The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-02
JOB REMEDIES
ARE OFFERED
BY ROOSEVELT
Tariff and Tax Revision,
Government Cost Cut
Are Urged.
opinchOt's address Oh pare u
BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY
Times stan Correspondent

ernmental planning to prevent such
economic slumps as the present
we're two policies placed before the
Governors conference here today by
two potential candidates for Presi-
dent Of the United States.
Power" was to be injected into
the program by Governor Clifford
Pinchot, fighting Pennsylvania Re-
publican progressive.
What might be termed the five
year or more plan" was proposed
by Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt,
q leading Democratic presidential
possibility.
Although Governor Roosevelt stuck
to his speech on Land Utilization
and State Planning" he opened by
saying:
AT a time when our country, in
common with most of the rest of
the world, is suffering from a severe
disIocation of economic progress,
people naturally are and asking
properly questions about the future.
Roosevelt Offers Remedy
ut seems strange to them that,
With capacities for production de-
veloped to the highest degree the
world ever has seen, there should
come this severe depression, when
many eager to work can not find
ferd fr,. that fay,,i1;oe trvbfIo ~ tha
same time there is such a surplus
of food supplies and other necessi-
ties that those who are growing
crops or manufacturing can find no
markets.
1t is Roosevelt's belief, he said,
that to remedy this situation gov
eminent, both state and national,
must accept the responsibility of
doing what it can do-soundly with
considered forethought and along
definitely constructive, not passive,
lines"
Gives His Program
These lines, he continued, include:
Scientific tariff, aimed primarily
to create movement Of world COM
modities from one nation to another.
Better thought-out system Of ma
tional taxation.
"a survey and plan to cut the ex-
cessive cost of local government.
Extension of the principle of in
surance to cover sickness and unem-
ployment, which are not now
reached.
"A proper balance between urban
and rural life"
Governor Roosevelt then ex-
planned in detail the program Of
state planning for agricultural lands
now under way in his state.
He urged future decentralization
of industry and creation of rural
urban communities, where workers
in the factories farm during the
season.
Cites New York Plan
state aid for rural schools, roads
and cheap power for the farmer,
comprise the New York program, he
pointed out.
1--WE are faced with q situation
of hundreds of farmers attempting
to farm under conditions where 1t
is impossible to maintain an Amerl-
can standard of living" Governor
Roosevelt continued. "They are
breaking their hearts, their health,
and their pocketbooks against
stone wall of impossibilities, and yet
they produce enough farm products
to add to the national surplus"
Speaking on Executive Duties
and Powers" Governor George n.
Dern, Utah, urged increased power
for the chief executive, who, ne
pointed out, now is held responsible
for an administration over which
he has only partial, and IN some
instances, no control.
Capitalization Of administrative
control does not mean at all that
the Governor will become an auto
crat. who will try to run every state
Office and activity" he declared.
But I do think that, in the inter
est of the taxpayer, our state gov
ernments should be organized IN
such fashion that they may be able
to approach private enterprise in eff
fciency.'
Dern Vents Ire
Offices, such as the secretary OF
state and encouragement, should
be appointiye, rather than elective,
he declared.
He then bitterly assailed the
lieutenant governors who are ready
to embarraSS an administration
whenever a Governor leaves the
state and charged that certain Gov
errors were not present at the con-
ference because of such a situation.
Greater concentration of power
with the Governor would make for
more democracy by voters having
q choice of men to govern, rather
than merely voting the party label,
because the ballots are too long to
know the men, he pointed out.
Pleads for Leadership
Similar ideas were advanced by
Governor William Tudor Gardiner,
Maine, who pleaded for greater
leadership on the part of his fell
low Governors in all governmental
problems facing their respective
states.
Dern was one of the principal
speakers at the open forum Mon
day afternoon, where Governor
Harry G. Leslie outlined the Indiana
plan Of tax control.
The Governors spent an hour
Monday in executive session, talking
about the problem of unemploy-
ment, but refused to disclose what
was said.
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