Evening star., 1948-12-16
Special Meetinq
ToWeigh UCS
Board Expansion!
Decision Follows Fight
On TobIing Plan to
Add SO Trustees

The United Community Services
board Of trustees will hold a special
meeting in January to thrash out"
the question of whether or not to
add 38 members to the board.
A motion to amend the UCS by
laws to increase the membership OF
the board was tabled yesterday at
meeting in the auditorium of the
Archives Building.
A brief fiare-up between men,
bers over the tabling of the motion
brought an announcement from
Frank r. Jelleff, president, that
special meeting will be set for next
month for Thorough discussion of
the matter.
The move has been pending since
early this fall when the body re-
ferred to its Executive Committee
consideration of the proposal for
increasing the size of the board
without reference to the affiliation
Or -aff1liation of the new men,
bers with boards of directors of
social agencies.
Favored by Committee.
The Executive Committee con-
Sidered the proposal and felt that
broadening of the citizen participa-
tion of the board was desirable to
obtain increased public support for
the health and welfare programs
OF the community.
Question arose yesterday over the
balance in the number of trustees
from the public at large and mem
ber community organizations and
those from private and public agency
members and the divisions of well
fare activity.
Earlier, the UCS general assembly
heard Jennings Randolph, assistant
to the president of Capital Airlines,
declare that Washington lags be-
hind other cities in the acceptance
of the responsibility for human well
fare needs"
Per capita contributions to the
Community Chest Federation CAM
paign have fallen substantially be-
low the average for other cities of
comparable size, he declared. The
adequacy of tax appropriations for
welfare needs is comparatively less
than In other communities, he add
ed.
Problems which are not solved" :"
he warned, result in disgruntled,
dissatisfied and then incompetent
and DANGEROUS citizenSr
Still Time for Gifts.
He said there is still time through
re-activation of requests for in
creased gifts for Washington to
more fully embrace the program to
which We have attached ourselves"
Chauncey G. Parker, general
chairman Of the 1949 Chest cam
paign. commenting on the failure of
the drive to reach its goal, said
there is no doubt that differences
in views as to the portfolio of
agencies was harmful to the effort
to obtain 100000 more contributors
than there were.
He said he feels that, once cam
paign objectives were set, persons
and groups with varying views
should have supported the drive,
regardless of their differences.
Mr.. Parker also recommended a
year-round public relations program.
The campaign chairman was COM
mended by Mr.. Jelleff for his work
in the effort.
Consequences Discussed.
Three speakers discussed the con-
sequences Of the campaign next year
with relation to the agencies 1t
supports.
Franklin Kenworthy, vice presi-
dent and controller Of the Chesa-
peake & Potomac Telephone Co.,
discussing health agencies, pointed
out that a 20 or Is per cent reduc-
ton in the budget of the Child We'll
fare Society will mean the organiza-
ton would have to turn away about
400 children.
Mr.. Kenworthy said that last
month. the Instructive Visiting
Nurse Society had to neglect more
eiAdll 1VV pdt1ClltS. 4IlC WdSIllllS tOIl
Institute for Mental Hygiene is
reaching only a small percentage of
the persons who need it and takes
six of eight weeks to reach a case,
he added.
For all the agencies, he said, re-
duced budgets will mean reduced
services to the many who need
them-including the blind, the un-
married mothers and those afflicted
with communicable diseases.
To Hit Scout Program.
William M. Werber talked on rec
reation and youth services with
particular emphasis on the Boy
Scouts.
He said the Scouts will lose "some
field Scout executives we can i'll
afford to lose" with a resulting
dimunition of interest among the
field leaders.
He added that the camping situa-
tion is "woefully inadequate.