Evening star., 1936-03-28
NEW PLEA MAPPED
FOR RELIEF FUNDS
FOR EMPL0YABLES
10000 to Be Dropped Un-
less $258,OOO Is
Granted.
$3.50, 900 APPROPRIATED
FOR UNEMPLOYABLES
Dependent Children Also In.
cluded-W. P. A. Due to Give
$215,000 for Parks.

Approximately 10000 employable
Washington relief clients now de-
pendent upon relief for food, shelter
and clothing, will have to shift for
themselves after three more days, be-
cause Congress has refused to pro-
vide for them.
The Board of Public Welfare, how
ever, declared their need is "incon-
testable" and made plans yesterday
to present the case again to the Dis
trict Commissioners in an effort to
get $3.50, 900 to continue their present
status through the end of the fiscal
year, June 80.
The board held a special meeting
at the District Building late yester-
day to determine their policy in
handling the S350,000 authorized as
a supplemental appropriation earlier
this week. After a conference Of
nearly three hours it was decided
to confine future activities to "unem-
ployables" and to dependent children.
Budget Bureau Fixes Sum.
The Budget Bureau fixed s25o,OOo
as the sum to be spent during the
remainder of the fiscal year and
Congress added 100000. The $780,
900 will be spent caring for the 400
unemployableS now on the rolls and
the 100000 will be spread as far as
it will go to caring for families with
children without the support of one
narant E1uOOd Street diracfOr said
The board, however, reiterated its
statement of several weeks ago that
the total needed is S6O8,00o and
Street was instructed to ask the
Commissioners to seek the $258,o00
disallowed.
THE needs Of the 4,100 cases Of
employables is incontestable," Street
said after the meeting, land it is
with extreme regret that the board
faces the limitation Of aid to any
one group. The board naturally,
placed the unemployables first and
the dependent children second. The
third group-the employables who
can't get jobs-represent duty that
is inescapable, but it is necessary to
drop them because Congress has failed
to provide for them.
'Real Need Not Met"
"The board feels that in taking
this course of action it is in accord
ance with Federal policy. The Fed
eral Government has asked the local
communities to care for the unem-
ployables with the idea that the em-
ployables will be cared for through
Federal works projects.
But theirs is a real need that is
not being met"
Under this policy, the rolls have
been closed to all new clients whether
or not they have received relief in the
past. AS rapidly as possibl records
are being completed to transfer the
INDECENT blind and the needy aged
to the social security authorities, so
that money now spent for them can
be applied to other needy cases.
Under the social security act the
Federal Government will replace one
third of the amount spent for de-
| pendent Needy cnlloren.
Street said that while no statistics
| are available on the number of such
cases in the District, his aides have
estimated that about two-thirds Of
the dependent children already are in
cluded in the unemployable cases. A
large part of the remaining third, he
said, represent families in which there
are minor children with only one par
ent, but with older brothers or sis
ters employable simply because they
have passed the age limit of Is years.
A comparatively small number, it is
believed, are among the employables
who will be dropped Wednesday.
W.P. A. Cash Expected.
Meanwhile, formal approval for an
other allotment from the Works Prog
reSs Administration for $215,000 to
| complete the repairs already under
way in the parks is expected today or
tomorrow.
The District w. P. A. now has $80,-
600 for the work that was allotted i'm
mediately after the flood waters re-
ceded and $55000 left from an al
lotment of $91, 900 made some months
| ago.
The $4,000 will be divided so that
100000 can be spent for materials
to repair and improve the parks, and
$4,000 will go for material to repair
the piers of Arlington Memorial
Bridge. The s55,0o0 will be used for
labor.
The total cost Of rebuilding the
injured park areas has been set at
100000 and if the $2l5,000 allot-
r1ent is made it will provide a ball
ance to be used on other w. P. A.
projects. ..