Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 33, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 April 1935 — Page 3

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‘NOW or never; is plea of ROOSEVELT'S AIDS, URGING BOLD AHACK ON CONGRESS President Has Reached Critical Hour in His Relationship With Legislators, Is Opinion of Seasoned Observers. BV THOMAS L. STOKES Tinn Special Writer WASHINGTON, April 18. President Roosevelt has reached a critical hou , ‘ in his relationship with Congress, in the opinion of seasoned observers here. The question as stated by New Dealers, is this:

“Shall the magnificent adventure of the New Deal lie carried to its climax, or shall it be sacrificed and compromised and sabotaged beyond f recognition by snipers of all stripes, right and left, who have started a eat-and-dog fight in Congress which has produced virtual legislative paralysis?" President Roosevelt laid down in his message to the 74th Congress a program designed to carry the NewDeal on Toward completion. Still Locked in Committees Three and a half months later those measures, with two exceptions, are still locked up in committees, the Senate dog-trots in a narrow circle, and the opposition raises a siren cry to drop part of the program, adjourn Congress and “give business a chance ’’ The two .xceptions are the $4,680.000.000 work relief bill, finally extricated a few days ago from the Senate morass, and the social security bill, now before the House and faced with threats i fOm lavish left-wingers. These two are most important measures, the first as an emergency device to give jobs to the unemployed and stimulate business and industry, the second as a permanent, if partial, remedy for the recurring evils of unemployment and old-age dependency. Other Bills Waiting Still waiting are other important New Deal measures which are being threatened by the delay that kills. There is the administration bill for continuing and perfecting NRA, \the Rayburn-Wheeler Bill to regulate public utilities and break up the great holding companies, the Administration Banking Bill, designed to give the country an orderly banking system adequately supervised by the government, the new Pure Food and Drugs Bill, Amendments to the Agricultural Adjustment Act. and regulation of trucks and busses.

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Advocates of this program foresee a likely jam as the hot weather comes along, in which some of these measures will be lost unless the President asserts his leadership boldly, takes a hand personally and demands action of his lieutenants at the Capitol. A Case of “Now or Never" It is virtually a case of “now or never,” according to observers here. For a session of Congress which precedes a presidential election—as the next session will—is traditionally a mere political forum full of sound and fury and bare of achievement. President Roosevelt has much at stake politically in deciding whether to fight or let Congress muddle along. It was the promise of a New Deal that fired the imagination of the voters in 1932. It was a New' Deal under way, and the hope of what was to come, that swept the country in the 1934 congressional elections, according to political diagnosticians. By the same token, they say, it will be a New' Deal in large part accomplished that will hold the voters in 1936 and carry Mr. Roosevelt safejy between the Huey Longs, Father Coughlins and Dr. Townsends, on one hand, and the reactionary “do nothings” on the other. Spokesmen Are Weak Analysis of the present session of Congress indicates that responsibility for inaction and delay must rest upon Mr. Roosevelt's spokesmen in Congress. The lack of accomplishment can be attributed only to a faltering leadership. When this session began, the President adopted a npw policy of leaving Congiess to w'ork out his program. His plan has not worked well. Recently the President has spoken out through the press and through congressional visitors for parts of his program. He has clarified his views here and there, seeking to work through the regular channels in a co-operative way. He has in this way demanded action on his social security program and served notice he wants the banking bill intact.

CAMP FIRE GIRLS JOIN IN CLEAN-UP DRIVE

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Front Row. Left to Right—Betty Ann Jackson, Muriel Michael, Frank Henley, Barbara Sternfcls, Mary Bernard, Jane Shafer and Ann Loser. Rear Row, Left to Right—Betty Barnard and Barbara Kern. Local Camp Fire Girls are learning good citizenship by participating in the Clean-Up. Paint-Up, Fix-Up campaign sponsored by the Junior Chamber of Commerce. The girls have planted a tree in University Park and presented it to Frank Henley, World War Memorial secretary.

State Budget Balanced, Jackson Tells Realtors Additional Taxes Not Needed Unless for Old Age Pensions, Gross Income Director Reveals. “Unless there is a demand for an increase in old-age pension payments, Indiana's budget for the next two years is balanced without additional taxes,” Clarence A. Jackson, state director of the income tax division, told Indianapolis Real Estate Board members at the Washington Hotel yesterday.

But Mr. Jackson hastened to add that the future of the tax division was not as rosy as it looked, because various groups are attempting to instigate new taxes, change old methods of taxation and generally shift the burden of tax levies. It was pointed out that Indianapolis city property taxes have been reduced from $18,939,000 in 1932 to $13,225,000 in 1935, and that the state budget is $4,000,000 less than in 1929 and $14,000,000 less than in 1931. Among the various types of taxation favored by certain groups mentioned by Mr. Jackson was a consumers’ sales tax to replace the

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gross income tax. Those connected with the oil industry are on the lookout, according to Mr. Jackson, for any attempt to increase gasoline taxes in Indiana. Although so far all gasoline taxes have been used on highway improvement, certain states have appropriated higher gasoline taxes to be used in forms of relief. Manufacturing concerns, Mr. Jackson said, can be counted on to resist special corporation taxes and banking institutions are asking that state banks be exempted from gross income tax as the national banks already are because of Federal restrictions.

HARRISON BONUS DRAWS ATTACKS ON TWO FRONTS Cash Advocates, Die-Hard Foes Open Fire on Bill as Straddle. By United Prcrnt WASHINGTON. April 18.—Efforts of Administration leaders to straddle the bonus issue drew fire today both from advocates of immediate payment and from those who oppose any action on the bonus at this time. Democratic leaders were placed in an exposed position, subject to attack from both sides. Three Administration wheelhorses in the Senate—Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas, Pat Harrison of Mississippi and James W. Byrnes of South Carolina—are up for re-election next year. They are facing a difficult situation at the polls and a satisfactory solution of the bonus question would ease the tension. President Roosevelt has made no commitment for the bill introduced by Mr. Harrison yesterday. While administration sources have given out word that he would not veto it, he still was in a position either to go along with the compromise or stick to his former forthright statements against payment. Two of the three Administration stalwarts, Mr. Robinson and Mr. Harrison, have incurred the enmity of Senator Huey P. Long (D. La.), to such an extent that Long intends to go into their states next year and try to defeat them. Looking ahead, therefore. Senators have begun to mend fences as best they can. If they can swing the veterans’ vote their chances will be improved. Should they arouse hostility both from the veterans and from citizens who look upon any bonus payment as a raid upon the treasury by a privileged minority their position w'ould be more precarious than before.

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Entire City to Bow in Prayer on Good Friday

Eight Services in Business Area Are Arranged to Aid Worshipers. (Continued From Page One) Christian, Capitol Avenue Methodist Episcopal. Carrollton Avenue Reformed, Grace Church of the Brethren, Fairview Presbyterian, Fiftyfirst Street Methodist Episcopal, Meridian Heights Presbyterian. North Methodist Episcopal. Northwood Christian and University Park Christian. Other Services Listed A three-hour service at the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Advent, Meridian and 33d-sts, will be conducted by the rector, the Rev. George S. Southworth. The service at the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church will begin at 2. and that of the Bethlehem Lutheran Church at 1:30. The Union Congregational and Unity Methodist Protestant Churches will join in a special service with Riverside Park Methodist Episcopal Church at Harding-st and Edgemont-av. A service will begin at 2 at the Second Moravian Church, 34th and Hovey-sts. On the East Side a union service will be held at the Brookside United Brethren Church with the congregations of the First Reformed, East Tenth Street Methodist Episcopal and Centenary Christian Churches participating. Another union service, beginning at 1:30, w'ill be held in Grace Methodist Episcopal Church. Churches taking part will be the Emerson Avenue Baptist, Linw'ood Christian, Tuxedo Park Baptist and Wallace Street Presbyterian. The Downey Avenue Christian and Irvington Methodist Episcopal Churches will join in a service at 1:30 in the Irvington Presbyterian Church. Services on South Side South Side services will be held in the Edwin Ray Methodist Episcopal Church, Laurel and Woodlawnavs, at 1:15 with St. Mark’s Lutheran Church joining. Churches tak-

ing part in a three-hour service at the Garfield Park Baptist Church, will be the Bethany Lutheran Barth Place Methodist Episcopal Olive Branch Christian. Shelby -Street Methodist Episcopal. Garfield Park Christian and Garfield Park Baptist. The service at St. John's Evangelical Church, Leonard and Sanders-sts. will be held at 2 and that at the Friedens Evangelical Church, S. Alabama-st and Park-way-av, will be at 7:30 p. m. A three-hour service will be held at the Calvary United JBrethren Church, Hoyt and State-avs. The Speedway Methodist Episcopal, Eighth Christian, West Side Nazarene and Memorial Baptist Churches will join in a service at 2. in the West Michigan Street Methodist Episcopal Church. A union service beginning at 1 will be held in the West Morris Street Christian Church with the Second Free Methodist, Blaine Avenue Methodist Episcopal. Second Friends. Belmont United Brethren and Westview Baptist Churches participating. LAUDS SOUND BUSINESS Mallory Official Speaks Before City Cost Accountants. Marked gains in corporate earnings during the first quarter of 1935 may be credited to adherence, through necessity, to sound principles of economic operation, Joseph E. Cain. P. R. Mallory Cos. vice president, said in an address before the Indianapolis chapter of the National Association of Cost Accountants last night in the Washington. CHOIR IS ON’PROGRAMS Beech Grove High School Section to Give Three Performances. The Beech Grove High School speech choir, directed by Miss Bessie B. Minor, will present three performances of the Scripture story of Christ’s crucifixion tomorrow, Good Friday. The presentations will be in the school auditorium, 11 a. m.; Cavalry Baptist Church, 1:30 p. m. and St. Mark's Lutheran Church, 7:45.

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CHARITY FUND FILES REPORT City Foundation Expended $91,564 in '34. Received $104,289. The Indianapolis Foundation in its annual report today announced that disbursements for 1934 were 591.564. Income accruing to the Foundation from all sources was $104,289. There also was returnable $12,441 received from the Indiana State Board of Education in partial reimbursement for expenditures on the James E. Roberts School for Crippled Children. Disbursements were: St. Margaret's Hospital Guild, occupational therapy. City Hospital, $5916; maintenance of nurses for chronic invalids. handicapped i dults and crippled children under direction of the Public Health Nursing Association, 57500; high school and college | scholarship. $6800; maintenance of James E. Roberts School for Crippled Children. $16,411; Indianapolis 1 Community Fund. $35,000; sight conservation class. $100; Indianapolis League for the Hard of Hearing. S4OO. Indiana State Symphony Society, SSO; social service. Indianapolis OrI phans’ Asylum, $6000; school dental | clinics. City Health Board. $3497; Marion County Detention Home for playground facilities. $209; Indianapolis Flower Mission Society for hospital construction, SISOO. and administrative expenses, $8179.

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