Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 182, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 December 1934 — Page 3
DEC. 10, 1034.
TAXPAYERS’ SILENCE BELIEVED EVIDENCE OF SYMPATHY FOR EXISTING POOR RELIEF SETUP Some Criticism Is Heard, But, Generally Speaking-, Administration Finds Support; Social Agencies Are Friendly. BV ARCH STEINEL Tiror* Staff Writer The man who digs down into his pocket to pay taxes is satisfied with Indiana's relief setup. He has !>een too busy worrying about excise and gross income taxes to apply his worry microscope to the minor tax rate for poor relief in townships. He knows that Federal money poured into the state to aid townships with monetary lumbago must be paid by him some day, but problems of payment are in a future so far in advance of this month's bills that he brushes them from his mind. When the 1934-1930 budgets were under consideration in Marion county, the lone tax reduction organization pro-
testing the county budget] very skillfully refrained from unpopularizing itself by com-! plaining against the average, 5-cent township levy for poor' relief. Industrial Indianapolis points with pride to its relief even under the township trustee by acclaiming: “We’ve had no food riots and no untoward radicalism.” Pinkish elements have been un-| able to foment fury in the polyglot mixture forming city's relief ; roll*. In 1933, the poor relief tax rate for Center Township, which takes | in most of Indianapolis, was 10‘s j cents and that levy was in its entirety to pay for reiief bills incurred prior to Aug. 8. 1932. Bills of approximately $45,000 are still unpaid for 1932 and, in the current tax year, it was necessary to levy .012 cents to retire relief bonds in addition to the 5-cent regular, relief levy. Trustee Interest Urged Leo X. Smith, attorney for Miss Hannah Noonc, Center Township Trustee, urges more participation ot the townships in the councils of the Governor's Unemployment Relief Commission in making decisions and .:tting standards of relief in the state. He points out that township trustees, who pay large slices of the direct relief bills, are not represented on the commission or at meetings where Director Wayne Coy outlines and discusses new programs with his bureau heads. Complaints have been registered that. In Marion County, families have not been receiving coal promptly in emergency cases as they did when Miss Noone directed all relief activities. I,auds Trustee System Mr. Smith says the Commission has pledged itself to iron out these difficulties. The township trustee's attorney is a strong adherent to the viewpoint that administration of relief should be in the hands of all township trustees. “Loyalty of employes, efficient investigation of cases, reduction in food and commodity prices if the trustee is honest, and lack of red tape, which is habitual with Federal agencies, will be the result under the trustee," Mr. Smith declares. The Times found that families were visited more frequently under state control than under trustee aid. It found open bidding for commodities has reduced costs under state relief and that honesty of relief supervision *s more certain under Federal supervision and state control. Political Control Charged During Miss Noone’s administration of township relief, a non-par-tisan commission supervised her efforts with the result that Indianapolis was known as a city without relief sugar sweetening the coffee cups of the politicians. No relief scandals were placed on her doormat. It is admitted by friends of Miss [ Noone. however, that politics did play a minor part in the relief role and they charge that the same politics. whether of party or social nature, are bedded in the present state control system. One labor leader charges too close an affiliation of relief and re-em-ployment activities with the Indian- ! apolis Chamber of Commerce. William H. Book. Chamber executive vice-president, was responsible for setting up Indiana's state relief system. He served as the first Relief Director. I>abor Official Pleased William Fortune, chairman of the Indianapolis chapter American Red Cross sums up the charges of pol- I itics entering the relief administration with: “There is bound! to be a certain amount of politics in any dealing with such a large j number of people, and complaints must be expected. While I have, no exact knowledge of any of these,
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I feel such complaints are usually caused by personal feelings.” Adolph J. Fritz, Indiana State Federation of Labor secretary, pays tribute to Miss Noone’s method of distributing relief, but says that most labor leaders feel that a good relief job is being done by all organizations. Mortimer C. Furscott, Kahn Tailoring Company vice-president and typical business man, sees improvement in business conditions over one year ago and says his firm has more workers than in 1933 and they receive better pay and are working full time. “It is inevitable that some money be wasted in relief work of such immense proportions but it is necessary work and it is doing much to promote recovery,” Mr. Furscott says. Representative of one group of manufacturers, H. M. Cochrane, secretary of the Indiana Manufacturers’ Association, paints the dark side of the state relief administration. He says that most manufacturers with w’hom he has talked thought the relief administrations had not shown as much efficiency as they might and that many people w-ho deserved relief had not been helped. “Racket” Charge Heard He said some manufacturers had expressed the opinion that the state relief commission was “nothing but a racket and a political machine” but offered no evidence from these manufacturers to substantiate the charges. Faith in the honesty of purpose of the state relief system is expressed by the officials and workers of the Family Welfare Society of Indianapolis, the largest private social service agency in Indiana, in the statement: "We have received from the state co-operation of a most understanding and helpful nature. We have every confidence that the state is doing its utmost to serve the communities.” Belief that there has been a lot of misdirected energy in the Public Works Administration and a great deal of “no-thinking” in relief work in the past\year is expressed by Gavin L. Payne, prominent state Republican and Indianapolis securities dealer.
Gavin Payne Critical ‘ Many people howl over the economic problem of the debt incurred by the relief program, but this is necessary work which must be done.” Mr. Payne says. He criticizes the national administration for not transferring farmers from sub-marginal lands to more fertile areas and then using the lands vacated for national forests. The Rural Rehabilitation Bureau of Indiana now is engaged in submarginal surveys throughout the state. A school principal in an area congested with relief cases says the children in his school are better nourished under state relief. Relief Better Organized "Their clothing fits better.” he declares. "Relief is better organized. But the family heads seem to lack community social responsibility. I tried to organize a men's club in our district. At first the men on relief attended with enthusiasm. Gradually they drifted away until I've only one man I can depend on now.” he said. Records in the fresh-air division of his school, however, show that families on work relief are willing to assume the responsibility for their bills where, in 1933, they had little money with which to pay. Where no relief children paid weekly for the food service in the school in 1933, now four out of 10 who pay weekly are classed as relief families. Remarkable health conditions in Marion County and the state has done much to keep the relief load from becoming unbearable. Epidemics have been few and of short duration. Crowded conditions at the City Hospital and in charity wards of other hospitals tyive been due in the main to the inability of many employed persons to pay medical and hospitalization bills. Part-pay schemes and cut-rate hospitalization for maternity cases
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Stars may fall on Alabama, but that is really no more remarkable than the fact that bananas grow in Indianapolis—particularly when,they grow in Indianapolis in mid-December. This banana tree here is in the city greenhouse, Garfield Park, and the man who is inspecting it with no little pride is O. E. Robison, chief florist there.
EVERY one knows that to find a great many bananas growing on a great many trees it is necessary to take a trip to the sunny South. Few persons, however, realize that, to find just a few bananas, one need travel no farther than the not sosunny South Side of Indianapolis, no farther, to be exact, than the Garfield Park Conservatory. At present, the United Fruit Cos. and the planters of the Central American banana republics need have no fear that their principal source of livelihood will be wiped out by the ruthless competition, from the “plantation” of O. E. Robison, chief florist at the city park greenhouses. The “plantation” which Mr. Robison manages for the city of Indianapolis is a flourishing one, but its crop this year will consist of three bunches of the yellow fruit now hanging very green and upside down
in some hospitals, has aided in relieving the charity wards of their load. A birth control clinic in Indianapolis is said to have done much in keeping down the rate in familes on poor relef. Birth records of the city hospital, which comes into contact with families on poor relief, shows the hospital had 1573 maternity cases under its wing in the first 10 months of 1933 to 1661 in the same period in 1&34. Next—Reduction of Relief by Reemployment. MURAT STEWARD IS ILL Robert Zehlieke In Serious Condition, Is Report. Robert Zehlieke, steward and custodian of Murat Temple Mosque from 1917 to 1933, is seriously ill at his home, 909 East-dr, Woodruff Place. No improvement was seen in his condition today. Mr. Zehlieke,, a native of Germany, was connected with the Indianapolis Maennerchor for a number of years. He makes his home with a nephew, Karl Schlueter.
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on the three mature trees at the park conservatory. The crop will not ripen for at least three and perhaps five months. Even this harvest may be an overestimate, Mr. Robison said, because of the curiosity over the green fruit and the hunger for the riper produce which visitors to the conservatory can satisfy only by helping themselves to any within their reach.
a u THIS blight has already affected the conservatory's lemon crop so seriously that only a single inconspicuous and unripe specimen remained to greet an Indianapolis Times reporter who went there seeking an economical and tropical refuge from the cold blasts of approaching winter. These lemons had been described as being as large as grapefruit, something which, if true, would make them practically invaluable to bartenders in the manufacture of
GHARTRAND RITE IS HELD BY CATHOLICS Mass of Requiem Celebrated by Bishop. The Most Rev. Joseph Elmer Ritter, Bishop of Indianapolis, this morning celebrated a solemn pontifical mass of requiem on the first anniversary of the death of Bishop Joseph Chartrand. All priests of the city were present in SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral. The Rt. Rev. Raymond R. Noll was asistant priest; the Very Rev. Charles Duffey and the Very Rev. Henry Dugan, deacons of honor; the Rev. Bernard Sheridan, deacon of the mass, and the Rev. Joseph B. Tieman, sub-deacon. Yesterday Bishop Ritter consecrated the new main altar and reblessed St. Joseph’s Church, Terre Haute. The edifice was damaged by fire last January and has been rebuilt.
such beverages as Tom Collinses and Gin Fizzes. Mr. Robison, who said his lemons were not very satisfactory as grapefruits, said that, at the same time, they were not lemons. The fruit is a Citrus Medica, according to Mr. Robison. And, he added, a Citrus Medica makes a tasty preserve. The thick spongy rind often is used in this manner, he said, more frequently in Europe than in America. The conservatory also boasts other varieties of tropical fruit and vegetation. There are enough rubber plants, for example, to stretch from here to Akron if any one should care to try. >t u u ONE of the rarer specimens is known as the Florida Papaya which turns out to be merely a tropical elaboration of our old Hoosier friend, the pawpaw, a fruit that a great many people have no desire to see elaborated. For those who may be contemplating the life of a desert island castaway, there are two trees bearing breadfruit, which seems to have been a staple article of diet for all desert islanders from Robinson Crusoe to the recent Galapagos high-jinksters. The mature fruit, Mr. Robison said, has a very high unpleasant odor and the taste is similar to that of an over-ripe pineapple. Would-be Crusoes might do well to sample it before embarking for their mysterious islands and learn than man can not live by breadfruit alone. In addition to its exotic tropical vegetation, the conservatory also goes in for the more prosaic work of growing all the geraniums, begonias and cannas which are set out each spring in all the Indianapolis parks.
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SOUND APPEAL FOR BACKING OF ARMY PROGRAM
Demand Made for Added Military Power at Officers’ Dinner. Demanding a stronger standing Army and an increased reserve organization, speakers at the annual dinner of the Reserve Officers of Indiana asked all partriotic organizations to support the American Legion's legislative program of national defense. The meeting was held in the Columbia Club Saturday night and was attended by more than three hundred Army and Navy Reserve officers. Col. R. L. Moorhead, field artillery reserve, introduced the honored guests and presided. Lieut. Col. Cleon W. Mount, infantry reserve, was toastmaster. The national president of the Reserve Officers Association, Lieut.Col. Frank E. Lowe, field artillery reserve of Portland, Me., delivered the principal address. Lauds Court Verdict “If we ever have crossed the rubicon of national defense,” he said, “we crossed it in the unanimous Supreme Court decision which held that every citizen has a moral and legal obligation to defend his country in time of war. If agents of potential enemies abroad find the support of our youth behind this Supreme Court decision, they will think twice before they rock the-boat with this country.” Colonel Lowe and Frank R. Kossa, state commander of the American Legion, pointed out that the Legion intends to lobby in the next Congress for more appropriations for the Army and Navy and the various National Guard and reserve organizations. “Let us have an American military policy and an American mili tary art,” said Brig Gen. William K. Naylor, commanding the Indiana military area. “There is a necessity for us to learn the true history of our country and apply the lessons to the American art of war,” he said. Points to History’s Flaws. Pointing out the difficulty of finding the truth in history, he said that even in the acounts of the World War, fable is finding its was into the texts. As an example of this he related that the famous French “taxicab army” at the First Battle of the Marne consisted of only five battalions. The main body of troops were moved to the front two days before on trains, he said. He said that students of history notice that soldiers and outfits that have suffered defeat occupy a larger place in the accounts than victorious organizations. “Every schoolchild,” he pointed out, “has heard of Custer’s last stand and defeat of the Old Guard at Waterloo, but only soldiers and historians remember the names of the Scotch regiments that defeated the Old Guard.” Bowley Urges More Interest Maj. Gen. A. J .Bowley, commanding the Fifth Corps Area, enumerated the difficulties the Regular Army had in building up the Organized Reserves after the World War. “The National Defense Act,” he said, “has given the United States its first national military policy.” He told the reserve officers to
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Miss Katherine F. Lenroot (above), daughter of the former Wisconsin senator, is the new head of the Children's Bureau of the Department of Labor. Although a Republican, she was appointed to the post by President Roosevelt to succeed Grace Abbott, resigned, as a reward for 19 years of service in the bureau.
continue to increase their efficiency. “The active list lost 5000 reserve officers last year through lack of interest,” he said. This will have to be remedied.” Miss Bonnie Farwell, representing the Daughters of the American Revolution: Capt. R. L. Queisser, national president of the Sojourners: Colonel T. L. Sherburne, chief of staff of the Indiana Military Area, and Commander C. C. Baughman, chief of staff of the Ninth Naval District, also spoke.
Officers Attend School Officers and first sergeants of the 151st Infantry yesterday attended a school to promote their teaching efficiency. Classes were held in the Indiana National Guard Armory. The regimental commander, Colonel Albert H. Whitcomb, Indianapolis, was in charge of the instruction and lectures were given by the battalion commanders, Major Walter S. Fowler and Major Ral C. Paddock, Frankfort: Major Norman L. Thompson, Indianapolis, and the regular Army instructors, Major Albert E. Andrews and Capt, George E. Kraul. Short Talks were given by Maj. Gen. Robert H. Tyndall, commanding officer of the 38th Division, and the 76th Brigade commander, Brig. Gen. D. Wray De Prez, Shelbyville. Instruction methods were explained by Major Earl E. Weimar, Shelbyville, plans and training officer; Capt. Garret W. Olds, assistant plans and training officer; Capt. Layton R. Mottern, adjutant, and Lieut. Harold N. Fields, personnel section. A test mobilization of the 152nd Infantry was conducted yesterday morning. Regimental headquarters here sent telegrams to all organizations of the regiment. Units assembled at their armories throughout the state, rolled their packs and prepared to take the field. As soon as a company was formed and ready to move the unit commander sent a telegram to the adjutant in Indianapolis giving the time of formation and the strength of the company. Colonel Clyde E. Dreisbach, Ft. Wayne, is regimental commander, and Capt. Leonard E. Webster is adjutant.
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ST. VINCENT'S ! NEW MATERNITY FLOOR OPENED
Newly Decorated Ward to Accommodate 42 Patients. Interested visitors inspected the newly decorated and rearranged maternity floor of St. Vincent's Hospital yesterday, where accommodations are available for 42 patients. Many of the visitors were former patients, who arrived with babies who had been born in the hospitaL The improvements, which just have been completed after three months' work, include every room on the maternity floor. Each room has been redecorated, with new draperies, lamps, and handmade linens, which have nothing of the institutional look about them. Dark furniture in many of the rooms has been refinished in antique white, and light parchment shades are used on floor lamps in each of the rooms, to give a soft, home-like light. St. Vincent’s Guild, which has helped in the redecoration, completely has furnished an attractive new library on the floor. The library formerly was an open porch. One entire side of the room has been made into book shelves, where books for use of patients and visitors are available. One room has been redecorated and furnished in oak period furniture, with Venetian blinds at the wide windows, and matching drapes and bed spreads, by Mrs. William J. Wemmer, in memory of her husband. The nursery, equipped with separate cribs for the babies, is equipped with thermostatic control on the radiators, automatically regulating the temperature. Each crib has an individual embroidered spread, furnished by members of St. Vincent's Guild. In addition to the nursery, there is a room for bathing the infants while in the hospital, and another where each mother is instructed in the care of the child before leaving the hospital. A room has been set aside for the isolation of babies witn infectious or contagious diseases. In addition to the private and two-bed rooms available on the floor, there is a six-bed ward, arranged with separate lockers for each patient, and with curtains between each bed. insuring privacy. A sun parlor for guests has been provided, as well as a lounge for physicians near the delivery rooms. In addition to the improvements on the maternity floor, the hospital just has acquired new X-ray equipment. RICE TO BE SPEAKER Shortridge Vice-Principal Will Talk to DeMolays. Emmett A. Rice, vice-principal of Shortridge High School, w r ill speak tonight at the Parents’ Day program of the Indianapolis Chapter, Order of DeMolay, in the chapter house, 1017 Broadway. New Zealand Volcano Erupts ) By United Prc* WELLINGTON. N. Z., Dec. 10.-* Mt. Ngauruhoe, New Zealand’s onls* active volcano, was in eruption tCMI? day, throwing boulders 100 feet int<| the air and sending up a smoke col* umn 6000 feet high.