The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1922-12-26
VIM. LOVE
FAVORS
GAS TAX
New State Representative
From Hammond Outlines
His Program

William Love was a good cam
paigner when he ran for state rep
rcsentative last spring.
He took each sweet young lady
votef aside and with his best Shick
look, Mr.. Love said.
What we need in the legislature
is little love"
Mr.. Loves opponent had about as
much chance as prohibition in Indi-
ana Harbor.
Having been keen campaigner
his constituents expects that M
Love will be resourceful represen-
tative. Today a reporter inter ,iew-
ed the new representative and found
that he bears the following senti-
ments as regards the conduct of the
coming legislature:
l. Not in favoring of spending
100000 Of state funds to establish
a Dunes park
2. Favors redical changes in the
public service commission law.
3 VIII support gasoline tax and
hopes to see the size of motor trucks
limited.
4. VIII support the establishment
Of Junior college.
5. Opposed to having both pre-
cinct committee woman in party or
ganiza tions
6. Favors legislation regarding
swamp lands which would do away
with the tangle on the Jones and
Laughlin site.
Keep Down Taxes
Representative Love does not IA.
vor the abolishing of the public utiii
ties commission but believes that the
law should be so amended that the
burden of proof is upon the utility
corporations to justify their rates.
He says that under the present
method It would cost Hammond $50
600 to employ experts to show that
utility company's rates are too
high.
Regarding the proposed Dunes
park, Mr.. Love says that while he be-
lieves the park would be a good thing
the $4,000 900 appropriation for its
purchase viii be too great burden
upon the taxpayers" The city, coun-
ty and state taxes last year were
s2S4 per hundred and this year
they are s282." he declared
"I am not in favor of increasing
the taxes"
Representative Love Will work for
the passage OF a gasoline tax, he de-
clared. If the act provides that the
money collected goes exclusively in
to the building of roads. He be-
| lieves that a portion of the tax
should be given to the various coun
ties to be spent by them on roads
This distribution should be based
on the number Of automobiles in the
respective counties. He says that
the size Of motor trucks permitted
on the roads in the state should be
limited so as to eliminate the mon
strous trucks which do more damage
to voads than could be paid b. any
tax levies upon them.
Backs Junior Couegs
The Junior College meets with tha
most enthusiastic support OF Mr..
Love. Our children are graduating
| from high school at the ages of thir-
teen, fourteen and fifteen" he said.
\ would enable them to continue their
| education without leaving home at
that tender age 1t would also put
higher education within reach or
| children whose parents are in mod
est circumstances.
Speaking OF the proposed equal
representation OF men and women in
| the precincts OF party organizations.
F. the representation said that under
the present system the women have
an equal chance with the men to be-
| come precinct committee men ana
that TO have two organizations. one
| Of men and one OF women. would
| tend to arraign the women against
| the men in politics. That Is some
thing we should try to avoid" he
| declared.