Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-11
Dole Here Permanently,
Welfare Board Reports
Industrial System
Blamed; Boost
in Fund Asked
BY JAMES II. INGLIS


in 10 years the public welfare
commission today attacked the
present Industrial system and
asked to be accorded permanent
professional tatus in the life OF
the city.
Although industry is booming at
record pace in Detroit the
welfare department has asked
for an $8.899, 28l appropriation for
the coming year-$1. 300, 900 in ex-
cess of the present year.
The departments decennial re-
port covering the eventful years
1880 to 1910 will be presented to-
day to Mayor Edward ]. Jeffries
and to the Common Council.
In substance it states that well
fare. like police and fire protec-
ton and the Board of Education,
must takes its place as a lasting
full -fledged activity OF the city
/ government.
"PubIie assistance IL -today.s-
way OF expressing public con-
science h Tough government
service" the report states.
I Public welfare supplants what
our grandfathers called charity
and our fathers called "philan-
=thropy8 the=report adds.----
! If the report is accepted by the
city government il may blast for
all time the hopes of those who
/ believed large welfare appropria-
tions were a temporary expedient
of depression years.
The cost of relief in Wayne
County for the 10-year period is
put at S213, 357 BAT in the report.
Thousands of Detroit workmen
have wended their puzzled way TO
/ the relief rolls suffering from in
dustrial old age.3the report states.
/ They are men of As or more
who, once laid off. were never re-
hired by industries that require
young and vigorous workers.
AS the industries became more
and more mechanical, workers and
artisans became unemployed and
! dS llIC IiddSNi idi
so did the number of jobless.
Detroit suffers from pecuI-
larly heavy cycIical dispIace-
ments and for experience gov
eminent officials must hook at
the past decade" the report
states. "Such experience has
shown that the human by-prod-
ucts of industrial change arc
largely unpredictable."
CORRECT CAUSES
The document suggests that
human society would do well to
turn It's attention to correcting
the underlying causes which give
rise 10 the necessity for welfare.
AS a nation we have not yet
devised preventive measures for
those factors in our economy
which have disintegrated COM
munity life, and have put mi
grant families on the highways,
and which have crowded the
relief offices In the cities.
These are physical resources
that have been destroyed. What
human resources Of personality
and spiritual strengths have
been dissipated can scarcely be
measured.
For IL Is a distressing and
often a terrifying experience to
be deprived of income, exhaust
all savings, to decline from as
surance, self-support and reason
able plenty to need and actual
want, and to meet again and
again the disheartening exper-
fence Of job refusal"
MILLIONS FOR RELIEF
The report reveals that the city.
state, and federal governments
have spent millions for relief 4
Detroit on persons who are only
recently residents of the city and
on many who are not even citi-
zens of the United States.
Out of case load in Detroit Of
21,766 on Jan. l. 1910, only 70 per
cent were natiVp-horn citizepS Of