Evening star., 1952-02-24
UCSSaysBudgei
Means 1900
Will Go Hungry
$l7.S Million 10 Not
Enough, Child Aid
choIrmen Charges

Enough, Child Aid
cheIrmen charsss
The United Community Services
yesterday declared that the pv0s
posed BUDGET for welfare services
would mean that $4,000 "uneIns
pleyAble" persons now getting
public assistance would moi have
enough 10 eAt,
MpA, Wayne COY, chairman Of
Vie Family ana Child WelfAfe
services OF uub, made the 0hapne
Ilh \ lettep 10 Walter 4, fOWIsr,
DISTRICT budaet olleeF.
La4t week MFl Fowler launched
IA bllsteRlhH e0uhtepattaek on
veb at a luncheon Iheetina when
the welfare people ehaFGed the
proposed budget OF eiTb million
Eep iBbb was Inadequate, Mn,
F9WleP reminded them that the
commissioner must think On
seIie 10 civ departments net just
one,
b Data Promised,
Mr. Fowler declared that ppess
entAtlen Of actual facts Weuld
cause the CITY gflielals 10 be mere
| sympathetic, MPs, Gov said after
the meeting that additional faets
weuld be supplied Mr., Fowler, In
her letter 70 Mr., Fowler, she said
"Fhe current request Of tho
Commissioners continues public
assistance at q level 81 per cent
below the minimum necessary 10
maintain health, which Ia 10 say,
n per cent below the lowest food
cost plan prepared by the AgFi-
culture Department, The 'depavt-
ment itself has cautioned against
the extended use OF this plan un-
less careful guidance In food man
agement ID provided at the same
time.
Reduced to the simplest terms,
this means that $4,000 unemploy-
able, dependent persons, who are
eligible by law for public assist
ance. are not getting enough to
eat.
$44 for Food.
ut means that a widow with
three children receives 500 a
month for total maintenance. Es-
timating $39' for rent, which is q
bare minimum, GIT for clothing
and other necessities. there re-.
mains $44 o month for food, or SO
cents day per person. AS q basis
for comparison, please consider
that the cost for feeding an In.
mate Of q public institution Is so
cents q day.
"Under the existing public as
sistance program. the dependent,
unemployable person must 20 Ave
or six weeks without visible means
Of support before he Is certified
for relief"
Concerning the institutions
Operated by the Welfare Depart.
f11ei1t. Mrs. Coy was even more
critical. She deelafedi
Henie for The AGED.
"Eveh eurs0ry inspection Of the
d0fmit0fy and i1t1fmafy at the
Home for the Aged at Blue Plains
Will reveal this afltiduated strueu
t,ife 20 be q FIRE trap, totally unfit
f0f ltB purpose Only one attehds
ant II Oh duty during the illaht
Ishlftl There II reason 90 believe
that few Of these aHed persons
w0uld escape II there we're 90 be A
Ihrel Continued NEGLECT may make
such Ah occurrence fact Fhls
would DO A tpaale Indictment OF
our community
"lBkAetlv 10 day mo, The DIAtplat
IteeelvlnA t30me WRA bulHInR with
almost double IVA capacity, F'hlA
WA not ON unusual dAVI The
nome WA designed 10 hOuAa "a
children, on HpbpuaPv II, II fReed
tlle problem OIL accommodating 10
Appl0uA juvenile Offenders, maxi
Inn proper supervision lnObt dltils
gHtJ Al 4 result ei crowded eODs
dltl0hAI eblldreh we're forced 10
aleep on the H00Pl Az I)AAItIma,
or them were hepded Into d
alnlnH room aeslahad 10 AeeeIAH
medAte 49,"
MPsr Coy said that The yeA waA
not aHlte eleAP on what infAFIARI
ti0n Mr. Fowler did net Ra6ept
Aa faetHalr lie aeelaPedI
nYeAP elaglileatlan 0f theseI
HeuF personal observations about
the conditions existing In cur
bubble institutions and VeuP eeR=
eluslens relating TO them can 40
IfaF 70 guide our future plan OF
aetlen with regard 10 public wels
fare In the pistFlet,n