Red Cross Scrapbook 1934: unnumbered - October
Collection: Red Cross Scrapbook 1934
Title
Red Cross Scrapbook 1934: unnumbered - October
Subject
American Red Cross
Great Depression, 1929-1939
Food relief--Kansas
Unemployment
Description
A page from the 1934 scrapbook of newspaper clippings from the Arkansas City (Kansas) Traveler, dated from October 1st, 1934 to October 11th, 1934. The scrapbooks were created by local Red Cross volunteers. Articles during the Depression years covered food and other relief efforts, and documented unemployment issues.
Creator
Arkansas City (Kansas) Traveler
Source
Arkansas City Public Library, Arkansas City, Kansas
Publisher
Arkansas City Public Library, Arkansas City, Kansas
Date
1934-10-01
1934-10-11
Contributor
Red Cross Volunteers
Rights
Used with permission of copyright holder. Further reproduction prohibited without permission.
Format
application/pdf
Language
English
Type
Clippings
Identifier
RC34050
Coverage
Cowley County, Kansas
Citation
Arkansas City (Kansas) Traveler, “Red Cross Scrapbook 1934: unnumbered - October,” Digital Arkansas City, accessed May 3, 2024, https://arkcity.digitalsckls.info/item/106.
Text
Crippled Girls Sell Magazines
From Their Beds
— 10-1-34
By HELEN WOODMAN
The words “manager of a successful business” call up a mental image of an energetic individual, briskly interviewing customers, or busy at a desk in a downtown room, bordering a noisy street; however there is a different picture to be found at 503 South D street. There a quiet bedroom, brightened by dainty rose curtains and soft rugs, serves as the office for Miss Opal Stone, manager of a magazine agency—her desk, a narrow white bed.
For sixteen years Opal has been taking orders for magazines; at first while seated in a wheeled chair; now she rarely leaves her couch. Unable to move without assistance and having but little use of her hands she “carries on.” Through the kindness of the telephone company she uses a head phone, which her nurse must adjust for her.
A stranger, listening to the girl’s cheery tones coming over the wire, would never think the speaker was lying prone with the smallest of pillows under her dark curls. The caller, looking into the fine dark eyes, replying to the flashing smile, and hearing Opal’s bright philosophy of life, forgets the poor twisted body motionless, beneath the white spread.
Mrs. Gordon Newton assists Opal in her work by attending to all correspondence.
Realizing the happiness she has had from maintaining herself, Opal has employed one of her handicapped friends, Gladys Snow, to aid in reaching customers over the telephone. Friends will rejoice in the activity of this little new business woman, who is making her first timid venture of providing for her needs. Only last summer Gladys, through the kindness of a large number of interested Arkansas Cityans, underwent a delicate operation at St. Luke’s hospital, Kansas City.
Readers wishing to list new orders or to renew their magazine subscriptions, may get in touch with Miss Stone, phone 950, Miss Snow, phone 1342, due to the neighborliness of Mrs. Jessie Mumaw, 420 South Second street, or Mrs. Luther Parman, chairman of Cowley county crippled children’s work, phone 1316.
RELIEF COSTS MOUNT.
September Bill Largest Yet. Taxpayers’ Burden Increases.
—-
Skyrocketing to heights undreamed of a few years ago, the cost of poor relief in Cowley county for the month of September reached the biggest figure in the history of Cowley county drawing the county deeper into debt and bending the taxpayer’s back still nearer the ground.
The total amount spent, according to figures released from the office of Poor Commissioner L. L. Petticord was $40,059.25, an increase of $4,474.16 over the month of August. In August the sum of $35,585.09 was spent. From March 1 to Sept. 30 the sum of $104,632.08 was spent for poor relief in the county, $60,706.14 in Arkansas City and $43,925.94 in Winfield.
Of the increase in cost the transfer of funds from the general to the poor fund is to be considered which makes the net increase on the true September operations of $3,464.44.
The amount of money paid to poor relief clients in September was $32,559.78 and the total expenses of giving it to them was $7,499.47. Salaries of the certifying officer, home economics supervisor, home rehabilitation supervisor, salaries and mileage and re-employment salaries are not included in the cost as they are paid by the state relief administration. R. M. Roseberry county accountant, shows in his condensed statement of costs that there has been an increase of 18.7 per cent. He comments that if the above salaries are included in the statistics, a conservative estimate of the increase in relief costs to taxpayers would be 20 per cent.
Net cost to the county for poor relief in September-
Federal funds-
792.36 were-
expense was-
-ient cost $98.2-
sewing rooms-
from the cou-
a value was p-
poor relief am-
Relief furn-
orders totalled-
$3,254.04 was-
area and $7,3.-
City area. The-
orders on the-
woodyard a-
amounting to-
and $1,069.83-
Grocery orders-
totalled $6,119-
337.14. In A-
was spent for-
92 for grocer-
$1,913.14 spent-
$754.82 for c-
Listed as-
general condu-
following item
Winfield area: County foreman and truck drivers, $1,185; salaries, $762.50; mileage, $446.96; office expense, $876.17; telephone, $240.03; sewing room, $17.50; miscellaneous, $60.75; commodities, $60.25; total $3,699.16.
Arkansas City area: County
foremen and truck drivers, $793.20; salaries, $625.00; mileage, $162.55; office expense, $486.10; telephone $24.10; sewing room, $64.90; garden $184.15; miscellaneous, $44.03; commodities, $118.29; total $2,502.23. Total for both Winfield and Arkansas City, $6,171.39.
Federal administration relief expense, $102.40; federal administrative non-relief expense, $1,257.18.
Listed as “uncontrollable expense” are the following items:
Winfield: Hospital, $164.18;
medical, $240.91; funerals, $38.50; transportation, $26.65; blind pensions, $322; state homeless, $34.48. Total, $826.72.
Arkansas City: Hospital, $128.35; medical, $264.98; funerals, $146; institutional, $269.70; crippled children, $144.66. Total, $953.69.
Values of federal commodities distributed in the county in September, but not included in the cost figures, are as follows: 2,640 pounds lard, $237.60; 2,699 pounds butter, $674.75; 11,631 cans beef, $2,907.75; six mattresses, $75. Total, $3,895.10. In August the value of federal surplus commodities distributed was $4,024.02.—-Winfield Courier.
Original Format
Newspaper clippings on scrapbook paper.
Title
Red Cross Scrapbook 1934: unnumbered - October
Subject
American Red Cross
Great Depression, 1929-1939
Food relief--Kansas
Unemployment
Description
A page from the 1934 scrapbook of newspaper clippings from the Arkansas City (Kansas) Traveler, dated from October 1st, 1934 to October 11th, 1934. The scrapbooks were created by local Red Cross volunteers. Articles during the Depression years covered food and other relief efforts, and documented unemployment issues.
Creator
Arkansas City (Kansas) Traveler
Source
Arkansas City Public Library, Arkansas City, Kansas
Publisher
Arkansas City Public Library, Arkansas City, Kansas
Date
1934-10-01
1934-10-11
Contributor
Red Cross Volunteers
Rights
Used with permission of copyright holder. Further reproduction prohibited without permission.
Format
application/pdf
Language
English
Type
Clippings
Identifier
RC34050
Coverage
Cowley County, Kansas
Citation
Arkansas City (Kansas) Traveler, “Red Cross Scrapbook 1934: unnumbered - October,” Digital Arkansas City, accessed May 3, 2024, https://arkcity.digitalsckls.info/item/106.Text
Crippled Girls Sell Magazines
From Their Beds
— 10-1-34
By HELEN WOODMAN
The words “manager of a successful business” call up a mental image of an energetic individual, briskly interviewing customers, or busy at a desk in a downtown room, bordering a noisy street; however there is a different picture to be found at 503 South D street. There a quiet bedroom, brightened by dainty rose curtains and soft rugs, serves as the office for Miss Opal Stone, manager of a magazine agency—her desk, a narrow white bed.
For sixteen years Opal has been taking orders for magazines; at first while seated in a wheeled chair; now she rarely leaves her couch. Unable to move without assistance and having but little use of her hands she “carries on.” Through the kindness of the telephone company she uses a head phone, which her nurse must adjust for her.
A stranger, listening to the girl’s cheery tones coming over the wire, would never think the speaker was lying prone with the smallest of pillows under her dark curls. The caller, looking into the fine dark eyes, replying to the flashing smile, and hearing Opal’s bright philosophy of life, forgets the poor twisted body motionless, beneath the white spread.
Mrs. Gordon Newton assists Opal in her work by attending to all correspondence.
Realizing the happiness she has had from maintaining herself, Opal has employed one of her handicapped friends, Gladys Snow, to aid in reaching customers over the telephone. Friends will rejoice in the activity of this little new business woman, who is making her first timid venture of providing for her needs. Only last summer Gladys, through the kindness of a large number of interested Arkansas Cityans, underwent a delicate operation at St. Luke’s hospital, Kansas City.
Readers wishing to list new orders or to renew their magazine subscriptions, may get in touch with Miss Stone, phone 950, Miss Snow, phone 1342, due to the neighborliness of Mrs. Jessie Mumaw, 420 South Second street, or Mrs. Luther Parman, chairman of Cowley county crippled children’s work, phone 1316.
RELIEF COSTS MOUNT.
September Bill Largest Yet. Taxpayers’ Burden Increases.
—-
Skyrocketing to heights undreamed of a few years ago, the cost of poor relief in Cowley county for the month of September reached the biggest figure in the history of Cowley county drawing the county deeper into debt and bending the taxpayer’s back still nearer the ground.
The total amount spent, according to figures released from the office of Poor Commissioner L. L. Petticord was $40,059.25, an increase of $4,474.16 over the month of August. In August the sum of $35,585.09 was spent. From March 1 to Sept. 30 the sum of $104,632.08 was spent for poor relief in the county, $60,706.14 in Arkansas City and $43,925.94 in Winfield.
Of the increase in cost the transfer of funds from the general to the poor fund is to be considered which makes the net increase on the true September operations of $3,464.44.
The amount of money paid to poor relief clients in September was $32,559.78 and the total expenses of giving it to them was $7,499.47. Salaries of the certifying officer, home economics supervisor, home rehabilitation supervisor, salaries and mileage and re-employment salaries are not included in the cost as they are paid by the state relief administration. R. M. Roseberry county accountant, shows in his condensed statement of costs that there has been an increase of 18.7 per cent. He comments that if the above salaries are included in the statistics, a conservative estimate of the increase in relief costs to taxpayers would be 20 per cent.
Net cost to the county for poor relief in September-
Federal funds-
792.36 were-
expense was-
-ient cost $98.2-
sewing rooms-
from the cou-
a value was p-
poor relief am-
Relief furn-
orders totalled-
$3,254.04 was-
area and $7,3.-
City area. The-
orders on the-
woodyard a-
amounting to-
and $1,069.83-
Grocery orders-
totalled $6,119-
337.14. In A-
was spent for-
92 for grocer-
$1,913.14 spent-
$754.82 for c-
Listed as-
general condu-
following item
Winfield area: County foreman and truck drivers, $1,185; salaries, $762.50; mileage, $446.96; office expense, $876.17; telephone, $240.03; sewing room, $17.50; miscellaneous, $60.75; commodities, $60.25; total $3,699.16.
Arkansas City area: County
foremen and truck drivers, $793.20; salaries, $625.00; mileage, $162.55; office expense, $486.10; telephone $24.10; sewing room, $64.90; garden $184.15; miscellaneous, $44.03; commodities, $118.29; total $2,502.23. Total for both Winfield and Arkansas City, $6,171.39.
Federal administration relief expense, $102.40; federal administrative non-relief expense, $1,257.18.
Listed as “uncontrollable expense” are the following items:
Winfield: Hospital, $164.18;
medical, $240.91; funerals, $38.50; transportation, $26.65; blind pensions, $322; state homeless, $34.48. Total, $826.72.
Arkansas City: Hospital, $128.35; medical, $264.98; funerals, $146; institutional, $269.70; crippled children, $144.66. Total, $953.69.
Values of federal commodities distributed in the county in September, but not included in the cost figures, are as follows: 2,640 pounds lard, $237.60; 2,699 pounds butter, $674.75; 11,631 cans beef, $2,907.75; six mattresses, $75. Total, $3,895.10. In August the value of federal surplus commodities distributed was $4,024.02.—-Winfield Courier.
Original Format
Newspaper clippings on scrapbook paper.