Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 January 1937 — Page 6

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DRIVERS FAVOR LEGISLATION ON RESPONSIBILITY

Lower Damage Judgment Minimum Approved In Survey.

Car owners favor greater driver responsibility with a lower minimum damage judgment, according to a survey taken hy the Hoosier Motor Club publication. : Returns from a club ‘membership ballot showed drivers also favored making it unlawful to drive an automobile in unsafe mechanical condition, Votes on other legislative proposals included: Stop diversion of special taxes on motor cars or reduce registration fee to a flat rate of $3; for, 91 per cent, against .02 per cent. . Make Indianapolis and Marion County one governmental unit to promote uniform streets and highways; for, 80 per cent; against .04 per cent. Fewer Units Favored

Reduce governmental units inthe State for the betterment of roads; for, 60 per cent; against .04 per cent. This proposal received very few votes. For the benefit of secondary roads, see that no further moratorium is enacted to curtail expenditures on county free gravel and macadam roads; for, 79 per cent; against .05 per cent. Increase the present highway system of about 9300 miles of roads to include all city and town streets over which State roads are routed; for, 84 per cent; against .07 per cent. All motor car taxation and license - fees collected by the State to be placed in the State Highway Fund to be used for no other purpose than road building or maintenance; for 97 per cent; against .01 per cent. Wider Streets Suggested

Widening and protecting all main arterial highways by the State Highway Commission; for 91 per cent; against .02 per cent. Eliminate. oil inspection fee; for, 94 per cent; against .01 per cent. Transfer the auto theft fund, created from the sale of titles and containers, to the State Highway Fund; for, 86 per cent; against .03 per cent. Establish a State Road Patrol Department, which shall operate under a* nonpartisan merit system; for 89 per cent; against .01 per cent. Repeal all Federal excise taxes on automobiles, gasoline and accessories; for, 88 per cent, against .04 per cent. ;

MORE PAYMENTS ON MORTGAGES NOTED

$5,288,551 Paid Off Here In Last 3 Months.

Mortgagés paid off during the last three months of 1936 totaled $5,288,551, an increase of $2,037,953 over the amount paid during the same period of 1935, according to a report compiled today by Deputy County Recorcer Arthur A. Marcy. The report showed $4,852,260 was paid on real estate mortgages during the last three months as compared to $3,034,182 paid on similar mortgages in the last quarter of 1935. Chattel mortgages released in the last quarter totaled $349,750 as com-

# pared to $196,117 paid off in 1935.

Liens released in the same quarter of 1936 totaled $86,541, an increase of $66.242 over payments made on liens in the last three months of 1935.

BEGIN INVESTIGATION OF ‘FIXER’ SLAYING

By United Press - KNOX, Ind. Jan. 12—The Starke County grand jury today opened an investigation into the alleged club slaying of Morris Siegel, 76, former convict alleged to have been killed during a quarrel by Carl A. C. Johnson, prominent North Judson farmer. Johnson, who sold Siegel the farm where the aged recluse was slain, was quoted by State Police as saying he attacked the former convict after Siegel had threatened his life.

METHODIST HOSPITAL BREAKS OLD RECORD

Methodist Hospital registered’ 19,505 patients during 1936, the largest number of any one year in the institution’s history, according to Dr, John G. Benson, general superintendent. Patients were received at the hospital from 30 states and from every county in Indiana, Dr. Benson's report showed. In the maternity ward, 1189 births were registered, an increase of 149 over 1935. December was a recovdbreaking month with 134 births,

STEAL SCHOOL CLOCK

Burglars who broke into St. Mary’s Academy at 429 °E. Vermont St. early today stole $16 in cash and a clock valued at $8, police were told.

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Ly United Press ~ WASHINGTON, Jan, 12.— The text of an official summary of the report on a fivepoint program for gov ment reorganization as dtlined by President Roosevelt's committee and submitted to

Congress today follows: Modern management equipment | for the Federal government so -that it may do promptly and efficiently what is expected of it by the American people is the keynote of the report made today to the President by his committee on administrative management. The purpose of making Federal administrative management modern and businesslike is to make American democracy efficient. It is the view of the eommittee that self-government cannot long survive even in this country unless it can do its work efficiently. “The forward march of American democracy at this point of our history,” says the committee, “depends more upon effective management

To this end a five-point. program of reorganization of the executive branch of the Government is presented by the committee, including these major recommendations:

FIVE-POINT PROGRAM

1. Modernize the White House business and management organization by giving the President six high-grade executive assistants to aid him in dealing with the regular departments and agencies. 2. Strengthen the budget and efficiency research, the planning, and the personnel services of the Government, so that these may be effective managerial arms for the President, with which he may better co-ordinate, direct and manage all of the work of the executive branch for which he is responsible under the Constitution. 3. Place the whole governmental administrative service on a career basis and under the merit system hy extending the Civil Service upward, outward. and downward to include all non-policy-determining posions and jobs. : 4. Overhaul the more than 100 separate = departments, boards, commissions, administrations, authorities, corporations, committees, agencies and activities which are now parts of the executive branch, and theoretically under the President, and consolidate them within 12 regular departments, which would include the existing 10 departments and two new departments, a Department of Social Welfare and a Department of Public Works. The name of the Department of Interior is changed to Department of Conservation. 5. Make the executive branch accountable to the Congres by creating a true post audit of financial transactions by an independent | auditor general,

Congress without himself becoming involved in the management of departmental policy, and transfer the duties of the present controller in part to the auditor, to the Treasury, and to the Attorney General.

EXECUTIVE TO ASSIGN BUREAUS

The report of the committee does not deal with the abolition of emergency or established activities or jobs, which is stated to be a matter of policy for the President and the Congress to determine, but devotes itself. entirely to. setting up an efficient modern machinery of government. But in this process over 80 activities are abolished as separate and independent establishments and their work transferred either to new departments - of social welfare and

public works, or to one of the 10 old departments. The exact placing of bureaus and activities is not set out in the report as this assignment

tive as a continuing responsibility, after research by the Bureau of the ' Budget, in accordance with efficiency and service standards to he fixed by Congress. Such assignment, and division of work, once the standards have been set by law, is regarded by the committee as an “executive function.” No estimate of savings by reorganization is contained in the repof!, though these will follow, in the opinion of the committee. Extensive economy beyond this point depends upen a change of policy, the abandonment of functions, and the demobilization of the staffs involved, and is outside of the terms of reference of the committee on administrative management. The committee points out, however, that the recommended plan of organization which ties all agencies into 12 departments is designed to permit the prompt and efficient demobilization of any activities which are later discontinued by Act of Congress or executive order.

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ASSISTANTS FOR PRESIDENT

The proposed addition to the White House staff is not be made up of “assistant presidents,” says the committee. It will be. composed of half a dozen men, drawn from the very top of the existing career service or from outside, and will assist the President in organizing and maintaining contact | with his departments. These executive assistants will not issue orders: or make speeches, but will work directly and anonymously in the White House

| getting information when needed by

the President in making decisions, and then in seeing that decisions are promptly communicated to those who are involved. They would be like the private assistants of the president or general manager of a great private business. The committee condemns the existing. situation

and says that the President of the

United States, managing the biggest business in the world, now has less assistance of this sort than many state governors, city managers and mayors, and executives of even small private concerns.

REORGANIZATION - PERSONNEL

Extensive reorganization of the Civil Service system with increase of salaries for posts of great responsibilities is a part of the program. As the committee says, “Government cannot be any better or more efficient than the men and women who work in it.” It is pointed out’ that many of -the people are now leaving the Government for industry because government does not offer a satisfactory career. Top posts both in and out of the Civil Service are underpaid, and there is no systematic provision for transfer and advancement in the service. This is corrected by making personnel administration a part of every department, and a part of overhead management by establishing a Civil Service administrator to work directly under the President, just as the Budget Director does now.- This administrator would devote his attention not only to giving Civil Service examinations, recruiting, classifying, etc., but even more to finding able people who can be brought into the Government, especially on the lower rungs 6f career ladders, to discovering able persons in the service, and to seeing that they get training and opportunities sor promotion, and generally to advancing the merit system and the career idea. Salaries in top posts are increased, and the Civil Service is extended upward to include all excepts the secretaries, undersecretaries, assistant secretaries and similar positions. Over 250,000 positions, some of which are now under merit principles, will be brought under Civil Service within one year. Unless designated as “temporary” or “policy-determining” by executive otder, all Federal positions will be covered into the Civil Service. Those persons .in these positions will not given Civil Service status, however, without taking a qualifying examination given by the new Civil Service Administration, and with-

out being certified by their director [¥

as having “rendered satisfactory service” in their posts. The Civil Service Commission, which has been the policeman of the Civil Service since 1883 is abolished. The administrative duties are transferred to the Civil Service Administrator, who ‘though appointed by the President, is himself ‘selected on the basis of competitive examination. While the protection of the system from poiitics is to be enforced by an unpaid citizen board, composed of seven members with seven-year overlapping terms and provided with funds for investigation. This Civil Service Board, says the Committee, for which the President can secure the ablest men and women of the country, drawn from business, administration, education, the profes-

CCC MEMBERS PAY $139,000 IN MONTH

Indiana Civilian Conservation Corps members made payments totaling more than $139,390 to dependents during November, Clarence Manion, state National Emergency Council director announced wday. More than 6450 young men are enrolled in the camps, he said.

sions, labor, and finance, will be “The watch dog of the merit system.” Under the program of the Committee it would be impossible to appoint to this board any person who is a party committeeman, or who has held or run for political office within five years.

DANGER OF “FOURTH BRANCH”

The committee on administrative management also condemns all other boards and commissions when used for management, and recommends that they be abolished and their work transferred to the regular departments, in which there would be set up, wherever needed, a commission or board to deal exclusively with the judicial phases of the work. The committee points out that the independent commissions have been created one by one over the last 50 years, and that they threaten in time to become “a headless fourth branch of the Government; not contemplated by the Constitution, and not responsible administratively either to the President, to the Congress, or to the courts.”

MANAGERIAL AGENCIES NEEDED

The budgeting and planning are, together with personnel, the three managerial agencies which should be strengthened, in the opinion of the committee. It is pointed out that the Bureau of the Budget was

by law supposed to engage in effi- |

ciency research and to promote economy, but that the whole budget bureau spends only $187,000 a year though it is responsible for dealing with budgets of billions. The committee recommends that the staff of the bureau be expanded immediately, particularly through the development of its efficiency research division, which will advise the President in reassigning and reorganizing the work of the executive branch under the recommended program, Planning has been carried on thus far through a temporary National Resource Committee and through many interdepartmental, state and local planning commissions and committees. The committee insists that this should be made permanent by the establishment of a National Resource Board. This board would be advisory only, and would work

directly under the President to as--

sist him in thinking broadly about the “state of the nation,” dealing particularly: with problems which cut across departmental and jurisdictional lines. The board would continue to rely on interdepartmental committees and would encéurage state and local planning bodies. The committee believes that the main purpose of planning in America should be to bring into the center of government more intelligence, research and long-range thinking about all our related problems, especially those dealing with water,

land and natural resources, so that |

the Congress and the President may, in determining policy and carrying on the government, make a better job of it, and so that the Federal Government and the states nd localities may work together more effectively in dealing with common problems.

EXECUTIVE ACCOUNTABILITY TO CONGRESS

Accountability of the executive branch to the Congress, the committee maintains, has been confused and ineffective in the past because of the fact that the Controller General has endeavored to control the spending policy of the departments. This the committee regards as “an - unconstitutional usurpation of power” and recommends the abolition of the office and the establishment of a new office of auditor general to do what the Controller was supposed, but failed to do for 15 years, namely, give Congress an independent annual audit and a report on illegal transactions. The committee does

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not blame any person for this failure, but says that the system as set, up by law was impossible from a husiness standpoint, and certainly unconstitutional, if what has happened under the law was actually contemplated. The committee points out that the dangers of the law were recognized before adoption by Governor Frank O. Lowden, Secretary of the Treasury Carter Glass, and other experts, and since its enactment by President Hoover and by the committee on Federal expenditures of the United States Chamber of Commerce. In line with these criticisms the committee recommends that there be a post audit, by an independent auditor (taking no part whatsoever in making administrative decisions)

‘reporting illegal and wasteful prac-

tices directly to the policy-deter-mining body, that is, the Congress, as would be done in any American business concern. Current administrative audit is transferred to the Treasury, under guidance on legal matters by the Attorney General, and the business of keeping the accounting system up to date is entrusted in the Treasury where it may be related to the budget system.

CONCLUSION

In its conclusion, the committee on administrative summarizes its five-point program for modernizing the executive branch and says: “These changes cannot be adopted

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STATE G/RRIERS INDORSE M’NUTT SAFET" DRIVE

Continuance of Program Is Urged on Townsend in Resoli tion.

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tific and expert lil es and the progress made in of our pressing hiinway and iraffic problems,” were pi ised in the resolutions. { Urging stricter | enforcement, of motor laws, the Association asked Governor Townseri!] for a “‘continuance of effective] efforts towards safer driving, redurtion of the death toll from auto aisidents and improved highway zi iety engineerin practices.” i : The Carriers oii cd other organizations in supporiing recornmendations made by the Governor's Committee oh Safety. headed by State Director Don Stit:r. directing special attention to | he need for ins; creased personnel Hf State Police. | O. H. Hershm&), General Steel | Warehouse Co., iho recently was honored at New ‘ork City as Indiana's safest driver, is to speak at the association lincheon in the Hotel Lincoln toritrrow noon. -

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The times demand better governstaffed with |

mental organization, more competent public servants, more free to do their best and coordinated by an executive accountable to the Congress and fully equipped with modern tools of management.” The President's committee on administrative = management, today submitted its report to. the

President, was appointed last May. |

It is made us of: Louis Brownlow of Chicago, director of the Public Administration Clearing House, chairman; Luther Gulick of New York, director of the Institute of Public Administration, and Charles E. Merriam of Chicago, chairman of the Department of Political Science of the University of Chicago. Its director of research is Joseph P. Harris of the staff of the committee on Public Administration of the Social Science Research Council.

getting | them. The need for reorganization | rests not alone on the idea of sav- |

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UTILITIES oi STRICT

The City Util} started a2 new oar elected slate of 7ifcers. Dithmer, Polar ice é& Fuel president, was re; of the directorate Others rename! Jungclaus, vice fresident; hurst. Elsey, tre:surer, and Roy Sahm. secretary. | Remaining board members are Isaz: E. Woodard, D. J. Angus and Rus:ell J. Ryan. The directors h¢ld operating: control over the riunicipally-owned Citizens Gas and Coke Utility and are elected for orz year terms by a trustee board.

UNIDENTIFIED} MAN KILLED By United Press i GOSHEN, Ind. Jan. 12.—An unidentified man, about 60, was kilied instantly while wilking along JU. S. Road 6 near her: last night. He was struck by an iutomobile driven by W. A. Hageshgiber, Elkhart.

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EP. WILLIAM J. BLACK (D. Anderson) gave brother Representatives the “dark eye” today, and it was forecast that the Pat-

retaliate to a “joke” resolution, the first of the House session. The resolution,. adopted at yes- | terday’s short House session, dealt with the Anderson Representative’s | wedding anniversary. Wnile Mrs. Black resolution was “their anniversary” she had borne with “patience and endurance’ the 36 years of wedlock. The resolution further urged that she “have strength unlimited to endure the remaining years.” Rep. Black's reply to the resolution was the admission that he had turned Mrs. Black from a “good Republican” to a “fine Democrat.”

2 5 2 Y*OVERNORS may come and go. Legislatures convene and adjourn, but the legislative carpets go on forever—collecting dust, bacteria, and. soot. This was pointed out 0. members of the House of Representatives |

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TUESDAY, JAN. 12, 1937

$23,000 BONDS BOUGHT DAILY

New Monthly High Expected To.Be Set, Postmaster Here Reports.

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at the local postoffice, it was ree ported today. Following heavy Christmas sales in December, Postmaster Adolph Seidensticker said today that the | present high average was unusual. A total of $164,924.75 has been paid for Savings Bonds by the public g ' since Jan. 2. Excluding the seasonal i jump in sales preceding Christmas, it is expected the January total will exceed the next largest monthly sale of last year, August, when $211,108 was invested in the securities. More than $400,000 was paid for bonds. mn December. Sales for November | totaled $202,537.50. { The report also showed that total sales for 1936 amounted to $2,269.874.90. Savings Bonds first were placed on sale in March, 1935. Since that date $3,319,312.50 in bonas have been purchased here. Regulations limit the purchase of the bonds to ' $10,000 maturity value annually per person. The record day's sales since the first of the year was reported | Wednesday with sales amounting to $32,887.50.

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