Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 233, Decatur, Adams County, 2 October 1923 — Page 4

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except • Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO, I. H. Heller— I’ree, and Oon. Mgr ■ W. Kampw- Vice-Prea. & Ailv. M*r A. R. Holthouee —Hec'y and Bu* Mgr Entered at the Poet office at Decatur Indiana, ae eecond clane matter Subecrtptlon Rate* Blngle copies ! cents One Week, by carrier 10 cents One Year, by carrier 15.0 U One Month, by mall 36 cents Three Months, by mail SI.OO Six Months, by mall $175 One Year, by mall $3.00 One Year, at office $3.00 (Prices quoted are within first and second sones. Additional postage a<l ded outside those tones.) Advertising Rates Made known on application Foreign Representatives Carpenter & Company, 122 Michigan Averue, Chicago Fifth Avenue Bldg., New York Citj N. Y. Life Building, Kansas City. Mo Its worth your while these bright October days when the skies are so blue and the foliage so beautiful to | make a few runs out in the country where nature holds forth and where you find the purest air and the grandest view. State Chairman Walb charges, op-, enly that Governor McCray placed state money in his own bank anil then borrowed it for his personal use. Os course that means a break between the governor's organization and that of the state committee and you know when they fall out there's something doing. Tlie governor insists he will noti resign and yet his own explanation makes it seem necessary. He will he the defendant no doubt in several civil suits and may be indicted for j the misuse of funds. There is no need to do anything but call a spade a spade for the condition now is ious and no one realizes that fact more than New and W atson and Walb. It's a sorry turn of politiis' and a disgrace to the great state of Indiana. ~ The sorry moss in Governor Mc-j Cray's affairs are regretted so far as his financial losses are concerned but if his actions are so questionable that leaders of his own party force a grand jury inquiry there must be something surely wrong. And then, there's Adams who was charged with bootlegging, Oliver whose recent suicide hushed up ugly rumors. Couch whose total embezzlement has never been announced because he paid by going to prison, mixups in several commissions. Gosh bow it all stinks. I Certainly It's time for the state central committee to investigate and to clean house. Oklahoma will fet*l the bad effects from the present disgraceful near revolution for many years to come, j For weeks and months the business of the state lias been centered os the question of the power limit of the governor. Martial law is in effect in many places and today an election is being held in most of the counties | lo determine whether the legislature shall bo empowered to meet to consider the official acts of Governor Walton. Whatever the result it is' certain the after effects will be ser-| ious and lasting. It is to be hoped that the ailment docs not spread to other states.

Perhaps> the most wonderful road i in the United States is that now be- ; pig constructed between the city o£j Detroit and Pontiac. A few years ago it was an ordinary country road, unimproved. Recently a twenty foot pavement was built but the great traffic lias made it necessary to enlarge that and the right of way has now been secured and construction . started yesterday on a concrete road two hundred feet wide. Imagine a road more than ten tiines the width of the ordinary paved road In this section extending a distance of twenty miles. One feature of the matter which attracts attention is the fact that a contract to build the first sec- 1 lion which is eighty feet wide has' been made unci the total cost is hut $40,000 per mile and this is apologized for because of the great cost of securing a part of the right of way which 'passes through several cities

of from 5,000 to 15,000. State convicts are being used to provide a part of the labor. Its interesting at least. Method of handling speeders enforced in the little town of River Rouge, Mich., may well be adopted in Indianapolis and other Hoosier communities. It Is guaranteed to work. River Rouge lies betwecu Detroit und 1 Keorsc. where smuggled liquor is run i I across the Detroit River from Can--1 ada. Its streets were turned into i i speedways by wild drivers, most of 1 them bootleggers. Arrests and fines i did not stop the speeding. There was enough profit in the booze to stand a fine once in a while. Then the municipal judge and police chief decided to cut loose with ail they had. They put the speeders to work on the streets, just like the ball and chain gang of the old days. Arrayed in overall uniforms with the words “City Prisoner” and a serial number painted in big white letters on the ' back, the wild men were compelled 1 to clean streets, lay brick, “make lltI tie ones out of big ones” or do any other odd jobs that the city required. A guard stood over them as they worked, where all who passed could see. This system would work well in any community. It has practically ended speeding in River Rouge. 1 Some men don't worry over the fact ' that they are but even they don't enjoy having other men know it.—-Indianapolis Times. I The Kingdom. ■ The Heavens are thine, the earth, the j sea. Thou rulest over all; Thy law is love. And righteousness | Shall rise as evils fall. And the Power, I Forces of nature all are thine, .Make bare thy mighty arm: That: boldest planets in thy palm, Who, then, can work us harm. And the Gory, The purple morning is thy robe, Bright stars adoru thy crown; Thv face outshines the noonday sun. Arlgels thy praise renown. Forever , When heaven, like a vesture, worn, I Is east aside, then thou Shall come forth with, "Eternal Youth anti Morning,” on thy brow. LOWER COST OF | (Continued from Page One) ed by the members of the commission, who say they selected only the best materials and are willing to change the specification if they tan 1 , be made to see that as good roads and ' bridges can be built from other rna- ! terals as those named in the spocifi- ,! cations. I According to the records of the 1 highway commission, the number of 1 miles of different highway system i is as follows: Brick 46.72 .! Concrete 313.14 J Bituminous concrete 21.95 Bituminous macadam 40.78 ' Surface treated macadam 51.69 Traffic and waterbouud macadam 881.31 I Gravel on stone base 171.25 I Earth 257.47 Totul length outside towns 3,633.89 Good System Thus Far As far as the highway commission i i_ 1,

has gone, Indiana has a fine system of start’ built roads, but it is also agreed, even by members of the highway commission, that the roads are " | (costing too much money, and the bcj lief is froftndotly expressed by those ’ familiar with the commission’s affairs j 1 that the commission can materially I' reduce the cost of constructon and ‘ of maintenance and continue to build 1 roads as good as it is now building. Much of the high cost it is assorted, is due to the fact that there are alleged combinations of material deal- j ors to keep up the prices; organ I/.a- ' lions of contractors, who do not pay j much attention, it is asserted, to the. anti-collusion law of ludiana In uiak-• ' Ing their bids, The contractors’ organizations were particularly active at the last suasion | of the Indiana legislature in an cn- | difivor to take from the state hoard , ’|> of in-counts the authority to investigate road and bridge contracts, and place this iuvestigaton under the static highway commission;' the commission lias thousands of employes, ami there is great endeavor on the part ot politicians and political or-

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i- ganlzutlons to place "workers for the a cause" on the commission poy roil; t the commission insists that labor is | high in cost and that particularly t ' everything that enters into road anil ■ bridge building la at peak prices. But, r , nevertheless, and In spite of tho II claims made by the highway eoinmisi- 'slon. the opinion of taxpayers expressed at town gatherings and In I home gatherings, ie that the com ini*- | sion can reduce It's expenditures and 11 1 yet not slight the building and maitf- - I‘, taining of the rftate road system. Jj In the Report for 1922. f! The annua) report of the state higha I way commission for the fiscal year i ended September 30, 1923, is not yet S : available, but the manner in which 3 the highway commission spent the I I money at its disposal in the fiscal f year ended June 30, Is on record in the , report of 1922. The policy of the commission has been to reach the 1 greater part of population by main- * taining the cheaper types of roads 1 and by building direct travel roads jl of stone and gravel. Thus far the . commission has constructed hard surface on approximately 250 miles. The report shows that in the fiscal year of 1 1922, ended June 30, 139. S miles were - added to the state highway system, t ! and the most Important of these roads were Bloomington to Nashville lo Mt. Vernon, West Baden to Shoals, Westfield to Lebanon, Madison to Scottsl burg, Brazil to Clay City and Jason- ; ville to Linton. Under the state laws as amended, the highway commission consists of the commissioners and the director and assistants who administer the at--1 fairs of the commission. The division of audit keeps and supervises the accounts of the state highway commission. The equipment division handles al! the motor vehicles belonging to the commission and the surplus war material that was given to the state by the federal government. The division of construction builds roads and bridges, etc., and the division of maintenance keeps these in repair and order. Net Receipts for Year. The net receipts for the year covered by the report were $5,939,143. Ninety-eight reimbursements (which means money that the highway commission spent, but was paid back to them by the federal government) amounted to $1,015,720.85, making the gross recefpts of $6,954,720.53, which, with the 1921 unexpended balance of $1,334,153.16, made a total fund of SB,289,010.00 that the commission .bandied in that year. The commission spent $6,491,815.94, leaving an unexpended balance at (he beginning of this year of $1,797,204.05. The administration division cost $43,537.83. which is a perceptible reduction in the cost of administration from the administration of L H. Wright and Lawrence Lyons as directors. The construction division cost $3,182,335.83. Tho equipment division cost $795,565.- , 34. The receipts of the commission from September 30, 1921, to August 31, 1922, were $5,956,781.91. Os these receipts the state tax contributed $2,050,024.64. The automobile lie ense fees amounted to $2,000,000. Tho inheritance tax turned over to the coin- ) mission amounted to $798,387.61. During the year rental for the use of I trucks was received to the amount of $10,850.62. Nonusable equipment and supplies provided by the federal government to the state was sold to tile , amount of $191,217.26. Various smaller , items are mentioned in the list of the 1 receipts. That year the highway commission received federal aid amount- ,, ing to $725,743.91 and county aid j amounting to $20,262.36. The com , mission bought, in file year mcns tioned, cement lo the amount of $628,U 125.11 and sold back to the cement concern the sacks that had contained j the cement for $63,938.61. The com . mission has also received $23,681.93 _ for the joint construction of roads and bridges. Per Diem and Expenses n Tho highway commissioners are not

paid a stipulated salary, but receive a per diem and expenses, and the report shows that their per dicin amounted to $5,050 a year and their expenses amounted to $4,1:71.76. The greater part of this expense, accord[iug to vouchers oa file in the state auditor’s office, was paid to Alvin P. Burch, of Evansville, viec-presi dent of the commission and Earl Crawford, cl’ Connersville, a member oi the commission; Charles W. Ziegler ol Attica, chairman, a oil Walter (.1 ' Zalirt, of Port Wayne, member of the commission, receiving a comparatively Ismail amount. The director’s salary ' fixed by law is $6,000 a year, and. in I addition to (hat salary, John It. Mil 'Hams the director, was allowed $9lO. JO3 expenses. The Clerical assistant and stenographers’ salaries in the de (pertinent of administration atnountet to $10,692, and the stationery ani printing supplies amounted to $6,095. i in the constructing department, th thief engineer’s salary and the salar: of the bridge engineer were S4,(HP each, and the salaries of the field at sistauts were $77,094.59. The sa;

o aries the office assistants, rneun- ; ing clerks, stenographers, etc., who s work In the office of the construction y department, amounted to $51,085.93, d and the salaries In the testing bureau t, amount mi to $11,269,91, while the testo Ing bureau expenses amounted to $3,i- 680.73. The Item of traveling oxt- ponses amounted to $25,484.44. The n report does not itemize this traveling i- expense and hits nothing to show who d did the traveling. Its necessity, the * miles covered, etc. The total expense of the construction department as shown by tho report was $870,516i-' Sil, the largest item outside the salarr ies and expense account, amounting 1 1 to $628,125. This Included $55,654.69 11 for work performed by state forees on P ! federal aid projects. In addition to ' this $870,516.32, the construction deapartment made payments on federal p aid roads and bridges and "btate aid “ roads and bridges to the amount of ’ $2,279,359.07. which made the total s construction bill for the year $3,166,s 455.86 less $16,580.47 to be returned to tho commission 1> ya county whore work was done by the stale. Maintenance Department f In the department of maintenance, | J the expense was $71,874.22. The 1 ' largest item in this account were $5.- * 000 salaries paid to the superintend- ' ent and $421.02 expenses; temporary employes’ salaries, $1,533; temporary employes’ expenses, $378.32; clerical assistants and tenographers’ salaries, $8,391.77. and payment on contracts. ’ $49,375.92. There is a sentiment r among the taxpayers who are faihiliar with these conditions that too much of the money goes for salaries, except I in the case of technical engineers. , who in some instances are not paid j . what they are really worth. ( Advance figures supplied by John . I). Williams, director, from the forth- 1 r 9 coming report for tho fiscal year ended August 31, 1923, show tiiat (he total s ! receipts of the commission for this, J year were $7,944,771.17. Os this r 1 amount the state tax provided $1,717.- [ 735.89. the automobile license fees were $3,369,193.75, and the inheritance tax $671,859.74. The commission received in rentals on equipment $61 1 555.81 and it received from the sale j .'of nonusable equipment and supplies, , 1 $248,160.17, and from miscellaneous j sales $5,507.44. The commission re- >! reived this year federal aid amountling to $1,615,049.04; county aid, $30.f 656.56; it was reimbursed for cement . sacks $164,025.67; it received from j . other counties ahd states for joint 1

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construction of roads $97,345.42; it received for repairs ard delivery of equipment. $5,702.46. Large Sum at Cisposal It Is estimated that before this year I i 3 ended the commission will have had at its disposal about $8,000,000. Sex' .year, 1924, it is estimated that the i commission will have at its disposal |in all of its departments about $15,000,000. There has been an increase |in the state tax, a large Increase in j ! the automobile license fees, ami next ! year the tax on gasoline will be added i to the receipts of the commission. The advance sheets of the report !of the highway commission for the fiscal year ended August 3!, 1923. shows that the total disbursements were $7,765,759.03. Os tliis amount the administration department cost $41,315.51; the construction department, meaning the building of roads i and bridges, $4,213,752.32; the maintenance department, $2,549,835.12; the motor transport and equipment de- • | partment. $354,563.56, and the pur- ' chasing right of way cost was $6,1453.57. According to these figures I there was another substantial dc-!

' c-' Ts-e in the cost of the administration as compared with the admiuistraftion of L. H. Wright and Lawrence jyons as directors. Receiver Appointed For Carysot Implement Co. Theodore Wentz, president of tin Lincoln National bank, was appointed! receiver for (lie Carysot Implement j company, 214 213 East Columbia! street, yesterday afternoon by Judge j Charles H. Ryan, .of the superior court, on a petition by Fred Buck, a stockholder in the company. C. W. llranstractor, president of'.h® ■ company, came into court and. consented to the appointment. Mr. Wentz furnished bond in Ibe amount j of $25,000 and was given authority 'to > operate the company, j The petition for receivership was a | friendly suit and the company hopes to be able to affect a re-organization. While the company 4s apparently soij vent, the petition says, it has not ’ enough cash to liquidate its indebted- 1 i ness and that unless a receiver was j : named the assets would be sold at a |

loss on the petition of creditors. Tho financial condition of the company is blamed upon the prevailing agricultural situation. The complaint | .cr receiver says that in payment for I farm machinery and tools sold, the I company has been forced to accept | many notes oa which it is not now i able to collect, because of (he lack jcf money among farmers. The firm I is loaded down with paper until it is | no longer able to proceed without tho I aid of receiver, it adds. NEW FREIGHT STATION Interurban Freight Cars Not To Be Parked On Main Street New. — I<aporte, Oct. 2. —With construction of a freight station by the Chicago, South Bend and Northern Indiana Railway, civic organizations see hop? for discontinuance of the practice of "parking" interurban freight tars on the main street of this city. After two years of negotiations for | a site, the” company has purchased a i site for the freight depot and con- | struetion has started. T