Evening Star Newspaper, April 11, 1935, Page 6

A6 w# DROUGHT T0 FORCE HIGH BREAD PRICE Dust Storms Cut Crop of | Winter Wheat and Im- ports Rice. Bread, “staff of life,” today was due for a protracted rise ir. price after the | Department of Agriculture announce- ment that drought and dust storms| have cut almost in half the crop of Winter wheat planted last Fall. The department declared more than | | 40 per cent of the seeded grain would | fail and added that 28 per cent of the | acreage sown must be abandoned. While Western plains that once un- | dulated with golden stalks of grain | took on the appearance of a desert | after constant beombardment from | dust storms, imports of the five lead- | ing cereals—wheat, corn, barley, rye | and oats—continued to mount, until | today they are 20 times as great as a | year ago. | The tragedy in the wheat country, | which threatens not only the pocket- | book of every housewife in the Nation, ‘ but also the economic safety of thnn-‘ sands of grain growers, brought Te- | doubled effort from Undersecretary of | Acriculture Tugwell and Soil Erosion | Chief Bennett in launching their $350,000,000 campaign to end dust storms through reforestation and set- ting up artificial wind barriers at stra- tegic points throughout the drought area. ! Secretary Wallace estimated the | Winter wheat crop would amount to 435.499,000 bushels, abcut 50,000.000 | bushels below the most conservative | guess advanced before the announce- | ment. Wheat at once moved up 2 cents a bushel in the Chicago trading pit The Secretary calculated the Spring crop. aided by lifting of A. A. A. pro- duction restrictions. would lift _the | total wheat supply later in the year to 625.000.000 bushels, “just about sufficient” for domestic consumption. AUDUBON TO BE HONORED District Schools to Observe Birth of Famed Naturalist. The District’s public schools will ob- serve the birth of John James Audu- bon. famous naturalist, with appro- priate activities, April 30. Superintendent of Schools Frank W. Ballou has set this date, since Audubon’s birthday, April 26, falls within the Easter holidays. He sug- gested that the schools hold assemblies for discussion of Audubon’'s work, ar- range for talks on conservation of natural resources or hold exhibits of bird houses. COLPOYS TOASTMASTER U. S. Marshal Will Preside at Building Banquet. John B. Colpoys. United States marshal for the District of Columbia, has been selected toastmaster for the Building Employes and Employers’ ! Co-operative banguet at the- May- | flower Hotel April 30, it was an-| nounced today. Mr. Colpoys has been editor of the Trades Unionist since 1912 and | formerly was president of the Wash- ington Central Labor Union THE EVE Temporary J obs Create % Problem for Relief Clients SiMany Refuse Private Employment, Fearing Loss of Aid When Work Is Exhausted. BY JOHN C. HENRY. To work, or not to work, has become | & perplexing problem with millions 011 employable persons throughout the | United States today. In the District, | it is a question which from time to| time may puzzle as many as 20,000 men and women. A peculiar statement, perhaps, the | explanation lies in the circumstance | that so many persons on public relief ; rolls hesitate to jeopardize the com- | parative security thus held by accept- | ing temporary or part-time employ- | ment. Public relief officials, anxious to encourage employable clients to| aid themselves whenever and in what- ever manner pcssible, admit the ex- | istence of this “braking” influence, sympathize with those who feel it, vet | have been unable to combat it to any appreciable degree. Apply Budgetary Yardstick. | The principal effort thus far has been through application of a bud-| getary yardstick to each relief case | whereby the total resources of each | case, including income from pnrtlll“ | employment, is balanced against the | estimated total needs and the differ- ence supplied by the relief adminis- tration. By this usual procedure, | officials attempt to guard against cut- | | ting off part-time workers who still | need public aid, and by the same rule to guard against paying more than the actual relief needs of the case. At the present time, in the District | of Columbia there are approximately | 23,000 cases on the relief rolls. In| this total are nearly 8.000 single per-| sons and about 15.000 families averag- | ing three persons each—making nearly | 55,000 persons on the rolls. Judging | from an occupational characteristics survey made by the Federal Emergency | Relief Administration last Fall, about 20.000 emp!oyable persons thus are re- ceiving relief. Of this number, in turn, between 12,000 and 14,000 now are on | work relief, engaged usually in work that is not too arduous nor with ex- considered sufficient to meet their needs. Others receive it without work. Each Family Budgeted. This determination of sufficiency is arrived at by the system of budgetary estimates for each case on the rolls. With their circumstances studied by a case worker, each family or individual is budgeted for food, shelter, fuel, gas and electricity. household necessities, medical care and miscellaneous items. In cases where homes are owned by the clients no allowance is made for rent. In the District fuel is deliversd * rather than cash for its purchase. Gas and electricity are limited strictly | to what are believed actual needs. For the food budgets. data compiled at regular periods by the Bureau of Home Economics of the Department of Agriculture is used as a basis for estimating the amount needed weekly | and the cost of it. Revised frequently, this data takes into account the vary- ing prices of foodstuffs in the cities affected. Thus, in the District, at the present time, it is estimated that a family of two adults and three chil- dren needs between $9 and $10 each week for purchase of food. Special conditions in any family’s circum- SATURDAY UNTIL 9 P.M. =2 Big Building Material Stores ALMOST EVERY ITEM IT REDUCED PROMPT FREE DELIVERY OUR ENTIRE STOCK ATLANTIC 1400 4 | ing member of stances, of course, affect this estimate. With the total needs which a client is allowed to meet by Durchase rve- duced to a cash basis, this figure is balanced against any cash income the case client may have. The difference, termed the budgetary deficiency, theoretically is supplied by the relief administration. In illustration, the family of two adults and four children may own their home, may need no medical care, receiye their fuel from the Relief Administration and have a small al- lowance for gas and light. According to the food budget estimates they need between $9 and $10 each week for food. If one person of the family is earning $4 per week the Rellef Ad- | ministration will furnish the differ- ence of $5 or $6 unless some unusual circumstances are involved in the case, In further illustration, if the work- the family earns enough for a few weeks only to sup- port the family entirely the cash re- lief is discontinued. Losing the em- ployment, the family is entitled to re- apply for relief, may be placed on emergency rolls within a few days of the reapplication, or sooner if an | acute emergency exists, and may re- turn to the complete relief status as soon as a new case inquiry can be made and a budget prepared., From | 10 to 14 days usually are required for the latter adjustment, according | to Miss Alice Hill, local director. | It is in this possibility of private | part-time or temporary employment, however, that the greatest complica- | tions arise, relief officials admit. In many case families, for instarce, in- | dividuals do succeed in obtaining such | employment, but conceal the fact from | the administration. Checks on private | pay rolls and irregular visits by case | workers do not suffice to uncover this | condition generally. Often Decline Employment. ) In the other direction, employable | persons often decline such temporary employment on the grounds that they | i | fear loss of their relief income. And | | cessively long hours and sure of re-| | ceiving each week an amount of cash | although local officials insist that the full budgetary deficiency is met in | most cases. even when some members | of a family are partly supporting it | and that relay in re-certification for | reliefl has been reduced to the; minimum possible in view of the necessary administrative detail, they admit an understanding of this fear. Combating the influence as best they can, Miss Ruth Blakeslee, regional supervisor for the social service work of the F. E. R. A, explains that they encourage relief clients to keep in touch with former employers, require Ahem to register with the National Re-employment Service, in many cases allow them transportation costs in the Philipsborn LEVIRTH ST - BETNEIN 1ot We feature Kayser's Fit-All-Top Hosiery, S| search for jobs and in other ways at- tempt to restore them to private industry. In some communities, drastic steps are taken with those who fail to ac- cept suitable employment, this recourse being taken to offset hesitancy about relief clients accepting jobs. In some Southern States, for instance, the rolls are very nearly wiped out at cotton picking time and those unable to get work of this kind then are forced to reapply for public relief. More lenient in the District, how- ever, officials rely upon encouragement rather than enforcement to get per- sons on private pay rolls whenever possible. — o LEAD INDUSTRY LEADER HITS ‘TARIFF TINKERING’ By the Associated Press. DENVER, April 11.—Felix Edgar Wormser of New York, secretary- treasurer of the Lead Industries As- | sociation, sald yesterday that “tariff tinkering” by the State Department’s commission to negotiate reciprocal | tariff treaties is a menace to Western mining. He said the commission has con- cluded a treaty with Belgium cutting the tariff on white lead, a fabricated product of lead found in considerable quantities in Colorado. “Cutting the tariff rates on fabri- cated products is just as much a menace to the industry as removing the protection on the ores and con- centrates,” Wormser sal HEART OPERATION PROVES SUCCESS Clevelander Under Knife for Angina Pectoris Wants to Work. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, April 11.—The first human patient to undergo & heart op- eration for angina pectoris is conva- lescing and wants “to go home and get a job.” Joseph Krchmar, 48, perched on the edge of his hospital bed yesterday, thumped the erstwhile bad heart and reflected that it was good to be alive. Faced Certain Death. Krchmar, a former miner and farmer, two months ago faced what cians said the angina pectoris that sent those agonizing pains through his left shoulder and arms was incurable unless— “They said I would have one | chance,” he said. “They told me there | was an operation that might save me.” | Dr. Claude Beck, Cleveland surgeon. | performed the operation. It consisted of cutting the pectoral muscle and taching it to the heart wall to supply appeared to be certain death. Physi- | VG STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, APRIL I, 1935. blood to the heart. Angina pectoris had prevented the heart from getting enough blood. | Dr. Beck had performed the opera- | tion on animals, but never on humans. | Krchmar got up and walked around | the bed today just to'show how good he feels. He has gained 10!, pounds since the operation was performed, Jjust two months ago today. “I want to go home and get a job; | something light, of course. Look at my children—see how they are,” Krchmar has been walking since | March 20. | “They took movies of my heart,” he | said, his eyes twinkling. “The other | ::y }hey had me up before 200 doc- T8.” | JEWS WILL HOLD SEDER Community Observance to Be Con- | ducted Next Wednesday. | A community Seder, in commemora~ | | | tion of Passover, the liberation of the J‘ will be held by the Jewish War Vet- |erans and the Jewish Community Center next Wednesday at Sixteenth and Q streets at 6:30 o’clock. ‘The ceremony is a duplicate of the | | ducted by Abe Shefferman. 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