: by asking employers to cooperate by taking on one man for every hundred now engaged, and by appealing directly for funds to alleviate immediate suffering.

It is in the latter group that the efforts of Phillips Brooks House would fall if the proposed plan is put into execution. Whatever actual aid to the unemployed would be forthcoming, the project definitely places the University in a position of cooperation with the city authorities, and would give it an opportunity to help in a national crisis.