Abstract

Mass Misery in Philadelphia

The article discusses about the living conditions of people in South Philadelphia. Mayor J. Hampston Moore said there is no starvation in Philadelphia. When the author arrived in Philadelphia, a Negro youth of patently deficient mental powers confessed that he had assaulted and murdered a white girl of seven on a North American street. This narrow and shabby thoroughfare lies near the heart of Philadelphia's "Bandbox District." Here extreme poverty has existed since long before the bull-market crash in 1929. There is a distinct connection between the Bandbox District and unemployment in Philadelphia, for under the pressure of unemployment whole sections of the city are sinking into conditions not unlike those obtaining in the slums.