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TEACHERS HEAR TOWNSEND LAUD GROSS TAX LAW

Levy Relieved Burden on

Real Estate, Nominee Tells Institute.

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the gross “relief tax : “Every dollar raised by the gross income tax. has taken the .place of a dollar that would have had «to have been provided by a .property tax. : Sales Tax Held Alternative “To aholi Mr. Townsend either property creased 10 per cent or else a sales upen the working tate. “I would like the gross iricome tax and tell people {hat mean to give them a s¢ : higher property tax,” he said He recalled the gross income tax d n to pay $500° next vear toward their salaries afid thereby ‘relieve the preperty ia communities.”

sh the gross income ax said, . “means that be intax mu

people

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: Deseribes Tax Sources

He added that it was the purpose of the Democratic Party tol provide minimum of $600 toward sopn revenies are sufficient, his own idea bethat [1 $800 minimum

’ 14vipe oo teachers’ saldries as

the

e Constitution em of free educamethod to systems

1alyzed the

He said the provides for a syst

tion, but ou

Mr. Tow e -yarious tax sources. ° “Seventy-five per cent of the income. of Indiana“ today comes “through intangible sources, bond ° clippings, 25

such as

earnings per cent of the

. state's income is from tangible and |.

taxable property,” he said.

Favored Spread of Tax

“Teachers organizations, as well as other organizations that

the tax load be spread in order that a part of this load which rests upon the backs of the.25 per cent transferred to the shoulders of the 75 per cent. "Studies of our present tax system indicates that ti 25 per cent

of our income is-payving more than | = A 1 re 83 per cent of the taxes and the 75 |

per cent of the state's income is

paving less than 7 per cent of the | tax load. It was to correct this un- |

fair method that the General As- | police, Ratcliff made a left turn at

{ the

sembly passed the gross income tax law. = * “Since the gross income tax law

was enacted, times have become so |

in- |

much better in Indiana that

creasing amounts have been paid | each year toward teachers’ salarics | taxes,”

and relief of local property he concluded. i

SEEK POISON SOURCE

iN BEDFORD DEATHS

By Uniled Praoss BEDFORD, Ind, , source; of poison which caugd ' deaths of two women and seri illness’ of two men, all living in the same farmhouse, was sought today

Sept. 2.—The

hy state police and Dr. R. E. Wynn, | AT { EST mining organizations and own- |

Lawrence County coroner. Victims were Mrs. Katie 50, who died Aug. 28; Mrs. Kern Dillon, 25, who died Aug. and Samuel Kern and John Tuddy both seriously ill in the here. ti- A post-mortem examination ifthe body of Mrs. died of arsenic said. He had iwhether Mrs. ibe exhumed: for autopsy.

Fultz wis,

Ruth

not decided today

VETERANS TO ATTEND | © ANNUAL CONVENTION

Morris Strauss, Indianapolis Post commander Jewish-War Veterans of {the "United States, to head a | delegation” to = the organization's forty-first annual convention iy and Saturday. 1s. senior vice com-

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| mander; . rice commander, are other delegates.

MINE ENGINEER DEAD

By United Py LINTON, - Jackson, 76, - Linton fleld denly today

RR mine engineer in the

of a heart attack. He

was dressing to attend the funeral |

. of a life-long mining friend when

the attack occurred.

If you feel... ~~ =tired : _=run-down - [1ervous = - out of sorts -

HERE is usually a definite reason

for such complaints. . .so0, now let's * reason sensibly.

Den't try to get well in a dav.. this |

| is asking too much of Nature. Remem- . ber, she has certain natural processes _ that just cannot be hurried. :

Therefore, if you are pale, fired, _ lack a keen appetite, have lost weight

and feel rundown...a frequent sign

~ that your blood-cells are weak, with a tendency towards anemia—then do try

in the simple, easy way So many mil- | ~ lions approve—by starting a course of |

8.88. Blood Tonic to feel like yourself again.

05 builds atlas,

income taX, terming 1t a |

interest |

| driving,

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Fultz revealed she | poisoning, Dr. Wynn | : { thur D. Cunningham, 72 Tippecanoe

Dillon's body woud |

and Dave Prob-

Ind., Sept. 2.—Charles L

for 50 years, died sud-|

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BOY DOOMED TO DIE

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Floralee Levitt (above) is shown reading to her brother, “Phillip,

who is

streptococcic infection. The boy's

declared beyond chance of recovery with a strange form of

parents have been inocculated with

the germs in hope that tHey can furnish blood that will counteract his

infected condition and give him his

only chance to live.

TERROR CULT PURGE

TO STRIKE OFFICIALS

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PONTIAE, Mich. Sept. 2. — Gov.

Frank Fitzgerald took charge today | of a wholesale purge of Black Le-|

gion. of Oak cuit juage

yesterday

m bers from the officialdom curity, where a cirs sitting . as a grand jury

reported

ational government. Under Gov. Fitzgerald's Chairman John S. McDonald of the State Liquor Control

one of 64 officials

ager,

McDougall was

state, and city

county

{named in the grand jury report as {among dents who belong to the Black Le-

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CAB DRIVER HELDIN PEDESTRIAN'S DEATH

James Mitchell Is County’s 105th Traffic Victim.

William

Va ob af East-st,

Ratcliff, 33, of 220 ‘N. today was held under $2800 charges of involuntary manslaughter, speeding and reckless following the death in City Hospital of James Mitchell, 63,

of 243!» Virginia-ay, struck yester- |

day by the taxi: Ratcliff was driving. Mr. Mitchell's death increased the Marion County traffic toll for 1936 to 105 and: raised the city’s toll to 78. The "accident occurred at Delaware and Ohio-sts. According to

intersection and struck Mr. Mitchell, dragging him more than 60 feet.

RUSH INTO ONTARIO

By United Press ARDEN, Ont, sept. 2.—Eastern Ontario's first gold rush brought prospectors from all over

made 11 miles north.

T. J. Alexander, local storekeeper, |

who with Mervin Newton, made the strike, told the United Préss sold linger Mines, one of Canada’s great-

ers. of huge properties in the Northern Ontario gold fields. . “We sold our claims to Hollinger for a price that certainly satisfied us,” Mrr. Alexander said.

HOOSIER JUDGE DIES

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LAFAYETTE, Ind, Sept. 2.—Ar-

Circuit Court judge, died of a heart attack today at his country. home,

{ near here. He had been ill for more

than a year,

Commission, | said he would discharge Gordon S.| MacDougall as Pontiac branch man- |

Canada | {into this district today "followinng ! | reports that a rich striké had been |}

they | their claims to the Hol- |

SALE OF BEER TOBE CHECKED

State Excise Department Adds Two Examiners to Force.

he had found | evidence of a plot to overthrow the |

order, |

Justin. Kilgore and William Steinsburger have been appointed examiners for the State Excise De- | partment t® check on beer tax re- | turns, Paul Fry, excise director, announced tod Mr. Kilgoxd ‘is a *Democrat ahd formerly. was connected with the State Acgowfts Board. Mr. Steinsburger isia Republican and formerly workéd for the Bureau of Internal Revele. The beer levy is a gallonage tax, Mr. Fry ‘explained, and there is no question ‘of .counterfeit stamps be- | ing used ‘because there are no beer | stamps. Stamps are used on liquor and ‘wine and are to be numbered in the future to safeguard them against thefts from wholesalers, Mr. { Pry said. Unusually heavy beer sales this summer make it desirable -that brewery. books he checked to protect both the brewers and the state, Mr. Fry said.

AS FLORIDA FUGITIVE

Estel Kinnerman, 25, was held by state police today on a charge of being a .fugitive from the Florida State Prison at Tallahassee. He.was alleged to have escaped while serving a sentence for breaking into a beer tavern. Pending completion of extradition papers, he was held under $3000 bond. Municipal Judge

case until] tomorrow afternoon.

TEACHER OATHS SHORT OF GOAL, SULLIVAN SAYS

‘Suggests, Instead, Removal

Instructors Who Violate Trust.

(Mr. Sullivan writes thrice weekly)

BY MARK SULLIVAN WASHINGTON, Sept. 2—Gov.

Landon, in his address on educa-| so-called |

tion, condemned the teachers’ oaths which some 23 state Legislatures have required of teachers. He said: “Why should we make teaching into a suspect profession, by mak-

ing our teachers take a special oath? . . .. I believe that a teach-

‘er has a right to the same freedom

of speech in expressing his political, social or religious convictions as any other citizen.” This declaration Gov. Landon qualified by adding, “This does not mean that a teacher should use a classroom to put forward his own pet views and theories. If he does, he is no longer a teacher; he is a propagandist.”

Facts Well Known

The facts underlying this incident are fairly well known. The charge has been widely made that some teachers in some schools teach Communism—teach it, that is, in the sense of. advocating it, causing pupils to believe it is a better form of society for America than the one we have. To meet this, some states have required teachers to take an cath in which the teacher promises that he will not advocate Communism in his classrooms. These teachers’ oaths Gov. Ldndon condemns. In that, most persons familiar with ‘history will agree, = The teachers’ oath has two vices. It imposed on all a requirement which is properly applicable only to some. The spirit of American and British law and government is that crime, or fault or responsibility of any kind, is personal and individual; that if an individual is under blame, the individual should be treated as an individual. Requiring a whole group to submit to discipline for something which only some of the group are doing is like the practice of military governors of conquered territories, who often require whole villages to be responsible for the acts of any of the inhabitants. A great ma-

Jjority of our public school teachers

do not inculcate Communism. To subject-all to an oath in order to check a few is not an American way.

Oaths Rarely Effective

Besides, oaths of this kind are rarely effective. The History of religious controversy is dotted with them. ‘When one religion had control of the state, it prescribed oaths designed to compel acquiescence by

Charles J. Karabell continued his adherents of the other. It is doubt-

ful if the device ever succeeded in

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stamping out the religion against which it was directed. What, then, is the answer? Gov. Landon did not meet the real question. He merely said that a teacher “should not” use a classroom to put forward his personal theory. But suppose a teacher does? That some teachers do advocate Communism or Socialism in classrooms, there can be no doubt. if the practice did not exist, teachers’ oaths would hardly have been

adopted by 23 states. The practice

is not sporadic; it is widespread and appears to be to some degree organized. A proposed program for education recently put forward by leaders identified with the National Education Association has been described as “an educational program for a Socialist America.” The program: is called Socialist by one who believes it, one who is himself a strong Socialist, Prof. Harold Laski. If such an educational pro-

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graduating classes from the schools, becoming new voters, would make America a Socialist country.

Removal Is Suggested

That teachers ought not to engage in propagating a social sys-

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tem alien to the country goes without saying. No one will have any difficulty in realizing that-a teacher ought not to advocate in his classroom a religion alien to country. : The answer, I believe, is to be found in the same quarter as the answers to some other questions of government. The essential unit of society in America is the local community of neighborhood size. That is the court of last resort. Its opinion on many subjects .is expressed by the juries in local courts. As respects teaching in the public schools, the view of .the .community is properly expressed by the local school board. The remedy is to remove teachers who propagate a belief not approved by the community.

JASPER LIGHT PLANT EARNINGS CUT TAXES

By United Press JASPER, Ind. Sept. 2.—Earnings of Jasper’s municipally owned electric light plant will pay half the city budget and permit an 80-cent decrease in the tax rate, officials announced today.

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CCC IMPROVES 95,090 ACRES OF STATE LAND

Forest, Farm Areas Benefit.

From Hoosier Projects, Report States.

Times Special WASHINGTON, Sept. 2. — More than 13,000 acres of forest land in Indiana has been improved by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the three years of its existence, Robert Fechner, emergency conservation director, said in a report issued yesterday.

Also 82,990 acres of farm lands gully

were treated to control erosion, the report stated. Since camps Were established throughout Indiana more

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dependents ~ was estimated BY $5,531,000. LT “Of the 42 camps now operating in Indiana, 22 are assigned to build= ing up forests and developing rec= reation facilities in both state forests and park areas,” Mr, Fech

‘ner said.

Operating Costs $23,123,585 Operating costs of the camps in the state were estimated by the War Department at $23,123,585, Mr. Fechner pointed out that the Fulmer State Forest Act, which pro= vides Federal loans to aid states in, purchasing forest lands, will enable Indiana to acquire three additional state forest units totaling about 30,« 000 acres. tr ®

“These areas will be developed by the CCC through tree planting, de= velopment of existing stands of timeber and protection of young growth from forest fires,” he said.

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