The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-11-30
RELIEF NOTES
Orders Relief Needs Analyed

Minnesota's entire industrial and
economic structure will be examined by
experts from the FERA Federal Emer-
gency Relief Administration to estab-
liSh definite basis for determination
of the states relief needs.
Announcement to this effect has been
made by T. ]. Edmonds, regional repre-
sentative, FERA. He reports that the
financial department of the national
relief administration has instructed its
special representative, Lent D. Epson,
to cause surveys along these lines to be
made in all the states.
1t is deemed vitality important to
ascertain with certainty the public well
fare needs of Minnesota, and other
states, and the extent to which each
should meet them through efforts of its
own, against the background of known
assets. Hence, the study will be as in
elusive as possible and delve into the
states natural resources and tangible
wealth, magnitude of tax delinquencies,
yield from income tax, and financial
condition of industries and banks.
Mr.. Ermonds also announced that
Frank Bane, director of the American
Public Welfare association, and FERA
adviser, will come west to discuss with
the state administrators and the re-
gional Office all questions pertinent to
the inquiry.
Invaluable benefits accrue from COM
plete case records in the hands of
trained investigators, Mr.. Edmonds
said. The gross relief cost, he stated, is
usually proportionately less in states
where stats of efficient relief workers
have been organized.
Ambulating Barbershop
The BARRIERS Union of St. Paul and
the Minnesota SERA have joined forces
in a war on untrimmed boards and
shocks of hair.
A barber project has been set up,
with twofold purpose. One is to help
the city's homeless to keep tidy through
regular contacts with shears and razors
The other aims to render corresponding
service to the wards of Ramsey County
in its charitable institutions.
The stationary parlor gives emofu-
ments to BARRIERS, whose tools would
otherwise lie idle and unproductive on
the shelves. Here penniless transientS
can have their locks shorn and stubbles
erased without charge.
| At regular intervals, these hardness
| ing artists visit the various welfare
establishments of the county, to give
the inmates the benefit of their art.
Mattress Factory in Duluth
Manufacture of mattresses for the
needy in Northern Minnesota has begun
/! in the SERA factory in Duluth at 22l
Lake Avenue south
This is the third unit in the setup to
produce total of 10000 mattresses for
the states relief families. Two plants
of the same nature are located in Min
neapolis and st. Paul, respectively.
At top capacity CT rs mattresses daily
so people will be employed.
Oxen Again in Vogue
Oxen yoked as draft animals are now
familiar sights in the transient camps
operated by the Minnesota SERA.
And thereby hangs a tale.
Horses and tractors are out of
question in the camps, for financial
reasons The primitive motive power
was furnished by human muscles, until
the drouth cattle in the north were to
be disposed of. A certain number was
allotted to the camps for slaughtering
Then a simple solution of the power
problem occurred to Oscar w. Ben
rens, director of the transient relief
division. He selected the best steers to
be trained to the yoke and thus become
useful in other ways, besides as food.
This explains why now 20 yoke OF
oxen in various transient camps are
hauling logs. pulling plows and doing
other work, which their ancestors per-