Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-07-08
MORALE OF PUBLIC
HELD SOCIAL JOB
Marvin Tells Relief Confer
ence Food Is of Least Impor-
lance in Present Crisis.

1.-THE Job of the social worker in the
days that are to come is to maintain
the morale Of the people, il is not
a question of food and shelter-food Is
of the least importance in the present
crisis" Cloyd Heck Marvin. president OF
George Washington University, told the
Conference on Effective Measures Of
Emergency Unemployment Relief in
Corcoran Hail. George Washington Uni
versity, today
DR.. Marvin added that the principal
need of the people is moral stamina and
added that a program that tends to
pauperiZe the people is not worthy"
Fred G. Croxton, assistant director of
the Presidents Organization on Unem-
ployment Relief. was chairman of the
conference this morning and spoke on
National Cooperation in Meeting the
Problem of Unemployment Relief
Outlines Proposed Measures.
He outlined some of the proposed
measures for direct Federal aid to the
States IN unemployment relief and re-
viewed many questions which are to
come before todays session.
Katherine F. Lenroot assistant chief
Of the Children'S Bureau, said the
fundamental problem facing those now
interested in allaying the suffering
caused by unemployment is to build
against being caught in a position like
that which the relief agencies of the
country faced when the depression came
in 1929.
One of the chief problems in the
present situation. she said, is that OF
the transient boy She advocated a
Nationwide campaign among city,
State and Federal relief agencies to keep
boys in their homes during the present
state of economic upheaval.
Others Give Talks.
Other speakers this morning were
Arthur Durham, director Of the De-
partment of Special Studies of the
Family Welfare Association of America.
who discussed the details of the work
Of his organization: Maurice r. Reddy,
assistant director of disaster relief Of
the American Red Cross, who explained
the methods by which the Red Gross is
distributing 100000 bushels of Fed
eral Farm Board wheat and is planning
to distribute one-half million bales of
cotton, and Clarence E. Pickett. execu-
tive secretary Of the American Friends
Service Committee Of Philadelphia. who
told of his organizations relief work
among the families of unemployed coal
miners in West Virginia and Kentucky.
This afternoon the conference met at
luncheon at the Powhatan Hotel I'M
der the Craftsmanship of Miss Lenroot
for the discussion of State emergency
relief programs. The speakers at the
luncheon included, besides Miss Len
root, DR.. Ellen c. Potter. director of
medicine, New Jersey Department Of
Institutions and Agencies, who spoke
on the use of State funds in stimulat-
ing local relief organization, and Wal
ter w. Petit. executive director of the
New York State temporary emergency
relief administration, who spoke on use
of State funds in raising standards Of
local relief
Following the luncheon, Elwcod Street.
director of the Washington Community
Chest, presided at a session devoted to
the discussion of fund raising for relief
work. Speakers were Arthur Guild. di-
rector of the Richmond. Va, Com
munity Fund: Frank Bane of the Amer
lean Association of Public Welfare OIL
Gals and Allen T. Burns, executive Sec
rotary of the Association of Community
Chests and Councils
State and local relief programs again
viii be discussed ut a dinner meeting
tonight, and at the session following
the discussion will be on the broader
aspects of the crisis in employment.
Speakers tonight viii be Isadore I.
Luhin Of the Brookings Institute, who
will speak on Trends in Underlying
Economic Conditions" and d. Prentice
Murphy of the Children's Bureau of
Philadelphia, on Social Effects Of the
Crisis"