Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 238, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 February 1932 — Page 5

FEB. 12, 1932.

SLUMS REFLECT ON HIGHER TYPE OF CITY HOMES Indianapolis’ Record Marred by Unhealthy Poor Districts. Thl In the second of a series on bom* inr condition* In IndlanaDoli*. a follow* on on a series on the National Itaatlon. In a preceding article of this series, facts and figures were cited to show that Indianapolis is fortunate, in its housing conditions, considering the low national standard. But, paradoxically, this apparently fortunate condition actually is a drawback to the city, in the tendency to accept conditions as fairly good, and to sit back complacently without attempting to reach a state of perfection. Often it requires an emergency to arouse public attention and action. Slums Affect City While Indianapolis does have a smaller proportion of evil conditions than the nation as a whole, it is a challenge to the people of this city when it is realized such conditions exist at all. Most persons fail to realize that they, living in homes measuring up to high standards of decency and health, are not isolated from the squalid conditions of semi-slums. Evils existing in the poorest sections of the city have a direct bearing on the health and well being of every other section of a city. This is shown best by a study of outbreaks of contagious diseases. Start Epidemics 1 These epidemics, usually originating in sections of the city where living conditions are known to be far below standard, are no respecters of persons. Once started, they are not confined to their source, but spread throughout the city by public contact. Children in insanitary homes, the breeding ground of disease, mingle with children from the city’s better homes in the classroom; every child in the school is exposed to contagion and, in turn, carry the disease. A milkman may jeopardize health and even lives of an entire city. A poor laborer, forced to live in such conditions, brushing elbows with more fortunate persons on street cars, in stores, theaters and other public places, may expose others. Disease Breeds in Dirt Epidemic charts in the offices of the health board reveal that such epidemics almost always originate in certain sections of the city. These sections sometimes include poorer class rooming houses where many persons live under one roof, using one bathroom and living in generally insanitary circumstances. Also they include sections largely composed of shacks, or old houses which have known better days, but w’hich have been permitted to deteriorate, many of which have outdoor vaults, polluted cisterns, lack ventilation and are overcrowded, permitting little privacy.

Depression Increases Crowding Unfortunately, such slum-like conditions are not isolated. A row of the worst kind of houses may be found crowded in the rear of a fine residence block. A tour of alleys in the better residential districts will reveal scores of fire-trap shacks and disease breeding grounds nestling in the shadow of fine homes. The last two years have seen this class of property tending to reach an even lower level, due to the depression which affected real estate, reducing value and income on investment. Conditions Will Change Economic conditions of the last two years also have contributed to increased overcrowding, with several families frequently occupying one house inadequate in size and unfit in character to house even one small family. Overcrowding here and throughout the state has increased 30 per cent in the last year, according to state health board records. However, this latter condition Is more or less temporary, and undoubtedly will be relieved to a large extent as soon as economic conditions are better. Other bad effects also have been traced to poor housing condition. First is the physical consequence, the most plainly seen. Health Detriment Studies have revealed that children reared in insanitary, overcrowded dwellings are smaller and less healthy than those reared in more satisfactory surroundings. Figures show that approximately two-thirds of delinquent children live in homes where dirty, poorlyventilated rooms predominate. Onethird of the shiftless mothers, and two-thirds of the deserting fathers also are in this classification. “Herding” of large numbers of persons in small quarters destroys privacy, an essential to home life. Modesty and morality are likely to be abandoned. Children Play in Streets Young girls have no place to meet their boy friends, and keep rendezvous away from home, in dance halls or on the street, and frequently become juvenile court cases as a result. It virtually is impossible to breed good citizens in conditions such as these.

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Michacl Lacelle and his prize - winning rainbow-steelhead trout. “The one you missed!” was the tantalizing title Michael Lacelle, Indian fishing enthusiast of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, penned to the accompanying photo sent this week to Indianapolis anglers who every summer visit him on their way to Canadian fishing waters. Lacelle’s ten-pound, twelveounce rainbow-steelhead trout, caught last Aug. 17 in St. Mary’s rapids at the “Soo,” has won first prize in Field and Stream’s “1931 big fish contest” for the eastern division,” the current number of the magazine announces. The “big-un” took Lacelle’s home-made No. 6 bucktail fly. “That Indian would send me a picture like that on the first warm day ‘this spring,’ ” said Walter Roeder, tackle department manager at Em-Roe Sporting Goods Company, one of several of Lacelle’s friends here to receive the photo.

ARBUCKLE BOOMED FOR LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR Campaign Launched at Meeting in RushvUle. By Times Special RUSHVILLE, Ind., Feb. 12. State-wide campaign to obtain the Democratic nomination for Lieu-tenant-Governor for James T. Arbuckle of Rushville, was being planned here today by his friends. The campaign in behalf of the Rushville attorney was launched at a meeting Thursday night. Active for many years in state civic and fraternal organizations, Arbuckle has been past district governor of Kiwanis and in 1928 was grand master of the Indiana Odd Fellows. Governor Samuel Ralston appointed him to the state pardon board, where he served from 1914 to 1918. DR. BUTLER HONORED FOR FAITHFUL SERVICE Banquet Makes Thirtieth Year as Columbia Prexy. NEW YORK, Feb. 12.—Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia university and corecipient of the Nobel peace prize for 1931, was honored in a worldwide celebration Thursday night on completion of his thirtieth year as president of Columbia. Dr. Butler, speaking at the New York banquet, sketched the growth of Columbia university, his thirty years as its president and his fifty years as an alumnus. Dr. Butler celebrates his seventieth birthday this year. PLAN MILITARY BALL Legion to Open Bicentennial With Party at Indiana Roof. Massed colors of the twenty-two American Legion posts in Marion county will lead the .grand march at a military ball Saturday night, Feb. 20, at the Indiana ballroom. The ball will open the legion’s observance of the George Washington bicentennial. It will be sponsored by the Indianapolis Voiture of the Forty and Eight, legion fun and honor society. High legion officials and military officers will be guests. Regular army units, national guard and reserve officers will join in the event. General chairman of the ball is Charles M. Crippen, chef de gare of the Forty and Eight. RECALLS BOOTH CRIME New Jersey Man, Now 91, Witnessed Lincoln's Assassination. Bp United Press BRIDGETON, N. J., Feb. 12. John Lindsey, “a man who saw Lincoln,” wore a little red ribbon in his coat lapel today, in honor of the anniversary of the Great Emancipator. Lindsey, 91, and an inmate of the Cumberland county almshouse, was in Ford’s theater the night Lincoln was assassinated. He recalled the night for the benefit at reporters, then recited the Gettysburg address from memory. Lindsey was once a farmer. He entered the almshouse several nonths hgo.

HOMAGE IS PAID TO MEMORY OF GREATMARTYR Lincoln’s Friends Recall His Early Days as Springfield Lawyer. j BY GEORGE E. SCHLPPE United Press Staff Correspondent SPRINGFIELD, 111, Feb. 12. ! Abraham Lincoln lived again today | in memory as the 123d anniversary of his birth was celebrated here in the city where he rose from a young lawyer to President. At Sangamon county circuit courtroom where the emancipator appeared as a state legislator and in city schools, tribute was paid the city’s most illustrious citizen. The fast dwindling band of persons who knew “Abe’ before he went to Washington as President delighted in reminiscences of the longlegged kindly gentleman, whose career from humble railsplitter to ex-

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ecutive of the United States they had watched. Veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic who answered Lincoln’s call in the Civil war. paid respect to their leader at the reconstructed tomb in Oak Ridge cemetery where rest his remains and those of his wife and children. Wreaths were sent by President Hoover and Governor L. L. Emmerson to be placed on the sarcophagus as a squad of militia fired a volley and army airplanes from Rantoul field droned overhead. Today’s program continued tributes paid by Governor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania and Dr. Jose Manuel Capauranc, Mexican ambassador. All schools were suspended in observance of Lincoln’s birthday. Theater Is Shrine Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 12. The old Ford’s theater, where John Wilkes Booth’s bullet robbed a troubled nation of its leader, today became a public shrine to house the famous Oldroyed collection of 3,000 Lincoln relics. The famous red brick building has not served as a showhouse since “Our American Cousin” was halted with a revolver shot Good Friday night, April 14, 1865. When its

rickety interior collapsed in 1893, the government refused to restore It as a theater, saying it would serve more as monument to Booth. But though it has been rebuilt to resemble a modern office building, the Oldroyed collection probably creates a greater dramatic affect than ever was produced on its gaslit boards. For every detail of Lincoln’s life graphically is portrayed in it, from the family cradle to the soldering iron to seal his body in its coffin. Nor are the intermediate phases neglected. Bills advertising slave salese decorate the walls. Books from Lincoln’s law office and the license given Berry and Lincoln to sell spirits in their general store, at prices restricted to 25 and 50 cents a pint, adorn the shelves. Lincoln earned the title “Honest Abe” when he settled the defunct firm’s debts, an eighteen-year task. There are prints of songs with the wartime lilt of 1860, gayly col- | ored postcards with verses about “The Girl I Left Behind Me” and “A Soldier’s Farewell.” Pictures of Lincoln and Grant, Lincoln and Seward, his letter to the girl for whcee amusement he said he grew the famous chin whiskers, Booth’s pistol and the handbills announcing the reward for Booth’s capture, all ' are there.

KINDERGARTEN GROUP 1 TO OBSERVE FOUNDING Society Will Celebrate Fiftieth Anniversarry in Spring. Committee of five to arrange the celebration this spring of the fiftieth J anniversary of the Indianapolis ! Free Kindergarten Society, was ap- i pointed today by directors. Committee members are Mrs. Paul H. White, chairman; Mrs. John W. Kern, Mrs. David Ross, Mrs. James Cunning, and Mrs. Henry W. Hornbrook. They will co-operate with committee from the Butler university teachers college and alumnae. Opened in 1882 in the interests of ! pre-school age children, the society ! has grown to the present size qf i twenty-nine centers of enrollment, i In January, the roll included 1,206 children between the ages of 5 and 6. j —i i; HAVE YOU MET Ij “CONNIE”. SEE Q PAGE J

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