South Bend news-times., 1918-05-29

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young men Of our country when call
"a TO service have been found ply
Sically defective.
This is a matter for the state and
not for the individual as the state
is most vitality concerned m The
physical well-heing Of ats citi-
zenS
WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE.
The question OF equal suffrage
has disturbed American politics for
the past twenty years and the wo-
men OF America are insisting that
/ the denial 20 them OF the right OF
suffrage upon an equal basis with
T men is contrary 10 the spirit Of our
I American institutions
The solution Of this question is a
matter for The nation believe
that the amendment now pending in
the senate of the United states
/ granting equal suffrage 90 woman
should be passed and the question
submitted 10 the several states FOR
F their consideration
The approval or the amendment
. is an act OF tardy Justice 20 Ameri-
can womanhood and fair and just
recognition of the loyalty. devotion
and self-sacrihce with which the
. American women have supported
this war i'm their homes in the fac
+ tories in the great war charities and
/ on the fighting front and I heartily
/ approve the action Of our senators
and republican members OF congress
+ i'm support Of the resolution pend
( ing i'm the senate
STATE FINANCES.
The state tax levy was reduced 10y
( the last general assembly over ten
per cent and reducing the burdens
+ of taxation in Indiana over Sl.10O.-
! 0O0. $500. 600 was appropriated for
! the highway fund and the inherit
ance tax amounting 10 more than
$4,000 per annum ordered perma-
/ nently transferred TO the highway
/ fund.
on account Of the oil inspection
I law being held unconstitutional over
100000 additional was lost 10 the
/ general fund or total loss from this
/ fund of more than S2.2Oo. 600 per
annum vet Notwithstanding this
fact and the greatly increased cost
of the state institutions. the states
hnances are i'm healthy condition
and at the end OF this fiscal year a
free balance OF over $500. 900 will be
found in the general fund.
STATE INSTITUTIONS.
The problem of the administration
OF the penal and benevolent instiu-
tions has been beset with many diff
dculties We were just beginning 20
feel the fun effect of the rise in
prices i'm the early part or 1917 and
before our participation i'm this war
but we had not al the close OF the
general Assem- bly, become partici-
pants i'm the war ourselves and could
not anticipate the enormous i'm
4 crease i'm the prices OF the various
commodities IL was evident. how
ever. at the beginning OF the present
iadministra tion that the institutions
Of the state would not De able %
I complete the fiscal wear beginnine
October I. 1916. without de-
hciency appropriation boy the gen
eral assembly then in session It
was believed that S350.0OO would Doe
a sum sufficient 10 carry through The
institutions until the next mee-ine
of the general assembly bur This has
been found 10 he lnadeauate n
was discovered after the adjourn
ment Of the general assembly tba:
some Of the institutions OF the state
were confronted with very large DEF
icits
The following were the deficits m
the various institutions for rbe fiscal
year beginning October I. 1915:
Indiana Site Prison t111o24Se
Central Hospital for In
sane - 40rS401
Northern HospitaI for In
sane ..... 25.52-.-3
Eastern Indiana HASN'T
al for Insane .... 12.425s2
Indiana Refornstorv -Oqq as
F,nileptic village S4qre
total Of sfaeo7o
leaving = balance n bur S152 o7oS4
% .or,,1o,o +bo esc,1 ,-as~ e,Si,.
SentaD,ba- 40 1qTe -.
STATE OFFICES
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