The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-07-07
FUNDS ASKED TO AID
NEEDY
More Than $1,OOO,OOO Needed
May Cab Extra Session
" OF Legislature

AS result of a meeting of
County Welfare Board repre-
sentatives, held in Baltimore
on Friday, Governor Richie is
confronted with the problem of
finding a way to provide more
than $1,000,000 in unempIOy-
ment relief funds for at least
twelve Maryland counties.
In the words of Richard F.
Cleveland, cit may mean
speaking unoflicially, OF course
the State VIII have To call a
special session OF the LGglsla-
ture." He made the statement
at the meeting, over which he
presided as unemployment re- Z
lief committee chairman of the
BOARD of State Aid and Char
tiles.
Governor Richie sent to
Washington a request for
$516,574 in Federal relief funds
for Maryland. He claimed
that share on the basis of re-
lief expenditures in this State
in the first quarter Of the year.
Should the request be ap-
proved in full, Baltimore city,
which is scheduled to receive
$435,604 of the total, and
twelve counties, which are
scheduled to receive the bal
ance of $80,970, would have
enough to carry their relief
loads for approximately a
month.
Because Governor Richie
has opposed the use of State
funds for relief purposes and
the State has not entered the
relief field, and because, except
in Baltimore, local govern11ent
units have appropriated relief
funds only on meager basis,
Maryland and it's counties are
unable to claim a substantIaI
share in the $500,000,000 Fed
eral relief appropriation.
The twelve counties which
will have only $80.970 to count
on from Washington and
which reported Friday they
would need more than 81 ,Q00,- !
900 to carry their unemploy-sa
ment relief loads through The
next twelve months are Ale
gany, Anne Arundel, Balti-
more, Cecil, Dorchester, Fred
erick, Garrett, Howard, Kent,
Montgomery, Washington and
Wicomico. They are the coun-
ties which a few months ago
borrowed $176,38O from the
Reconstruction Finance Cor
poration for unemployment re-
lief use.
The Board of State Aid and
Charities, in calling Fridays
meeting, said the $176,380
would be exhausted by July /.
Governor Richie said the r.
F. G. funds would last until
August
Representatives of ten of the
aforementioned twelve coun-
ties reported to the conference
that they would need $891,0OO
to $969,000 to carry their un-
employment relief loads thru
the next twelve months. No
estimates were forthcoming
from Dorchester and Allegany
counties. The last-named has
one of the heaviest relief loads
of the twelve and last month
spent $4,000.
Representatives of three
counties that have not applied
for Federal assistance placed
their relief needs for the ensu-
ing year at $4,000, the total
being arrived at as follows:
Prince Georges $48, 900; Har-
ford, $4,000; Worcester, $1,000.
The twelve counties that al
ready are receiving Federal aid
have a combined population of
$4,000, or more than half the
States population outside Bal
timore. One out of every sew
enteen of their inhabitants is
on relief, and in one county
Garrett-one out of every three
is receiving relief.
Joseph Grant, chairman of
the Cecil county welfare board,
reported $4,000 needed to car
ry relief load through the next
twelve months; 220 families on
relief at present and an addi-
tional one hundred have appli-
ed, but have not been
reached"