Evening star., 1937-04-01
CASES DESCRIBED
T0SPURCAMPA|GN
FOR
Committee Arranging Mass
Meeting Furnishes Data
to Intensity Drive.
EXAMPLES ARE TAKEN
FROM AGENCY RECORDS
Jennings and Canon Stokes Ap.
peal to Citizens to Attend
Sunday Session.

Ammunition" for the guns In the
campaign to help Washington's job
less-real cases of privation and dis
tress in families where the supporting
member is able and willing, but un-
able to find Work-Was furnished yes
terday to the committee arranging
the citizens mass meeting in behalf
Of the unemployed
The cases included those Of an
'employable" woman, now living in
one room with four little children,
barely able to exc out an existence;
an aged couple, also "employable, u
who were forced to move in with a
young son already supporting q wife
and baby on SIG week, and a father,
mother and two children living in
a single room and sleeping in the
same bed.
These examples, taken from the
records Of the Capitals 3,00a unem-
p.cyed "employables were submitted
to the committee by Miss Louise O.
Beall of the Family Service Associa-
ton, who is in charge Of 81 volunteers
now making a survey of employable
persons who are uenied relief. The
volunteers have been provided by the
various chcurches of the city.
Statement by Jennings.
Referring to the cases laid before
the committee, Coleman Jennings,
chairman of the arrangements group
said:
This mass meeting at the First
Congregational Church Sunday after.
noon at 430 is arranged to give
Washington a chance to do some
thing in behalf Of people like these
These people are residents of Wash
ington. They have to be because nc
relief is granted to any person who
has not lived in the District for a
year or more. AS matter Of fact
the last survey Of the relief situation
made before the 'employables' were
dropped, showed that IS per cent OF
the people on relief had been resi-.
dents of the District for five years OF
more.
ut is time for mass meeting. II
is time that Washington be giver
an opportunity to express itself ir
regard to this critical situation.
hope to see the First Congregational.
Church packed with interested Wash
ingtonians when that meeting is called
to order. because something must be
done for these people"
Tho p,oe <oJ11
during January 1,447 applications were
made to the public relief agencies by
families in which there were one OF
more employable members During
February 1896 applications were made
to the same agencies. They were not
even investigated in regard to their
needs, because the public agencies did
not have sufficient stats to inquire
into the cases and they were without
funds to help employables, no matter
how desperate their plight Fully hall
Of these persons applied also to private
relief agencies, which were unable tc
help more than a scattered few cases
because of limited funds.
Canon Stokes Speaks.
Canon Anson Phelps Stokes ap-
peared before the Rotary Club yes
terday, urging the members, as civic.
minded citizens. to attend the mass
meeting and help solve the problem
confronting the city. He outlined the
serious situation that exists in public
relief, declaring that agencies already
are helping every possible person Their
limited funds will permit.
Plans for the meeting are prac-
tically complete. It will last exactly
one hour, opening with a program Of
organ music, and continuing from
4:45 to $50 pm. with a program OF
short speeches by prominent citizens
some Of whom will cite actual case
stories taken from the records OF
needy "employables."