Evening Star Newspaper, May 9, 1937, Page 22

B—4 = THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MAY 9 1937—PART OXNE. _———-‘fim——r_%“&' aL-POINT WELFARE PROGRAMOFFERED Board Urges Public Works, Minimum Wages and Low-Cost Housing. Extension of the Federal Public ‘Works program, minimum wage con- trol and large scale low-cost housing projects are being urged by the Board of Public Welfare as a part of a com- prehensive plan to reduce the need for welfare services here, it was revealed yesterday. Fifty-two recommendations in all have been approved by the board and laid before the Commissioners for con- sideration. In outlining details of the suggested program, Welfare Director Elwood Street declared preventive measures constitute one of the most important questions residents of the District can face. “Now and in the future, Washing- ton should be willing to finance out of tax funds adequate care of those de. pendent defective, diseased and de- linquent persons who are legitimately the charges of its public welfare agen- cies,” he added. “Now and in the future, however, Washington ought to initiate measures for cutting down the increase in human load on these serv- ices and on tax funds which will in- crease with the growth of population and with the complexity of urban life. ‘Would Continue C. C. C. ‘The board told the Commissioners some of the recommendations might be put into effect at once, while others would have to be developed over a period of years. In many cases in- creased appropriations would be needed. To prevent unemployment and “underemployment” the board sug- gested continuation of the public works programs and maintenance of the Civilian Conservation Corps at least on its present scale. Reduction of hours of labor in any industry or business or governmental agency where they are “unduly long” also was suggested. Among other employ- ment relief proposals were develop- ment of local light industry by busi- ness men, establishment by the United States of factories which might supply some of the needs of the Federal Government, enactment of a Federal faw on sickness and accident com- pensations, with District matching legislation, if necessary: and extension of the District unemployment compen- sation and the Federal old-age bene- fit program to all practicable kinds of employment not now covered. Under a proposed expansion of the health program, as a means of re- ducing the causes of poverty needs, the board suggested there be pro- visions for enforced treatment of social diseases and tuberculosis. It urged also more extensive preventive health services and larger personnel The Secretary of the Treasury on Vacation through the orchard with their Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, jr., and Mrs. Morgenthau, spending a brief vacation on their Dutchess County, N. Y., farm, stop to admire the cherry blossoms as they walk great dane, Danno. The Secretary, riding abroad to inspect his stock and crops, stops to talk with Harry Doughty, one of the employes on the farm. for Gallinger Hospital, plus develop- ment of convalescent care to keep sick persons from going back to work too soon and suffering from relapses. ‘Would Extend Probation System. Under a program for delinquency, the board urged extension of the probation system, development of & farm for inebriates and granting of permission for payment of court fines on the installment plan so as to keep more offenders out of jail. Doubling of the capacity of the District Training School for Feeble- minded and provision of an adequate System of mental hygiene clinics were recommended as an aid to the sub- normal. Legal requirement of at least a week’s notice of intention to marry was suggested as one means of pro- moting marital stability. More liberal Federal grants toward the District’s social security programs | for the aged and needy blind also | were suggested. Ickes’ New Building ‘Country Club’in Rival A gencies Employes of rival Federal agencies, | also gave rise to rumors tending to perhaps a little jealously, have dubbed Secretary Ickes' new Interior Depart- ment Building the “county club.” One of the reasons is the attractive pent house, fitted up like a club room, where employes can eat their lunches and enjoy cool breezes and walk out over the red-tiled roofs. the new building was to contain a swimming pool also, contributed to suggest a country club. The swimming pool, as originally planned, is in the basement all right, but it isn’'t a swimming pool. It wes converted, instead, into what might be used either as a ball room or & gym- nasium eventually. Secretary Ickes’ private suite, which is not as luxurious as that of Post- master General Farley, for example, It you have some little folks like these to take riding with you, we know you’ll want to give them the maximum protection afforded by PERFECTED HYDRAULIC BRAKES Reports that | promote the “‘country club” idea. His private dining room and kitchen were chiefly responsible. Now the Interior Department an- nounces plans for a museum that will occupy the entire wing on the first floor of the new building, covering 8,100 square feet of floor space. De- signed to tell a running story through pictures, charts, maps, models and dioramas arranged in narrative se- quence, the museum will present a dramatic history of the change in s country's policy from exploitation to conservation of its natural resources. On the seventh floor south wing of the building will be the department’s art gallery with three long exhibition rooms. 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ART TO BE DISPLAYED Mary Marlow and Leolis Meth, both of Washington, students at the New York School of Fine and Ap- plied Art, who will be graduated this month, will be represented in the annual exhibition of students’ work there May 14 through 17. Miss Marlow i the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Morris E. Marlow, 226 Maryland avenue northeast. Miss Meth's parents are Mr. and Mrs. | David Meth of the Cavalier Hotel, ' 3500 Fourteenth street. PUBLIC JOB UNIT EXPANSION CITED 5,000,000 Placed Since In- auguration of Service, Convention Is Told. ‘The premanence and the expanding fields of the State and Federal employ- ment services were emphasized at the twenty-fifth anniversary convention of the International Association of Pub- lic Employment Services which closed here yesterday. Five million applicants have been placed in private employment since the inauguration of the Federal-State service in 1933, it was reported by W. Frank Persons, director of the United States Employment Service. Private placements have increased greatly in the last three months. The co-ordinated service has already as- sisted in placing 7,750,000 applicants on C. W. A, W. P. A. and emergency work jobs, and about 6,500,000 in P. W. A. or in Government service. The number of placements is con- siderably higher than the actual num- ber of persons placed, since some per- sons have been piaced in several dif- ferent jobe in the course of four years. Quality Emphasized. Quality as well as quantity is being emphasized more in the work of the co-ordinated employment service, Per- aons sald. “‘We are not content with filling the numberless jobs which would be manned whether or not our service existed,” Persons said. “We achieve our maximum useful- ness to soclety when we are able to accomplish the difficult placement— to fill the job which except for an orderly, efficient employment exchange system would go unfilled Anything that can be done to reduce labor turn- over by accurately fitting worker abili- ties to job requirements, fitting round pegs in round holes, is net gain for the social order. “In one respect the effective func- tioning of an employment service is tantamount to the creation of work. Whenever & job remains vacant be- cause a qualified worker cannot be found to fill it, a net loss results to the potential worker, to the employer, and to the sum total of the national in- ocome. To whatever extent an em- ployment service can speed up the | filling of openings in industry or can fill jobs more adequately, work has been created and a contribution has been made to the general economic well-being"” Deseribes Activity. Porsons also described the increasing activity of the United States Employ- ment Service in clearing information and jobs between States, so that local shortages can be overcome as npidlyl a5 possible. | Arthur J. Altmeyer, chairman of the | Social Becurity Board, described Lhet; close relation that will be maintained between the Social Security Board and | the United States Employment Service. The Social Security Board, he said, will make grants to the employment service to pay for the cost of registering the recipients of unemployment bene- fits. He said that in the field the So- cisl Becurity Board work and the em- ployment service should be united into single agencies, as is now done in Wis- consin and as is contemplated in all other State acts which have been ap- proved. “Twenty-two States must greatly ex- pand thetr Dresent State services in the next six months,” Altmeyer said. “This expansion must preserve func- tions of placement as well as provide essential functions in benefit payment procedure. It appears that the ex- panded service will require grants from the Social Security Board in amount several times greater than the amounts now available under the Wagner- Peyser act.” About 500 persons attended the con- vention. When the association was founded 25 years ago it had only eight members, (Copyrisht, 1997, by the New York Merald Tribune.) — OFFICERS RECOMMENDED District Women’s Bar Will Hold Election May 20. ‘The Nominating Committee of the District Women's Bar Associstion yes- terdsy made its recommendations to the Executive Committee for officers for the coming year. Those recommended include Mrs Elizabeth Cox and Miss Annabel Mat- thews for president; Miss Florence Curoe and Miss Kathryn Doherty, vice president; Mrs. Mary Maraffa Witten- myer and Miss Susanne Wood, re- cording secretary; Miss Agnes Brown and Miss Grace Brown Stiles, corre- sponding secretary; Miss Vera W. Rhine and Miss Matta Hilgeson, treas- urer, and Mrs. Pearl Klein and Miss Olive Lacy to serve for three years ss & member of the Executive Committee. ‘The election will be held May 20 at the Mayflower Hotel. SCHOOLUNITTOLD OF JOB PORBLEM Clerical Work Out of Propor- tion to Opportunities Held Being Taught. Clerical work out of all proportion to the employment opportunities available is being taught in the schools of America, and not nearly enough emphasis is placed on train- ing for commercial enterprises, Dr. Earl W. Barnhart of the Office of Education told 13 touring superin- tendents at the Interior Department Yyesterday. The group, on s two-week four of eight cities studying job possibilities for youth, left for Providence, R. I, immediately foilowing a luncheon at the Shoreham. Dr. Frank Baliou, superintendent of District schools is with the party, and Commissioner of Education Studebaker will join the group later at Princeton. Meanwhile the American Council on Education, composed of representa- tives of colleges and universities, State departments of education, city school systems and other educational units, closed its twentieth annual convention with the election of Edward Charles Elliott, president of Purdue, as chaire man. Eugene R. 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