The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-24
$4,000 OF ONE
CITY TOWNSHIP
FED BY CHARITY
mats Total Since Jan. |;
1000 Baskets Given in
Day by Trustee.
BY CARLOS LANE


The report that every resident Of
small Indiana city, for example
the size of Martinsville, wes almost
starved and unable TO get food
doubtless would be front page new;
throughout the country.
Yet how many Indianapolis 'citi-
zens know that only about week
ago, in Center township alone
there were almost 5000 persons who
had it not been for relief meas
ures available to the trustee, would
have gone without food?
Or how many are aware that in
this same township since Jan.
more than $4,000 men, women ano
children, because of unemployment
and unable to support themselves
have been fed by the township truS-
tee?
1000 Baskets in Day
On one day, only short time
ego, clerks in the Offices of Miss
Hannah Noone, the trustee, signed
orders for baskets of groceries for
impoverished families, until, when
the doors were closed at dusk, 1000
baskets had been given out.
1t almost physically was impos-
sible for the Office staff to make out
these orders.
In these baskets, there were only
staple foods, -four, potatoes, meal,
sugar, oleomargerine, breakfast
foods, salt and pepper, onions, cab
bags, tomatoes, macaroni, sauer-
kraut, vinegar, apple butter, and a
quantity of soap. Each basket must
serve one family a week.
Cost of the baskets, and the
amount of food in each, vary in
proportion to the number of per-
sons in the family Where there
are babies, or sick persons, milk IS
added to the supply.
$91,525 for Coal
In the same time SOL ,525.40 has
been spent for coal; $15,367.4O for
milk; $3,O51 for burials, and $2oO tor
transportation to the poor farm.
There has been some criticism
about giving milk, but where there
are babies who need milk, the milk
will be sent, and let those crltclse
who WILL" said Miss Noone.
Total expenditures by Miss Noone
since she took Office Jan. l, lnclud-
ing pay of investigators and other
items, total $637 ,234.3l.
Smallest Cost $2.22
The smallest baskets, made up for
two persons, cost the township $2.22
each; the medium baskets, $3.50,
and the largest, 1895.
The 5000 persons whose hunger
drove them to ask for charity in one
day recently, represent only small
portion of the total number OF
needy persons now being fed by the
township.
More than 5000 families each
week receive orders for baskets
similar to those given the 1,OOl on
that day. That represents almost
10000 persons in one township OF
Marion county at present unable to
obtain even food for themselves.
And the winter just has begun.
Since Jan. /, records in Miss
Noone's office show, $3.50, 1908 has
been spent for groceries to feed the
DOOR The prices of foods depend
on bi-weekly quotations from COM
mission merchants here.
Twenty Eight Investigators
There are at present twenty-eight
MISUNDERSTANDING the office
workers-on the pay roll, each
drawing 500 monthly.
The proportion of funds spent
for administration of the relief can
be illustrated by pay roll of $4,000
in October-there were only TWEEN
ty-three Investigators then-as an
item in a total expenditure OF
$57, 97O65.
The trustee pays no rent. That
expense is care for, in cases OF de-
serving families unable to provide
their own shelter, by the Family
Welfare Society, an agency operat-
ing under the Community Fund.
ITO Be COntinued.)