Abstract
At the last of a series of “Know-Your-City” meetings of the League of Women Voters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the two speakers—Anne E. Geddes of the Bureau of Research and Statistics, Social Security Board, and Elizabeth Morrison, Executive Secretary of the Family Welfare Society of Cambridge—presented the local relief picture from two angles: On the statistical side, Miss Geddes pointed out that thirteen million dollars had been spent for relief in Cambridge from 1929 to 1937 (only 5 per cent by private agencies); that expenditures for relief per inhabitant had increased from $3.53 in 1929 to $21.76 in 1937 (less, however, than in some other Massachusetts cities for which she gave comparative figures); and that “the peak in expenditures appears not yet to have been reached. It is clear that large-scale relief spending will continue and that long-range planning is necessary to prevent and mitigate need.”1 Miss Morrison, in the paper presented here, attempted to convert the cold figures into terms of specific people seeking relief for their needs in the specific local community—of which her audience were interested citizens.
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