Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 304, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 February 1936 — Page 12

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RELIEF, WITH ITS CONSTANT DRAIN ON NATION, REGARDED AS FOREMOST ISSUE IN U. S. Shifting' of Burden to States Impresses Taxpayers With Cost of Caring for Needy, Survey Shows. BY ROBERT 8. BROWN WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.—Relief is THE national issue today. It overshadows such questions as constitutional revision, the AAA decision and neutrality, the Scripps-Howard newspapers have learned in a coast- to-coast survey of the problem. It affects all the people. To those in need, relief offers

life itself. To those not receiving benefits it constitutes a steady drain on pocketbooks. The present split responsibility between the Federal and state governments in caring for relief clients has driven home to the taxpayer the cast of relief. When the Federal government carried the load practically alone, the financing was painless to the average taxpayer. Relief Has Come to Stay Civic leaders, some business men and even a few politicians admit that relief is far more than an emergency problem. There is a minority belief that the time has arrived when the nation must accept unemployment as a permanent thing and that the unemployed must be forever supported under some plan that will fit into our present economic system—or into a different one. The Social Security Act of 1935 is not regarded as an answer to the problem in most states. Old-age and widows’ pensions, aid for dependent children and unemployment insurance will help, relief officials say,but can only take a part of the burden. Continuance of WPA, or some similar form of public works, is favored by almost all except partisans who see nothing good in the New Deal. In fact, there is much support for expanding work-relief to take in all employable relief cases, regardless of the cost. Spending Is Dangerous Issue The prominence given to relief spending in the coming political campaign will vary by states and communities. But the issue is too dangerous to be faced with complete honesty by cither party. In Colorado, relief and emergency expenditures of huge sums are of first importance and will be carried into both local and national political campaigns. The sales tax, used to finance direct relief, is unpopular. Relief administration is in the hands of Democrats. Such Republicans as are employed in key jobs are classed as “friends of the Administration.” While most Southern Californians take relief for granted, any ballup in the relief manhinery at San Diego or some other city is always the topic of the day. Throughout in the relief machihnery at San Francisco, opponents of President Roosevelt have made relief expenditures a big political issue. WPA Workers Favor OARP It is not an open issue in Birmingham, Ala., but the plight of state and local budgets responsible for the care of unemployables brings relief into ihe limelight. A newspaper poll showed WPA workers overwhelmingly in favor of the Townsend Plan. Perhaps in no state has relief been forced into public view as much as in Ohio. A belligerent Governor, Martin L. Davey, used the Federal Administration of relief as the basis for an attack on the entire New Deal. Today in almast all large Ohio centers relief is the paramount problem. One exception is noted in Akron, where the unsettled labor siuation in the rubber tire plants overshadows all other issues. To most communities, such as Cleveland, Toledo, Columbus and Youngstown, the raising of local funds presents a real crisis. One in Six on Dole in Pa. With one out of every six persons on relief in Pennsylvania, the care of these dependents dominates the state's problems. Enemies of the New Deal charge that WPA has built a political machine in the state, but there is little evidence that such is the case. WPA is an extremely active issue in Pittsburgh, where Mayor William B. McNair has refused to match Federal dollars with local funds and work has gone outside the city limits. Oklahoma reports more public interest in relief than any other question. Citizens conclude that the emergency status of unemployment has passed, but, they say. nothing is in sight that will keep people eating if relief spending stops. Relief is not a political issue in Memphis, probr because the party in powe is Democratic and only Democrats expect jobs—and only Democrats get them. The same situation exists in Knoxville. In Washington the average citizen feels that relief has taken up permanent abode as a long-time problem. Johnson Failed in New Y’ork New York City's WPA started out to be a model for the rest of the country. Gen. Hugh S. Johnson was sent in with plenty of Federal money and a free hand. He announced he would have 500.000 persons at work by Nov. 1. last year. He had to eat his words, and he did so with bad

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grace. The fault, however, was not all Johnson’s. Washington discovered that the four billion dollars appropriated for work relief would not permit the lavish plans contemplated in New York. Johnson gob the run-around. The problems he failed to solve are still present, and the difficulties encountered have tended to make WPA the outstanding topic of public discussion. One Indianapolis Republican declares that “we should sweep out relief as now administered and start over,” but his statement is offset by another who says that “present relief has given a more steady tone to business.” CITY MAN FINDS OLD NEWSPAPER IN ATTIC New York Herald for April 5, 1865 Reports Lincoln's Assassination. Rummaging around in his attic, Ed Sweeney, 2875 Highland-av, found a copy of the New York Herald for Saturday, April 5, 1865, which reported the assassination of Abraham Lincoln the night before. He also has a copy of the Indianapolis Sentinel for Thursday, Jan. 30, 1879, reporting the double hanging of two alleged murderers in Marion County. NABBED ON 5-YEAR-OLD ROBBERY CHARGE HERE Local Man Arrested After Release From Arizona Prison. Five years after the alleged crime, Herbert Hines, 320 N. East-st, faces charges of participating in the robbery of a Lebanon gasoline station. He was arrested here yesterday after he returned from serving a prison sentence in Arizona, police said. Two others convicted of the Lebanon robbery have served their terms and are now free. BOARD DENIES PARDON Plea of John Yelonis, Held in State Prison for Robbery, Rejected. Pardon has been denied John Velonis, former manager of the Hook Drug Cos. Commissary Department, who was sentenced to Indiana Prison Jan. 7, 1932, for 20 years for robbing a collector for the drug company, the State Clemency Commission announced today.

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ROTARY PARTY MAY BE ANNUAL EVENT 300 Club Members, Guests, Families Attend. Convinced their first social party was a success, Rotarians today discussed the possibility of making it an annual event. Approximately 300 club members, their families and guests attended a Dutch party in the Columbia Club ballroom last night. The Rotarians partook of a fivecourse dinner, danced and played bridge in a room which reproduced the color and atmosphere of Holland with meticulous detail. Russell O. Berg, Indianapolis Times cartoonist, demonstrated rapid drawing with crayon. Theodore F. Schlaegel was chairman of the arrangements committee.

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R. R. TIME QUESTION MAY BE DECIDED TODAY Ordinance Makes Eastern Time Official in Chicago Sunday. By United Prats CHICAGO. Feb. 28.—Interstate Commerce Commissioner Clyde B.

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