Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 178, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 December 1934 — Page 3

DEC. 5, 1931

WOMEN IN KEY POSITIONS CONTROL MONEY EXPENDED IN STATE FOR POOR RELIEF 500 Feminine Social Workers in State and 70 in County Supervise Mammoth Task of Bringing- Aid to Needy. BY ARCH STEINEL limrt Staff Writer Every dollar spent for poor relief in Indiana and Indianapolis is controlled by women. The 67,000 persons receiving grocery and wage relief in Marion county receive their weekly grocery order and their weekly pay roll check because of the integrity of 500 feminine social workers in the state and 70 in the county. The social worker places them on relief. She goes into their homes within 21 hours after their first application to determine their need.

She budgets the family needs on a sliding scale dependent on need, physical qualifications, and the chance for rehabilitation into industry. She dictates whether the head of a family is placed on work relief and a weekly wage or whether he is placed on a weekly grocery order. L*>t,'s tak* Mr. A in a mythical trip in applying and bring granted relief in the main office of the Marion county relief bureau the Center Township Trustee's office. But before we go. picture Mr. A bark in 1028 and 1929. He had a lob. If he didn't he might have been one of three men on relief, the sole relief load, at one period in those boom years. Basket Relief Begins The market cracked. Relief zoomed skyward. The township trustee was the relief guardian. A system of basket relief with each family head working on public projects brought the “spuds” of charity's dinner to his table. In the years of 1931 to 1932 Center Township food costs ranged from $48,000 111 April. 1931, to $73,000 in October. 1932. It struck a peak w’ith 15000 families on relief in the bank holiday month of March. 1933, with grocery orders hopping to SIIB,OOO. Administration u ider the trusters’ system of relief never exceeded 6 cents of the relief dollar. But Mr A. if in need of relief, then would have been forced to accept a basket chosen for him under the supervision of dietitians. Today the dietitians try to teach food selection and preparation in classes, i If he despised beans he might get them without being consulted. He rould trade those beans for another commodity. He rarely did. Follows Nfighbor on Relief Mr. A is a critical “cuss.” But he's up against it. The insurance ! policy he cashed in has been spent, j He can't get a job. He knows that | B. his next-door neighbor is on re- i lief, and he knows B gets a weekly j wage through working in the Indianapolis Abattoir Company, a meat packing relief project. He knows B is one of 1056 men on this relief project to provide surphis meat for those on direct relief. Mr. A enters a decrepit brick building at N. Senate-av. Uh! Is this where you apply for relief, he thinks. Each door on the first floor has various painted signs, as "Registry," ‘‘Applications.” “First Orders." “Pity they couldn't have a directory." he mutters. Social Worker Pays Visit He notices a line forming in the hall and a man issuing tickets with numbers. A few moments in a confidential booth in the “Application” division and Mr. A. has given a dossier of his background and that of his family. If Mr. A. is down to his last loaf of bread he may be given an emergency grocery order. He may join the line he saw forming in the hall. If not. he goes home. Twentyfour hours later a social worker

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f—from the township office visits his home. She delves into the family's need. | She determines the merit of his plea for aid. If there's an ounce of pos- j sibility that Mr. A. can be helped by his relatives, a forgotten insurance policy, or given a slight lift to employment sufficient to keep him off the rolls she suggests the way. Relief Application Checked In the meantime, Mr. As relief application is being checked by a collateral department, formed of four j men who keep the telephones busy j checking his former employers and other private relief agencies that might know Mr. A. The information supplied by the first visitor is checked by this department and widened until Mr. A is given either direct or work relief, or refused. If Mr. A is infirm and needs med- I ical care or members of his family j are sick the hospitalization and aid j is provided. Illness may place him; on direct relief and a grocery order. Good health may give him a work relief job and weekly wages after Mr. A serves a 30-day period on direct relief. After 30 days anew visitor in Mr. A s district of the city visits his family or notifies him to appear at the township office for an interview. Trained Investigators on Job He never sees the first visitor again. She forms a corps of 10 picked investigators who are trained and experienced in picking flaws in stories of need and w T ho have the ability to judge the family straits. Twice monthly Mr. A goes to the township relief office to receive his grocery orders if on direct relief. He has a certain time to get his order. This is done to cut down relief lines. Under the trustee system the lines were much longer as the needy applied for their orders for baskets. Miss Helena Smith, county relief J supervisor, hopes that with the drop; of the 250 ease-load average of her 70 workers that it will not be necessary for those on relief to visit the tow nship offices for direct relief i orders. More social workers are needed if the case-load is to be sliced to 175 to permit the visitors to see the relief families in their homes at least once a month. Politics Not a Factor If Mr. A is recommended for work relief and a weekly wage, he can j thank only the investigators w’ho visited his home. No ward politi- ■ cian can give him the job. He may plead with the employes of the work director's office on the fourth floor of the City Hall and their reply will be, “See your visitor.” If Mr. A squanders his wage on liquor or gambles, he loses his work relief job if the investigator believes the waste will occur again. It is estimated that mothers and wives in seven out every ten families on work relief are handed the weekly pay roll check by their sons and husbands. Just to insure that Mr. a will continue to attempt to earn money in private industry he is budgeted. Placed on Budget Say Mr. A is the head of an average family of four. His minimum work wage would be $33 a month. If! he is paid the county's common

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labor scale rate of 50 cents an hour he would work an average of sixteen and one-half hours weekly. If one of his children is suffering from tuberculosis he could be given diet and medical aid up to four hour's extra work weekly. This would raise his wage to s4l. If necessary, extra hours to enable him to purchase fuel could be given if circumstances in the family warranted. This would bring his wage to $47 or w’ithin $1 of the S4B maximum for Mr. A. But, in turn, say Mr. A has a truck in w’hich he can pick up odd jobs. Then he is urged to do so to augment his income from $33 minimum to the S4B maximum. If Mr. A earns more than sl2 weekly or S4B monthly in private industry he is dropped from the relief i oils. Certain Exceptions Exist One exception to this rule is in cases where Mr. A might be inculcated with fear of loss of job in private industry. He might be aided temporarily after being dropped from work relief to bolster his nerve. In one county case it was necessary to refuse a man relief after he had been offered a job and turned it down. A continual check and rrchock of those on relief, through other private agencies as well as the county's own investigators, is made in an effort to eliminate the families where there is no relief need. Efficiency of private agencies in building up social service registries is responsible to a great degree in preventing direct relief families from receiving more than one grocery order each w’eek. School Bureau Co-Operates The county relief agency is aided by a capable social service bureau in the city public schools in keeping a double-check on the need of families. Marion county’s relief has no rule against aiding families where one or more persons in the family are working. Condition and need for relief of the individual family governs whether the family receives supplemental relief. Miss Nadia Deem, state social service director, and Miss Smith, county supervisor, both deplore the wide variance between the aid offered by the Government in w age relief for a family and direct relief as provided by funds of the township trustee. In the case of Mr. A and his family of four he would receive under direct relief groceries totaling $3, surplus foods worth approximately 50 cents to sl, and in winter an average of $1.15 worth of coal a week. Under direct relief his weekly aid would total between $4 and $5 while if Mr. A was employed on work relief he would receive a minimum of $8.25. Increase in the direct relief order rests with the township trustee who pays 75 per cent of the bill in Marion county. Next—Dual Relief Problems.

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Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan may or may not go to Cincinnati Saturday night to attend a charity concert in the Music Hall there, but there was no denying today the fact that there had been a touch of spring in the Mayor's austere office yesterday. The touch or spring came in the person of Miss Edna Jones, University of Cincinnati beauty queen, who flew up here in an airplane to give the mayor an invitation to the concert and, incidentally, to obtain a little publicity for the concert, w’hich will feature Rubinoff and his violin and Eugene Goosens, conductor of the famous Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Miss Jones, who caused many a masculine heart at City Hall to flutter pretty wildly, paused oniy a moment on her errand. Then, she proceeded to Dayton, 0., to repeat her performance there. The Cincinnati Musicians’ Association w’ill receive the funds realized at the concert, for which it is providing a 100-piece orchestra. TAX CHIEF’S MOTHER DIES IN SHELBYVILLE Mrs. Sophia Fleming, 70, Will Be Buried Saturday. Mrs. Sophia Fleming, mother of Wray Fleming, Collector of Customs, died early this morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. James McKloskey, Shelbyville, where she made her home. Mrs. Fleming, who was 70, was the widow’ of James Fleming, and had lived in Shelbyville all her life. She w’as a member of St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church. Funeral services wall be held in the church at 9 Saturday morning, with burial in the Catholic cemetery in Shelbyville. Mrs. Fleming had been ill several months. Surviving her are the son and daughter.

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FORT ADJUTANT IS TRANSFERRED Captain Hollowell Goes to Ft. Houston After 10 Years in City. Orders of transfer to Ft. Sam Houston, Tex., were received today by Capt. H. P. Hollow r ell, 11th Infantry adjutant, Ft. Harrison. He will be succeeded here by Capt. Edward P. Earle. Capt. Hollowell has spent ten of the last 12 years in Indianapolis at Ft. Harrison, having been on duty with the Indiana National Guard from 1922 until 1927. when he w’as sent to Hawaii. He returned to the 11th Infantry in December, 1931. Capt. Hollowell’s home is in Philadelphia. Capt. Earle, an Alabama native, recently joined the regiment here after service in Hawaii. Lieut. Col. Ralph E. Jones, post executive officer, has been notified that he will be transferred to organized reserve duty with the Sixth Corps area about Jan. 1. Lieut. Richard Sears and Lieut. Edward M. Quigley, who have been at Ft. Harrison since 1928 as officers of the 19th Field Artillery, have been ordered to new’ stations. Lieut. Sears has been ordered to Hawaii and Lieut. Quigley goes to Reserve Officers Training Corps duty at the University of Illinois. First Sgt. Corbett Meeks, Company K, 11th Infantry, who has been with the regiment since his original enlistment 22 years ago, will leave next week for duty in the Philippines. Dance to Be Held at K. of C. Hall St. Patrick's parish will hold a dance Saturday night in the Knights of Columbus Hall, 1305 N. Dela-ware-st, with Albert Huck as entertainment committee chairman. Mr. Huck is assisted by a committee of 23 men and women.

M'NUTT NAMES GROUP TO SCAN GROSSTAX LAW Committee of 22 Expected to Urge Reforms to Next Assembly. Declaring he regards the problem economic and not political. Governor Paul V. McNutt today appointed a committee of 22 to study and suggest revisions of the Indiana Gross Income Tax Law. Twelve members were appointed from organizations representing business, professional and labor interests; five were selected from the 1935 State House of Representatives, and five from the 1935 State Senate. Among the proposals the committee will have before it, the Governor said, was to extend the state store license law to include tinerant merchants as well as those with permanent locations. Appointed to the committee were: Fred C. Gardner, treasurer; E. C. Atkins & Cos., representing Indiana Manufacturers’ Association. Lewis Taylor, Indianapolis, president, Indiana Farm Bureau. Leo Gardner, Indianapolis, attorney. Indiana Bankers’ Association. W. H. Arnett, secretary. Indiana State Chamber of Commerce. L. F. Shuttleworth. Indianapolis, secretary, Associated Retailers. Carl Mullin, Hammond, Indiana State Federation of Labor. Albert Uhle, Indianapolis. Indiana Real Estate Association. Albert H. Gisler, Indianapolis. Indiana Wholesalers’ Association. Wilfred Jessup. Richmond, representing professional men. Robert C. Brown. Bloomington, representing the general public. John Beasley, Terre Haute, representing public utility interests. Floyd I. McMurray. State Superintendent of Public Instruction, representing educational interests. Members of the Senate named to the committee are Edward C. Hays, Marion; Charles H. Bedwell, Sullivan: Claude Mcßride. Jeffersonville; Henry Schricker. Knox, and Arnold Schuler. Wabash. Members of the House are John N. Dyer. Vincennes: Hardin S. Linke, Columbus; Scott Pickens. New Albany, Charles Lutz. Indianapolis, and William J. Price, Onward. RELIEF ROLLS SWELLED BY 1.000.000 FAMILIES Increase Occurs in Y'ear’s Period, U. S. Discloses. By I nited Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 5. —The Federal relief load increased more than 1,000.000 families between October. 1933, and October this year. Emergency Relief Administration figures showed today. , There were 4,082,000 families on relief during the 30-da.v period this year, compared with 3,010.516 the corresponding month last year, an increase of 1.071.484 families. Figuring each family would average 4.5 persons, ohere were 21,369,000 individuals dependent upon the Government in October of 1934. The families on relief in October increased 37,600 over September.

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BAIL REDUCTION STIRS BATTLE Baker Moves to Restore $5,000 Bond in Davids Case. T. Ernest Maholm, attorney for Cliff Davids, Franklin Township Justice of the Peace, awaiting trial on a blackmail charge, today announced he w’ill fight Criminal Judge Fiank P. Baker's restoration of Davids' SSOOO bail. Mr. Maholms action followed Judge Baker's restoration of the hail W’hich was cut to SIOOO yesterday by Superior Judge Clarence E. Weir after Charles W. Clarke, county attorney, failed to appear at a hearing of Davids' petition for release on a habeas corpus writ. Mr. Clarke explained that he was not present because he was not informed of the hearing until today. Mr. Maholm said that he will make application to the state Supreme Court for a writ to prohibit Judge Baker from restoring the bail. Mr. Clarke announced his intention of filing a motion in Judge Weir's court to reopen habeas corpus proceedings and oppose the reduction granted yesterday. Judge Baker proposed to act on the theory that Superior Court judges can not legally reduce any bail set by the Criminal Court on a habeas corpus proceeding. Judge Baker holds the only way bail may be reduced in such cases is by a direct motion in his court. Death Takes famous Explorer By I nited Press BRUSSELS, Dec. s.—Adrien De Gerlache. 69, famous explorer, died yesterday after a long illness.

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NATIONAL TAX HEADS TO OPEN OFFICES HERE State Officials Organize; Jackson to Head Clearing House. B<t T'nit at Press FRENCH LICK Ind.. Dee s.—Tha National Association of State Tax Administrators today became a permanent organization designed to aid in solution of state tax problems. Establishment of a national office in Indianapolis to serve as a clearing house for information on state taxes, was voted at the close of the two-day conference of state tax administrators here. Clarence A. Jackson, director of the Indiana Gross income Tax Department. was named chairman of a committee to establish the clearing house. Other members are Albert F. Walsman, Indiana Tax Commissioner: A. H. Stone. Mississippi; Neil H. Jacoby, Illinois, and J. H. Thayer Martin. New Jersey. Mr. Jackson said the new’ bureau would eliminate the necessity of experimentation by state tax officials charged with administration of new revenue measures. Fred E. Stewart, California, reelected president, named a committee of 11 members headed by Frederick M. Thrun of Michigan to lobby at the next Congress for legislation permitting states to levy sales taxes on incoming interstate retail sales. Professor Robert C. Brown, Indiana University Law School, is Indiana member of the committee. The conference endorsed the Steagall bill in Congress which would permit states to tax national bank shares at the same rates as the average levy on other taxable intangibles. An invitation from Sacramento, Cal., to entertain the next conference of the association was referred to the executive committee. Date of the next meeting also was left to that group. In addition to Mr. Stewart, officers of the permanent, organization are A. J. Maxw r ell, North Carolina, vice-precident; Mr. Jackson, secre-tary-treasurer. and Miss Ruth Carmichael, Indianapolis, executive secretary. 13,000 CIGARETS ARE STOLEN FROM TRUCK Three Men Seen Loitering Near Vehicle Are Sought. Police are searching for three men seen by neighbors loitering around a tobacco truck parked in front of 802 Buchanan-st late yesterday. More than 13.000 cigarets valued at S6O were stolen from the vehicle. A traveling case containing clothing and a shaving kit, all valued at SSO. was stolon from the automobile of L. R. Wilson, Colfax. Ind., parked at Walnut and Pennsylvania-sts last night.