Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 211, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 January 1932 — Page 8

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TEACHERS CAN'T PURCHASE FOOD IN METROPOLIS Why Is Third Richest City Broke? Banker, Cop, Teachers Answer. stand on loop street corners In Chicago for dimes. The* want only enough for a doughnut and a cup of cofTee. Tct there are more hungry school teachers than hungry hoboes In Chicago. This second of a series of stories about the city’s financial crisis attempts to tell srhy. Tomorrow's story will deal in detail with plans for relief. BY RAY BLACK, United Press Staff Correspondent (Copyright. 1932. by United Press i CHICAGO, Jan. 12.—Seven thousand Chicago school teachers went without lunch today. That is half the 14,000 men and women who teach in the city schools. The estimate is by board of education officials. They base it on answers to a questionnaire and knowledge of bitter facts that require no questionnaire. The teachers went hungry at lunch time because they could not afford even soup and a roll. They have been paid for only six weeks in the last seven months they have taught. Many of them will have scanty dinners tonight. City Rich, But Can’t Pay Salaries Thousands of policemen, firemen, librarians, truck drivers, inspectors, clerks and other munipical employes are in equally precarious plight. All work for the fourth largest, probably the third richest city in the world. It can not afford to pay their salaries. Why? For a week, a United Press writer (has been on the trail of the answer /to that question. The quest led through bulky municipal records, through interviews with officials, through conferences with bankers, through talks with bewildered school ma’ams and slow-speaking policemen, fathers of large families. All agree there has been grave error somewhere. None knows just where. Explain Reasons “It’s the taxes,” explained a school ♦ oacher, graduate of the University of Illinois, who made an A in an economics course there. “The city can not collect taxes and there is ! no money to pay us.” “It was because of the greed of ; them that sat in the saddle be- i fore, as should never have been there,” said a ruddy-cheeked, grayhaired traffic policeman whose five children probably know to whom he refers. • There are mary reasons. Perhaps there has been executive mis- J management, waste, inefficiency. It is hard to say,” continued a banker. And there the problem rests, with $40,000,000,000 of assessed valuation, with $200,000,000,000 of tangible wealth, Chicago is penniless. Mayor Predicts Anarchy Mayor Anton J. Cermak predicts “anarchy,” “martial law,” “chaos” unless relief is immediate. The special session of the state legislature, convened to solve Chicago's money problem, divides into Chicago and “downstate” groups. Unless Cook county legislators agree to the state income tax that the downstaters want, it looks dark for Chicago relief bills. Meantime misery reigns in Chicago. Here are listed actual cases, initials stand for names of those whose pride survives adversity, their names are on board of education records: Mrs. J. B. is an elderly eighth grade teacher, eligible to retire in four years. Her husband has been ! an invalid five years. Mrs. B. has I paid off half of $6,000 she owed on their home when salary rhecks stopped. She borrowed money from a loan office, at 42 per cent, to meet the payments. Later she had to i borrow from two other loan sharks. Now she owes all three. All the money she has is $3. She probably will lose her home. Unable to Keep Going Mrs. A. L. is a. widow. Her husband died of tuberculosis, leaving her three children to support. The youngest is 2 months old. She has to care for a niece, who is ill. She has kept on teaching, but she has had to accept charity to feed and clothe her children. Mrs. S. M., a high school teacher, supported her mother and father, and contributed to support of her unemployed brother’s family of five. Her savings were lost in a bank

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NO. s—Heavy Snowstorms in June and August—No Foolin,’ It Really Happened in New England.

THE year 1816 has gone down into history as "the year withi out a summer,” although, as far as has been ascertained by recent sciI entifle investigation, it did not altogether deserve this. Regular weather records were kept at that period at not more than ten places in the United States, but many details concerning the famous cold year were recorded by persons who experienced its rigors. Typical of these descriptions is '< the following written by Chauncey Jerome, at Plymouth, Conn.: “The next summer was the cold one of 1816, which none of the old people ever will forget and which many of the young nave heard a great deal about. There was ice and snow in every months of the year. “I well remember the 7th of June, while on my way to work, about a mile from home, dressed throughout with thick woolen clothes and an overcoat on, my hands got so cold that I was obliged to lay down my tools and put on a pair of mittens which I had in my pocket. “It snowed about an hour that day. On the- 10th June my wife brought in some clothes that had been spread on the ground ine night before, which were frozen stiff as in winter. “On the Fourth of July I saw several men pitching quoits in the middle of the day with thick overcoats on, and the sun shining bright at the time. . . . Not half enough corn ripened that year to furnish seed for the next.” Charles Pierce’s “Weather in Philadelphia” tells us that at that place “there was ice every month of the year, not excepting June, July and August. Scarcely a vegetable came to perfection north and east of the Potomac.” According to the monthly weather review, citing the recollections of James Winchester of Vermont: “It is said that in June of that year snow fell to the depth of three inches in New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey on the seventeenth; five inches in all'the New England states, except three ! inches in Vermont. “There was snow and ice in every | month of the year. The storm of j June 17 was as severe as any that j ever occurred in the winter! it be- i gan about noon, increasing in fury ; until night, by which time the j roads were impassable by reason of snowdrifts; many were bewildered in the blinding storm and frozen to death. “There was a heavy snowstorm j Aug. 30. . . . The year 1816 had j neither spring, summer nor autumn. failure. Her father sickened and died. His i’lness and funeral took all that could be borrowed. A woman truant officer tried to keep up her home, but found it impossible because three tennant families were penniless. “I have three families who ows me two years’ rent,” she said. “Now the coal dealer threatens to sue me for his bill.” Stop Waking Up Nights Flush the Bladder With Juniper Oil Drive out the impurities and excess acids that cause irritation and irregularity. BU-KETS, the bladder physic containing juniper oil, buchu leaves, etc., works on the bladder j similar to castor oil on the bowels. I Get a 25c test box from any drug store. After four days if not relieved of “waking up nights” go back and get your money. If you are bothered with backache or leg pains caused from bladder disorders you are bound to feel better after this cleansing and you get your regular sleep, sold at Hook's Dependable Drug Stores.—Advertisement.

DOWNTOWN FAMILY THEATERS TODAY

faPJWPTSJBCor. Wash, and Capitol. i.~lidllolMConHnnonn 9 a. m. to 11 m. Doable Feature* Adolphe Menjou in “THE GREAT LOVER” Robert Ames in ‘SMART WOMAN” IWWftTI First Showing B|aUaMLLU Opp. Traction Station Jack Holt—Ralnh Graves “A DANGEROUS AFFAIR.” i|VTfV"| 152 N. Illinois St. I-lWlliilSJ First Showing Lew Cody in thrill drama of the north woods. ' LAND OF W ANTED MEN”

The only crop of corn raised In that part of Vermont that summer was saved by keeping bonfires burn- [ snow m June *] ing around the cornfield night and day.” The year was not actually one without a summer, but one in which the summer included some spells of decidedly wintry weather. Next: Checking up on weather all over the world.

AMUSEMENTS

iVi:rf4t Beloved Motion Picture Star IRENE RICH and Hollywood Cast —IN PERSON ARCHER and JACKSON RAYMOND WILBERT * CO. JVtTELL A PANT others Exciting Newspaper Drama SALLY BLAINE

KEITH’S rho Now CT BERKELL PLAYERS In a Gala Revival of “SIS HOPKINS” Extra Added Feature EZRA BUZZINGTON’S RUBE BAND A Riot of Mirth and Melody Matinees Wed.. Xhure., Sat. Nights W)c, 35c, 25c; Mats. 35c, 25c Next Week—" Ladies of Creation” with Mildred Hastings

ENGLISH— TONIGHT 8:20 TUES. AND WED. NIGHT SEATS LEFT FOR MATINEE WEDNESDAY, 2:*t W ed. Mat. Only 75c, sl, $1.50, $2, 42.50 EARL CARROLL VANITIES

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WEST SIDE tmMMIKKMAMMM wash. Belmont GARRY COOPER in “HIS WOMAN” Family Nite—Serial EAST SIDE ” ■■■■■■■■■ 3155 IftBBiAMISIwALLACE BEERY in “THE CHAMP” ITiTf 7TSCTI “ nfi e> loth st. Two Features ‘‘THE RUNAROUND” and “GRAFT,” with SUE CAROL Ykl * 5307 E - Wash. MARY ASTOR in “SMART WOMEN” Bargain Nite ~ Sjff f J E. New York LIONEL BARRYMORE in “YELLOW TICKET” Family Nite. NEL KARRI MORE in “YELLOW TICKET” Family Nite 5950 iwh t. LUPE VELEZ and LAWRENCE TIBBETT in "CUBAN LOVE SONG *

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-JAN. 12, 1932