Evening star., 1932-09-16
HO0VER'S RELIEF
/. PROGRAM PUSHED
Nations Welfare Workers
/ Return to Homes to Carry
Out Plans.

the coming Winter, so that no man.
woman or child shall suffer from lack
of food, clothing or shelter, approxi-
raately $50 of the Nations leaders IN
welfare work were returning to their
homes today following the conference
here yesterday of the Welfare and Re
lief Mobilization Of 1882.
The conference determined to devote
the weeks Of October II to November
20 to the campaign Of stimulating local
communities for the attack on relief
throughout the Fall and Winter in CO.
ordination of the efforts Of the Federal
Government and the. 40 organizations
which make up the mobilization to
Danish privation and want from the
American home during the months
when nature places additional burdens
upon the needy. .A s
Every Section to Become Active.
ference yesterday, one at the White
House and three at the Mayhower. the
welfare leaders unanimously devoted
themselves to the task of seeing that
every political subdivision Of the coun-
try makes its own contribution to its
relief and welfare needs before calling
upon the Government for a share in
the $500, ,o0O, 900 relief fund voted by
Congress and being administered by the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
Striking the keynote Of the confer
ence, Newton D. Baker, chairman. told
the delegates. organized under the d.
rection Of the National Citizens Com
mittee, Of which the former Secretary
OF War also is chairman, that to public
relief aids must be added devotion
of every private resource"
The same note was struck by Atlee
Pomerene, chairman Of the Reconstruc-
ton Finance Corporation, who said the
Federal relief fund should be resorted to
only when there is inadeQuacy in the
voluntary local relief contributions. He
said the responsibility for furnishing
relief rests primarily with the States,
the political subdivisions of the States
and the municipalities.
Dinner Closes Conference.
The conference closed with q dinner
last night at which Mr.. Baker presided:
The speakers included Harvey D. Glib
son, chairman Of the Emergency Un-
employment Relief Committee Of New
York City; Fred Hoke, director Of the
Community Chest Of Indianapolis, and
Joseph Scott, president Of the Com
munity Chest of Los Angeles.
MI. NTlUSOA odW O Slooo Va d1lCA1-
ployed with which relief organizations
Should be most concerned-that group
on the fringe of the army Of the unem-
ployed which has exhausted its re-
sources, spent all its savings, has leaned
upon relatives and friends until these
can play the part OF Good Samaritan
no longer, and who individually are
now destitute and have no place to
turn to save themselves from eviction
and starvation"
He urged the welfare agencies to
turn to these persons and salvage them
from the wreckage of the depression.
Mr.. Hoke outlined to the delegates
some Of the details Of Chest fund cam
paigning which. in his opinion, would
prove valuable in breaking down the
resistance of subscribers this year.
Closing the conference, Mr.. Scott de-
clared:
1T Is heartening, indeed, to those OF
us who have Official relation with this
movement to realize that this meeting
will have widespread consideration and
stimulate all persons who are socially
minded to grasp the opportunity to
help by gratuitous service and volun-
tary subscriptions the tremendous well
fa:e and relief program which confronts
the Nation"
Campaign Strategy Discussed.
In yesterday afternoons session there
was a general discussion Of Strategy
of Local Campaigns and National Re-
enforcement for the Fall in View OF
Special Problems in Money Raising"
with c. M. Bookman. executive secre-
tary Of the Community Chest Of Gin
cinnati and Louis z. KRISTEN, pres1-
dent of the Associated Jewish Ph1lan.
thropies Of Boston, leading the discus
sion. F. r. Kellogg, first vice president
of the Association Of Community Chests
and Councils. was chairman at this
session, and brought the general topic
before the gathering.
At the same time the National C1ti.
zens' Committee Of the Welfare and
Relief Mobilization of 1882, composed
of so Industrial and welfare leaders
from every section OF the country, was
hearing In executive session the report
Of its chairman, Mr.. Baker, and out
lining its plans for presentation later
to the general mobilization.
In yesterday afternoons discussion
Mr. Bookman declared:
There has not been sufficient money
available from all sources to provide
adequate relief to the unemployed.
Largely because Of this fact, the giver
questions the present use made OF funds
intrusted to the community chests.
While he may not openly, charge ex-
travagance of operation, he does think
that great economies can be practiced
by social agencies. He must be con-
WINGED of wise, economical and sensible
operation under present conditions II
he is to give as he should.
Social work is largely personal serv-
ice, and requires considerable per-
centage of expenditures for salaries,
Nevertheless, II adequate reduction Is
operation of the chests, the total
amount paid in salaries and wages must
be less.
Must Use Public Funds.
UNLESS we are willing to see neces-
sary social work crippled beyond recov-
cry. every effort must be made to place
upon taxation the lions share of the
unemployment relief load. This Is an
ins.ance in which private giving should
supplement public funds and not the
reverse. At the same time private CIV
ing must and should carry part of the
loa a.-some of the direct relief, and
espe. ially much of the extra required
Cor health, children's work and delin-
9uency prevention which Unemployment
has caused"
MI. KRISTEN assailed what he called
"fair- weather philanthropy"
"It is no longer a question in an
emergency like this whether any tndi-
vidual will give as much as he can. but
rather how he will give it-voluntarily
or through further increased taxation
The unemployed cannot be left and will
not long submit to hunger and dete-
rforation. Either we must give gener-
ously and voluntarily to our social
agencies or we must stop whining when
the Government is forced to impose the
added taxes required for succor until
jobs appear. nave little patience with
kaose Who raise the hoary cry about
dole whether the funds come from
private charity or public treasures. I
do not believe in the dole, but having
entered this areat crisis without pre.