Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 244, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 February 1921 — Page 3

PROPERTY FOR WAR MEMORIAL IS NEED-COFFIN Public Hearing Held on Bills Providing for Site Purchase. MANY SPEECHES HEARD Acquisition of the property on which it is proposed to erect the World War memorial and tho subsequent construction of building to be used as national headquarters of the American Legion, would center the eyes of the world on Indianapolis, declared Charles F. Coffin, president of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, last night at the public hearing on the three Indianapolis World War memorial bills introduced by the Marion County Representatives. The hearing was held by the committee on the affairs of the city of Indianapolis, and was attended by repriWintative citizens, city officials and members and officials of the American Legion. Representatives Kingsbury, chairman; Cox, Newman, Benedict, Abrams and Noll were the only members of the committee present. Samuel Ashby, Indianapolis corporation counsel, at the beginning of the meeting, set forth the purposes of the bills. He said there were three measures, the State, city and county bills. The city bill would give Indianapolis the authority to purchase or-condemn for purchase the property proposed for the memorial, or would give the city authority to act Jointly with the county In acquisition of the property; the county bill would give the county the same privileges, while the State bill would give the State authority to accept the donation or tne property for the erection of the memorial. SHOWS PROPEKTY ASSESSMENT. The exact assessment of the property in the squares between the Blind Asylum and University Park, in which the memorial Is to be erected, is •$2,253,040, according to Representative John L. Benedict. This property is assessed as follows: SQUARE 16. Bobbs-Merrill Cos. (53 feet) $ 38.160 Improvements 52.000 Indiana Democratic (49.10 feet). 30.0(50 Realty company improvements 20.000 Elks Realty Cos. (94 feet) 68.400 Improvements 32.500 Columbian In3. Cos. (52.6 feet).. 63.000 Improvements 7,800 520 Indiana Trust Cos. (65 feet) 78,000 Improvements 7,800 Clark & Wallace (50 feet).. 65.000 Improvements 6,000 C. F. Robbins (45 feet) 61,550 Improvements 23,400 15.600 i Haugh Realty Cos. (45 feet) 12.5)0 Improvements 52.000 ; W. J. Holliday (111.3 feet) 12-B*oo : Improvements 2.600 j C. Martlndale (90.9 feet) 111.000 9.750 520 Improvements 26-000 . 1,300 ! $900,850 | SQUARE 5. VoTney T. Malott $112,320 j Improvements $ 1.300 5.200 3.900 3.250 Atlas Investment Cos 67.200 j Improvements sls.ano 5.200 1 010 Indianapolis Propylaenm. 1 '.400 Tnipr"Vn* , nn 19.500 | City Investment Cos 26.040! Improvements $ 3.900 2.600 2,600 W A. Guthrie " 20 s*o Improvements 4 200 E F. and L. F. Hodges.. 59.400 Improvements $11,050 11 050 1.550 1.560 1.560 Elizabeth R. New 150.720 Improvements $52,000 7.800 13.000 6.500 i,300 C. C. and M. E. Weiss 14,700 Improvements $ 7.800 130 J. Rllns Eastman 14 280 Improvements 6.500 If. B. Barkley 14,250 Improvements $ 5.200 780 J. D. Barklej 7.800 Improvements 3.259 Harrison * Barkley 88.250 Improvements 10.400 Bff. B. Barkley 42.950 Improvements 20.899 A. D. Disseth 43.140 Improvements 13.000 Total valuation Square 5. $913,610 Total valuation Square 18 995.850 Both Squares $1,820 400 First Baptist Church...., 229,960 Second Presbyterian..... 202,620 $2,253,040 STATE GIVEN POWER TO ACCEPT. Mr. Ashby stated the bills were the same a s were passed in the special session of 1920, except with the amendment that the State is given the power to accept the gift of the property, aud that any city and county in the State is authorized to act Jointly In the acquisition of property for the erection of a memorial. He said a tax levy of approximately 5 mills would be sufficient to take np the bonds and interest which would be sold In order to pay off the debt on acquisition of the property. The bonds would be for a period of fifty years and the first would fall due in five years, he stated. With a total assessment In the county amounting to $711,000,000 and a city assessment amounting to $600,000,000, the courty would pay one-eighth cf the total cost of the memorial, Mr. Ashby said. Mr. Ashby Introduced the other speakers: Mayor Charles W. Jewett, exmayor John W. Holtzman. I)r. Charles R. Souder and Col. L. R. Glgntilist, commandant of Culver Military Academy and State commander of the American Legion. There were no talks made against the memo Hal. AVERAGE TAXPAYER NOT OPPOSED. The average taxpayer of the State or county would not object to the levy of a small tax for the erection of the memorial.

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In the belief of Dr. Charles R. Souders of Indianapolis, who served as a captain In the 151st Infantry, and who saw overseas service. Dr. Souders told the committee he was appearing as a private citizen and not as an ex-service man. He said there could be only two objections to the proposed tax levy. These objections would be made by .the property owners within the two squares to be used, who might say that the acquisition of the property might prevent the development of business. The other objection. he said, might come from the large taxpayer, who would object to any increase in his taxes. He said the man assessed on $50,090 would pay in the fifty years SSO, and_the man assessed on SI,OOO would pay $5 in the fifty years. “Any service man would gladly have given three times that amount for a glance at the Goddess of Liberty, while they were serving overseas,’ he said. SAYS PROPERTY HOLDERS WILLING. Mr. Holtzman spoke of the willingness of most of the property holders to relinquish their property for the erection of the memorial. More men voluntarily entered the service of the United States from Indiana than from any other State in the Union, Colonel stated. He impressed on the committee members the necessity for having the proper location for the memorial so that it might not have its effectiveness detracted from by surrounding buildings. Mayor Jewett was the last speaker, and a plea was made by him for immediate action, lest the opportunity to acquire this property for the memorial be gone in two years, when another session of the Legislature will be held. He said that since the beginning of his administration he had realized the value of the ground on which it is now proposed to erect the memorial and declared he had always thought the ground should be taken over by the city as a civic project. MEMORIAL STATE AFFAIR. Mayor Jewett declared the citizens of the State certainly could not object to the memorial being erected in this city, since it is the capital and the city of every citizen of Indiana. He declared that while Indianapolis asks many things of the Legislature, that now the proposition Is different, and Indianapolis is asking the right to give the State something. The statement advanced by some that the memorial might depreciate property values was discounted by the mayor, aud he declared the erection of the bulldlpg “When My Baby Had a Cough” Mother Says She Got Rid of It By Taking Father John’s Medicine “My little girl, eight years old, Is subject to coughs. Last year she coughed for six weeks and no mertic ne which the doctor gave her would check it. I tried Father John's Medicine and her cough soon left her. I intend to give it to her during the winter.” (Signed) Mrs. M. Tischler, 545 Cedar Street, Syracuse, N. Y. The soothing healing elements of Father John’s Medicine make it especially effective in throat troubles, to relieve coughs and to build new flesh and strength. It is guaranteed free from alcohol or dangerous drugs. , —Advertisement. fIF YOU HAD A T^EOK 8 LONG AS THIS FELLOW, AND HAD IORETHROAT N* 'OHS i LINE fOULD QUICKLY RELIEVE IT Ssc. and 60c. Hospital SLco* sl* ALL DRUGGISTS /§ whsl Sick With Gas Eatonic Brings Relief "I have been awful sick with gas,” writes Mrs. W. H. Person, "‘and Eatonic is all I can get to give me relief." Acidity and gas on the stomach quickly taken up and carried out by Eatonic, then appetite and strength come back. And many other bodily miseries disappear when the etoinach is right. Don't let sourness, belching, bloating, indigestion and other stomach ills go on. Take Eatonic tablets after you eat—see how much better you feel. Big box costs only a trifle with your druggist’s guarantee.

would appreciate, rather than depreciate, the value of surrounding property. "If this Is not taken advantage of it will never come again,” he said. “There is only one opportunity, and if it Is not acted on at once in twelve or eighteen months buildings will have been erected on this property and the opportunity Is gone forever to obtain this site." ORGANIZER MOVES ON. MARION, Ind., Feb. 19.—F.. G. Vordenberg, who for the last several months has been here forming a community service organization, went to La Portee today and will engage In similar work there. A farewell luncheon was given Mr. Vordenberg Friday afternoon, at which all civic organizations in Marlon were represented.

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“The Way to Resume Is to Resume” THE INDIANA DAILY TIMES (Copyright, 1021, by the Tow Criers, Indianapolis)

INDIANA DAILY TIIVIES, SATURDAY, f£RRUARY 18, 1921.

LEGISLATORS’ PAY REDUCED TO sl2 A DAY Economists in House Slash Senate Provision After Seven Attacks. BILL TO THIRD READING After seven attempts to reduce the pay of legislators, as set out in Senate Bill

No. 92, Introduced by Senator J. Fred Masters, Indianapolis, economists in the House were successful in reducing the amount from SI,OOO a year to a per diem of sl2 yesterday. • Many parliamentary tactics were used in an effort either to kill or to save the bill as It qame from the Senate. The bill was on second reading and an amendment was first offered by Representative Raymond E. Willis,- Steuben County, which would make the per diem salary $lO. This motion failed. An effort was next made by Representative Charles E. Dean, Jefferson and Scott Counties, to cut the salary to S6OO a year. Immediately Representative Willis was on his feet and stated he would oppose any increase except a per

diem of $lO, which he thought equitable and just. COMES BACK TO ECONOMISTS. Representative Claude A. Smith, Gibson County, who forsook the economists long enough to get through a bill Increasing the salaries of Circuit and Superiour Court Judge, came back “to the fold,” as members expressed It, and i worked against any increase. Representative Elmer W. Sherwood, Greene County, was the first member to ! speak in favor of the salary increase. HeI declared he had no fear of the people back home If he voted to increase salaries. He said It Is an outrage to ask any person to come to Indianapolis and serve for $6 a day. A motion by Representative Ed E. Youse, Huntington County, to strike out

the enacting clause of the bill was tabled on motion of Representative J. Glenn Harris. OTHER PROPOSALS ARE TABLED. Representative William R. Jlnnett’s motion to table the Dean amendment, calling for a S6OO a year salary, was suc- ; cessfuL Next came Representative 1 George Freeman, Howard County, who has opposed practically all salary Increases, with an amendment making the salary of tho legislators S6OO a year, the salary of the Speaker $5 a day and that cf the Lieutenant Governor $4,200 a year. Freeman's motion was tabled on motion of Representative Jlnnett, as was a motion by Representative Henry Abrauis, Marlon County, to make the salary SI,OOO for the term, or SSOO a year. Representative Murray S. Barker.

Boone County, then informed the Hons* he had an amendment that carried a per diem of sl2 and, following stirring speeches on economy, the motion was adopted. Representative Clinton H. Givan then mewed that the enacting clause of the bill be stricken out, but his motion was tabled on motion of Representative Harris. The bill then went to third reading. ' Bottled Soda 5c

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