Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 March 1940 — Page 3
TUESDAY, MARCH 12,
1940 _
Finn Acceptance Of Russian Peace
Terms Responsible Sources in London Indicate War
Is Nearly Over. (Continued from Page One)
¢onditions it might be of great aid to the Finns for several more weeks. | ¢
Meanwhile, Finnish citizens of German birth have appealed to Adolf Hitler and other German leaders for support and have received the terse reply, that their appeal has been placed in the hands of the men to whom it was addressed, it was disclosed today. “We appeal to you from the bottom of our hearts not to permit that the sacrifices Germans once made for this land shall have been in vain,” said the appeal to Herr Hitler, Pield Marshal Hermann Goering, Nazi No. 2; Gen. Walter von Brauchitsch, commander in chief of the Army, and Grand Admiral Erich Raeder, commander in chief of the Navy. “Raise the voice of the Reich before all civilized nations against those bloody deeds Russia is perpetrating on Finnish women and children and on this country which is an outpost of the German and the Western World.” About 100 Finns of German birth, many of whem fought for Finland in its war of independence, signed the appeal. Finns Say Russians Repulsed
A Finnish war communique said that Russian attacks east of Viipuri were repulsed yesterday and, because of stubborn resistance, failed to make progress in the Red Army’s efforts to occupy Finland's second cit, Attacks also were reported repulsed northeast of Lake Ladoga. The communique said 15 Russian planes were shot down yesterday. The Finnish Army High Command added that in the first 14 weeks of the war its forces have destroyed 587 Russian airplanes and captured or destroyed 1486 tanks and 295 artillery guns. ' The Swedish newspaper Allahanda in Stockholm estimated that Russian losses so far total 300,000 to 400,000 men or an average daily loss of 4000.
British List Nazi Sea Losses
In London the Admiralty announced today that 7 per cent of German mefchant shipping, totaling about 300,000 tons, has been scuttled or seized since the war began. Twenty-five per cent of the enemy merchant marine is bottled up in neutral ports and the remainder is tied up in German ports, excepting those ships operating between Germany and Baltic ports, it was claimed. British merchant shipping losses for the week ending Sunday midnight totalled 18,673 tons, bringing the total losses for the war to about 640,000 tons or an average of 24,000 tons weekly. The Admiralty ‘communique announcing the figures said that the average Joss was less than one-third of the losses during the first six months of 1917, the peak period of submarine warfare, In Washington, State Department officials guarded more secretly today than at any time in recent years whatever information they have about peace activities of American representatives in Europe. Particular secrecy was maintained regarding the activities of Amer- . ican Ambassador Laurence Steinhardt at Moscow. Secretary of State Cordell Hull denied categorically that Mr. Steinhardt or the U. S. Government had intervened or mediated in any way in the Fin-nish-Soviet peace negotiations. It was learned that Mr. Steinhardt had made some report to Washington. But Hull made no refernce to it and all attempts to obtain even the slightest details of it were unavailing. , It seemed apparent: that the lid of secrecy was being so strictly enforced that only a few top-ranking officials at the State Department have seen copies of it.
SENTENCED FOR SLAYING
NOBLESVILLE, Ind, March 12 (U. P) —Willlam Wilson, 31, Indianapolis taxi driver, began a. 1-to-10-year sentence today for the - blackjack murder of James Golden, * Indianapolis, in April of last year. Wilson pleaded guilty yesterday before Judge Cassius M. Gentry of Hamilton Circuit Court.
Reported
DIPLOMATS AT THE HAGUE FIND RENEWED HOPE
Is Believed Brighter at ‘Listening Post.’
THE HAGUE, Netherlands, March 12 (U. P.).—Diplomats at this favorite European “listening post” believed today that prospects for peace were improving slightly. A settlement of the ‘Russo-Fin-nish war would increase the possibility of peace throughout Europe, it was said, and in that connection it was considered a hopeful sign that Adolf Hitler appeared to want the Finnish war to end even though Great Britain and France might be drawn into it if it were prolonged, and an Allied military adventure in Scandinavia would weaken the Allies on the Western Front. As matters stand now, Germany has 175 divisions along the Westwall compared to 130 or 132 Allied divisions on the Maginot Line. If Germany wanted a further advant-
age there, it was pointed out, she}
would not encourage peace in Scandinavia. Believe Hitler Less Popular
Another point stressed here was that Herr Hitler's popularity seemed to be slightly less than it was last September and: that his best way of increasing it would be to give the German people some spectacular surprise as he was doing at regular intervals before the war. The question of Herr Hitler's retirement was suggested only in a round-about manner, but some observers remarked that Hermann Goering, Herr Hitler's designated successor, would know better than Herr Hitler how to deal with international economic problems, so vital to European peace. Several leading diplomats here said privately they considered Europe now at the cross-roads and that if no big offensive were launched by either side on the Western Front for the next two months, chances for peace would have increased tremendously. Should big scale fighting start within that time, it was feared that the war would be fierce and prolonged.
Welles Is Watched
Competent spokesmen here safd Queen Wilhelmina and King Leopold of Belgium were still holding themselves in readiness to renew their offer of good offices. All discussions of peace these days touch on the European tour of United States Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles, who is believed to be the only man in the world to have obtained a real idea of what terms the two warring forces might accept. Also, it was. said that economic and financial problems would figure highly in any peace, and that these never could be solved without the direct assistance of the United States.
HIGH-GRADE STOCKS PACE MARKET RISE
High grade stocks led the New York market higher today as gains ranged to more than 2 points. Most demand for pivotal issues was from shorts who anticipated a rally on improvement in several Jeading industries. Chicago wheat prices were unchanged to 1% cent lower in cautious trading. Hog prices at Indianapolis remained the same as yesterday, when they were the lowest since Aug. 8, 1934.
TRIAL NEARING JURY
SOUTH BEND, Ind, March 12 (U. P.) —Closing arguments of both the defense and prosecution, each limited to two hours, are scheduled in Federal Court today to end the trial of Donald Harter of Peru, former secretary of the Wabash Valley Trust Co., on charges of violation of the national banking act. The case is expected to go to the
jury this aiisrnoon,
IN INDIANAPOLIS
Here I s the Traffic Record DEATHS TO DATE County City Total 1939 S00 000000 000 5 10
1940 5 10 15 =March 11— . 3 Arrests ceee.. 401
Dead ......... 0! Accidents .... 18° MONDAY TRAFFIC COURT Cases Convic- Fines Tried tions Paid 4 4 $36 12 2
25
Violations Speeding Failure to stop at through street 3 Reckless driving 2 Disobeying traffic signal 12 Drunken driving 1 All others ...... 41
Totals ....... 63
MEETINGS TODAY Rotary Club, Claypool Hotel, noon. XY’s Men’s Club, Y. M, C. A., noon. Gyro Clab, Spink-Arins Hotel, noon,
ercator Club, Hotel Lincoln, noon. niversal Club, Columbia Club, noon. University of Michigan Club, Board of
Trade, K. of C. club-
66
. $176
noon Knights s of Columbus, Lutheran Service Club, Canary Cottage, oon. a pobare Credit Group, Wm. H. Block polis hE. 81s Bm IndianMichigan Street and Professional a] ee mas Municipal Gardens, 6:30 p
Nortteast Cigic League, Ebenezer Luth-Church.-2 »
MEETINGS TOMORROW
Y. M. C. A. Camera Club, Central Y. M.
C. A. a m. Liens Club, Claypool Hotel hoon, Young Men’s Discussion Club, Y. M. C.
8 Dp. MPardue Alumni Association. Hotel Severin, noon. Twelfth District. American Legion, Board
of Trade, noon. Sma Alpha Epsilon. Board ‘of Trade.
Peita Theta Delta, Seville Tavern, noon. |fi
So Onerafive. lub of Indianapolis, CoJumbia Club. Indiana Motor iraftic Association, Hotel . Antlers. noon. Junior Cnamber of Commerce, Canary
Cottage. noo -40-Plus Chamber of Commerce, 7:30 p. m.
Kiwanis Club, Columbia Club noon Indiana Association of Opramotrists. Hohe Field Avs in C Control, el Smy or Cance City Hospital, 10:30 a 2 ronne
BIRTHS
Girls
Williams, at St. Vincent’s. Ruehrschneck, at St. Vin-
Ea: Margaret Hornberger, at St. Vin-
William, Mar Kar, Elizabet
- jcent’s.
Millard, Henrietta Dean, at St. Vincent's. Keith, Pauline Denny, at St. yincent's, Bertram, Iris Gerdts, at Colem Robert, Alice Starlin, at 521 S. Warman. Boys Grover, ‘Elizabeth Moore, at Cit James, Eleanor Smith, at St. Vincent's. Merie, Mable Lawson, at Methodist. James, Helen Lucas, at Methodist. Lowell, Helen Brooks, at Methodist. Charles, Helen Caine, at Coleman. Robert, Edna Chevalier, at Coleman. Harlan, Bernice Taylor, at 510 S. War-
erman, Chlara Aijkins, at 1438 Naomi. igar. Lucille Griffin, at 314 W. Ver-
George, Kathryn Stewart, at 2454 Ethel. Herman, Eileen Goolsby, at 224 N. Noble.
DEATHS
Phy Bossett, 1, at Methodist, broncho-|T Harry Thomas, 54, at Long, brain tumor. disse Hutchison, 24, at ong, Addison’s dius. Nelson, 82, at 2322 Central, car-
William Roembks, 79, at 1848 Barth. bronchial asthm 1 May, 81, at Central Indiana, tu-
Mary Cotton, 71, at 1936 N. Dearborn, Soronary occlusion Rose Freaney, 8. at 20 W. Hampton Dr., hypostati neum lora Ie aniels, na: at Methodist, bowel obstructio Calvin Whittet, 70, cho-pneumonia Dorothy Rep pulmonary tube:
35 man.
at Veterans, bron-
Prospect of European Peace |
Parent-Teacher officials and school authorities today urged all motorists and school children to be specially careful of safety rules now that the weather is improving and children will be out of doors more and more. Mrs. George L. Clark, president of the Indianapolis P.-T. A. Council, said all motorists should realize that children are impetuous, ° especially when at play, and that they are apt to forget safety rules and dash into streets. ; She also appealed to children to play in safe places and to stay out of streets and unprotected play areas. William Evans, School Safety Director, added his plea to that of Mrs. Clark’s and produced figures on last year’s accidents to school children in Indianapolis to prove that 53.7 per cent of all injuries occurred when the children were not at school and not at home. Accidents counted in the statistics were those that necessitated the treatment of a physician or that re-
JOHN WILSON, 86, DIES AT HOSPITAL
Workers chief clerk here and at Washington, D. C., and father of Superior Court Judge Herbert E. Wilson, died today at Methodist Hospital. He was 86. Born at Edinburg, Scotland, Mr. Wilson had been a mining engineer in Scotland and came to the United States in 1883. He settled in Iowa and was a mining engineer there. He became associated with John P. White, United Mine Workers official, in Iowa and when Mr. White was elected union president, came to Indianapolis with him in" 1912. He was chief clerk when the union headquarters were here and continued at the post when John L. Lewis was made president. He went to Washington with the union and retired as chief clerk there about eight years ago. He came to Indianapolis after his retirement and lived with Judge Wilson at 5670 Guilford Ave. He had been active until about a month ago and was a familiar figure in downtown Indianapolis. " He was a member of Logan Masonic Lodge, F. & A. M, Sahara Grotto and the Knights Templar. Survivors are a daughter, Mrs. Daniel Knox, Palmyra, Neb., and five sons, Judge Wilson, John P. Wilson of Oskaloosa, Iowa, Thomas and Allen Wilson of Decatur, Ill, and Harry Wilson of Bloomington. Services will be held at 10 a. m. Thursday at Shirley Bros. Mortuary. Burial will be Friday at Oskaloosa.
OFFICIAL WEATHER
epee U. 8. Weather Bureau
INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST: Mostly cloudy with rain tonight probably changing to snow tomorrow; not much change in temperature; lowest tonight 25 to 30 degrees. :
Sunrise
6:01 | Sunset
TEMPERATURE —March 12, 1939— 6 a. m.
BAROMETER 6:30 a. m, ...... 30.11
Precipitation 24 hours ending 7 a. m. .00 Total precipitation Sinpe Jan, 1....... 3.99 Deficiency since Jan. 1 ............... 3.04
MID WEST WEATHER Indiana Out intermittent snow in extreme north portion tonight and tomorrow and rain in central and south portions tonight, probably changing to snow JOHIOrIow: somewhat colder in southwest 1llinois—Cloudy,
intermittent snow in exireme north
ortion tonight and tomorw and rain in south d central portions tonight, changing to snow tomorrow; somewhat colder south and west portions tomorrow Lower Michigan—cCloudy, intermittent snow tonight and tomorrow; no dgcided change in temperatur h now or sleet in north and snow or sleet changing to rain in south portion tonight; tomorrow rain in south and rain mixed with sleet or snow in north portion: slowly rising temperature tonight and tomorrow Ken tucky— Rain tonight and tomorow; slowly rising temperature tonight.
WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES AT 7 A. M.
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FIRES Monday 6:32 M.—739 N. Noble, awning, Acro loss. 7:30 A. M.—2437 Rader, —3706_E. 700
cigaret on sparks from N Michigan, ci aret. 2 Watson, blirnin rash : M.—Lyndhur Bd. "6 overheated stove, 3 los
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He Forgot for a Moment
ANTI-30TERM “MOVE FALS IN
F.D. R Sein at at ' Of New Hampshire’s 8 Convention Votes.
y LYLE C. WILSON hay Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, March 12.—Vice President John N. Garner's attempt to rally other candidates for Democratic Presidential nomination to active anti-third. term efforts collapsed today as the preferential primary season opened in New Hampshire. President Roosevelt’ was assured of at least 3% of the states’ eight Democratic National Convention votes, and was virtually certain to win the majority required for a fuM slate of delegates pledged to a third term. The Republicans were: electing : a slate favoring Senator H. Styles
- | Bridges, “a favoriie son,” for Presi-
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Charles Donald Giadens, 9, forgot safety rules for a moment Sunday and dashed into the traffic at Market and Illinois Sts. He ran into the side of a trackless trolley and now faces a long siege of convalescence at his home, 27 N. Highland Ave. while a broken foot bone mends, He is a pupil of School 14.
Safety Warnings Issued as Spring Weather Nears
sulted in more than a half-day’s absence from school. The figures showed, too, that children are safer in school buildings than at home. Of the 1086 reported accidents last year, 17.9 per- cent occured at home and 16.3 per cent in the school buildings. A total] of 5.5 per cent occured when the children were on their way to and from school. This figure’ is 2 per cent below the national average. Six and six-tenths per cent of the accidents happened on school ground and the remaining 53.7 per cent happened during the unsupervised time when the children were not in school or homes, and not on their way to or from school. That time, both Mr. Evans and Mrs. Clark said, is the period when children and adults of Indianapolis will have to work co-operatively. Children must remember their safety rules and drivers must be constantly aware of the safety of playing children.
TNE Disbanded After Tragedy
COLUMBIA, Mo., March 12 (U. P.).—University of Missouri authorities today considered disciplinary action against the 30 members of Theta Nu Epsilon fraternity who initiated Hubert L. Spake Jr., 20, a few hours before he suffocated on his pillow. - Dean of Men Albert K. Heckel ordered the fraternity, which had operated clandestinely for 15 years, to disband forever. Student leaders and prominent athletes who made up its membership were commanded to sign pledges that they would perform no more initiations such as preceded Spake’s death, and to deliver their names to Dean Heckel for submission to President Frederick A. Middlebush. President Middlebush may refer the names to the faculty disciplinary committee, which can expel. Shocked members of Theta Nu Epsilon told Francis Barnes, presi--dent of Kappa Sigma Fraternity, to which Spake also belonged, that Dean Heckel's orders were unnecessary, that they were through with their sécret organization “forever.” Spake, “second most popular” student at the university, died
Sunday after his induction into the fraternity.
GERMAN PLANES HOP OVER FRENCH LINES
PARIS, March 12 (U. P.).—German pursuit planes “hedge-hopped” | ¢ low over French lines at thunderbolt speed along the Western Front today in an extreme burst of activity, an authoritative informant said. It was the first time during the war that the German pursuit planes had used such tactics. Usually they accompany reconnaissance flights. Artillery fire was reported more active in the Vosges Mountains sector, and patrons were reported active on both sides all along the front. The French repulsed a German attempt to ambush a patrol in the Nied River sector. British airplanes made reconnaissance flights over northwest Germany and French planes flew over southern Germany. German planes flew over Alsace.
BERLIN, March 12 (U. P.).—The High Command reported today that German anti-aircraft guns had shot
down a French plane of Potez-63
type. German planes flew over east-
ern France, a communique said. The| ‘| Western Front was reported quiet. 8
MRS. J. H. DAVIDSON'S STEPFATHER IS DEAD
Mrs. J. H. Davidson, wife of Lieut. Col. Davidson, Ft. Harrison post executive officer, was called today to Milton, Del. by the death of her stepfather, Col. Louis B. Chandler, U. 8S. A. Retired. Mrs. Davidson will not return to Indianapolis. She will join Col. Davidson and their family at Richmond, Va.
dent. . The Garner organization has been pressing other potential nominees to announce publicly that they would carry their third’ terdff®opposition to the Democratic convention floor, if necessary, to prevent Presi-
dent Roosevelt’s ‘renomination. ! Three Hopeful Groups
As the situation stands today, the Democratic hopefuls fall into three grouvs: oy Unqualifiedly committed against a third term: Mr. Garner. 2. Favoring a third term if Mr. Roosevelt wants it but more or less ambitious on their own account if he does not run: Federal Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt, Attorney General Robert H. Jackson, Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. ‘Wallace and a number of other less likely statesmen. 3. Opposed to a third "term but unwilling to say so at all or without qualification: Practically all the other Democratic hopefuls, including Postmaster General James A. Farley and Senator Burton K. Wheeler (D. Mont.).
Difficult to Assign Hull
The potential candidate most difficult to assign in the foregoing enumeration is Secretary of State Cordell Hull who usually is mentioned as the compromise nominee if Mr. Roosevelt does not choose to run. : But on his combined record as a veteran of orthodox Democratic party politics and a member of Mr. Roosevelt's Cabinet, Mr. Hull might be spotted as one who would dislike a third term in principle but avoid open opposition to it. The nearest Garnerites came to winning a big shot anti-third term convert was a month ago in Massachusetts where Mr. Farley's presidential candidacy was announced with the filing of his name in the state’s advisory Presidential primary. The voting will take place April 30 for 34 convention votes.
Farley Is Surprised
ically was not in compliance with
join in an anti-third term movement although the anti-third termers knew his name was to be entered. But it is known here that Mr. Farley signed a declaration of candidacy in Massachusetts because Mr. Roosevelt had told him he would not be a candidate and Mr. Farley felt, therefore, that he was free to beat his own political drum. The Postmaster General is understood to have felt there was no reason for him to join any anti-third term movement since he had reason to believe no third term candidacy was under consideration. The fact that he filed probably would have conveyed that idea to the politically alert, but the filing was accompanied by a statement by Democratic State Chairman William M. Burke which surprised Mr. Farley as much as it did the anti-third term bloc. Mr. Burke announced a slate of delegates in the Postmaster General’s name, but confounded some of those in the know by announcing simultaneously that the Massachusetts democracy was overwhelmingly in favor of a Roosevelt third term.
Heavy New Hampshire
Vote Is Indicated
‘CONCORD, N. H., March 12 (U. P.).—Fair weather indicated a fairly heavy vote would be cast today in the nation’s first Presidential preference primary in New Hampshire, President Roosevelt is certain of at least three and one-half of the State’s eight Democratic National Convention votes, and virtually certain to win the majority required for a full slate of delegates pledged to a third term. .
slate favoring Senator H. Styles Bridges, “a favorite” son, for President. The Democrats elect eight at-large delegates who will have a half-vote each in the convention, and two delegates with a fill vote from each of the two districts. There were 16 candidates for the at-large places. Eleven of them were pledged to Mr. Roosevelt; two to Postmaster ' General James A. Farley; one to Vice President John N. Garner, and two are unpledged, but they oppose a third term for Mr. Roosevelt. In the first district, two of four candidates for the two whole-vote places are pledged to Mr. Roosevelt. In the other district all three candidates are pledged tp the President. & Pledges made by convention delegates are biding until the candidate himself releases them.
Dewey Is Criticized by Ickes as ‘Clamor Boy’
~ WASHINGTON, March 12 (U.P). Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes today criticized New York District Attorney ‘Thomas E. Dewey, candidate for the Republican Presidential nomination, as a “clamor boy” unequipped for the White House,
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Sen. Smith Raps F. D. R. for 'Purge’ in Hatch Bill Speech
By CHARLES T. LUCEY ' Times Soecial, Writer 5 WASHINGTON, March 12.— Senator Ellison D. (Cotton Ed) Smith (D. 8S. C.) entered the Hatch Bill debate today with a Seclaration that “If we are going fo
have a clean President and a clean Cabinet. » ‘The Hatch clean’ politics ,restrictions against ““pernici ous political activity” ought be extended “to tHe highest and the lowest,” Sendtor Smith told the S2nate as he denounced the President for seeking to “purge” anti-New Dealers .in 1938. “Let's clean house. where the cleaning should be done,” he roared. Meanwhile the Senate Hatch Bill debate was in its.seventh hectic session as its sponsors prepared to resist a series of crippling amendments and get a final vote. Threats of a filibuster persisted after the bill's survival of yesterday’s critical test, in which opponents sought to sidetrack it and take up the sgricuiura) appropria~ tion bill. Foes Deny Filibuster
‘This attack was turned back by 47 ‘to 26, a coalition of Democrats and Republicans holding its lines. “We'll pass the bill if we can get it to a vote,” Senator Carl Hatch (D. N. M.) predicted again today. Opponents denied they were filibustering, but some of their leaders
would be possible before the end of the week at the earliest. There was talk of a number of stoutlunged Legislators ready to help talk the bill to oblivion. Other Senators, however, thought the back of the resistance had been broken and tha“ g vote might come in two or three. days. Immediately before the Senate, upon its reconvening today, was a deficiency appropriation bill, called up just before adjourhment last night with the understanding that when it is out of the way the debate on the Hatch bill will resume,
Amendment Tests Ahead
When resumption comes, opponents of the measure—which would extend to Federally paid statesemployees the ban on political activities placed on Federal jobholders by the Hatch act of 1939—will attempt to force acceptance of an amendment by Senator Edwin Johnson (D. Colo.). This amendment would make the bill inoperative except in states which pass similar legislation. Other amendments still to be acted on are those by Senator John H. Bankhead (D. Ala.), limiting political campaign contributions to $1000, and Senator Matthew M. Neely (D. W: Va.), substituting for the Hatch bill a measure also aimed at curbing political activity by state workers but opposed by Senator Hatch as going too far.
Senator Champ Clark . . . in dispute with Senator Minton.
sell (D. Ga.), who yesterday at= tempted to call up the agricultural appropriation bill, came word that he would make no further such effort “very soon.”
. Predictions Upset
{ The Senate vote against sidetracking the Hatch Bill upset the predictions of many Senators. Sidetracking appeared certain after the failure .of two attempts by Senator LAlben W. Barkley (D. Ky), majority leader, to set an hour for a Hatch bill vote. . But there followed’ vigorous appeals for the bill from Senator Barkley, Senator Hatch, Senator Bennett. Champ Clark (D. Mo.) and ‘|Senator George W. Norris (Ind. Neb.). All protested against the tactics of delay, and argued - that there was no great rush about the farm bill. The debate was enlivened by a bitter duel between Senator Clark and Senator Sherman Minton (D. Ind.), the Missourian ridiculing ‘charges that the legislation would invade states’ rights and Mr. Minton taking occasion to blast the Senate Republicans for playing “smart politics” in supporting Senator Hatch. Mr. Minton told Senator Hatch he ought to “go after the Joe Pews, Moe Annenbergs, Ernest T. Weirs and du Ponts.” “You won't get those babies unless you tie them in with the little fellows,” he said. Mr. Minton added. that “there’s nothing wrong. with politics.” Pointing a finger at Senators, he roared: “You're all politicians or you wouldn’t be here. So let's have no more of this pointing of the holier than thou finger and the smug attitude which some of us display
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common unless we. pause in our whirlwind of extravagance and soe cial benefit payments, long enough to at least take an inventory and determine what’ we can afford with=in the limits of ability to pay of a patient, long suffering and over
‘taxed Democracy.” He said he believes the nation
must care for its ‘unemployed and needy, but it shouldn't permit “professionally socially trained persons to administer the program without any sense of practical realism and without restraint or regard for ability of the taxpayer to pay the costs.” He was particularly critical of the State Welfare Department, which he declared places unreasons= able and arbitrary requirements on county departments, giving ‘rise to an orgy of waste and the most wanton expenditure of public funds ever seen in .the history of Indie ana.” “County departments are entirely helpless,” he charged, “to give common, sense practical administrae tion of public funds as now dome inated and controlled by the most ruthless bureaucracy in the -state. The State (Welfare) Department has clearly demonstrated that it
man from whom they take the dole lars to give to, someone else.
not, the State Department’ is ope erating under the philosophy upon which pure communism or state soe cialism is based,” he added.
Reforms Recommended
Mr. Cleland made 35 recommendae tions for legislative and administrae tive reform. Among them were: Decentralize government, elimie nate the 15-cent State property tax
Simals bond issues for poor ree ief; their aid; assure open competition in relief purchases; prevent Welfare Department interference in poor res lief administration; eliminate the Governor's Commission on Uneme ployment Relief and make township trustees the WPA certifying agents. He also: recommended decentrale izing the Alcoholic Beverages Come mission, placing the granting of permits - in the hands of County Commissioners, subject to appes) to
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