Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-27
COUNCIL IS NAMED
TOSEEK SOLUTION
FOR D. c. RELIEF
Allen Names Group to Map
SeIf.Supporting Basis
for Capital.
LONG.RANGE PROGRAM
EYES EXCESS WORKERS
Another Problem Is 4, 500 Fam.
lilies Without Member
Able to Earn.

Seeking a solution Of the Districts
relief problem which will put the city
on a self-supporting basis. District
Commissioner George e. Allen late
Yesterday announced the formation OF
Rehabilitation Council to design
long-range program.
The Commissioner, who also is
works progress administrator and has
directed the emergency relief set-up
here since its inception, indicated the
council will plan for the day when
Federal unemployment relief is at an
end.
Widely representative Of the Dis
trict, the council will undertake
broad and exhaustive study Of the To-
cal situation and must answer the
questions inherent in the lack Of sum-
Gent business and industrial activity
here eventually to absorb all persons
now dependent on public assistance.
ct Is hoped that out Of this ac-
tivity the National Capital may be
united In O constructive longtime
program Of community rehabilitation
and permanent well-being for all OF
its people," the Commissioner stated.
Expedients Are Temporary.
He emphasized that both relief and
Works Progress Administration work
are temporary expedients and heavy
burdens On the taxpayers.
Purposes and functions Of the new
organization. to which A prominent
washingtonians were named. were
outlined as follows:
al. To study the situations outlined
above as they affect both future relief
and employment in the District OF
Columbia.
20. To make any other pertinent
studies necessary to determine the
problem of self-sufnciency on the part
of the population of the District.
49, To make any proposals which
may be necessary and desirable, look
ing toward q future relief and en-
ployment program to the end that,
in the long run, relief in the District
Of Columbia may be held to the
lowest possible figure, and the total
population Of the District Of Column
bia may be as nearly as possible on
an independent self-supporting basis"
Building Program Near End.
In the last 10 years large num-
Der of persons have been brought
here by the Federal building program
which now is approaching an end,
Allen pointed out. Ordinary business
and industrial activity cannot absorb
these persons, he said.
Approximately $500 of the 1900
families now dependent on public aid
have no employable member, con-
shutting another problem for which
the council will seek an answer
Allen said the council will have
paid executive secretary Of suffi-
cient training and background to help
in the research and planning. He
made it plain none Of the A persons
named to the body have been con-
suited as to their willingness to serve.
Those chosen we're:
Clarence A. Aspinwali; Sanford
Bates, George w. Beasley, Mrs. Lloyd
w. Biddle, Beatrice Clephane, Ed
ward F. Colladay, James e. Coli
flower, John B. Colpoys, Karl w.
Corby, DIR. w. L. Darby. Clarence
Phelps Dodge. Harold E. Doyle. Mrs.
Henry Grattan Doyle, william ].
Father, jr.; Robert v. Fleming, Mrs.
Charles Goldsmith, Arthur HELEN.
Frank r. Jelleff, Maj. Campbell c.
johnson, Thomas P. Littlepage. DR..
Howard H. Long, John S. Locher,
Lowell Mellett, Eugene Meyer, DR..
Harold G. Moulton, Arthur G. New
meyer, Theodore w. Noyes, Col. Arthur
OBrien, Rev. DR.. John O'Grady, Mrs.
Eleanor Patterson, Mrs. w. A. Roberts,
DR.. Sterling Rufin, H. L. Rust, jr.;
John Saul, DR.. Emmett Scott, Arthur
Clarendon Smith, Dr.. Arson Phelps
Stokes, Corcoran Thorn, Charles H.
Tompkins, DR.. Walter S. Ufford, Jus
tice Alfred A. Wheat, H. Winship
wheatley, Lloyd B. Wilson and James
G.. Yaden.
The council will select its own
chairman.