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4-1874 WORKS P R OGR E S S -------- A D MI N I S T R A T I ON For Release to Newspapers , Sunday , J anuary 29 , 1939 . AMERICAN GUIDE SERIES REPORTS SHOW SPOHSORS 1 PLEDG~S TOTALI NG $500 , 000 . Approximately 275 publ i c officials and non-profit organizations - among them six governors and 33 chambers of commerce -- had assumed fin~1cial respo n- sibility at the end of 1938 to the amount of $500 , 000 for publication costs of books published or in pr eparation "by the Federal Writ ers ' Project of the Works Progress Ad.i11inistrati on , it was e.nn0unced today . These f i gure s were revealed in a r epo rt I!l.ade by Henry G. Alsb erg, nati onal director of the pr o ject , to Hrs . Florence Kerr, Assistant Administrator in charge of the Women 1 s and Professional Divisi on . The American G,1id.e Seri es , gene ral title of the guidebooks written by the pr?ject , already numbers more t han 170 pablicati ons . As sponsors for these bo oks , tax- support ed agenc i e s , put lic officials and non- ~rof it g r oups assure the cost cf publicatio!l. I n addition , spo nsorshi p arranr;ements have been made f or 476 books new in preparation. Guide s t o the i r states have been sponsored by the Governors of Connecticut , New Hampshire , I llinoi s , I ndiana , Virgini a , and Alo.s ka; and the Li eut enant Governor of Delaware spo nsored the guide to that State . Among the other sponsors ar e six secretari e s of stat e , one state librarian , 35 state age!lcies , 1 7 ~ayors and city managers , 61 state departments , 33 chambers of commerce , four women 1 s clubs , 14 colleges and ID1iversiti e s , 31 state and local historical societies , and 48 other groups and committees , including the New York World 1 s Fair , nn American Legion Post and the military department of the Stat e of Kentucky . The books are published at no cost t o the government , and in many cases publishers h~ve agreed to po;y royalties on the books . These royalties are used either to defray non- labor costs of the project , or turned over to the United States Treasury. 0000000 Digitized by Original from NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
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