Evening star., 1932-08-29
Program for Welfare Mobili-
zation Conference Out
! lined by Allen T. Burns.
ORGANIZATIONS FACE
HARDEST YEAR OF SLUMP
Government and Business Interests
vitality Concerned in Social
Problem of Nation.

President Hoover will head the group
Of speakers scheduled to address the
Conference of the Welfare and Relief
Mobilization of 1882, to open at the
White House, September IS, according
to the program for the session an
nourced today
Names appearing on the program
indicate the Federal Government and
large business interests are vitality con-
Cerned over the social situation con-
fronting the Nation and are determined
to attempt a solution of welfare and
relief needs of the country.
Other names appearing on the pro-
gram relased today by the National
Citizens Committee of the Mobilization
include Atlee Pomerene, chairman of
the Reconstruction Finance Corpora
ton; Walter S. Clifford, president of
the American Telephone & Telegraph
Co. and former chairman of the Presi-
dents Committee on Unemployment
Relief; Harvey D. Gibson, president of
the Manufacturers Trust Co., and
chairman of the Emergency Unemploy-
nent Relief Committee of New York
City, and Newton D. Baker, chairman
Of the National Citizens Committee of
the Welfare and Relief Mobilization of
1882.
Face Hardest Year.
The conference, it was announced by
Allen T. Burns, executive director of
the Association of Community Chests
and Councils, will be opened with an
address by the President, with Mr..
Baker responding on behalf of the
social forces united in the mobiliza-
ton.
The next IL months, if the predic-
ton OF the organizations united in the
mobilization come true" said Mr..
Burns, will be the most difficult we
have ever faced. Even if business con-
ditions improve the period of recovery
is bound to be slow and the demands
for help and assistance exceedingly
heavy.
ITO discuss the needs confronting all
American communities this Fall and
coordinate plans for meeting these
needs are the purposes of the confer
ence in Washington.
Three subjects of vital interest in
connection with the solving of this
years welfare and relief needs will be
featured on the program. First, ways
in which States and communities can
cooperate in the distribution of the
S300,000,000 Federal appropriation fol-
relief Second, the importance of COM
munitieS maintaining well balanced
social service programs in the present
crisis. The third subject is discussion
of special means to strengthen local
Embarrassing campaigns, Community
Chest and others, which last year raised
upward of $150,000, 900 for welfare and
relief purposes.
Communities Must Aid.
1T is important" Mr.. Burns COM
mented, that the people OF each COM
munity realize that the $300,000,000
voted by the Federal Government for
relief will take care of only about one
half of the increased needs of the coun-
try. While 1t will help enormously, it
will in no way take the place of local
funds and can only be drawn upon by
communities as last resort to supple
ment their own efforts. 1t is impor-
tant also that communities realize that
social work other than relief cannot be
scrapped in the present emergency"
Speakers appearing on the one-day
Washington conference program in ad-
d1tlon to those announced are: j. Her
bert Case, chairman of the Federal Re-
serve Bank of New York and president
of the Association Of Community Chests
and Councils; Frederic R. Kellogg, law
yer, first vice president and treasurer
of the Association of Community
Chests and Councils, Morristown, N j.;
the Community Chest of Cincinnati,
formerly president of the National
Council of Social Work; Louis E. Kir-
stein, vice president, William Filene's
Sons Co., president Of the Association
of Jewish PhilanthropieS, Boston; Fred
erick Hoke, vice president, Holcomb &
Hoke, member board of directors, Com
munity Chest, indianapolis, and Joseph
L. Scott, attorney, president, Commu-
nifty Chest Of Los Angeles.
Representatives from the % national
social service organizations participat-
ing in the mobilization also will attend
the conference. These organizations
are: American Country Life Associa-
ton, American Hospital Association,
American Public Welfare Association,
American Social Hygiene Association,
Association of Community Chests and
Councils, Boys Clubs of America. Inc:
Boy Scouts of America, Bureau of
Jewish Social Research, Camp Fire
Girls, Inc; Child Welfare League of
America. Inc; Family Welfare Asso-
citation of America. the Federal Council
of the Church of Christ in America,
Girl Scouts, Inc; Jewish Welfare
Board, National Association of Trav-
elers' Aid Societies. National Board,
Y. w. c. A. of the U. s. A; National
Catholic Welfare Conference. National
Child Labor Committee, National Con-
ference of Catholic Charities, National
Council. Y M. C. A; National Organi-
Zation for Public Health Nursing, Inc;
National Probation Association. Nation
al Recreation Association, National So
ciety for the Prevention of Blindness,
National tuberculosis Association. the
Salvation Army, Inc, Social Work
Publicity Council Welfare Department
of the Association Of Junior Leagues OF
America.