Evening star., 1931-12-27
NEEDY TRANSMITS
GETA|DUNDERPLAN
Of GENERALIZATION
Reference Service Will Direct
Applicants to Agencies Suit
ing Their Problems.
BEGGING ON STREET
WILL BE ELIMINATED
Development in Line With Reor-
ganization Work of Unemploy-
ment Committee.

There will be no need for any one
begging for money. for food for lodging
or for clothing in the City of Washing
ton, as there has been no need in the
past, the District of Columbia Commit
tee on Employment declared yesterday
IN announcing an improved plan for the
simplified and more direct handling of
service to homeless transient men. Ac-
cordlng to this plan all service will be
cO-ordlnated and centralized in CO.
operation with the missions, lodging
houses, municipal woodward and other
local agencies caring for the homeless
For convenience, the Washington
Council of Social Agencies and the
Travellers Aid Society has set up "a
hour reference service for referring ap-
plicantS in need to the agencies best
qualified to handle their individual
problems In addition. applications may
be handled by the different charities
concerned such as the Municipal
Lodging House, the Central Union Mis-
sionS. the Salvation Army the Catholic
Charities, United Hebrew Relief So
ciety, the American Legion, Associated
Charities or the District Committee on
Employment, in the new Office at 1000
Pennsylvania avenue, which it will oc
cupy next Tuesday.
Simple and Convenient.
The plan of central application is,
however, encouraged for the sake of
simplicity and preventing the person in
need of being sent from agency to
agency because it is discovered that his
need does not correspond to the par
ticular service which the organizations
may render. 1t is further develop
ment of the reorganization work of the
Employment Committee which has
been going on since Paul Benjamin
Joined it as executive secretary on fur
lOugh from the Social Hygiene Society
1t is noteworthy, the committee stat
ed. that since the woodward was eStab-
lished the number Of transients apply
ing for relief at the lodging houses has
been reduced by elimination of undesir-
ableS who had preferred to beg on the
streets rather than work. The policy
of giving men tickets to work out the
value of food and clothing given them.
the committee finds. has been justified
by events.
People in need of personal services
such as helping them back home or get
ting in touch with their families, it was
announced, will be referred TO the
Homeless Mems Bureau, operated by
the Travellers Aid Society at l4l8 l
street. In order to make sure whether
any work is available for which regular
pay may be received, all persons receiv-
ing this service are expected to register
with the District Employment Bureau
so that they may be dependent on the
community no longer than necessary.
Meal Tickets Given.
IF the man is hungry and applies
at other hours than the regular meal
time of the missions and lodging
houses" the committee announced. he
will be given by the agency to which he
is sent a meal ticket at a restaurant for
sufficient food to tide him over until
the next meal time This service will be
available "a hours of the day and night.
II he is in need of lodging he will be
given that lodging even though it is
after the usual hours for admission to
such facilities. If he is in emergency
need of clothing it will be supplied him
by the cooperating agency"
No one will be sent to the woodward
it was said. without first having been
fed and the ticket given him by the
committee will be stamped when he
has done the work assigned him Physi-
cal examinations will be given so as
to make sure that the i'll or infirm
are not given work beyond their ca
pacity. In this connection. the COM
mittee reported only one person has
been injured in 5000 hours of work
at the woodward, that injury having
been a slight cut on the finger. All
persons working in the yard are covered
by workmens compensation insurance
taken out by the Employment Com
mittee
The United States Bureau Of Home
Economics will be asked to study the
meals given in cooperating agencies
and make recommendations, if neceS-
sary for such diet as will maintain
the men receiving this food in rea-
sonable health and vigor.
AID Where Necessary.
Acting Chairman Ernest H. Daniel
emphasized that homeless and transient
men are not encouraged to come to
WASHINGTON because it has its own un-
employment problem. but that it is the
intention of the committee to make
sure that those who do come here are
given every reasonable care and as
SiStance
In accordance with this new plan,
the Community Chest will issue to sub
scribers, books of tickets which they
may give to applicants referring them
to the Council OF Social Agencies and
the Travellers Aid for the 24-hour refer
ence service which has been estab-
liShed.
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