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Contributions Now Average Only $15 to $20 a Day—Pitiful Cases Come for Aid

Will the Scott Institute have to close its doors against the needy because of lack of adequate support? Rev. Morris Zeidman hopes not. But it takes something like $50 a day to maintain the work of emergent relief…Mr. Zeidman would continue to provide meals for the hungry until the end of April, but he feels he cannot incur the responsibility of debt piled up…

Mr. Zeidman pointed out to The Telegram reporter that he was receiving no civic assistance…He finds, however, that large numbers of young men of the best type are coming without tickets, such as are issued to hostel residents. These young men have been able to find lodging for themselves, though for some of them this must be a precarious matter, but they do need food—their pale lips show that.

Then, there are the men who for infringements of rules lose their welfare department tickets temporarily—for instance, they haven’t done their exercises for the day, as they are required…Mr. Zeidman feels, that even so, they can’t be left to starve when they come for a meal.

“It’s awful hard to turn them away,” he said.

December 31, 1938