Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 208, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 January 1931 — Page 2

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LIVES ARE LOST BY FIVE FLIERS IN ITALIANS' SEA HOP

2 PLANES ARE WRECKED SOON AFTER START Splendid Achievement of Atlantic Dash Marred hy Tragedy. OTHERS LAND IN SEA Pour of 14 Machines That Began Trip Failed to • Reach Brazil. > ,'/ V Kited Press ROME, Jan. B.—Tragedy dimmed the rejoicing of the Italian people over the South Atlantic flight of General Italo Balbo’o seaplane squadron today. An official announcement said that five aviators were killed in two accidents that marred the beginning of the flight from Bolama, Portuguese Guiana, approximatley 1,900 miles over the ocean to Natal, Brazil. The other planes were forced down at sea. Ten others completed the flight. Two pilots, two mechanics and one wireless operator were killed. The dead were: Captain Louis Boer and Lieutenant Danilo Barbicinti. pilots; First Sergeant Louis Fois and Sergeant Felice Nensi, mechanics; Sergeant Ercole Imbastari, radio operator Five Lives Are Lost The first accident occurred when a plane, piloted by Captain Enea Silvio Recagno, was forced to descend from an altitude of about 150 feet. First Sergeant Fois, riding on the left side of the machine, was killed when the heavily-loaded plane struck the water. The left float of the seaplane was badly damaged. The seaplane remained afloat and the four survivors were rescued. The machine later was towed back to Bolama. The accident that cost the lives of four fliers occurred about ten minutes after the take off from Bolama. The plane commanded by Captain Boer caught Are and descended on the sea in flames. The four occupants were burned to death. The plane was destroyed. Two Make Forced Landing The official announcement emphasized that both accidents were the result of unavoidable risks in connection with the full load necessary for a flight of almost 1,900 miles. The seaplanes carried the heaviest loads ever taken across the Atlantic by air. The two seaplanes that made forced landings on the high seas en route to Brazil and were picked up by Italian war vessels were expected to arrive at Fernando Noronha island, off the Brazilian coast today, the official announcement said HOLD LEEOY FUNERAL AT HOME FRIDAY MORNING Former Drum Maker Will Be Buried in Crown Hill Cemetery, Last rites for Ulysses G. Leedy, 63, of 5260 Grandview drive, formerly a nationally known maker of percussion instruments, will be held at, the residence at 2:30 p. m. Friday. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery’. Mr. Leedy died at the Robert W. Long hospital early Wednesday. Death was due to heart disease After several years as a traveling bandsman. Mr. Leedy began manufacturing drums in Indianapolis in 1898, He established the Leedy Manufacturing Company here in 1903. MARION WOMAN HELD Matrimonial Swindler Accused Again in Federal Custody. By United Press MARION, Ind., Jan. B—United States postal inspectors today arrested Mrs. Oda Lippens, 33, Marion, and took her to Ft. Wayne to be arraigned before United States Commissioner William D. Remmel. Mrs. Lippens at present is free under $3,000 bond awaiting appearance before a federal grand jury at Indianapolis in connection with an alleged matrimonial swindle scheme. Inspector Herman Atkins refused to divulge the new charge against the prisoner. CRIME REPORT OPPOSED Constabulary Idea Draws Fire of State Labor Head. Recommendation of the state crime commission's report for the establishment of a constabulary brought opposition to the entire report when T. N. Taylor, president of the State Federation of Labor, announced his stand today. “I am opposed to the entire report lam opposed to any more political machines being set up in Indiana under the guise of a constabulary,” he declared. DEATH TAKES HISTORIAN Cerebral Hemorrhage Proves Fatal to Edward Channing. By United Press CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. B.—Edward Channing. professor-emerius of Harvard university and historian, died from a cere brail hemorrhage at his home here Wednesday, in his seventy-fifth year. In adidtion to his voluminous history, Channing wrote numerous smaller works treating almost all phases of American history.

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Gov. Leslie’s Address to Legislature

Address of Governor Harry G. Leslie to members of the Seventy-seventh Indiana general assembly, at its opening session today, follows: In defining the duties of the Goverror, the Constitution of the state of Indiana says: “He (the Governor) shall, from time to time, give to the general assembly information touching the condition of the state, and recommend such measures as he shall judge to be expedient.” Under the authority and mandate of the Constitution it becomes the duty of the Governor to communicate with you at this time, and further during your session as occasion may demand. Having outlined the three departments of our state government, the legislative, the judicial and the executive, which latter includes the administrative, our state Constitution goes on to say:

"No person charged with official duties, under one of these departments, . shall exercise any of the functions of another except as in this Constitution expressly provided.” The functions of each department of our state government are defined sharply in our basic law. There will be no overlapping of governmental activities. There will be no attempt by the executive department to assume the functions of the legislative department nor to dictate its policies. You have been chosen to represent your respective communities and constituencies In the lawmaking body of our great commonwealth. Yours the distinction, yours the congratulations, yours the responsibilities and implied obligations. We all have, in common, the realization that although we were elected to public office as representatives of political parties, we became, on assuming our obligations and public duties, the instruments of the entire body politic.

Taxation Big Problem

It is scarcely necessary for me to say that ih your deliberations and acts, your success will be measured in accord with your intelligent adhesion to the best interests of all the people. Good government and good legislation are the best politics. He who would serve his party best must best serve the people. The wisdom of our fathers never was more strikingly demonstrated than in the sound constitutional provision which prevents the state from assuming bonded indebtedness to meet the financial demands of expanding modern government. We are free from financial obligations and have sufficient funds on hand and in prospect from revenues in due course to be paid, to meet all budget requirements during the fiscal year. You have come together at a time when taxation stands out as the state’s most serious economic problem. The people have made constant and increasing demands upon the various departments of state government. The resultant expansion of the functions of the departments in response to public insistence has tended to increase the cost of government. This expansion has been brought about over a long period of years, and logically results from a complex and changing era of remarkable growth in many directions. Betterments and progress are not spontaneous or magic growths. The people pay for progress.

Wants Tax Relief

The tragedy of the present situation is that under our system of taxation an unfair and disproportionate share of the tax burden is borne by real property—lands and improvements and the products of the farm. In changing from an agricultural state to a commonwealth both industrial and agricultural, many new classes of property have been created Many types of property entirely escape taxation and real property continues as of old to pay a large and burdensome part of the cost of modern government. This intolerable situation can not be allowed to continue. The unjust tax burden must be lifted from the land and fairly distributed where it rightfully belongs. The Seventy-sixth general assembly provided for a taxation commission which was instructed to make a systematic study of the taxation situation. This commission will have information and recommendations to submit to you for your consideration and action. I wish strongly to emphasize the fact that I am not concerned as to the form that tax relief shall take, but I am very greatly concerned, and the taxpayers are very deeply concerned, that relief shall come. The taxation problem can not be solved by voting new taxes or new forms of taxation to meet new expenditures. It is essential, as I see it, and as the overburdened taxpayers see it, that new forms of taxation here devised actually shall displace and do away with a portion of the taxes now levied upon real property.

Cites Education Value

Ease of quick communication, good roads, and facilities for speedy transportation serve to merge communities. We no longer live in isolated groups as in the old days. ! Eighty years ago there were good reasons for setting up and maintaining the numerous small political units which we now maintain. However, in this modern age, j when distances have ceased to be I formidable, and urban facilities have made all sections kin, the reasons for our numerous expensive political units have become obsolete. Mergers and consolidations in industry snd business are the order of the new day. What is good business in private management ought to be just as good business in public administration. * An enabling act that would make it possible for townships or counties to combine, thus doing away with much of the overhead of local govw°ul<| provide one means of relief for the taxpayer. mSTJSS 6 ! Wlsely guarantees to e\ery child in every home an equal 10 411 education. The cost of maintaining the public schools on modern standards so has increased that many school units are finding themselves unable to meet the requirements of today, i White.toeing % proper pride 1$ the

progressive elevation of educational standards, In the expansion of physical equipment, the Improvement of teacher training, and in enhancement of pay for teachers, as well as in the broadening of the varied and modernized courses, we are compelled to consider the problems which the new education forces upon some of our school units.

Bank Weakness Shown

The Seventy-sixth general assembly provided for a comprehensive survey of this problem, and the information obtained through this survey will be available for your use and guidance. I am convinced that the state, through the state board of accounts, should exercise a closer supervision of the expenditures of state funds in the state school aid units, before such expenditures are made. The problems confronting joint and consolidated schools have had the careful attention of a commission of experienced schoolmen and public officials. The recommendations of this commission should receive your careful consideration. A sound banking system is one of the vital agencies in our social and industrial welfare. The economic depression has served to reveal certain weaknesses in the Indiana system of banking. It is manifest that the bank’s strongest and best asset is the confidence of the people in the bank’s management and solvency. Legislation, better to protect depositors. creditors and stockholders, will help greatly to sustain confidence and encourage business and industrial activities. The subject is respectfully urged upon your attention.

‘Pay as We Go’ on Roads

Indiana has a superb highway system, praised from one end of the country to the other. Our good roads have been built by those who use the roads. The highway construction program should go on and the pay-as-we-go system should be continued. Any effort to divert the funds now used for road construction and maintenance would be inadvisable and ill-timed. Highway construction is estimated and based upon yearly receipts from the gasoline and other special taxes and fees. The highway commission necessarily plans for construction a year in advance and lets contracts on that basis. It is easy to see that any diversion or depletion of the regular highway construction and maintenance funds must destroy the road program, disrupt the organization, slow down the good roads movement, and hamper a service which is making itself indispensable and which is demanded urgently by the public. All money collected as gasoline taxes and automobile license fees should be expended upon our roads in justice to the public. Continued use of our highways for freight and passenger traffic makes it necessary to devise and enforce regulatory measures to protect both the roads and the traveling public. Unless the weight of the load legally hauled upon our roads is limited rigidly, we shall see the highways steadily worn down, disintegrated, and virtually destroyed. It is well to consider that this means we will have to begin x*econstruction of many highways within five years at an ultimate cost of $150,000,000. The matter Is urgent. Proper protection for the travelling public and highways means a limit placed by law upon the speed, width and length of motor bus and motor truck using our highways for commercial purposes.

Urges Primary Repeal

The work of repealing the primary law should be continued. The failure of the Indiana primary system has brought about a measure of constructive action looking to its abolishment. It is time to complete the restoration of truly representative government by returning to the higher level of party integrity demanded under a system wherein political parties are agencies of government. The ease with which wholly irresponsible persons may secure places on the primary ballot, the often displayed irresponsibility to party, and the Immense sums of money spent to obtain nominations under the faulty primary system employed In Indiana, constitute serious evils which tend to destroy the essential safeguards of political integrity and purity. The call is for a return to the representative form of government and for adequate safeguards against fraud and corruption. Our political parties must be restored to that status of self respect, efficiency, and integrity which will qualify them better to serve as Intelligent and incorruptible agencies for carrying forward the people’s government. Indiana should have a workable, sound, and simplified system for registration of voters. Ido not hold with those who seek to burden the taxpayers with a costly, unwieldy, and elaborate registration scheme Involving all complexities, outlays, and machinery of a general election!

Reapportionment Faced

There can be no doubt as to need for an honest registration as a preventive of fraud at our elections. It is your part to devise a registration system adequate to meet a genuine need, while carefully avoiding partisan motive, extravagance, and error * - ft ,

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Under the 1930 census, Indiana’s representation in the national house of representatives will be reduced from thirteen to twelve. The Seven-ty-seventh general assembly faces the task of creating twelve congressional districts where now we have thirteeen. It is to be expected that many serious difficulties and divergences of opinion will arise. It is perhaps to be expected that there will be considerable jockeying for political or partisan advantage. However, with the people of Indiana looking on and calling for fair play and constructive action, the strategists of politics ought to be able to arrive, through moderation and forbearance, at such adjustments as will satisfy all concerned. The era of the “shoestring” district is gone forever, and the gerrymander should be relegated, even as It has been discredited. Congressional reapportionment should be worked out on a compromise basis and with such celerity as to prevent it from becoming a legislative obstruction. Under existing laws, four Indiana counties, each containing a city of more than 100,000 population, according to the latest census, may be burdened with superfluous and unnecessary, as well as unwanted, courts. At a time when juvenile and probate courts were being provided for the city of Indianapolis and Marion county, laws were enacted in 1903 and 1907 to create such courts “in all counties within the state wherein is situated an incorporated city containing, according to the last preceding United States census returns, a population of not less than 100,000 inhabitants.”

Courts Are Not Needed

The 1930 census shows that four counties within the state come within the category outlined in 1903 and 1907. I am convinced that these four counties do not need and do not want these ejrtra and costly courts. Yet the law provides for the courts under the census returns. The juvenile court law of 1903 and the probate court law of 1907, providing for Indianapolis and Marion county, should be amended to continue to provide for such courts in the capital city, and so as to exclude from its provisions the four other counties which are not yet so populous as to be ready to take on luxuries in the form of additional courts. ' A commission for the study of law observance and crime prevention, appointed by authority of the Sev-enty-sixth general assembly, has carried on systematic studies and aggressive investigations during the last year. Regional conferences have been held in various parts of the state. Eminent criminologists, social workers, and law enforcement officers have been called in for counsel from all over the country. Every possible effort has been made by the commission to arrive at satisfactory and intelligent constructive solutions of our pressing social problems. Fnding and conclusions of the crime commission should have your most serious consideration. The criminal and the lawbreaker not only challenge, but threaten, our civilization. There can be no surrender on the part of organized society. The challenge of organized crime must be met in a. way that shall vindicate justice and re-establish law and order.

Fee System Arraigned

Your special attention is called to the flagrant evils connected with and growing out of the fee system in public offices, where the straight salary plan of right should be in force. Public offices should not be maintained for the enrichment of individuals at the expense of the taxpaying public. Fees should go to the government itself, and the individual public officer should be allowed a fair salary commensurate to his services, honestly and efficiently rendered. Experience has shown that the system under which oil inspectors or deputies are authorized to collect fees for the oil inspection bureau should be modified to provide for payment of fees directly to the bureau. Measures should be taken to eliminate the elements of temptation and uncertainty in the collection of fees due the state. It should be made entirely plain in the law that no automobile licenses shall be issued without charge to any persons, departments of state, municipalities, or others. Abuses growing out of a free list system should be drastically corrected wherever they occur. Indiana’s state institutions are managed efficiently. They are the equal of any in service rendered. Rigid economy is practiced faithfully and intelligently in their operation. Two years of close observation convinces me that they are managed honestly. The innovation of technically trained and expert counsel has served to correct conditions here and there, to prevent illadvised or injudicious proposed expenditures. On the whole, the showing under the nonpartisan board system has been admirable. Some of our state Institutions are seriously overcrowded. These evil conditions must be alleviated through an increased building program.

Prison Idleness Serious

In meeting the problem of our overcrowded hospitals for the insane, anew institution would seem to be more desirable than new buildings at the existing institutions. It is to be considered that such institutions may become too large—so large as to make it impossible for those in charge to render successful and efficient service, such as the state is bound to provide for its unfortunates. Idleness in our penal institutions is a serious problem. A federal law, the Hawes-Cooper act, renders all prison-made products subject to regulations of the state to which the prison goods are shipped. Asa result of this legislation and the active opposition to prison competition in industry and commerce, the question of employment for the unfortunate* in our penal institutions has

I become increasingly difficult to answer. Idle men under prison conditions are potentially dangerous and discipline is menaced by those whose minds and hands are unemployed. It is often too true that dependents of the inmate suffer because his income as worker within the walls has been curtailed. We have here a double problem: That of the idle inmate of the penal institution with its sinister implications, and that of the inmate’s dependents, whose plight must command our sympathy. We should not rest until we have solved this double problem. In compliance with concurrent resolution adopted by the 1929 general assembly, the state Capitol has been renovated thoroughly at minimum cost, the necessary expenditures being paid out of the Governor’s emergency contingency fund. Your special attention is invited to the building, as to its improved appearance and sanitary condition. Your attention is called to the progress made in the field of conservation, and especially to the advantageous acquisition and successful operation of our famous state parks. The record of the Indiana conservation department speaks for itself. It calls for your friendly interest and study.

Urges Lincoln Shrine

Abraham Lincoln spent his formative years in Indiana. His mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, is buried In Indiana. Kentucky, Illinois and the national government have honored themselves by erecting permanent memorials to Lincoln. It is for Indiana and her people to complete the tribute by raising a fitting Lincoln shrine at Nancy Hanks Lincoln’s tomb, on the farm where Abraham Lincoln grew to manhood. Much has been done. Much yet is to be done before Indiana’s tribute has been paid. You will hear from those who are in the Lincoln Memorial movement what the plans are and how those plans are being advanced. The cause is worthy and is entitled to a fair hearing and full consideration. After an exhaustive survey of the state the tuberculosis commission has a report in printed form, making available to you its conclusions and findings as to the most practicable means and methods for combating the insidious white plague. I recommend the adoption of this report and urge that the necessary steps be taken without delay to put in effect the plans contained therein. The seventy-sixth general assembly authorized a commission to study and report on the needs of Negro orphans within the state. This commission will be ready to report in due time. A commission was authorized by the general assembly of 1929, to study and develop a solution of the problems confronting the railroads of the state and their employes. This commission is going forward with its investigation. It should be continued for another two years.

Avoid Too Many Laws

By legislative act of the seventysixth general assembly the state examiner of the department of inspection and supervision of public offices has completed an investigation of national guard armories, the report of which will be submitted for your information. You do not need to be reminded that the modern tendency is to seek to correct every evil by passing a law. Too many energetic and wellmeaning persons seek zealously and enthusiastically to have the government do the things which we once did for ourselves. There will be those from among your constituents who will urge you to father this or that or the other pet measure, and those importunate ones will be fully self-convinced ‘that their proposed measures carry infallible cures and invaluable solutions for mighty problems. Some of these measures will have much of merit in them. Some will be vicious in the extreme. All, will require your most careful and painstaking scrutiny. Time employed in keeping bad or foolish bills out of the legislative hopper will be time well spent. I urge upon you the strictest economy In connection with your legislative program, and bespeak for you a constructive and generally beneficial session, marked for its harmonious wisdom and high statesmanship. DENY JUDGMENT ARREST Bienz Sentence Due Saturday for Illegal Ballot Marking. With a petition to arrest judgment denied by Special Criminal Judge Henry M. Dowling, John L. Bienz, 78, former Fourth ward G. O. P. precinct committeeman convicted several weeks ago by a jury of illegally marking primary, election ballots, will be sentenced on Saturday to serve a five-to-ten-year term at the Indiana state prison. Seeress Punched on Nose Mrs. Raleigh Jeffries, 955 South Capitol avenue, was telling the fortunes of two men Wednesday night, and to one prophesied the loss of 18 cents. Her client hit her in the nose, and both men ran away, she told police. She said they were drunk.

Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported to police as stolen belong to: J. J. Liddy. 314 North Arsenal avenue, Marmon sedan. 88-257. from Georgia and Illinois streets. Ralph Smith. R. R. 16. Box 76. Ford sedan, from Senate avenue and Market street. Kal T. Benham. 4559 CarroUton avenue. Ford sport coupe. 57-212. from Vermont and Meridian streets. Walter H. Sweazey. 1119 Naomi street. Hudson. 65-711. from Virginia avenue and Washington street. „ W. A. Hadlev. 609 East Forty-fourth street. OUismobile sedan. 225-006. from Court and Illinois streets. J. j. Beasley. 1421 Blaine avenue. Ford sedan, irom Meridian and Raymond streets.

BACK HOME AGAIN

Stolen automobiles recovered by police belong to: , Edith Straw. Anderson. led.. Dodge sedan, found In front of 220? Alvora street. O. A. Human. 520 North Hawthorne road. Ford coupe, found at Dearborn and Tenth streets. . |

GANGS RENEW CRIME ATTACK IN CLEVELAND Bandit Guns Kill Five in Month; Murders Are Unsolved. By United Press CLEVELAND, Jan. B.—A policeman and private operative died today, another officer was in a critical condition with gunshot wounds and two bandits and a spectator were wounded in a renewed outburst of banditry that has brought death to seven citizens within a month. Shortly after policeman James Ryan died in Fairvlew Park hospital from wounds inflicted in a gun battle with an escaped convict early last night, Albert Burke, an American district telegraph guard, was fatally wounded in an encounter with two bandits in a downtown jewelry store. Both gunmen escaped, although one was wounded. As the death toll mounted in one of the greatest crime waves in Cleveland’s history, increased vigilance was ordered along the entire police front and acting chief George J. Matowitz personally assumed charge of the counter offensive. Five of the seven citizens killed within a month have died in the range of bandits’ guns and their murders have been unsolved. OPTIMIST OFFICIALS IN WINTER MEETING International Chiefs Open 3-Day Session at Columbia Club. Boys’ work and organization policies were discussed today at the opening of a three-day midwinter meeting of officers of Optimist International in the Columbia Club. The three-day sessions opened with a closed meeting of the executive committee this morning. Friday noon international officers and district governors will attend the regular luncheon meeting of the Indianapolis Optimist Club at the Claypool. Paul V. McNutt, dean of the Indiana university law school, will speak at the luncheon. SEAL FUNDS REQUESTED Second Warning Is Issued for Donations to Be Sent at Once Second warning that unless Christmas seal donations are forwarded immediately to headquarters in the Meyer-Kiser building community health work of the Marion County Tuberculosis Association must be curtailed during the coming year was issued today. Simultaneously came indorsement of the Indiana tuberculosis commission’s proposed legislative enactment to add 650 beds for the care of tuberculosis to the present state total of 1,156.

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Legislator Dies

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George Saunders, editor of the Bluffton Banner, Democratic state representative, who died Wednesday night in the Claypool hotel, after a sudden heart attack.

BANK FAILURES RESULTIN QUIZ Tennessee House Votes to Probe State Offices. By United Press NASHVILLE, Term., Jan. B.—A resolution for immediate and exhaustive investigation of "all departments of the state government” and “the activities of all private citizens directly or indirectly connected with transactions with the state “was introduced in both houses of the Tennessee • legislature Wednesday. The house quickly passed the resolution, unamended, 95 to 0. The inquiry results from tie-up of some $6,000,000 of state funds by failure of Caldwell & Cos, investment bankers, and subsidiary banking institutions. The resolution prorides for appointment of a joint committee of twelve, five to be appointed by the Speaker of the senate and seven by Walter Haynes, Speaker of the house. A house measure calling for repeal of Chapter 33 of acts of extra session which conferred on the state funding board power to approve banks for state deposits was introduced, in line with criticisms of the act in mass meetings where speakers charged the act was partly responsible for the tie-up of state funds. Father of Five Kills Self

By United Press NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Jan. B. Thomas Parton, 55, committed suicide today by shooting himself in the head with a shotgun. He leaves his widow and five children.

JAN. 8, 1931

HOPE HELD FOR REGISTRATION BILLMOPTION Women Voters Encourage Despite Rejection of ‘Horse Trade.’ Despite their defiance of Governor Harry G. Leslie, who sought to make them a political ‘‘boss trade,” the Indiana League of Women Voters today sounded a note of praise for the ray of hope for passage of a registration bill contained in the Governor’s message. Leslie told league representatives, summoned by him to a conference, that he would support registration if they would “lay off” any attempts to enlarge or retain the primary system. repeal of which was advocated in the Governor’s legislative message today. But the deal fell through. The women refused to trade. Vetoed at Last Session Capitalizing on the mention of a registration bill in the message, the league women contend that the one they will have introduced (pocket vetoed by Leslie at the last session) meets the requirements of workability and inexpensiveness advocated in the address. But they know the Governor isn’t for thei/ bill. Here is what Mrs. B. C. Ellis, chairman of the league steering committee, said today as spokesman for their registration measure. Cheapest to Operate “It is a source of gratification and pleasure to know that the registration bill which we shall support in this session of the assembly meets the requirements mentioned by Governor Leslie in his address to the assembly this morning. “You will remember that he made several points that any registration system should be as inexpensive as possible, workable, and should not set up a machinery as elaborate aa that of a general election. “In our investigation of registration systems in other states we have found that permanent systems embodying the identical principles of the Indiana bill are the cheapest to operate of any system. The cost of the old system In Indiana ranged from 5 cents to 46 cents a vote. The cost of the installation of the proposed system would be considerably less than the average yearly cost of the old system, which was approximately 16 cenps a vote. Saving Is Effected “The saving effected by a permanent system is found in the years after the first registration has been completed. The cost of keeping the system up to date would not bo greater than the lowest cost for any county under the old system, and in rural communities would be much less. “The use of accepted modern methods used in business establishments makes the registration system one that is extremely easy to keep up to date and to administer.”