Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 November 1938 — Page 11
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STATE. WELCOMEN
IDEAS FOR CHANGEN IN WELFARE ACT
Gottschalk Appeals for Suggested Amendments to Be Presented to Legislature; Requirements Are Cited.
An appeal for suggested amendments in the Welfare Act of 1936 was sent today to all Public Welfare county board members and directors by Thurman A. Gottschalk, State Department of Public Welfare admin-
istrator.
. The suggestions are to be presented to the 1939 session of the Leg-
fklature, Mr. Gottschalk said.
Tuesday was set as the deadline®
for all proposed amendments and a series of meetings are to be held throughout the state to discuss the merits of the proposals, according to Mr. Gottschalk. : “A few amendments were made to the act at the 1937 session of the Legislature and no doubt some will be suggested during the 1939 session,” he said.
Wants Suggestions
“The State department would like to have the suggestions of those who face welfare problems daily.
“We must bear in mind in mak-
ing suggestions there are certain mandatory requirements of the Federal’ Social Security Act on the granting of public assistance which must be met in our Welfare Act
-if Federal grants-in-aid are to be
continued. The most important of these requirements are:
“Assistance can be given to needy persons only. : “To be eligible an aged person must be 65 years or over, and a dependent child, under 16. (For the blind there is no age limitation in the Social Security Act.) “A State plan of assistance must be either State administered, or if locally administered, under supervision of a single State agency.
Must Be Approved
“A. State plan of assistance must be in existence in every county. The State plan must provide standards of administration which meet with the approval of the National Social Security Board. “An applicant or recipient must have the right of appeal to the State
agency if he is not satisfied with the decision of the local agency.”
Mr. Gottschalk also pointed out],
that suggestions also would be welcomed on the provisions of the Welfare Act relating to care of dependent and crippled children.
ONCE MILLIONAIRE, FACES DEPORTATION
NEW YORK, Nov. 11 (U. P.).— James A. Waddell, who became a millionaire through his strikebreaking activities in the early part of the century, will be sentenced Nov. 14 on a plea of guilty to passing bad checks, it became known today. He was arrested Oct. 31 on the complaint of a hotel which had received $300 in spurious drafts from him. Waddell was a partner in the firm of Waddell& Mahon which had at its peak—1907—a list’ of 225,000 skilled strikebreakers and an elaborate office setup that covered the nation. It had a permanent staff of lawyers, doctors, a commissary department. and an arsenal of 300 weapons. The district attorney’s office said Waddell probably would be deported to Canada.
SAVES 4000 PENNIES
ASHTABULA, O, Nov. 11 (U. P.). —The Swedish Mission Church collected 32 pounds of pennies from its congregation for its mission work. About 4000 pennies comprised the 32 pounds of coins which the church members had saved in penny banks.
By JOE COLLIER The next Mayor of Indianapolis, Reginald H. Sullivan,
doors, but he was no Daniel Boone with the shotgun and kept none of the fish
he caught. He was a sportsmen’s
last to want to return from the trip, and yet never became remarkably skillful with a fly rod. “He liked to fish,” one of his outdoor companions said of him,” and he would fish earnestly. But he always threw those he caught back into the water. He never snared the largest fish, nor yet the smallest.
“When we made camp, he worked until all the work was done. If others didn’t show at camp in time to do their share, he did it. He was quiet and never attempted anything that was at all spectacular.” Similarly, Mr. Sullivan would happily shoulder a gun and prowl for hours in the fall searching for rabbits which he frequently did not shoot even when they were under foot. “Reg never cared whether he got any game or not,” his companion said. “He was satisfied to be out in the fields. That seemed to be all he wanted of a hunting trip.” 2 ” ”
HAT was before Mr. Sullivan began his public life and after those boyhood days when his father, the late Thomas Sullivan, took him to the Canal on summer days, taught him to swim and drilled in the fundamentals of a love for the outdoors. It also was after his college days at Wabash where he was good enough at football, which he didn’t particularly care for, to be captain two years, and never
was good enough at baseball,
spent a field-and-stream . youth in the Hoosier out-.
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sportsman. He was the first : to agree to go fishing, the :
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The Next Mayor of Indianapolis
Reginald H. Sullivan a Sportsmen s Sportsman Who Plays the Game
Mr. Sullivan being sworn in for previous term as Mayor by his
father, the late Thomas Sullivan,
SUBJECTS FOR CONSTITUTI ESSAYS PICKE
High School Students to V For Prizes Offered by Legion Post.
Three subjects have been selec for the Fifth Annual Constitutio Essay Contest for Indianapolis h school students, it was announ today by Russell V. Sigler, Shi ridge High School history instructo The subjects are: “Constitution: Safeguards of Personal Liberties, “Citizenship Under the U. S. stitution,” and “John Marshall's Ins fluence on the Constitution.” = The contest, sponsored by the Hayward-Barcus Legion’ Post 55, to be launched during American Education Week. Essays are to be completed before Jan. 31, 1939. : 1000-Word Limit i Students may write on one of {he three subjects, Mr. Sigler said, buf the essay should not be more than 1000 words long and not less tham 800 words. oh All essays will be judged by a coms mittee of three, to be picked by Dee Witt S. Morgan, Schools Superir
which he loved, to play on any but the second team. Baseball has remained one of
mer night “City Hall” during Mr. Sullivan's administration is very likely frequently to be Perry Stadium. Mr. Sullivan says that one of his most vivid memories comes from the time when he saw Babe Ruth point to the Cubs’ Park wall, gesture that he would knock the next ball out of the park at that point, and then did it. When you talk to Mr. Sullivan in his law office he will tell you about these things—hunting and fishing and swimming and baseball. He tells them all in a quiet sort of way, sometimes smiling and sometimes deadly serious. He will tell you that he was “not much of a fly fisherman,” and he will tell you of hunting trips in terms of who was there and not in terms of what was shot. 2 t 28 O, also will he tell you about his first term as Mayor, in the same tones and with the same
his favorite sports and the sum-
inflections and with the same deep satisfaction with the mems= ory of an experience that was
.-agreeable:
Mr. Sullivan says:that deep satisfaction derives from the fact that, when the depression was breaking fast and people were hungry and badly clothed, he saw
to it that they had food and shel-
ter and clothing—that he was Mayor for all the people. His associates in public office, as well as his associates in recreation, testify today to the fact that his capacity for work, his own or somebody else’s, is practically limitless. . One of them said that when budget time rolled around he would invariably weary his entire cabinet as he pored over and revised long columns of figures in preparation for hearings. Mr. Sullivan is a bachelor. His recreations are simple. He goes to night baseball when he can and takes in a movie now and then. He spends many evenings in his home reading, with his tastes
running to problem and biographical books. He thinks he smokes too much but does nothing about cutting down. He puffs cigars and a pipe, never having tried cigarets. He was smoking a pipe when, early on election night, returns were very disquieting at Democratic County headquarters. ” ” 8
N FACT, for a couple of hours, candidates there were going through the valley of the shadow of defeat as precinct after pre-
cinct reported Republican pluralities. Some of the candidates were looking accusingly at the adding machines; some were placing phone call after phone call; some were talking to workers and other candidates with worried -expressions and an animation that bordered on hysteria. But Mr. Sullivan sat and smoked his pipe. He smoked, with measured puffs and, if he didn’t look very pleased, he certainly did not look dejected. Then he heard a report of a
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ANKLES SPRAINED BUT: SINGER CARRIES ON
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 11 (U. P.)
couple of precincts that gave him all the information he apparently needeéd to assure himself. He took his pipe from his mouth, smiled and said quietly: “Well, we're’ in.” Then, after a few brief conversations, he put his felt hat on, shook a few hands, and went home.
FISH MIXED UP, GO NORTH—NOT SOUTH
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J, Nov. 11
(U. P.).—Mackerel fishermen re-
ported today that the unusually warm weather of recent weeks had so confused the fish that they were heading north instead of south, The fish have been dawdling close inshore, a situation which commercial fishermen said was unprecedented. - Mackerel usually head south for the winter. Sometimes they spend the cold months in the Gulf Stream, which is relatively warm, but never, according to fishermen, do they re-
Diva Rose Pauly revealed today that she went through the performance of “Elektra” last night with botly ankles sprained. : : Five minutes after the curtain: went up, Miss Pauly, the New York soprano, slipped and fell while des scending a flight of steps on the stage. She was singing at the time and not a break in her song be trayed her pain. The audience b lieved the fall was part of the opera. > i Miss Pauly finished the hour and 40-minute performance, but omitted
main near the shore. her dance at the end.
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