Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-26
PRESIDENT IS TOLD
| OF CHURCHES PLAN
TO ASSIST JOBLESS
Farley of Protestant, Cath
Ole and Jewish Leaders
Opens in Capital.
PREVENTION OF FUTURE
UNEMPLOYMENT is GOAL
Trade Captains Found More Con-
scious of Avoiding Depressions,
Speaker Asserts.

The problem of unemployment is not
only economic, but ethical and moral
as well, and responsibility for its solu-
ton rests upon the whole American
people, President Hoover was advised
today by delegation representing
three national church groups sponsor
ing the National Conference on Perma-
nent Preventives of Unemployment.
The delegation informed the Presi-
dent that the conference, opening a
two-day meeting at the Hamilton Hotel
this afternoon, will seek to focus the
conscience of the Nation on possible
permanent preventives of unemploy-
ment."
The visiting group was composed of
economists, clergymen and others rep
resenting the social action department
of the National Catholic Welfare Con-
ference, the Social Service Commission
of the Federal Council of Churches of
Christ in America and the Social Jus
tice Commission Of the Central Confer
ence of American Rabbis.
Already Giving Aid.
THE churches of all faiths through
out the country have been responding
generously to the special need for i'm
mediate relief in the unemployment
situation through which we have been
passing" the White House callers ad-
vised President Hoover.
In their own communities the
churches are assisting in the organized
EFFORTS to give food and shelter and to
provide work for the unemployed in
nearly cooperation with the program
OF tne PRESIDENTS Emergency Commit
tee on Employment"
President Hoover's response was not
made public.
Heading the delegation we're: Rev.
K. A. MCGOWAN of the social action
department, National Catholic Welfare
conference; James Myers. industrial
secretary, Social Service Commission.
FEDERAL Council of Churches. and
Rabbi Edward L. Israel, chairman OF
the Social Justice Commission. Cen
tral Conference of American Rabbis.
Others in Delegation.
Others in the group included Prof.
DAVID A. McCabe of Princeton Uni
verslty, Prof. Elizabeth Morrissy of Notre
Dame College. Baltimore; Charles A.
Mcmahon Of this city, Miss Lima Z.
6resette OF the National Catholic We'll
rare Conference, Rev. DR.. W. L. Darbv
secretary Of the Washington ONCE q:
the FEDERAL Council of Churches: Rev.
Or; William S. Abernethy, pastor of
calvary Baptist Church; DR.. William
knowles Cooper, former general secre-
tary OF the Washington Y. M. C, A..
Rapol Aoram Simon of the Washington
hebrew Congregation, Maurice Bisever
director, Jewish Community welfare
Center; Robert p Goldman of Cincin-
natl and Rabbi Samuel S. Mayersberg
OF Kansas City, Mo.
Inc flrSt session of the conference
opened with addresses on Stabilizatior
Vi employment by Edwin S. Smith ner-
sonar assistant to A. Lincoln Filene of
Boston; Fred Hoehlers director of nub-
nc welfare OF Cincinnati, Ohio. Leifnr
MagnuSson. director of the local branch
Oh the International Labor Orpaniza-
tlon, and William T. Foster of the
Follak Foundation for Economic Re-
search, Newton, Mass. Prof. McCabe
was the presiding officer
MI. smith declared business men
nIlauy nave awakened to the fact that
Unemployment Is waSteful. and they
are endeavoring to find a remedy An
extensive system of interindustry con-
troll OF business operations appears
necessary If business is to prevent
cycncaI unemployment, he said.
Explains Cincinnati Plan.
The Cincinnati plan" of combating
unemployment, recently brought to at
tentlon OF the country by the Pres
idents Emergency Committee ON En-
ployment, was explained by Director
Hoehler. He described how Cincinnati
took an unemployment census as early
as 1929 and laid plans far ahead to
meet possible distress.
Mr.. Magnusson disclosed interna-
uonal ram1fications of unemployment,
estimating that from ten to fifteen
million workers in the world today are
unemployed. The lowest estimate for
the United States, he declared, places
approximately 3 per cent of the total
population in the unemployed list.
The Federal Reserve System was
blamed by Mr.. Foster as the indirect
cause of degree of unemployment in
this country. He asserted the Federal
Reserve reduced bank credit by several
millions in 1929, causing slump in
business and in employment.
Session Planned Tonight.
Further discussion of sterilization
will take place tonight at o'clock at
the Hamilton Hotel, with Prof. Jacob
H. Hollander of Johns Hopkins Uni
versity in the chair At this session
John P. Frey of the American Fedora
ton of Labor will speak on Wages
and Hours" and George Soule, .ditor
of the. New Republic, on Are Bust
ness Cycles Avoidable?"
The afternoon session tomorrow will
feature addresses by Senator Wagner
of New York, Secretary Edward C.
Hunt of the Presidents Committee on
Employment, and others, which will be
broadcast over the National Broad
casting Company's neIwolk.
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