South Bend News-Times, Volume 33, Number 194, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 12 July 1916 — Page 3

0 1 HE SOUTH BEND NEWS-TIMES WKDNKSDAY rvnYTXfS. JULY 12. I!!!

Keller Wants High Debt Limit to Enable City To Own its Utilities

Mayor Urges Matter be Left to Popular Vote Instead of Constitutional Restriction, in Speech to League. Nw Tin.- S.-,-ul .Mir: 1 .IU:N. In.i.. July Z Th;.t th rieht limit of th- st -it- "f Iri'!;;in.i in ui:r'it-ona!i! low w.i. th- av-r-tion here .Tufs:,ty niirht "f M.ir J re,j v. K tier .f O-ith P.. mi In .in Mre-s t f r th- Mur.i;p.il I-.ti."j-of Indiana. Mayor Keller attacked the fea-i! ijlitv f f.xin-: th- rnunh-ij-.il deht limit hy -.n--itMti'ir!,il methods ar! ir. -te.nl ;tl m .it-'! the plan f pi. if -ini: it l f r- th- pep- fi.r a pop ilar vote. The pr-rrit lw limit. he . t i 1 , i th4 one h:j; ston- in th- path f many cities ow;in pwhlie utilities. It was fixed i,y th- constitution in ! n 1 at two per rent of th- .-svessed x.iluation of proprt in the corporation ;iri'1 on investigation is found to he th- lowest of any state in th- t'nion. Mayor Keller said that conditions since 1 s 1 hae hans-l to uch a decree that the limit is now too low. South Bend's own Inde'itedness. h- said. Is less than one-fourth of the pr .erty directly owned hy the city. Th- only pishlir utility owned hy the city, he said, is the water works. Th rates charged to consumers, h- said. ( ompare favoraMy with th-e of other citie Iw-Ilintj on municipallv owned Vas and electric lihtir.s plants, he said that if the itv of South I'.end owned her own gas and el-ctri'-plants it to'ild hae the consumers fl'iomo n year. Mayor Keller said in part: "ff th- citizens of a locality form a municipal corporation for the purpose of performing certain acts which they cannot do individually then they should not he limited in th-ir rights l.y a state law in performing those functions of government which are to their mutual weift re. Homo Hide for Title. Kery community now has a larjfe r:uni!'er of citizens who are well er-d in pul-ic affairs. I'.usiiu-s.s iij-thods are rapidly taking the pUu e of political methods in the handling of municipal affairs. The man who would vote for a "yellow doc' on his own ticket 1-fure he wouH vote for a candidate on the opposition ticket i- now becoming extinct. Nonpartisan forms of government are displacing national political parties in f ivic affairs, For th fities of Indiana to me-t the Kro'.rini; demands of the puhlic th-ir program should hrM he to throw ..ff the political yoke, making our present form of Ko eminent non-partisan or adopt M.nic other desirahle form of noiipartls.in government. "With thi ;k compli-hed th- cities will he ready for hom- rule and

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should no longer ! restricted to performing tho-e ,-, t which are 1- neri' ta I to its citizen. The amount of the lit i, n ieipa i indent ednvs of two pr cent of trw taxalde property ilv.-d hy the amendment o the constitution of our state is entirely to low. Indiana has the lowest debt limit for its chies. of any state in the Union.. Th- state of Colorado has a limit of three per cnl; Illinois. Iowa. Maine. Missouri. W-st VirKinia and Wisconsin each have a limit of five p,.r (op.t according to latest figures available. Oeorpria and I'ennsylvania of seven p-r cent. South Carolina of eiuht per cent. New York ten per cent. In many cities the limit is not fixed hy the const it lit ion hut is determined hy t he voters of the city. Would .Make I'.LiMio Knie. ' In the city of South I'.end our indebtedness is less than one-fourth of the property directly owned hy the city such as our parks, water worku, public buildings, etc. "It micht be availale to have the limit fixed at a certain amount with th? proviso that it could exceed the amount fixed hy a vote of the legal voters of a city, either requiring a. majority or een a larger percentage of the votes in order to carry a proposition. If the amount is limited, the indebtedness on utilities should not he included. In order for a city to acquire a utility an election must be held for the approval of a proposition. This should he a sufficient indication as to the wishes of the people. "Cities should be free to solve their own problems without interference of a legislature composed largely of rural memhers and not interested in the individual citien. "Methods of petting around the debt limit have been devised such as purchasing property on land contract and other similar methods. This "moans a higher rate of interest than the interest on the regular city bond? and the debt limitation is th-refore expensive for the city. In many cases cities have heen actually prevented from doing tilings that were ' renlly necessary for the community on account of the low debt limit. " County, townships and school corporations have the same limitations as the municipal corporation. In some of our rapidly growing cities the s'cho.d corporations have not been' able to" provide the necessary school facilities on account of the debt limit. The city of C.a.-y is the most striking example. Water Plant Saw. "In the city of South I'.end the only irfUity owned' hy the city is the water works; our rates compare favorably with the domestic rates charged by other municipal plants. No charge is made to the civil city for tire protection and other municipal" uses. Our rates compare with the rates charged hy private corporations in cities about our size showing that our municipal plant is sav

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in? the tax payers about 1100.0(h) annually. As already stated, our electric plant is owned hy a private corporation. Soon after the present administration went into office a petition was hied asking for a reduction in electric rate. Karly in the present year a compromise in rates wan reached, the company agreeing to make a reduction in domestic rates of 25 per cent the reductions in all amounting to $4S.00O annually. A similar petition was filed about the same time for a reduction in cas rates. Our gas company has recently offered to make a reduction averaging 10 per cent and amounting to over $40,00 annually. "If the cities owned these utilities the rates could doubtless have heen reduced a $100.000 a year. Our gas company and electric company, if municipally operated, could reduce rates $100,000 each per annum, instead of reductions that are made through regulation, thus making a total saving by municipal ownership of $300,000 per annum. This is more han the amount of taxes received by our city per year. Can OjH'rato Cheaior. "A municipality can operate on lower expense than a private corporation for several reasons. The city's assets exceed the assets of utilities, therefore, bonds sell at a premium instead of a discount and at a lower rate of interest. No expensive litigation over rates is necessary in the case of municipal plants. Higher salaries are paid by private corporations. Private utilities and their henchmen in their opposition to municipal ownership argue that it brings utilities Into politics. The history of most private utilities is that with the other 'special interests' such as the forms of business requiring a license In order to operate, they combine to control municipal elections and the actions of public officials after elected." Mn or (Jiiyior Sponk. Mayor Ralph Onylor of Mlshftwaka followed Mayo- Keller and spoke on motor-driven rlre apparatus. He said Mlshawaka's experience had been favorable and the city Is well satisfied. Other speakers at the evening session were W. M. Crockett of Jafayette. who read a paper on "Home Rule for Cities." and P. H. Sorey of Indianapolis, who gave an address on "Risis of Classification of Cities for Fire Insurance." About 300 people attended the sessions. Extremely warm weather caused much discomfort. Delegates Wednesday were taken on an auto trip. A hand concert will be given Wednesday night by a band from Elkhart. At the business sessions Wednesday afternoon officers were to he elected and the next meeting place chosen. R. W. Harrison, city attorney of Shelbyville. gave an address at the afternoon session on "Civic Pride." Harrison said: "Our efforts should be directed to making the city a better place in which to live. We should recognize the city as a - permanent thing and build it, plan it, and control Its public utilities, and provision should be made for 1 the growth of the town for a generation in advance of the present size."' His address caused much cMscussion. Among the cities represented at the convention are: Indianapolis, South Rend. Fort Wayne. Importe.

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ciNTiNri:i pkomm:kity .ssriu:i. Hy the t'nderwood law this administration has taken the tariff out of politics by the new tariff commission it proposes to take politics out of the tariff. Speaking at a banquet of the Republican club in New York last January, hy virtu- of his life-long allegiance to the republican party, Mr. Schiff declared : "I want to explain that nothing can stop the great prosperity we now have except a renewal of tariff agitation in the next campaign. Standing here on holy republican ground 1 say without fear or favor if you renew in the next presidential campaign the tariff agitation of the past, if you threaten the country and show it you want a renewal of special privilege and high protection, the people will have none of it. The people have learned; the workmen and the farmers have learned and they can not be misled anylonger. I do not say that because I love the republican party less, but because I love It more. My heart is for the republican party, but my common sense makes me a democrat." And in these words Mr. Schiff voices the opinions of men with whom special interest in secondary to the welfare of all. From Gov. Glynn's keynote speech at St. Louis convention.

fort, Kendallville, Lafayette, Madison, Huntington, Aurora, Gary, Michigan City. Crawfordsville. Richmond, Anderson, Vincennes, Terre Haute, Kokomo. Noblesville. Washington, and Auburn. South Rend was admitted as a meniber of the league Tuesday. POOR .MAY IIAVK (.OUT. (Chicago News.) Ft. Iuis' city hospital, a charitable institution, reports the treatment of 62 Cases of gout within the last year. This seems to explode a hoary tradition. Gout long has been thought exclusively a rieh man's disease. One of the celebrated blessings of poverty was immunity from gout. Gout was supposed to be one of the punishments visited by the excellent law of compensation upon the rich man who indulged in high living at the expense of his down-trodden brother. We shall have to recant our values. Gout that once called up the vision of a testy old plutocrat, full of ancient port and young capon, now may bring to mind a thin pauper on a bed of pain in a charity hospital. Novelists can no longer use gout only as a "property" in scenes Involving cruel rich uncles or reactionary noblemen with mad tempers and worse morals. They may now depict the gouty beggar as well as the gouty prince. ha vi-: Tin: m:ws-timi:s follow VOU ON VOl'K VACATION. Subscribers to The News-Times can have their paper follow them on their vacations by calling the circulation department of the paper. Hell 2100. Home 1151. We recommend the morning edition, rtj in mot crises it will rsnoh ' ' " i the same day printed. Keep in I touch with home affairs while) enjoying your recreation. "Health Is the First Wealth" Tlie rich man suffering from nsthm.iti" or pulmonary trouble known this even better than the poor man tliu jitTlbted. Klttier may be able to nbt.iin relief by uslnc IVkrnan'f Alterative, a preparation enntiitulng oabiuni ehlorid. w hieb for more than twenty years his been jrlvln? widespread .satisfaction in suca eases. Of course. Its ne should be eeonded by rest, pure food and fresli ilr. for no medicine ean be of much help where these provisions of Nature are not made use of. Hut In numerous Instances where ther have not produ"ed dedred results. Krkman's Alterative has furnished the micslnc link in the hain. It eontains no poisonous or habitfortulnjr drun, i a trial Is safe At nr drujrplst's. Krkinaa Laboratory, Philadelphia. - Advt. VICTROLAS Mil ' - On easy terms. Largest stock of NEW RECORDS in South Bend. VICTOR and COLUMBIA. The NOJSIC SHOP

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C THE CAPTURE OF ALL FIRST LIME ; English Commander-in-Chief ! Haig Reports on Ten Days' Battle of the Somme. LONDON, duly 12. The British pains in the battle of the Somme, after 10 days" continuous fighting, cover -a fi nit of nearly eight miies and includes the entire German first system of defence, according to the official report forwarded by Gen. Hftip. the British commander-in-chief on the Trench front. This advance includes a number of small tnwrn or villases and positions which are considered of great strategic importance. The British advance extended into the German positions lor a depth of 2.000 to 4.000 yards. Many of the villages were strongly fortified, the woods were full of trenches and surrounded by barbed wire, and what Gen. Hals describes as "immensely strong redoubts" had to carried by storm. IKh Dominate Somme. At the same time the French army under Gen. Foch has moved up in the southern section of the Somme until it now holds the dominating hills around Peronne. a town which has been strongly fortified by the Germans and the possession of which they are likely to 'contest with the utmost determination. The British have retaken Contalmaison and are again in control of nearly the entire extent of Trones wood and Mametz wood. There has been desperate fighting in boh of these sectors for several days past. The French along the Somme carried out sortie minor detached opera tions which enabled them to strengthen their position at La Maisonnette, and apparently the French are waiting for the British to straighten out their line before making the attempt to drive the Germans ut of Peronne. 22,000 lY-MHiers Taken. In this great battle about 22,000 prisoners have heen taken by the Franco-British forces, of whom the British announce they have captured 7,500. In the Verdun sector, the Germans, unmoved by the attacks north and south of the Somme, have succeeded in gaining a foothold in the Iamloup battery, which has been a bone of contention for days past, and in the French line In the Fumin wood on the right bank of the Meuse. At other points the Germans are carrying out a strong offe nsive. On the Russiin front the Stokhod sector is the central point of the Russian advance. The Germans have brought up strong reinforcements and artillery to oppose the Russians, who now are within 20 miles of ICovel. The defenses of this town are helieved to be powerful, although there now are no natural barriers between Gen. Brussiloff's army and Its objective. Fighting ;Jong this line is of a furious nature. ;is it was while the Russians were crossing the river at various points. I Import Austria us In Flight. In southern Bukowina, Petrograd reports that considerable enemy forces have been put to tlight northwest of Kimpolung. Vienna does not refer to the tiahtint in Bukowina and Galicia, but asserts that Russian attacks near Sokul and along the .tokhod have been repulsed. Up to July l the drive of Gen. Brussiloff had resulted in the capture of 271,620 prisoners, It 4s officially announced. The Italians have captured additional positions from the Austrian?, particularly on the Pasubio front. Rome asserts that because of the Italian offensive in the Trentino several divisions of Austrian troops already on their way to the Russian front have been recalled. It is now clear that the Russian drive in the direction of Kovel has! brought the German oiYensive at Lutsk to a standstill, and according i to the Russian communication the Germans have brought up strong reinforcements to defend the Stok- 1 hod line and Kovel. Gen. Brussiloff, however, now has the Impassable Pinsk marshes covering his1 right tlank and is irj a position to j (utflank the German defenses on; Kovel. The huee conflagrations, no- j liced in the Russian communication south of the Kovel railroad, are re garded in Petrograd as having been) caused by the Germans to cover! their own retreat and impede the' Russian advance, which is within 20 j miles of Kovel. The capture of 34,-1 000 prisoners by the Russians in the , .Siokhod and Galician battles from , July 4 to July S seems to indicate that the Germans have been unable to throw in reinforcements in sufficient strength to stem the Russian advance. Hurry Troop from Balkans. According to a report from Berne. Switzerland, the Austrian? are hur- j irom Serbia and Montenegro in an attempt to hold hack the Russians. The difficulties confronting the central powers in meeting the all rround attack are Indicated in the Italian official statement tonicht. In which it is stated that the Austrians have been oblieed to recall to the Italian front troops which were about to be bent to the stern front. Sin; WHITE Fasy to ue. Past and li.juid. 10c at foonleyV. Advt. 'llKWING Gi:...S AM) CANDIFS Fresh and pure always at Coon-

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