Evening Star Newspaper, January 30, 1942, Page 32

Relief Standards Here Scored by U. S. Aide In Nofe fo Van Hyning Low Welfare Budget Puts | Capital Outside Food | Stamp Class, It Is Held District relief standards are de- nounced by an Agriculture Depart- ment agent in a letter in which he states the department cannot now, at least, approve inauguration of the food stamp plan here. In their budget proposals for the next fiscal year, the District Com- missioners already had planned to | abandon arrangements for a stamp | program, previously authorized by | Congress but not vet put in effect. Some District welfare officials still favor the system, as & means of ex- tending increased aid to Washing- ton’s needy. However, Robert J. Graves, as a regional director, under the Agriculture Department service, to supplement the normal food ex- penditures of persons receiving relief s0 that surplus farm commodities will be moved by giving welfare families & more adequate diet. Our experience in administering this program during the past two and a half years indicates that it is suc- cessful only when there are sufficlent funds available in the welfare de- partment to insure adequate relief standards. “From our analysis of the ques- tionnaire submitted by your office, we are of the opinion that the wel- fare grants in your department are below what we consider standard, and feel that your welfare cases would have difficulty in purchasing the orange stamp requirements of our basis of issuance. “We have observed from recent reports in the Washington news- papers that it is expected that the District welfare budget will be de- creased in the next fiscal year. Such a decrease would make it all the more impossible for Washington to be considered as a stamp plan| municipality. Would you please confirm for us the veracity of these newspaper reports.” Mr. Graves added that study of needy home groups during the | Christmas season indicated a “good | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., quacy of your welfare appropriation would preclude the possibility of extending the food stamp plan to the District at the present. time. We shall keep your application in our pending file, however, and if the budgetary situation in your depart- ment improves for the next fiscal year, we shall be glad to reconsider the matter at a later date.” Remark to Dog Puts Hidden Thief to Flight BY the Associated Press. MOBILE, Ala, Jan. 30.—A mald in the home of Howard J. Curtis was followed into the house by & small dog. She turned to the animal and sald: “What are you doing in here?” At that remark, s burglar broke from an adjoining room and fled, dropping his loot. Enlist your dollars for national defense every payday. Buy United States Defense savings bonds and stamps. wrote to District Welfare Director | many” families in the District were Conrad Van iyning: | in “dire need” mainly because some | “As you know, the food stamp member of the family was employ- | plan of the Surplus Marketing Ad- | able. He concluded: ministration is a program designed | “It is my opinion that the made- 43 MILLION | AMERICANS ARE VICTIMS OF VITAMIN STARVATION =—OFFICIAL U.S. GOV'T ESTIMATE, 1940— P DID YOU KNOW * that X of all Army Draftees rejected, had Vita- | min deficiency ailments . . . Official U. S. Health | Department figures are astonishing—Actually | millions of Americans, rich and poor, are tired, | listless, run-down . . . losing their youth, buoyancy ‘ and vitality sithout even suspecting the cause! | “C” THE NEGLECTED VITAMIN! “ag§ It’s so easy to be lacking in Vitamin “C”’. Only a few foods contain enough of it. Cooking with soda or boiling destroys it. 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