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’ Montgomery County

Holds Relief Forum

Goodrich. Plan Loaiiittgalod by

Citizens’ Committee on
Public Assistance

PRESENT SYSTEM WEAK

Deanery, February 13.—An all day
forum was held here by the Mont-
gomery County Citizens’ Committee
on Public Assistance to study the
Goodrich Plan, of which Miss Park is
chairman. -The committee explained
its purpose as an effort not only to
investigate the Plan itself, but also ‘to
inform Montgomery County citizens
about the Plan and its various ad-
vantages and disadvantages.

The forum opened at 10.30 a. m.
with a lecture by Miss Hertha Kraus
who discussed the background of pub-
lic assistance since its beginning in
i795, why a new system is needed to
replace the old, and how the Goodrich
Plan will: accomplish the needed. re-
form.

After luncheon Miss Mildred Fair-
child discussed the personnel problem
in public assistance. The question of
political patronage was brought up ‘in
connection: with the hope of the Good-
rich Plan to establish the personnel
problem on: a strictly merit basis.

Following Miss Fairchild’s talk the
forum broke up into. two: -discussion
groups under the leadership of Miss
Abigail Brownell and Dr. Amy E,
Watson, ‘who is. Special ASsistant in







Research on, the Technical Staff of
the Pennsylvania Committee on Pub-
lic Assistance and Relief. After an

| hour for discussion—the-two~groups

assembled again-for-a-panel debate in
which the mai? points of the previous
lectures and discussions were brought
forward and summarized.

The relief system as it stands today
is badly in need of-repair as shown in
Miss Kraus’s lecture to the thirty
women who are potential county work-
ers. These women are preparing to
go out into. the community in which
they live to educate the people in the
present public relief system and agi-
tate for the passage ofthe Goodrich
Plan in the Pennsylvania Legislature.

The main points.in the present Stu-
ation which need remedying are: first,
the obsolete» form of: Poor Boards
which have remained the same in ad-
ministration since their inception in
1705; second, the Mothers’ Assistance
Board, which was cut away. from the
original Poor: Boards in,1913, has not
been sufficiently “deyloped to take
care of its two hae itional categories,
the’Blind Assistance and the Old Age
Assistance; third, the new Old Age|s
Insurance system will -undoubtedly
conflict with the present Old Age
Benefit system. Their functions must
ve more. clearly
make each effectual. “Fourth; WPA
work. and the Emergeney Relief as
set’ up in President Roosevelt’s FERA
are only temporary. . Some policy
must be worked out to take care of
those who are dependent on_ these
agencies. Fifth, the present. system
is unfair because of the unequalized

defined in“ order to?

standards and qualifications set: up
by the independent agencies; sixth,
the public does not know. what agen-
ciés ‘to go to.
from one to another and finally énd
up in the hands of the Poor Board,
which is actually the least capable of
taking care of “them

Because of the above situation a
committee on Public Assistance and
Relief was appointed by Governor
George H. Earle; of Pennsylvania.
~Headed by Herbert F. Goodrich, dean
of the Law School of the University
o: Pennsylvania, the committee has
been active in research for over a
year and has brought forth the Good-
rich Plan which has six underlying
principles:. First, create a County
Board of Public Assistance. to handle
all types of relief except institutions,
which-can-be carried by the State;
second, create a permanent State
Board of Public Assistance, which
will take over Some of the functions
of the State Welfare
third, let. the State finance relief en-
tirely, with supplementary aid from
the Federal government | when, neces-
sary; fourth, equalize Standards by
merging varying services on a sound
general basis, that they will be
accessible to everyone, without letting
categorical priviléges*be-taken away
fifth,

so

choosing of personnel; sixth,

community cooperation by creating a} Eugenia Coburn,
board of citizens w ho. are interested} Anderson were the only members of
and will see to it that the|the faculty present, as both Mr.

im relief
agencies are functioning properly and



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safeguard this standardization!
by applying the merit basis to the} by Josephine Hant, ’37, hall president,
get| assisted by Catherine Corson,

Private Dinners Precede



Self oe Extends Time Limit to
One, as Experiment

On a weekend made additionally fes-
tive by the second League square
dance of. the season, Denbigh gave the
second dance in its history. Spurred
on by a ‘successful first affair in No-
vember, .member's-of-the hall had been
insistent in their demands for another
dance before the spring vacation.

This time a.dinner was not given
in the hall. Those who had guests
dined out, returning at 9 o’clock to
join the orchestra and stag line.

a special experimental dispensation }

from the Self-Government’ Association
the dance was allowed to continue
until one o’clock.' Previously all hall
dances had been restricted to the
hours befare .12.

The dining room was’ decorated for
the. occasion with red and white bal-
loons, alternately round and sausage
shaped, which were tied in bunches to
the chandeliers. Over the fireplace
was a large red heart, edged in rows
of lace paper, on which a gold cupid
aimed his. fatal arrow. The arrow
was lighted with electrie lights;

Gefieral arrangements were made
38, and

39. Mr. and Mrs.
and
Mrs. Dryden and MY. Fenwick were

unable to attend.



Second Denbigh Dance

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'| JESSUP SHOWS DANGER

OF YOUTH MOVEMEN TS

New York N. Y.— (ACP) —The
“newer youth movements” are de-
signed_as “short cuts to power or to
change,” is the theme of the annual
report of the Carnegie Foundation for
the Advancement of Teaching deliv-
ered by the Foundation’s president,
Walter A. Jessup.“

“In all’ too. many instances,” said
the. report, ‘it, is apparent that these
newer youth movements are really or-
ganized by adults who know what they —
want and to whom youth is a reservoir
of advocates readily influenced.
“Shifts in social, economic or po-
litical outlook. are quickly reflected. in
the pfogram set up in his behalf,” ex-
plained “Mr. Jessup... “Witness the’
youth movements under Hitler, Musso-
lini and Stalin, not to mention our
own National Youth Administration
in America,

“Although we look with horror at
the child crusades of the Middle Ages,
may not some future historian chal-
lenge some of the current youth activi-
ties? Just now we hear much about
youth as a factor in bringing about
a-new order in society. ~

“So much is said about youth today
and so much emphasis is laid upon it
that it might, seem that preceding gen-
erations. had overlooked youth. _ The
schools are not by any means our sole
provision for youth, even in recent
times. We-have encouraged for him
an endless number of extra school or-
ganizations,” continued the report.







“IT WAS A BREATHLESS DASH,” said Méss Dorothy
Kilgallen, famous girl reporter, back at work (/eft) after”
finishing her assignment to circle the world by air in rec-
ord-breaking time. (Right) Her exciting arrival at Newark

Airport.

“I snatched ‘meals anywhere,”

she says,

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ate’

all kinds ‘of food. But Camels helped me keep my diges-
tion tuned up. ‘For digestion’s sake—smoke Camels’
meant a world of comfort to me. I’ll bet on them any time

—=for mildness and for their ‘lift.’ Camels set me right!

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“| GET MORE ENJOYMENT from Camels,” says Arthur H. Waldo, Jr,
College Class of ’38. “I’ve found that. Camels\ help offset the strain of
long hours of study. Working out a tough assignment often can make
me; feel tense inside. So at mealtime, you'll see me enjoying my Camels.”

Yes, Camels. speed up the flow of digestive fluids — increase alkalinity.

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SHOOTING

T.N.T. “My business makes me
mighty careful about nerves and

digestion,”



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AN OIL-WELL with

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says B. C. Simpson.

“Camels have what I like. They
don’t get on my nerves. And they
puta heap more joy into eating.”