Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 13, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 May 1933 — Page 15

MAY 26, 1933.

DRIVE LAUNCHED TO GLEAR SLUMS BY FEDERAL AID

Cleveland Opens Campaign for Advance of 30 Millions from R. F. C. BY KENNETH WATSON, Time* Special Writer WASHINGTON, May 26—Cleveland, financially one of the hardest hit cities in the country, has launched a campaign to become the • national laboratory” for slum elimination and modern home construction. Selection of Cleveland as the site for slum clearance activities of the federal government through Reconstruction Finance corporation loans, has been proposed by formal action of the city council. John H. Millar, housing expert of Chicago, has conferred with Cleveland architects, builders, civic organizations and city officials on preparing a master plan to have the government advance $300,000,000 for housing construction over a long period of years. 'The initial request calls for immediate advances of $30,000 000. Eight States Have Laws The building construction would be carried out through private limited dividend corporations, eligible under the present R. F, C. act to receive loans in states having housing laws. Seven states now have; such legislation, and legislatures in! eight other states are considering: adoption. The states having state housing boards are New York, Ohio, Texas, New Jersey, Kansas, Arkansas and South Carolina, Those in which the legislation is pending are California, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Missouri and Maryland. Many Tradesmen Jobless In Cleveland today about 90 per cent of the buildings tradesmen are unemployed. Building construction fell off from $61,776,000 in 1926 to $8,927,000 in 1932. Eleven housing projects already have been erected in New York City by private limited dividend corporations created under the state housing law. Only two New York housing projects, however, have received the sanction of the R. F. C. and certain difficulties remain to be surmounted in the case of each. I

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Work of Labor Companies in Forestry Preserves Will Be of Vast Benefit to State in Future Years

This 1? ?he last cf a series of Stories on Indiana s reforestation army. BY ARCH STEINEL Time* Staff Writer DOWN where the roads are scarce and rutty in the hills of Clark, Morgan and Monroe counties, there's a job being done for you that ought to have been done years ago. It's a job that is going to put coal in the bunkers of railroad trains of the future, pour out of factory chimneys as industry's gears mesh again in prosperous days, and build homes for children's dreams. And the fellows on that job, youths from Marion county and every section of the state, are getting” triple-pay in restoration of health, morale and coin of the realm. Sense of their own importance is being nutured as state foresters directing Hoosierland's army of woodmen show them how to cut out the scrubby trees that stop growth of the saplings. The saplings are the forests of the future, the fuel to industry, and the frame to a dwelling or cabinet for a radio, and one of the main jobs of the civilian conservation corps is to save those saplings. a n IN Clark county's state preserve, pruning of dead limbs, ousting of underbrush and debris, building and widening of the fire lane to the preserve's watch tower, setting out small spurce and pine trees in the nursery, will be some of the work of Company 514, of Marion county boys. When autumn comes, in gangs of three the boys will mount ladders in the trees and pick the pine-cones for seedlings. “We hope to get 1,000 bushels of cones this year with this forest army,” says C. E. Guernsey, superintendent of the preserve, and C. W. Griffith, forester in charge of the woods brigade's work. The preserve never has had a plentiful supply of pine cones for raising trees. Collection of the cones will save taxpayers of the state money on seed purchases and increase the supply of pine trees that can be sold at cost to

Upper Left —Building anew roadway to camp is one of the first jobs of the forest soldiers in the Morgan-Monroe state reserve. Upper right—Officers’ mess of Company 516 and the council of war against depression and to rehabilitate forests as well as men. Lower Left—He’s all fagged out, homesick, but a few minutes after

farmers or owners of estates who wish to plant them. Dogwoods and weed trees that harm the growth of the hardwoods in Clark county will be rubbed out of the forest. V tt tt TN between, the forest privates will build their own waterline to their camp from a lake on the preserve and in case of a call for a gang of men to fight a forest fire at neighboring farms they’ll be pressed into service.

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The hot dry months ahead are typical forest fire days, but those fires for the most part are on neighboring timberlands outside the state reservation. In the past the reserve employes have been at the beck and call of any one who reported a fire within a radius of forty miles of the watch tower. Just like the Six Hundred of the Crimean war, “There’s not no reason why,” but just to go when the fire gong sounds at the preserve’s office. But now the forest army will aid in those calls under supervision of state men expert in battling a flaming hillside. Roads, that state funds never have stretched far * enough to build, will be made with but nominal cost to the Hoosier taxpayers.

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this picture was snapped he was at the head of the chow-line for “seconds.” Lower Center—Chopping off bark for a tent pole is one of the jobs of this forest soldier. Lower Right—When poison ivy blooms on faces then the calomel lotion bottle is brought into action, as the above photo shows.

r T''HE Sunday motorist will be able to go to beauty spots in the three counties without fear of a blown tire. At the same time, roads will be cut to enable forest fire-fighters to use them in case of emergency. The Morgan-Monroe forest project bodes much in improvement work, due to the adolescence of the reserve. It is but seven years old. while the Clark county reservation has seen thirty summers. Removal of hardwoods blocking tree growth, and the purported plan to use the wood cut for firing the stoves of the indigent of counties in the state during the ensuing winter, will occupy much of the time of the Monroe-Morgati camp of two companies. Road construction, some nursery work, in addition to making

their own camp livable with piped water and drainage ditches, will be other features in the MonroeMorgan camp. a tt a WHEN a tree is to be cut down, it'll be only at the direction of Major W. N. Millar, forester in charge, and his assistants “We're saving trees and there’ll be nothing ruthless in the work of the forest army,” the major says. Working for you as well as for themselves, members of the forest army feel they are paying back the chance they’re being given to show that they'll work if work is to be had. They k..ow that $25 of their money each month is going back

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It’ll mean anything to him?" asks one youth. “Buddy! tie believe it will.” & the officer's reply. The boys hope, pray almost, that when they come out of the woods army that jobs will be ready for them. If they aren't, then almost to a man they'll call to you, “Rc-eniist, in the forest? Say, just give us a chance. That's all we want—a chance to work, to make money one wav or another.” And they re getting that chance for six months.