Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 145, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 October 1932 — Page 11

I hCT. 27, 1932.

IF YOU HAVE A JOB HELP THOSE WHO NEED

A Personal Word from the Campaign Chairman This is a fruitful period for alibis and excuses. Business is bad ... Profits have shrunk .. • Incomes have been curtailed. But how infinitely worse is the condition of those whose very lives are at our mercy. When they ask for bread, shall we answer them with a stone-wall of indifference? Those of us who are fortunate enough to have a job—or an accumulated surplus—must this year dig deeply into our resources. Now, with anew significance, come the ringing words of the prophet Moses, “Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessings he hath received.” * / —Arthur R. Baxter.

While the fourth Winter of the depression stalks relentless upon us, Indianapolis takes stock of her resources, to meet an emergency of war-time proportions. It is an emergency that makes demands upon the check book, rather than the coin-purse. This is no season for alms, thoughtlessly cast to the habitually shiftless and thriftless. Our pressing problem is to sustain thousands of normally self-reliant families who, but for our aid, will be homeless and hungry—the ready prey of disease, pestilence and insurrection. To maintain this army of the unemployed in a minimum standard of family life is something more than an % opportunity and an obligation. It is an investment—an investment to insure the security, health and well-being of our individual households. If we fail—the potentialities are not pleasant to picture. But we will NOT fail. The Hoosier tradition of help-

November 14 to November 28 INDIANAPOLIS COMMUNITY FUND

J. K. Lilly, Honorary Chairman Ue Roy C. Breunig Mrs. Brandt C. Downey Howard T. Griffith Edward H. Janke Zeo >V. Leach Stowell C. [Wasson

Welfare and Relief Mobilization Executive Committee

BUDGET COMMITTEE i* ?Ml*r, Chairman David Liggett, Manager

(This Advertisement Through Courtesy of a Friend of the Community Fund)

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Robert H. Bryson J. W. Fesler Theodore B. Griffith Edward A. Kahn Samuel Mueller C. C. Winegardner

fulness is too deeply rooted in us all. Working together, we shall face the crisis—meet the needs of NOW; together we shall bare our heads in thankfulness that we CAN give; and together look confidently toward a brighter tomorrow.

HOW THE NEED HAS GROWN RENT PAID Last Year This Year Increase Individual Families . 4,207 7,406 76 % SERVICE and CARE Individual Families la . w . . 9,521 11,971 25.7% % Individual HOMELESS MEN Given Lodging—Meal* 28,600 37,950 32.7% NURSING VISITS To the Sick and Injured 47,660 57,733 21.2 % CLOTHING Garments for Needy . . . . 30,290 47,385 56.4% QUARTS MILK Children and Sick 39,560 160,000 304. %

Arthur R. Baxter, Chairman J. F. Carroll J. J. Fitzgerald William H. Insley Hugh McK. Landon Reginald H. Sullivan

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