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Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and be shall strengthen thine heart.—Ps. 27:14. Courage leads to heaven; fear, to death.—Seneca. s' • • - ■ ' > ■ , DEBTS: FRENCH AND AMERICAN OHERE are two sides to every question, and France’s quasirepudiation of her $3,917,325,974.84 debt to us is no exception. Leave sentiment aside, France helped free America of the Hessians, and America helped free France of Prussians, so we may call the sentimental debt canceled; let’s pass on, then, to the practical. , The United States declared war against Germany on April 6, 1917. Not a shot was fired by Americans in European trenches until Oct. 27, or six and a half months later. And not cmtil late spring, 1918—the following year—were we “over there” in sufficient force to make any impression on the German line. Bluntly, then, we pulled Germany's nose a full twelve months before we were ready to scrap. Had Germany not been otherwise pretty well occupied she would have climbed all over us during that year of unpreparedness and done us five times four billion dollars’ worth of damage. Likewise we would have received such a setback in the war that it would have taken fiv& years and billions of dollars more to recover the ground lost by our initial weakness. But Germany was occupied. JVance and Britain were occupying her. France held four-fifths of the German line while ire got ready to fight. It was during that time that we loaned France most of the money. In the war since 1914, France was nearly exhausted when we came in. She had to have help or drop out. That would have been-bad for us, unprepared as we were, so we sent a few billions of iron men over to help hold the line for us while our flesh and blood millions were being recruited, drilled, equipped and sent after Germany’s scalp. A country which declares war against a powerful opponent a year before .t is in a position to fight is certainly not without obligation io the nation that holds that enemy off until the de2larer is ready. To say that it was France’s war and that we were helping her, is beside the mark. After April 6, 1917, it was our war. And it was up to us to fight it from that date. Had we done so the war would have ended in 1917. But we did not and could not. We were not ready. But that was our fault, not France’s. France has no right to repudiate the debt. It is a regular, honorable, legal debt. Even if it is physically impossible for her to pay it now, hr ever, she must continue to recognize it as binding until settled to this country’s satisfaction. And we do well to tell her so. r"’ On the other hand, we must not forget that unpreparedness 'is always eostly and .that it was our unpreparedness, as much as France’s need, that caused that debt to be written down on mr bocks against her. jgr y. * 1. ' # • \ • MONET fpl ESOLVED, That we will obtain from the Legislature as | much money as the traffic will bear. , r ZMs appears to be the New Year ’e resolution of most of the -St&te institutions and departments. There is nothing new in it. rhe same resolution is made at the beginning of every odd-num-bered year. It usually is carried out in part. This year it is proposed that the State spend approximately $6,000,000 more than last year. A great part of this money is needed, so the institution heads say, for new buildings. Judging from requests, inmater of institutions roust be far from having proper shelter and living conditions. Which is true in some institutions, but in others this condition does not exist. The fact of the matter is that institutions and departments make a practice of asking for far more than they need. This is done to gratify the economy complex of budget committees and legislators. The committees and legislators can righteously slash estimates, thus satisfying their own minds andTbttaking a record to which they can point with pride in the next party platform. But usually when all the slashing and wrangling cease and the Legislature passes the budget bills in the small hours of the morning after the day*it is supposed to adjourn it is found that the appropriations have reached anew high mark

Telling It to Congress \ : A Lusty Infant Evidence of the rapidly growing interest in radio is contained in the annual report of one of the large radio companies. According to this report gross sales of radio equipment by this company for the past three calendar years were as follows: 1921, $1,468,919; 1922, $11,286,489; 1923, $22,465,090.—Rep0rt of the Commissioner of Navigation. , '• The Railways Rival In the last few years anew agency of transportation has entered ink> the consideration of thoughtful men, an agency that bids fair later to have & distinct bearing on the future of the Amerie anrailway. Alreadyy the competition of the motor car has been felt in the internrban lines and in railroad lines of a short-haul character. # The motor bus has already resulted at least in a few abandonments of electric line transportation.—Rep. Hawes (D) Mo. Not His Fault! Begg (R) Ohio: The gentle'W ought to make his speech in SBkther body (the Senate). VKp. Blanton '(D) Texas: I would were there, but, unfortunately country, I am not there. P F A Peaceful Victory ' "What has the Washington Conference accomplished? achieved many acts of Justice. Japan has reSiberia has been settled. We bgve

China. We have brought about the scrapping of the Anglo-Japanese alliance. Wo have brought about the reign ot peace to this hemisphere and to the orient.—Rep. Rath bo ue (R) iIL One for the Druggist A dusky lady went into a drug store and asked for one cent's worth of insect powder. “But that isn’t enough to wrap up,” said tjle clerk. "Man!” exclaimed the woman, “I ain’t asked you to wrap it up. Just blow it down my back. ” —Whiz Bang.

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RAILROADS REPORT SMALLER INCOMES, LARGER PROM

Net income Larger Than That of 1923 Reported to Commission, Times Washington Bureau, JSte New York .4va. rrra ashington-, Jan. I.— The \U first twenty-seven large railroads to file their November financial statements with the Interstate Commerce Commission reported an aggregate decrease of $11,000,000 In total fhcome as compared with November, 1923. In the face of this decrease, the same road* reported ar. aggregate net income of $2,114,0000 larger than during November, 1923. / Nine of these twertty-seven railroads had smaller gross Incomes during the first eleven months of 1924 than durijpg the first eleven months of 1933 and yet showed decided increases in net income* The explanation offered by railroad executives for this favorable trend Is simply that of greater es flcieney in managements. Whatever the cause, the increase hi earnings during the late months of 1924 is bringing many of the railroads very close to the authorized earnings limit of 6 per cent permitted under the Esch-Cummins law. Make 5.80 Per Out During October, for instance, all the class one railroads of the country had a net operating income of $127,106,089, which was at the rate of 5.80 per cent on their tentative valuation. During the corresponding month of 1928 this Income ratio was 4.68 per cent of tentative valuation. Congress provided in the EachCummins Jaw that railroads should be entitled to earn per cent of the aggregate value of their property and In addition granted the railroads an additional >4 per cent to be used in upkeep. Since the adoption of that law in 1920 only thirty-six railroads have admitted that their net incomes exceeded 6 per cent of their aggregate valuation, and all of these have been small companies. Owing to the fact that during the early months of 1924 many of the railroads made very poor showings, the record oi net income for the whole year will not approach that of the late months. The estimated net operating income for all the class one roads of the country for the entire year is $970,000,000 or 4.30 per cent of the tentative valuation figures. In 1923 the net operating income was $977,00,000 or 4.47 per cent of the valuation. Greatest Month. It is rather in their predictions for railroad business in 1926 than in contemplation of past records that railroad executives are finding their greatest Joy. Though October, 1924 was the greatest month in railroad history from the standpoint of freight carried, and though that month saw the establishment of ten new traffic records, nearly *ll railroad officials believe that there will be a number of months In 1926 that will dwarf the October showing. If their recent efficiency records can be maintained, and the predictions of Increased business prove accurate, the Esch-Cummlns recapture clause is expected to yield Important sums frdm the railroads during 1926 and thus to set in motion Congress’ plan for the rehabilitation of weak roads at the expense of the strong ° nee ' Tom Sims Says All we wish Is that these radio guys would find their Sally. You can't turn a dial without someone wondering what’s become of her. Well, It’s only one more shopping year before Christmas. It’s real funny how some people won’t discuss religion until they get drunk, and then won’t discuss anything else. Every drint-er thinks he can drive a car while drunk. He can, too, not counting accidents. New resolutions are about like new laws. They have to be made right along because the old ones are broken. We 'bought anew auto and the first week got a crick in our neck looking to see If it was still out in front Wonder how Congress can t6ll when it is not in session? We got a mirror on the windshield of our new car so we can look at It and see where we were. Bad thing about steam heat Is you can’t throw everything into the radiator. One check that can always he cashed is a check on your living expenses. Cinderella’s lot wasn’t so bad. She slept right by the fire. Many a boss when at work washes the dishes, when at home. So live that you think all peo pie better than you know they are. (Copyright. 1925, NEA Service, Inc.)

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RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON

Medicine T l HE Indiana Medical Association will seek —in the next u J legislature—to strengthen the law regulating the practice of medicine In the State. The,amendment would give courts power to enjoin persons, not posseesirrg stipulated NELSON nient. Magic charms, booming drums, laying on of hands, faith, prayer, medicine, and surgery, had all been tried. In some cases patients have survived the treatment—whatever its nature—in other cases they have succumbed. Consequently every healing system points with pride to its successes and buries its failures. And no method Is uniformly successful. Or is entitled to exclusive privilege to Inspect furred tongues and thumb Jumping pulses. Probably the State should rigidly regulate healers who use drugs. But the person ill has the right to say whether his treatment shall be a major operation or a red bandana tied around his neck. And choose his healer accordingly. State regulation should not interfere with the exercise of that choice. Surplus mHE city treasury closed the year with a surplus of $333,000 in the general fund. Which is not stylish. So startled city officials discuss ways and means of spending it. The mayor proposes to spend It by increasing the pay of policemen and firemen 60 cents a day. Doubtless policemen and firemen are underpaid in comparison with employes of private Industry. Particularly as they risk life and limb in the line of duty. They are entitled to living wages. Which would be more useful than hero medals awarded after a wall or a desperado has fallen on them. But, to increase their pay because a treasury surplus exists is only an act of expediency, not Justice. It’s based on no higher principle than an Itch to spend a surplus. The inadequacy of police and fire salaries Is no sudden emergency. Their need was as acute when the city budget was adopted as now. Yet it was ignored then. The city can afford to pay decent wages. Not by cutting an unexpected melon, but as a regular budgetary expenditure. A surplus spent for any purpose at the whim of officials makes a city budget ridiculous. Ask The Times You can get an answer to any question of fact or Information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1822 New York Ave.. Washington, D. C., inclosing 2 cents in stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. Ali other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. What Is meant by the term, “human aura?” A supposed emanation or insensible fluid conveying mesmeric and similar Influences. A sensation as of a light vapor rising toward the head. What Is the oldest Homan Catholic Church in the United States? Probably the Church of San Miguel in /3anta Fe, New Mexico. It was established at the time of the first settlement of ‘that region by the Spaniards, about 1606. What hefrse-power can a muscular man develop? Usually one-tenth of a horsepower, but he can not keep this effort up all day.

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Whlch prominent breeds of chicken lay brown-shelled eggs? The Plymouth Rock, Wyandotte, Orpington, Rhode Island Red, Longshan, Brahma, Cochin, and Cornish. Why doesn't it hurt to eut the hair or nails? * Because there are no nerves in them and pain is caused only When a nerve Is Injured. How long is St. Joseph's River? 260 miles long. ‘ Who is the British ambassador to the United States? Rt. Hon. Sir Esme Howard. When Japanese fantail flsb come to the surface of the water and make a sucking sound, causing bubbles to form, what does this meaft? It means they want fresh water, in other words, more oxygen. What Is a barrage? An impenetrable screen of artillery Are % , VSThat is Rudyard Kipling’s address? BAeman’s, Burwash, Sussex, Eng-

Enforcement “T-l SSISTANT Federal ProhibiA tion Director R. C. Minton J declared the weak point in dry enforcement in Indiana is now in State courts. Court records seem to confirm this. In 126 liquor cases In Federal Court last year there were 307 convictionq, While only 617 convictions In 1,012 cases in State courts. Squeamish ness over technicalities in State courts Is given as the cause for their lower ratio of convictions. But probably the principal cause lies In the manner of choosing Federal and State judges. Federal judges are appointed for life. And are unswayed by public opinion. While State judges are elected by popular vote. While listening to justice they must keep their eyes on the political barometer. So v here popular sentiment is opposed to prohibition State courts inevitably become colored by their surroundings. Technicalities creep into their records Instead of convictions. The relative merits of the two systems of elevating judges is open to argument. But the difference In the two methods accounts for the disparity in convictions In liquor cases. Which will continue until public opinion In every locality makes it not enforcement of the PROHIBITION law>— but simply enforcement of a law. Eyesight rrniss olive and. edwards, secretary of the Haughville Civic League, stated—in a letter to the school board—that seventeen rooms In School 62, 2600 W. Walnut St., were without lights. The same deplorable condition exists in many grade school buildings over the city. More than a score of which are without lighting fixtures —although wired for electricity. Procrastination is the reason the board has failed to install the necessary lights. It has beeen easier to let the children strain their eyes than for the board to strain its inertia. Education is a valuable possession. And should be given to every child. But eyesight is still more valuable. The pursuit of knowledge is" dangerous if conducted in semi-darkness. Or in the twilight murk of an unlighted Indianapolis schoolroom on a winter morning when the city smoke inspector has overslept. There is already too much defective vision in evidence. The Nation is not going blind—as some alarmists predict. But it Is using its eyes as never before. Enough eye-strain is thus encountered unavoidably without bringing It to school. Where It may turn day into night for some child.

BARONESS IS TIPPED Former First Woman of British Nobility Serves Hot Tea to Thirsty Motorists,

LADY DECIES IN HER LITTLE STORE WAITING ON THE CHILDREN OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD.

By MILTON BRONNER NBA Service Writer DiANE HILL, England, Jan. 1. —Gertrude, Dowager Baroness Deoie*—and thus connected by marriage with one of the oldest families of the British nobility and with the purse-proud, millionaire Gould fimily of America—serves hot tea to thirsty motorists and is thankful for a tuppenny tip. The woman, who once presided over a castle, is now very glad to have shelter in an old house — and once didn’t" even have that. When her husband the fourth Baron Decies died, as their little son was also dead, the title a.nd estates passed to her husband’s brother, the present and fifth Baron Decies. The latter a year later married Helen Vivien Gould, daughter of George Jay Gould of New York. Decies and his American bride are in high society. Their sister-in-law is buried in this isolated little place in the Sussex hills, nine miles from the nearest railway. The Deck see regale themselves with opera in the season. Their sister-in-law, when she has time, listens to the music of an old phonograph. “There’s no use grousing,” said Lady

‘What Chance Has a Fellow Got?’

CASH VALUE OF EDUCATION

By RUTH FINNEY. ELL what it will mean to me in terms of money,” the boy , * of today says when advice is offered to him. Here it is, then. Here are dollar and cents reason why boys who sulk over Latin and geometry should stay on In high school instead of "getting a Job.” The cash value of a four-year high school course is $33,000. The boy who gets a Job after leaving grammar school earns an average of S6OO a year during the four ye ars he might have been in high schooL The boy who takes his four high school years, while he may not have a cent of spending money, is actually earning $8,250 a year for himself those four years. And a college or technical education, In terms of actual money. Is worth just $72,000. Each of the four years spent at college mean exact-

tling with the wrinkles of care in her face. “I am broke and alone and have to do just the beat I can. Everything has gone wrong since I lost my husband. I had. a small fortune, but lost it helping a friend. I know a great deal about dogs, so I started a London shop for the sale of Pekinese. That failed. I opened a hat shop and that failed. ’Then came the war and I went to France as a nurse and was wounded in the shoulder by shrapnel. When I recovered I went with the London Scottish into Russia and was with them in their retreat. That got me some aches, some wounds and some war medals, but no pension. And you can’t live off of your medals. I started a hotel and that failed.. Slept in Field “Then I was really down and out. I lived for six months in a hut In the corner of a field and had to sleep with a raincoat on when the rain poured through the roof. Then I came here and took this place. .We sell hot tea to motorists and cyclists, candy to the neighborhood children, and take care of valuable dogs of London people who want them out in the eounknowj^know

ly SIB,OOO to a boy, even though he be waiting on table to pay his board bill. These figures have been compiled by Dean Everett W. Lord of the College of Business Administration of Boston University. They should do much to advance the cause of education among those who demand a material reason for every act In life. Dean Lord finds that the average boy with nothing but a grammar school education begins work at 14 and reaches his maximum earning capacity at 30 years of age. By the time he is 60 years old he has earned

United States Navy Plans to Make Study of Ocean

By DAVID DIETZ TyTj ASHINQTON, Jan. I.—The United States will embark j upon a study of the ocean which will eventually furnish the scientific world with as much knowledge of the ocean as is now possessed with regard to the land, if plans announced here at the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science are carried out. The announcement was made by Dr. Austin H. Clark, oceangrapher Science Until recently It has been believed that there are certain sections of the globe where white men cannot live. This has been thought to be particularly true of the tropics. It was thought that some physiological difference between the native and the white man permitted one to thrive where the other perished. Leaving out the question of how quickly he can adapt himself to making a living, there Is no reason why white men cannot live as well as men of any other # color in tne tropics. This Is statecl to be the case by the Australian medical congress. Many tests were made by the congress, among them being comparisons of the blood of children bom and bred in the tropics with those of the temperate regions. The congress seated that the settlement of tropical sections by white persons depended upon the application of modem methods for public health, especially sanitation and dise&se prevention. It is pointed out that many places formerly considered deadly to whites are now health resorts. A Dollar Bill 1 By HAL COCHRAN You have traveled o’er the country, Dollar Bill. And you’ve seen a lot of things that would surprise. Little stories you could tell us would instill some sympathy and open up our eyes. In a poor man’s pocket you’ve been tucked away. Just a dollar’s worth of comfort to his mind. But, in such a place, how really short’s your stay, for you travel on and leave the man behind. Mother’s held you In her purse for Just a day. Then you’ve transferred to the kindly butcherman. Little rests have come, and then you’re on your way. What a help you’re glad to give whene’er you cars. Both the hands of youth and wrinkled palms of age have caressed and kindly fondled you until you have reached the soiled and nearly wornout stage. What a story you could tell us. Dollar Bill! (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) Tough on Moth % . “Why, the poor little moth! What killed him?*’ “Starved to death. He got shut In yesterday with nothing to eat except Flossie’s bathing suit,”—Amer-' lean Legion Weekly.

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only $45,000 altogether. His highest salary In life is about $1,200. The boy who goes through high school starts work at 18. He reaches his maximum income, $2,200, at the age of 40, By the time he is 60 .years old he has earned just $78,000, a total of $33,000 more than the man who left school at 14. The man who completes his college course starts work at the age of 22. He does not reach his maximum earning caparity until he is 60 years old, but the maximum, when it come3, is $6,000, and his total earnings at 60 amount to $150,000, nearly twice the total of the man, who ended his educatidon with a high school diploma. id'hjp

jf the Smithsonian Institute, and member of the Navy’s advisory committee on oceanography. This work, Dr. Clark believes, will accomplish the following results: Enable the prediction of weather with greater accuracy, especially In the region of the seacoasts. Enable the prediction olt fish migrations, information of the utmost value to the fishing Industry. Make possible the adoption of methods of protecting the fish life of the ocean from disease, parasites and the like* a move necessary to conserve the food resources of the world. "No work has proved of greater value to the people as a whole than .the study of geology,” Dr. Clark says. “But. our knowledge of the geological and geographical features of the earth’s surface practically endn at the shore line. "The detailed mapping of the topography of the ocean bottom will almost certainly bring to light systems of mountain ridges, terraces, old shore lines, submarine volcanoes, deformations of the ocean bottom, and the Ilka "It should give us the data from which to reconstruct the history of the changes In size, depth and shape of the ocean basins. It should furnish information regarding old shore lines. "It should also give us much Information regarding the source and exact location of many earthquakes of which the positions now are only roughly estimated. 7 j| "It should also give us much Information regarding centers of submarine volcanic action wherelslands may be in the forming or form which tidal waves r ay travel.” jH| The study of the ocean bottom* Dr. Clark says. Is to ..e undertaken with the new so-called sounder.” This Instrument, the Invention of Dr. H. C. Hayes, makes possible to measure the ocean depth at any point by sending a sound wavewhich is echoed back from the ocean bottom. Timing the sound wave makes it possible to compute the depth of water. Plans are now uuder way to be§| gin the study by equipping a United States Navy ship for the work and supplying It with a special scientific staff of an oceangrapher, a biologist, a geologist and at &ix scientific assistants. Both Worry "Why, Johnny, are you just home, now? Your mother's H looking for you all the aftercH "Yes'm, I know.” "Just think hew worried sbiH . "Oh, she’s near the ~ worryln’. I’m Just y/'' ; f'iWor. Tr.-"script. gWJ-L''

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