Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 231, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 February 1932 — Page 8

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MILLIONS STILL DWELL IN CITY'S GLOOMYSLIIMS Hovels Far Below General Idea of American’s Living Standard. This Is (he third of a series of sriieies on housing conditions In this country. This material is published by permission of Fortune Magazine. In Wednesday’s Installment, proof was given of the statement that housing conditions in the United States were such that less than half of the homes in America measure up to the minimum standard of health and decency. This proof was not taken from a Dickenesque type of humanitarian literature, but from the prosaic and more factual report of the New York bureau of housing, made for the Governor in 1929. In the city of New York, the tenement history is one of the most shameful of human records. Nowhere have the estates of early landowners benefited more richly from an increase in real Estate values, for which their founders were very slightly responsible, and nowhere have their heirs repaid their benefice with greater harm. Tenements Still Exist

The great American synonym for hypocrisy is the Trinity tenement case of 1894 when the trustees of the richest church in the country refused to obey an ordinance requiring them to supply water to each floor of their tenements in Greenwich Village, in spite of the report of the board of health that the death rate in eighty-three of the church’s tenements was a third again above the general rate. Mulberry Bend and Bone Alley and Gotham Court, though names only in our time, still are names to blush for. Unhappily it Is not as history alone that the slums of New York exist. The so-called old testament laws, which were so unsatisfactory in 1901 that they begot the new tenement law, still house from a quarter to a third of New York’s population; 1,800,000 people still inhabit them, and at the present rate of demolition it will take 138 years to get rid of them. Rooms Without Light What that means in precise terms is that 200,000 and perhaps 250,000 of the interior rooms without windows to the outer air which were decried in 1901 still exist. But 1901 is only thirty years ago. We can return to 1885 and find that more than half the tenements condemned by the commission of that year still are standing and house human beings. The Lung block, officially condemned time after time, still stands a few short city blocks from A1 Smith’s old home at 25 Oliver street. Only within a month has it been threatened—and by a real estate development, not by the police. It is unnecessary to add to such facts the usual descriptions of particular homes. An investigator may find any kind of human misery he desires. Flats Arc Crowded A three-room apartment will will house eleven people; or nine people will live in a three-room basement apartment (originally designed for coal bins and storage lockers), with one wipdowlesa room, one room with a window on an areaway, or a two-room, top-floor apartment will contain four beds, a crib, a coal range, a sink, a washtub, a dresser, a chair and nine humans. Air will be anything from foul to merely stale. Baths will not exist. Toilets will be hall toilets shared by as many as twenty-five people. Hallways and stairs will be filthy and black. If the tenants frequently are to blame for the condition of their homes, it is nevertheless a question whether the beastly tenant begets the bad housing or the bad housing begets beastly tenant. Next. Not in Big Cities Alone.

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MAKING THE CROWD LAUGH NO EASY JOB Al Jolson Gives His Idea Why It Is a Hard Task to Keep an Audience Guffawing All Evening. WHAT a delightful life, you may say, to live continually in the atmosphere of adulation and to be a world-famous comedian. Al Jolson must indeed be a happy man. But listen a minute or two to JoLson’s version. “It’s not so easy to make people laugh,” observes Jolson, who comes to English’s next Thursday for three days in “The Wonder Bar,” directly from its New York triumph. “It’s no laughing matter. People ask me what I have to worry about. Why I worry, I don’t know. “In a big business like this there’s no let down for a minute while I'm on the stage. There’s little chance to be subtle. I have to drive

everything home. And my pet joke doesn’t always take the way it ought to. “When I say the robbers chased me for three hours and it took me four days to get back, I have to give ’em a few seconds to get it. That’s what comes of putting in lines that require people to think. “I’ve got to talk dead center all the time. Sometimes I imagine the Broadway crowd is spoiled. Play everywhere else and they think you’re funny, but In New York and Chicago you have to work twice as hard to make ’em laugh. “In putting on a show, I have to study a great deal over my lines. There’s no such thing as spontaneous comedy in a big theater. The manager curses the actor who pulls new stuff. It may kill a show . . . I have to twist and weigh my jokes beforehand.” a a a Indianapolis theaters today offer: “The Green Pastures” at English’s, Otto Gray and his cowboys at the Lyric, “Men of Chance” up to 9 p. m. at the Circle when “Two Kinds of Women” makes its debut; “Tomorrow and Tomorrow” at the Indiana, “Hell Divers” at the Palace, “Little Jessie James” at Keith’s, “High Pressure” at the Apollo, and burlesque at the Mutual. 8 8 8 Neighborhood theaters tonight offer: “The Flood” at the Stratford, “Hard Hombre” at the Irving, “Quick Trigger Lee” at the Hollywood, “Touch Down” at the Garfield, “Frankenstein” at the Tacoma, “Private Lives” at the Belmont, "Palmy Days” at the Talbott, “Wicked” at the Hamilton, “Riders of the Purple Sage” at the Orpheum, “Billy the Kid” at the Roxy, “Monkey Business” at the Mecca, “Fanny Foley Herself” at the Capitol, “Frankenstein” and “Around the World in Eighty Minutes” at the Terminal, and “Forgotten Women” and “Lasca of the Rio Grande” at the Alamo. Fall Brings Death By Times Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Feb. 4. Mrs. Milton Hanson, 84, died at a hospital here of injuries sustained in a fall at her home a few weeks ago. She leaves a brother, A. G. Newsome, and a stepdaughter. Mi’s. Ray Hinshaw, both of Indianapolis. Wabash Opens Semester By Times Special CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., Feb. 4. —Classes have been resumed at Wabash college after a rnid-semester vacation. The next vacation will be on Washington’s birthday, Feb. 22. The spring recess of one week will begin April 9.

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•“6 •••- 4ic pimpies, boils and paleness. A general run-down condition means a lack of normal resistance to infection and disuse.

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SCHOOL HEADS TO AID BUILDING DEDICATION No. 69 to Be Opened Formally With Program by Pupils, P.-T. A. Dedication exercises for public school No. 69 will be held at 7:30 tonight at the school building, Keystone avenue and Thirty-fifth street. Pupils of the school and mothers and childrens.’ choruses will play the leading part in the exercises. Russell Willson, school board president, will act as master of ceremonies. Others who will appear are Paul C. Stetson, superintendent of schools; Julian Wetzel, school commissioner; Mrs. Harry Newton, president of No. 69’s P.-T. A.; Miss Maud Price, principal, and the Rev. George C. Westphal, pastor of the Second Moravian church.

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HAWAII IRKED BY NAVY BAN Shore Leave Denied Sailors as Dreadnaught Anchors. By United Press HONOLULU, Feb. 4.—The navy’s boycott of Honolulu began today with the arrival of the dreadnaught Pennsylvania, vanguard of American fighting forces converging oh the islands for spring maneuvers. Orders prohibiting officers and men from going ashore were issued immediately after battleship anchored in the harbor. Admiral Frank H. Schofield, battle fleet commander, was aboard. The order was issued some weeks ago in Washington to prevent possible trouble between naval men and civilians as a result of an outbreak of crime in Honolulu. Business men were the heaviest losers by the restrictions, some estimating losses of $5,000,000, They planned an appeal to Admiral Schofield.

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Why you should be interested in your Blood Count

(Left) Microseopie view of healthy red-blood-cells. They carry nourishment and oxygen to every part of the body—they also remove impurities from the tissues.

Weak red-blood-cells—only 60 per cent of normal strength. Such a condition is often responsible for body weakness, paleness, sallow complexkm. pimples and boils.

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