Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 293, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 February 1936 — Page 9
It Seems to Me HEMM TT'EMINISTS owe something to Huey Long. But for him there would not be two women m the Senate today. Os course, the present abundance could hardly be construed as part of Huey's plan. He campaigned for Hattie Caraway, to be sure, but there Is no evidence that he ever thought of grooming Mrs. Long as his own successor. She remained at home when he was in Washington and seldom heard him speak. Mrs. Long comes to the Senate with very little political experience and only
eleven months to acquire it. As a matter of fact, in actual sitting it will be a good deal less. But the newcomer from Louisiana may manage to make some sort of mark for herself even in so 3hort a time. She is decidedly personable, and in her brief few moments at her first session she seemed decidedly self-possessed. As far as legislative activity goes, Senator Hattie Caraway is of little use as a pacemaker. The lady from Arkansas is one of the most silent Senators who ever tiptoed into the chamber. She has
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made Just one brief speech, and she takes no part whatsoever in any debates. It is just unthinkable to picture Hattie Caraway rising at her desk and demanding, “Will the gentleman yield?” The very form of the question would seem a little shocking to Senator Caraway. nun The Lady Is Worried T TATTIE CARAWAY always gives the impression of being worried about something. She looks to me like a lady who is trying to perform her legislative duties and cook a batch of biscuits at the same time. And she has no intention of emulating the error of King Alfred. Hattie Caraway is not going to be caught fiddling around with senatorial duties while the rum cake burns. Whether or not Mrs. Long makes the grade and becomes anything more than a senatorial figurehead, she may well do something to lay the foundation for another Long to follow later in the seats of the mighty. She brought with her the three Long children. Russell, who is 17, has already had some slight experience in politics. Down in Louisiana in the primary fight a few weeks ago young Long spoke for Judge Leehe, the winner, in a number of parishes just outside New Orleans. He is the president of the freshman class at Louisiana state University. a tt a Daughter Speaks Up BUT in this instance another member of the family comes to the fore.® She is Rose Long the younger, the daughter of the family. Rose managed her brother Russell’s campaign w'hen he was elected as class president at L. S. U„ and friends of the family say that she is much more politically minded than her mother. If they don’t chase her back to school it may be that the real Senator from Louisiana for the next few months will be a young Southern girl who is about 20. Between them, mother and daughter already have issued a statement for the new Senator from Louisiana. It reads: “I am 100 per cent for labor and the farmers.” I must say I see nothing immature in that. (Copyright, 1936)
Ohio G. O. P. Heads Confused by Borah BY RAYMOND CLAPPER CLEVELAND, Feb. 15.—As a mother of Presidents, Ohio used to be pretty good. She produced them one after another. Indeed, in 1920, she offered to turn them out in pairs. But that seems to have overtaxed her strength, for after offering the nation a choice between Senator Harding and Gov. Cox, she went into a de-
cline, finally giving up completely after Mrs. Dionne's maternal triumph. Ohio’s current political offspring is such that an eminent Republican leader says scornfully that Republicans haven't a man in the state who is presidential timber. That is what is causing the Republican trouble in Ohio right now. This matter of adopting a presidential son, when you haven’t one of your own, is not so simple. You
Clapper have to look closely into the antecedents or you may, for instance, think you are getting a lad of sound constitution only to discover that he suffers from chronic inflation. They have found that very thing in the case of the prospective adopted son from Idaho, Senator Borah. And it’s causing no end of consternation. a a a /"OHIO'S problem would be simple if she had a favorite son of her own. There wouldn’t be any question. But having none, such cautious gentlemen as Walter F. Brown, national committeeman and Mr. Hoover's former Postmaster General, and Ed Schorr, the bewildered state chairman, don't know what to do. They had planned to send an uninstructed delegation to the Republican national convention, a delegation which they could carry in the vest pocket and which they could hand over to the man who, in every sense of the term, seemed to be the most promising candidate. a a a BUT when Senator Borah parked himself on Ohio's doorstep that changed the situation so far as the old-line leaders are concerned. Mr. Borah might be a promising candidate in one sense of the term but not in another. Now the old-line leaders have to make a decision. They must decide whether to try to beat Senator Borah with nobody—that is, continue to work for an uninstructed delegation, or one technically pledged to a dummy. Or else they must gang up behind some other candidate for adoption, meaning Col. Frank Knox of Illinois. Thev will meet in Columbus Tuesday to talk over these alternatives. State Chairman Schcir wanted to adopt Col. Knox and gang up behind him to beat Mr. Borah. Others are advising against that. Some are trying to get Gov. Landon to come in. But he is so popular in Ohio that his friends outside of Ohio are urging him to stay out and let Mr. Borah and Col. Knox slash at each other’s throats while he goes after sec-ond-choice pledges in both ranks. That is economical politics and good politics. Gov. Landon, being good at both, is more likely to follow that course. a a a SENATOR BORAH has considerable strength in Ohio, particularly in Cleveland, which went for the rebel La Follette in 1924 and for Smith in 1928 when he was still something of a rebel. Senator Borah's greatest handicap here is the colored vote, which casts about one-third of the Republican primary vote in Cleveland. They are fighting mad because he opposed the Wagner-Costigan anti-lynching bill. Mr. Borah wavered so long before deciding to come into the Ohio primary that one of his principal leaders became critically impatient. Otherwise he is sitting pretty, at the moment. But Col. Knox is busy lining up organization and newspaper support. If in addition Col. Knox gets the old-line organization behind him, Senator Borah will have to come out here and do some active running. . ana It won't do any good in this situation just to take , * walk.
Herewith ii the second of a series cf articles on the administration of relief in Indiana, written by Arch Steinel, Time'i staff writer, who has made a broad study of the relief setup in the state. BY ARCH SIEINEL H ER wan face was creased in smiles as she handed the government warrant to the department store clerk to be cashed. “Can you give me the money on this? It’s for $27.50 — and I’ll take that pair of 59-cent hose. Yes—the beige ones,” she exclaimed as she interspersed gum-chewing between words. In one hand a 2-cent stamp was fingered as the other hand passed the government warrant to the store’s clerk.
The woman was the wife of one of the 82,000 workers in Indiana under the Works Progress Administration. The government check was onehalf of a month’s pay—sss in Marion County—received by her husband for gainful work on one of the projects under state WPA. The projects range from roads, buildings, park and water systems to sewing rooms. The 59-cent hose represented the proportion of WPA actual relief to the entire relief dollar in Indiana. The gum she chewed and the four sticks left in her handbag, coupled with the 2-cent stamp, and her 14-cent carfare from her home to the store and then back home represents 21 cents or the portion represented by direct reiief—or grocery orders—to the state’s relief dollar. Indiana’s work and direct relief for the period from Aug. 1, 1935 when WPA began boosting pay envelopes—to Feb. 1 this year is $26,000,000, according to conservative estimates of WPA. statisticians. a u tt WPA relief, with all factors including administration costs totalled was $0,725 of the relief dollar while all direct relief costs averaged $0,275 of the entire relief expenditures in Indiana. Work relief went into 82.000 Indiana homes with 3000 additional homes receiving aid through the National Youth Administration for a total expenditure of $lB,000,0000. But since August, 1935, direct relief-grocery orders have been given 55,000 families at a cost of $8,000,000 in the six-month period ending Feb. 1. Direct relief families and WPA workers are based on the monthly close of relief books Jan. 31. The state’s relief dollar broken down to show the ratio of the 59cent hosiery purchased by work relief wages to other casts of both work and direct relief follows: WAGE RELIEF-WPA Wages 50.39 Materials and equipment 0.085 Administration costs 0.03 Federal Transient Bureau 0.015 Emergency education 0.005 Total $0,725 DIRECT RELIEF Food, fuel & household necessities $0.21 Materials and equipment 0.01 Administration costs 0.035 Work aid other than WPA 0.02 Total $0,275 tt tt tt ('tPLIT the relief dollar in two with one coin labeled WPA or Work Relief and the other Direct Relief or Grocery Dollar and the ratio of expenditures from Aug. 1, 1935—the beginning of WPA—through Jan. 31, 1935, is as follows: Work Relief Dollar—Wages, $0.83; materials, $0,125; administration costs, $0,045. Direct Relief Dollar —Family relief, $0.72; state work relief, $0.08; county relief administration, $0.08; state relief administration, $0.02; materials, $0.04; Federal transient program, $0.04; emergency education, $0.02. Payment by WPA of $15,446,498 in wages from Aug. 1, 1935, to Feb. l. 1936, resulted in an average wage over the entire period of $44 for each worker. The wage scale in the 11 WPA districts of the stote is S4O to $55 for unskilled workers and $55 to SBS for skilled workmen with technicians receiving between s6l to $94 monthly. The state’s wage average increased to S4B a month in December as WPA projects bore the brunt of the relief load and as direct relief rolls dwindled under the switching of workers from direct relief rolls to WPA. a a THE average wage of February is estimated at SSO monthly for the entire state with Marion County's average being $55. Non-relief workers in Indiana, persons in need of employment, but not taken from relief rolls, received $73 for the month of December. WPA employs 3300 of these needy non-relief workers in Indiana. A 2 per cent increase in the caseload of WPA in January brought an approximately 2 per cent decrease in the state direct relief load with two out of every three persons dependent on Federal or state relief forced to look to a WPA government warrant to fill the food cupboards. The third person dependent on relief received grocery' orders paid by taxpayers in the townships.
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Sixty per cent of the actual caseload—families—were on WPA relief while 40 per cent received township grocery orders. The families of WPA workers average 4.2 persons to a fireside while the direct relief family, because family heads are chosen for work relief and single persons are left on direct relief rolls, averaged 3.25 persons to the family. The rise in the wage relief paid to state workers in the period of a year and a comparison showing the wages paid under the Federal Emergency Relief Administration when it functioned in giving work aid in January, 1935, shows that one year ago the average wage paid by FERA was $39.33 a month against a WPA wage average of SSO as estimated for February. tt A COMPARISON of January, 1935, in relief load todays shows 492,127 persons dependent on work or direct relief against 475,000 as of January, 1935. The following highlight months in the last three years shows that the relief load of Indiana at present is greater than it has been, although not equal to several peak months, 1933 Persons Population April 412,961 12.8% October 333,813 10.3% November 346,745 10.7% 1934 January 214,847 6.6% April 387,491 12% October 425,846 13.1% November 450,669 13.9% December 479,740 14.8% 1935 January 492,197 15.2% February 497,873 15.4% A perusal of the above shows November, 1933, with 346,745 persons dependent on relief while January, 1934, had 214,847 persons. The Civil Works Administration took workers from relief rolls during that period and reduced direct relief as WPA is doing today, and although CWA did not take exclusively relief workers it is believed that the relief of January, 1934, would have been nearly as high as January, 1936, if CWA had not aided unemployment in Indiana. a a DECEMBER, 1934, and January and February of 1935 are the highest relief months on record, and this is due more to ample care of the indigent through the use of FERA money for work relief just as that is being done today by WPA.
TTTASHINGTON, Feb. 15.—The ’ * Post Office Department is encountering secret international opposition to its plans for extending the Trans-Pacific airmail service to the Chinese mainland. So far it has only been able to obtain landing rights on the Portuguese island of Macao, about 70 miles from Hongkong. . . . Two big items in the estate left by the late Huey Long were a $120,000 life insurance policy, and a share in $160,000 of legal fees he earned as special counsel for Louisiana in tax collecting cases. . . . Despite the severity of the weather, January had its bright spots—for stockholders. Dividend declarations were the highest for the month since 1931. . . . Continued postponement of the Supreme Court's Tennessee Valley Authority decision has given rise to a wide variety of conjectures. The latest is that there will be three opinions: One holding the entire act unconstitutional, another holding all of it constitutional, and a third—reputedly Hughes and Roberts—ruling only the sale of electric power invalid. ... The Social Security Board is proceeding with great wariness in enforcing the unemployment insurance provisions of its act. Reason is that the board wants to stave off as long as possible a court test of this feature of the law. a a a Smith Answer INSIDE word is that President Roosevelt is planning a personal answer to A1 Smith. Incidentally, the Liberty League warrior has only begun his fusillading. He expects to make three or four more attacks on the Administration before the nominating conventions, the first being in Boston. . . . Within three hours after Rep. Virginia Jenckes of Indiana had launched a petition for the establishment of a cafeteria to be operated by “private
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Citizens of Rock port, Ind., are shown (above) enacting roles of the days of Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Village in Spencer County. The village was one of the county’s WPA projects. Seining for fish in Bass Lake, in northern Indiana, and giving those fish to the indigent on relief rolls is another state project of WPA as shown in the photo at the left. Take, for example, the month of December, 1934, with 479,740 persons dependent on work or direct relief and the average of 14.8 per cent of the population on relief is near the 14.6 percentage of the population on relief today in Indiana, when 475,000 persons depend on either WPA checks or grocery orders for an exisence. The money flow in January, 1935, against the same flow in January of this year is gauged when records of the Governor’s Unemployment Relief Commission reveal that $3,704,000 was spent for work and direct relief last January on 492,197 persons, while $5,550,000 *s the estimated amount spent for 475,000 persons in January, 1936. Wayne Coy, WPA administrator for Indiana, estimates that 20 per cent of the $5,550,000 or $1,110,000 was provided in January by state taxpayers and sponsors of WPA projects. Direct relief’s part of January’s relief load was SBOO,OOO, estimated. WPA assumed $4,650,000 of this cost through jobs to the unemployed, thereby reducing the direct load. a a tt RELIEF benefits have been appreciably boosted in Indiana in one year's time with the
Washington Merry-Go-Round BY DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN
initiative” in the new House Office Building, sne had 96 signatures. Mrs. Jenckes expected it would take her a week to get that number: but irate members, angered at the high prices, poor food and worse service of the House restaurant, flocked to sign her petition. . . . Harry Hopkins has joined the economy drive. He has lopped off S3OOO a month from his rent bill by giving up a large batch of separate offices used by the WPA press section. . . . Biggest raid ever made by the Securities and Exchange Commission took place quietly the other day in Dallas. Field agents of the SEC arrested 42 persons, whom they charged with frauds in oil and hotel stocks. The agents did their work so quietly that it was several days before the Washington press office of the SEC knew anything about it. a a a Safe Margin F>RESIDENT ROOSEVELT has -*■ been informed by Democratic leaders of the Senate that a secret poll of the chamber on the Fra-zier-Lemke greenback farm mortgage refinancing bill showed an eight-vote margin against the measure. Notwithstanding this reassuring check, Administrationites are most uneasy over the inflationary proposal. . . . Vice President Jack Garner “put on the dog” in a big way for his recent party for the President. Despite the severe cold, the usually shag-gy-haired Texan got a closetrimmed haircut. . . . Discovering Minnesota’s youthful FarmerLaborite Paul Kvale snapping candid-camera pictures in the House, several members complained heatedly to Speaker Joe Byrns. Byrns called Kvale on the carpet, warned him not to repeat his prank on pain cf an official reprimand.
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result that Mr. A, who was on the relief rolls in January, 1935, and received an average of $26.21, today receives an average of $40.54 monthly. Direct relief and workrelief are totaled to arrive at the average spent monthly on each relief case. One difference in direct and work-relief under WPA is significant and that is that except for
J. P. Morgan TT is just one Senate investigation after another for J. P. Morgan & Cos. With the conclusion of the Senate Munitions Committee’s probe, the Senate Railway Financing Committee began to delve into the Morgan books. Public hearings by this committee are not expected to open until next fall. . . . Note on the Senate press gallery bulletin board: “The attached speech to be delivered by Senator Key Pittman on the floor of the Senate on Saturday, or on Friday, if the Senate is not in session Saturday.” The Senate did not meet either on Friday or Saturday and the Senator had to wait until Monday. . . . Ronald Ransom of Georgia, recently named a member cf the new Federal Reserve Board, was chairman of the NRA banking code committee. ana Vandenberg SENATOR VANDENBERG protests against being called a “presidential aspirant,” says the phrase can not accurately be applied to him. ... At a recent press conference Mrs. Roosevelt apologized for having no new dresses, told newswomen she thought they must be tired describing the old ones. . . . The late Charley Curtis, a stanch Republican all his life, never publicly crticised President Roosevelt. . . . Neither Henry Wallace nor Chester Davis leans heavily upon a “ghost.” Both were formerly newspaper editors, and prefer to express their own idas. . . . Prew Savoy, legal light of the Department of Agriculture, got his law degree (Docteur en Droit) at the University of Paris. (Copyright, 1936. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
supplemental relief of clothing for his children the WPA worker must depend wholly on his SSO salary to pay food, shelter, and fuel regardless of the size of his family. The man with eight children receives the same WPA wage as the man with four. The direct relief family head receives aid depending on the number of children who crowd to his table for provender, but this aid does not exceed a S2B average in commodities and housing monthly for the entire state. Cases of single person on the relief rolls cut their average to $14.54 a case. Cut in administration costs for the combined general relief program of work relief and direct relief has been evident since January, 1935. Administration costs averaged 6.8 per cent in January, 1935, under FERA and direct relief. This figure is reduced to an estimated 4.6 per cent for January, 1936, under combined W'PA and direct relief control. a a a THE average cost of administration of direct and WPA work relief over the last six months is 6.4 per cent. Non-re-lief workers, although a charge against administrative costs, are included as a part of the projects under WPA. The workers are in the main of the white-collar or semi-skilled class. Nor does the survey show that Indiana is a “boondoggling” state in the type of its 1333 WPA projects, for 91 per cent of the construction work and projects can be divided into four types that hire the common laborer rather than the white-collared worker. These are: Roads and streets; public buildings, parks and playgrounds, and water systems, drainage, sewage, conservation and flood control. The average for the nation is 82 per cent against Indiana’s 61 per cent in projects for employing unskilled labor. Projects, some with “boondoogling” elements, represent only 7.36 per cent of the $40,000,000 in approved projects. They employ professional workers, clerical aid, artists and women. The construction types of projects total $37,337,000, and Mr. Coy says the projects or units of the projects will be completed by July 1 with additional projects in readiness should WPA be continued after that. Next—Marion County and Township Relief.
By J. Carver Pusey
Second Section
Entered ns Second-Class Matter at Postoffire. Indianapolis Ind.
Fair Enough tffiIMKLH! GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN. Feb. 15.—T0 go back a couple of days, the route from London to Garmisch followed a line parallel to the old western front, through towns which took a terrible hammering from German guns, and along toward 10 o’clock the train pulled up for half an hour at Chalon-Sur-Marne. There the presence on the railroad platform of a detachment of French troops drew attention to a private car which lay on a siding, apparently the object of considerable anxiety. A porter said that it was the
private car of King Carol of Rumania, who had been in Paris plotting political devilment on the way home from the funeral of King George, who detested him with hearty joy and used to call him foul names with all the vigor of a man who had wished to follow the sea and learned to curse in the nautical school. George hated Carol for divorcing his wife and moving his shaving tackle and shirts into a love bower w'here he lived with his girl friend, but he thought the Rumanian royal family pretty
much of a mess generally and regarded Carol as merely the worst of a no-good lot. Queen Marie had merely put herself in wrong with the old gent, who was the acknowledged head of the surviving European royalty, when she sold a testimonial for advertising purposes, but here the King used curious reasoning, for he himself had done the same thing on an amateur basis a thousand times. A ot Carol, After All IT may seem incredible that the relations of nations and eventually the state of millions of people may be influenced by such petty personal considerations—but there you are. After some switching and jolting the royal car was hitched on to the train, and I was just gathering myself for a mighty crash against Carol’s royal privacy when the conductor came through and said it wasn’t Carol at all but Prince Paul, regent of Yugoslavia. I might have scored on Carol, for he is a man of the world somewhat on the style of the new King of England, but Prince Paul belongs to a different breed of cats, and, anyway, the French weren't taking any chances w r ith him, remembering the assassination of King Alexander of Yugoslavia at Marseilles. I didn’t observe whether the Germans gave him any special protection, for w’e arrived at Munich at 9 in the morning and the train shoved off toward the Balkans, while I, somewhat apprehensively, felt for the first time the atmosphere of the Nazi state. a a a Appearances Are Deceitful NOWHERE in sight were there any references to Jews, and up until now% my third day in the country, I’ve seen none of the placards which I had read about, although it is explained that these were completely effaced by official order.*. Until recently the legend “Jews Not Wanted Here” was everywhere, but with the beginning of the games the whole region and the highways leading to Garmisch were “purged,” to use a familiar word. Honest reporters will have to admit that nothing meets the eye or ear which concerns the cry of persecution. However, I’m assured that this is a false picture and that the rest of the country is placarded as before, and tnat when the games are over the antiSemitic program will be resumed hereabouts, all of which sounds credible and consistent. Last night a lot of tourists, journalists and athletes gathered in the Hofbrau Stube to eat sausage and kraut and drink Munich beer and listened to the offensive Alpine yodeling, concerning which Mussolini performed a service to humanity w'hen he ordered the suppression of the native army of the Tyrol.
Art in Indianapolis BY ANTON SCHERRER
FOOTBALL coaches have different ways of killing time between playing seasons. Robert Carl (Zup) Zuppke of Illinois paints pictures, for instance. So does Glenn Scobie (Pop) Warner of Stanford. Coach Elmer Layden of Notre Dame, no doubt, will get around to painting, too, one of these days. When he does, it’s dollars to doughnuts that his pictures will have none of Zup’s weird color, none of Pop’s tight drawing. Our hunch is that they will be more like those of Emil Jacques, whose one-man show is now on view at the Herron. Emil Jacques is dean of Notre Dame’s Department of Fine Arts. a a a PROF. JACQUES, of Flemish origin, has been in America since 1923—10ng enough to want to paint it. Herron habitues, aware of what to expect of painters out to do the American Scene, were puzzled to find not a sign of a silo or a tumble-down barn or a cyclone cellar in any of the professor’s pictures. Perhaps, the American Scene has another side, too. The irony is that foreigners see it first. What puzzled many even more were Prof. Jacques’ studies for a set of murals designed for a Western church. Technically, they were painted with a passion for precision. Emotionally, they were rendered with little, if any, passion. At any rate, they lacked the fervor and ardor of the great religious paintings the church once sponsored. Nevertheless, they were such a welcome departure from the kind of “art” American church-goers have been compelled to put up with, that many people —and especially architects wondered whether the church might not, after all, be on the right track again. a a a WITH Mrs. Chester Dale, at one end of the controversy, shouting that Picasso is “a god," and with Thomas Craven, at the other end of the line, shouting just as hard, if anything, that he is "the showman of a cock-eyed cult,” it isn't very important, perhaps, what anybody else thinks of the small collection of Picassos on the walls of the Herron this month. What is important is the fact that Picasso shows no signs of forfeiting his apparently secure position. Nobody has been able to laugh that off. Picasso began painting 35 years ago, began influencing modern art almost immediately. Gifted with extraordinary technical ability and a SpanishItalian mental equipment, he discovered, at the very start, that he could imitate anybody's painting. He began imitating Toulouse-Lautrec and Daumier, drifted under the spell of modem thought and tall table-talk into what his critics call his "periods.” Always changing his mental moods and style, he developed his Blue Period, his Red Period, his NeoAntique Period, his Negro Period and his Abstract Period which concerns itself mostly with the strange behavior of warped guitars and dizzy geometrical shapes. At one time or another, he became involved in objective painting and cubism, chucked both to take up subjective painting, and surrealism. Nobody knows what he still has up his sleeve. Conservative critics concede Picasso’s ability as a maker of patterns, rate him below Matisse and Cezanne. Cautious collectors sense his dexterity of line, buy his prints on that account. Any estimate of him, however, which considers him only as an artist of technical ability must, necessarily, fall short of the mark. If we may be allowed a guess, it is as a period personality, possibly as a psychological phenomenon, that Picasso will be finally judged.
Westbrook Pegler