Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 January 1937 — Page 4
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Complete Text of Townsend's Message
The text of Governor Townsend's message to the Legislature today
- follows:
Members of the 80th Session of the Indiana General Assembly: . We are not strangers who are met here today to attend the christening of a new State Administra‘tion. Neither are there many whose faces are unfamiliar among you who have just organized the two houses of the 80th Session of the Indiana General Assembly. And the problems which we have before us likewise do not bear a strange appearance. We are like one great big family come together for a reunion, with an interest in many subjects. which are the common interests of the people of Indiana. We are resolved that we shall represent our constituents in matters of legislative and administrative concern as though they truly were members of our own family, for are we not, in Indiana, one great family of Hoosier people —one great family of neighbors? In the past four years we have seen the trail blazed by an historical administration which has not been temporized with mediocrity nor with obsolete tools of government. You who were members of the 78th and 79th General Assemblies well know the remarkable strides that were made under the matchless leadership of Governor Paul V. McNutt. There is hardly a division of State Government which has not been reorganized for greater econ- - omy, better efficiency and for more intelligent public service. Let’s consider the work that has been done, so that we may better understand our present objectives.
BANKING AND LOAN AGENCIES
First and foremost, perhaps, we revamped the old, ineffectual political system of bank supervision which cost our citizens so much in life savings in 1932 and 1233. We created the State Department of Financial Institutions, a nonpartisan division for the honest and rigid supervision of all banking, bulding and loan, small loan, and consumer credit agencies. This department has been most successtul in rehabilitating the banking and loan structure of our State. If has reduced rates of interest on small loans. It has thawed out millions of dollars of frozen assets. It has administered bank liquidations without cost to stockholders and depositors. For four years the work of the] Department of Financial Institutions has been above reproach, and the people of Indiana know, for the first time in history, that they have real State supervision of-their banks and loan companies. The legislative and the administrative acts. which converted the formerly weak and inadequate State Bank Department into the State Department of Financial Institutions, represented almost radical reform. They were based on an international study of banking regulation. They have been followed by a wise administrative board whose nonpartisan members ac. ~pt public service as a patriotic duty. I would recommend no change in our Department of Financial Institutions laws except such minor amendments, if any, as
that Department might suggest
which are necessary for a more efficient administration of its du-
INSURANCE
In the last regular session of the
+Legislature our insurance laws were
codified, and today they serve as a “model for other states which anticipate modernization of their supervision over the insurance business.
CONSERVATION
I urge favorable consideration by the members of this General Assembly for such measures as may be submitted by the conservationists of the State. These men and women are vitally concerned with the protection of the natural resources and seek to make Indiana a better place in which to live. We have a serious need for recodification of ‘the laws relating to hunting, fishing and similar _ outdoor sports. Some of the existing statutes have been in operation for more than half a century. They have béen amended until their meaning and application are .not applicable to present conditions and, consequently, are open to various interpretations. These and other laws should be so clearly written that their intention and operation can be readily understood.
HIGHWAYS
Indiana should well be proud of its public highways when compared to the highway systems of other states. It will be my desire to keep this division of government on the same high plane for the next four years. I wish to recommend to this General Assembly for your careful consideration the report of the Highway Bufvey Commission. This report contains suggestions which, I believe, in substance will place this division is an even better position. REASSESSMENTS The State Board of Tax Commssioners in its report- to the Legislature in 1935 made the following recommendation: . “The date for reassessing real es-
tate should be- changed from 1936 | to 1937. The election of county and | township assessors was held in 1034 | and by transferring the time for assessing real estate to 1937, the new- |
ly elected assessors will have had | at léast two years’ experience in the | assessing business before attempting the assessment of real estate. Another reason why the time should be changed; 1936 is a campaign year !
and that is not a time for the as- |
sessment of real estate.” The Legislature in 1935, Chapter 163, provided that no assessment of
real estate could be made prior to March 1, 1937, but did not provide that the reassessment should be made. It is my opinion that a law should be passed providing for a reassessment of real estate this year and every four years thereafter.
BOND MORATORIUM
The moratorium on county and township bonds, provided by Chapters 15 and 53, of the Acts of the Special Session of 1932, expires September 1, 1937. On account of the increased amount of gasoline tax funds distributed to the local communities, and the number of highways that have been built, it is my opinion that the moratorium ought to be continued at least for another two years.
PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
Our Public Service Commission law was revamped early in 1633, reducing the member ship of the Commission from five to three, and establishing the office of Public Counsellor for the service of persons and municipal corporations having grievances against the public utilities companies. The change has been worth more than $20,000,000 to utility rate payers of Indiana, and has restored order and regulation over the bus and truck industries. The Commission has no prohlem confronting it which is not an administrative problem. I would recommend, however, that it be adequately financed for the purpose of conducting necessary investigations.
AUTO LICENSES
In the collection of license fees, it is important that the date of payment is so fixed as to make the. burden as easy upon our citizens as possible. This applies particularly to automobiles and trucks. The date of payment is now fixed at Jan. 1, immediately following a period in which our citizens have indulged in generous buying. It is also the time cf year when the earnings eof those who use vehicles for pay have their lowest incomes. I recommend, after a study by joint committee of the House and the Senate, that the desirability of changing payment to a later date be considered.
INTERSTATE TRAFFIC
In the matter of interstate motor traffic, the developments of this type of transportation have appeared to erase state boundary lines. Motor vehicular traffic, cross-coun-try is now commonplace. A new era of this industry is upon us, and especially is this true as between Indiana and her adjoining states. I recommend that our reciprocity law should be amended to permit Indiana to negotiate agreements with foreign states in order to promote smooth and satisfactory business relations, free from controversies and interruptions.
STATE POLICE
In the past four years we have organized a real division of state police, recruited on the merit system, equipped with the radio and other modern implements for use in the war against crime. We formerly had an ineffective, traveling force of auto license inspectors who had been improperly named state police. Today, our Indiana State Police are armed with authority to track down the criminal, in co-operation with local law enforcement officers, no matter to what corner of the nation the culprit may flee. Our people know the effectiveness of their work and the value of the State Police radio system. We cannot do less than to give our whole support to the crime: detection and public safety campaign work which the State Police have been doing. The co-operative support of public spirited citizens was given to the police radio project and is behind the accident prevention program. We should strive to make Indiana the safest State in the nation, the crimefree State, the State in which an adequate police system makes it safe for us to live and to move without fears and fatal tragedies.
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Public Safety has made a thorough study of highway accident prevention. I am in accord with its findings, and recommend them for your consideration.
PUBLIC HEALTH
Public health laws of the State were reorganized early in 1933 with a bold sweep toward reform, The State dropped its paternal, bureaucratic attitude of public Health administration and called upon the professions, the hospitals and the lay public to make of public health a co-operative movement leaning
| toward public education and public
service. Thus, for four years, we have had a public heaith program which has moved forward in harmony with the professions of medicine and dentistry, nursing and hos-
pitalization; which has co-operated
with the United States Public Health Service, the Indiana University Schools of Medicine and Dentistry, the American Legion, Parent-Teach-er clubs, public school authorities, and women’s clubs. I believe there is no legislative contribution which could be made that would add to this splendid State program of public health administration.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
I hardly need review the example which Indiana has set for the nation in the handling of the public school problem through the depression. The past administration was the first in the history of the State to cbey the injunction of our Indiana Constitution that equal support be granted for free public school education for all children within the State. The tuitional support law of 1933, coupled with the Gross Income Tax Law and
.| others, has elevated and equalized
our Indiana educational system to the highest degree. Every school teacher receives a part of her pay from the State General Fund. This year it will be $500. I hope a way can be found so that the State General Fund will pay teachers the full $800 minimum salary. The Standard Safety School Bus Law of 1935 was an important measure. We have the Optional Free School Book Law. The Constitution is a legal subject for study in our schools. Public safety is a prescribed study course. We have made great strides in the elimination of the old-fashioned insanitary one-room schools. If there could be any subject for legislation in the scope of our Hoosier public school program, I would recommend greater efforts toward public safety. I think we should search diligently into the subject of what can be done to protect our school children on the streets and on the highways, and I will happily encourage and sign any legislative measures that give practical and sensible aid to the solution of this grave problem.
PUBLIC WELFARE
And now I would draw your attention to the institutional and public welfare problems of our State Government. Through the depression we were not financially able to do much toward the improvement of our State penal and benevolent institutions. We have done only that which we had thought to be financially able to keep abreast of the needs of the times either in the matter of adequate housing or scientific administration. Bear in mind that four years ago we inherited 19 State insti--tutions upon which a program of false economy had been practiced for 16 years. In most of
these institutions both the housing and the administration methods were sadly in need of repair and modernization. The retiring Administration has made a beginning in both directions. The housing problem has been tackled and essential repairs made, but new buildings are needed. The Administration problem has been approached, on the invitation of Mr. McNutt, by nationallyknown experts. The program has been outlined and we know what we should do, but we need the support and understanding of the public and our legislators. For example, one study of our prison reform and probationary system-al-ready has been made by such eminent authorities as Warden Lewis E. Lawes of New York; Sanford Bates, Director of the United
‘States Bureau of Prisons, and oth-
ers. They have recommended central supervision of prison management, with classification and transfer of prisoners according to case records. That power was written into law in the Special Session of 1936, which consolidated all welfare and institutional supervision under the State Department of Public Welfare. Just now another survey of our penal and correctional institutions is being started by the Federal Prison Industries Reorganization Administration, for the purpose of finding a solution of our prison labor problems.
TASK OF WELFARE
As I have indicated, the Department of Public Welfare has been established as the ninth principal
department of our State Govern
ment. Into this Department have been grouped all the public welfare responsibilities of the State. The work of various former boards and commissions which, although alike in character and purpose and serving the same ends, was unrelated in administration, now has been integrated into one department. One nonpartisan board is the administrative head of the new Department and the personnel is being selected upon the merit system. The function of the Department is supervisory, and it exer cises this single-headed supervision with planned economy and social purpose over the institutions and agencies which have the care of our unfortunate and neglected children, the crippled children, dependent children, needy aged, needy blind, inmates of hospitals for the insane, the feeble-minded, the epileptic. It might be said that our new State Deparment of Public Wel-
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fare is a consolidation of the social administrative: problems: with which our State Government had many experiences through the emergency relief period. It is not only a vital part of our Social Security program in Indiana, in so far as it concerns the distribution of public assistance to the needy aged, the blind and the dependent children, with help of Federal grants-in-aid, but it also consolidates into a workable, humane and intelligently constructed organization, Indiana’s own program for the care of her dependents, unfortunates and wards.
OPPORTUNITY IS SEEN
Here we have an opportunity for Indiana to give new leadership in the field of institutional management; an opportunity to enhance the glory of the name of Indiana, which in years past has stood for progress in. the’treatment of public social problems. Indiana has become a leader in public education, bank supervision, conservation, highway construction, and in many other ways these past four years with the help of the majorily of you members of the Legislature here before me. It is now time that our State takes the leadership in the
advancement of social security, pub-
lic welfare and public safety. Our social security program in Indiana is complete in so far as it bears co-operative relation to the national social “security program.
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Unemployment Compensation Lav: we participate fully in the phase: of the Federal law regarding aid to jobless individuals. We are p: rticipating with matched dollars in the granting of assistance to the iged, the blind and the dependent :hildren. : We have a prog am uhder way for the extension if child health
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no phase of the Fe eral Social Security program in w iich we are not interested and doin; our part as a State to bring lasti 2g and worthwhile benefits to ou: people.
SANCTION I GIVEN
I would urge that this Legislative Assembly give earne it consideration and thought to mei hods by which
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we can make the most of our social security and welfare programs for the benefit of all of the people of Indiana. If is a great venture in the social responsibilities of government. It promises untold security, benefits and happiness to our people The electorate of Indiana . has given its unqualified sanction to the program’s aims and purposes. .It is our duty to hold those objectives constantly in mind and to work together for the ultimate and finest success we can make out of it. Let's do so without petty partisan jealousies. If there be need for additional legislation, let’s legislate deliberately and" wisely.
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