The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-17

The county's relief rolls,
ship trustee offices, total
1854 persons who receive
wages or grocery orders
from the Federal govern
ment and township tax
payers.
Thirty-five per cent of the citys
relief load, or 27,205, are on direct
relief, and IS per cent, or 81, 439
persons, receive wage relief from
the county's WPA office, ITO S.
Meridian-St.
The relief population load was
1876 per cent during January. A
year ago the load was 1877 per
cent, or 484 persons more than in
January, 1886.
A pay roll of SLOT 245 was writ
ten in January for wage relief for
13,208 men and who supported
51,439 persons with their wages.
Township trustees of the coun-
ty gave food, milk, fuel and shell
ter to 1911 families during the
month for an estimated total of
$145,OOO for 27,205 persons.
On the other hand, in Novem-
Der, 1884, relief rolls showed 1900
persons with 10000 of that num-
Der working on F'ERA at month
ly pay roll of 1892, 900, against the
100000 pay roll Of WPA today.
A DVENT of WPA in August,
IA 1885, reduced the tax burden
in the county's townships with the
caseload dropping in escalator
fashion within a six months
period.
The pay roll march from the di-
rect relief rolls is wildly drawn in
the following monthly COMPARE
son:
August, 1916 cases; September.
1902 cases; October, 13,775 cases;
November, 10,929 cases; December,
10,447 cases; January, 1896, 1911
cases (estimateO.
The transplanting of direct re-
lief workers to county PWA pay
windows is shown in the increased
load of WPA as follows:
August 5061; Septemer, 1892;
October, November, 10,99S; De-
cember, 1910; January, 12,601.
(Non-relief employees totaling GOT
in January are not included in the
Wage-earners0
Delving into January's wage re-
lief in Marion County finds 1O,676
men and 1855 women taken from
the relief rolls of township
trustees and given a twice month
ly pay check. Five hundred and
nineteen men and f1fty-four
women were hired as non-relief
workers.
Relief women can be generally
classed as widows, deserted wives,
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or those who are heads of families
due to illness of other members of
of their families.
In addition to the foregoing
workers the National Youth Ad-
ministration employed TIC youths
at one-third time on one-third of
the security wage.
Center Township in bearing
nine-tenths of the direct relief
load in Marion County found that
when the Federal government
abandoned all unemployables to
its care that it had in it's grasp
an efficient set-up for caring for
the direct relief clients.
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ID ELIEF prior to the govern
IN ment's role in Indiana was
wholly in the hands of the town
ship trustee.
Miss Hannah Noone, Center
trustee, has been acclaimed by
Community Fund welfare agen-
cies and other social workers as
one of the most competent of the
trustees in the state to re-assume
control of direct relief.
Miss Noone found at hand that
state control, under the Gov
ernor's Unemployment Relief
Commission, had improved sys-
temization of direct relief and
social work and she converted the
best phases, coupled with her own
experience, to perfecting a new
agency under reduced personnel.
Leo x. Smith, township attor-
ney, says of the state control sys-
tenn which guided the expenditure
of Federal funds for direct relief,
I'VE learned some good things
from them, but they went too
strong on their system"
He points out where under
state control 10 investigators
were hired that now his office has
but IS. Critics of trustee control
declare that a larger caseload,
due to FERA wage relief, and per-
fecting records of relief clients
caused the larger staff and that
the trustee now is benefitting
from the social and clerical work
done under GURC.
Politics play no part III the
selections of relief clients in Gen.
BENNY