Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 February 1940 — Page 7

, FRIDAY, FEB. 2, 1940

REPEAL SOUGHT

FOR COLORADO

$45 PENSIONS

| District Court “Ruling, if

Upheld, May Bring Finan-| cial Crisis. |

DENVER, Feb. 2 (U. P)—A campaign to repeal Colorado’s $45-a-month old-age pension law—most generous in the nation—was under way today to save the State from a

serious financial crisis.

The repeal drive was launched after old-age pensioners, seeking full $45 monthly payments, won a District Court victory which State Treasurer Charles Armstrong said would bankrupt the Treasury if upheld by the State Supreme Court. The District Court decision, hand ed down in a test. suit by Judge Stanley Johnson of Denver, meant in effect that Colorado must pay full $45 pensions to 41,000. persons over 60 regardless of money available in the pension fund. |

Pro-rating Held Illegal

ob Finder

Gayle S. Eads . . . heads teachers’ placement service here.

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The new teacher placement service of the Indiana State Employ- | Iment Service began: registration of

applicants today with Gayle S. Eads

Judge Johnson said the 1937 Conr |i charge.

stitutional amendment which set up the $45 pensions was so worded that the Welfare Board’s practice of pror rating payments because of insuffi-

cient revenue was illegal.

State Senator Rudolph Johnson (D. Boulder), leader of the repeal group, said he would place on the State’s 1940 election ballot a pror posed Constitutional amendment to

“wipe out the $45 chaos and save Colorado from complete bankruptSenator Johnson said the State Treasury would run “into the redf immediately if the State Supreme Court upheld the full payment edict of the Denver District Court. Senator Johnson pointed out that the State has not had sufficient money since January, 1938, to pay full pensions and he estimated a $9,800,000 the difference between $45 pensions and payments actually made since then. Pensions in Colo rado have averaged $26 for the last 24 months.

Would Set $30 Minimum

Under the Johnson plan, the proposed repeal amendment would sub+ stitute for the $45 setup a minimum pension of $30 monthly. Payments as high as $40—based on the State’s ability to pay—would be possible _ under the plan. The current provision earmarking 85 per cent of all State excise taxes, present and future, for pensions would be repealed. . | Officials agreed, meantime, that if the Supreme Court upheld the full payment ruling Colorado would face its gravest financial crisis since statehood. Treasurer Armstrong said gens eral State revenues were inadequate

Mr. Eads has been a grade and high school teacher, the principal of several consolidated schools and superintendent. of the Ripley County Schools. He made a study of the Wisconsin setup with Ralph Watson, assistant state superintendent of public instruction, and Frank G. Bates, professor emeritus of Indiana Univer-,

sity and a member of the Indiana Unemployment Compensation

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Ten-Yedr Campaign Puts Emphasis on Changing Money Crops.

RALEIGH, N. C,; Feb. 2 (U. P.)— Quietly but with. determination, a group of agricultural, industrial and education leaders under the guilding Hand of Dr. Clarence Poe, editor and farm leader, are working out extensive plans and details of the recently launched 10-year campaign designed to pull the South out of its slough of economic and agricultural backwardness. The movement, enttiled a campaign “for balanced prosperity in the South 1940-50,” was officially launched by proclamations of 11 Southern governors Jan. 1, 1940. Since that time a series of conferences in Raleigh called by Dr. Poe and Frank Graham, president of the University of North Carolina, threshed out details of the program and it was presented in fuller form to the Governor’s Confeernce at its meeting at Nashville, Tenn., Jan. 25.

Dr. Poe Chairman

Dr. Poe, editor of The Progressive Farmer and for years an outstanding champion of farmers and agricultural workers, is the general chairman and moving spirit of the campaign. : Working with him are the Governors of the Southeastern states, all of whom have signed and indorsed the campaign, and a general chairman for each state. Each of the chairmen is an outstanding well-known public figure. Dr. Poe, who is probably as closely i touch with southern agricultural conditions as any man in the South, describes the need for this campaign as “absolutely vital if we are to keep the South from return‘ing to the horse and buggy era.”

‘Over-Emphasis’ Fought

fon. of & 140,000 a Dna

More than anything else, the 10year campaign is aimed at ameli-

tobacco and cotton, and its neglect of livestock, dairying, poultry and food and feed crops. The 10 major objectives are to balance: r 1. Money crops with food, feed and fertility crops. 2. Crops with livestock. 3. Farms with factories. 4. Production progress with marketing and transportation opportunities without trade barriers. 5. Land, water and mineral resources with population needs. 6. Work with thrift and local investment. 7. Owner prosperity with worker prosperity. 8. Increasing income with increasing home ownership. 9. Wealth with beauty and culture. : 10. Economic gains with gains in moral values and human welfare. 10 Methods Outlined

The success. already achieved by

| the Southern Governor’s Conference

in its ‘fight for a substantial lower-

NEW YORK, Feb. 2 (U. P)— Christopher Columbus has received his vindication—if he needed any— as a great and truthful mariner 447 years after he piloted his little fleet across uncharted seas to the new world. : The vindication came from eight members of a Harvard-sponsored expedition who returned on the liner Veragua after retracing Columbus’ route across the Atlantic in two sailboats and checking what they saw against his journals. Prof. Samuel Eliot Morison headed the group and his verdict on the latter-day debunking school, which

he claimed, was “nonsense.” He said the expedition studied historical records in Italy and then sailed by way of Lisbon, the Azores and the Canary Islands. Everything Columbus wrote checked— even the fact that the seaweed inside St. Ann’s Bay, Jamaica, was browner than that outside in the ocean. The expedition saw the rock “horseman” formation on Coro Island in the Azores which Columbus used to chart his course toward the mainland. They brought back some of the horse beans he mentioned in his papers and they found in the Canary Islands that the

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Columbus Tops as Sailor, Say Men Who Trailed Him

contends Columbus was less than

“whistling language” he had mentioned is still being used bf the Guanche tribe. The Guanches call across gullies and valleys in their shrill tongue and the expedition had heard one ask another five miles away for the quick delivery of some wine. The whistled answed was that the ship ment would be or time. : : Prof. Morison said the expedition reached the conelusion that Columbus was “a great seaman who navigated by dead reckoning or as the old Yankee skippers used to say ‘by guess and by God.’”

PROPOSES SCHOOLS FOR ARMY TRAINING

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 (U. P.).— Rep. Kent Keller (D. Ill) has introduced a bill to establish an “American School Army” for youths 15 to 18 years old who would be given military and educational training in camps operated by the War Department. The “school” would give annual training to 21,850 youths from all Congressional districts. Those who show an aptitude for military leadership would be eligible for further training at West Point.

MANY CITIES BID FOR PARTY CONVENTIONS

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 (U. P.)— Republican and Democratic party leaders today expected spirited competition among several cities for the 1940. party Presidential conventions. Republicans reported that San Francisco, St. Louis, Philadelphia and Chicago have signified inientions of submitting bids for the convention. Atlantic City, Baltimore, Detroit, Minneapolis, New York, Cleveland and Brooklyn have made preliminary inquiries. Philadelphia, Chicago and San Francisco have advised the Democratis they will submit bids for that convention. St. Louis and Dallas were reported to have made preliminary inquiries. x Democratic National (‘onarman James A. Farley will meet with the National Committee Monday fo deJermine the convention date and site.

NAMED CLUB GOVERNOR

Zeo W. Leach, Indianapolis, has been appointed Governor of the Exchange Club district which includes Indianapolis, Columbus, Logansport, Marion, Muncie, Richmond and Wabash. Jit! : . The appointment was made by

the national president, Newman R. Thurston and is for this year.

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cultural values and human welfare |

and a more beautiful South. 10. To establish definite standards and scorecards for judging the present . standing and future progress not only of states, counties, cities, and towns, but also of rural school districts, individual farmers and all others who wish to participate.

I. U. SPEECH COURSE

PLANNED ON FRIDAYS |

Indiana University’s Extension Center here will give a corrective speech course during the second semester, it was announced today. " Registration is now in progress at the center. The course will be conducted each Friday from 8 to 9:45 p. m. by Dr. Robert E. Milisen, speech and hearing clinic director. The course will give regular Uni-

versity credit to adults, but also is

open to children. Objective is to explain the causes of each disorder causing defective speech and to offer practice periods with supervision to enable the student to correct speech difficulties.

Dr. Milisen formerly - was speech}

clinic director at Pennsylvania State College and Iowa University.

INDIANA LEGION 5TH. IN ‘BIG TEN’ DRIVE

- The Indiana Department. of the

American Legion placed fifth this|

year in the “Big Ten” Legion membership campaign. The Indiana Department exceeded its national quota of 32,771 members according to Department Commander Raymond Townsley.

A citation to that effect, signed|

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