Evening star., 1941-03-14
Relief Grant
Urged TO Meet
Transient Needs
Charles Taft to Ask
House Units Help in
Solving Problem
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A Federal grant for relief for resi-
dent as we'll as nonresident needy
was urged by Charles P. Taft yester-
day as a solution for the transient
problem.
Speaking at the annual meeting
of the Travellers Aid Society, the
assistant co-ordinator of health and
welfare defense activities, said he
would ask the Tolan congressional
committee to include the Social Sc
curity Board relief proposal in its
own recommendations to Congress.
Mr.. Taft, who yesterday was ap-
pointed by the President to three
man committee to study co-ordina-
ton of relief needs, devoted most of
his address to sketching the vast
problems arising from putting Army
camps in isolated country COM
t11unitieS.
Pointing out that some camps were
located to 35 miles from the
nearest village, he said the question
of facilities, particularly recrea-
tional, had become a problem from
the point ofthe boys inside the camp
as well as visitors, workers and the
thousands of others attracted to the
vicinity.
The boys are going to go to town,
he said, even if they have to sleep
on the floor.
Problems Created.
With the vast influx of newcomers
to the communities, he said, pSans
must be made. for housing, health,
family welfare, sewage disposal and
schools. The problem of operation
arises, he went on. A way must be
found to get the Federal Govern
ment out of operating hospitals,
schools and other organizations for
which Federal funds are provided.
Recreation facilities, he said, will
be the joint responsibility of the six
agencies in the United States Or
ganizations for National Defense.
The way in which the migrant
problem figures in any consideration
of the defense needs was discussed
by Miss Alice Elizabeth Jones, ex-
eCuuive secretary of the Travellers
Aid Society, who traced the growth
in demands on the agency from
month to month as the defense
program expanded.
The last half of 1910, she said,
showed an increase in requests for
temporary financial help to tide
people over to their first pay checks.
This need, she added, was confined
primarily to civil service employees
who had scraped together all their
resources to come here with little
left over for living expenses until
the first pay check two weeks later.
More Women Seeking Work.
Also observed was an increase
In the number of women seeking
work, especially middle-aged women
who had been unemployed for years
but seemed to feel the defense pro-
gram would provide employment
for every one, she added.
In her annual report, Miss Jones
also commented on the expansion
of the society's service at the bus
terminal. BY the end of 1910, she
said, there was an increase in re-
ferrals from bus company employees
who had often previously met a need
by taking up collection" among
the workers there.
Greatest new problem to arise out
OF 1910, she said, was the need for
adequate, supervised lodging facil-
tiles for 'teen-age boys to replace the
Y. M. c. A. annex torn down last
summer
Plane Travels Demands.
Statistics included in the annual
report brought out the fact that
airplane travel is increasing it's de-
mands on the society Where in 1889
only one or two travel services were
requested from airplane passengers.
In 1910 the society aided eight-most
of them children flying across the
country
Mrs. Harold Hitz Burton, wife of
the Ohio Senator, and George E.
keneipp were elected new members
OF the Board of Directors at the an
nual meeting. Mrs. John Jay O'Con-
nor, chairman of the Nominating
Committee, also named four mem
bers to be reelected to the board.
Mrs. George Beale Bloomer, Mrs.
Karl Fenning, DR.. Stuart A. Rice
and Bruce Mohler.
Albert w. Atwood gave the treas
nrer's report and w. B. ClarkSon,
president OF the societys board, pre-
sided at the luncheon meeting, held
at the Y. w. c. A. The Very Rev.
Noble C. Powell offered the invoca-
ton.