Evening star., 1934-03-13
POLICE To HANDLE
PLEAS FOR RELIEF,
CUTTING RED TAPE
1900 Members of Force to
Act as Case Workers
Under Liaison.
w. w. BRIDE ACCEPTS
AS BOARD CHAIRMAN
Retiring Corporation Counsel to
Take Place Left Vacant
by Isaac Cans.
BULLETIN.

Wilbur La Roe, jr., today was
appointed as a member on the
Board of Indeterminate Sentence
and Parole.
A liaison between the Police Depart
ment and the Emergency Relief Divi-
SIGN, making each of the District S
1900 policemen in some aspects a
case worker, will be attempted by the
District Commissioners as a means of
shortening some of the delays en-
countered by persons applying for un-
employment relief
Under the plan, which will be dis
cussed by the Commissioners with
Maj, Ernest w. Brown and Leroy A.
Halbert, director of emergency relief
the unsupported word of a policeman
that an applicant is in need would
be enough to get the applicant some
thing to tide him over the emergency
until a regular case worker could in
vestigate
Recent instances have occurred
where, although policemen on the
beat have satisfied themselves that
serious emergencies existed, several
days elapsed before a case worker
reached the applicant, during the
lapse of which no relief was forth
coming.
Bride Named to Board
The Commissioners today appointed
Corporation Counsel William w. Bride,
whose resignation takes effect Thurs
dow pl, nf T.,
determinate Sentence and Parole.
Sidney F. Taliaferro. who resigned as
q member Of the Board of Public
Welfare. February 20. agreed to stay
until his term runs out, June 30. He
expressed the hope that the Com
missioners would relieve him before
that time.
Mr.. Bride will fill the vacancy
created by the resignation of Isaac
Cans, Another vacancy. created by
the resignation of DR.. Loren B. john
son, is still open, but it is believed the
Commissioners will attempt to per-
suade DR.. johnson also to recon-
slider.
Mr.. Taliaferro said
At the request of the Commission
ers, the effective date of my resigna-
ton as a member of the Board of
Public Welfare has been deferred
although 1 should be glad to be
relieved at their earliest convenience
shall carry on temporarily and pos
Slbly until the end of my term June
30. 1884, unless the Commissioners
are able to appoint my successor prior
to that date"
In accepting the chairmanship of
the Parole Board, Mr.. Bride said: Il
nave no desire to accept this Office
because I know it will require a great
deal of time which l can i'll afford.
I had declined it yesterday but at the
urgent request of the Commissioners,
who have been particularly kind to
me. / have decided to take on the
work for an indefinite period"
DR.. johnson resigned because the
present work of the board, hampered
by lack OF funds, is perfectly useless
If not harmful
1t developed today that DR. johnson
and the parole board. when the 1895
estimates were being prepared, had
sent a letter to the Board of Public
Welfare and the District Commits
sioners, calling attention to the fol-
lowing duties of the board:
To examine into the physical
mental and moral records of the
prisoners committed to the penal in
stltutions of the District of Columbia:
to receive reports of wardens and other
officials, including the psychiatrist; to
he
their opinion, is most conducive to the
prisoners reformation: to provide for
a system for determining the proper
time of release and rehabilitation Of
the ex-prisoner in the community"
To carry out these duties, the board
asked for the appointment of a full
time psychiatrist. sociologist and edu-
cational director at So 200 per annum
each; part-time psychologist at
s1,60o per annum. Is field parole
officers at 81 $50 and a clerk stenog-
repher at sl,44O.
Denied by Committee.
These recommendations we're all
denied by the Districts Economy Com
mittee. headed by District Auditor
Daniel J. Donovan. and the action of
the Economy Committee was con-
firmed by the Commissioners. The
board has one paid employe, secretary
The resignation of DR.. johnson
left only one member of the Parole
Board, Dr. Emmet J. Scott of How
ard University. Cans had resigned
previously to become member of the
A. B. C. Beard. DR.. Scott told The
Star late yesterday he, too. was con-
sidering resigning. but was willing to
give the Commissioners "one more
chance" to cooperate with the Parole
Board.
1t was learned that about year
ago John Joy Edison, veterah men,
ber of the Board of Public Welfare.
announced his intention of resigning.
He has not attended board meetings
for some months, but has not resigned
Another evidence of minor discord
in the Districts welfare set-up CROP
ped out today when Capt. Howard F.
Clark, chairman of the Work Plan
ming Committee, discovered only 40
transients were at work chopping
wood at the wood yard instead of the
customary 400.
Capt. clark at nrSt was INFORMED
that the transients were doing recla-
nation work at Kingman Lake. north
of Benning road.
As chairman of the committee,
Clark is the one who decides on such
projects, but he had never heard
Of the Kingman Lake project.
Further investigation showed there
is project on foot to use transient
men for work there. the project hav-
ing been developed by Arthur S.
Rosichan. director of transient relief.
Rosichan said. however. that the men
we're not working there yet but were
cleaning up buildings.
Rosichan and Leroy A. Halbert,
director Of emergency relief, will con-
fer this afternoon with the Federal
Emergency Relief Administration to
see If it approves Of the project,