Indianapolis Times, Volume 32, Number 285, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 April 1920 — Page 11

IK METHODS | T TANGLE IN SCHOOLS How to Meet Expenses With Only $376,322 in Sight Is Hard Problem. TO CALL IN BANKERS Members of the Indianapolis school board were today in a quandary as to what action to take in regard to a serious financial tangle in which the school city now finds itself. It came to light last night at a committee meeting of the school board that the financial condition of the school* has become so entangled by the Goodrich tar law that unless some unforeseen aid comes to the front it may not be possible to run the schools until the next instalment of taxes is paid in November. George C. Hitt submitted a report to the board, showing that on July 1, the school city will have on hand $376,322.0*5, and at the same time have a temporary loan. of $284,375 to pay. 1* planned to renew this loan, 'which will put about $375,000 in the treasury to run the schools until November, when the next tax levy will be due. MONEY INSUFFICIENT FOR TEACHERS' PAY. From this amount all current expenses must be paid in addition to teachers’ salaries, and. according to Mr. Hitt, the money available is not sufficient to meet the expenses even of teachers’ salaries. Furthermore, the board has reached the limit of its borrowing power and at present, Hitt said, theire is no obvious way by which additional funds may be obtained. The state tax board and the operation of the Goodrich tax law are responsible for the financial state of the schools, according to members of the board, ana It was held last night that steps should be taken, to get relief from tne law through the state legislature. Albert Baker, atorney for the school board, said that school commissioners should make an effort before the legislature to have the whole tax law killed or get through some legislation making it possible to establish the school levy In such a manner as to make it mandatory on the tax board. SALARY INCREASES ARE RECOMENDED. Recommendations made by Mr. Graff and adopted by the board, include a salary schedule of from $1,200 to SI,SOO a year for elementary teachers and from $1,500 to $2,500 a year for high school teachers. These increases were granted by the board on paper, but until some relief of a financial nature comes to light, it will

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The Young Lady ' Across the Way 1 The young lady across the way says she saw In the paper that there never was such a time for wildcat investments and she supposes any kind of fur is valuable now. not even be possible to pay the present salaries next year. Property valuations have changed greatly under the workings of the Goodrich law and caused a shrinkage of $137,1000 in the school income. The total property valuation of In--1 dianapolis last year was fixed at about | $090,000,000 on which the school levy was j based. As the result of an unstable policy of j the state tax board, this valuation has ; been juggled about until it now stands I at $007,000,000. which has resulted in the { loss to the schools. ! FURTHER REIH CTION MAY CLOSE SCHOOLS. Furthermore, it was said, if the horii zontal increases in property assessments ! are eliminated through litigation now in progress, the school revenue for 1920 will 'be reduced further In the amount of $450,000 which may make it absolutely impossible to operate during the coming school year. Mr. Hitt said that he could see no way >n which the board could pay the present

salaries of school teachers, even not considering an increase. In hopes of finding a solution for the financial puzzle it was decided by members of the board to call a meeting not later than April 10. to which a representative from each bank and trust company of the city will be Invited in an effort to bring about a solution. Last June a salary scUedule ranging from SI,OOO to SI,OOO was made effective by the board, one-half of it being paid during the past school year and the other half was to have been paid next year. S3OO BONUS 18 NOT TO BE GRANTED. A S3OO bonus requested by school teachers will not be granted, according to a decision made last night, it being held unlawful for the board to pay this sum under the present contract with teachers. It was also decided not to request of teachers for a committe with power to confer with the superintendent on any occasion and to attend all board meetings. The request of the teachers for a tenday period of sick leave at full pay each year was granted, it being held that both the teachers and the school city will benefit by this arrangement. It was also decided to meet the teachers’ demand for early contracts and the

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superintendent was instructed to prepare all contracts by June 1, or as soon thereafter as the financial situation will permit. The salary schedules granted were compiled on data provided by twenty-five cities similar in size to Indianapolis. It was also decided by the board to grant salary increases to librarians, which will amount to an increased expenditure of $25,000 a year. The business director was instructed last night to have 2,000 copies of an outline for the study of Indianapolis printed to be used In the schools during the coming year. Civilians Barred From Jerusalem LONDON, April 7.—A proclamation has been issued forbidding civilians entering Jerusalem as a result of the clash between Jews and Moslems on Sunday, when ten persons were killed and 188 were wounded, said a news agency dispatch from Cairo today. GETS HIMSELF IN BAD. HOUSTON, Tex., April 7.-L. P. Matter came to police headquarters to tell of a man who chased him with an axe and he let it slip he was an army deserter.

PICKETERS FREE UNTIL MONDAY Provide Bail After Irish Demonstration in CapitalWASHINGTON, April 7.—Federal officers today took charge of the proceedings against four women advocates of an Irish republic, arrested yesterday for picketing the British embassy. On their appearance In police court after a night in the house of detention, the women were turned over to United States Commissioner Mason R. Richardson, who set preliminary hearing for 11 a. m. Monday. The women were released on SI,OOO bond each. Smoky Mountains Lie Under Snow Mantle KNOXVILLE, Tenn., April 7.—Snow lies on Great Smoky mountains from twelve to thirty-six inches deep, the snow line reaching Into the foothills. Thunderhead Mountain, mantled in white, Is visible from the city.

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McADOO TELLS OF OPPOSITION (Continued From Page One.) state conventions, the national convention may find Itself deadlocked by instructions the moment it assembles. 4. Political intrigue and political manipulation in a national convention are reduced to a minimum when the convention is composed of high-minded, cleanminded men and women who go there, not the blind champions of individual ambitions, but as representatives of their party. PRIMARIES REPRESENT SMALL PERCENTAGE. 5. Experience shows that only a small percentage of the people take part in state primaries for presidential candidates and that delegates are sometimes instructed by a pitiable minority of the voters of the state. The very purpose of the primary is defeated when voters do not vote. Consequently, a small minority assumes to express the will of the entire state, whereas, if a full vote was had a wholly different verdict might be rendered. The disappointing results of primaries

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thus far are due to Indifference of the voters. In some instances it has been easier for the machines to control the primaries than to control the conventions. 6. The primary system of choosing presidential candidates might be ideal if practiced in the right way and made uniform in all states. It ought to be provided for and conducted under authority of federal law. For instance, suppose that in every state a primary to choose presidential candidates was held in June of the presidential yeair, and that the voters of each party could be aroused sufficiently to make them go to the polls and express their will; the candidate so selected would then become the nominee of the party and a national convention would be unnecessary except to adopt the platform. PLURALITY VOTE FOR BIG ELECTION. Os course, in a nation-wide primary of this sort, the candidate would have to be chosen by a plurality vote, as it would not be practicable to hold successive primaries until a candidate received a majority, or two-thirds, of all the votes cast. So long as a nation-wide primary is

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not provided for, I am firmly convinced that the national convention should be composed of uninstructed delegates, free to express their choice, and able to transact promptly the business of the convention, unembarrassed by limitations or restrictions which make it impossible f?r the convention to act until, at some stajL of the proceedings, the convention In selfdefense, releases the delegates from all Instructions. The very fact that the convention 1* forced to do this In order to function Is convincing evidence of the unwisdom of binding the delegates with Instructions In the first Instance. 7. Avery grave objection to the quest for Instructed delegates In state primaries is the great money cost of conducting the personal campaigns of the various candidates. A poor man -ean not play the game unless he has rich backers; and In the event of success, he may find himself seriously embarrassed by obligations which might conflict with the impartial discharge of the duties of the presidency. It is much better for a presidential candidate to be named by a free convention and to be a free man himself when he assumes the responsibilities of the greatest office in the gift of the people.

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