Evening Star Newspaper, January 14, 1937, Page 15

RELIEF NEED CITED INREPLY TOLUSK Letter to The Star Points to Large Number of Persons in Want. Emphasis upon relief needs of the District and vigorous defense of the work done and the unselfish motives of social workers are voiced by four community leaders in a letter ad- dressed to the editor of The Star re- eently. The four, whose expression was to answer the opposition of de- signed | Rufus 5. Lusk of the Washington | i Taxpayers’ Association to further re- lief expemditures, are Carroll Glover, Coleman Jennings, Frederic W. Per- | || kins and Anson Phelps Stokes. Their letter, dated January 8, fol- Jows in full: “In your issue of January 5, 1937, there is & long quotation from a letter | i written by Mr. Rufus S. Lusk, presi- dent of the Washington Taxpayers' Associstion, asking the District Com- | it missioners to reject all requests for additional appropriations for relief. Mr Lusk gives various evidences of improved business conditions in Wash- ington and then asks ‘Why this ||| ‘The answer, ac- | Hif clamor for relief?’ cording to Mr. Lusk, who has pretty consistently opposed relief appropria- tions in recent years, is & very simple one: “‘A curtailment of direct relief means a loss of relief workers’ jobs. In a nutshell that is the reason for the howl for more money. That this is true is shown by those who advo- cate it. Almost without exception they are either on the taxpayers’ pay roll or closely allied in some way with welfare work.’ “This statement was read with deep regret and indignation at a meeting | held in the office of the Family Serv- | jce Association a few days ago to ||l consider the very critical situation in | the District because of the continuing relief problem. That Mr. Lusk’s posi- tion is shallow and ill informed would seem to be so obvious that it is not worthy of serious consideration. But what should enlist the thought of every citizen is how these distressing needs can properly be met. That there is unrelieved and insufficiently re- lieved want and suffering among | hundreds of families is not a matter of ! conjecture, but a fact. It can be ascertained first hand, should any | one care to do s0. One of the signers | of this letter recently spent two after- noons in verifying cases where public relief resources were reported as be- ing inadequate, and his findings re- | vealed situations that were shocking and needed immediate action. The directors of the Family Service Asso- ciation, in addition to making various suggestions for bringing the situation to the attention of the philanthropic public, are at present attempting to | ji work out some plan with the Com- munity Chest. “May we indicate the seriousness of | |i the situation by the following facts: ‘The Family Service Association during the manth of December had 494 ap- plicants for assistance. This is more | than any month in the last three years. | ‘The extraordinary feature is that of | these, 155 were never known before | to any relief agency in Washington, and that twice this number were new applicants as far as the Family Serv- ice Association was concerned. Owing to the small relief funds of this so- clety, due in turn to the failure of | [illl the Chest to meet its full objective, it was possible to accept only 101 of these applicants for service and relief. About 100 were not thought to have reached the limit of their own | ff resources, and another 100 were re- to other agencies with more | or less hope of assistance, leaving | at least 200 last month who were believed by the officers to need re- | lief, for whom no relief could be | provided. An outstanding fact is the | large number of persons of youth and intelligence in the group, who only need aid for a short time to permanently rehabilitated. “If we turn from the largest of our | private family relief organizations to the Public Assistance Division, we are | told that at the end of December there were 7,150 active relief cases divided roughly as follows: 1,600 on old age pension. 100 on blind pensions. 1,300 on aid to dopendent chfldren and their home care. 3,100 on relief for unemployables. 1,000 under investigation for pen- | il sion but receiving no relief. “The division reports that in De- cember some 248 employables applied | [Ii for help who for the first time had vide an average of $35 per month for six months for the 3,000 families of employables who have no income or inadequate income, or a total of $630,- 000; $135,000 for an additional $5 per month for six months to families now receiving relief or inadequate aid for dependent children; while $65,000 is for additional personnel to do the case work necessary in passing on and following up the various applications. “In view of the above facts the undersigned wish to express their in- dignation at Mr. Lusk’s statement and especially at his imputing of selfish THE EVEMING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. unselfish group. We hope that the Commissioners will disregard his tirade against relief workers, and the cause of the poor and neglected which they represent. Indeed we consider the situation so serious that we wou!d prefer to have our taxes in necessary, rather than to aneourue the permanent human wasage which will almost inevitably result in hun- dreds of cases if promising material for human rehabilitation is allowed to go unaided this Winter.” motives to the social workers of Wash- ington, who are, on the whole, a re- reached the end of their resources, while 980 cases which had previous! had relief, reapplied in their desper: tion for help, although “ineligible” some member of the family is em- ployable. “It is for the Board of Commis- | i from the Board of Public Welfare, to decide on exactly what deficiency ap- propriation is necessary to meet these and similar cases. 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