Evening star., 1932-12-20
District Officials and Social
Workers Plead for
s1,250,O00 Fund.
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Mr.. Costello told Chairman Byrns he
Endorsed the budget recommendation
for $1,250,000.
Mr.. Delano also heartily indorsed the
recommendation for relief during the
coming year and outlined to the COM
mittee plans for much more extensive
service which he thought should be
adopted.
A resolution recommended by the
Executive Comrpittee of the Monday
Evening Club and adopted by the club
last night, urging that the full amount
Of sl,500,000 asked by the Public Wei
fare Bureau should be authorized in
stead of the $1,25O.000 recommended by
the Budget Bureau. will be presented
to the subcommittee tomorrow.
Another request for increasing the
amount is to be presented by Miss
Louise Mcclure, representing the Wash
ington Chapter Of the American Asso-
citation of Social Workers. She said
her association, after very careful
study, recommends 81 900 900 for a con-
structive program of relief work.
Relief Plans Outlined.
The first meeting OF the District of
Columbia Committee of the National
Committee for the Mobilization Of We'll
fare and Relief, was held yesterday at
the United States Chamber of Com
merce.
Mr.. Taliaferro, Elwood Street, di-
rector Of the Community Chest, and
DR.. George Farnham, member of the
Travellers Aid Society's Committee on
Transient Boys, outlined the phases of
relief and welfare work in which they
are particularly active.
Mrs. John j. O'Connor. chairman OF
the District committee, who presided
asserted the task Of the local group
would be to keep before the public the
needs Of Washington and to work for
such portions of the general welfare
program as require aid.
Mr.. Taliaferro reviewed the crisis
confronting the Emergency Relief Com
mittee in its efforts to provide aid with
the S350,o00 appropriated by Congress
last year. Allowing only $470 a week
for family Of four or five, Mr.. Talia-
ferrO said no provision is made, even on
this economical basis, for single men
and single women In need of relief
Every penny of the fund goes for wages
for unemployed, he said, because the
District Committee on Unemployment
and other agencies provide tools, SUPER
vision and other factors needed in put
ting large groups to work.
The Emergency Committee, he con-
tinued, received 1858 applications fol
aid as of December 10. OF these, l.
1913 were referred from other agencies
and 10,785 applied direct. On Decem-
caring for 4.167 families, while 6,4s2
family cases either had been closed out
or refused.
Difficult to Meet Crisis.
''It simply is a day-to-day problem, u
Mr.. Taliaferro declared in conclusion
Even if Congress permits the District
to appropriate the $1,250,000 recon-
mended by the Commissioners for the
calendar year of 1888, the Board of
Public Welfare still will have difficulty
in meeting the obligations it faces"
Mr.. Street declared the chief prob
lem Of the Community Chest was the
ALLEGATION of budget that is 20 per
cent less than last year, to its 63 men,
ber agencies. There are only two
methods of getting additional money,
the Chest director explained: The first
embraces additional gifts to the Chest
fund, and the other is the establish
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hospital care. This latter point, Mr.
Street declared, is important, as the
District never has paid the costs OF the
patients it sends to the hospitals, since
it pays only 50 day, while the aver
age cost per patient Is at least 81.
Mr Streets conclusion was plea for
support of the Chests social work pro-
gram, with its preventive and charac-
fer h,1i1dipo aCancieS
DR.. Farnham asserted the present
hordes of young men and boys differ
from the former crowds OF youthful
"hoboes" because many Of the present
wanderers are college and high schoo
graduates. They are "on the road" he
said, due to a lack of food in theil
homes and other factors. The prob
lem these groups present, he insisted
has become more than a local one ano
now demands national solution. Such
a program, he explained, might be
similar to the Travellers Aid Society
He suggested additional recreationa
facilities and postgraduate work fol
older boys in public schools, together
with an increase in trade school facili-
ties. These latter measures, he said
would tend to keep boys at home.