Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 297, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 April 1924 — Page 11

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CHURCHES SHOULD MOVE FROM PLAZA, ART DIRECTOR SAYS Disregard Sentiment Is Advice of J. Arthur Mac Lean, Herron Institute, Art versus sentiment! That, in a nut shell, represents the controversy over whether the two church buildings shall be permitted to remain on the Indiana World War memorial plaza, according to J. Arthur Mac Lean, director, John Herrin Art Institute. Representatives of the First Baptist and Second Presbyterian churches will meet with the memorial commission May 15, to consider final action. “The churches by their stand against any change are blocking the new trend of civic thought,” Mac Lean commented with an emphatic punch. Won’t Fit in Scheme “Can’t see how they could fit in the plaza scheme. They would stand out by themselves. A cumbersome spot, indeed. “The plaza is Indianapolis’ opportunity to have an open space within the'city. "Os course, being churches, even’ one has a different attitude. If an insurance building stood on the plaza site —if it was even architecturally perfect—it would he removed at once.” Mac Lean expressed the opinion the churches would benefit ultimately by moving out of the congested downtown district. Constituents Moving Out “Most churches are planning to go out,” he added. “It is a sane thing

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to do because the constituents are moving out. I know I was surprised recently when a membership survey, made in a local church to which I belong, revealed the fact the majority of persons were living way out from the church building. We weren’t serving the community at all. “This time seems too be a splendid opportunity for the churches to move. Sentiment should be disregarded.” The American Association of Engineers. Indianapolis chapter, Thursday unanimously approved removal of the churches. CHILDLABORFIGHT BEGINS IN BOUSE I, M, Foster of Ohio Opens Debate on Amendment, • By C. A. RANDAU, Times Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 25. The fight begun twenty-eight years ago by former Senator Beveridge of Indiana for an ecective national child labor law, today entered upon what is thought to be its final stages when debate on the child labor constitutional amendment was opened in the House by Representative I. M. Foster of Ohio. The first proposals for a federal law to prevent the industrial exploitation of children were made in Congress when Senator Beveridge in December. 1906, introduced a bill to “prevent the employment of children in factories and mines.” In 1916. and again in 1918. Congress passed bills similar to the Beveridge proposals of ten years before, but In both cases the Supreme Court declared the laws unconstitutional. The present attempt will be directed toward altering the Constitution instead of basing a law upon present Constitutional limitations.

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