Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 July 1937 — Page 11

THURSDAY,

MERIT OF CITY MANAGER PLAN

JULY 1, 1937

PROVEN, CLAIM

Politics Must Play No Part, J. W. Esterline Tells League Here.

A successful city-manager plan of government must be free from possible future political handicaps, John W. Esterline today told struction League of Indianapolis. Declaring the plan's merit is no

the Con-,

longer in question, Mr. Esterline said |

+ Jatures.

Mr, Esterline also advocated, in

under which |

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EDITORIAL GUILD T0 GOVERN SELF, BROUN DEGLARES,

Publishers, President of Unit Avows.

| By United Press NEW YORK, July Broun, president of the | Newspaper Guild, said Guild will continue to stick

American today

to its

| knitting and be governed by the de-! | ability of the intended victim, fox!

| cisions of its own convention rather | | than that of the publishers.” Broun's statement was made | reference to the meeting of news- | paper publishers in Chicago this | week at which the publishers adoptled a resolution condemning the | | Guild’ s decision to demand a Guild

closed shop.

wasnt Fores to Please |

1.—Heywood |

“the

lto say that they will deal with a union only if it is properly organized and properly led, and they reserve to themselves the right to decide what is ‘proper.’ The Guild will continue to stick to its knitting and |be governed by the decisions of its {own convention rather than that of the publishers.”

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Gymnastics Rout Pair.

| A filling station thwarted today by

holdup was the gymnastic |

| cording to police. Harold Owens,

| ing in the vacant lot beside the station where he works when two Ne-

| groes approached him. One of them | }| stickup,”

announced, “This is a

| Owens said.

Instead of handing over his cash

25, of 1420 Brooks) in | side Ave, told officers he was stand- |

the 500 block of E. Washington St. | ransacked his apartment yesterday Burglars last night entered the | and escaped with $12 and a radio home of Cyrus Graham, 26, of 809 | valued at $16. Blake St, and stole $70 from a| A vandal last night threw rocls trunk. The intruders overlooked $10 through three plate glass windows in change, Mr. Graham reported. in the Haag Drug Store, 1545 N, Forrest Bemfish, 24, of 1521 Col- | Illinois, Joe Burrin, 22, of 26 W, lege Ave., told officers that burglars | 26th St, a clerk, reported to police,

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statement: in the conventional manner, Owens publishers should have |said he leaped into the air and brought a copy reader with them | | kicked one of the bandits in the face |to the convention in Chicago. They | With both feet. He said he fell back‘might have stated their case much | ward and when he looked up the

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. addition to constitutional provision SEES® TE. \ : | f for municipal home rule, adoption | } . 3 L : . of the Hare system of proportional representation in elections. Discussing the city-manager plan's

alleged failure in Cleveland, Mr. Esterline said it did not work because “a deal” was made to secure its adoption and a compromise was necessary.

Four Requirements Outlined

Mr “We have

Esterline declared,

{

learned that there is no such thing |

¢ good government.” four fundamental resuccessful eity-

as automati He outlined quirements for a manager system:

“1. Adoption of the plan should be |

founded on law of the state. and not on legislative enactment. 2. The plan and supported by informed, well-organized,

the basic

should be fostered

a city-wide, well- | unselfish, |

nonpartisan organization of citizens. |

3. All members of the commission should be elected at large, by the Hare proportional representation system of balloting.

4. The charter should not embody

any of the hampering restrictions which those opposing the plan so frequently seek to write into it.”

Sees End to Spoils

Declaring that “adoption of the plan would mean the end of political spoils in the City government,” Esterline said, "when any city a system government certain to he opposed by those who are skilled in the art of practical politics, and who have selfish rea- . sons for that opposition, the eitizenship must be freed from some of the political handicaps under which they are now forced to operate.” He cited the present election system as one of these handicaps, since under it a united minority can defeat a divided majority Under proportional representation each group of voters elects city councilors in pr oper! ion to the num-

adopts which is

¢ Of

ments without

or red tape.

Mr. |

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leaving their

ber of votes it casts. Esterline possible

Mr.

In this war]

the greatest voters have a

said,

number of

real share in the choice.

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to her mother, | Harrison, | States from 1889 to 1893. | Mrs. | mother,

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more briefly—'we are against

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| Guild'—and have covered the | ground. | “It is inaccurate to say that economic issues were not involved. The American Newspaper Guild was formed to better wages and working conditions of newspaper men and | women, and to raise the | standards of the craft.

| (not the closed shop) was necessary

to achieve and maintain these goals. |

The publishers in their convention

| have undertaken to criticize the or-|

ganization of the Guild, its leader{ship and many of its decisions ex- | pressed in the recent St. Louis con- | vention, | a - a “The Guild was not is i ia the primary object of pleasing publishers. In effect, the newspaper publishers are holding to the philosophy of Tom Girdler. They seem

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