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What is the effect of priorities on Goodwill Industries? Can Goodwill Industries secure new trucks and tires?

What about the Bundles for Most Anything Campaigns and their effect on Goodwill Industries? Where can repair and other supplies be secured? How do price regulations affect Goodwill Industries? Are Goodwill Executives and Senior leaders eligible for consideration under occupational deferment in Selective Service?

What about the all out governmental salvage campaigns? Can Goodwill Industries qualify under the man power commission regulations to secure truck drivers or essential workers through public employment offices? What legislation is now being proposed that may have a very definite affect upon the operation and services of Goodwill Industries? What should be the policy of Goodwill Industries in considering participation in War Chests and other campaign programs?

What types of substitutes can Goodwill Industries develop to take the place of scarce materials? How can Goodwill Industries meet the new competition for discarded materials? How can Goodwill Industries expand their industrial activities so as to qualify for and secure sub-contract work? What about War Damage Insurance? How and where can qualified leadership be secured at this time?

How can the recommendations of the Accrediting Committee, adopted by the national organizations, be made most effective? How can each local Goodwill Industries help other local Goodwill Industries in the sale of less salable material, the purchase of scarce supplies, the exchange of merchandise salable in one community but not in another, etc., etc.? What shall be the budgeting policies of Goodwill Industries in war emergency times? What must Goodwill Industries plan now for the post-war period?

These and scores of other questions demand the attention of Goodwill leaders at the present time.

Emergency Meetings

In order to help answer these questions, one of the most important series of meetings in the history of the Goodwill Industries movement is to be held in September and October of 1942.

The purpose of these meetings, one of which will be held in each of the five Goodwill Industries Regions, and which will be known as Regional Training Institutes, will be to face squarely all of the problems in Goodwill Industries operations and service, and to plan ways to solve those problems, and for the future development of the Goodwill movement.

There never was a time in the history and work of our organization when it was so necessary to be aware of all of the activities of governmental, business, and other social agency activities, and their effect upon Goodwill Industries as at the present. There was likewise never a time when it was so essential that Goodwill leaders should exchange their experiences in meeting difficult problems of operation, and there never was a time when it was so essential that united planning be done to meet the impending changes in the social and economic order as at the present day.

Three Days

It is expected that each Regional Institute will last three full days, that the program will be exactly the same for all five Institutes, with the knowledge that the discussion in each of the five Institutes will be related to local situations and their relation to the general matter under discussion.

It is the general plan to have all of the many problems affecting any or all operations of Goodwill Industries discussed in relation to the natural divisions of operations, such as promotion, transportation, production, sales, human relations, public relations, etc., etc.

It is the further plan to have each of these natural divisions of operations in charge of one person, who will lead the discussions on similar subjects in all five Regional Institutes. At the conclusion of the Institutes, proceedings will be compiled that will make digests of discussions at all Institutes available to each local Goodwill Industries in all of the Regions.

It is expected that every Goodwill Executive and senior supervisory leader and professional worker in every local Goodwill Industries will be in attendance at these Regional Training Institutes.

Expense Allowances

So important are these Institutes considered that an appropriation of $2,000 has been made from the Joint Budget of the national Goodwill Industries organizations for the purpose of contributing toward the expense of persons from local Goodwill Industries attending the Institutes. The contribution to each local Goodwill Industries will be on the basis of the number of eligible delegates in attendance in relation to the distance to the Institute, etc. The payments of such contribution toward expanse of delegates will be based upon dues paid by local organizations and being paid up to and including the month of June, 1942.

Further evidence of the importance of these conferences is indicated by the fact that the expense in connection with having the "faculty team" of leaders conduct these Institutes, and the cost of preparing the reference proceedings of these Institutes is being cared for by the National Training Fund of the National Goodwill Training School at Washington, D. C.