Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 96, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 August 1932 — Page 3

'AI!G. 31, 1932_

Children Are Without Food , Many Families Are Desperate in Mine Regions

BV MAX STERN TimM SfafT Writer Aug. 31.-Dis- ™ ’ closures of widespread malnutrition among children, and desperate straits among families, were made today in a report on the soft coal mine regions by the United States childrens bureau.

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It was submitted recently to the President’s emergency committee. The report covers typical counties in the coal regions of Alabama. Arkansas. Illinois, Indiana, Kansas. Kentucky. Missouri, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania. Tennessee and West Virginia, and is the re-

sult of surveys extending through 1931. It finds that: Unemployment has been general in the coal mines for three decades; Even in 1923 housing and sanitation conditions almost were “unbelievably bad.” “Even in normal times the

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standard of living of the coal miners was not such as to Insure to their children minimum health and decency." In one Pennsylvania town the Children's Aid Society reported a family found living on crusts and black coffee for three days.

IN mother town, a Red Cross worker reported the butcher as saying: “Half the children in this town don’t know what a piece of meat looks like.” In another Pennsylvania mine community the school principal said. Probably one-third of the

families in the town are living on starvation rations.” In one county “five children were taken sick in school, and it was found that they had not had food for several days.” In a Kentucky county, onethird of the children attending

school did not have adequate clothing. In another county, miners’ families were forced to abandon the company houses and their own gardens. an n “npHE present crisis.” said Miss 1 Grace Abbott. childrens

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bureau chief who signed the report. “has given us a dramatic demonstration of the fact that w* are trying to meet modern social and industrial conditions with a system of poor relief which in many states has been little modified since colonial times.”