The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-18

to make my room rent. | 'ba
of groceries and three loaves
of bread a week. That isn't
living" and he shook his
head.
His story:
He was pipe-organ salesman
during boom years. got $4,000
a year sold hundreds of pipe
organs market slumped
churches and movies quit buying
pipe organs =. lost job dia-
betes caught him i. settled in his
feet industry passed him by
work relief passes him by
a political job turned him
down because he was the wrong
kind of Democrat the gro
Gerry relief line does not pass him
by ambition went with the
first grocery order.
Touching shoulders with the ex-
pipe organ salesman in another
grocery order line was L. G. He
is a direct relief novice. Three
weeks ago he began his first
hitch"
He heard of the money mama
of work-relief. He hopes the re-
strictions may be lifted to in
clude him, although the Works
Progress Administration does not
take men who went on the relief
rolls after November, 1885.
Money ran out. l couldn't
borrow any more from my rela-
tives and friends. My wife and I
and the baby had to go on relief.
We put our pride in our pocket.
Is the relief enough? It's got to
be-"
a laconic comment, "T. B." was
IN the reason given by his lean
neighbour for servitude of three
years on township relief-and
the next man to him in the
line was high school janitor, So
years old, and a Republican. He
was sore-Roosevelt pains. A
school board change wheedled his
job away. That was five years
ago and then six months ago odd
jobs and funds went to "pot" and
he became a direct relief client.
Daily, men and women flood the
township trustees office. Some
don't know why they can't have
work-relief jobs. They do not
know that depression psychosis
instability is carried on their case
records by social workers along
with illness.
A few complain because John
Doe got work-relief job and
they did not. Many are dulled,
ambitionless, and without a life
chart-line except a few green and
pink slips granting them grocery
relief weekly, several workers say.
Expenditure of WPA work-relief
money caused a rush to direct
relief lines to obtain certification
for work relief. They wanted
work. They didn't get it. They
hope for it.
THE influx of new relief cases
l. began sharply as WPA's pay
roll ballast increased in October,
1885. and through the last three
months. A acknowledgements re-
view of the new cases applying to
the township trustee for relief is
as follows--October, 612; Novem-
Der, 1853; December, 861, and
January, 958 cases.
Leo X. Smith, Center Township
attorney, and social workers de-
clare the unemployable caseload
can be divided into the following
age groups-5O per cent, IS to IS
years old; Is per cent over SIS
years of age, and Is per cent I'M
der 35 years of age.
Young married couples are be-
ing thrown on relief. Only few
weeks ago we had four couples in
one weeks time seeking grocery
relief. They had not been mar
ried for more than 10 days. ex-
planned Mr.. Smith.
ut doesn't hurt their pride to
ask for relief as it did in other
years. We're burdened now by
hundreds of nonresident fam
lilies attempting to secure relief.
They come from Kentucky, Ten
nessee and other nearby states
because relief benefits are higher
here" said Mr.. Smith.
QUICK to learn their relief ap-
~ plication mny result in their
being sent home by the trustee or
private relief agencies the aliens
seek to establish one-year resi-
dence qualification before applying
for aid.
They would refuse food relief
rather than chance being sent
home" Mr.. Smith says.
The desire to take private en-
ployment of WPA job and still
retain their place in the direct re-
lief line is another vexing prob