Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-30
CLOTH AIDS VOTERS
IN PLEA TO BOARD
Supports Arlington County
Women in Petition for Re-
tention of Health Office.
BY LESTER n. INSKEEP,
STAFF Correspondent OF The Star.

ARLINGTON COUNTY COURT
HOUSE, Va, September 30-Coming to
the aid of delegation of women from
the Organized Women Voters Of
Arlington County appearing before the
Board of County Supervisors this morn
ing, commemorative Attorney William
c. Cloth declared that their effort to
have the county retain the Board of
Public Welfare and Health Department
in their present state was a stand that
should be followed in every respect.
Cloths remarks were made after he
had been requested by Edward Duncan,
chairman of the Board of County
Supervisors, to furnish information as
to whether the present overseer of the
poor could be dismissed and the entire
works of his Office be turned over to
Mrs. Mae E. Jacobs, superintendent of
public welfare. Cloth replied that 1t
could not. because the Office was con-
stitutional one.
Would Be Calamity.
He did not stop at this, however, but
launched into a speech in which he
declared that it would be a calamity to
cut off the superintendent of public
welfare and that the money appropri-
ated for this Office should be increased
instead of decreased.
Mrs. Jacobs is of the greatest assis-
lance to both the Police and Circuit
Court and to the unfortunates of the
county" he declared " and I know of
no more important Office in the county
than that held by her"
When told by the chairman of the
board that these remarks were not So
licited Cloth said: Il know that you
do not want to hear much from me.
but you are going to hear great deal
before you are through
Cloths stand was taken after Mrs.
Julian D. Simpson, president of the
Organized Women Voters of Arlington
County, and Mrs. Bertha Kelly, chair
man of the civic department of that
organization, appeared at the head of
a large delegation of women to present
a petition to protest what they con-
sidered a proposed effort on the part of
the board of county supervisors to cut
the county expenses through the cur
taiIment of these two departments,
Mrs. Kelly's Plea.
In a speech before the board Mrs.
Kelly declared that many other county
activities could be better curtailed than
those of either the Health Department
or Board of Public Welfare. When
asked whether the organization would
prefer to see curtailment of the road
building and eWer-conStruction pro-
gram in the county, Mrs. Simpson
stated that her organization would give
careful consideration to the cut sug-
gested in preference to any action that
might hamper the work of either Of
the two departments sponsored by her
organization.
resolution, it was stated by the board
that no action that will affect either
of these departments is to be taken
at the present time, and that before
any such action will be taken the Or
ganized Women Voters will be given
another opportunity to appear and
present their case.
Representing the parent-teacher as
ISOLATION of the Nelly Gusts School IN
chairman of a special committee, APP
peared before the board to request that
the present Jefferson district health
center, which is located in Potomac, be
removed to either Virginia Highlands
or Aurora Hills when the section in
which the center is now located be-
comes a part of the city of Alexandra
on January /.
Chairman Duncan stated that he was
in favor of having the clinic located at
the suggested place unless county hos
pital movement is launched in the
meantime. He will make arrangements,
he said, to have the center continued
either at it's present location or at some
other suitable point until another per-
manent location can be selected.