Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 259, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 March 1934 — Page 18

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PROSPERITY ERA POVERTY-TORN, FINDS Depression Only Added to Great Horde of Poor, His Book Says. BV DANIEL M. KIDNEY T'mfi Stiff Writer Thrrp-fourths of the farm families m the United States and 10.000.000 city families were living in poverty during that so-called prosperity period, the decade from 1919 to 1929. Things have slipped some since then and now 15.000 000 city families have poverty level incomes and abr-ut 10,000.000 are destitute. These are some of the unpleasant “facts of life" which high school students will learn in economic class"-, from anew textbook published by Harcourt. Brace 6i Cos. Authors of the book are Howard C. Hill of the University of Chicago and Rexford Guy Tugweil, assistant secretary of agriculture in the Roosevelt administration. New Deal Viewpoint Given Mr. Tugweil was an economics professor at Columbia university before becoming a leading man with the so-called ‘‘brain trust.” The book gives the ‘‘new deal” viewpoint on economic problems and sets forth the various programs for planned economy in the future, including both Russian and American. Necessity for such planning is pointed out throughout the volume and no facts are blinked. Following a minute description of life on American farms today, the plight of the farmers as summarized follows: "Poverty is the level of living which does not provide enough goods to maintain a minimum standard of health and decency. It is the easiest to measure this standard in terms of money income. Farm Income Below Average “About $1,400 to SI,BOO a year was found necessary from 1919 to 1930 to keep a farm family of five above the level of poverty. When this to t, is applied to rural families, we find for the country at large the average income has been less than SBOO a farm family, that over threefourths of farm families live on the poverty level, and that over oneha 'f live in the most extreme poverty.” What of the city folk? Here is what the oook says about them: "Urban poverty is that level ot living which does not provide a minimum of health and decency. Until 1929, about $2,000 annually was necessary to keep them above, extreme poverty. Poverty income yields insufficient necessities and almost no other desirable goods. Statistics on Poverty “In urban areas alone, in 1918. 1,650 000 families were destitute. 1 and another 5.350,000 were in the upper ranges of extreme poverty,! and about 3,000.000 more were below the i umfort level—making 10.000.030 urban families in all. In 1929. there I were still 7 000,000 urban families in the poverty group. ‘ The great depression, starting in thrt year, wrought such havoc that! in. 19 3 approximately 15.000.000 fam-| ilies were on the poverty level; of these from 5,000.000 to 10.000.000 fam lies were destitute.” What to do about it occupies the latter portions of the bock. After 1 describing what is being done to! solve the economic problem for the j masses in Russia, the authors offer 1 the comment: Specific Planning Necessary "The decidedly bad feature of the pr r ’ rat dictatorship is the suppression of frre inquiry and the persecutirn cf dissenting groups anc* individuals. ■ The challenge of Russia to Am rica and e-. net lie in the merits of he Soviet sy. err. a :ci>gii Vy may prove to be considerable. The ci’Tenge lies rather in the idea of planning, of purposeful, intelligent control over economic affairs. The; it sterns we must accept as a guide to our economic life to replace the j decadent notions of a laissez-faire , philosophy.” *

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By Times Special KOKOMO. March 9 —Asserting Kokomo is faced with the loss of three industries employing hundreds of persons because of conditions resulting from attempts to unionize workers, a committee has been formed to study the situation. Heading the committee is B. D. Mitchell, president of the Union Bank and Trust Company. Factories mentioned as likely to be taken from Kokomo are those of Uie Reliance Manufacturing Company. McLoughlin Manufacturing Company and the Globe-American Company. Labor trouble started here about six years ago and until affected only theaters.

Choir Begins Tour ! By Times Special GREENCASTLE. March 9.—De Pauw university choir left the campus today for a four-day tour, which will include stops in both Indiana and Illinois. First program will be given tonight‘at Lowell. Ind. Program will be broadcast at 2 Sunday afternoon from WGN, Chicago. The choir will be heard at 7 by the Sunday Evening Club of Chicago. Other stops include Wanetka, 111., Monday. Members of the choir include three Crawfordsville students at the university—Allison Antrobus, Margaret Canine and Alberta Bechtel. 0, P, BEBINGER, 68, DIES A2 HOSPITAL Constable of Washington Township Passes. Oliver P. Bebinger, 68, of 2103 Bellefontaine street, died at 5:45 this morning at the Methodist hospital. He t had ben ill for three weeks. Mr. Bebinger was constable of Washington township. He formerly served eight years as justice of the peace in Washington township, and held a clerical position in city hall during the first Shank administration. Funeral services will be in the Moore & Kirk funeral home at 10 Monday morning. The body will be taken to Mooresville for burial. Surviving Mr. Bebinger are the widow. Mrs. Katherine Bebinger: two daughters, Miss Gladys Bebinger and Mrs. Dan Wood, Shawnee. Kan.; a son. Charles E. Bebinger; three brothers, Charles S., Indianapolis; Jacob. Miami, and John, Terre Haute, and two sisters, Mrs. Walter Huil. Detroit, and Mrs. William Herlinger. Cincinnati. BEDFORD PAIR GIVEN STATE PRISON TERMS Life and 20-Year Sentences Handed Down in Holdup Case. By l nilot Priss JEFFERSONVILLE. Ind.. March 9—Pleading guilty to charges of highway robbery, Jerome Bolding. Bedfivcl. was given a sentence of twenty years in the state prison by Circuit Judge George Kopp. admitted holding up John Bcwer. 63-year-old New Washington farmc r. beating him and threatening to kill him if the sheriff was called. Mr. Bower w as robbeed of $163. A companion of Bolding, Americano Tramontana. 26. also of Bedford. was sentenced to life imprisonment for wounding Mr. Bower during the holdup. The two men were taken to the state prison today.

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Baking Contest Set i By Time* Special LAFAYETTE, March 9.—Eight winning entries in preliminary county competition in the Indiana state j baking contest will be judged in I the final round of the contest to be held March 15 and 16 at Purdue j university. a a a Peach Loss Feared By United Press LAFAYETTE. Ind., March 9. — Recent sub-zero temperatures apparently have destroyed most of the 1934 Indiana peach crop, according to Monroe McCo .vn, extension horticulturist of Purdue university. Extent of tree damage will be determined by growers before any pruning treatment is given, McCown said. Damage will be revealed . by browning of cells within the bark ) tissues and in extreme cases by ; loosening the bark from the wood. PRESS HONORS GO TO FT. WAYNE SCHOOLS Publications Awarded Prizes by Columbia Association. By United Press NEW YORK. March 9.—Two Hoosier high schools were awarded prizes in the tenth annual contest of the Colonial Press Association, held here yesterday . The Indiana schools winning medals for their school publications were South Side high school, Fort Wayne publishers of the South Side Times and the North Side high school of Ft. Wayne publishers of the Northerner. More than 750 senior high schools, and school newspapers competed.

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War Veteran Buried By Times Special MUNCIE, March 9.—Funeral services were held today for T. R. Harrington, 52. Spanish war veteran who served in the World war as captain of an infantry company at Newcastle. Mr. Harrington died Tuesday in Denver, Colo., following an operation. He was a district sales manager for the Chrysler Corporation in Denver and also had been in its employ at Newcastle. Leaving Central high school here at 17, Mr. Harrington enlisted for service in the Spanish war, and was sent to Puerto Rico. nan Wed 59 Years * By Times Special LOGANSPORT, March 9—Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Jones, living near here, will celebrate the fifty-ninth anniversary of their wedding on March 25. They have eight children, all sons; twenty grandchildren and a great-grandson. The couple resides on the farm which was the birthplace of Mr. Jones. Both he and his wife are lifelong residents of Cass county. a a a Benefactor Dies By Times Special KOKOMO, March 9.—James Albert Hayes, 70, who during four years of the depression he provided homes rent free for 300 families in which there were 700 children, w r as buried today following funeral services at his home. Mr. Hayes died Wednesday of pneumonia. For twelve years he was engaged in the grocery busiess at Frankfort, but most of his life was spent here. tt a tt 7,000 Work at Muncie By Times Special MUNCIE. March 9. pay rolls here are about 70 per cent of normal, according to a report of a survey announced by Lester C. Bush, manager of the Muncie Chamber of Commerce. Factories are employing 7,093 persons, in addition to 553 salaried employes. Monthly pay roll is estimated at SBOO,OOO.

TROOPS INVADE MINE SECTOR Alabama Soldiers Ordered to Scene of Possible Strike Disorders. By United Press BIRMINGHAM. Ala , March 9.Three companies of national guard infantry, a troop of cavalry and a squadron of airplanes were ordered (o Walker county toaay where mine strike disorders threaten. Two mine settlements, Hull and Townley were occupied by the troops after a tense night of futile conferences between employers and striking miners. Mine officials feared the strikers would do harm to the few miners who remained at work in spite of the strike which engulfs the entire state. More than 8,000 miners were idle today. TWO FIREMEN HURT IN INDIANA RAIL WRECK Three Freight Cars and Caboose Burn After Collision. By Unittd Press COLUMBIA CITY. Ind.. March P. —Two firemen were injured and three freight cars and a caboose were destroyed by fire last night when two locomotives running light crashed into the rear of a west bound Pennsylvania freight train here. The injured were Russell Jenkins, 6, Antwerp, 0.. fireman on the first of the locomotives, and Ed Adams. Fort Wayne. Mr. Jenkins was treated here for a scalp wound received when he jumped from the cab. Mr. Adam; was placed on a train and taken to the Methodist Hospital at Ft. Wayne. He received an injured shoulder.

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EX-HARRISON COUNTY OFFICIAL DEAD AT 80 Charles W. Thomas Is Taken by Death in Corydon. By United Press CORYDON. Ind., March 9 Charles W. Thomas. 80. member of the Indiana legislature in 1918 and

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the Corydon Democrat and was a candidate to rstate superintendent of public instruction in 1894.