The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-24

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thirty-five pounds from the dairy
The average cost of feeding SOL
diers at Fl. Benjamin Harrison is
% cents a day, It is estimated
that. exclusive of pay. the entire
care of soldier will not range over
IS or 20 cents day.
TT. Harrison is not a complete
dairy farm. poultry yard or gar
dening spot. The army must pur-
chase its fresh vegetables and the
greater part of its provisions.
In Indianapolis there is an init
tuition that feeds and houses at an
average cost of Ia cents per capita
daily.
Could Make Profit
The man in charge of this in
stitution told The Times that if
given Is cents a day he could feed
and house man at profit TO him.
self
The persons he feeds receive
salads and desserts. while salad and
dessert is practically unknown at the
state farm where petty offenders are
housed
Nor does he have a truck garden
TO raise his vegetables. dairy farm
TO get his milk and butter, a cattle
and hog lot to raise his table meat
For the year of Oct. /, 1882, TO
Oct. /, 1898 the state farm was given
an appropriation of $4,000 for
personal service to inmates.
"All other operating expenses for
the fiscal year, s130.O00." is the APP
preparation of the last general as
sembly TO the state farm.
Get Board and Room
In addition TO their pay, the
guards at the farm receive their
board and room. Subsistence is
furnished the farm superintendent,
assistant superintendent and chief
clerk They are furnished homes,
rent free
The farm brings money into the
states general fund through its
shirt factory and use of inmate
labor The factorys products are
sold on the market in competition
with the product of organized labor
Furniture and glass; factories at
the farm also produce articles in
competition with organized labor, it
is said
Surplus food at the farm is sold.
on the admission of the officials of
the farm.
Much of the material used in
state farm structures is turned out
on the farm. The farm has its own
saw-mill and backyard.
Shumaker Case Cited
That conditions not conducive to
good health are apparent at the
farm and that men have been
worked in occupations that they
should not have been placed at is
cited in the case of DR.. E. S. Shu-
maker. former Anti-Saloon League
executive
DR.. Shumaker was sent to the
state farm in the early part Of 1929
He was suffering from an internal
ailment at the time he was sem
fenced for contempt of the supreme
court of the state of Indiana.
DR.. Shumaker was forced to get
up at early hours of the morning to
do work at the FARMS dairy.
Friends of the militant dry league
- -
their opinion that Dr. Shumaker's
death was fastened by his incar-
ceration at the farm and the hard
labor he was Obliged 10 do.
fastened Death, They Claim
He never had worked hard at
manual labor. since boyhood. He
did work there he shouldn't have
done. We think it fastened his
death" asserted one who was close
TO the former dry organization ex-
ecutive.
Many stories are told by former
inmates of the time when "Chuck"
Virgins. "Hosier Playboy" pugilist.
was an inmate of the farm.
Farm officials say he was model
prisoner"
But on one occasion. III 1924.
Chuck" was found out of bounds
not on farm property
Former inmates charge that
Chuck had been given the right
10 leave the farm by extending ia
vors TO one of the guards.
But when they brought "Chuck"
back some way. somehow. he was
inhnlnd &c o., ..oSca No and he u,aS