Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1933-05-18
Sum
Is Spent For
Relief Work
Total of $4,000 Goes to
Help Needy in Lincoln
County.
GIVES WORK TO
LARGE NUMBER

The large sum of $4,000 will have
Deen expended on relief work in T;n
coin county by the end of Nav fron,
Iunds provided by the Reconstruction
finance corporation. The first money
IRON, rom thls source was received last
november With its allotment the Lin
com county committee was notified
thaf $1,000 had been placed at its dis
posal 70 cover period of three months
-tne months of November, December
and January. In February the Local
committee was allotted $500 for that
month and since that time 5000 has
been allotted for each of the thraa.
months OF March, April and Nav. max
ing the grand total of $4,000.
ms money has been divided enuallv
among the three communities Of the
county, the Libby, Troy and Eureka
districts each receiving a third In
Ger strict instructions laid down bxr
washington and Helena officials. bv far
the greater part of this money has been
PAID out to buy food and clothiae-for
work performed by those who wer.
actually IN need. There has been q CON
slant demand OH the committee for as
slstance and they have tried to spread
the money over as many deserving
people as possible. In view of the al
most total lack of other labor thoro,,qh-
out the county during this period. this
money has been a God-send and has
helped to prevent what otherwise
would have been desperate destitution
q relatively small part Of the funds
mas Rone. as direct aid to few who
because OF age or incapacity were un-
able to work, but such sum was only.
q small part of the total
The public should realize that tha
purpose back of this relief work has
not been primarily to provide work for
men out OF employment Rather the
underlying aim has been to relieve
restitution. One clause In the instruc
lions says. The recipients Of work re-
LEI and the amounts given are both
determined upon the basis Of actual
needs New instructions received last
week state that hereafter bills for hos
pital, medical and institutional care
must not be paid from this money.
The regulations also provide that no
cash shall be paid in wages for labor.
Instead, orders are given on merchants
tor food and clothing in the amount of
wages one may have coming for work
performed, and the money is paid di-
rect to the merchant. furthermore. the
Helena committee is quite critical of
the merchandise merchants are per-
mitted to supply the workers, insist
ing that only plain, substantial food and
clothing be supplied The position is
taken by the state committee that If
a family is destitute and in need of as
sistance, they should be willing to get
along without what might be termed
luxuries
Practically all of the large sum re-
ceived has gone into direct relief A
small sum has been expended for
necessary supplies and postage and for
the premium on accident insurance
but this is relatively small. None of
the committee receives any salary ex-
cept the secretary and treasurer, the
others donating their services. Be
cause of the large amount of book
keeping necessary under the reguIa-
tons, the secretary and treasurer is
paid $50 month, but that has been
paid out of county funds in order to
keep relief funds as large as possible.
The Lincoln County Emergency Re
ief committee is appointed by the Mon
lana State Relief commission at Hell
ana. AT present it is composed of Chas.
D. Rowe, chairman Paul Church, sec
and the three county
Fl E. Brink, j. w. Mil
egan and T.. C. Kensler.