Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 November 1939 — Page 5

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Welfare Leader Tells Civie Session Public Is ‘Fed Up.’

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eight years of depression and said that the Federal and state employment services are making relief clients no part of their problem. He advocated the work camp as the only solution for the problem of the unemployed single male, and said he had no solution to offer for the unemployed single woman. He said that the businessman’s view that “anyone who wants a job can get one is just simply not so. The jobs aren’t there.”

Gives Possible Solution

Relief, as granted, Mr. Pettit told the conference, amounts to little better than starvation subsistence, and “the cost of the present budget in relation, particularly to children, must be reckoned with as a cost in the future.” The present tax structure, he said, is wholly inadequate to provide the necessary funds for poor relief purposes. In summing up the situation, Mr. Pettit said it appears: 1. That the problem can only be ~ Solved by Federal grants-in-aid to the states in relation to some forfulae based on their needs. 2. That the administration of public assistance and direct relief must be combined in an agency, removed from political control and staffed by a professional staff, sefected on a civil service-merit rating system.

3. That, unless we wish to risk the implications from the existence of a large’ group of malnourished, diseased-and sullen people, relief must be adequate to maintain this group in a manner compatible with decency and health.

Attacks Public’s Apathy

Mr. Pettit said the present system of handling relief “trusts expenditure of millions dollars ‘worth of relief to individuals who have no experience othergthan political interest in the matter.” “The time has come,” he said “when the township trustee must ‘be relieved of his poor relief duties and. the duties transferred to agencies removed from political control and with intelligent and well-trained staffs.” Mr. Dykstra, who resigned as city ~ manager of Cincinnati to assume sthe university presidency, told the at the banquet last night that our democracy is being by the apathy of many tizens who "consistently fail to use eir ballots in the cause of good ent. s+ Prefacing his reference to foreign ‘dictatorships, Mr. Dykstra said that the goal of .those countries “is thoroughly repugnant to our democracy and freedom.”

: Urges Civic Unity > He then listed almost a dozen

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ments have obtained in the last few years. They included unity, abolishment of defeatism, leader: ship, marshaling of resources, a united front, sacrifice for common good, eschewing of softness, furthering the kind of education they believe in, discipline, and employment for all. In his program for the protection of democracy, Mr, Dykstra stated that “first, let us discourage pressure groups and give support to - civic unity.” Mr. Dykstra was introduced by Herman B Wells, Indiana University president. . Mr, Wells said: “It is the univergity’s job to reveal truths—including the city manager form of government. The university must educate the student so that he may go out into the world of today and take an active part in its government.” ’ Pitkin Addresses Session

© Walter B. Pitkin, author and lecturer, was to end the conference at a noon luncheon today with a discussion of “The Citizen Revolts.” ‘Presiding at the adjournment luncheon was to be William Fortune of Indianapolis, chairman of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce committee on taxation and finance. Harold C. Feightner, executive secretary of the Indiana Brewers Association, speaking before the Control of Liquor group this morn‘ing, warned that many ideas on the subject of alcoholic beverage control were “crackpot, shortvisioned, sectional in outlook and rooted in prejudice and emotionalism.”

Mr. Feightner, while urging temce and strict enforcement of the Indiana statute, praised the law.

Approves Licence Fee

William E. Treadway, secretary, Indiana Commission on Interstate Co-operation, speaking before the group session on control of liquor said, “I will admit at the start that the Indiana liquor code may not be the acme of perfection. On the other hand, I will say that the Indiana law is functioning fairly sat- * §sfactorily for Indiana.” Mr. Treadway saw the high license fee in Indiana as one of the Better clauses of the law. “It has found that the rather high fees exacted have been ben-

only. The permit holder must be a person of some property status and therefore is more apt to be a person of some responsibility.” : Those who attended the - groiip meeting on new trends -in expenditure control, heard Wylie Kilpatrick, University of North Carolina, urge the reorganization of local government and the revamping of the local fiscal structure and the definition of the functions of fiscal officers.

director, auditor and budget officer —often are illogically set up Seapetimes absent, and ioe) equipped for their functions,” he said. “Indiana, which only flirted ‘With the city manager plan in Indianapolis, might well arrange an orthodox marriage and put divorced poli-

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a parsimonious allowance. “The heedless county needs business management ‘in the ferm of) the county manager plan, which is beginning to find ‘acceptance in urban areas, or in the form of the mandatory requirement for execusive clerks or financial supervisors in rural counties.”

Lower Loan Rates Cited

Cuthbert E. Reeves, consulting engineer, who also spoke today before the closing session, stated that “cities of thie East dre able fo borrow at a lower cost than those in the Middle West and these in turn fare better than the Far Western municipalities.”

He explained that the main reason for this difference “lies in our wide-spread belief that the older long-established institutions, private or public, are inherently more stable than those of more recent origin. Jesse J. Pugh, supervisor of civic education, Zanesville, O., discussed education and its intricate problems before the group on. ‘Training for Self-Government.” J. Charles Lane, consultant, United States Community Improvement Appraisal, in another session, asked: “Why do we refer to WPA| work as ‘being on relief?” Does a man need the job when he gets one in an automobile factory, and we do not call that relief, do we? : “Neither do we call it relief when a man gets a job on the WPA.” The National Association of Civic Secretaries elected nine new directors and re-elected all other officers.

Officers Re-elected

+ The new directors are Glen B.

Eastburn, Municipal League of Seattle, Wash.; George Gerhard, Civic League of Improvement Clubs and Associations, San Francisco, Cal.; Robert Hanson, Milwaukee Government Service League; Julian &. Hearne Jr. of Wheeling, W. Va.; Miss Claire B. MacAfee, Civic Club of Philadelphia; George H. McCaffrey, Merchants Association of New York; Miss Grace D. Treat, Women’s Civic b of Cleveland; Dr. Joseph Foth, executive secretary of the Citizens League of Kansas City, Mo., and Forest Frank, executive secretary of the City Charter Committee of Cincinnati. =~ Re-elected officers are Allen ‘H. Seed Jr. executive vice president of the Minneapolis Civic Council, president; W. P. Lovett, executive secretary of the Detroit Citizens League, vice president; Robert E. Garrigan, Civic Director of the Civic Club of Chicago, vice president; Miss H. Marie Dermitt, secretary of the Civic Club of Allegheny County, Pa., secretary, and Miss Louise C. Morel, Louisville, Ky., treasurer.

FINES: IMPOSED IN 6. M. C. TRUST CASE

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General Motors Acceptance Corp. and the General Motors Acceptance Corp. of Indiana conspired to restrain interstate commerce, in violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, by forcing retail dealers to use the G. M. C. affiliates in financing auto sales. Dealer witnesses: had testified they were ordered to finance through G. M. A. C. under penalty of losing their franchises. Corporation officials, including Mr. Sloan and Mr. Knudsen, had denied such orders had been given. *The verdict affected not only the G. M. C. companies, but also the Ford Motor Co. and Chryslér Corp., aganist which similar ‘indictments had been returned. The indictments against Ford and Chrysler had been set aside under a consent decree. Under the decree the: companies agreed to cease alleged violation of the Sherman Act, with, a provision that the decree would wh permanent if G. M. C. and co-defendants were found guilty.

* Prosecutor Praises Verdict

Holmes Baldridge, special prosecutor from the Attorney Generals office, who directed the Government’s case, said the verdict was “a step forward in the anti-trust division.” He emphasized that it was not an attempt to apply a single rigid form to all in industry. “We don’t consider this (conviction) a compromise,” he said. “We feel it justified our entire theory, although all were not found guilty.” The Government called 68 wit-

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$182,000 FRAUD

LOSS IS CLAIMED

Late Head of Paint Firm, Priests, Woman Victims, Jury Told.

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own were heavily mortgaged although represented by company officials as being free from debt. Testimony of aged, blind and infirm witnesses—nearly all of them women—who had told of “losing their life savings” through investments in Mrs. Donnell’'s companies, ended yesterday. Three widows, two of Indianapolis,

$76,000 through investments in the alleged scheme. One of them, Mrs. Anna Pohlmeyer, an ‘invalid who formerly lived at Richmond, Ind, sald she found it necessary to enter an '1ndianapolis charity home after she lost more- than $22,000. Ex-Employees Testify Another, Mrs. Bertha McCloskey, of 719 BE. McCarty. St., said she lost more than $11,000 and now had “to take in roomers’” to support herself. The third, Mrs. Henrietta Scherer,

nearly. $43,000 left by her husband. Following themy,: employees of

Mr. Hartenfeld tod Mrs. Ruby Kain of 2815 E. 17th St., who. was employed by Mr. Beckett and Mrs. Donnell, testified that the offices here were closed and the business transferred to Henderson at Mr. Hartenfeld’s request. “Mr. Hartenfeld said the offices

told the jury, “because it would be more trouble for the note holders to write for their money at Henderson than to stop in at the Indianapolis office.”

Check-Signing Explained

If the note holders “became insistent” about their money, Mrs. Kain testified, Mrs. Donnell “told me to tell them that -‘the miners are on strike’ or some such excuse.” Mrs. Charles Taylor of Henderson, former stenographer for Mr. Hartenfeld, said “Mr. Hartenfeld asked me to sign his name as he did.” . Checks and drafts, she said, were signed with a rubber facsimile stamp of Mr. Hartenfeld’s signature. Harold Woodard, attorney for Mr. Knapp, then cross-examined Mrs. Taylor.

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BUSINESS oT TE 1 QUINN'S FAbanes

(Continued from Pare One} tober totaled $2468.12, compared to

|$4139.66 for September.

Milk claims are filed ‘monthly and

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previously for the first half of the month. ' This brought its total claim for the first half of October to $4651.35. : “The Grand Jury today recessed its Center Township relief probe until Nov. 27, to give the Prosecutor's staff an opoprtunity to assemble and study evidence of irregularities uncovered in the last five weeks. i Prosecutor David M. Lewis said he hopes to have the material in such shape that the jury can make a report by the end of the month. More than 25 witnesses paraded into the Grand Jury room yesterday, bringing the number heard. thus far to nearly 150. A majority of those testifying this week have been coal

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