Evening star., 1932-07-09
MUNICIPAL UNITY
IN JOBLESS RELIEF
HELD IMPERATIVE
Or. Emil X. FrankeI Urges
Plans at Unemployment
Conference.
NEED FOR IMPROVEMENT
IN ADMINISTRATION SEEN
600 in Attendance at Farley From
Middle and South Atlantic
States.

Unifcation Of all community un-
employment relief work is imperative,
DR.. Emil K. Frankel, director of re-
search, New Jersey Department Of In
stitutions and Agencies, declared this
morning at the second days session
Of the Conference on Effective Measures
of Emergency Unemployment Relief,
being held at Corcoran Hall, George
Washington University, under auspices
of the Department of Sociology of that
institution
DR.. Frankel discussed division of re-
sponsibility between public and private
agencies. He said the ''unmistakable
trend toward assumption of constant
ly larger load by public relief agencies
and an increasing use of tax funds for
unemployment relief makes a complete
integration of effort of the utmost
necessity"
There are more than 1000, 900 heads
of families among the 100000 un-
employed in the United States today,
DR.. Frankel declared. He said that if
a minimum monthly relief of $40 per
family were allowed, the total relief
expenditures per month would amount
to $80,000,00 and represent an annual
outlay of almost one billion dollars.
Recommendations Made.
While some public relief departments
are functioning efficiently, DR.. Frankel
asserted, there is great need for i'm
provement in the present administra-
ton of others. To this end he recon-
mended:
Participation of as large a group of
citizens as possible in the community
unemployment relief program.
Poor relief Offices to become an inter-
tfTFc r.Iaa
ployment administration.
Acceptance by the poor relief official
of the idea of individual rather than
mass treatment.
Leadership to be assumed by the
State Department of Welfare in setting
standards of relief and of administra-
ton"
Other speakers heard this morning
included Miss Roberta Morgan, execu-
tive secretary of the American Red
Gross, who spoke on Work and Wage
Relief; John P. TroXell, executive di-
rector of the Municipal Commission on
Employment Sterilization of Baltimore;
Florence Hutsinpillar, Childred'S Bureau
specialist in public relief, who spoke on
methods of unemployment relief; Will
liam Carl Hunt, assistant manager,
Eastern area American Red Cross, who
discussed rural work relief projects; Nat
Frame director of the extension de-
partment of the University of West Vir-
ginia, who spoke on the same subject;
r. w. Higgins, Greenville, S. c., who
told of relief work in his locality, and
O. E. Baker, senior agricultural econo-
mist of the Department of Agriculture,
whose subject was 'the Drift to the
Country"
Address Luncheon.
Shortly after noon the delegates met
for luncheon in the Powhatan Hotel.
The speakers were r. w. Henninger,
executive secretary of the Governors
Council on Unemployment and Relief
OF North Carolina, who discussed re-
Mobilization work in mill villages, and
Homer Morris, of the American Friends
Service Committee Of Philadelphia, who
spoke on rehabilitation work in mining
towns.
The conference this morning was
divided into two sections. The chair
men were Paul T. Beisser, executive
secretary of the Henry Watson Chill
dren's Aid Society, Baltimore, and J.
Blaine GWin, director of personnel of
tho American Red Cross.
Section meetings will continue
throughout the afternoon and tonight
there will be a dinner meeting in the
Powhatan Hotel. where Brig. Gen. Pei
ham D. Glassford, superintendent of
police, will speak on the problems of
the bonus expeditionary force. Miss
Bertha Mccall, assistant director of the
National Travellers Aid Societies, is to
preside. The speakers at the conelud-
ing session in COrcoran Hall tonight
will be Rev. Dr. John OGrady of the
National Catholic Conference Of Social
Work, and Rabbi Edward L. Israel Of
the Municipal Commission on Employ
ment Sterilization Of Baltimore.
500 in Attendance.
The conference opened yesterday
morning with abcut GOO persons en-
gagged in unemployment relief in the
Middle and South Atlantic States at
tending.
At last nights session, DR.. Isador
Lubin Of the Institute of Economics,
Brookings Institution, told the confer
ence that, irrespective of what may
happen to American industry during
the next six months, the coming Winter
will find a minimum Of 100000 un-
employed workers in need Of private
md public aid. Only a miracle could
stimulate our industrial activity sufi-
ciently to absorb any large proportion
of the unemployed before the fourth
Winter Of unemployment is upon US"
The other address Of the evening was
delivered by D. Prentice Murphy
executive secretary of the Children's
Bureau of Philadelphia.