The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-04
By JAMES C. AUSTIN (Copyright 1885, by The United
 

Press)
 New York, April 4.-UP)- The steady depletion of bank re- serves held by middle class unem- ployed families, discontinuance of CWA projects, strikes, crop fail- ures and drouth may bring the nations 1895 relief costs to a new high, it was indicated today in "a United Press survey of 40 states.
 Relief expenditures of those areas surveyed approximated $1,- 323,113,000 in 1884. On the bas- is of anticipated relief needs in IS of those states, the figure may rise to approximately $1,5S0,000,0O0 before the end of 1885. The es? inmates were by state relief offic- ials.
 The increase, the survey indicat- ed, will go to feed, clothe and shelter 90,000 or more persons and their families who will be forced to join the already overburdened relief lines estimated at some Ill., | 705,000 in 40 states.
 Decreases In Nine States l lObobio oSSA SfoCo AiA AAAhS states and continuation of 1884 relief expenditures in seven others offset some of the increased relie1 cost anticipated in the states forced to bear the major relief burden-New York, Pennsylvania California. Illinois, Ohio and New Jersey. Six other states are listed | as questionable through the re- fusal of their state officials to estimate either costs of numbers of persons on relief for this year. In computing the anticipated relief costs for 1935-perhaps $260. 100000 above the 1884 costs of these doubtful states, the United Press used the 1894 figures in computing apparent upward or downward trends in relief costs. They represent approximations and not official estimates.
 Six Southern states led the group forecasting decreases in relief costs. Also. in this group were two western and one middle western state. Two southern. two eastern and two western states es- timated their costs would remain stationary, as did one in the mid dle section.
 Labor Under Burdens The survey showed the majority of states reporting from the East, middle west and west still labor ing under an increasing relief l burden, with two southwestern states anticipating higher costs. | Of the eastern states expecting | increased relief costs, Pennsylvan- ia leads with the anticipation it's 1885 costs will approximate $20O,- | 000,000 and it's relief rolls an av- craze of 1,600,000 persons due to the depletion of savings accounts. Last year the commonwealth ex- pended $126,032,703 for relief. New Jersey, absorbing many former | CWA workers, expects to add $23,- l 100000 to its burden for a total of $84,000,00 to care for 611,000 families. New Hampshire, which expended only $5,000,000 in 1884, anticipates tremendous in- crease" because of new legislation placing all unemployable, persons on welfare lists. Connecticut ex- poets to have more than 199,000 persons on relief with costs $6,- 000,000 above the previous figure Rhode Island reported costs were amounting due to slackness in its textile industry.
 California Will Double California predicts it's last years costs will be more than doubled to approximately $182,000,000 for its 537,O00 needy. The cause. ac- cording to pr. N. G. Silvemaster. EZRA Director of research, is due partly to strikes in the sugar. docks, and mines and to a reduced cotton crop.