Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 169, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 November 1931 — Page 3

NOV. 24, 1931.

50,000 OF ONE CITY TOWNSHIP FED BY CHARITY That’s Total Since Jan. 1: 1,000 Baskets Given in Day by Trustee. BY CARLOS LANE The report that every resident of * small Indiana city, for example, the size of Martinsville, w?s almost starved and unable to get food, doubtless would be front page news throughout the country. Yet how many Indianapolis 'citizens know that only about a week ago, in Center township alone, there were almost 5,000 persons who, had it not been for relief measures available to the trustee, would have gone without food? Or how many are aware that in this same township since Jan. 1 more than 50,000 men, women and children, because of unemployment and unable to support themselves, have been fed by the township trustee? 1,000 Baskets in Day On one day, only a short time ago, clerks in the offices of Miss Hannah Noone, the trustee, signed orders for baskets of groceries for impoverished lamilies, until, when the doors were closed at dusk, 1,000 baskets had been given out. It almost physically was impossible for the office staff to make out these orders. In these baskets, there were only staple foods, flour, potatoes, meal, sugar, oleomargerine, breakfast foods, salt and pepper, onions, cabbags, tomatoes, macaroni, sauerkraut, vinegar, apple butter, and a quantity of soap. Each basket must serve one family a week. Cost of the baskets, and the amount of food in each, vary in proportion to the number of persons in the family. Where there are babies, or sick persons, milk is added to the supply. $91,525 for Coal In the same time $91,525.40 has been spent for coal; $15,367.40 for milk; $3,051 for burials, and S2BO for transportation to the poor farm. “There has been some criticism about giving milk, but where there are babies who need milk, the milk will be sent, and let those critcise who will,” said Miss Noone. Total expenditures by Miss Noone since she took office Jan. 1. including pay of investigators and other items, total $637,234.31. Smallest Cost $2.22 The smallest baskets, made up for two persons, cost the township $2.22 each; the medium baskets, $2.95, and the largest, $3.95. The 5,000 persons whose hunger drove them to ask for charity in one day recently, represent only a small portion of the total number of needy persons now being fed by the township. More than 6,000 families each week receive orders for baskets similar to those given the 1,001 on that day. That represents almost 30,000 persons in one township of Marion county at present unable to obtain even food for themselves. And the winter just has begun. Since Jan. 1, records in Miss Noone’s office show, $480,190.83 has been spent for groceries to feed the poor. The prices of foods depend on bi-weekly quotations from commission merchants here. 'Twenty-Eight Investigators There are at present twenty-eight invesigators—including the office workers —on the pay roll, each drawing SIOO monthly. The proportion of funds spent for administration of the relief can be illustrated by a pay roll of $2,300 in October—there were only twen-ty-three investigators then—as an item in a total expenditure of $57,970.65. The trustee pays no rent. That expense is care for, in cases of deserving families unable to provide their own shelter, by the Family Welfare Society, an agency operating under the Community Fund. (To Be Continued.) Serves Club Fifty Years By Times Special FT. WAYNE, Ind., Nov. 24.—A jubilee service was held at St. John’s Evangelical church honoring Mrs. Wilhelmina Hofmeister on completion of fifty years as president of the church sewing society. She is a charter member of the society and has been its president continuously since its founding.

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CONCERT CLUB ELECTS Hazel Fisher Is New President of Tech Girls' Organization Hazel Fisher is the newly elected president of the

Girls’concert club at Arsenal Technical high school. Other officers are Kathleen Sims, vice-preside nt; Marie Schindewolfe, secretary; Mary Elizabeth Woods, sergeant-at-arms; Mary Avis Bell, historian, and Margaret Clawson, wardrobe mistress. Faculty director of the club is Mrs.

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MAN ARRESTED AT GRAVE FREE Two Other Business Men Are Cleared on Charge. Three West Washington street business men arrested Monday on suspicion of attempting to enter a coal yard at 1031 Edgemont avenue were dismissed today by Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron. They are Rudolph Vogel, 4000 : Rockville road; Sherman Lightle, 805 West Twenty-eighth street, and i Jesse Woods, 1310 West Washington street. All three admitted being in the coal office, but Lightle said it was owned by his brother-in-law and that he merely had stopped to use the telephone. Vogel was arrested by Radio Patrolmen Purcell and Romeril after they trailed him in a funeral procession to Crown Hill cemetery, where Vogel was a pallbearer at the burial of a friend. Relatives of Vogel appeared at police headquarters after the arrest, protesting action of the officers in interrupting the funeral. They indicated the complaint will be carried before the board of safety. Vogel, Lightle and Woods were ordered released following a conference in the office of Chief Mike Morrissey when Lightle’s brother-in-law and sister explained circumstances of the affair. “That’s a good piece of work,” Chief Morrissey told Purcell and Romeril. ACCEPTS HOOVER’S BID Hurd to Attend Capital Parley on Home Ownership. Part that Indianapolis building trades may play in helping to spur business during the next year will be laid before President Herbert Hoover at a conference in Washington. . This was announced today by William F. Hurd, city building commissioner, who has accepted Hoover’s invitation to attend a home building and home ownership conference Dec. 2 to 5. Building experts from all over the country will meet with the President to discuss possible boons to the building trades in the near future. Hurd is vice-president of the Building Commissioners Conference of America. Robbed by Negro Bandit A Negro bandit stole $2.25 from Robert Godsey, 2742 North Adams street, early today in a holdup at Seventeenth street and the Monon railroad, he told police.

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FEDERAL RELIEF BILL IS DRAWN FORCONGRESS Colorado Senator Proposes Three-Fold Plan for Winter Program. By United Press NEW YORK, Nov. 24.—Senator Edward P. Costigan of Colorado told the National Consumers’ League at its annual meeting here today that he expects tq introduce in the next congress a bill providing for a federal relief appropriation for the unemployed, to be administered through public welfare channels established by law. Costigan addressed the league at a luncheon at the Astor hotel on the subject of “Government and Industry.” Emergencies call for unusual action, he said, and unemployment conditions have been understated, rather than overstated. They give no promise of being successfully met, he declared, without government funds. Certain of Benefits “If such federal action is taken,” he said, “not grudgingly, but in the spirit with which America cheerfully met other national crises, America is certain to reap a worthwhile harvest of understanding, dedication to the general welfare, and national unity.” The plan he outlined was; Home relief through state departments of welfare or other lawcreated agencies, in which federal funds would be used to stimulate the largest possible corresponding appropriations from the states and their subdivisions. Distribution through legally established public welfare channels of “substantial quantities” of wheat bought by the farm board. Extensive public works program. Some Data Missing While there is reasonably satisfactory data on relief conditions in some 314 cities of more than 25,000 population representing 46,000,000 people, there is a lack of similar information about 4,500 cities below that size, as well as rural districts, he said. “Widespread needless suffering, with possibly resulting violence, may be looked for as winter advances, unless the federal government joins co-operatively for public relief on carefully considered and constructive lines with cities, states and other local administrative units,” he continued. Existing unemployment, he declared, in cities of 25,000 or over, is about ten times the normal figure. Reporter’s Divorce for Desertion By United Press ELKO, Nev., Nov. 24.—When the United Press carried the news from here Oct. 19, that Rodney Gilbert, New York newspaperman, had been granted a divorde from Maude Addis Gilbert, it erroneously reported the grounds for divorce as “cruelty” whereas the divorce was for “desertion.”

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DEMOCRATS TO DANCE Thanksgiving Event Will Be Given at Municipal Gardens. Thanksgiving will be celebrated by the Young Democratic Club with a dance for members and guests Wednesday evening at Municipal

New Plan by Makers of Vicks Cuts the High Cost of Colds Saves Money, Time and Health by Better “Control-of-Colds”

Test of Plan Offered by Indianapolis Druggists on Unlimited Guarantee of Satisfactory Results. The high costs of colds are more than ever a problem this winter. In every family, therefore, it is news of peculiar interest that the makers of Vicks Vapoßub have developed a Plan for better “Control-of-Colds” in the home. A Plan to reduce the number, the severity and the costs of colds. A New Vick Product The Plan is made possible by a new preparation—Vicks Nose and Throat Drops. Based on anew idea in “preventing” colds, it is a companion to Vicks Vapoßub, the modern external way of “treating” colds. The two aid and supplement each other. Together, they make possible further reduction of the burdensome family “Colds-Tax.” Trial Offer to Vapoßub Users Use of this Vick Plan for better “Control-of-Colds” in your home will mean fewer colds—less severe colds. It will mean cutting your high costs of cold troubles—a saving in money, loss of time and health. To say nothing of the discomforts of colds and the severe ills that often follow colds. Test the Plan for yourself—without risk. Get a bottle of the new Vicks Drops today. Use it with Vicks Vapoßub as directed. Unless results are entirely satisfactory, your druggist will refund the price of the Nose Drops —and the test will have cost you nothing. Here, briefly, is the Vick Plan for better “Control-of-Colds.”

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