Evening star., 1937-10-15
STATES TIGHTEN
PURSE FOR RELIEF
SIashes Being Made in Most
of Them-App|icants
y Now SCrutinized.
Dy the Associated Press

0y the ASSOCldleQ fIeSS.
States which open-heartedly doled
out millions in relief to the depression
army of unemployment today are
Tightening the public purse strings as
they watch the march back to jobs in
private industry.
They are scrutinizing more minutely
relief applicants claims, in some cases
summarily removing from relief rolls
those deemed undeserving and con-
centrating more on public aid to such
groups as the aged, blind and depend
'ent children.
1ndianas w. P. A. administrator
j. K. Jennings, put it this way: I'VE
are wedding out unemployables, remov-
Ing boondogglers' and trimming ad-
ministrative expenses"
California recently decreed all able
bodied persons must work if suitable
employment is available, or get off the
dole" Transients are ineligible for
relief in Florida. Arizona removed
. 1000 aliens from relief rolls Louisi-
ana is cutting the problem to ut the
cost"
Gov. Robert E. Quinn of Rhode
Island said: I'VE are going to make
doublv certain We weed out from relief
lists those who ought not to be getting
public aid"
Study Planned.
Commissions in Maryland and Ne
braska planned exhaustive studies to
formulate modern relief programs for
later legislative sessions. Pennsylvania
planned a permanent relief set-up
with s99,000,000 appropriated for 1887
to 1889. but it was somewhat upset by
W. P. A. curtailment.
Mississippi never contributed to
direct relief, but the Governor expected
to ask for doubled appropriation in
January for old-age assistance. Colo
RADIO claimed its $45-a- month old-age
pension law effective September ! was
one of the highest in the Nation. Ala
bama relief rolls include 10000 old
age pensioners, 5000 dependent chill
dren families, 500 blind and 1000
handicapped.
Dealing with old-age relief, Maine
planned special legislative session;
Massachusetts, reduced the age limit
from 80 to 65 New Hampshire is
increasing its aid and Nevada is es-
tablishing an old-age relief set-up.
The relief load is swinging to aid
for children. aged and blind in Mary
land. Montana, Virginia and West Vir-
ginia.
Ohio on April Is and Tennessee
on July l turned the relief burden
back to counties and local units. Texas
reduced its rolls from the depression
high of 100000 to 10000 and closed
them, but is raising an additional
Sl,500,000 for old-age pensions, adult
blind and dependent children
Horner Asks $4,000 Jobs.
Gov Henry Horner of Illinois asked
industry to find $4,000 jobs for re-
liefers to end a crisis in which Chi
cago lacks Sl,000000 a month the
rest Of the year. Civic leaders worked
with relief officials who, as one new
double check, require all employables
to report once a month to State en-
ployment Offices if they wish to stay
on the rolls
New York City, which spent sl10,-
645,000 on relief in 1886 (plus w. P.
AS s23o.850.00O for total of s341,-
100000, prides itself on its pay as
you go" basis and claims the highest
per family allowance in the Nation.
The final report of the New York
State Temporary Emergency Relief
Administration said 100000 persons,
40 per cent of the population, or two
out of every five persons, received aid
at some time during the five years
and eight months between November
/, 1881, and June 30, 1887. when ST.
155,314,1Ol, or 500 per capita, was
spent.
But that report said also that only
100000 were still on relief, the other
S,500,000 apparently having become
self-supporting again because from
the Spring of 1886 the ebb of relief
need has been of dramatic propor-
ton"
A cheerful note of back-to-the- soil
self aid came from Oklahoma, where
relief clients planted gardens which
yielded 100000 pounds Of fresh vege-
tables and were expected to produce
nearly 100000 pounds of potatoes
this Fall.