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Good Food Is Provided All, Including Those Who Lack Meal Ticket—Needy Cared For

Rev. Morris Zeidman, superintendent of the Scott Institute, comes back with a neat riposte in reference to a recent criticism of the Institute’s relief measures, and specifically to the statement “that a man must have a ticket from the relief office before eating there.”

Mr. Zeidman has provided figures from his books showing meal-by-meal, for a week, the number of ticket holders cared for, the number of non-ticket holders. Adding these two figures it is found that during the week of December 21–28, there were 1,399 meals provided for ticket holders and 786 meals to non-ticket holders…

Having disposed of these matters, Mr. Zeidman went on to tell of some of the more pathetic instances of need…[on] this holiday week. A woman came in with her baby, perhaps two months old and very sick with intestinal flu. The little family is not on relief for the husband earns a meagre wage, not sufficient to keep their cold house adequately warm for the baby.

“We have taken them in hand,” said the Scott superintendent.

April 22, 1939