Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-07-13
MAYORS LETTER
AROUSES IRE IN
WEST SIDE AREA
No Funds Reply Causes Tax
payers to Redouble Efforts
to DiSannex From City.

Leaders Of the Enterprise Civic League,
which is behind the movement to dis
annex West Indianapolis. stated today
that 1t would be impossible for them to
stop the proceedings. If they so desired,
followin expressions of citizens at
meeting held in Assumption Hall, nos
Blaine avenue last evening. Sentiment
has been aroused to a pitch that can not
be denied, one citizen declared.
Failure of the city to give West In
dianapolis anything of note in return for
the S201, 900 in taxes which its citizens
pay each year was forcibly illustrated
again when a letter from Mayor Charles
W. Jewett to a west slider was read. The
citizen wrote to the city hall asking If
it would not be possible to get just one
little load Of gravel dumped In the chuck
holes in his street. The mayor replied
with the statement that 1t could not be
done for the reason that I'VE have no
funds"
During the meeting, at which a com
mittee to look after legal phases of seces-
sion was named and plans further dis
cussed, one citizen asked Stephen j.
Fullen, president of the league, whether.
if the city administration Aoyed The
garbage reduction plant far outside the
city limits and decided not to locate the
municipal yards in West indianapolis,
as we'll rs eliminate some of the other
nuisances to which the residents object
the Instrumentation movement would be
called eff
NO DRAWBACK
FROM STAND.
NO" answered NJ. Fullen with cnphs-
sis, and the 400 citizens in the audience
han I'M ~
Men prominent in the movement say
that it has passed the stage where there
Is a controversy between she section and
the city merely over the matter OF stab
ling a hundred or 80 mules upon the
front doorstep TO West Indianapolis.
Prolonged neglect of the section by city
officials has gradually engsndered
feeling that the section has gotten along
without the help of the city SO fer
and that il might just as well BE legally,
as well as practically, separate.
If it were running its own affairs West
Indianapolis would get something for its
1921, 600 a year. the residents declared.
Emsley W. johnson has been named
chief counsel Of the leagues legal staff.
The legal committee will meet with Mr..
Johnson in the rOtunda Of the city hall
at 10 80 o'clock Friday morning. They
will discuss the next step In the pro-
ceedings and viii go before the board
of public works to let that body know
in detail the grievances Of West Indi-
annapolis.
The petition FOR dlsanrexation, which
Tow bears 5,430 signatures, may be pre-
sented to the board Of works, or It may
be withheld for presentation to the city
council or use in suit to be filed In
Marion County court. II was generally
thought that action Will be started
directly in the court.
The league now has about $1,000
pledged for It's fight, according to Presi-
dent Fullen.
The committee to determine and direct
legal action is composed OF Mr.. Fullen,
chairman: eX Senator Henry Harman,
Frank Truner, Frank Reese, Frank Rath-
bun Father Joseph F. Weber. Noah
Beck, Harry Bear and Mrs. Grant smith
son, Mrs. Eva Eve and Mrs. Mayme
Scherer. Heydon Buchanan, president OF
the league. becomes a member OF the
committee ex officio, while other officers
james Lamkins, vice president: Harry
c. Kalb, secretary; Charles A. Beard.
treasurer; Ora Shierwalt financial sec
rotary, and Charles Dill, r. Hackley
and William F. Bornkamp, directors
Will cooperate with the committee.