Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 November 1939 — Page 5

| THURSDAY, NOV. 16,

CITY MANAGER PREDICTED IN 5 OR § YEARS

Esterline Tells Municipal League of Efforts Toward Rule by Citizens.

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of the Legislative Council ; ore the Legislature convenes#, anticipates bills likely to‘ be introduced and gathers facts pertaining to them for use-in debate. “There are no politics in facts,” Mr. Guild said. “When all legislators have before them established facts on a given issue, they are unlikely to talk in prejudiced generalities or to settle matters of public interest on a purely political basis.”

Discusses Party System

Also speaking on the program this morning was the Rev. Fr. Edward Dowling of St. Louis who predicted a changed political scene for the future United States. “The relation of the parties or poHtical groups of tomorrow is to be one of co-operation, just as exists between my two hands when each helps to wash the other,” he said. Others who spoke in group meetings today were Frederick P. Gruenberg, executive secretary of the Philadelphia City Charter Commit} tee, who discussed “The Frontier Is the State,” and Arthur W. Bromage of the University of Michigan who described the success of “P. R. in Ireland.” Banquet Is Tonight

Charles P. Taft, chairman of the National Committee of the Community Mobilization for Human Needs, spoke at a luncheon meeting today at which William H. Book, executive vice president of the Indianapolis €hamber of Commerce presided. The annual banquet to be held at the Indianapolis Athletic Club tonight at 7 p. m. will be preceded by ak business meeting at which officers e coming year ‘will be elected. a speakers at the annual meeting will be Herman B Wells, Indiana University president, and C. A.” Dykstra, University of Wis-}/ consin president. Also scheduled to speak are R. J. Colbert, also of the University of Wisconsin, and S. V. Norton, Bloomfield Hills, Mich. Tomorrow’s program will be a continuation of subjects discussed today with the convention’s adjournment following a luncheon talk by Walter ‘B. Pitkin, author and lecturer, who | 2 will discuss “The Citizen Revolts.”

Governor Is Speaker

The pros and cons of proportional representation, a system debated by all intercuted in reform government, was argued yesterday by Walter J.

Millard, field secretary of the Na-|lst

tional Municipal League, and Dr. F. A. Hermens of the University of Notre Dame. The debate followed ‘the welcoming speech made at a luncheon by Governor M. Clifford Townsend. In referring to the City Manager form.of government Governor Townsend announced $hat his eommittee,” appointed -by him to study the city manager system with an eye: to future legislation, was to meet with him Tuesday and present its findings. In a P. R. election each voter makes his ballot into a preferential list. When one candidate has received enough votes to elect him, the next person’ in preference re-

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Elected Trustees Lacking i in Technical Knowledge, Millard Says.

By JOE COLLIER

Indianapolis never can expect an economical administration of poor relief from an elected official, Walter Millard, National Municipal League fiel ' secretary, said today. In place of the elected township trustees, Mr. Millard said the ideal administrator would be one selected by the elected head of govern-

and his ability as an administrator

ings. : : This administrator, he said in an interview. between addresses to the League’s annual convention, now in its second day at the Severin Hotel, should act for the entire county and be responsible to and removable by those who appointed him. “If your elected township trustee should tonight sit down to read ‘all he could read about what is published on. the scientific administration of poor relief, and about sociology, and if he would make air-

it would be at least two years before he would be ready to begin his duties,” Mr. Millard said.

ready to scientifically administer to the needy -population, he is going Mo pauperize your citizens. It is not his fault, because he is not trained in what has grofn to be a technical job. He must understand why citizens are poor, what to do to relieve their poverty and ‘what to do to rehabilitate them. “Except by accident, you never get a man qualified in all those phases of sociology. Now, in order to set up such a relief administrator, you would have to make sweeping changes in your governmental

plan. Discusses Legislation “The secret of such changes is home rule. Without home rule, wherein each locality solves its own problems for itself instead of having a Legislature solve them, you will have no workable machinery. “youi Indiana Legislature, in fact, spends a great deal of ifs time "each session being what amounts to a City Council for Indianapolis and other communities. And while these men are all well-intentioned, some of them undoubtedly do not| know much about Indianapolis’ problems. “Township governments should be abolished and City and County governments should be consolidated. Ideally, the government of Marion County and Indianapolis should be vested in a County-City Council composed of no more than nine

$ ceives the vote, and so on down the

It is in this way that each vote is utilized as in comparison with the present election system used in the majority of communities! where the candidate receiving the most votes wins and the voters ceil the losing minority lose their votes altogether. Mr. Millard, in the debate, said

is necessary in a populous democracy. Therefore I modify my own immediate selfishness by agreeing to combine with the least necessary | number of persons who agree with me.” Dr. Hermens charged that there were obvious faults to be found with P. R. First, “it is generally admitted that proportional representation and the parlimentary system of government do not go well together.”

PRESIDENT APPROVES PLANS FOR BIRTHDAY

NEW YORK, Nov. 16 (U. P.)— President Roosevelt today approved plans for nation-wide celebrations of his 58th birthday to raise funds for the fight against infantile

paralysis. In a letter. to Keith Morgan, chairman of the celebration committee, Mr. Roosevelt wrote: “I was deligh ‘to hear from Basil O’Connor, dent of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, Inc, of the great progress which this foundation has already ‘made along all fronts in the fight against infantile paralysis ” Mr. Roosevelt's birthday is on Jan. 30.

EAT BROWN BREAD, GERMANS ADVISED

BERLIN, Nov. 18 (U. P.).—The Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung advised readers today that eating more brown bread would cure “blackout blindness” which has resulted in a large number of accidents.

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES PRINTERS REFUSE | TOCUT UNION DUES,

Members. of the. International - Union have refused a reduction’ in their own dues, Secre-tary-treasurer Woodruff Randolph|. announced today after tabulation of a referendum taken Nov. 1. d The proposal,’ ‘which was fora re-| duction in the pension and mortuary |! assessment, was. voted down, 31441.

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the advertisement reads: - “Could you watch him: die?” The kennel, which costs $14.77,

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to 23,434. The union. voted to day week for all its members after| Jan. 1, 1042, At present, about 3000 | of the 80,000 members are working |a six-day week of six hours 40 mintites. . The remaining: 77,000 are on

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Murray Seasongood (left), former Mayor of Cincinnati and nations ally known leader of reform government movements, and Walter lard, National Municipal League field secretary, chatted at the Je convention at the Severin Hotel where both spoke.

members elected by proportiohal representation. This Council would hire a County-City manager responsible to it. He would hire his administrators on a merit system. “There would be one County-City chief of police, and not a City chief and a County sheriif. There would be one jail. There would be one purchasing agent for City, County, School Board and all other units. “The School Board would be elected, also by proportional representation, but it would decide only on matters of policy. The CityCounty manager would maintain buildings, hire janitor help and build and conduct its other businesses. “There would be one Treasurer, one Auditor, one Clerk for.the City and County. In short, there would be no duplication of offices or jobs. “Then, with home rule from the Legislature, the community of Marion County could govern itself, and

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solve: its own probiesis. After ‘all, |

democrdcy should give a community a chance to make its own mistakes “The basis for the: whole thing is

from - your . Legislature, you. won’t have ' éfficient government. = We blame no -officeholder and no politician. We simply say that each system of government attracts. different types of men, and we believe that the City-County manager, or even -the: City manager form, atDats better qualified: ‘men to ofce “And as for home Lunar: it your State Tax Board could not a in judgment on local budgets. shouldn’t. It's not qualified to SL the solution-to all local budgetary problems.. . And . it . doesn’t . solve them. It merely arbitrarily says this will pass or that will be cut.

It merely settles. the dispute, and}

a five-day. week now. Other proposals accepted. in the|:

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