【正文】 received during a similar period, he would gain financially and also obtain far greater job security than before. Such a transition to annual rather than hourly payment would also benefit the public through lower building costs, since the public now pays higher hourly wages than in other industries partly to pensate the employee for periods when he will not be working. This might still not be enough, however, to assure continued job security for employees i f the total amount of construction to be done were not guaranteed to be such as to employ the full work force. A situation in wbich some workers had threeyear contracts at lucrative salaries while others were out of jobs would hardly be attractive. Further, there would need to be assurance that tbe high level of employment would be maintained into the future. Costs and Benefits of the Program What, then, would be the costs and benefits of such a program? In considering the cost, we must not fall into the ancient error of assuming that there is a constant supply of money in existence and that if we use funds for housing we must cut somewhere else. On the contrary,our money supply and financial institutions are most elastic— it is resources which can be scarce and inelastic. If we expand the supply of currency without expanding our resources, the effect can be the case of the building industry,we have a reserve of unused resources in the form of unused technological advances and partial use of manpower (members of one trade are not allowed to fill in on the work of others during their own slack times on a job or during seasonal unemployment in their own trades, etc.). If the need for these restrictions is eliminated by a program assuring job security and full use of resources,a great unleashing of capabilities is possible. It is also pertinent that the resources involved in a program of building of housing, schools and other such facilities are not in general the same as those involved in whatever military efforts the country may find it necessary to sustain. To obtain the maximum benefits from such an effort, the widest munity participation and efforts to bring together all of the interests at stake would be necessary. With a greatly expanded program of construction, for example, it should be possible to employ central city residents previously not in the building industry without threatening the job opportunities or job security of any of its present employees. It should be possible to permit each area to participate in planning changes to take place within it. The legitimate needs of no group affected would have to be ignored. Conclusion Perhaps one of the groups which could benefit most from such a program would be residents of outward pressure of persons seeking to leave the central city would tend to be overe over a sufficient period of time i f conditions in the cities were made suburbs would thus be permitted to retain their suburban character,which would otherwise be lost. And it should not be forgotten that blight anywhere— like hatred, fear and despair— is not confined by boundary lines and will spread to us wherever we are unless its causes are effort to overe these causes must of course include concern with such problems as both fairness and effectiveness in law enforcement, better education, and expanding oppor tunity for all citiz