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THE WACO NEWS-TRIBUNE, MONDAY. OCTOBER 21, 1935 DAILY MERRY MASA SWINGTON ROUHD APPLE MART NWIIMI First New Deal Slum Clearance Project Completed Creates Problems: Atlanta Shanties Wiped Out But Occupants Can't Afford New Houses; City Tax S. I Ionics so Bars Schools to Children; Kxperiment Indicates More Problems as Bad in Rest of Nation DREW ri ROHI RT ALLEN Mfrrv-bo-Bound" and of ATLANTA This metropolis of at each other hi and become a vrs for one of important of new deal urban clearance People would you di i not call it clearance because they claim they never had any flums Atlanta is not beautiful city, hut it ts proud and efficient, and it the term "low cost housing At any rata are glad to get nd of the of dirtv shan- which feature the necro fh almost every southern and in doing: thev have Unction of almost oomplei the with switch blade -I- I left my cap at school AND WHEN I WENT BACK FOR IT, THE TEACHER WAS CRYING. SHE SAID SHE HAD A BUT SHE LOOKED AWFUL SAO BT MARTHA OBB I TOLD HER TO COME SEE. YOU, YOU'D FIX IT.

BUT SHE WOULDN'T. GRACIOUS, I DON'T EVEN KNOW HER. listen, WAS THAT A KNOCK it p. aver SIMe kept crime REN CAREER tj. had own code of ib'ition.

troubled city of Atlanta only when thev disorders of health, for. black morals may he winked ir i st-lerocated, contagion knows -I- BT EDWIN ALOEB Shanties Preferred It is on the site of "Beaver Slide it tl now project known ss first low cost ho new deal ine pn Slum Probi ems now stands it's1 now is Will Beaver ide into University It is a st cjvi' not merely important i At'ant a hut to housinx authori- where, a gauge for the itire country. And the answer is no. When the people of Beaver Slide ho carried their few sticks of out of the shacks and stood to watch the secretary of the i r-t pull a blowing up le tt homes they established new Larkin nd Hunter They did not wail for the clean ev brn houses, and thev never There are two for this One is the fact that the people of Beaver Siide can't pay even of $5 per month per other is that they live in the new Shadows er the shadows of the ulate conspicu- t(the In doing furthermore A come face to face with which mav tie typn the in store for tfearsnce in every the country That why axparts in Washington have out their microscopes as far i lanta is concerned Chief problems encountered 1. To collect taxes from loi Rousing projects since they owned by the federal government jthich cannot be taxed 2.

To reduce the cost of the new- if there were no rental at buildings low enough to meet the budget of the pant To attract that occupant tnto hev the new buildings even though the is sufficiently low. Beaver Slide day, some years ago, Atlan- ft's thief of police was patrohng i the negro slum area viewing it from the brow of a low hill The lawlessness that he saw so aroused him that he lost his balance according to the story, and slid all the wav the hill into the slums area The chief's name was Beaver and then the place has been called Betvsr Slide The things that Beaver saw Continued ever It has been A place where no tins person worked or to work Here and there, a woman took in waahtng But for the most part what money came in came from Illicit sources It was to Beaver Slide that tarmers brought their to be bootlegged all corners. white or black Assignation prostitution, gambling and brawls were the means and the methods Beaver Slide living while those a playful disposition made passes not for the lwe O' PETE, 6EN, he starteo rack fiSf. NO HE MUSTA FOUND HS (OH 'CAUSE I JUST SEEM HIM PULL OUT FBQVN THE OTHER. mao PETES ow YOU TO HIS WAY SACK TO COME BACK THE ISLAND, ANO OR.

TOMORROW, CAN'T FINO THE BUT DONT LET HIAA CATCH YOU HERE BRINGING I FATHER BT GEORGE McMABUtf WEL-C- NOW THAJT OWN A MOVIE T'UDIO THG THING TO DO IS TO GIT IT ON AN EFFClENCV I MUST WEED OUT THE UNNECE5SACV W2 mm of the new than have electric stoves, and built-in-laundry they stick to the old shanties the slop can be thrown with of ti arm into the back yard, cative of the fate awaiting new and model projects is housing project for whites i hi "Tech wood." The only ompleted has been taken over School of Technology being used as a dormitory is a long way from what the ig experts tn Washington ally intended latter are putting up barriers, that only poorer clnsses can In. But PWA is faced with ark alternative of admitting a almost certain to default on or favor the higher class iy clamoring at the doors the negro teacher in Atlanta who looks longingly at brn houses But not the anient of Beaver Slide. A LADV TO SEE YOU, SIR- YOUfeE FIRED- G'T OUT I No Radio Dial MOMIA T. II Mean pri a RO a WOC 1 R.atrie* fi A' i S' hi the city of Atlanta government housing taken $100.000 annu- city tax rolls. PWA definitsiy ompromine they pro- a ty services, schools, and police AT the federal government can- and this compromise sure to catch the eagle Controller General McCarl.

he does not claim it is vious wav of paying taxes, watchdog of the treasury soft. utiun undoubtedly will But unless it is. the chil- into new may have to out ol at the same For to teach the the houamg in is'in continue to apply the pe They admit that pr In Atlanta to be just as bad or worse in it of the country. DIXIE GAX don TORGET, TV4AT FOOTBALL GAME IT'S A DATE DON FORGET, MANKIE-1 DO WANT T5EE MV OWN BROTHER or vou ve been THE -----------------MATTER OMI GUESS J. T.

McEVOT AND J. H. STRIEBKS COME COME MOTHER DEAR MUST TELL ME WHAT'S WHY WERE YCHJ CRYING I'M WORRIED ABOUT THE NEHRU BT SOL HI is MUCM COOLER. TMlS VOU i OUST MIMO VOUR. NURSI AND VOU'LL be: DRAGGINIG us 1 CAN'T DO ANVTMlkJG VAJ1TM BUT CANJ OUST WINlO AROUND linger.

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