The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-22
Is MILLIONS
NEED RELIEF
THIS WINTER
Enormous Number Must Be
Given Help to Keep Them
From Starvation.
DISPUTE HOOVER CLAIMS
Magazine, Fortune, ASSaiIS
Past Aid Programs as
'WaStefuI.'

By Scripps-HOlcard Newspaper Alliance
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22-This
winters unemployment relief prob
lem means caring for $4,000, 900
persons.
With government funds, private
funds, or local public funds, this is
the enormous number that must be
fed this winter in this country.
These statements are made today
by the magazine, Fortune, on the
basis Of a nationwide survey Of
unemployment relief.
mo one has starved" says the
title of the Fortune articles, and
its sub-neads read, which is not
true"
The magazines estimate tallies
we'll with that of some of the eX-
pert welfare and relief workers,
and with estimates, of unemployed
prepared by the American Fedora
ton of Labor.
Massing of the relief problem in
one stupendous figure comes just as
President Hoover's newest business
conference is about to meet at the
White House, and while national
leaders, under the direction of New
ton d. Baker are making prepara-
ton for this falls country-w well
fare and relief mobilization.
Assails Relief Program
The magazine describes relief pro-
grams Of the last three years as
"wasteful and uneconomic," which
is in direct contrast with the state
ments President Hoover made in his
acceptance speech.
Fortune figures out the federal al
lowance of $4,000 900 for loans to
states for unemployment relief
works out to only $12 apiece for
those who must be supported by
public or private charity through
the winter.
There can be no serious question
of their failure" the magazine says
of relief programs of the past.
The theory was that private
charitable organizations and semi
public welfare groups were capable
Of caring for the casuals of world
disaster.
"The result is a picture now pre-
sented in city after city and state
after neutrality-suspicious. groups
of official and unofficial relief agen-
cies, struggling under the earnest
and unframed leadership of local
men of affairs against an inertia of
misery suffering and want they are
unable to overcome.
Fail to Face Facts
'The problem never was honest
ly attacked as a national problem
the facts were never frankly faced
as facts"
In contemplating future solution
of the unemployment relief prob
lem, Fortune" points to the present
WagnerGarner relief act as
neither an adequate nor an i'm
pressive piece of legislation" But it
does assert that the new relief acts
marks turning in American his
tory, and the beginning of a new
chapter in American unemployment
relief" for it constitutes an open
and legible acknowledgment OF
governmental responsibility for the
welfare of victims of industrial un-
employment
Nothing the federal government
has done, or is likely to do in the
near future, constitutes a policy of
constructive action, Fortune says
100000 to Be Jobless
Such a policy" it add, must
involve an industrial solution-a re-
statement of industrialism which
will treat chronological displace-
ment not as an illness to be cured
but as a goal to be achieved-and
achieved with the widest dispersal
ton of benefits and the least Incl
dental misery.
Turning to the immediate Situa-
ton, the article declares that it is
impossible to think or act in units
OF 25,000000 humans.
Like the casualty lists of the
British war office during the bat
tie of the Somme, they mean moth
ing.
"A handful of men and women
and children digging for the rotten
food in the st. Louis garbage dumps
are more numerous, humanity
speaking.
The magazine says the number of
unemployed in this country this
winter will be 100000, at the pres
ent rate of increase. With their de-
pendentS, this will mean 27,500, 900
whose incomes will have stopped.
Some of these 27,500,000 still have
savings and other resources, but at
least $4,000 900 will require charity
or other relief.