Evening star., 1937-12-12
EDUCATOR CITES
RELIEF PROBLEMS
Says Funds Must Be Spread
This Year to Cope With
Increasing Needs.

To permit the balancing of the
Federal budget, relief groups over the
country probably will have to do
without an increased appropriation
and spread the funds allotted them
over . wider area in order to cope
with increasing problems, DR.. Simeon
Z. Leland. professor of economics at
the University of Chicago and chair
man Of the Illinois State Tax Com
mission, said yesterday at a panel
discussion on financing public welfare,
held in connection with the second
annual round table conference of the
American Public Welfare Associa-
ton at the Wardman Park Hotel
DR.. Leland urged a more thorough
cooperation between the State and
Federal governments in administer
ing relief and declared the State must
take advantage of more revenue pos
sibilities.
The balacing of the budget should
come first with the Federal Govern
ment. he said, because the average
citizen believes it should be bal
anced." With no increase in relief
funds in sight, he declared, relief
should be administered from the
standpoint of affording subsistence
level rather than security level"
Hits Tax Segregation.
He also denounced the policy OF
segregating taxes and employing a
system whereby taxes collected from
a particular revenue source have to
be used for specific purpose and
suggested that all taxes be pooled and
allotted in proportion to the need for
various expenditures.
Others on the afternoon panel in
cluded DR.. j. Roy Blough. of the Uni
versity Of Cincinnati and consultant
on taxation for the Social Security
Board; Carl H. Chatters, executive
director of the Municipal Finance
Officers' Association; Elmer Goudy
administrator of the Oregon State
Relief Committee; DR. William Haber
Of the University of Michigan, Clar-
ence King of the New York School
Of Social Work, and Earl M. Kouns,
director of the Colorado State De-
partment of Public Welfare. Fred
eric c. Walcott, former United States
Senator and present commissioner of
welfare at Hartford, Conn, presided
at the discussion.
Relief Administration Discussed.
A panel earlier yesterday was devoted
to discussion of the administration
Of public assistance. Those partici-
pating included Miss Grace Abbott
Of the University of Chicago School of
Social Service Administration; Karl
De Schweinitz, director of the State
Department of Public Assistance at
Harrisburg, Pa; j. w. Gilman, direc-
tor of the State Department of Public
Welfare, Salt Lake City, Utah; Arthur
d. Greenleigh, director of the Bureau
OF INDECENT Relief at Los Angeles,
Calf, and Conrad Van Dyning. board
member of the association Robert
T. LanSdale of the New York School of
Social Work. presided.
The round table conference is to
close tonight. Fred ]. Hoehler execu-
tive director of the association, said
yesterday that this conference of
welfare officials from over the coun-
try for the purpose of working out
q proper relationship between Federal,
State and local governments is meet
ing with considerable success"
The meeting is being held at an
opportune time" he said, because of
the increased load States and To-
calities are being forced to carry be-
cause of the business recession"
Labor Department Exhibit.
Functions of the Department of
Labor together with department sta
tistics showing wage and employment
trends in the United States during
recent years are displayed in an ex-
hibit of the Labor Department which
is providing a main attraction at the
Welfare Association conference.
One series Of charts shows that in
dustrial pay rolls throughout the
country 76 per cent as high during
1885 as during 1929 They show that
during 1896 pay rolls of Glass l rail-
roads amounted to 63 per cent; of
cotton textiles, amounted to 80 per
cent; the steel industry pay roll
amounted to IS per cent; electric
power industry, SO per cent; the au-
tomobile industry, 80 per cent; BIZ
luminous coal industry. II per cent;
and the boots and shoes industry,
70 per cent.
In a display Of the Women's Bu-
reau, it is shown that, whereas in
1870 there were 23A men working in