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—12 WELFARE UNTY NEEDS STRESSED mily Service Association peakers Seek Remedy for Economic llls. Except When The need of co-operation on the| part of private welfare agencies in| remedying the social and economic 111§ that have placed 20,500,000 peaple | in_this country on public relief rolls | wgs stressed by speakers last night at. the fifty-third annual meeting of | the Family Service Association, for- | m;rly known as the Associated Chari- | il This form of co-operation was em- pHasized as a duty by both Aubrey Williams, assistant administrator of | the Federal Emergency Relief Admin- gvion, and by William H. Savin, w4o has just completed his first year | as director of the Family Service Agsociation. While both speakers de- | clared that the mew order in the| wrk of private relief agencies calls fof concentration on individual case wark. they reminded the welfare groups in the audience that there can |- no permanent cure for relief until sotial and economic wrongs are righted. £ Stokes Re-clected President. g)r. Anson Phelps Stokes, who pre- | sided at the meeting, held in Barker 1l of the Y. W. C. A, was re-elected plesident, as were the other officers and members of the Board of Mana- gars. Mr. Williams declared that the Government has a primary duty in pgoviding for all the millions on re- ligf roles but predicted that this con- dgion can never end until democracy | hgs evolved a better distribution of japs, wages and wealth. “Private agencies have an obliga- tion to try to think these things trough,” he said. “The issue is be- tween the common man and cor- parate and controlled wealth in the hands of the few.” he added Out of the 20,500,000 people on re- ligf rolls, Williams listed 11,710,000 as | rder 25 years of age; 6,140,000 be- | tween 25 and 49 and 1,880,000 between 5Q and 64 years. . | No one is better fitted to engage in the study of these problems than the | pfivate welfare groups, he reminded in’ explaining that “the story of the | “The Mighty Barnum.” | BY ROBERT B. PHILLIPS, Jr. | It’s a Small World--But Nice Trouper Wouldn’t Be Any Larger— THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1935. troupe, but the tiny people have enormous temperaments, so he found it more satisfactory to work alone with his two prize. performers. Five Are Normal. Both George and Olive had been in the show business a while before they joined Shaver. They are the children of Slavic parents, and have a younger brother, Dick, who is and always will be much smaller than they are.’ Five other children of the family are normal, and one of them, He’s Angry. Dick also appeared in “The Mighty Barnum,” in . one scene. ‘Fhey “dubbed in” a bass voice for him, to get a laugh. Incidentally, midgets usually are known by their first names. Gen. Tom It doesn't take much make-up to cover tiny Olive Brasno's face, but her brother George is making a big job of it for a midget. They're gete ting ready for their act at the Earle. Maybe you remember them in —Star Staff Photo. strong they are for their size by watching the fast adagio dance I do with Olive here on the Earle stage. a sister, travels as dresser for Olive. | Thumb was one of the rare excep- tions to this rule. Today around theaters they are introduced to people as “George” or “Olive” or “Dick” or whatever you have. Speaking of Dick, Shaver once thought of trying to team him with Marguerite, the girl mite who was on display at the World’s Fair for two years. They were diseussing her yes- terday. “Gee, but she is little,” said George. “She could stand under my out- stretched arm, and I don’t guess she will éver be any bigger, poer kid.” "Yes,” Shaver interjected; “I've been with these two so long I think of them as a little man and woman, but when I look at her, I say, “Girl, 80 help us, you are a midget!” ORDER OF RECHABITES Temperance Activities in 600 B.C. 600 B.C. will be depicted in a sketch presented tomorrow night at Naval Lodge Hall, Pennsylvania avenue and Fourth street southeast, by Eagle Tent No. 2, Independent Order of Recha- | bites, celebrating the eentenary of the formation of their order. simultaneously with those by 8,000 —_— other lodges of the order, having 1.-| Man Once Condemned Arrested. 250,000 members throughout the < world, according to John R. Mahoney, | LOS ANGELES, March 21 (#)— 87, oldest member in Washington, who | ONce sentenced to death in London, will preside, lEngland, as a deserter, Denys Pisher- Among those participating in the|Jones. alias Frank Fenton, 46, was program, will be Rev. Edwin C. mn-pmfl!fl here yesterday for suspieion TO MARK CENTENARY to Be Depieted in Sketch Tomorrow. widdie, Order of Good Templars; Maj. P! Passing several small checks with James Asher, the Salvation Army;|DO funds in the bank to cover them, Mrs. Jennie B. Wadleigh, the W. C.| - T. U.; Scoutmaster Bennet G. Miller | and Troop 18, Boy Scouts of America; |—= George Newmann, Sons of Jonadab; | Rev. Charles H. Butler, International | Reform Federation; Dr. Everett M. Ellison, United Dry Forces of the Dis- t-ict of Columbia. | A musical program will be pre- sented by Frank K. Sanderson, bari- | tone, and Mrs. Sanderson, pianist, who | wil lalso be heard in accordion solos. | WHERE TOJ:’;N}}» ENJOY THE BEST HATTONS DELICIYUS OYSTER STEW FRIED OYSTERS .,,6,.9»?.: 901 9th St. NW. MEt. 8385 Temperance activities of the year The ceremonies will be conducted WANTED! ,000 OLD STOVES AT SI5 A PIECE ched himself atop it | AnG she’s the perfect adagio partner. ?r:‘d(J'r’;:r em see into p‘he too. They all should weigh that much. dépression lies buried in the case EORGE had put his suit case G on the dressing room chair worker's records.” fThe so-called “prevailing wage” cdnstitutes a problem for the F. E. R A. in large arcas, Williams de- clared, since records reveal that the peevailing wages in many cases are agtually less than the amount of refief funds necessary for individual families. This is particularly true in the case of the rural South and has resulted in bringing about a condi- tion where welfare work is really sub- sidizing business in many cases. It is nat uncommon, he pointed out, to find itf necessary to extend relief to em- ployed workers. $ Social Evolution Urged. Mr. Savin, who explained at length the part of the private case worker ing welfare work, declared also, “it is the privilege and the duty of the sqcial agency board member to be an | gripped the chair back and laughed apostle of social progress to promote | at her brother’s Lilliputian ‘mimicry social evolution and thus remove the of an angry man. tive for revolution. * * * It is only when an influential group of lay citi- = Bister Blongren o] 7ens who still enjoy life according to “I'd rather be large all the time” the American tradition become pro- She said. “I know béing midgets gets foundly concerned about a system | US Places in the show business, but if I which has dealt harshly with so many | had my choice ... Why I even have of heir neighbors that we can have ® terrible time getting a dressmaker effective change.” (i)n?L me, as much as I like new clothes.” “Mr. Savin said that three years ago i the Board of the Associated Charities| At this point Buster Shaver, who has been with the human microns agd the Council of Social Agencies led a movement to secure the estab- | in all their public appearances during 1#hment of a public relief group in, the last seven years except their film lashington. “Today,” he said, “we |roles in “The Mighty Barnum,” broke have an equally important responsi- | into the conversation. | bllity to'lead in a cemmunity insist- You see, they are like little men emce that the gains which have been | and women, not like freaks,” he ex- made onsolidated under a perma- | Plained. “Their minds have devel- ngnt division of the Board of Public | oped. but they have not grown taller. ith continuing responsibility | that'’s _a You can guess how Vg:lfare 1 safeguarding the welfare of un- 1&tunate families not covered by i | i [ mirror. The size seven shoes (boys’) which were the terminus of his 40-inch stature, dangled in the air. “Had I rather be larger than I am?” he said, dabbing his cheeks with make-up, “I should say not. Not most of the time, anyway. I like |to be small. Sometimes when my | | weight gets up to 50 pounds, where it is now. I begin to wonder if I'm| not getting too big for a young fellow of only 23" He paused a moment and penciled in an eyebrow reflectively. “Of course.” he said, “there are | times when I'd like to be larger. When I get mad, for example,” and | ! his little sister, Olive, who is an inch | shorter and weighs 10 pounds less, | *He declared it would be a “back- ward step” if the “minimum security i the form of public relief were to be withdrawn faster than genuine work opportunity is created to replace it.” #In discussing individual case work, M. Savin declared an important agpect, comparatively new in social sgrvice work, is a division of applied ntal hygiene dealing with personali- ties, human relationships, and be- hh.vmr of individuals. ? Others Re-elected. y€orcoran Thom was re-elected vice President and Norman E. Towson| Was renamed treasurer. yMembers of the Board of Man- | agers were re-elected as follows: For | tsree-yvar term, Dr. Arthur Deerin | Call, Mrs. G. Howland Chase, Dwight 3Ark. Charles C. Glover, jr.; Richard | . Hynson, Mrs. Frederick W. Mc- | [§ Heynolds, Newbold Noyes and Dr. | ederic W. Perkins. #Elected for three-year term: Mrs. | Henry Grattan Doyle, Woodson Houghton, Dorsey Hyde, Mrs. John # Selby and Mrs. Elwood Street. | ¥Mrs. Morris C. Betts and Dean | Dwight O. W. Holmes were elected | tg fill vacancies for terms of two | ygars. 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