Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-06-06
COUNCILCAME
NEAR PASSING
UP CRITICISMS
Mayor Shank's Measures Are
Without Opposition Until
Time to AID journ.
BERND SPOILS RECORD

Until President Theodore J. Bernd
ioosened broadside just before adjourn
ment, it looked as if the Shank city ad
minist ration might escape the usual
councilmanic 'razzr at the regular meet
ing last night.
Right up to the last minute the coun-
ell passed mea sures backed by the ad-
miniStration without a single dissenting
vote, even going so far as TO suspend
the rules upon two measures. But Pres
ident Bernd spoiled the record when, ont
of clear sky and with every one await
ing dismissal, he said:
do you think there's any chance OF
buying Bull Moose Walker tJohn r.
Walker, superint endent of street clean
ing1 a baby carriage TO ride his family
around in Of nights instead Of in his
city car: Another thing, we found city
car No. 50 on Ewing street laying around
almost all night Does the city furnish
cars and buy gasoline for such as that
Is SURPRISED AT
CITY.S NEW ATTITUDE.
.T want to say too. that | was really
surDrfsed TO see an ordinance introduced
here tonight for the city to help run an
EMPLOYMENT bureau. | was for that iasl
March and / went TO Mr. Groninger tcor-
poration counse11 ard Mr.. Hosue fcity
controller1 and asked them TO put in an
ordinance to pay the city.s share to Co
operate with the State in the bureau
..No,' they said. We've got more ex-
penses to meet than we have aPpropria
tions We haven't got the money III
silly to think of spending all that money
for an employment bureau when there
aren't any Jobs for anybody anyway
"Then a few days later | got letter
from Mr.. Hogue."
Here President Bernd produced the let
ter. which repeated the above arguments
against the bureau. and read t.
.Sow. 1T seems to be Tery peculiar.
very pecularir, that they now want 10 De
appropriating money TO run the employ
ment bureau, just simply 70 give p"titi-
cal vorker job, l don't know whether
This pel,tical worker was discharged from
his other job for INCOMPETENCE or not. but
they said he was.
MAYOR HAS BEEN
TALKING ECONOMY
"Mayor shank has been telling Us IN
The papers he would economic. Wei.
there's that 81 $50 appropriation Tor the
empIoyment bureau he can BEGIN TO
economize on: that's my candid opinion.
Now. well adjourn.
The ordinance Mr. Bernd referred 10
would appropriate S1.s51.5S TO pay the
rfty'S share for the rest OF ~ ei ths
cost of operating the employment bureau
IN the basement Of the city hall IN coop
Grafton with the State industrial board
The city decided to help the State after
State officials agreed to let A. VI. Buchan-
an. Republican chairman Of the First
ward. whom William IL. armitage, po-
litical marshal at the city hail, had to
find job for became an examiner III the
bureau.
Upon request Of delegation Of citi-
gems, represented by an attorney, the
council suspended rules and unanimously
PASSED an ordinance which the attorney
said was designed 70 prevent company
he called the Tihhs- Bose Realty Com
pany from establishing a public market
house. for which he said the company IS
selling stock. at the southeast corner OF
Delaware and Thirtieth street. Council
man Walter W. Wise, who introduced the
measure said tbe market would inJure
one of the finest residential sections OF
the city and if the ordinance was not
passed Immediately it might be impos-
sible to stop its erection.
ORDINANCE PROHIBITS
UNWELCOME MARKET.
The ordinance prohibits the erection
or operation of a market horse within
500 feet of a private residerre or apart
ment house, declares such place a nuf-
sance and gives adjoining residents
power to abate il and collect the ex.
pense Of the procedure from the defend
ant 1t defines a market house as "a