Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 April 1939 — Page 5

OHIO GOVERNOR CUTS 3000 OFF STATE PAYROLL

Bricker’s Economy Program Indicates Saving of 3 Million Yearly.

Times Special COLUMBUS, O., April 4 (U.P) —

HE INDIANAPOLIS

The Gallup Poll

Almost 9 of 10 Americans Declare, 'Sure, We Belong to the Middle Class’

By Institute of Public Opinion EW YORK, Aptil 4 Despite

“middle class.”

of Public Opinion. The “middle class” has

security diminish.

Many Ohioans are startled, but most of them seem to be pleased, by the way Gov. John W. Bricker is earry-| ing out his campaign promise of | economy in the State government. Three months in office, this first Republican Governor elected since the Hoover landslide of 1928, has dropped 3000 persons from the State payroll and reduced overhead costs

at a rate that will save about three |

million dollars a year. |

In one department, he remarks, 500 employees were eliminated “without creating a vacancy.” Payrolls in the Old Age Pension Di-| vision have been reduced 20 per) cent: in the State Tax Commission, 19 per cent; in the Highway Department, nearly 17 per cent. Meanwhile, permanent reforms, designed to improve administration, rapidly are being worked out. Following four years of free spending under Governor Martin L.| Davey, Mr. Bricker is making the most of his opportunity.

Watch All Spending

The state liquor monopoly provides an example of major savings. Governor Bricker astounded politicians and businessmen by selecting an Ohio State University professor of business accounting, J. B. Taylor, to head this huge system of wholesale and retail liquor stores. But at the end of one month, Prof. Taylor had trimmed off $45,000 in salaries and $20.000 in traveling expense, Operating costs had been reduced 16 per cent, an actual saving of $75.000, although sales were up nearly 10 per cent over the corresponding period in 1938. The net profit increased 22 per cent, On the other hand, no spending {tem has been too small for the attention of the “career men” whom the new Governor has brought into the State's service. 800 Autos Out of Service For instance, Highway Department printing costs have been reduced 30 per cent. New bids were demanded on supplies for State institutions, resulting in saving $210 a month on tobacco, $670 on milk, 8810 on flour. The contract price for trucking coal to one institution was shaved from $1.11 a ton to 90 cent. Many other trucking contracts have been revised. One such revicion alone, that of the liquor monopoly, is saving at the rate of $100,000 a year. Six hundred automobiles, bought under previous administrations, have been taken out of service Most of them, the Governor Says, are not needed and will be sold at auction.

BANQUET IS PLANNED

The annual Father and Son banquet sponsored by the Washington High School R. O. T. C, will be held at the school cafeteria April 13. Judge Wilfred Bradshaw of Juvenile Court will speak. Guests will include DeWitt S. Morgan, superintendent of schools, and Earl Buchanan, School Board president W. G. Gingery, school principal, will preside.

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Senator O'Mahoney. . . . He asked about incomes,

between the “haves” and the “have-nots” since the depression, the great majority of Americans still consider that they belong to the

That fact is indicated today in a survey by the American Institute taken a hammering from radical erities and from writers of the 1920s and '30s as well as from the depression itself. According to most radical theorists, the middle appear into the proletariat—or “the working class” —as its property and

But today’s survey gives striking evidence of the fact that America is still, psychologically at least, almost entirely a “middle class” country. s 8

own factory.

MORGAN BACKS MAS MEDICINE

Health Board Chief Says Doctors, However, Should Work Out Plan.

“The medical profession is naturally the logical group to perfect a plan whereby adequate medical care will be provided for all charity cases and those who are in the low income brackets,” Dr. Herman G. Morgan, City Health Board secretary, declared in an article today. “Such a program will never curtail the doctor's individuality or stifle medical progress, but instead, increase the demand for his services and result in untold benefit to the human family,” he stated in the Indianapolis Medical Society Bulletin, now released. He added: “Ill health in combination with

| poverty presents one of the nation’s

most baffling sociological situations. “While science and medicine have fought these inimical forces, it may be stated that their protection never has been adequate to meet the demanda. “In recent years economic trends

(have served to focus attention on

all phases of society which might play a part in the collapse of the nation’s economic structure , which has . . . resulted in an accusing finger being pointed at the iation’s health. “Although sickness and poverty nay have little relationship to the eal cause of the so-called depresjon, they are millstones around the eck of struggling society during the yeriod of recovery.”

3D U. S. RED CROSS

the widening of the political gap

class is due to dis-

It makes little difference, the survey shows, whether an individ= ual considers himself a Democrat or a Republican, whether he lives in the eity or in the country, wheth= er he works in a factory or owns his

Almost nine Americans in every 10 describe themselves as belonging socially to the middle class. Only one American in 16 thinks of himself as belonging to the lower class, while another one in 16 describes himself as a member of the “upper” class. The Institute asked:

“Te what social class in this country do you feel you belong— middle class, of upper or lower?” Upper Class ........... Ciaeis 0) Middle Class ....cooienianee 88 Lower Class ......ovvvvn vss 6

At a time when American publie thinking is crossed and crisscrossed with partisan opinions, the general feeling of membership in the “middle class” is one of the most significant remaining unities. 2 2 2

LTHOUGH the great ma= jority of Americans choose to claim membership in the “middie class,” they are also aware of sharp differences in income levels, the survey shows. : Asked to what regular class they feel they belong, three in every 10 say “the lower,” and only one in a hundred claims the upper ine come group. The actual vote is:

Upper Income Group ...... 1% Upper Middle weer 8 Middle veeseniseess 81 Lower Middle ..civiviiiiese 21 Lower ....... eee 31

These self-groupings are close to similar income classifications made by Government statisticians. The opening hearings of the Monopoly Committee last fall, under the chairmanship of Senator O'Mahoney (D. Wyo.) heard the lowest income group in the United States described as approximately a third of the families of the ecountry—families earning less than $750 a year. About half of all American families and individuals earn less than $1000 a year. This group just about equals the two lowest income groups in today's Institute study -— the “lower” and “lower middle” groups combined. In spite of the wide differences in income scale, however, the fact remains that most Americans still describe themselves as belonging to the “middle class.”

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ANOTHER “ SCREWDRIVER” TAKES A TURN

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Traffic authorities agree it can be done right now!

“Thoughtless or incompetent drivers are themselves responsible for at least 25% of the traffic delays. Without rebuilding another mile of street or road — without spending a dollar — one-fourth of all our nerve-racking, time - wasting, fuel -wasting stop-and-go could be eliminated.”

Past President, American Association

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