Evening star., 1938-12-16
1899 Chest Deficit
To Force Curb on
kid for Children
Shadows to Stretch
Through Summer and
Into '39 YuIetide

Faced with 1893 per cent deficit
amounting to $232 ,422, the Budget
Committee of the Community Chest
announced today it would have to
cut down many services of Chest
agencies relating to preventive or
protective benefits for children.
With total of $1,894,57S, or 8s.07
per cent of the $2,127,000 goal set
as essential for the continuance of
services during the coming year, the
Chest campaign pledges amount to
only enough to serve the commu-
nifty for 1926 days.
After series of meetings wherein
the inevitable "cuts" caused by the
deficit have been applied the Budget
Committee, headed by j. S. Cor
rell, has discovered that the Shad-
ows cast by the deficit will be long
ones, stretching through the heat
OF the summer and even clouding
the 1889 Christmas season.
Camps to Be Restricted.
Mr.. Gorrell said curtailment has
been necessary in the summer camps
where underprivileged children get
their only relief from the heat of
the city streets. Some camps will
have to be abandoned, he added.
Facilities in the nursery schools
where working mothers leave their
children in expert hands will also
have to be cut down, he pointed
out.
The case loads of workers in
Chest agencies will be heavier, with
the decreased staffs unable to provide
help and guidance during the brief
est and most effective span of time.
"Over-burdening of case workers."
Mr.. Gorrell declared, "can only mean
that vitality necessary human ad-
5ustments must be prolonged, post
poned and thinly spread out. Not
only is this uneconomical for the
community, but it must also be in
terpreted in terms of cost of human
suffering, despair and broken fam
lilies. Community needs are def
mite. They are known to the Budget
Committee as well as to the sagen-
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they were included in the goal set
for the campaign"
Relief Cuts Inevitable.
The slash in cash relief is equally
inevitable, he said. This means less
money for food, for rent and for
clothing for families to whom this
part of welfare service is vital in
giving them a 'hand-up," he ex-
planned, and in rehabilitating them
as self-supporting and stable units
OF community life.
In the institutions where young
sters are given the care which broken
homes OF lost parents robbed them
OF, the deficit will actually mean
vacant beds and smaller helpings
Of food, Mr.. Gorrell said.
Chest buildings cannot be re-
paired because of the deficit, he
said, adding that this is not the first
year the failure of sufficient gifts
has made it necessary to neglect
needed repairs and requirements,
but this year the postponements
IN repairs are beginning to be
deeply and keenIy felt"
Preventive and protective health
services will also be dealt a blow
by the deficit, Mr.. Gorrell continued.
Fewer clinic passes will be issued
through the Chests disqualification
fund and fewer hospital beds will
be financed for the INDECENT sick.
He said he couldn't state definitely
how many children will be affected
by lack of opportunity for life at
camp. in the playrooms or on the
athletic field, but that he could
predict with absolute certainty that
there are those who will be af-
fected, those whose futures will be
. sacrifice to our 1899 deficit"
1T Is a tragedy to pay in later
years for present neglect of pre-
ventive services" he commented.