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and personal interviews since that
time.
I'VE were hopeful that the public
expressions of the President and Mrs.
Roosevelt that Washington should de-
velop the model proba tion and parole
system would carry some influence.
We were further cheered when the
President requested the director of
the budget to confer with you relative
to setting up in Washington a model
probation and parole system.
I'm your recent letter to me you
say: 1T would be impracticabe at
this time to add to the budget esti-
mates In view of the fact that this
matter has been in your Office for ID
months, 1 can only assume that this
is another way of calling my atten-
ton to the fact that l have over
estimated the Importance Of this
whole matter.
Therefore, that your honorable
board may be relieved of my importu-
mites and because I have no interest
of continuing a perfectly useless and
perhaps harmful type of work, l re-
spectfully tender my resignation from
the Parole Board. to take effect at
your earliest convenience"
Disagrees With Allen.
As to several Of the charges made
by Taliaferro. Commissioner Allen
made it plain that he and Taliaferro
where on opposite sides OF the fence.
He said. however. that he still wanted
Taliaferro to continue as a member
of the board because he felt there
was place on the board for a clash
OF conflicting opinions.
Taliaferro said that recent expendi-
lures in his opinion had been "un-
reasonable and prodigal." Allen asked
Leroy Halbert, director Of emergency
relief. what the expenditures were
and Halbert said approximately $40
per month per family. Allen indicated
he did not consider this "prodigal,"
The care of transientS to which
Taliaferro took exception is financed
entirely by the Federal Government
and Allen said that he took the posi-
ton that the Federal Emergency Re-
lief Administration had the correct
solution.
Required to Work "a Hours.
The transients are required to work
"a hours per week. In return, they
are given three meals per day at q
cost CT not to exceed cents per meal,
lodging. needed clothes and medical
attention. If they work the full "a
hours they are given 90 cents per
week pocket money. They are re-
quired to work 16 hours before they
get any money. If they work more
than l6. but less than "a. they get the
appropriate portion of 90 cents.
Referring to recent criticism of
emergency cases in which there have
been delays in getting relief to appli-
cants, Taliaferro said: No one has
starved to death"
Commissioner Allen vas asked II
he only considered 1t fair to criticize
such delays after somebody had ac-
tually starved to death. He replied:
Absolutely not"
Halbert Admits DELAYS.
Halbert admitted that with 1900
cases on the relief rolls there was no
question that there were delays in
some cases. He had no fault to find
with criticism of the delay in those
cases, and said that If it were in his
power he would see to 1t that in emer-
gency cases relief would be forthcom-
ing first and investigation afterWard.
He said that only recently the num-
ber of case workers has been in
creased from so to 1856. He is await.
Ing a decision from the controller
general which will permit the re-
establishment of the Use of food orders
to be aavilable at the various relief
substations throughout the city The
food order system has been aban-
doned because the entire relief pro-
gram Is now being operated out of
Federal funds and machinery has not
vet been set up for issuing food Or
ders against these funds without the
necessity OF taking bids for the food
to be bought. Halbert said he regards
probably as the worst feature of the
present set-up the handling Of the
problem of rents and that he is at
tempting to work out system where
by in relief cases it may be possible to
make regular payments to landlords
for rent below commercial rent stand
ards hit still eOouph m taLo roro of