Evening star., 1938-05-22

study of the situation can be made by
The fate of the two establishmel
result of complicated recommended
tions sent to the House yesterday by
the President, on behalf Of the Budget
Bureau. officials familiar with the sit
uation expressed 'amazement" over
some of these recommendations, con-
tending they were impracticable, un-
economical and unsound generally.
The effect of the report. it was said.
was to pass back to the House and
Senate the whole dilemma of what to
do with the two institutions-a di-
lemma created by the legislators them
selves when they arbitrarily decreed
abolishment on July Of the Training
School as an institution and aban-
donment on December 81 next of the
present Receiving Home.
Sl6,300 Recommended.
The bureau. in brief. recommended
an appropriation Of sl6,60o for the
Receiving Home-a sum promptly
criticized in some official quarters as
NliUllN SuSkVSuCu w
Congress three alternative plans for
solution of the Training School mud
die, none of which would be satisfac-
tory to welfare authorities, it appeared.
Particularly startling to local Of
ficials was statement in the report
that it is the present plan" to trans
fer the children of the abandoned Re-
ceiving Home to the old second police
precinct station on Fifth street NV,
where the Woman's Bureau and House
of Detention are housed.
Capt. Rhoda Milliken, in charge OF
the Womans Bureau and House Of
Detention, said such plan was entire
ly new to her and. in her opinion. i'm
possible of execution for humanitarian
and practical reasons.
Senator Copeland, chairman of a
special subcommittee of the Senate
District Committee which investigated
the joint problems of the Training
School and Receiving Home. said last
night he still thinks the only satisfac-
tory solution is to appropriate for con-
tinuance of the two institutions until
proper permanent facilities can be
provided for them.
Immediate Study Urged.
In recent report to the Senate
District Committee, Senator Cope
lands group asserted that failure OF
Congress to provide for continuance OF
the Training School had produced q
chaotic state of affairs" and that a
similar situation prevails with respect
to the Receiving Home.
The Copeland subcommittee urged
that an immediate study of the prob.
lem be made with $4,000 fund that
can be made available under the Social
Security Act, so that Congress will
have before it "a complete picture OF
the child-caring problem" to guide il
in acting wisely in the future"
This plan has met with widespread
approval among local officials and
child welfare authorities.
The Budget Bureau has been re-
quested by the District Commission
ers to recommend a deficiency appro-
priation of $35, 900 with which to build
temporary tarpaper-covered quarters
for the Training School girls at Blue
Plains, D. c., and $4,000 with which
to repair and recondition the nurses
home of the old tuberculosis Hospi-
tai as a makeshift refuge for children
of the Receiving Home. This was, OBJ
viously, stop-gap program.
Farming Out" Proposed.
Instead of following these recon-
mendations, the Budget Bureal pro-
posed that the population of the Re
ceiving Home be reduced by the
farming out" of children to foster
homes and. apparently. that the re-
mainder be removed to the already
overcrowded police station occupied by
the Woman's Bureau and House OF
Detention. An appropriation in this
connection of $1,000 for employment
of an additional social welfare worker
to supervise the farmed-out wards and
of $4,000 for board and care of the
children was asked.
An additional appropriation Of $8.-
500 for restoration Of tho apartment
house now occupied by the Receiving