South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-12-29
MAYOR CARSONS COLISEUM SCHEME
AVOIDS INEQUITABLE PITFALLS OF
RECENT NUMEROUS WAR DRIVES

n FAVOR CARsONs plan build a coliseum
M south Bend and that the city shall own it, is the
AF1 very best that can be devised. know nothing
about plans OF the building. but the which
it be pat. if properly arranged. renders very
appropriate that the public should be the
Aside from "a basement to be used as a public mar
.et main floor to used public gatherings ano
convention purposes. shows. mayfair.
industrial exhibits 1t can very desirably during the
inter serve as substitute for the public parks.
could be- arranged so that IL might serve as a NUM-
~cipaI hall. roller skating. and other
recreation the multitude. a great indoor park.
might al times, serve its most desirable
purposes.
The argument against paying st by taxation
Door It is poor for much the same reason that the
argument favor Of the popular financing of the
Joseph County Fair association. by everybody taking
little stock proven poor The fair association viii
eventually pass hands OF even II it doesn't
lot OF people are than certain money
I'm which they would like trade a War Savings
stamp The fair will continue. the only way
81 financing at the time. It is also. and will
be a good thing the town No public spirited
will regret his investment even he does lose
il as concerns any monetary return The peopl,
however have learned lesson. anticipate. if
can't trust municipal administrations to own
a coliseum better dissolve all such
administrations
or course. there quarters from which it is easy
realize that anything that public ownership
is abhorent. There is element every community
that does hate pay taxes, when by investing
perhaps. the amount they still
make OF Il a Of speculation. Stock in the new
coliseum. thrown the market. just like
another Cross. Chest or Liberty Loan drive.
Displayed a memorial the young who
served in the world war. patriotism could again be
appealed the stead buying capacity
would have another of Man Of Average Means
and of man below the average, sub
scri5ing away of proportion their shares
Accordingly Mayor Carson according to our guess
the problem very nicely thng
be done the soldiers, in their honor,
which the taxing officials o part be
against everybody exactly in proportion to their
no more and no less There will be subscribing by
one man, OF the widows mite" more Of a burden upon
the subscriptions OF millonaires, running
into the tens hundreds Of thousands The boys to
whom the coliseum o dedicated. fight
ing for democracy. you know and Mayor Carsons
scheme Is democratic that possibly
devised-wth semblance OF equality, and financial
justice. running all through 1t.
There will be no stock-holding Toms Dicks and
Harrs TO be out. after they paid
stock. found necessary pass the in
stution on a receivership then be bought up by
Spectators in order to maintain it going in
sttuton The mayors plan guarantees permanency.
equitably hnsh after exactly the
manner that a memorial 10 fighting should be
financed maintained. The city should build the
coliseum. It should It. II should be every
possible public use a very fitting
nocracy for which our soldier boys fought
have Just encarrp ped drilled; and, a
only democracy but to the boys themselves, and
so economically hnanced by enforced equality Of
contribution 20 support the shams OF private
or even private ownership can shame