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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-17
The Vanishing Surplus

Uncle SAM for the first time in years. just about
has reached the bottom of his purse, and there is
danger that the government will not have money
enough to pay its bills during Herbert Hoover'S first
year in the White House.
President Coolidge in his recent budget message
to congress- predicted surplus of $37OO000O for the
current fiscal year, which ends June 80. Budget
Director Lord six months earlier had said the govern
ment would wind up some $94OOOOOO in the hole, but
by some magic this danger had been averted.
All bills would be paid, and there would be money
in the bank-not much money it is true, but there
would be balance on the right side of the ledger.
Recent developments have altered this outlook.
President Coolidge asked congress to appropriate
an additional $75,O0e,00o for repayment of income
taxes enormously collected by the internal revenue
bill.
An expenditure of $15OO0O0OO had been con-
templated for this purpose, of which $1300000Oo had
been appropriated Hence about $55 100000 additional
must be voted which converts the expected surplus
into deficit of about $4,000 900. Obviously,
magic is needed.
Nor are prospects for the fiscal year of 1880 be-
ginning July l any too rosy. President Coolidge
warned that congress must practice the most rigid
economy, since a surplus of only about $60OOOOOO
was in sight, which was too close for comfort.
Already there are evidences that inroads will be
made on this theoretical surplus. The house has
approved loan of $12OOOO0O to Greece. The house
appropriations committee has been warned that there
will be number of supplemental estimates for which
no allowance had been made, including $12,O00,O00
for public buildings.
The budget bureau cut the allowance for tax
refunds $15,OOO0OO under the amount that actually
will be needed and which later must be provided.
The margin-if any-Will be narrow.
Prospects for decrease in federal expenditures in
the next few years dim, Estimates in the 1880
budget exceed the amount actually appropriated for
the current fiscal year by $95,000000. The rate of
increase is shown by the fact that estimated expend
itures are more than $400OOo00O greater than they
were in 1924, and in that time the public debt has
been reduced so that 3O000O000 less interest is
CURED. Congress is committed to expenditures of
around 1,OOOO00,OOO within the next few years, for
which appropriations have not been made.
The Importance of this to the average citizen
is that current revenues do not meet expenses new
sources of revenue must be found That higher
taxes. Expenditures Of federal state, and local gov
ernments already amount to- about $11O00000000
year out of estimated earnings of $90,0O0,0O0,000.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-17

of the sun is so intense that an astronomer would
blind himself unless he used special eyepieces to pro-
tect his eyes from the bright glare of the suns light
1t is desirable, however in studying the to get
as large an image possible.
The size of the image furnished by a telescope de-
ponds upon the length Of the telescope tube, or to
state it exactly upon the focal length Of the
telescopes mirror or lens
The 75-foot tower was built first. small mirror
used to catch the image of the This mirror
in turn, reflected it to second one which reflected
it down the long tube.
The mirror had a focal length Of rs feet Con-
sequently large image of the was formed at the
bottom of the tube, rs feet below the mirror.
This tower worked well that the second one
$50 feet high, built.
This also has proved success. AS result, more
information has been gathered about the since
these two towers were built than III all the preceding
centuries
The towers have been copied by other observa-
tories At the present time there is in Italy and
in India.
The towers are equipped with spectroscopic at
tachments, so that all sorts of studies be carried
out with them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-17
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

and men on the average exceed
women and girls in ability to manip-
ulate mechanical contrivances.
For years it has been understood
that women are more likely to trust
to intuition than are men and that
they are likely to make judgments
based on their personal situations
rather than on abstract factors.
In a study made Of 267 boys and
290 girls in an American college,
Conklin found that 40 per cent of
the boys and &c per cent of the girls
had superstitionS in which they
really believed.
Boys appeared to outgrow SUI
perstitions at earlier years than DID
girls, and girls had more supersti-
tions per individual than did boys.
Fifteen per cent of the girls and
only 5 per cent of the boys indicated
any belief in fortune telling.
In a recent investigation made
by Lehman and Witty, more than
5000 children were asked to check
from list of 200 play activities
those in which they had voluntarily
engaged during the preceding week.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-17
0rderS-Not Appeals

Striking a pose much like that of
our big navy senators, the Bolivian
government says that it wants
peace and favors arbitration, but
not until it has time to trounce
Paraguay.
What the Pan-American confer
ence should do is issue orders, in
stead of making appeals. 1t should
warn both Bolivia and Paraguay
that their dispute over the Gran
Chaco is properly subject to arbi-
tration; that the two governments
Solemnly have sworn to let it be
settled that way; that war repre-
sentS breach Of faith; that the
western world will not stand for it
and that if either or both govern
ments persist, measures will be
taken to compel respect not only
for their treaty obligations, but for
the duty they owe to keep peace.
If the western world lacks the
power or the courage to go that far,
every one might just as we'll quit
talking about the idea of preventing
war.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-17
War to End War

The comforting thought that
there is nothing much to do in
eliminating war, but make pleasant
speeches and sign idealistic papers,
is beautiful, but dumb.
Before we get through with the
job, we are not only going to write
code, but back it up in the same
oldfashioned way that all codes
have been written and backed up.
We are not going to reduce war
without battle any more than we
have reduced murder without kill
ing.
For the first few centuries at
least, any practical war prevention
program may involve as much
strife and bloodshed as would have
occurred without it. The difference
is that we would be struggling for
an object that all humanity could
visualize as worth while, instead of
wasting life and property, in futile
attempts to grow great at each
others expense.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-17
The People Own It

One fact is made certain by the announce
ment Of the trustees for the gas company.
That is that the people really own all there
is of the company beyond the bonds and pre-
ferred stock and the original investment of
$2,OOO,O0O.
The trustees announce that even if the peo-
pie failed for any reason to take over actual
title to the plant in 1880, the company would
still be in control of the trustees, who would
administer it in behalf of the city.
With the trustees recognizing the rights
of the city to ow nthe plant, the battle to really
get it should be easier.
Whatever opposition arises to the carrying
out of the original agreement will come, of
course, from those who have bought the
tifcates at twice their face value.
There is always danger when so great
prize may be gained.
If this private group could win, they would
have several millions of dollars as their reward
for fighting public interest.
If there is to be court battle, and there
will be one without question, it is well that the
trustees of the company will be found fighting
on the side of the city.
In any battle between public interest and
private greed, the people can not have too
many defenders.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-17
Race Riddle
PTeSen ted
by Hospital
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON
MEMPHIS is in the throes of a
4VA hospital controversy. Outsid-
ers may not be interested gravely
in her particular problem, but they
should be gravely interested in hos
pitfalls and their management. While
we are we'll such institutions make
very little impression upon us. 1t is
only when one of the family is i'll
that the fact of their power over
whelmS us.
Every small town has its hospital
these days and most of them are
run by efficient men and women.
Sometimes their operations are like
miracles, and statistics tell us that
hospital treatment brings about the
recovery Of the patient several days
sooner than that of the average
home can, though the best of doc
tors are in attendance.
Competency of physicians and
nurses seldom is questioned. The
great problem to the average house,
holder is how to acquire the neces-
sary money to pay all these experts.
know husband who has had
a great deal of family illness, with
couple of operations for his wife
thrown in for good measure. He is
honest and conscientious, but earns
only small salary. He is grateful
that his loved ones have been re-
stored to health, but to pay for
this he has had to mortgage his
home and his earnings for years to
come.
And in his efforts to budget his
wages so that his bills will all be
paid in time, his doctor, being a
kindly man, will wait, perhaps for
ever, for his fee.
Because institutions always are
more cold-blooded than men, it is
always the hospital that gets first
drag at the patients purse. The
physician, who may be also a
friend, waits until the grocer and
the landlord have been paid.
Although we know that we could
not get along without hospitals,
most of us have strong convictions
that, save to the very rich, their
rates are excessive.
When we shall have finished with
all the rest of our reforms, per-
haps we can spend some time eyolv-
ing plan whereby the sick shall
be taken care of by the state.
Every good government owes that
sort of service to its citizens.
And when we grow wise enough
to have done with wars and battle
ships, the sick, instead of those
whom we have disabled with can
non shot and gases, will draw the
pensions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-17
The Solution

THERE are some bridge players
4 who never make use of the
unlocking play. Yet there are nu-
merous cases when it will net you
from one to five or six tricks in a
single hand. Here it is very essen
tial to the correct solution.
South leads his diamond, North
trumping with the ace. North next
leads his four of clubs. If East
takes the tricks South trumps the
return lead-no matter what it is
and North discards the seven Of
clubs.
South then leads a club. North
wins, and the five of trumps is high
for the final trick If West over
takes East's ten of clubs at THE sec
ond trick a trump return will be
won by South and the clubs are
then flnessed through West.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-17
Conflict Inevitable

The most tragic aspect of all
peace efforts thus far is an utter
lack of realization of what they
mean. The ideal is fairly born, but
the conception of what will be re-
quired to give it practical force is
still in the embryonic stage.
We are not going to stop govern
ments from taking what they have
the strength to take, and what ira
dition has taught them to believe
they have the right to take, with.
cut doing something more than
talk.
We are not going to persuade am
bilious statesmen and tricky dip
lomats that we have strapped their
philosophy, without proving it by
something more convincing than lip
music.
This chorus in favor of peace
means battle, or it means nothing
Such a revolution as it implies is
impossible without conflict, just as
free speech, religious liberty, the
ballot and republican government
were impossible.
If the United States, or any
other nation, does what will be nee
essary to institute that reign OF
law throughout the world which
Woodrow Wilson visualized, it is
going to need not only cruisers, but
a good many other things with
which to Dersuade crininallv
minded politicians and potentates
that the demand is not an empty
gesture.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-17
NJ. E..
TRACY
SAYS:
1--WE Are Not Going to
Reduce War Without
Battle Any More Than
We HGVe Reduced MNr-
der Without Killing"

DIG navy men. which is some
II thing of a misnomer, since they
are only asking for fifteen 10000
ton cruisers, want the Kellogg pact
side tracked until their pet measure
has been passed.
Such an attempt Is small minded
and illogical. 1t creates an i'm
preston that the Kellogg pact and
the naval program are antagonis-
tic, that if we agree to outlaw war,
we do not need to build more cuTis-
ers, and that if We do build more.
cruisers, agreeing to outlaw war is
a piece of Superflous hypocrisy.
President Coolidge has Endorsed
both propositions, which should
suggest that the problem involved
is quite big enough for more than
one idea at a time.
The notion that a mere agree
ment to outlaw war ends the mat
ter seems too silly for comment.
who is going to keep it outlawed,
and by what means?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-17
Reason

CONGRESSMAN KVALE of
y. Minnesota turns aside from the
distribution of garden seeds to sug-
gest that Mr. Hoover's inaugural
be free from all military display.
Mr.. Hoover should follow the
congressman's idea and have the
following parade: Battalion of paci-
fists, carrying doves; group OF
price advocates, turn
ing the other cheek; delegation Of
nonresistants, constantly being
knocked down and constantly ris-
ing to kiss the hand that knocks
them.
The parade should not be led by
a strong man, carrying the Ameri-
can flag, but by a cadaverous gent
with a racking cough, carrying a
large bunch of spinach.
We are all glad the prince of
Wales got back in time, for he and
the king and queen are more than
royalty; they are members of the
human race.
The king is as democratic as the
British will let him be and the
prince doesn't begin to put on half
The airs of an American floor
walker.
There's only one thing about the
flu that's commendable; it's i'm
possible for the very best people"
to play horse with it by the use CT
money or influence.
Things look bad for the Christmas
spirit, for the crisis between Bolivia
and Paraguay, south of the equa-
tor is even more threatening than
the crisis between DR.. Shumaker
and Attorney General Gilliom, north
of the equator.
n
The lame ducks at Washington
seem to be concentrating on the two
vacanies on the bench of the court
of custom appeals, which pay $12,500
a year and provide for retirement at
full pay after ten years service.
At this rate the ducks are COM
ing much higher than turkeys.
Little wonder Washington is not
offering to mediate the difference
between Bolivia and Paraguay, for
we sent a bunch down to arbitrate
the Tacna-Arica dispute after the
countries involved promised to abide
by our decision, only to have them
hout the decision and tie a can to
our diplomats.
Now that the government has &C
cepted a design for completion of
the Unknown Soldiers shrine at
Arlington, it should devise a way to
keep all vulgar publicity hounds
from seeking to cash in the tomb.
All statesmen who desire to make
after dinner speeches about the
fact that our long boundary line
with Canada is unfortif1ed and the
Great Lakes free from fighting
craft, should hurry and get in their
remarks, for if Canada persists in
her colossal smuggling of booze into
the United States you are going tc
see gunboats on Lake Erie.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-17
gRLD6EkE53!ARtHN[

But the seven of clubs can not
be led to the second trick, because
North will not then hold a tenace
over West.
And if the hearts are not I'M
blocked by trumping with the ace
at the first trick West will overtake
Easts ten of clubs at the second
trick. West then leads trump and
North is lost, since a second club
trick must also go West.
A club opening fails. If North
plays low, East will win with the
ten and return a diamond, and
North and South must again lose a
second club trick. If the king of
clubs goes on the first trick the re-
suit is the same.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-17
Remember the VigiIanteS

We stand on the frontier with
regard to international law. Our
position is that of a comparatively
new and unorganized community
in the wilderness.
The task before us is to substitute
orderly justice for a system of
criminal bullying. 1t is identical
with the task that pioneers have
faced since the dawn of creation.
We need only refer to the settle
ment Of our own west to discover
the process.
When the citizens of a mining
camp decide to replace the rule of
bad men" by that of constituted
authority, did they throw away
their ass?
When the vigilantes of San Fran
cisco determined to stop the cut
throat rule of gamblers, thieves and
mountebankS, did they begin by dis
arming?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-17
Daily Thought

Take thou away from me the
noise Of thy songs; for 1 will not
hear the melody of thy viOls.-
Amos 5:23.
MUSIC, of all the liberal arts,
1V1 has the greatest influence over
the passions, and is that to which
the legislator ought to give the
greatest Observation-Disclosures
What is the meaning OF the names
IagO and lego?
They are both Spanish forms of
the Hebrew name Jacob, meaning
a supplanter or a substitute.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-17
There Are WAYS

There are plenty of means by
which the American conference
could enforce its will. 1t could ar
range for a general embargo on ex-
ports and imports effecting both
countries. 1t could do the same
with reference to foreign loans,
trade and financial TRANSACTIONS. 1t
could take the Gran Chaco away
from both Bolivia and Paraguay
and put it under a mandate form
of government.
Ruthless, you say? Certainly, but
whittier are we drifting, if not to-
ward that very thing?
Have we found any way of pre-
venting crime, or law violation with
out employing force and inflicting
punishment?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-17
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN

Editor Journal of the American Medical
Health Magazine.
FOR years it has been under
Il stood by physicians that in
matters. of medicine, at least,
women are more credulous than
men.
Women make up the bulk Of
patronage for nostrums in the
health field, for bogus psychologists
and psychoanalystS and for faith
healers of all sorts.
In an endeavor to make scien-
tific study of the question numerous
investigators have analysed the re-
sponseS of women under various
conditions. Of course, there are
many differences between the sexes
from the mental point of view.
Practically all Investigators have
found women in general superior to
men in the matter of learning and
using languages.
Boys seem to be superior to girls
in questions of mathematics, where
as women sem to be in general
superior to men in memory. Boys
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-17
PARADE FOR HOOVER
n a
GLAD HE GOT BACK
DUCKS AND TURKEYS

IF Abraham Lincoln could have
Il foreseen that in 1928 one of his
letters would sell for $11,750, he
would have provided for his pos
terity by engaging in voluminous
correspondence, instead of sitting
in his Springfield Office, talking
politics with his partner, William
Herndon.
If the Argentine government is
bordering the artistic way to han
die the reds who tried to blow up
Hoover's train, we wish to suggest
that there's a perfectly exquisite in
lormality about shooting at sun
rise.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-17
This Date in
u. S. History

December IL
1778-British under Hamilton took
Vincennes, Ind.
1807-Birthday of John Greenleat
Whittier, poet.
1860-Congress authorized war loan
of $10,000,000.
1864-Sherman demanded surren-
der Of Savannah, Ga.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-17
- -
By
Frederick
lands

IT is timely for Governor Kohler
L of Wisconsin to urge business
men to take an active interest in
government, inasmuch as the only
business men now paying any atten-
ton to it are those who desire to
grab something off the altar.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-17

--David Dietz on Science -
Use TOz0eY i'm Sun Study
No. 235

VISITORS to the Mt. Wilson Observatory always
' are impressed by two great steel towers sur
mounted by small domes which form part of the
observatorys equipment.
One tower is rs feet high. The others is $50. The
accompanying illustration shows the 15Ofoot tower.
These are special telescopes known the tower
telescopes. They are used in studying the sun.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-17

Inc pTODleUl Ol
the sun is quite
different from
the stars. The
S t arS are so
faint h a t in
studying tn e m,
telescopes wit h
very large lenses
or mirrors are
needed so that
as much light as
possible can be
concentrated in
the images.
The sun pre-
sents quite the
opposite prob =
lem. The light
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-17
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