Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 October 1938 — Page 7

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WEDNESDAY, OCT. 12, 1938

- THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Million Hillbilly Children Found in Need: Welfare Workers Bring Hope to South

KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Oct. 12 (NEA) [ing so many things for develop- highlanders. For instance, in one|condemnation to ignorance and il-)their only layette, sent shoeless to) Half of the farms in the 205-| male worker. Three-fourths of the|face to face by welfare workers —A million children living sub- ment. It is an accurate picture, school attendance rose from 48 to| literacy. school if indeed a school is avail-|mountain-county area, Dr. Taylor crop land has a slope of 40 per cent |Who are going back into the hills standard lives, and at least 100 000, for it is drawn by Dr. Alva Taylor, 56 in a single week. That was the week| The reports of such welfare|able, condemned to a life of heart- found f jess than 50 acres. A Of more, and “where there is Door to attack at its roots the acute prob= : Tea \. Nashville sociologist and educa-/in which the SCF welfare worker workers tell a tale of squalid help- breaking toil on washed-out hill-|0Und, are of less than CIR, : 8 p om undernourished and in dire tional director of the Save the Chil-|was in the district distributing lessness that includes children

. lem of the South’s mountain people, sides, deprived of medical care in|fourth of them are of less than 20 land; there are poor people. {dren Fund. shoes and clothing. The 17 families brought into the world without a Hundreds of gallons of cod-liver SKEETERS AID POLICE That is the picture of 205 Appa-! This fund since 1931 has reached |did not have even the rudimentary

illness, and even of an undertaker’s|acres. ‘The average of cultivated doctor's services, old flour sacks! services in death. land is only seven acres per adult oil have been sent into the area| DALLAS, Oct. 12 (U. P.).—Nature lachian Mountain countries, a side [50,000 children in the mountain re- [clothing a child needs to attend the by welfare organizations to counof the picture not often seen by gions, bringing welfare services, |Mountain schoolhouses.

came to the aid of law officers who > ah » teract the monotonous and deficient tourists and others fascinated by food, clothing, and simple medical] Welfare workers who travel nun- PLASTIC NOSES MADE Surgeons have. developed a. newimenis."windshield wou, He the “quaint” lives of the natives of |help in regions where no other wel-

. diet. One mountain woman walked | for several days sought Luke dreds of miles into the hills where FROM LATEX RUBBER technique to make noses, eye said cartilage from human ribs can six miles each day to make soup| French after French—self-styled the mountain regions of Tennessee, fare organizatiop penetrates. It|the “traces” are mere paths hailf- sockets and ears from latex rubber be preserved in refrigerators and Rentiesh Virginia and North Car- has touched some 50 of the 205 olina. |

for her own and 50 other school |‘“tough guy'—got drunk and shot obliterated in the brush, tell of and dead men’s ribs. used by plastic surgeons. Ears, children. On one occasion she|two men. Hiding out from the [counties surveyed by Dr. Taylor. children walking miles barefoot on| WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 (U. P).— It is a vivid side-light on the Na-| Its workers have found many in-

Dr. Claire L. Stralth, Detroit noses and other features made of |asked each child to bring one po-|officers in bottoms of a river, French snow and ice to get to school. Thou-|A Detroit scientist told the Ameri-|surgeon, said the new technique was latex rubber were described by|tato for soup. Only five were able| was attacked by mosquitoes and tional Emergency Council’s picture stances of the stark privation that|sands of such children have been can Academy of Opthalmology and created to meet surgical problems|scientists as suitable for replacing bitten so badly that he became ill of the South as a great region need- lies behind the “quaint” life of the|given the shoes whose lack meant | Otolaryngology today

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