The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-31
TAX REVISION
FOR FARM AID
IS PROPOSED
Program of Economies Put
Up to State Senate
After Survey.
LOAD HELD EXCESSIVE
Cut in Education Cost, and
Building of More Roads
Urged.

Drastic tax revision, reduction in
the cost of education, establishment
of a Accent gasoline tax for high
way development and elimination
of unnecessary state boards and
commissions we're tons
laid before the Indiana general as
sembly today.
They represented the Indiana
farmers plan for agricultural re-
lief by legislative enactment, and
were drafted by q committee author
lied by the 1927 legislature to make
survey and report to the present
session.
The recommendations, formally
entered in the senate, were signed
by Senators Alonzo H. Lindley of
Kingman, j. Francis Lochard of
Milan, and Andrew e. Durham of
Greencastle, the onl.7 members of
the committee remaining in the
senate.
The report regarded agricultural
relief primarily Q national rather
than state problem, but pointed the
way to assistance by the legislature.
Taxes absorb approximately 20
per cent of the gross income of
the average farm" the report set
out. '"There is no business which
long can survive under such bur-
den."
School Economies Urged
Recommendations for relief in
cluded the following:
l. Require every taxpayer to list
for taxation all bonds, notes, monies
and profit issuance of tax exempt
bonds.
Q. Levy a general sales tax or in
come tax, the latter preferably, but
not until after thorough survey
of the taxing system by a commits
sion named by the governor.
3. Revise laws governing mort
gage exemptions to require the
r11ortgagor to pay taxes only on the
value of his equity, the entire
amount of his mortgage to be de-
QuCI6Q from MS taxes.
4. Bring influence to bear on
farmers SO that lands which can not
be cultivated profitably be placed in
permanent pasture or reforested.
5. Require consideration of the
ability of the people to pay in the
maintenance of public schools; ef-
feet economies in curriculum and
teachers salaries. and abandon
teacher tenure as a failure.
Market Roads First
s. Subordinate the improvement
of tourist routes to market high
ways" in the states highway build
ing program.
z. Include 1000 more miles in the
sttae highway system, with prefer
ence to roads reaching small towns
and isolated rural districts
8. Increase the gasoline tax from
3 to cents and make license plates
good for the life of the automobile.
Give to the state highway depart
ment for bodybuilding purposes the
cent now distributed to towns and
counties, if 1000 miles of roads are
added to the state road building
program.
9. Permit poorer counties to dis
pense with employment of a coun-
ty highway superintendent and turn
his duties over to county commits
sionerS.
10. Enact an equitable fee and
salary law.
Abolish Needless Jobs
II. Take the state police out of
politics, and. if funds in the hands
of the secretary of state are avail
able, increase the force so per cent.
IL. Revise criminal laws to insure
speedy justice, and authorize ap-
pointment, by the Governor, of a
commission to recommend recodifl-
cation.
Is. Abolish all boards and COM
missions which do not perform a
service for all the people of the
state, whether self-supporting or
not.
II. Authorize appointment. by the
Governor, of a commission ito give
careful consideration to our scheme
of state government, and see
whether or not it can not be SIM
plified and at the same time, con-
siderable saving of money be made
to the taxpayers of the state"
High School Girl Kills Self
BIZ United Press
DARLINGTON, Ind, Jan. 31.--
When her foster parents forbade
her going to a high school party,
Miss Dartha Hopkins, II, drank
missy, or,I Ifol