Pump & Gadget

Governor M. Clifford Townsend last month convened Indiana's Legislature in a special session to vote some of the State's widely advertised $25,000,000 surplus into a pump-priming building program. Of greater interest to most Indianians was a much smaller piece of business--reconsideration of a highly unpopular Townsend act called the Gadget Law. Every Indiana motorist was required to buy from the State for 25-c- a celluloid container for his registration card, which he had to stick on his windshield so that his name and address clearly showed. Aside from the probable graft involved in this 25-c- gadget which cost the State only 12 1/2-c-, Hoosiers hated the gadgets because: they kept coming unstuck; they were fair game for forgers; they advertised a man's absence from home to burglars and gossips. Well aware of its increasing calibre as a political liability, the Legislature last week repealed the Gadget Law unanimously.

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