Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 63, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 July 1927 — Page 4

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Those Puzzling Estimates What is an estimate of cost when furnished by a city engineer for a public improvement? Apparently it is the outside guess as to what the people will stand for without resorting to revolution. Legally, of course, it has a relation to the amount the people will be called upon to pay. The law demands an estimate on the theory that it would act as a durb to the amount for which contracts could later be given.. Two recent tranactions indicate that the city has had some rather poor guessers on the cost of improvements in the city engineer’s office. They may indicate something else, but that would be pure speculation. When the bids were opened.for the big connecting tewer it was disclosed that a very responsible contractor. s firm was ready to put in that sewer for $140,000 less than the engineer estimated that it would cost. Not Aich use for that estimate as a limit of cost, was there? ~ Os course the city engineer lost his job when he recommended that low bid. He said that he was fired Duvall because he recommended the low bid. The mayor, presumably, thought that the contractors who wanted to charge a sum very near to the engineer’s estimate ought to have had the contract. And so that engineer wenj. Now comes a bid for work of flood prevention and once again the offer of the contractors makes the estimates look peculiar and funny. This time the bid is $203,000 less than the estimate. Most peculiarly these wide discrepancies between the bids and the estimates have happened since people began to take more than a casual interest in public improvements. Some contractors may have learned that a vigilant public opinion would help them if they did business in the way they would transact it with private citizens. ' .. xf we are to have estimates, and it seems we must, why not have an engineer who will be able to guess or to know what a public work ought to cost. Had the contractors conspired on the latest jobs and decided to take the entire amounts fixed by the estir mates, there would have been no redress and probably no protest. That has been done in some cities. Os course in Indianapolis—but that is another story. If'anything should put the citizens on their guard and cause them to take an active interest in any public improvement for which they must pay, these puzzling estimates, so much higher than the actual value, ought to accomplish that result.

Geneva Nears the End The three-power naval ftrms limitation conference at Geneva, deadlocked since June 20, the day it got under way, approaches a showdown. The British delegation is now in London conferring with Premier Baldwin and his cabinet and when they return to Switzerland they will surely go armed with rock-bottom instructions. From Washington, on the other hand, we are told that final and definite advices have gone forth to Ambassador Gibson and the American delegation. Thus the coming week should tell the story. To date the Geneva performance has been rather stupid. The United States has been sparring with Britain, while Britain, pretending to be sparring with the United States, has, in reality, been shadow boxing with a spectre, namely something she sees in Europe, the near, middle and far East. In other words, we sincerely believe that, left alone, the United States and Great Britain could soon agree on maximum tonnage figures. But Britain is not thinking solely in terms of the United States, but of her position in Europe and elsewhere. And her experts are w'aging war for a navy of a size and type which they believe essential if Britain is to maintain that position. With which, 1 attitude we have no desire to quibble. It is only reasonable that Britain should have exactly the type of navy best suited to her owij peculiar needs. But when she strays from this thesis and attempts to saddle us with a similar navy, types of ships not at all suited to our particular needs, it is not going too faf to say that she is unfair. We have only two naval bases worthy of the name outside metropolitan United States. These are at Panama and in the Hawaiian Islands. Britain’hag a chain of naval bases stretching clear around the world, both north and south of the equator. 1 To give us any kind of a show on the high seas, we must have an adequate number of ships of sufficient size to enable them to operate far from their bases. Britain needs no such fleet of large ships. Undoubtedly forty-five cruisers of 7,000 tons each, operating close to their base, are more than a match for thirty cruisers of 10,000 tons each, operating thousands of miles from home. Here you have a specimen quarrel such as Britain and America have been engaged in to no avail for the past month at Geneva. The main difficulty is the United States wishes, very simply, to extend the Washington agreement to cover auxiliary vessels as well as battleships and airplane carriers, while Britain feels bound to maintain a navy, not to match ours, but for purposes quite her own. Thus the British and American minds do not meet at all. Which those who sponsored the conference might have seen would be case before it was called and then not called it. But, having called it, a way out must be found else a very bad taste will be left in the mouth of the world. What Is Law? Apparently the Supreme Court of this State finds it as difficult as the ordinary citizen to decide just what is law and what is not. From the day of Blackstone we have been led to believe that law is so exact in its logic and its fundamental principles that no one can be misled. The judges of the Supreme Court, coming back from their vacations for a brief session, dealing with three subjects which they believed were somewhat important, have gone back to their havens of rest and given forth no edicts or decisions. One of these matters deals with the right of the Legislature to raise the pay of its own members. Attorney General Gilliom, fighting against any precedent, called attention of the judges to what

he believed to have been a sad misconception of the law when they decided that the law makers, who had also voted to increase the salaries of judges, had a perfect right to dip into the treasury. That question is still held up. Another of these important questions had been before the court for more than eighteen months. It deals with the dignity and power of the court itself. In the case Rev. E. E. Shumaker stands charged with contempt of the court, the contempt being that he had scattered false statements concerning a decision of the court on liquor matters. The attorney general said that the head of the Anti-Saloon League was making it impossible for the court to fearlessly discharge its duty in liquor cases and cited the fact that appeals were pending in some twenty other liquor cases. In this matter the judges called six of the most prominent lawyers of the State, first carefully inquiring into their political affiliations and selecting them with an even balance between parties, to tell them whether there was contempt or not. It is perhaps beside the question to suggest that the judges introduced a rather" strange note into jurisprudence when they announced that they pickei their advisers on a political basis. It may have been expected that they would choose them for reputations for legal knowledge and courageous character. Bur they picked them. And these lawyers gave a report which said that Shumaker was contemptuous. It might be suggested that the judges then ought not to have had any trouble in reaching a decision. But for months there has been delay. What does that suggest? Has law ceased to be exact? Or are judges proving that Gilliom was right when he said that courts are tyrannized? The other question involves D. C. Stephenson, once the most powerful political figure and perhaps the State's greatest dub in horse trades. He wants,, to get out on the excuse that some clerk failed to put the seal in the right spot in a document or did not put it there at all. That may be a very involved legal question. It may require research and study of all the decisions of the past. It may be very necessary to discover whether human liberty is at stake because of such clerical omissions as he cited. Meanwhile the people of the State must be left to ponder on what is law. Can every Legislature raise its own pay? What will the next one do?-Is it safe to criticise the decisions of the Supreme Court or not? Can the acts of a clerk upset decisions of juries? Who knows?

A Czar for Wall Street The movies having their Hayes and the baseball profession having its "Landis, it is argued that Wall Street must join the procession and have a dictator of ethics all its own. The question has just been raised by the Magazine of Wall Street. At first blush, the proposition might seem to be an attempt to nominate some unlucky ban.:er for the job of official goat. Against a dictator in Wall Street might be hurled the vituperations of the pinks and reds of the country who blame Wall Street for all their, personal misfortunes. Such a czar of Wall Street would be a personification of the octopus. He would be anew face for all the cartoonists to picture as riding the steam roller of imaginary financial oppression. He be a Paul at whom all the unbelievers of Antioch and other points might throw stones. The job, however, would not be that of a financial dictator for the entire country. The title “dictator for Wall Street” is a misnomer, and an unfortunate choice of words. What is wanted is a referee for the bond selling houses, and for such a referee there is apparently good need, largely for the purpose of protecting the small investor. Business in Wall Street has changed considerably since 1919 by the advent of these small investors. Whgre issues formerly sold only in gob lots to banks and big investors, the chaps with SIOO to spend on a bond now cut some figure in the business, for there are twenty million of these small investors today, and their buying pow-er is some two billion dollars. Such a market is worth protecting, and it is to safeguard these small investors that the need for a Wall Street referee or dictator is seen. Three courses are open to the bond wholesalers; they can carry on business through the old-fashioned bucket-shop methods of salesmanship; they can go in fdr modern merchandising methods and organize chain store systems; or they can go after capital like Armenian peddlers carrying satchels full of Irish lace from house to house. In determining the ethics of this bond salesmanship of the future, the right kind of a dictator could do much good in breaking down the foolish prejudices which are now held against all bankers by half-baked demagogues preaching concentrated misinformation. The Bible has been rewritten into modern phraseology by a group of students. Wonder how the colors are holding out on some of those musty old paintings of Michelangelo’s.

Law and Justice By Dexter M. Keezer

•A 14-year-old boy, through his father with whom he lived, sued an automobile bus company for damages on account of injuries resulting from being hit by one of the company’s cars. The trial judge, in. instructing the jury in the case, said that if it should And the boy entitled to damages it should take ac- ' count of “loss of time or inability to perform labor or capacity to earn money” on account of the accident. Attorneys for the bus company contended that this was an error because minor children, living with their parents, cannot recover damages for loss of time or reduced earning capacity ’because the parents are entitled to the child’s services and earnings. Attorneys for the boy contended that many such children do work and earn a living and the damages arising from an accident could properly take account of this fact. HOW WOULD YOU DECIDE THIS CASE? The actual decision: The Supreme Court of North Carolma held that the trial judge had erred in instructing the jury to take account of the boy’s loss of time and earning capacity. The court said, “It seems to be the universal holding that an unemancipated minor cannot recover, as an element of damages in a suit for personal injuries, for loss of time or diminished earning capacity during his minority." The reason given was that the father is entitled to the services and earning of his minor child so long l as the child is in his custody and under his control.

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Why the •s Talman Weather? Meteorology j I THE DEADLIEST HOT WEATHER ON EARTH. When the mercury climbs into the upper nineties and a flood of humid air from the Atlantic “high” makes life a burden, there is a grain of comfort in the reflection that the worst type of hot weather 'is unknown in the United States. The Acme of torridity is attained in the deserts of southwestern Asia, where blows that most dreaded of all winds, the simoom. Measured with a thermometer, the temperature of this wind is not higher than is occasionally registered in other parts of the world. It is the combination of heat and rapid air movement that makes this fiery blast so destructive to the life of r;an and beast that the presence of a mysterious poison in the air is the popular explanation of its deadly effects. The word “simoom” (often misspelled “simoon”) signifies “poison” in Arabic. If the internal temperature of the human body is raised a few degrees above “blood heat” (98.6 degrees), the result is usually fatal. When the temperature outsida rises above this point, the body perspires, the perspiration evaporates, and this cooling process generally keeps the internal temperature from rising ! above the danger point. Suppose ; the temperature of the air is ex- ! cessively high, say 120 degrees. If the air is also still and dry, perspiration will prevent the body from ; being overheated. There is a limit, however, to the amount of perspiration the sweat glands can secrete. If a strong wind is blowing !at this temperature, the heat to the body by convection will more than offset cooling by I evaporation, and the victim succumbs. The desert dwellers often protect themselves from the simoom by lying down and burying head, j hands and feet in their clothing so that no bare skin is exposed to the parching blast.

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Mr. Fixit. The Timet reportei at city i hall, will be glad to present vour eom- ‘ plaints to city officials. Letters must ■ bear writer's name and address. Names will not be published. Dear Mr. Fixit: Ray St., from Division St. to the Belt Railroad, is so full of holes that it is almost impossible to drive a car on it. This bad place is only about two squares long, but is traveled a great deal on account of being the leading street to Rhodius Park and the swimming pool. We got some good service through your efforts last yAar and hope you will use your influence for us again. Thank you. RAY ST. RESIDENTS. Your complaint has been listed and will get action as soon as pos- i sible. SERMONS ARE SILENT ONES IN THIS CHURCH Sign Language Used in Chicago Edifice for Deaf. lln l'Kited Pres* CHICAGO, July 23.—1n Chicago is a church where hymns never are sung and sermons never are spoken. It is All Angel s Episcopal Church, a church for the deaf and dumb. For fifty-two years the sign language has been used entirely in this unusual parish, the only Episcopal parish of its kind in the West. Approximately 150 deaf-mutes are affiliated with the church, and efforts are being made to reach all deaf persons in Chicago. Social functions are held-nnd a complete schedule of services and activities is carried out.

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today's Bible quiz are on page 14: 1. What incident of Old Testament history is represented in the illustration below?

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2. Why was Jonah thrown overboard by the sailors? 2. How long was Jonah in the belly of the great fish? 4. What relationship did Jonathan bear to Saul? 5. How did Ehud deliver the Israelites from the oppressions of Eglon, King of the Moabites? 6. Where and by whom was Jesus baptized? 7. How did the devil tempt Jesus after his baptism? 8. How did the Queen of Sheba seek to test the wisdom of Solomon? 9. Why did Solomon give King Hiram of Tyre twenty pities? 10. Who led the children of Israel against the Canaanites after the death of Joshua?

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Erlanger Plans to Include Indianapolis in Tour of ‘The King’s Henchman, ’An American Opera

-i OOKINGS are being made Bthrcugh A. L. Erlanger for a | ___ road tour ot “The King’s ] lenchman,” the American opera by Deems Taylor and Edna St. Vincent Millay, which was produced at the Metropolitan Opera House last winter. Indianapolis is tentatively booked. The company, under the direction of Jacques Samossoud, will open in Washington the end of October and will continue for about thirty weeks in a comprehensive tour of the United States, exluding only the cities of New York, Brooklyn and

\ (Goshen News-Times) It is announced from Indianapolis that the State tax board is preparing to make reductions in the tax valuation of farm real estate in many parts of the State. This is a proper procedi Tax ure where it is found that farm Boa rd property is being taxed in excess VoJuntinn* of the amount justified by its earnKcaucuons jng power It is purely an ec0 _ nomic proposition which is entitled to readjustment on the same principle that is applied to any other line of business. Lowering the assessed farm valuation 25 per cent, however, doesn’t mean that the farmer will pay 25 per cent less taxes. The lower the general property valuation in any taxing unit the higher the assessment rate must be in order to provide funds to meet the cost of government, therefore a part of what the farmer gains from lowered valuation will be absorbed by the necessarily higher rate. However, a general policy of basing property valuation upon the earning power of the owner would be hard to maintain with any degree of edual justice. There is also city and town property that would be subject to considerable variation in value. The manufacturer whose business, owing to a period of commercial depression, has shown a small margin of profit, or perhaps no profit at all, would doubtless feel entitled to a tax concession in proportion to his impaired economic condition, to say nothing of the scores of home owners whose earnings might be reduced through loss of employment 6r reduction in wages. There is no lack of opportunity for the State tax board to prove itself worthy of its hire. (Anderson Bulletin) Under the excuse of attending the tri-State postmasters convention, about five hundred Republican politicians of Indiana have been in conference at Indianapolis. The two dominant factions Laying at this conference are the New and mos Watson groups. Both New and Wat--IJ~S son are there. The Republican fat is Plans boiling. The big stake is the Republican presidential nomination next year. Mr. New is Postmaster General in Coolidge cabinet. He favors an Indiana delegation to the Republican national convention instructed for the nomination of Mr. Coolidge. He will fight hard for such a delegation, and will accept no other brand of delegates. With him it is Coolidge first, last and all the time. He is arranging plans to capture the delegation. Senator Watson favors anything else. He is against anything New wants. His friends want a delegation that Watson could control absolutely. In the case of a “deadlock,” Senator Watson would be then in a position to let “lightning strike him.” That very thing might happen. The Watson adherents are

You can get an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1322 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. All other questions will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential. —Editor. Can I obtain a Victory button from the War Department to replace the one I have lost? The War Department * does not supply duplicate Victory buttons but they may be bought from Bailey, Banks & Biddle, 1218 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. A copy (not original) of your honorable discharge papers should be supplied with application for the button. What is a “cow-pony?” A horse or pony of a hardy breed used by a cow-boy; sometimes called a bronco. What is the purpose of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching? It provides retiring allowances and pensions for teachers and, in general encourages upholds and dignifies the teaching profession and the cause of higher education. It conducts and publishes the results

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Philadelphia in which the Metropolitan sings regularly during the winter and for which that company holds the exclusive rights. The cast engaged by Samossoud lists a number of distinguished artists, many of whom are, or have been, members of the Metropolitan. There'will be a double cast for the principal roles including: Frances Peralta and Marie Sundelius, both of the Metropolitan, in the role of “Aelfrida';” as “Aethelwold,” Ralph Errolle, formerly of the Metropolitan. and Judson House of the Hinshaw Opera Company; as "Eadgar,” Richard Hale, wh<*-music lovers

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of studies of various special educa-' toinal problems regarding retiring allowance and general advancement of teaching. The Foundation has organized “The Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association” which provides at cost, insurance and annuities for teachers and other persons employed by colleges, universities and institutions primarily devoted to educational or research work. The association is conducted without profit. When does the Mardi Gras carnival at New Orleans begin and end? It begins with the Twelfth Night ball, twelve days after Christmas, lasts through Mardi Gras, the day before Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent. Starting several days

Do You Know — That the Family Welfare Society maintains a children's bureau which places little folks in boarding or foster homes. In the last half year they have placed 267 children with reliable foster mothers.

will remember —created a sensation in Gluck's immortal “Orpheus.” and Henri Scott, at one time a Metropolitan artist; as “Maccus,” Dudley Marwick and Alfredo Valenti, the latter having formerly sung with the Royal Opera at Covent Garden and with both the Century and Boston Opera Companies in this country. There will be a chorus of fifty and an orchestra of fifth. Samossoud and Moes Zlatkin will alternate as conductors, while George Ermoloff will be the stage director. Deems Taylor will cooperate in the staging of the opera.

propaganding against the third term—and with some effect. The fight for the control of the Indiana organization in the Republican ptfrty is fierce and bitter. That party’s success in this State in 1920 and 1924 makes many members bold and hopeful. The NewWatson factions are already in throat-cutting battle for control. (Waterloo Press) E. S. Shumaker seems to question the future, as he says, “if there is an old-fashioned Methodist hell,” and then goes on to say that there will be some editors there. Well it may be like the penitenVo tiaries—hardly'ever an editor is found 1 . there. Many an editor has found himLdltors self in a veritable hades running a There newspaper, and the future does not seem to be of much worry. (Grrensbur* Times) Nobody ever accused the Governor of Indiana of being a humoiist or a V’it or even so inclined; yet he pulls off the funniest joke of many moons. That liorse-sale story of his was State’s in a class by Many a laugh has it brought to Indiana. hare It brings back memories of boyhood Joke (lays and the variegated pieces of fiction concocted in an effort to throw inquisitive ones off the track. Its crudeness enhances its charm—a too polished piece of fiction is in danger of passing over the heads of many, but this story of the Governor had no such weakness. “Look here, son, you can't tell me you haven’t been in that creek again,” declared the father, “Where did you get your hair so wet?” “Oh, I’ve been running like everything father, and I just sweated like a horse.” “Just look at those clothes, wet as they can be!” "Yes, I know it. That’s sweat, too.” “But how dia you get your feet-so clean then?” came a final poser from the irate daddy. It required a little hemmii\g and hawing before the answer was ready, but with a brightening of the eye that showed the advent of an idea, the youth told of holding them under the pump. That was an incident of the writer's boyhood and every reader has passed through similar inquisitions with similar replies. But “What about that $2,500 check Stephenson gave you and that bears your indorsement?” was the final poser propounded to the Governor by the people of Indiana. The Governor hemmed and hawed for a few moments and then the bright idea flashed across his mind, “Why I sold him a horse and that was In payment!” he declared. So it is another funny joke. Father undoubtedly chuckled when left alone. The people of Indiana are laughing out loud.

before Mardi Gras and ending that night the parades of Comus, Proteus, Momus and Rex are heUL The culmination of the carnival "is on Mardi Gras. How many immigrants were admitted, how many debarred and how many deported from the United States in 1926? There were 304,488 admitted; 20,550 debarred and 10,904 deported. Where is the island of Formosa? Formosa is an island in the China Sea, off the coast of Fu-Kien, China, from which it is separated by the Strait of Formosa. It is part of the Japanese Empire. How many members ape there in each branch of the British Parliament? The House of Commons is composed of 615 members divided as follows: England, 492; Wales and Monmouthshire, 36; Scotland 74; Northern Ireland 13. The outlying dependencies and the other farflung dominions are not represented in Parliament. The full House of Lords would consist of about 740 members but the voting strength is about 720.

JULY 23, 1927

TRACY SAYS: Put the World to Sea in Sailing Ships Once More and It Would Act About as It Used To.

On board the General Wood, 170 miles out from Pittsburgh.—This is a typical river packet with her lower or freight deck only about four feet above the water. There are two rows of staterooms On the second deck, the long narrow hall between them being used as a dining room, and a single row on the third deck. The Victrola, standing at the forward end of the dining room, grinds out such songs as the Bowery, Annie Rooney and a Bicycle Built for Two. There arc some passengers on board, about half of them returning to Cincinnati on the round-trip, which takes six days. Thus far we have passed through seventeen locks and touched at twice as mapy towns, taking on or unloading a promiscous cargo which includes everything from cattle to scrap iron. Controlling the River There are thirty-six locks between Pittsburgh and Cincinnati, each of them 600 feet long and 110 feet wide. Their lifting and lowering power is about eight feet. There is a collapsible dam and two sets of gates in connection with each lock, requiring a force oL eighteen to twenty men to opcrate| This force is divided into eighthour shifts as the locks have to be ready for service every hour of the day and night. Passenger Traffic Light Passenger traffic on the upper Ohio amounts to very little in comparison to that of freight. Steel, sand, coal and other bulky commodities arc what keep up navigation. We have h. "dly traveled an hour without passing some tug pushing barges slowly up or down the river. The Carnegie Steel Cpmpany sends thousands of tons of beams, girders and columns from Pittsburgh to New Orleans by water. The JonesLaughlin Company, largest of the independent steel companies, makes stupendous use of the Ohio and is doing everything in its power to promote its use by others. News of the Fight It was at Midland, some five hours out of Pittsburgh, that we received news of the DempscySharkey fight. Most everybody on board had been talking about it and guessing how it would terminate up to that time. As seems to have been the case throughout the country, the majority hoped Dempsey would win, but feared he could not. When somebody shouted from the wharfboat that he had scored a knockout in the seventh round a good old river cheer vent up.

Through the Night ' We went to bed, with low-hanging ! clouds made luminous in spots above ! the blast furnaces of the Pittsburgh j district, and slept while the boat wove its its torturous way out bc- | tween the hills of Ohio and Virginia. Getting our mcrniir: papers at Wheeling, in the midst of a torrential rain. Carol and His Son Carol, of Rumania, it seems, is not. so enthusiastic to give up the crown for the sake of love, now that he has only a little boy to contand with. Like many other people, h* wants to eat his cake and have it. You just cannot help pitying tin poor little kid with such a father. Romance of the Sea _ Being at sea ones fancy is naturally intrigued by that fourmasted schooner which came Into New York loaded down with eighteenth century romance. Finding his wife in love with th engineer, the cook cut her throat, and being sore because he was not given command, the mate quarrelled with the captain until he died. guch a yarn makes you think of Clark Russell, Captain Marryal, ttyj Bramm trial and other instances of those good old rollicking days that are supposed to be dead. Human nature docs not change very much after all. It merely functions a little differently where there are electric lights, policemen and newspapers. Put the world to sea in sailing ships once more, and it would act about as it used to. Smoot Backs Hoover Senator Smoot backs Herbert Hoover in advocating an early session of Congress to give the Mississippi flood sufferers relief. He points out that the Govern*) ment has no money available for this purpose, as the deficiency appropriation bill was killed by a filibuster in the last Congress. Most people who understand what has occurred on the Mississippi realize that thousands of people have not only been placed in desperate circumstances, but have been deprived of their means of earning a living during the present summer. The idea that the flood receded early enough t permit the planting of crops to any great extent is one of those mistakes which ignorant people are apt to make. Concerning Taxes While talking to President Coolidge with regard to this matter, Senator Smoot also gave his view* with regard to the proposed tax cut. Though the Treasury earned A surplus of $560,000,000 last year, ha favors a cut of no more than $300,000,000. Many Items that went to mstm up that surplus, he says, will nc§f be available this year, and, he adds; I am not going to sanction a which will leave us in a hole. *. Speaking more in detail, the Utah Senator says he favors reduction of the corporation tax from 13 l 4 per cent to 12 per cent, repeal of the so-called nuisance taxes and lowering of the automobile tax front 3 per cent to IJa per cent.