Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 278, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 January 1936 — Page 5

JAN. 29, 1933

KANSAS BUDGET I IS HOT SUBJECT FOB POLITICIANS There’s Truth on Both Sides, Stokes Discovers on Visit to State. (Continued From Page One) emor Landon h.mself, state financial officials, and representatives of the non-partisan research department for the Kansas Legislative Council which is financed by money from the Rockefellers and the WPA In Washington. There’s Truth on Both Sides The whole truth is on neither Jde, though there’s truth on both sides. It seems best merely to outline the claims and facts as developed and let conclusions be drawn as they will. Budget-making in Kansas is based on a trinity of laws which any state well might copy. One is the so-called budget act which requires townships, school districts, counties and local units to prepare carefully itemized budgets of expenditures and taxes to meet these expenditures, to publish these budgets and hold public hearings on them in advance of their promulgation. This budget act was sponsored and put through by Former Governor Harry M. Woodring, now Assistant Secretary of War, Governor Landon's predecessor, and was reenacted under the present governor with some slight change, chiefly to give the state administration a final check on the local budgets. Taxes Are Limited The second is the so-called tax limitation lav; which fixes a limit on the amount of taxes which may be voted for any purpose by local agencies—and the amount varies for particular objectives. This reform was first advocated by Governor Woodring in his unsuccessful campaign for re-election in 1934. He proposed a constitutional amendment to do it which Governor Landon oppased, the latter advocating a legislative act which was passed after he became governor. The third law, put through by Governor Landon, is the so-called cash basis law which required local agencies to clear up their bonded indebtedness and operate henceforth on a cash basis. Under this, bonded indebtedness of local units has been reduced some $21,000,000 from a 1932 figure of $138,651,328. Landon champions acclaim this is the most effective of the three budget laws. As this chronology shows, the budget system is a development for which no one man is responsible. Governor Landon readily concedes the contributions of others and has said publicly that credit is due to no one political party nor to any one administration. It's No Great Achievement The real truth is that budget balancing in Kansas is no great achievement, for one thing, because of the checks thrown about local spending by these acts, because of the fact that most money is spent by local units, and because the legislature, in acting for the state itself, is prohibited by the Constitution from voting over $1,000,000 in bonds without a referendum by the people. Expenditures for purely state functions in Kansas take only a fraction of the tax dollar, the percentage running in recent years from five to nine. Granted, say the Landon critics, that he has balanced the budget, he’s done it because of Federal contributions to relief and at the expense of' state institutions which have been allowed to run down. Harry L. Hopkins, WPA administrator, made such a charge, saying that the state itself had not contributed a “thin dime’’ .toward relief. The facts are these: Os the $82,673,510 spent for relief in Kansas since 1933, the Federal

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government contributed $58,105,980. The rest is mostly contributions of local agencies, plus private chanty contributions, and diversion of other state funds. The legislature has appropriated only $775,000, which Landon defends by saying that is all the Federal government asked. Kansas is fifteenth among the states in the amount of Federal money received for relief. Beyond this, critics of Landon claim that state institutions have been allowed to deteriorate, that state functions have not been prop-: erly performed because of his economizing, and that his salary cuts, particularly as they affect school teachers, have been too severe. Prison Called Fire Trap Recently the non-partisan research department of the Kansas Legislative Council issued a report calling the state penitentiary insanitary and a fire trap. Its criticism was very severe. F. H. Guild, research department director, formerly a professor at the University of Kansas, said the survery had been intentionally most thorough, as it was to furnish the basis of a long-time program to improve conditions which are not new but have existed for many years through one administration after another. He and Governor Landon explained that the Legislature recently has made appropriations to begin building at the prison, and also at the state insane hospital and other institutions whese crowded conditions exist. Guild ventured that conditions in Kansas institutions could be matched elsewhere. Aid Asked for Schools The state recently appealed for Federal relief funds, as yet without avail, to keep open schools in the drought and southeastern mining areas, where local taxes to support the schools have dwindled away. To critics who say the state should contribute to education on a state aid basis, Governor Landon’s reply is that the state should not assist in school financing until the “little red school-houses” dotted over the state, some of them with one pupil, some often with none, are consolidated by local agencies and the system modernized. Generally, the governor meets criticism of his economy by pointing to the short crops and depression which the state has experienced, which, he holds, do not justify further spending at this

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INCOME TAX FILING DEADLINE STRESSED Collector Offers Free Aid in Preparing Returns. Will H. Smith, Federal revenue collector, today urged all Indiana corporations, partnerships and individuals to give their 1935 income tax reports immediate attention. Closing date for filing is March 16 and extensions are to be granted only for legitimate reasons recognized by Federal regulations, Mr. Smith said. Free service by government experts in making out returns is available in the Federal building, Indianapolis, and at postoffices in Evansville, Terre Haute, Columbus, Anderson, Muncie, Fort Wayne, Lafayette, South Bend, Gary and Hammond. Mr. Smith said that the filing and collections to date were heavier than at the same time last year. Club to Hold Dance American- Hellenic Young People’s Democratic Club is to hold a dance at 8 tomorrow night in Castle Hall, 230 E. Ohio-st. Music is to be by the Rhythm Cats orchestra. time. In a recent speech, he summed up his position, as follows: “They call me stingy. I am not stingy, but I want to know where the money is coming from before I spend it for the people of Kansas. Unquestionably there are many things the state needs but where would we have been if we had been spending in the usual fashion under the short crops of the last few years?" He was heartily applauded.

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FARM BUREAU BACKS NORRIS BILLFOR REA Indiana Association Board Adopts Resolution Approving Measure. BY TRISTRAM COFFIN The Indiana Farm Bureau Cooperative Association, with a membership of 92,000 shareholders, is on record today as favoring the Norris bill to provide a nine-year extension of loan provisions of the Rural Electrification Administration. The association’s board, at a meeting yesterday, adopted the resolution backing the bill introduced in the Senate by Senator George W. Norris, progressive Republican. I. H. Hull, association general manager, pointed out that Indiana Rural Electric Member Corporations would have difficulty in stringing many power lines by July this year, when loan provisions under the present act expire. Provides for Revolving Fund The Norris bill also provides that at the end of the nine years, or when the loans are paid, that a revolving fund be established to continue line extensions in rural communities. The board authorized its counsel, F. I. Barrows, to apply for a charter for the Huntington County REMC, which has approximately 1500 members. It is expected to be one of the first counties to follow Boone County in obtaining rural electrification. The action is expected to complicate tljp efforts of Mayor Clare Bangs, Huntington, to extend the facilities of a municipal power plant. Wool Program May Be Enlarged The wool warehousing program of the co-operative warehouse on Kentucky-av may be enlarged to include Missouri as well as Indiana and Illinois wool already graded at STOP THAT COLD THE FIRST DAY! A cold once rooted is a cold of danger! Trust to no makeshift methods. A cold, being an internal infection, calls for internal treatment. A cold also calls for a COLD treatment and not a preparation good for a number of other things as well. Grove’s Laxative Bromo Quinine is effective treatment for a cold. It is expressly a cold tablet. It is internal and definite—and it does four important things. It opens the bowels, combats the infection in the system, relieves the headache and fever, and tones and fortifies the system. Don’t be satisfied with anything less. Get Grove’s Laxative Bromo Quinine at any druggist’s. Ask for it by the full name and accept no substitute on any pretext. —Advertisement.

the local plant, it was reported at ihe board meeting. The Farm Bureau Oil Cos. blending plant on Kentucky-av, which now provides oil for farmers in Indiana. Michigan, Ohio and sections of Wisconsin, Kentucky and Pennsylvania, may extend its program into the Carolinas, Virginia and New York. Representatives of farmers' organizations in these states are to confer with Farm Bureau Oil Cos. officials soon, V. L. Everson, manager, said. Board members are Mr. Hulll. William H. Gray, C. C. Palmer, Arthur Mullen, J. B. Cummins, O. B. H. Miller. John Curry, James K. Mason, Emil Brinkman, Newell Giltner and Roger Benjamin. POSTMASTER IS NAMED Dr. T. A. Sigler Given Appointment at Greencastle. By United Preaa GREENCASTLE, Jan. 29—Dr. T. A. Sigler, who has been appointed acting postmaster here, has not yet taken over his duties. The commission of £. R. Bartley expired Jan. 22. Dr. Sigler, Democratic county chairman and well-known veterinarian, is now on a speaking tour.

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FROSH PANE SEEN AS TRAGEDY CAUSE Driver’s View Obscured, Mass Death Probe Shows. By United Prcsa I FORT WAYNE. Ind., Jan. 29Windows of the car in which Mr. and Mrs. Marion Mcßride and their 10 children were killed last Friday by a fast passenger train were frosted, witnesses testified at an inquest here. Although Coroner Walter E.! Kruse would not comment on the testimony, an accident verdict appeared likely The inquest was recessed unfll next week, when neighbors of the Mcßrides are expected to testify that the car’s front window on the side from which the train approached was covered with cardboard. Eight policemen directed traffic near Gospel Temple yesterday when more than 4000 persons attended services for the poverty-stricken family. At the New Haven Cemetery hundreds more crowded about I as 11 caskets were lowered into a j single 30-foot grave.

STATE PRISON INMATES I SEEK BOARD LENIENCY 1 18 Place Cases Before Clemency Commission Here. One inmate who has served 15 years on a life sentence for murder and another serving a 20-year term for bank robbery were among 18 state prison who sough! leniency from the State Clemency Commission today. Fred Dunn, sentenced Jan. 22. 1921, as result of a slaying in Rushville. and Forrest Ladd, convicted of the holdup of a Holland (Ind.) bank in 1932, were the petitioners. , George Babyak, Clinton, who has (

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served a year on a 2-21-year sentence for manslaughter was another case considered. Babyak was charged with killing Sam Hollingsworth at Cedar Park when the latter resisted ejection from the Babyak home.

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Automobiles reported to police as stolen belong to: Catherine Davis. 1530 N Dlinois-st. Ford V-8 coupe. 86-089. from the rear of her heme. Eugene C Barth. 3481 Carrollton-av. Plvmouth de luxe coach. 261238. from in front of his horns.