Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 July 1937 — Page 30
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U, 3. NEGLECTS HOUSING PLAN, FLYNN ASSERTS
Lewer woome Fa Families Are |
Sadly in Need of Dwellings, He Says.
By JOHN T. FLYNN Times Special Writer NEW YORK, July 23.—It begins to look as if the Administration is going to stick to the policy, which has guided it from the very beginning, of doing nothing about lowcost housing. The chief opposition to the Wagner Bill comes from the President himself. And if you will look over the history of lowcost housing hopes these last five years you will see that every real expectation has found its death thrust in the White House or the Treasury. Every now and then a blast of trumpets announces some new and glamorous attack on the housing problem for those with small incomes. It always ends in nothing or next to nothing. The latest is the heralded plan to encourage and finance through the FHA the construction of $5000 homes. Of course, $5000 homes have no relation to low-cost housing. As I see this problem it may be stated thus: There live in cities millions of families with incomes not exceeding $1000 a year. This means that they cannot afford to pay more than $20 a month in rent. You can find an immense number of families in this group who can live in two-room apartments—families with no more than two members. But there are not less than a million families which ought to have at least four rooms for decent living—familes wth father, mother and three or four children.
Private Interest Lacking
Now this fact is admitted—that private business does not build houses for these groups — fourroom houses to rent for $20 a month, $5 a room. Private industry simply is not in that business. No matter who builds such houses, there will be no interference in private industry. On the contrary it will help private industry, for the materials will have to be purchased from private material men and the workers who build the houses will spend their wages with private merchants. Up to now the Government has done practically nothing about this vast group of people, It built First Houses in New York and it rents rooms at an average of $6.50 a room. That is still beyond the reach of these $1000-a-year people. And moreover First Houses was made possible by some exceptionally favorable circumstances. The Williamsburg houses come closer to the proper scale—they rent for $4.95 a room up—but the number of such projects is so small that it makes practically no impression on the problem. The problem is now bedeviled by two forces. One if the Administration, which has been under the dominon of the bad advice of the Treasury and the New York real estate interests, and which manages to sabotage every proposal. The other is the architect who insists on putting into houses more than people with small means can pay for. The proper approach to the problem is to determine how much house—how much dwelling space— can be put up for $20 a month and less. Then plan to build such] houses. It will be necessary to cut out some fancy services. But there is absolutely no point in building houses for poor people which the poor people cannot live in when they | are completed. The whole housing problem pas | suffered from lack of sympathetic understanding and interest at the top. If the President were interested in this as he is in building up the Army and Navy, and in CCC, something could be done about housing.
RAILROAD CO. FAYS
$546,337 IN WAGES
Illinois Central Railroad workers in Indiana earned $546,337 in wages last year, company officials announced today. Total company expenditures in the state including pensions, supplies, water, electric power, telephone and taxes were more than $1,000,000. The railroad’s tax bill was $105.10 107.
A Foundling Goes on Relief
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national forest. of the nippled bottie.
Phoebe tips the bottle for an evening nip and fawns on the conservation officer at Cadillac State Park, Michigan, with a happy, coy little gesture. The park’s officers became foster mothers to the dappled week-old fawn when she was picked up, apparently an orphan, in th It took her at least five minutes to learn the mysteries
12 IN HIGH SCHOOLS WIN BUTLER AWARDS
‘Scholarships Given Upper
Quarter of Classes.
Twelve Indianapolis high school seniors recently have received scholarships for the Butler University college of education, according to an
william L. Richardson.
students who were graduated in the upper quarter of their class, and will be effective with the beginning of the 1937-38 school year, Sept. 13. Those who received scholarships are Faye Van Arendonk, Evelyn Gosgate, Mary Haynes and Mary Jane Johnston of Technical High School; Margaret Smith of Broad Ripple, Frieda Virginia Cooke of Crispus Attucks, Margaret Lahmann and Alice Westra of Manual Training, Doris J. Rushton and Dina Barkan of Shortridge, and Freda Ruth Marvel and Wilma Todd of Washington.
FIRE DAMAGES LAUNDRY An automatic sprinkler system extinguished a fire which broke out in the Tiffany Laundry, 425 N. Senate Ave. last night, Damage was estimated at $25.
announcement made today by Dean |
The awards were given to those
KIWANIANS TO PICNIC Times Special PERU, July 23.—Peru, Wabash and Marion Kiwanis club members are to join in a picnic meeting at Connor's Mill, on the Mississinewa River, Wednesday.
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James Bedford, alle alleged trolley car bandit captured several days ago as the result of a 10-year-old boys’ sleuthing, had been bound over to the Marion County grand jury today on a robbery charge. Bedford is alleged to have held up a street car at Illinois and 40th Sts.
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