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The Coolidge examiner. [volume] (Coolidge, Ariz.) 1930-current, 1932-01-29
THE ART OF GIVING THANKS

Giving thanks is an art which is perfected
by thoughtful meditation and practice. One
who feels no thankfulness in his heart is miss
ing part of the joy of living. The spirit of
giving thanks can be cultivated If you do not
feel like giving thanks you are carrying en-
PITY feeling in the region of your heart. ut when
you give thanks continually, you experience
Eight heartedneSs and joy that can not be
known any other way We enjoy the games
that we take part in because we are expressing
life living things express themselves by some
kind of motion activity. Those who have
fullest expression live the most THANKSGIVING is
one of the finer expression of living; it IS its own
reward. We do not need to give thanks be-
cause we think it will be helpful to some one else
Giving thanks inspires us; it opens us to greater
appreciation of the good things in life The
things that we appreciate in life are the only
things that mean anything to u.s. When some
one is kind to you, that kindness is exempifed
by your appreciation and your thankfulness.
Standing alone, the kind deed cannot mean
much to you but taken up by your thankful at
ttude it is enlarged and glorified. One who
learns truly to feel thankfulness in his heart
has all his blessings magnifed; he doubles his
consciousness of appreciation. Receiving some
thing without thankfulness is parallel to eating
something without having an appetite. Some
persons feel that the world owes them every
thing and that they have no reason to be
thankful. This is very unhappy attitude, for
it diminishes that persons joy and keeps from
him the finer experiences of life. Some of us
have grown used to accepting things as matter
of course, that we have forgotten how to give
thanks. A true spirit of thankfulness opens the
channels of property-School Editorial by
Edith Johnson, Junior Class-in Globe Record
A little girl who had been left to.watch the
soup was presently heard to sing out:
Oh, mother, come quick, the soup is get
ting bigger than the pot
Customer-"Three of those apples you sent
me were rotten. l am bringing them back
Storkeeper-"That's all right, madam.
You needn't bring the back. Your word is
just as good as the apples"
Mrs. Thompson Qearning to drive)-
Henry, that little mirror up there isn't set
right"
Thompson-"Isn't it?"
Mrs. Thompson-"No can't see ANYTHING
but the car behind"
The Washington times., 1932-06-01
Rural Women Will
Hear Leaders of Sex

Seven women of national prom
sinence will speak at the Tenth
Annual Rural Women's Short
Course to be held at the Univer.
Sity Of Maryland, College Park,
the week of June 13, authorities
Of the university's extension ser.
vice announced today.
They are DR.. Caroline Hedger,
Of the Elizabeth Mccormick Me.
mortal Foundation, Chicago; Mrs.
Evelyn Tobey, of Columbia Uni
versity; Miss Lucille Brewer, of
the General Foods Corporation
Miss Ethel Bowers, of the Ma.
tional Recreation Association,
New York; Miss Florence Hall, of
the U. s. Extension Service; Mrs.
Edna Bryte, of New York, and
Miss Mary Dahnke, of Chicago.
The Washington times., 1932-06-01
HACKER ROBBED
BY ARMED BOY

One of the youngest taxicab
bandits ever to operate here is
sought for the robbery of Virgil
E. Mcdaniel, of Clarendon, early
today.
Mcdaniel told police a colored
boy IS years old hired his cab at
First Street and North Carolina
Avenue Southeast and had asked
to be droven to Fourteenth and
I Streets Northwest.
In the alley between Four
teenth, Fifteenth, H and I Streets
he held Mcdaniel up at pistol
point and took $1760.
The boy was feet 6 inches
tall, weighing 1875 pounds, and
wore gray suit and hat.
The Washington times., 1932-06-01
MAYORS BEGIN
DRIVE To AID
JOBLESS

DETROIT, June ON.S0,
Mayors of many of Americas
greatest cities met here today for
q declaration against economic al
Fiction among their people.
Called together to form con-
certed demand for relief Of the
unemployed, a mayors or their
representatives heard Mavor
Frank Murphy, of Detroit, strike
the keynote. He said:
I'VE urge direct relief to our
unemployed, faced with starva-.
ton, eviction, and immeaSure-
able misery; we urge q national
plan to set our idle men to work
and thereby redistribute pur.
chasing power; and we propose
fiscal aid under proper condi-
tions from the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation"
Mayor James J. Walker, of
New York, was to speak on THE
Principles Underlying Federal Re,
lief"
Discussions of direct unemploy.
ment relief from the Federal Gov.
ernment as an emergency meas
ure were to follow. Speakers on
this phase were to be Mayors B.
w. Hoan. Milwaukee; Ray T,
Miller, Cleveland; w. j. Hosey,
Ft. Wayne, Ind, and R. B.
Gautier, Miami, Fla.
Relief for the taxpayers was to
be discussed, with Mayor James
M. Curley, Boston, leading and
supported by Mayors George
Begole, Denver; j. M. Jones, jr.,
Birmingham, and M. F. Moore,
youngstown, Ohio, participating.
On the $1,000, 100000 pros
perity loan, speakers were to be
Mayors George Welsh, Grand
Rapids; John T. O'Connor,
Knoxville, Tenn; S. F. Sniveley,
Duluth, and John Heron, Pitts
burgh, who represented Mayor
Kline.
The Washington times., 1932-06-01
Urge Sense of HunaOr
For Garfield Nurses

Nurses were advised to cult
Vate q sense of humor and to de-
Sist from talking shop by DR.. Ar.
thur c. Christi president of the
District Medical Society in an ad.
dress to % graduates of the Gar.
field Memorial Hospital School
for Nurses at commencement ex.
erciSes last MI t.
The graduates were presented
by DR.. Thomas E. Neill, repre-
Senting the medical staff of the
hospital, and the diplomas were
awarded by DR.. H. Z. Macatee,
chairman of the executive COM
1nittee Of the board of trust es.
The Washington times., 1932-06-01
DRAMATIC CLUB
GIVES DCLCY'

"Dulcy," a light comedy, was
presented by the Torch Dramatic
Club Of Holton Arms School last
night to an audience that crowded
Pierce Hall, Fifteenth and Har-
ward Streets Northwest.
All characters were portrayed by
girls Of the school.
The players included Eleanor
Tillinghast, Elizabeth Bunting,
Marguerite Hagner, Emily Davis,
Anne Lewis, Alma Louise Acher,
Miriam Thropp, Polly Foraker,
Florence Hardy, Eleanor O'Dono-
hue, and Frances White.
The Washington times., 1932-06-01

New purchase, 5000 pairs-in Isle, rayon
mixtures, silk and mercerized cotton.
Childrens half f-socks, misses v sport hose
anklets, ''whoopees" and boys fancy golf
hose. White, all colors and combin tions
All sizes. Street Floor.
The Washington times., 1932-06-01

Wrapped in cellophane. Collar-at-
tached shirts Of smooth, serviceable
broadcloth in white. tan, blue and
green. Sizes IA to 17.-Street Floor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-05
Mass Evidence of Starvation

The above examples are typical
Of a mass of evidence which the
Unemployed Councils are prepared
TO lay before Congress, if there are
still any Congressman who have
the effrontery to repeat the state
mentS of Hoover and Roosevelt
that present relief provisions cor
respond to the necessities and that
there is no serious threat of star
walton for the unemployed millions
and their families.
In the face of the appalling needs,
local systems of relief which we're
always entirely inadequate, now
have completely broken down. Lo-
cal relief has never reached more
than a small fraction of the IN
employed and this mainly in the
large centers of concentrated pop
ulation, and now even the miser-
able charity doles, instead of eX-
panding to meet the growing
needs, are being Systematically
slashed in city after city and in
many places discontinued alto
gether. For the past year in all
the leading industrial cities under
the pressure of the bankers of
Wall Street, even the meagre char
ity relief has been cut. 1t is only
through the militant struggles OF
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-05
Breakup of Homes; Army of Wandering
Youth

respectable MIR. Harry L. Hopkins,
Chairman of the New York State
emergency relief administration.
Declaring on october goth, that
one million and five hundred thou
sand persons in New York State,
or one in ten, we're receiving re-
lief, and that at least two million
persons, or one in six, should be
receiving relief, Mr.. Hopkins said:
The plain iact is that the crisis
is not being met And If it is not
being met in New York City and
New York State, what in the
name of heaven must the unem-
ployment situation be through
out the United States?"
The amounts paid in relief are
not enough even to furnish the
bare necessities of shelter, fuel, light
clothing and to say nothing of
medical aid which is no longer
even attempted by the welfare
agencies. The U. S. Children's
Bureau, in its special studies of
economy budgets declares that at
least $5.15 for food alone is the
minimum requirements for family
of three persons. Yet this is more
than twtcs the amount now given
by most agencies.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-05

The breaking up of the homes
as a result of these conditions has
created a vast army Of drifting I'M
attached men, women and chill
dren. Their number runs into the
millions. Even the U. S. ChildrenS
Bureau has officially admitted that
from 100000 to 100000 homeless
boys are roaming the country,
driven from place to place and not
even allowed the starvation char
ity given the local unemployed,
The past summer was marked by
the appearance of homeless women
sleeping in the parks No institu-
ton seems to know where they are
sleeping since the advent of cold
weather. The epidemic of suicides
to escape the suffering arising
from mass starvation has become
so great that it is no longer treated
as news in the daily press.
IF THE gentlemen Of Congress,
L secure in their own snug quart
ers and surrounded by the well-fed
comfort of their class, are still of
the opinion that the delegation of
the unemployed are exaggerating,
they should refer to the statement
of the eminently conservative and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-05

the Unemployed Councils, which
We represent in this petition, that
local relief was not completely dis
continued. Even those special mea-
sures for relieving the most evil
dent starvation of the children are
being abandoned. The Chicago
schools have discontinued the free
lunches for children of the mem-
ployed. The New York City schools
announced on october 10, that
they have abandoned the free milk
and bread centers maintained dur
ing last winter.
The measures previously taken
by Congress for unemployment re-
lief have had not the slightest re-
lation to the actual needs. With
over forty-eight million unemploy-
ed and their dependents, the fed
eral government has loaned to the
various states up to October 10
less than $44,00O,OO0, which is less
than dollar per person for those
in desperate and immediate need.
Even if the full $500, 100000 appro-
priated by Congress for loans to
the states is finally granted, this
will amount to about six dollars
each for those in need, or about
So cents per month over the pc
riod of year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-05

This apparent blindness to facts
that are general public knowledge
is in reality deliberate policy of
evading the problem of starvation.
1t is the same policy which at the
outset of the crisis denied the very
existence of mass unemployment
until on March g. 1880, more than
a million unemployed led by the
Unemployed Councils demonstrat-
ed throughout the country, thereby
smashing the hypocritical conspir-
scy of silence. The true condition
under which today at least AZ
100000 persons are without any
regular income have been eStab-
lished in detail fact by fact. A year
ago the National Hunger March
with its 1000 delegates presented
TO Congress a detailed statement
setting forth the then almost in
credible starvation conditions pre-
vailing in the country. Since then
city public hearings have been con-
Quoted by Unemployed Councils to
all of which government officials
have been invited where the star
vation conditions and resulting dis
ease and mortality have been ex-
posed in detail.
n the honorable gentlemen in
Congress, together with their
party leaders, refuse TO admit the
Validity Of the investigations of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-05
Growing Arm yof Permanently Unemployed

The head of the Democratic
Observation-Disclosures Roosevelt
made promises for unemployment
insurance and relief. The platform
Of the Democratic Party also makes
vague references in favor of UNI
employment insurance. Large
numbers of the hungry masses
brought down to starvation levels
by the charity relief, favoring I'M
employment insurance, voted for
the standard-bearers of the Demo-
cratic Party because they believed
them to be really in favor of I'M
employment insurance. The hun
CRY masses are demanding now
that the Congress, which is con-
trolled by the Democrats and the
the President-elect make good the
promises made during the election
campaign.
All the promises and talk about
the return of prosperity, about i'm
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-05
We Demand!

relief appropriation $50 for each
plus $40 for each dependent in
tioa to existing
federal unemployment in
providing for each unemployed worker the
industry locality the full period of
payment the adjusted
certificates (bOnus).
the impoverished farmers and legisls
collection
debts rents taxes.
5-Federal legislation prohibiting eviction unemployed work
er provision housing for the
through representatives
through their
atoms.
relief
diversion
appropriations Abolition articles of
mass etc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-05
Unemployed Councils Resist Mass Evictions

in mass resistance to evictionS.
Thus, in Chicago, where evictions
in 1881 were averaging 800 a day,
the mass struggles led by the I'm
employed Councils to resist eyic-
lions had reduced this number to
about 300 a month in February,
1882. But wherever the workers
have not learned to organize and
fight against evictions, they are in
ever larger numbers being thrown
out of their homes. The Home
Mortgage Loan passed by Congress
applies only to the homes of the
well-to-do, and does not in any
way prevent vast number of fore
closures upon the homes of un-
employed and part time workers.
Not the slightest legislative relief
has been granted anywhere to
preserve the homes of the mern-
ployed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-05
Negro Workers Chief Sufferers Victims of
Discrimination

third Of the families totally UNI
employed are without relief. In
many Southern cities Negroes and
their families are denied all pub
lie as well as private charity re-
lief. This is true of even such large
cities as Dallas, Texas, and New
Orleans, La.
A particularly vicious part is be-
ing played by the Red Cross In
the relief activities The Red Cross
has been placed in charge of the
distribution of flour provided by
a small appropriation by Congress
out of the enormous stores Of
wheat held by the Farm Board.
This distribution has been made
through irresponsible local COM
mittees composed in almost every
case of appointees of Chambers of
Commerce and employers associa-
fiopg
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-05
Statement is Call for Struggle
Against Hunger Offensive

be possible step by step to force
the greedy capitalists to give up
some of their enormous accumu-
lations Of wealth to feed the Starv-
ing population. Only in this way
will it be possible to force Con-
gress, composed of representatives
of the parties of bankers and en-
ployers, to enact into law our de-
mands. Only in this way will IL
be possible to lay the foundation
for the organizations Of workers
and farmers with sufficient mass
strength to begin the fundamental
solution of the problems raised by
the crisis, which requires the basic
change of the entire social system
and the destruction of the power Of
Wall Street monOpoIist capitalism,
which rules through the present
governmental institutions, to be
replaced by the power of a work
ers and farmers government.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-05

workers and farmers. Action from
Congress for the relief of the starry
ing masses can only be secured by
the power of mass organization
and mass action of the workers and
farmers. In every case where the
suffering toilers have failed to or
ganize and act for themselves, they
have been left to Starve in silence
by all the agencies of government,
local, state and national. Only
the building up of strong fighting
organizations, Unemployed Coun-
ellis, block and neighborhood COM
mittees, farmers committees of
action. city, county and state coun-
CHS, the rapid development of lead
erShip from the ranks of the toll
ers, and the formulation of de-
mands upon every governmental
institution and arousing of masses
in every locality 10 fight for these
demands-on in this way will it
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-05

For millions of workers families
these conditions have resulted in a
complete disruption of all POSSIBLE
ties of continued family life. IN
employed families on the threat Of
losing relief are compelled to sur
render their children to orphan
asylums and to public institutions.
In the wholesale destruction of the
family now going on, a most dis
ruptive part is played by eyictions
for non-payment of rent. Literally
millions of workers families have
been thrown out of their homes. In
New York City during eight
months $4,000 eviction orders were
issued. The mounting wave Of evic-
tons has grown everywhere except
in those places where the workers
have begun to organize in their
Unemployed Councils and engage
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-05
Conspiracy of Silence on Growing Hunger

Unemployed Councils, then We re-
fer them to the testimony of their
own most trusted publicists and
administrators Of relief. The fol-
lowing are only a few typical eX-
ampleS:
More than 20 per cent OF the
school children of New York City
are suffering from mamutrition
(polite name for staryation), ac-
cording to the report of the Health
Department New York Times, Oc-
tober %, 1892.
THE depression has so affected
Pennsylvania school children, that
more than one-quarter of them are
suffering from under nourish-
ment, according to Governor Pin
chot of Pennsylvania deter re-
leased to the press March Is, 1882.
Fourteen children died of star
walton in Denver. Colorado, in a
period of one month (see Catholic
Register, September %, 1892.
The conditions in working class
neighborhoods are not revealed by
the general averages, thus while
the Health Department reports 20
per cent of New York school chill
dren undernourished, one health
center, according to the report of
the National Organization for Pub
lie Health Nursing, the number Of
starving children has grown to
sixty out of every one hundred,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-05
Boss Schemes Criminally Futile

Great advertisement has been
given to the action of Congress
last July in providing $2,o00,oo0,-
900 for self-nquidating public
works through the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation. This has
proved to be only cruel joke on
the unemployed masses. Only a
small percentage of this fund has
been released, and even this has
been used not to provide employ
nlent even for few thousand, but
for the purposes Of election ma
neuvers. Not a single worker has
received a Job in connection with
the R.FC. public works loans. Ac-
tuAlly the amount spent in public
works of all kinds, city, county,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-05

The group which suffers the
most from unemployment and
which receives the least relief of
any kind, are the Negro workers.
For example in Baltimore, the
Negroes formed II per cent of the
population, but make up 35.1 per,
cent of the unemployed. In every
city the percentage of Negro I'M
employed Is four to six times as
high as the rate of the city as a
whole, yet the proportion of re-
lief given to Negroes and their
families is much less than given
10 white workers. In the Harlem
section of New York, a special sur
vcy disclosed that among those
families where all workers were
unemployed. of the Negroes ~ per
cent were receiving no relief what
ever, compared with the general
average in the city In which ope-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-05
Relief for Bankers; Charity Hunger 81

against radical workers.
The conditions of the entire
working class and the ruined farm
ers in this period of increasing mass
unemployment and the fourth
winter of the worst crisis in the
history Of the United States, with
no relief from the federal govern.
nlent except for the banks, railways
and industrial corporations res
ponsible for the crisis, are made
more intolerable by the brutal poll
teal offensive against the workers
organizations as their leaders. The
Negro masses suffer far more than
the whites in this respect.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-05

state and national, has decreased
by more than IS per cent since the
onset of the crisis.
Where work relief" is actually
being carried on by towns, cities,
or states, it has been already de-
veloped into the most degrading
form of FORCED LABOR. This
system Of virtual enslavenent of
the unemployed is more and more
being turned into a weapon for
the general reduction of the wages
of the employed workers and the
further impoyerishment of the en-
tire laboring mass. In most cases
even nominal wage is being en-
tirely abolished, and the relief is
given in the most humiliating
form, grocery baskets.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-05
The Unemployed Demands Upon Congress

The delegations of unemployed
and employed workers assembled
in Washington on December 5th
place before Congress the following
demands as the necessary imrne-
date steps to preserve the lives of
millions of men, women and chill
dren:
Immediate federal emery
ency relief appropriation of $50
for each unemployed worker,
man or woman, plus $40 for each
dependent, in addition to exist
ing local relief.
2.-Immediate enactment of a
system of federal unemployment
insurance by the government
through taxes upon wealth and
income, and direct levies upon
employers, providing for each
unemployed worker the average
wage Of his industry and locality
for the full period of unempIoy-
ment.
3.-Full and immediate pay
ment of the war veterans adj
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-05

proYement OF conditions, have
proven to be false. 1t is admitted
by some of the most conservative
economists that should there ever
be return of prosperity and all
present signs point to a worsening
of the economic conditions of the
country-a very small number of
the present sixteen million mem-
ployed will ever find way back
into industry. The perspective is
for permanent mass unemployment
on a huge scale. At present in al
dition to the sixteen million totally
unemployed, the largest number
rated as employed are working only
part time at greatly reduced wages
as a result of the sweeping wage
cuts. The percentage of part time
workers ranges from 2026 in mer-
camille establishments to 40 per
cent in the railroad industry to
80 per cent in mining, metal and
machinery.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-05
Unemployed Must Eat from Garbage Cans

vegetables and fruit. In Cleveland
the best garbage is to be found
outside fashionable club and here
the jobless workers congregate daily
to rescue the half eaten food cast
out by the rich. This is now
typical scene in the worlds rich
est capitalist country.
This is what relief amounts to
for untold numbers Of workers and
their families in the, United States
in this coming fourth winter of the
deepening crisis.