Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 208, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 December 1925 — Page 14

P RATE HERE K LOW, NATION ■ SURVEY SHOWS y " ■ily. Washington, D. C., and Have City Report. the exceptions of Washlng- ' jffir C., and Cincinnati, Ohio, Inhad the lowest tax rate of Hpity in the United States in the 'MRlation group of cities between Hf.ooo and 600,000 inhabitants. H Taxes for State and local govMerriment costs collected in 1925 from Bevies upon property in Indianapo■lis amounted to $2.58 per SIOO of ■valuation for that part of the city ■inside Center Township; $2.67 in the ■Perry Township portion; $2.83 in the ■ Wayne Township part; $2.84 in the ■ Washington Township part and $2.86 I in Indianapolis in Warren Township. Center Township is bounded by ! Thirty-Eighth St. on the north, Emerson Ave. on the east, Belmont Ave. on the west, and Troy Ave. on the south. Wayne Township is West Indianapolis, Washington, north, I Warren, east, and Perry south. The valuation of property subject to taxes collected in 1925 in Indianapolis was $636,944,620. Sixty-nine per cent of this value represents realty and 31' per cent personal property. Considering cities having a population between 800,000 and 500,000, it is disclosed that realty represents a proportion of valuation larger than 69 In per cent in Newark, Minneapolis, Seattle, Rochester and Jersey City and a. smaller proportion than 69 per cent in Washington. New Orleans, Cincinnati and Kansas City. In the year 1925, significant improvements were made in the form and structure of city and school budgets. The changes were designed to facilitate review of proposed budget expenditures by citizens and organizations having an interest in local governmental costs. The tax rates established in 1925 for taxes to be collected in 1926, were somewhat higher than the rates of the i year previous. But, the taxes collected are to be devoted to wise and necessary expenditures. A large burden of responsibility in provision K suitable school building facilities s property assumed In the budget 1926. This In itself accounted most of the increase in tax rates. Marlon County showed a small increase over the previous .year. This was accounted for by reason of the fact that no sizable balances will exist at the end of the year 1925, for use In 1926, as had been the case in the year before.

CITY’S GROWTH SEEN BY AYRES Head of Local House Speaks Optimistically. Indianapolis is in sound condition according to Frederic M. Ayres, head of L. S. Ayres & Cos. The year 1925 was marked by “sound Hoosier progress,” he said. “Indianapolis has had another year of godd, solid growth,” declared Ayres. “The growing prosperity o£ the Nation, building slowly, quietly, soundly, has been fully reflected here. More home building, of a i>er ma.nent type, is in evidence. There is no flurry of wild speculatioi—just good, sound, conservative Hoo . sier progress. “Better taste in dress, more emphasis on sound new styles, a demand for better home furnishings are’ evidence of a return to that balanced state of mind which prevailed before the war. “For the next year I believe we may reasonably expect that the present rate of progress will continue.” STORE EXPANDS FLOOR SPACE u* One of the really veteran business houses of Indianapolis, L. Strauss & Cb., in 1925 completed an expansion of floor space that makes it one of the best equipped men’s furnishings stores in the Middle West. Though founded in 1853, nearly sev-enty-three years ago, the company is one of the livest In the city, and its ads are read by followers regularly as others follow their favorite columnists. The history of the company has been one of steady growth, involving several changes of location, until the store is now located Just east of Illinois St., on the sotuh side of Washington. The policy of the firm, of which A. L. Block is president, is to advertise Indianapolis, as well as itself. The store has a pension system for employes which takes care of accident, sickness and age. Employes have a cooperative association which shares in profits.

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Mayor Shank Points With Pride to Achievements of Last Four Years

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BY MAYOR SHANK You se*,( it was this way. I figured when I went in as mayor I’d try to pass out a little stuff to some part of town except the north side and to help the ordinary fellow a little. Now you know they kid me about being an Informal sort of a fellow, but that helps If they think you’re so stupid because they’re not on their guard. I claim our administration has done as much for the average citizen as any this city ever had and I’ll prove It. Take the municipal theaters at Brookslde and Garfield Parks. Why, they gave me the devil for them, but the thousands of poor people that see those show’s G. Carlton Guy Btages there for nothing, people who haven’t the money to see a real show, have had a little sunshine. And we did It along with building ten or twelve new playgrounds for a smaller recreation department budget than the previous administration. Taxes Lower Yeh, and you know' our general tax rate has been lower too. We Inherited bills of $300,000 from the Jewett administration, but we’re leaving all bills paid and about SIOO,OOO in the pot. And we’ve reduced the bonded indebtedness too. The city hospital we found $113,000 In debt, but Sol Schloss and his bunch actually crawled out from under and built a surplus. And they raised the hospital’s rating from 3C to A plus,, in addition to building anew nurses’ home and administration building and starting construction of an $85,000 surgery ward. We also put in a psychopathic ward out there, where they keep people

A Happy New Year This has been a wonderful year and we are not unmindful of the fact that our success during the past twelve months is due in a great measure to the thousands who have found pleasure and profit in the patronage they have so freely given us. „ We are known throughout the city and state as the sWe where one may always find “Everything in Music.” [t has been a pleasant privilege to be of service to so many during the past year. May the New Year bring to you and yours peace and prosperity in abundance. “Everything in Music” , 27 EAST OHIO STREET Hume-Mansur Building MAin 4292 —PfIONES MAin 4292

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suspected of insanity, instead of in Jail. Ask the doctors, too, about that new X-ray equipment they Installed there. / I yea* Crime Here You can cuss the polloe department all you want, but our town has less crime than any other city and, boy, you know it’s dry as a bone! Why, Ernie Kingston and the board of safety members got the copo to clean up the town right. They pinched ten thousand bootlfeggers in four years, and all my friends have been giving me the devil Blnce because they've interfered with their supply. Capt. William Paulsell of the booze squad has made a national reputation. And our night riding squads have sure brought in the burglars and crooks. The big boys in this criminal game now give Indianapolis the cold shoulder. Guess you’ve noticed how were ahead of most towns in stop-and-go signs. Why, we’ve put in more than fifty and are making a lot of cops

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they replace available for duty ehas ing bandits. One-Way Traffic And this one-way traffic on Meridian St., they say. Is one of the best stunts we ever pulled. It clears the downtown district evenings faster than ever before. But you can’t deny Fire Chief O’Brien and his aidß have made the fire department absolutely the best in the country. The class for Are insurance has been reduced from 2% to 1%, and I don’t mean maybe when I say that means dollars and cents to these business men. The lire prevention department we started on nothing now gets prize of all the country. y The policemen and firemen are with us, too, because we didn’t forget them on the high cost of living. We gave them 60 cents a day raise and they sure needed it, with potatoes and eggs as high as they are. And we kept the firemen warm by installing steam heat in the fire houses. W e’vo tried to make golf a poor man’s game here and have kept up all courses, In addition to adding Brightwood Rnd South Side links.

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Then we built nine bridges over Pogue's Run, a $93,900 swimming pool for the west side at Rhodius Park and established a number of municipal beaches and pools along the river and over the city. Street Car service Now I knew the t Indianapolis Street Railway Company couldn’t get along on a nickel fare and we let them charge 7 cents. But we made them' fix their tracks and give better service. Don’t forget too, they now take you to Broad Ripple at city rates. John Duvall won’t have to come across much for his home town. Broad Ripple, because we’ve done it already. We gave thorn paved streets and sewers out that way and then turned around and built a three millioil dollar sewage disposal plant and started the Bean Creek interceptor sewer people had been trying to put over for fifteen years. And those men on the board of works have sure made good. They built 350 miles and resurfaced fifty miles of streets In the last four years. And, oh, boy, how rough they were and full of ehuckholes when we went Into office. Brightwood, Haughvllle and southeast Indianapolis never had streets like these before. Our board widened Delaware St. In connection with building thp bridge across Fall Creek, widened Illinois St., Senate Ave., East St., Ohio St., from Alabama to East St. and built a fountain for Fountain Square. Clean Streets John Walker kept the streets clean, 350 more miles of them, on less money than In the last administration. The street commissioner’s department got so good they gave almost ambulance service on repairs to streets and sewers, a thing unheard of before. Our board of works signed contracts for track elevation and work totaling millions of dollars and work already Is under way. Tell me the south side won’t bloom like a. rose! Then the board went ahead with flood prevention, and we Just a few days ago opened the Oliver Ave. and Kentucky Ave. bridged across White River, completed in record time.

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At THE End of This Suecessful Year, We Wish to Thank Our Many Friends and Patrons Who Were Instrumental in Our Success. May the Coming Year Build a Bond of Friendship and Trust Between Us, Never to Be Broken.

PIGGLY WIGGLY STORES, Inc. INDIANAPOLIS • INDIANA

THURSDAY, DEC. 31, 1925