Evening star., 1934-05-27
UNEMPLOYED CARE
TO Be TAKEN OVER
|BY NEW DIRECTOR
Action on Appointment of
Miss NJ. Alice Hill Regard.
| ed as Formality.
ADDITIONAL CHANGES
| WILL BE CONSIDERED
New Methods of Operating Relief
Stations Expected to Be
Developed Soon.

A new administration will assume
responsibility for proper care of
Washington's unemployed this week
with the appointment of Miss NJ Alice
Hill, Harrisburg, Pa, social work ex-
pert, as director of emergency relief.
Selection of Miss Hill was an
nounced yesterday by Elwood Street,
now director of the Washington Com
munity Chest, who will take over MS
duties as director of the Board OF
Public Welfare Friday. Action on the
appointment likely will be taken to-
morrow or Tuesday. but this is re-
garded as formality.
viii Arrive Today.
Miss Hill, who has had 1S years Of
experience in social work. is scheduled
to arrive here today and will consult
with Street on plans for further re-
organization of the Relief Division, in
Guiding appointment of business
manager and selection of a director
of case workers.
Some new methods of operation CT
units of the relief stations are ex-
pected to be developed at an early
date as a result of a new admins
trative set-up planned by Commis-
sioner Allen following an examination
of the relief system here by Federal
relief officials.
Leroy A. Halbert, now director OF
emergency relief, will become first
assistant director and will be placed
| in charge of a research bureau TO
be organized. His present salary OF
| 81, 400 will continue, officials say. The
new relief directors salary will be
$1,000, Street reported.
Residents to Get Posts.
| Commissioner Allen said yesterday
that the posts of business manager
| and director of case workers would
GO to residents of Washington. The
names of those under consideration
were not made public.
Both Allen and Street praised the
selection of Miss Hill. which had been
recommended unanimously by the
Board of Public Welfare and had
been Endorsed by officials of the Fed
eral Emergency Relief Administra-
ton For this reason the appoint
ment by the Commissioners was re-
garded as certain.
Miss Hill, in accepting the post
here, said yesterday at Harrisburg:
"I felt obliged to accept. 1t offers
a much wider field and, while I
hesitate to leave the community
where I spent some of the happiest
years of my life, regard it duty
| to take the new post"
Harrisburg Work Praised.
Her resignation from her present
post was accepted with regret by di-
rectors of the Harrisburg societies.
They noted that during her service
there she had handled exceedingly
difficult problems growing out of the
depression
Miss Hill is a native of Freeport,
Ill, and graduated from Wells Col
lege in 1909. She taught in a high
school at Freeport for three years
and then became affiliated with the
Family Society of Springfield, III. She
served as district secretary of the
Boston Family Society for a time
in 1918 and then was made secretary
of the Springfield, Ill, organization.
She organized the Springfield Com
munity Chest, Council of Social
Agencies and the Children's Bureau.
during eight years of service there.
Miss Hill has been executive secre-
tary of the Associated Aid Societies
Of Harrisburg during the past eight
and a half years. In that capacity.
she was in charge of the unemploy-
ment relief problem there for two
years and after the Federal Govern
ment took over emergency relief con-
troll, the society continued to handle
a quarter Of the unemployment load.
Miss Hill has served as president Of
the Pennsylvania Conference Of So
cial Workers and Is a member Of
the American Association of Social
Workers.
Food Study Planned.
Commissioner Allen revealed yes
terday that Mrs. Katharine McF.
Ansley, supervisor of the school lunch
program, established here last Janu-
ary, will be assigned to the emer-
gency relief division during the Sum-
mer vacation and will make a study
of provision of food for families on
relief rolls. She Is to make a check
on the menus of cross-section Of
these families and also plan food
orders given to needy persons. The
free lunch program for school chill
dren will be abandoned during the
vacation period
Methods of operation Of the branch
relief station at 1923 U street may be
established for all the branch stations,
Commissioner Allen said after review
ing a report on the new system there.
At the U street branch, case work.
ers spend virtually all their time visit
ing families on their assignment list
and turn all their clerical work over
to a pool Of clerical workers. An
investigation showed that the num-
Der of relief recipients calling at the
branch office daily was reduced from
1000 to so by adoption of this case
work plan.
A study OF the system was made
for Allen by his secretary, Ross Ha-
worth. and James Barrett, an en-
ploye Of the emergency relief head
quarters. They found that action on
relief cases was kept up to current
demands when the case workers were
relieved Of clerical tasks.
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