Evening star., 1932-04-17
Children Would Be Forced
to Become Wards of
Juvenile Court.
MUNICIPAL FUNDS CUT
UNDER THE ESTIMATE
ALLEGATION Already Made Is Ex-
pected to Consume Allowance
of Welfare Board.

More than 5000 destitute families i'm
the District now under the care of the
Associated Charities viii be put on the
street and their homes broken I'D after
July Is as a result of the refusal of the
House to appropriate the 5000, 900
emergency unemployment relief fund
recommended by President Hoover, it
was said yesterday by Walter S. Ufford.
general secretary of the organization.
IF the Associated Charities is Obliged
to close its doors for lack of funds" Mr..
Ufford declared, there will be untold
suffering among the thousands of fami-
lies for whom the association is caring.
Many of these families will be put upon
the street. Little children and the aged
will be among the sufferers"
Unprecedented demands upon the Or
ganization for assiStanc-, Mr.. Uford
declared, will virtually exhaust its funds
by July is, leaving the destitute families
now being cared for to struggle along on
their own empty resources.
Juvenile Court Hope.
The Associated Charities, Mr.. Ufford
said, will have but one answer to give
applicants for relief when its funds are
exhauSted-recommen that the desti-
tute families with children apply to the
Juvenile Court for the temporary COM
mitment of such children to the Board
Of Public Welfare. Congress, so far
as we know" he declared has never
failed to recognize in its deficiency ap-
preparations the cost of such commit
ments. Such refusal, resulting in the
eviction of hundreds of families, would
be heralded over the country as real
disaster to the National Capital"
Commitment of the children, however,
would not solve the problem completely,
Mr.. Ufford pointed out, because the
parents would be left to suffer.
The unusual demand for relief upon
the Associated Charities and other pri-
vate charitable and welfare organiZa-
tions, Mr.. Ufford explained, is due to
the lack Of public funds for home care.
The Board of Public Welfare, he said,
has already allocated funds appropri-
ated under the home-care act for de-
pendent children, and as a result de-
serving families have turned to and are
bNAiiB AdA CN AOl ny fAlfabC
The 1888 District appropriation bill
as 1t passed the House carried S153, ,280
for home care for dependent children,
the same amount as appropriated for
the current fiscal year, and $11 500 less
than the amount recommended by the
Budget Bureau.
Many Families Carried.
THE Associated Charities" he de-
clared, "is carrying at the present time
many families whom it believes to be
eligible for allowances under the home
care act, there being no more public
funds available for such families at this
time. The society also is carrying a
number of aged couples and old folks
who could be cared for by public funds
outside the Home for the Aged and In
firm If the District had an old age Sc
curity act, such as that in operation in
several States"
The 100000 appropriation urged by
President Hoover Mr. Uford said.
would relieve private agencies of the
additional expenses of caring for the
unemployed, releasing this much money
for the care of families who would even
IN normal times be without resources,
largely on account Of sickness, desertion
OF wage earners, old age and other
reasons.
Unless the 100000 is Forthcoming,
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