Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 October 1936 — Page 7

"LESS IN CITIES OWNING UTILITY

Indiana Mpnicipal League Official Compares Rates in State. \

Every city with a civil tax rate of 50 cents or less last year owned its electric utility, according to W. Vincent Youkey, Indiana Municipal League executive secretary. Sixteen Indiana cities reported civil city tax levies of 50 cents or less last year, according to a report made public today by Mr. Youkey. While the league does not advocate municipall ownership, Mr. Youkey said the figures point out the advantages of municipal ownership from the taxation standpoint. ‘The average civil city rate for municipalities owning no utilities ‘was $1.08 in 1936, the report showed. Cities owning water, light and heating plants reported an average rate of 25 cents, while those with only water and light utilities averaged 55 cents a $100 on the property levy.

22 Cities Reduce Rates

Owning a single utility, such as water plants, resulted in an average tax rate of $1.027 cents for 1935 taxes payable in 1936, while ownership of light plants alone brought

. cities into the 50 cent tax rate

bracket. Not only is the tax rate reduced for cities owning the utilities, Mr. Youkey said, but the resulting civic pride adds a great stimulant to residents. > Twenty-two cities reduced taxes in 1936 from those paid in 1935. Thirteen of these owned light plants. Six had water plants and three, including Indianapolis, owned neither light nor water utility. Huntingburg is the only city in the state which had no civil city taxes to pay in 1936, Mr. Youkey said. Logansport, with a 3-cent civil city rate for firemen’s and policemen’s pension fund also owned both water and light plants. Twenty-five cities in Indiana now own their water and light plants, the report showed.

Municipal League

- Speakers Named

Two additional speakers have been scheduled to address the Indiana Municipal League convention Oct. 8, 9 and 10 in South Bend, W. Vincent = Youkey, secretary announced today. C. W. Ham, executive director of the American Municipal Association, Chicago, is to speak on “Are Mu-nicipally-Owned Utilities an Asset to the Community.” Harry W. Beals, Mayor of Ft. Wayne is to speak Saturday morning at the closing session,

BUTLER TO SELECT MOST POPULAR MAN

Butler University’s most popular man will be named Friday night when the Utes, sophomore men’s honor organization, holds its annual Pow Wow dance in the Fairview fieldhouse. Six fraternities have named can-

didates for the title of “Chief Fair-

view.” Richard Howarli is to represent the Sigma Nu Fraternity, Norman Grauel, Lambda Chi Alpha; James Morris, Newman Club; Jac Ochiltree, Sigma Chi; Earl Gerkensmeper, Phi Delta Theta, and Clarence Warren, Delta. Tau Delta.

INDIANAPOLIS LIONS ADD SIX MEMBERS

The Indianapolis Lions Club to-

day had added six members to its roll following an induction cere-

“mony at the club’s weekly luncheon

yesterday in the Washington Hotel. The new members are John E,. Keller, John Gesser, Albert C. Fritz, F. L. Williamson, Lawrence Burnett and Milton Rauh. A talk by Edward Kepner, club member, and piano selections by Erroll Grandy of the Y. M. C. A. were included on the program.

TECH PUPILS TO GET NEWS BROADCASTS

Technical High School pupils are to hear Prof. Frank Hall, Purdue University, give his interpretation of the week's news each Tyesday. This is made possible by the Tech public address system and the Purdue broadcasting station.

CALL ON GOV. M’NUTT

A delegation of Syrian Orthodox Church officials called on Gov. McNutt yesterday. The visitors included Archbishop Antony Bashir, Brooklyn, N. Y.; the Rev. John S. Corey, Akron, O. and the Rev. Naseeb R. Wehby, pastor, St. George Syrian Church, Indianapolis.

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By United Press ELKINS, W. Va., Oct. 1.—The text of President Roosevell’s address today at Davis-Elkins College follows: The setting in which we are gathered today for this forest festival turns our thoughts toward conservation. This wonderland of natural beauty is at one and the same time a challenge and a justification. It demonstrates what can be done in the way of conservation of our resources. It shows us how prodigal nature is in her gifts while at the same time it emphasizes the necessity for men to supplement nature's work in order that the rich gifts which are ours may be brought to their fullest usefulness in the service of all mankind. The state of West Virginia is rightly proud of its glorious natural scenery, but the state also shows to us what happens when man flies in the face ol nature. Today I have seen many square miles of splendid mountains which have been denuded of timber. I have seen yellow streams carrying eroded silt and soil from the steep slopes. In this state, as in many others, we are proud of the growing consciousness of the people themselves that man’s errors in the past must be corrected by man in the future. In this worthwhile effort the state and the Federal government are working hand in hand.

‘WE CAN ALL ENTER WORK’

Here and hereabouts you see what can be done through the National Forest service in co-operation with the work of the state conservation preserves; you have an opportunity to observe first-hand the practical contribution to enlightened conservation made by our CCC camps and all of the other agencies whose activities are directed to the preser ation of our matchless resources lere at the gateway to the Monongahela National Forest. | No part of our conservation work is more important than the protection of our wild life. It is a work into which we can all enter heart and soul, because there is no political partisanship in an activity whose object is to preserve -and restore the life of our great out of doors. I am sure that those in this audience who are devotees of outdoor life, whether fishermen, hunters, naturalists, campers or hikers, will rejoice to know what has been done during the last three and one-half years to protect and perpetuate our wild life. In the past it had been shamefully neglected and exploited. One of the earliest concerns of this Administration upon assuming office was to provide a national wild life restoration program and a policy that would make certain that the conservation of our wild animals, birds and fishes would thereafter take rank with the conservation of the other great renewable resources of the nation.

Plans to accomplish this had been available for years but they had been in great part ignored. We evolved a national wild life conservation program which proposed to provide abundantly for the

needs of wild lift by purchase and retirement of agricultural ands submarginal in character, by the purchase of other suitable |inds, and by making generous alloc; tions of public lands, all to be sei aside as sanctuaries,

Allotments totaling $14,710,000 have been made from current »mergency funds to support the wild life program—ay amount greater than the total of all funds previously appropriated for that specific purpose. In addition, I approved an act of Congress continuing an appropriation of $6,000,000 for emeigency funds for identical purposes making altogether $20,700,000 for the conservation of water fowl, birds and other valuable forms of /merican wild life.

PROGRAM OUTLINED |

We outlined and enacted = legislative program to give effect (o our policy: 1. The duck stamp bill, which has raised about $700,000 a year for the/ protection of migratory birds 2. The co-ordination: bill, requiring active co-operation of exch department of the Administration and cabinet officers in the enfor:ement of game laws. 3. The ' Robinson bill, game sanctuaries of all public properties—a big step forwar:l Besides this we completed the migratory bird treaty with Mexico, which had hung fire for nearly 20 years. This treaty supplcinents a similar treaty wilh Canada, which gives protection on the southern flight. By ihe terms of the treaty with Mexico, protection is given migratory birds on the northern flight. I cite these facts because critics of this Administration have lately been engaged in expressing dissatisfaction with the progress of wild life restoration by the Federal government during the past three years. Yet, in pursuance of this program, the nation has in that time, acquired and ‘set aside some 4,800,000 acres of land and dedicated it to the restoration and perpetuation of valuable wild life. Many of these refuges have been located on the principal resting and breeding grounds of wild fowl; others are placed along the main migratory flight lanes, while still others afford rest, food and safety to the birds in their winter quarters. : In the Western country great ranges have been established to perpetuate the big game species—the elk, antelope, mountain sheep and the deer.

AREA IS INCREASED

All these sanctuaries afford shelter and security to hosts of song and insectivorous birds and to great variety of other wild creatures. The total area of Federal wild life sanctuaries acquired in all previous years was approximately 1,800,000 acres in the United States. Thus, since June 30, 1934, more than two and onehalf times as much wild life sanctuary area has been acquired or is now being acquired than in all the preceding years in the history of our government. This work is now going on and it will be continued with the same vigor and singleness of purpose. #

reating |

It is pertinent to remind vou here

i v : that seven million of our citizens take out fishing Mcenses each year and that six million more take out annual hunting licenses, a total of 13 million—a veritable army to uphold the banner of conservation. Drainage, drought and overshooting having greatly decreased the number of our waterfowl, I have for three consecutive years at the cost of much bitter criticism approved regulations drastically reducing the open shooting seasons and bag limits and prohibiting the use of certain devices known to be unduly destructive. As a consequence I am informed that there is evidence that these species have shown some in-

crease in numbers, and it is believed that they may now survive these disasters. i < Such, my friends, is a brief and incomplete statement of the ways and means by which this Administration has made effective its recognition of the fact that the wild life in our fields and woods and waters constitutes a resource of vital importance to all Americans and that it is the responsibility of the Federal government in co-oper-ation with the states to safeguard 4t for future generations. At last we are making definite progress.

FORMAL O.K.OF TAX RATE DUE

Adjustment Body Expected to Take Action at Closing Session.

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the Center Township levy to 18 cents.

Rates Are Itemized

Following is a comparison of current, proposed and approved tax rates for Indianapolis residents living in Center Township: This Pro- ApYear posed proved Marion County .$0.38 $0.46 $0.44 Civil City 1.11 1.1612 1.14 School City .... .89 1.11 1.10 Center Township .25 .338 18 ; 15 15 13 $2.78 $3.2192 $3.01 Although the board cut 21 cents from the proposed Center TownshipIndianapolis levy, only $38,052 was sliced off of actual appropriated expenditures. Working Balances Cut

The remainder of the rate reduc-

tions were accomplished through cuts in working balances, anticipation of bond issues to finance poor relief and boosts in estimates of miscellaneous revenue to be received from sources other than property taxes,

Salary increases, in most instances, were left in the budgets after Benjamin Hitz, Republican, Brendonwood, taxpayers’ representative, declared the ‘board did not have sufficient time to determine which wage raises were justified and which were not. : : Mr. Hitz, with C. Frederick Schmidt, Republican, Beech Grove, taxpayers’ representative, and Ovid R. Mann, Republican, Speedway Town Board member, deadlocked the board for almost two days when they refused to pass the civil city and county budgets and rates as submitted by governmental officers.

Agree on Compromises

Compromises were made yesterday after Mr. Schmidt attempted to have 7 cents cut off the proposad county rate of 46 cents and over 8 cents cut from the proposed civil city levy of ‘$1.1612. Both moves failed by votes of 5 to 2. : Mr. Hitz declared that unless his compromise proposals were accepted the board would “have to start to

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FABRICS Diagonal Tweeds Morotones

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work on Mr. Schmidt or Mr. Mann for the fifth vote necessary to declare an emergency.” The board then reduced the county rate to 44 cents and the civil city rate to $1.14. In cutting the welfare budget $101,500, the board eliminated the welfare . department working balance and reduced the postage item $1500.

Hitz Proposal Fails

This accounted for g reduction of $.017 in the proposed county rate, and the remaining $.003 was cut from the county general fund. Mr. Hitz originally sought to cut appropriations for aged and children in the welfare budget and letting the working balance stand. Four other members would not agree to this, and the old age and children appropriations were not disturbed. The board followed Mr. Hitz’s suggestions and made several cuts in the city general fund. Declaration of an emergency in today’s order is necessary since the county tax rates total more than $1.50 in urban and $1.00 in most heal districts, the limit set by state aw.

3 SOUGHT IN HOLDUP DETROIT, Oct. 1.—Police today sought three men who Simon Sculler, Columbus (O.) salesman, said robbed him of $10,000 in jewelry late

yesterday afternoon.

T NDED AT CONVENTION

Jackson Says Indiana Law Has Kept Schools Open, Budget Balanced.

State tax experts and officials from throughout the nation heard a strong defense of the Indiana gross income tax today by Clarence A. Jackson, Indiana gross income tax division director. He said: “The Indiana gross income tax has accomplished every purpose designed for it; namely, it has kept the schools open, the teachers paid, the state credit good, the budget balanced, reduced property taxes and enabled Indiana to

program without additional taxes.” Mr. Jackson was one of the speakers at the final day sessions of the twenty-ninth annual convention of the National Tax Association in Hotel Claypool. “The gross income tax makes unnecessary in Indiana a net income tax, a sales tax or nuisance taxes prevalent in many states, and is a sincere and successful effort to

said. Meeting Ends Tonight Frank E. Packard, tax attorney for the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana told the National Tax Association delegates that states are losing money instead of making it by applying provisions of the chain store ‘tax laws to gasoline filling stations. A report of the resolutions com-

| mittee is to close the convention

tonight. Members were warned in an address last night by H. L. Lutz Princeton University professor,

termine constitutionality of its own

acts. .

adopt the Federal social security | 2

spread the tax base very thinly,” he |. |i

against permitting Congress to de- |

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