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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15

A'G LII UIlC IGllCl QOlldI Ill WV
- with one coin labeled WPA or
Work Relief and the other Di-
rect Relief or Grocery Dollar and
the ratio of expenditures from
Aug. l, 1935-the beginning of
WPA-through Jan. 81, 1885, is as
follows:
Work Relief Dollar-Wages,
$0.S3; materials, $0.125; admin
istration costs, $0045.
Direct Relief Dollar-Family re-
lief, $0.72; state work relief, $008;
county relief administration, $685.
state relief administration, 5000;
materials, 1904; Federal transient
program, 1904; emergency educa-
ton, 5000
Payment by WPA of $15,446, 498
in wages from Aug. l, 1885, to
Feb. /, 1886, resulted in an aver
age wage over the entire period
of S44 for each worker. The wage
scale in the II WPA districts of
the state is $40 to $55 for I'M
skilled workers and $55 to S85 for
skilled workmen with technicians
receiving between SCI to $94
monthly.
The states wage average in
creased to S48 a month in Deem
Der as WPA projects bore the
brunt of the relief load and as
direct relief rolls dwindled under
the switching of workers from
direct relief rolls to WPA.
THE average wage of February
L. is estimated at $50 monthly
for the entire state with Marion
County's average being SIS.
Non-relief workers in Indiana,
persons in need of employment,
but not taken from relief rolls,
received $73 for the month of De-
cember. WPA employs $500 of
these needy non-relief workers in
Indiana.
A per cent increase in the case
load of WPA in January brought
an approximately 2 per cent de-
crease in the state direct relief
load with two out of every three
persons dependent on Federal or
state relief forced to look to a
WPA government warrant to fill
the food cupboards. The third
person dependent on relief re-
ceived grocery orders paid by tax
payers in the townships.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15
BY ARCH STEINEL

Her face creased in smiles as she handed the
government warrant to the department store clerk to
be cashed
Can you give the money this? It's for S2750-
and I'll take that pair of 59cen hose. Yesthe beige
ones she exclaimed she interspersed gumchewlng be-
tween words.
In one hand 2-cent stamp fingered as the other
hand passed the warrant to the stores clerk
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15

result that Mr.. A, who was on the
relief rolls in January, 1885, and
received an average OF $26.21, to-
day receives an average of $4054
monthly. Direct relief and work.
relief are totaled to arrive at the
average spent monthly on each
relief case.
One difference in direct and
work-relief under WPA is signifi-
cant and that is that except for
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15

pOIILICaI e8peIIbIICt anu UIIIy
eleven months to acquire it. AS
a matter of fact, in actual sitting
it will be a good deal less. But
the newcomer from Louisiana
may manage to make some sort
of mark for herself even in so
snort a time. She is decidedly
personable, and in her brief few
moments at her first session she
seemed decidedly self-possessed.
AS far as legislative activity
goes, Senator Hattie CaraWay is
of little use as a pacemaker. The
lady from Arkansas is one of the
most silent Senators who ever tip
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15

much OF mess generally and regarded Carol as
merely the worst of good lot
Queen Marie had merely put herself in wrong
with the old gent, who was the acknowledged head of
the surviving European royalty, when she sold tes-
umonlal for advertising purposes but here the King
used curious reasoning, for he himself had done the
same thing on amateur basis thousand times
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15
Ohio G. O. P. Heads
Confused by Borah
RY RAYMOND CLAPPER

CLEVELAND, Feb 15.-As mother of Presidents,
~ Ohio used to be pretty good. She produced
them one after another. Indeed in 1920, she Of
fered to turn them cut in pairs. But that seems
to have overtaxed her strength, for after offering
the nation a choice between Senator Harding ana
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15
Smith Ansuer

INSIDE word is that President
Il Roosevelt is planning a per-
sonal answer to AL Smith. In
cidentally, the Liberty League
warrior has only begun his fusll-
lading. He expects to make three
or four more attacks on the Ad-
ministration before the nomlnat-
ing conventions, the first being IN
Boston. Within three hours
after Rep. Virginia Jenckes OF
Indiana had launched petition
for the establishment of a cafe
terra to be operated by private
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15
Haywood BR0UN

EEMINISTS owe something to Huey Long But
for him there would not be two women in the
Senate today OF course the present abundance could
hardly be construed part of Huey's plan He
campaigned for Hattie Caraway to be sure but there
is evidence that he thought of grooming
Mrs. Long as his own successor. She remained at
home when he was in Washington and seldom heard
him speak.
Mrs Long comes to the Senate with very little
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15

A perusal of the above shows
November, 1888, with 346,745 per-
sons dependent On relief while
January, 1884, had 214,847 persons.
The Civil Works Administration
took workers from relief rolls
during that period and reduced
direct relief as WPA is doing
today, and although CWA did not
take exclusively relief workers it.
is believed that the relief of
January, 1884, would have been
nearly as high as January, 1885,
if CWA had not aided unemploy-
ment in Indiana.
DECEMBER, 1884, and Jan
~ uary and February of 1885
are the highest relief months on
record, and this is due more TO
ample care of the INDECENT through
the use of FERA money for work
relief just as that is being done
today by WPA.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15


made Just one brief speech, and she takes part
whatsoever in any debates. 1t is just unthinkable
to picture Hattie Caraway rising her desk and de-
manding, viii the gentleman yield?" The very
form of the question would seem a little shocking
to Senator CaraWay
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15

Citizens of Rockport, Ind, are
shown (above) enacting roles of
the days of Abraham Lincoln at
the Lincoln Village in Spencer
County. The village was one of
the cOunty's WPA projects.
SEEMING for fish in Bass Lake,
in northern Indiana, and giving
those fish to the INDECENT on re-
lief rolls is another state project
of WPA as shown in the photo at
the right.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15
SALVAGING 475,000 HOLSTERS
SO Gents of Emergency Dollar Goes for Wages of Needy

administration of relief
broad
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15
Vandenberq

CENATOR VANDENBERG pro-
~ tests against being called
presidential aspirant," says the
phrase can not accurately be ap-
piled to him. . At recent
press conference Mrs. Roosevelt
apologized for having no new
dresses, told newswomen she
thought they must be tired de-
scribing the old ones. The
late Charley Curtis, a stanch
Republican all his life, never pub
licly criticised President Roosevelt.
Neither Henry Wallace nor
Chester Davis leans heavily upon
a ghost" Both were formerly
newspaper editors, and prefer to
express their own idas. Prev
Savoy, legal light of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, got his law
degree (Docteur en- Droit) at the
University Of Paris.
Copyright. 1886. by United Feature
Syndicate, Incl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15
Safe Margin

DRESIDENT ROOSEVELT has
l. been informed by Democratic
leaders Of the Senate that secret
poll of the chamber on the Fra
zier-Lemke greenback farm mort
gage refinancing bill showed an
eight-vote margin against the
measure. Notwithstanding this
reassuring check, Administrations
ties are most uneasy over the in
f1ationary proposal. Vice
President Jack Garner put on the
dog" in big way for his recent
party for the President. Despite
the severe cold, the usually shay
gy-haired Texan got a close
trimmed haircut. Discover
ing Minnesota's youthful Farmer
Laborite Paul Kvale swapping
candid-camera pictures in the
House. several members COM
planned heatedly to Speaker Joe
ByrnS. Byrns called Kvale on the
carpet, warned him not to repeat
his prank on pain of an official
reprifnand.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15

The woman was the wife
of one of the $4,000 work
ers in Indiana under the
Works Progress Admins
tration.
The government check was one
half of months pay-S55 in
Marion County-received by her
husband for gainful work on one
of the projects under state WPA.
The projects range from roads,
buildings, park and water systems
to sewing rooms.
The 59-cent hose represented
the proportion of WPA actual re-
lief to the entire relief dollar in
Indiana.
The gum she chewed and the
four sticks left in her handbag,
coupled with the 2-cent stamp,
and her 14-cent carfare from her
home to the store and then back
home represents 81 cents or the
portion represented by direct re-
lief-or grocery orders-to the
states relief dollar.
Indiana's work and direct relief
for the period from Aug. !, 1885.
when WPA began boosting pay
envelopes-to Feb. l this year is
$26,000,000, according to conserva-
tive estimates of WPA statisti-
clans.
VXTPA relief, with all factors
w including administration
costs totalled was $0.725 of the re-
lief dollar while all direct relief
costs averaged $0275 of the entire
relief expenditures in Indiana.
Work relief went into $4,000 In
diana homes with 3433 additional
homes receiving aid through the
National Youth Administration
for a total expenditure of $18,-
100000. But since August, 1885,
direct relief-grocery orders have
been given $4,000 families at a
cost of 100000 in the siX-month
period ending Feb. l. Direct re-
lief families and WPA workers
are based on the monthly close of
relief books Jan. 81.
The states relief dollar broken
down to show the ratio of the So
cent hosiery purchased by work
relief wages to other costs of both
work and direct relief follows:
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15

J. p. Morgan
TT is just one Senate investiga-
u ton after another for j. P.
Morgan & Co. With the conclusion
of the Senate Munitions Com
mittees probe, the Senate Rail-
way Financing Committee began
to delve into the Morgan books.
Public hearings by this commit
tee are not expected to open until
next fall. e. Note on the Senate
press gallery bulletin board: "The
attached speech to be delivered
by Senator Key Pittman on the
floor of the Senate on Saturday,
or on Friday, if the Senate is not
in session Saturday" The Senate
did not meet either on Friday or
Saturday and the Senator had to
wait until Monday. Ronald
Ransom of Georgia, recently
named a member of the new Fed
eral Reserve Board, was chairman
of the NRA banking code COM
mittee.
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initiative" in the new House Of
flee Building, she had 90 sigma
lures. Mrs. Jenckes expected it
would take her a week to get
that number; but irate members,
angered at the high prices, poor
food and worse service of the
House restaurant, f1ocked to sign
her petition. Harry Hopkins
has joined the economy drive.
He has Topped off $4,000 a month
from his rent bill by giving up
large batch of separate Offices
used by the WPA press section.
=. Biggest raid ever made by the
Securities and Exchange Commits
sion took place quietly the other
day in Dallas. Field agents of
the SEC arrested AZ persons,
whom they charged with frauds
in oil and hotel stocks. The
agents did their work SO quietly
that it was several days before
the Washington press Office of
the SEC knew anything about it.
St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1936-02-14
PROCEEDINGS
OF THE
Colonial Council
FOR ST. CRoIx

Continued fromTrbune Feb. 18th
No one desiring the word further 1st
discussion closed.
Ist Appointed Member Lewis moved
that End discussion come on today.
The vote was taken OH the motion
with the result that IL members voted
for none against.
The necessary plumber of votes hav-
ing been obtained and with tho Govern
ment's consent End discussion sopened.
. No one requesting the word End dis
Gus sien closed, the Secretary read the
Additional Money Bill and the vote was
St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1936-02-14

Now that our public institutions are run
ning out ofsupplies deliquenttaxpay ers can.
help little by paying their overdue taxes
From reports submitted to the Municipal
Committee there is delinquency amounting
to few thousand dollars. The collection
of these amounts will help the Institutions
to carry on until Washington sends the
needed money.
St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1936-02-14

taken on it,
Il was unanimously adopted
The Chairman The Additions Money
bill Is passed.
Item 7.
Colonial Council Bill No. 18
Discussion on resolution provid-
ing for COMMISSION of seven men
draft an TO orelnar ceproviding for
the estab ishmsnI Of modern
Fire Department etc, introduced
by 9th Appointed Member (P.
Joseph
Colonial Council Bill No, Is
Eleventh CouncI-Firs; Session
1885 1896
RESOLUTION
Be it resolved by the Colonial Council for
the Municipality of ST. Croix in session
assembled;
That committee of (0 men 10 include
members Of the Colonlal Council and 9th
ar citizens, be appointed to draft an ordl-
nance pre- vding for the esta blishment of
a modern FireDepartme at, with branch
St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1936-02-14

PlaSkett were married yesterday alter
noon.
Governor Cramer and Governor Win
ship of Puerto Rico are expected here to-
day.
After seeing the island the two governors
will be entertained by Mr. Boy d Brown,
President of the Virgin Islands Company
at his palatial residence at Est. Golden
Grove.
On Sunday the Governor will leave for
Washington where he will meet Committees
Of Congress. They have to talk about the
Federal contribution for next year but
more especially the Governor must impress
upon them the immediate need of over
100000. This shortage of funds can be
readily explained and when explained it
will be seen that lack of foresight is the
cause.
sxThe hospitals have food supplies to last
only until the end of March and then =
starvation, except somebody iknows where
to dig up more money. Their gasolene sup
ply is almost exhausted.
Governor Cramer cannot be calm over
. scandalous situation as this He must
rap vigorously at the doors of Congress, he
will have the Virgin Islands people
behind him.
The SIS. Catherine" will arrive at Freder
iksted on Saturday afternoon and at Chris
tiansted on Sunday morning, sailing at
p M Sunday afternoon
St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1936-02-14
Christiansted Theatre
8.45 Sunav Nigh 8,45
Zone More Spl ing

GAYNURin
knows oman
Of
GRANT MITCHELLa mighty humbed of
WALTER KING wandering his
JANE DARWELL-a with hearts
throbs for al
iterg
SPRING
a Usual
St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1936-02-14
Friday February 14th 1896
!! !, Random Notes

Mr.. Antonio Gonzalez and Miss Sonyi
Plaskett were married yesterday after
noon.
Evening star., 1936-05-08

White shoes add that final note of frosty GOODNESS to your
Summer day Clothes And white shoes made by Red Cross
cool as they look-because they're made of fine,
light feathers with lightweight soles and plenty of cool
perforaon We insure perfect fit by using the Horoscope
Sizes 312 to 9, AAAA to C..
FoorT Heht
Evening star., 1936-02-13
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TULSA, Okla, February i3.-Fasti-
dious Tulsa diners have developed q
taste for roast crow-and 1t may mean
the end for the black robber OF the
corn rows.
Because-believes DR.. T. w. STALL
ings. a crow-hater-as table delicacy
the field pest will rise to the dignity
Of a game bird. AS game bird un-
protected he will become extinct.
And Tulsa suddenly is enthusiastic
over crow meat. Hospitals and schools
are experimenting in crow cookery,
housewives have proclaimed the bird
choice morsel and there Is market
price on his head.
Butchers have small boys out scour-
ing the fields for crows at $50 q
dozen.
The whole idea belongs to DR.
Stallings. former county health su'
perintendent.
For years he watched the farmers
losing war against the crop-spoilint
crows. Finally he decided the besI
way out was to eat the birds.
He experimental first on newspaper
men. Served them q banquet, heart
Evening star., 1936-02-13
TAX SLAVERY HIT
BY FARM WOMAN
Mrs. Simmons Charges Un"
dermining of Constitu-
tionaI Rights.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, February ia Mis-
souri, farm woman told the National
Republican Club last night that Abra-
ham Lincoln abolished one form OF
slavery, but slavery can never end
while there are left in high places
those who would willingly undermine
our constitutional rights
Mrs. George B. Simmons, farmers
wife and magazine writer of Marshall,
Mo. spoke at the annual Lincoln day
dinner-the first woman ever to appear
on the speakers platform Of the club
in its 5o-year history.
Slavery did not end with the
emancipation proclamation" Mrs. Sim
mons declared. only one form Of 1t,
In one nation, was affected by that.
Slavery can never end as long as
there are political pork barrels slop-
ping over with the gravy Of graft; as
long as there are governmental
squandering and waste that pile up
debts and make us nothing better than
tax slaves, who can hope for little
more than to be dogged and driven to
final destitution.
Farmers Political Foot Ball.
Slavery can never end for us farm
ers as long as we are foot balls with
which to play the crooked political
games of expediency and exploitation; /;
as long as the President of our Nation
can decry the right Of the farmer to
be a lord Of his own farm and man
age his own work as he himself must
know best.
Slavery can never end as long as
citizens supposed to be free are
bounded and investigated and dis
credited and coerced by a bunch OF
meddlesome MATTE appointees for
whom we never had a chance tc
vote, and Of whom most Of us never
even heard before the 1882 platform
of the Democratic party was used fol
communistic kindling wood, and thess
were invited in to warm their ava.
riciouS hands.
Slavery can never end while there
are left in high places in our lanc
those who would willingly undermine
our constitutional rights and, by de-
SC1l4uI PIOPdedAlin' AA4NAA AAOA4A 10 Ooi
heritage of freedom"
Mrs. Simmons declared farmer:
'need only lower taxes and lower
interest rates from private lenders
and to be let alone. unhindered, K
run our farms as We know best
killing Taxes" Scored.
She referred TO the A. A. A. process.
ing taxes as killing taxes" upon tht
food and clothing of the poor ane
spoke of new efforts to finance The
farm program as likely to increase
taxes Ito pay our own tickets o.
admission into further bondage"
II wonder" she asked, when ev.
erybody and every group must look
to the Government for pensions anc
subsidies, what will become Of us alp
Speaking of Lincoln as the savior
of the Union, Mrs. Simmons said
she had faith some man or woman
will be called to save our Nation in
the four years that lie ahead"
She warned of the "so-called liberal
Republican" who has some plan for
us farmers that offers to outdeal the
raw deal from which our great Su-
preme Court has tried so valiantly
to release U.s." She said her observa-
ton was that most liberals are lib
eral only with the taxpayers money
and his personal liberties"
Evening star., 1936-02-13
Diners Var on Robber Bird;
Tulsa Eats Cr0,v and Likes 1t

them say they liked it, then told
them they had dined on crow. He
followed with another trial dinner
then sent his idea up against its SUI
preme test.
Housewives, a doH.estic science
teacher, q oean of hospital nurses and
Mayor T. A. Penney's wife ate crow.
They were enthusiastic.
Miss Maude Firth, the domestic
science teacher, will open . class In
crow cooking.
There is no reason why crow
shouldn't be good food" said DR..
Stallings. II have investigated the
birds feeding habits and found 1t
cleaner than-you wouldn't believe II
chickens"
Evening star., 1936-02-13
CHURCH BANQUET

Mount Pleasant Congregational
Church will continue celebration Of
its iftieth anniversary at q banquet
tonight at Fishburn Hall, beginning at
$50.
The speakers will include three for
Sner ministers: DR.. Frank j. Good
win, DR.. Walter A. Morgan, Chicago,
and Rev. Moses r. Lowell, Holyoke,
Mass. The principal address will be
delivered by DR.. Rockwell Harmon
Potter, moderator Of the Congrega-
tional Council.
Evening star., 1936-02-13
Yale Club to Honor Coach.

Raymond Pond, head foot ball
coach at Yale University, will be
honor guest and speaker at a buffet
supper given by the Yale Club OF
washington at z pm. tomorrow at the
Racquet Club. The talk viii be &C
companied by motion pictures show
ing the high lights Of the last foot
ball season.
Evening star., 1936-02-13
Miss Rankin to Speak.

Miss jeanette Rankin will speak on
Neutrality Legislation" at the regular
meeting Of the Women's Alliance OF
All Souls Unitarian Church at II an
tomorrow in Pierce Hall. Sixteenth
and Harvard streets. Luncheon will
follow the meeting, with Mrs. Ottanar
Hamele acting as hostess.
Evening star., 1936-02-13
Bay Staters to Dance.

The Massachusetts, Society of WASH
angton will hold formal Valentine and
leap year dance at the Wardman Park
Hotel this evening. A program Of music
will be furnished by the Georgetown
University Glee Club.
Evening star., 1936-02-13
GREEK ENVOY SPEAKER
sicilianos and Senator King on
Order of Ahepa Program.


The Greek Minister, Demetrios Sicih-
amos, and Senator King Of Utah will
be among the speakers at the annual
banquet of the National Order Of
Ahepa, fraternal organization COM
posed Of Americans of Hellenic de-
cent, in the Mayf1ower Hotel Febru-
ary "a.
Representatives of chapters in every
State are expected to attend and
many Government officials have been
invited. George c. Vournal is gen.
eral chairman of the Arrangements
Committee, with Emanuel Cambouri
vice chairman in charge of the ban
quet; Thomas Skiados, vice chair
man in charge of the ball and Peter
Dracopoulos in charge of entertain
ment.
Evening star., 1936-02-13

Garrison Willard. contributing editor
Of the Nation, declared last night.
Addressing the Wonen's Interna-
tional League for Peace and Free
Evening star., 1936-02-13

dom, Willard predicted q breakdown
Of the American Republic by creation
Of q great standing Army and Navy.
He attacked tremendous Army and
Evening star., 1936-02-13

Navy lobby" which, he charged, is
tiled up with every reactionary force
in the country and all the super
patriotic ancestral societies"
Evening star., 1936-02-13
U. S. ARMS "P0LICY" HIT
Willard Says Nation Il Now a
Menace to other Countries.

America has seized" the right to
say that only one other nation shall
have as large navy as her own.
and has become q military and naval
menace to other countries" Oswald