Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 189, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 December 1934 — Page 7

DEC. 18, 1984.

BIG TAXPAYERS ANXIOUS ABOUT RELIEFJTLAY Mounting National Debt Is Viewed With Alarm in Some Sections. Tlm Indianapolt. Tim., brrrallk pra**nt the tilth and laat la the • af artirl.* on tb* national relief attaatioa eaperiallv prepared far The Tint -a and ether Strlppa-Honard newtpaperv BY ROBERT S. BROWN Times Special Writer WASHINGTON. Dec. 18—President Roosevelt and Congress today hold the immediate anwser to the relief problem. A year ago the President answered the challenge by pouring •400.000,000 into relief channels for wages on CWA work projects. CWA cost that much before it was discontinued in the spring. Today the cry for wages as against direct relief has increased. Private capital admits it can not supply the need. From New York to San Francisco the hope for work among the relief millions rests largely on public works employment. Dispatches from Washington forecasting huge appropriations have stimulated the morale of the employable unemployed. But there is anew voice present this year, not heard at the time CWA was born—the voice of the man who pays the taxes. He has misgivings as to another huge ap- ! propnation to'supply employment.! He is critical of present relief costs, j and watches with fear the rise in the national debt. F. A. Seiberling, Akron rubber manufacturer, voiced this typical big business opinion; Taxpayers Are Aroused ‘ The quicker we can get back to ' administration of relief through ! community agencies the better off we will be. Os course these are extraordinary times. There must be Federal help now, but the community relief idea is the right one.” Protest against aditional relief spending above the actual cost of maintaining life is finding its way! into the correspondence of leading industrialists to their divisional headquarters. Oklahoma City re- j ports that the campaign of Wall Street to ‘‘cut down” has made its appearance. In Pennsylvania a “tax- | payers’ lobby" anounces that it will | open an office in the state capital! to "protect” property owners who! now bear 85 per cent of the state’s share of relief cdfct-s. Relief levies in nearly all large cities of Ohio were defeated at the November election. In desperation a special session of the Legislature' approved a sales tax to raise reve- j nue for relief and schools. The Ohio 1 situation is partly due to reduction of tax limitations on real estate from 15 to 10 mills. Gavin Payne Quoted In San Diego, a leading insurance man says; “We can t go on with the i present work relief program. Our taxes will eat us up.” Not all business men, however, share this view. George Meyers, president of the 1 Akron Chamber of Commerce, says: l

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Two of screenland’s most laughable clowns, Laurel and Hardy, will aid the Clothe-A-Child campaign of The Indianapolis Times by their cinema appearance at the benefit show at 9 Saturday morning, Dec. 22, at Loew’s Palace Theater. For the payment of a dime, which will be turned over to The Times’ Mile-O’-Dimes, the movie fan may see not only Laurel and Hardy but also Our Gang comedies, Mickey Mouse cartoons and Silly Symphonie cartoons in color.

“Whether ary appreciable number of relief clients go back in the next six months depends largely on public works.” In Indianapolis, Gavin L. Payne, Republican leader and head of an investment house, says: “Many people howl over the debt incurred by the relief program, but this is necessary work which must be done.'’ The Knoxville taxpayer has little complaint about relief costs. He is pleased with the Government spending program in the Tennessee Valley. In Washington, the a\erage taxpayer is not thinking much about the cost of relief. Miss Lillian Robbins, New York City welfare leader, thinks it would be wiser to spend more money for relief now, rather than on prisons, hospitals and crime prevention later. There as a feeling among Birmingham taxpayers that work relief should supplant direct relief. More relief funds will be available if the next Legislature votes a sales tax. In the South and in mid-Western farming states, a program of rural rehabilitation has gained support among business men and relief officials. Such a plan contemplates restoration of rural families now on relief to a self-supporting status by lending them money to buy farm equipment and livestock and to repair or build homes. Such a program is expensive at the outset, but, its exponents argue, is cheaper in the end. Such indirect Government aid to unemployment as the Federal Housing Administration has provided has been widely indorsed. Especially in California has the response to the plea for modernization of homes been cheering. In San Francisco alone more than $10,000,000 worth oi repair and rebuilding has been pledged. Buffalo expects private capital to provide the funds for many new construc-

tion jobs through the FHA modernization and new building campaigns. Despite the protests against increased Government spending for relief, and the criticisms of relief administration, those not on the dole have little to offer in the way of a remedy. Relief workers generally favor more work relief. They admit its higher cost, but cite many advantages. Employables on relief, almost to a man, live from day to day on the hope that they soon will be given an opportunity to so something useful tor the Government funds. The future course of Government relief will not be announced until Congress meets Jan. 3. It is now being mapped by the President and his advisers on the basis of this year’s experience. —THE END—COUNTY PROJECTS ON STATE ROAD PROGRAM Improvements on Two Highways Outlined by Board. Two Marion County projects are included in the $650,000 worth of construction on which the state highway commissions will receive bids Jan. 3. Work in the Indianapolis area includes widening of State Road 67 from 20 to 40 feet from Thirty-eighth-st to the Post road through Lawrence, a distance of 2.5 miles, and widening of shoulders and culverts and elimination of bad curves on Road 52 between the Marion county line and Lebanon. MODERN WOODMEN TO HOLD DISTRICT RALLY Banquet and Ritualistic Work Are Scheduled for Event. Camps comprising the Twelfth District of Modem Woodmen of America are to assemble at Woodmen Hall, 322 E. New York-st, at 8 tonight. Following a banquet, ritualistic work will be conferred by officials. J. Raymond Trout, district manager, is general chairman of the meeting. BOYS LEAVE HOMES FOR HOLIDAY JAUNT Youngsters Bound for Tennessee Parents Believe. Two Warren township youths, believed to have set out on a preholiday adventure, were sought today police and anxious relatives. The young chums, Donald Kiser, 12. of 2097 S. Emerson-av, and Donald Carthwright, 14, of 5202 Ter-race-av, were last seen Sunday afternoon. Friends of the two said Carthwright often talked of visiting Tennessee.

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'METHODIST NAMES 18 NEW INTERNES Indiana U. to Furnish Nine of Appointees. Nine Indiana University Medical students and an equal 'number from out-of-state medical schools will be admitted to Methodist Episcopal Hospital as internes next July 1. Indiana University students are George W. Wagoner, Robert W. Currie, Glen Wsrd Lee, Dan E. Talbott, Chester Lamber, Stanton L. Bryan, Lewis C. Joseph Weber and Durward Paris. Other appointees are: Merrill E. Liston, University of Kansas; F. F. DeMuth and Charles K. Kinkaid, Ohio State University; John H. Johnson, University of Illinois; J. Willard Montgomery, University of Louisville; Lawson J. Clark, University of Arkansas; John F. Van de Roovaart and James W. Doles. Northwestern University; and Lloyd L. Thompson, University of Nebraska. MERIDIAN AND WASHINGTONSTS, THE PLACE TO GIVE THOSE DIMES.

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COST ACCOUNTANTS TO HEAR TALK ON TAXES City Chapter to Hold Monthly Dinner Tomorrow. "Depreciation Accounting and Taxes” will be the subject of an address by F. W: Jackson, Cleveland, American Appraisal Cos. vice president, at the monthly dinner of the Indianapolis chapter of the National Association of Cost Accountants tomorrow night in the Washington. \ Mr. Jacksdn will aiscuuss particularly accounting practice under Treasury Department decision No. 4422, which provides that depreciation claimed in tax returns shall be “reasonable” and that the burden of proof for the claim shall rest on the taxpayer. President Leo W. Rassow will preside. The membership team cap-, tained by O. W. Guthrie will furnish entertainment. Famed Detective Dead By United Prrsg NEW YORK, Dec. 18.—Detective Lieutenant William P. H. Sheridan, 73, famous throughout the country as the possessor of “camera eyes” and known as the “great identifier”; of the New York City police department, died yesterday of heart disease.

STANDARD OIL HEADS BEGIN PARLEY HERE High Officials From Three States in Session. A two-day conference of high officials of the Standard Oil Cos. of Indiana, one of the nation’s largest corporations, was opened today at the Columbia Club. The session is the annual managers' meeting, and Is being attended by managers, assistant man-

agers and office managers from all the company’s sales divisions in Indiana, Illinois and Michigan. N Among the visitors are Allan Jackson, vice president in charge of sales; Amos Ball, general manager of sales department; R. E. Wilson, vice' president in charge

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of research and development, all three directors, and H. A. Lewis and L. W. Cameron, assistants to Mr. Ball; A. N. Steele, advertising manager; J. J. Babb, superintendent of service stations; H. L. Porter, whole-

sale co-ordinator, and P. L. King, auditor, all of Chicago. The host lor the officials is E. P. Galbreath, Indianapolis division manager, aided by H. H. Akers and G. E. Lewis, his assistants. UNIVERSAL CLUB WILL GIVE WIVES DINNER Entertainment, Dancing and Bridge Included on Program. Members of the Universal Club will entertain their wives and other guests with a dinner at the Columbia Club Thun day night. Max B. Merritt, club president, will give an address of welcome and a program of special entertainment, dancing and bridge has been arranged. Special features of the party will be the annual “Santa Claus Exchange Market” and the awarding of an oil painting by George Mess, vice president-elect, as an attendance prize. -* - - 0. E. S. TO GIVE PARTY Broad Ripple Chapter Will Give Ctristnu. Event. Broad RUple Chapter, No. 315, Order of Eastern Star, will hold a Christmas purty and degree ceremonies at the Masonic Temple tomorrow night. Mrs. Lillian DeMaru is worthy matron and Frank Brown, worthy patron.

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EXHIBITION HOUSE IS V READY FOR OPENING Girl Scouts to Entertain at Ceremony Thursday. “Exhibition House,” the shack which grew into a model cottage cm the south lawn of the Federal Build* ing in a National Housing Act deraonstaration. will be opened formally at 4 Thursday afternoon with a program including the singing of Christmas carols by 4000 Girl Scout* and speeches by city and state officials. Speakers scheduled by the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, responsible with the Indianapolis Construction League for the remodeling of the house, include Gov. Paul V. McNutt, Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan, R. Earl Peters, State Director for the Federal Housing Adminisration; Louis J. Borinstein, chamber president, anti Edward D. Pierre, league president. Walter B. Harding, who heads the chamber's modernization and repair program, will preside and the program will be broadcast over Radio Station WFBM. DANGER! DISEASE HOVERS, CLOTHE-A-CHILD.