Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 August 1941 — Page 20

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HEALTH SERVIGE COST LOW HERE

Sharp Decline in Welfare Expenditures Caused by Gain in Jobs.

Expenditures for health and welfare services in Indianapolis totaled $12521883 in 1940 or a per capita cost of $27.17. the Indianapolis Council of Social Agencies announced today. The Council said this compared to a per capita average expenditure of $33.60 for 15 major U. S. cities in 1940. In its July-August News Bulletin, the Council pointed out that welfare needs in the city have been reduced by the national defense industrial boom, but that the need has not been “wiped out.” “Needs of the magnitude which we in welfare work have been describing to the public in past years do not disappear so quickly,” the Bulletin asserted. The Council said, however, that the most spectacular drop in relief expenditures in recent years was made from April to May in Marion County. In April, there were 4826 cases receiving $60222 in relief, while in May the totals were cut to 3334 cases requiring an expenditure of $38.452. The sharp decline was attributed to increased employment by Center Township Trustee Henry Mueller.

DEFENSE STREET APPEARS

MUSKEGON, Mich. (U.P). —The signs to be erected along the new streets for the city's 71-building Federal Homes Project will bear names significant of the times, according to Scott Ellstead, assistant contractor on the project. Three of the streets, Elistead says, will be named “Defense,” *“Bellum,” and “Convoy.”

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>-Year-Old Queen Crowned

Pint-size royalty shines at Wildwood, N. J., as Mayor George Krog- | man crowns June Burkhardt, 5. queen of the baby parade while King

| Bobby Familant, 3, looks on.

Watch Now for Meteors— 'The Tears of St. Lawrence’

CHICAGO. Aug. 12 (U. P.).— brating the Aug. 10 feast day of These are the days to watch for|their PRLS: Ste Suance, Tie shooting stars because the earth is bre ed although the dln: in that part of her orbit which first was officially observed 75 years crosses the most regular stream of ago when it was discovered in the meteors known to astronomers, |same orbit as Temple's Comet. Dr. Maude Bennot, director of the | Also called the Perseids from their Adler Planetarium, said the Aug. 10|0rigin in the constellation of Per|to 13 period is the most Series Be Cent in SY BE Are Tors os “st. | the nation from early evening to Lawrence.” [ae¥n on the northeast horizon. These meteors are believed to| Miss Bennot said the meteors are have been first observed by Irish|famous for their long enduring peasants in the 15th century cele-|trails of light and can be seen best

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SERVICE MOTHERS RAP LONGER DRAFT

Two representatives of the Indianapolis Chapter, Service Mothers of America, will join groups of {women from throughout the coun|try today in Washington, D. C., to |protest the extension of the train|ing period under the Selective Service Act. Those who will go from here are | Mrs. Ernest Millholland, president | of the local chapter, and Mrs. Frank | Seidénsticker, secretary.

GETS ARMY PAPERS BACK LEE, Mass. (U. P.)).—Three years {after August Diegel's army discharge papers were blown from his hand here, they were returned to him. The papers were found on the desk of a Hartford, Conn. busi- * nessman 40 miles away.

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FAVOR PENSIONS FOR ‘NEEDIEST

Poll Indicates Public Not insisting on Payments To All Old People.

(This is the second of two reports on the strength of old-age pension sentiment in the United

States.) By GEORGE GALLUP

Director, American Institute of Public Opinion

PRINCETON, N. J. Aug. 12-— One of the fundamental ideas of the Townsend Plan is that old-age pensions should be paid to all citizens past 60 who will agree to quit | work, if they have any, and not] merely to the “neediest” oid people. | Washington observers would not |

be surprised if some such pro{posal emerged jeventually from {Senator Downey's Senate committee investigating the pension issue. The

California Senator is known as

iwi PUBLIC’OPINION Dr. Townsend's

|principal spokesman in Congress. With Congress preparing to tussle with the old-age pension question again shortly, nation-wide studies {by the American Institute of Public Opinion indicate the average American still believes pensions should be limited to those demonstrably in greatest need. y Voters throughout the country set $42 a month as the minimum sum which should be aimed for in pension planning at present. And to the same voters the Institute put the question: “Should old age pensions be paid to all old people?”

Oppose Universal Pension

Twenty-two per cent of those replying thought they shouid—in other words, that Government pensions should be universal. But 70 per cent, or a substantial majority, said that pensions should be paid only when an individual's income fell below the standards set above (national median $42). The remainder were undecided. While the majority feel pensions should now be paid only to persons

in greatest need, an equally large majority say they would he willing to lay aside a substantial percentage of their inccome over the coming years to make pensions, in effect, universal. This, of course, is the longtime object of the Social Security Act, which calls for a rising scale of em-ployee-employer contributions until 1049, when the worker and his boss will each pe required to lay aside 3 cents of every dollar of the employee’'s wages under $3000 a year.

Willing to Save

How willingly the rank-and-file would make this 3 per cent contribution toward future pensions is indicated in the following question: “Would you be willing to pay 3 cents out of every dollar of your income until you are 60 in order to get a pension from your Government of $50 a month after you are 60?” The Institute put the question to men and women now under 60 years of age in all parts of the United States. Their answers were:

Would Be Willing Would Not Be Willing Undecided

Careful observers may be struck with the strength of the average man’s desire to assure himself some degree of old-age security, even to the point of adding higher *“pension rates” to his already growing tax bills.

STIVER TO APPEAR ON POLICE PROGRAM

Don F. Stiver, superintendent of the Indiana State Police, is to take an active part in the 48th International Police Conference which is to be held at Buffalo, N. Y,, for four days beginning Aug. 18. Mr. Stiver is general chairman of the state and provincial section of the International Association of Chiefs of Police. Police Chief Michael F. Morrissey also will attend. About 1200 law enforcement officers from all over the United States and from several foreign countries will attend the conference, of which a good part will be devoted to national defense and the job of police

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMESBakery's Horses In Choice Tidbits Picked Up Along Route

By JOE COLLIER

As owner of the largest “fieet” of horses now operdting in the delivery business in Indianapolis, Walter Freihofer is in a position to know that piecing between meals does nothing to spoil a horse's appetite. ‘ Nearly every one of the 30 horses that pull his baking company’s sales wagons has made friends on its route, and a many of the friends jnsist on feeding the horse daily. They feed them apples, lumps of sugar, carrots and occasionally a fresh, powdered doughnut, and the horses gratefully accept all tidbits. Mr. Freihofer says a horse has practically no ground ‘rules about what it will eat, so long as it's sweet. There are smart horses and dumb horses, he says. Some horses will learn a route in a month or two, make friends with most of the customers, and generally constitute themselves ambassadors of good will for the company. If some one unfamiliar with the route should attempt to turn them | at an unfamiliar corner, they would’

Find Friendship Pays

Mr. Freihofer himself at-who is so popular with everyone on the route, and so much an institution from neighborhood to neighborhood, that not only is she called the familiar Minnie by one and all, but the driver also is called Minnie. The driver is even called Minnie around the plant, except by Mr. Freihofer, who sticks to the more formal Art, a nickname for the] driver's given name, Arthur.

object. tempted to drive a route unfamiliar to him several years ago. He was navigating by printed instructions

and a city map. The horse, in the early morning darkness, put up some pretty stubborn objections but Mr. Freihofer overruled him. Later, Mr. Freihofer discovered the horse had been right and he had been wrong. Mr. Freihofer won't say yes and won't say no about whether a smart horse has solved the traffic lights, and will stop for red and go for green. He has had friends of his tell him that his horses do that and some of his drivers insist they do. (A driver generally is a close friend of his horse and may make ‘ extravagant claims.) . He does know, however that certain horses learn signals from their drivers and operate on a more Or less complicated set of * whistles. Mr. Freihofer figures that, so far as public relations and the voluntary parts of the business outside | of just pure locomotion are concerned, you have to count a horse a half a man.

Mr. Freihofer that a certain horse was a pickpocket and something | ought to be done about it The

inordinate appetite for chewing tobacco and that every time the hostler left a fringe of his chewing tobacco sack stick out of his pocket, the horse would rob him. On each wagon when it starts out in the morning is a two-gallon pail and a bag of oats. The oats are fed at noon and whenever the horse needs a drink the driver gets it for him. At such times, the driver stops at a gas station and fills the pail. “The gas stations are nice to our horses about giving them water,”

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Moreover, there was a time when |day.

one of the hostlers complained to relief labor could [City itself directs [the rails and sells them as scrap.

hostler claimed this horse had‘®an ways, Inc,

There is one horse named Minnie | Mr. Freihofer said.

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TUESDAY, AUG. 12, 1941

SEEK WPA LABOR T0 REMOVE RAILS

An arrangement whereby WPA pA labor could be used to remove abane doned street car rails to reduce the cost of street improvements was

being studied by City and WPA offi cials today. The WPA in the past has refused to permit Federal work on any right-of-way held by private frane WPA and City officials toe however, believed that work be used if the the removal of

In the past, Indianapolis Rail= has removed the rails at the rate of two miles a year under its franchise, but recently the company has exceeded its quota of rail removal. It is now up to the City to pull the rails if officials want to speed the abandoned railelimination program. Railways officials said that if the City decides to remove abandoned trackage at its own expense, it can keep the metal and sell it for scraps, |, which now commands a high market price. The money received from the sale of scrap would be applied to the cost of the street ime provement, according to the plan,

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