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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1

THE BUDGETS

OCAL budget hearings have been marked by an effort to eliminate all items that tend to increase expenditures. * fight has been directed at unnecessary spend-

. Bive Light and the + Peoples Wili Fina Their Con Way

. ing, and many sensible reductions have been |

made. :

Unfortunately, our wasteful system of overlapping local administrative units makes many |

important economies impossible. The proposed tax increases

formed by different local setups.

be lapparent.

As the budgets are submitted to the County |

Tax Adjustment Board, it should be pointed | : | sume relief and other costs.

out there are things that can be done,

The need for the School Board's $875,000 |

. program of new buildings is widely recognized. overcrowded buildings.

as well as in the upkeep of adequate educational | facilities—to sidetrackK this . program. 2 oF nN

UTS in the city hospital and health budgets | / : also raise the question of doubtful econ- | Progressive Governors of the United States, A Fecent survey of Indianapolis slum | particularly those now raising the alarm over

areas showed the low health standards main- |

pr. | froment Is to reassert itself it must become

| More efficient.

omy.

tained by part of the city’s population. Charles *W. Myers, ' superintendent of City Hospital, says the hospital budget as it now stands “will seriously curtail certain hospital services to the sick poor. . . ated this institution the past several years on

a& much lower budget than ever before, in the | | Bank makes several points which, we believe,

face of an increase in the load.”

The refusal to provide smoke-abatement in- | 8pectors is another example of this expensive |

type of “tax-reduction.”

Politicians have proved that “shouting in | generalities against taxes is popular — and | about as intelligent as campaigning against | Too often it results in curbing | needed public services and in continuing gov-

earthquakes.

ernmental waste ‘and inefficiency.

Like most other cities, Indianapolis carries | too heavy a tax burden. But it is hardly fair | to the community to order shortsighted “econo- | mies’ and publicize the city as tax-ridden when | - the Indianapolis Board of Trade, in its annual | constitutes reserve.

report July 1, says:

“Cost ef city government in Indianapolis | has been cut during depression’ years and is |

low in comparison with that of other large cities, . .". The $87.64 per capita bonded debt of ~ Indianapolis is the second lowest among the 26 cities of more than 300,000 population.”

THE SIMPLE ANNALS

HILE parties clash and governments

plot, human beings continue to assert |

the essential nobility of mankind in humble little acts of heroism and sacrifice.

Sandwiched in between the news of poli-

of millions of similar ones that never will be recorded. r In Cincinnati Clara Kathryn Van Horne, hot yet 12, is decorated as the youngest of 1000

members of the Legion of Valor, selected by the gal- | lantry. Last February, Clara saw two play- | mates speeding on their sled down an icy hill | near Zanesville, O., making straight for a railroad track on which a train approached. Un- |

United States government for unusual

hesitatingly she hurled her small body in front ~~ of the sled, throwing the boys into a snowbank, under the engine's wheel.

In Chicago Mr. and Mrs.

ous | infection. The parents run ‘the risk.of painful death. Ce In Fulton, Mo., three brothers, Harry F. | Metz, 19; Freddie, 21, and Ernest, 23, dashed one by one into a 30-foot shaft to rescue their elder brother overcome by carbon monoxide - gas from a gasoline engine.’ All four are dead. 1f groups and nations acted like humans who form them history would resemble such “short and simple annals” as these instead of a story of fears, hates, conflicts and wars.

“HARRYING THE BANKS”

HE Roosevelt Administration, warns Col. Knox, has been guilty of “a general harryving of the banks.” ‘The present Administration has for four years been giving lip sérvice to security and ‘Welfare, and today no life insurance policy is §ecure,; no savings account is safe.” | | To those who remember the twilight of the . Hogver Administration, when banks were closing by the hundreds and when the cashing in of insurance policies was restricted, the colonel's declaration is interesting. Especially when compared to the Federal Reserve Board's statistics on bank closing, by years: E020 uu. ecitsinsarcriaracanseaes B59 11930 SEs estanteRRRENt ERNE RT RENAE 1352 11931 SSSR SETINNNITRNRINARNE RE RNO ERR 2204 THIBT caveieiicicnsaiitniars vane 1458 1933— | Jan.1 to March 15........ 449 Not licensed to reopen \ following bank holiday, | and since placed in | | |

liquidation or receivership |. March 16 to Dec. 31..4v... 179

Total for 1933 +.vvveeerseesses 21 1934 SREssrrstnstsarInantasnnatane 57

Sets rsscsnrtpannanssannnanats 34

(to Aug. Disesecasnns sen 31.

Much of the |

throughout. Indiana this year | > should bring home to the taxpayer the costli- | ness of maintaining archaic township govern- | ments, of neglecting to consolidate counties | and of failing to combine functions now per- | The financial cost of spoils politics, and the need of the | Beit system in local government, also should |

. We have oper- |

A minute later the sled was crushed !

Morris Levitt eagerly submit themselves to inoculation of | deadly streptococcus germs so that a serum can | be developed from their blood and injected into | . their 7-year-old son, suffering from a danger-

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THE LITTLE FOXES

WHILE the air is filled with wailings over | the costs and wastes of Federal govern- i ment, we might give*a thought to those other f

little foxes that spoil the vines, the multi- | tudinous and useless units of American local |

government. The National Resources Committee reports

that there are 175,000 separate Federal, state and local governments. Many of these units |

are far too small, inefficient and wasteful. They support an army of office holders, many of whom could be pried loose froni the publie pay rolls without damage to the public service. Local taxes take up nearly two<thirds of the taxpayers’ dollar. Cities, counties, towns, villages and other local units collect well over half the revenues, while the state and Federal

| governments collect less ghan half. How many | of these little governmental units could be dis-

pensed with no one knows, but it is certain that many could.

Take the counties, for instance. Prof. Cul-

| len B. Gosnell of Emory University says that.

the 13 Southern states have 1252 counties covering an average of 625.3 square miles each. Georgia has 158 counties for an area of 59,000 square miles, while New York State with 49,000 square miles has 62 counties. were set up in the oxcart days, and made small enough (about 500 square miles) so a man could go to and from his county seat in a day. Today, with good roads and fast autos, counties could be 2000 square miles in size on the same basis.

Not only are there too many local govern- | ments. Few have the merit or budget systems, The story |

and fewer have county managers.

of bankrupt local and state governments dur- | ing the depression tells the tale and points 1

the moral. This is one reason why the Federal government has had to step in and as-

A half-dozen states’ have taken steps to consolidate their local governmental units—a

Thousands of pupils start the school year-in | reform long preached by Franklin Roosevelt

It would be expensive economy—in the health and safety of cHildren |

both as. New York Governor and President. The United States Chamber of Commerce also is urging states to concern themselves

building | with this particular form of waste.

What seme cities have done to hring ef-

| Aciency into their City Halls the counties and.

smaller units can do. Here is a call to the

the encroachment of Federalism. If local gova=

ALDRICH ON INSURANCE N opposing the government old-age insure ance plan of the Social Security Law, Chairman Aldrich of the Chase National

deserve scrutiny. : “For nearly 30 years,” he says, premiums

| will continue to exceed benefit payments, and

for 15 years longer the reserve “will continue to grow by virtue of its own interest.” We note, from statistics in the World Almanac, that private life insurance companies for a great many years have been taking in more than they have been paying out. For example, in 1921 they had a combined income of 1951 millions and combined payments of 839 millions; in '1927, income 3673 millions, payments 1499 millions; in 1934, income 4785. millions, payments 2704 millions. The excess

By 1980, Aldrich says, the government insurance fund wiil grow to 47 billions. ‘We note that the combined assets of private. life -insurance companies, in ‘1934, were in excess of 21 billions. : “It may prove a.cruel and pitiful jest,” he says, “to compel by law the great body of our working people to save for their old age dollars which our existing public policies could so

- easily rob of most of their value long before | the time came when the worker was to get { them back.”

That is an argument which, we are quite

| sure Mr. Aldrich would not want to make tics and war are three current stories typical

against private insurance. All ‘insurance of whatsoever nature is a hedge against the future and subject to the same dangers of inflation to which the Aldrich statement obviously refers. Fh Since all of the government insurance reserve is to be invested in the government's own securities, Mr. Aldrich says, it would in fact be nothing but a “fictitious” reserve. We note that government securities are very prominent in the portfolios of, private insurance companies. Also that Mr. Aldrich’s own bank, in its last financial statement, reported a holding of 734 millions in United States securities. One thing which Mr. Aldrich didn’t mention, but which he possibly might have been thinking of, is that these United States taxexempts won't be available for his bank if the government insurance reserve fund gets large enough to take all of them off the market.

“DUMB LUCK” WAY back in 1872 William W. Hanold, then a youngster just out of the Navy, got a Job with a New York City roofing material firm. The other day at 86 he celebrated his sixty-fourth year with this same firm, now the great Johns-Manville Corp. Asked how he had managed to keep his good health and good job through all these years in the strenuous metropolis of America he replied modestly: “Dumb luck.” ; : There probably was more to it than just luck. Nevertheless older men aren't generally. wanted in industry. There are about 7,000,000 Americans past 65, of whom nearly one-half are dependent on others for food and lodging. At least 1,000,000 live from public “bounty.” Their numbers are increasing, as the life span lengthens and as industry becomes more mechanized and néeds fewer and younger men. This is why the Administration has found it necessary to set up a vast national-state system of old-age pensions and thrift refirement annuities. And this is why the speeches of Hoover and Col. Knox about individualism are out of date. A former Republican Governor, John G. Winant of New Hampshire, who now heads the Social Security Board, spoke more realistically on the first anniversary of the Wagner-Lewis Social Security Act. “We are not asking that life be stripped of its challenge,” he said. “We want to lift life from the hazards of enforced idleness, and man's last years from the risk of poverty. The Social Security Act, in my judgment, is the most humane document written into law in ‘this century.” : : Gov.. Winant knows

The counties

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OUR TOWN

Anton Scherrer

"ACATION NOTES: Adolph Schellschmidt says he lost $9000 to himself playing solitaire this summer. | Mrs. Mary Forsyth says the Waldmeister she | brought from the Black Forest, Germany, and | planted in her garden did better than anything else this summer. Somehow, this seems to have some connection with international affairs, but "I can’t put my finger on it. Miss Sophie Zilch spent her whole vacation hunting for Alexander Woollcott and Elmer Taflinger. She found no traces of either. Elmer Taflinger spent the summer incommunicado in Wawasee raising a Rembrandt (Charles Laughton) mustache. He brought it home the other day. Which leaves Alexander Woollcott to be accounted for.

» ”n zn ROBABLY from a too close reading of Paul . Stetson’s speech last week, I gather that Indianapolis is made up, for the most part, of educated and uneducated. people. This is news indeed. It is news because it’s such a long time since I have seen an uneducated person in Indianapolis that I wouldn't recognize one if I met him. What's more, I wouldn't recognize an educated person either. The faet of the matter is that we no longer have educated and uneducated people, no matter what - Mr. Stetson may have told the teachers | the other day. : In their stead, we now have two other types:

were born yesterday, and (2) those who believe | that all big ideas remain to be born tomorrow. I don’t know which of the two is worse, but | I am pretty sure that the kind that believes all | big ideas remain to be born tomorrow has me { worried most. For one thing, these people appear to be younger in years, with a greater prospect for longevity. : That's bad enough, of course, but what worries me even more is the trained gullibility of these people, because, once youre on to them, you realize: that they are the natural suckers for everything’ new that comes along, no matter whether it be fashions, art, books, religion, medicine or politics. And, goodness knows, maybe education, too, :

o 2 2 MAN in this frame of mind—and a woman, too, for that matter—falls for anything new, and nobody knows it better than the | notion-mongers who ‘spend their spare time { thinking up new ideas. And what complicates | the problem still more is that, somewhere along | the line, somebody taught these people to be suckers, , I don’t know what Mr. Stetson can do to save people from making suckers of themselves. That's not my business. All I know is that, maybe, it’s" an educational problem and the sooner somebody gets to the bottom of it, the better it will be for everybody concerned. Anyway, my only reason for going into the subject so thoroughly today is to set Mr. Stetson straight. I have already discussed my views with several of his teachers and they think so little of them that I know I must be on the right track.

September 10th

IN INDIANA HISTORY By J. H. J

OSE POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, more familiarly known to Hoosiers as Rose Poly, was incorporated Sept. 10, 1874. Chauncey Rose, Terre Haute industrialist, had the idea and the money to found a school which should give instruction in practical scienge and provide students with the means of earning a living. Altogether, Rose's gifts to the school amounted to more than $500,000. The corporate name of the institution was the Terre. Haute School of Industrial Science. Eliminating Latin and Greek, quite a radical departure in those days, the school offered courses in practical mathematics, the application of physical sciences to manufacturing and proposed to give students useful knowledge of an art or occupation. . A class of 25 was admitted Delay in opening the school was due to waiting for the endowment to grow until expensive scientific equipment could be purchased. Charles O. Thompson was the first president. Articles of incorporation stated the school was to be an “institution for the intellectual and practical education of ‘young men.” Girls, it was assumed, would need nd such education. Originally located at 13th and Locust-sts in Terre Haute, in 1922 the school was moved two miles east of the city on the National-rd,

March 6, 1883.

A Woman’s Viewpoint BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

USSOLINI says war is his favorite Policy, which surprises nobody. It has always been the favorite policy of those who get from it glory and power for themselves. .. We wonder what's happening to man’s sense of. humor, however, when we read that certain European diplomats have arranged for a meeting to humanize war. Upset by the horrors of the Spanish rebellion, they hope to discover how prisoners may be exchanged, how sanitary facilities can be maintained and historic monuments preserved during the murderous process. Probably the only result of such a conference will be conversation. ‘War can't be humanized. True, the Red Cross has worked miracles to alleviate its sufferings, and surgery and medicine have done wonders with the maimed. But until more of his efforts are used to get rid of war. entirely, civilized man will only be ludicrous when he talks of humanizing it. Black as it looks, there is encouragement in the present European situation. It is obvious that the people are against war. Twenty-five years ago any one of a thousand minor incidents would have been sufficient to start a big fracas. . Today we observe that several of

miliations to preserve peace. National honor, about which we have so

old days. Over here the feeling against war is intense. The incident of the Spanish plane which dropped bombs near the United States destroyer Kane received a sensible reaction. boats away from there and make them stay away.” So the common man expresses his feelings. Obviously it's nothihg short of idiotic to say that war is ever inevitable. Men who believe in a Red Cross, who build enduring monuments, perfect! plastic surgery and destroy disease germs can get rid of war. When enough of them want to, they will

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Q—Did the British conseription laws apply also to Ireland during the Worl "War?

A—Yes; but on acceunt of unrest and rebellion in southern Ireland the law was not enforced, although Irish volunteers were accepted.

Q—Could the President of the United States have pardoned Bruno Richard Hauptmann

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EDITOR'S NOTE—This roving reporter for The Times goes where he pleases, when he pleases, in search for odd stories about this and that.

OLDEN, B. C, Sept. 10.—For * the last few days I have been feeling suspicious of myself, For it has gradually come to me that I am either a born liar or else I'm going crazy. ? Here's the proof: Fourteen years and three months ago I came across Canada by train, from the west coast to Winnipeg— up over the Great Divide, through Lake Louise and Banff. A Now for several years I have been telling people how we stopped one evening at the little town of Field, way down in the valley, with mountains on every side. And how the train went into a tunnel and turned clear around right insidé the mountain, and came out above where if went in. And how it did that two or three times until it had risen out of the valley and was ready to cross the Great Divide. I have told people how we walked along the station down at Field in .our shirt sleeves, and how an hour later, when we got to Lake Louise, the lake was frozen over,

” = = : HAVE even described Lake Louise to them. I can see it right this minute as I saw it from the train window 14 yeqrs ago—a green gem, half a mile so from the station through the clearing, great mountains on either side, and dimly at the far end the massive Chateau Louise of the Canadian Pacific Railroad. : You can imagine my conste

The Hoosier Forum

I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it—Voltaire.

tion a few days ago when, arriving at Lake Louise once again, I discovered that it is impossible to see the lake from the railroad station. Is now and always has been, ° Lake Louise is three miles from the station, and there are high hills between, and you arent aware of

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CHANGE IN TYPE OF DEMOCRACY URGED By D. F. Clancy, Logansport One of the policies of President Roosevelt shows wisdom, a broad outlook and—strange thing in the White House—intelligence. The President has had the “co-op” systems of various European countries examined. This interest in the affairs of other nations makes obvious

a characteristic most unusual in our home land. I here propose two changes: First: The elective offices of the United States are supplied with occupants in one of the crudest manners known in the world. Our sys-

unfair; it is not logical. Our present system seems an excellent one to those who have never heard of any other; in reality its only good point is its simplicity. Many of the European systems are so complicated that only an expert can fully understand them. I propose that we should send a commission to the continent to study the different systems there, to pick the good points from each, discard the many bad points and to put into use a system based upon the knowledge they would get. Second: We have a democracy— and the worst kind of one. There are many different forms of democratic government, and again I say that we have the worst form—that called presidential government. The other outstanding form is cabinet government.’ Any one who has made a study of the two will find after comparing them that the cabinet form is by far the better. This, too, is a subject Which can not be covered fully here. A change in

Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association

ROBABLY most significant of all items in the family medicine chest are laxatives and cathartics. I will describe some of those most commonly used. Epsom salts is an old-fashioned remedy which acts by collecting fluid in the bowel. It is best taken

‘| on arising—about one tablespoon-

ful of salts in a half glass of warm water. | Some people prefer the milder acting Glauber’s salts, or sodium sulphate. It is not, however, so popular as Epsom salts. Sodium phosphate is less disagreeable and also less active than either magnesium sulphate or sodium sulphate, i Much milder still is citrate of magnesia. This is a mild saline laxative, usually ordered by the bottle. It is customary to talk half of the contents of the bottle on arising, and the rest later, if needed. Among the most active of all cathartics is castor oil, likely io produce a battle in any home where it is the common cathartic for the children. Castor oil is an effective and prompt cathartic which cleans out the system so thoroughly that its use is likely to be followed by constipation. The chief danger from cathartics and laxatives such as have been mentioned is their possible use in the presence of severe pain in the bowel, which may be the first sign of appendicitis. . It is a good rule never to take a cathartic of any kind for abdominal pain unless the cause of the pain is known. ‘In its earlier stages, appendicitis is just a little 8pot of inflammation or infection in a small tube whch comes off the large bowel. : If this infection becomes worse, it develops just as a boil develops from a pimple. Eventually an abcess ‘forms, with the danger of bursting and spreading the infection throughout the body.

abdomen, the result is peritonitis. This is an inflammation of the membrane which lines the

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our form of democracy—this does not involve a change from democracy—would be most beneficial. 3 " = 8 ASSAILS TACTICS OF SAFETY CAR By Richard Rice On Page 1 of The Times an item was headlined, “Expert Asked to Aid City's Traffic Drive.” In the same issue, on the editorial page, was a stirring article entitled “An Unorganized War,” all of which is designed to reduce traffic accidents. At 10:59 that morning a state police car came south on Capitol-av followed closely by a large white sedan emblazoned with a sign, “Governor's Safety Committee,” or some similar inscription, running the red light at the - junction of New York-st and Indiana-av. An accident narrowly. was averted by the good driving of a truck driver going west on New York-st. In driving around town I have noticed this large white safety (?) car a number of times and have seen it violate all ethics of good driving. Another example: About 45 days ago out, Virginia-av toward Fountain-sq during a light rain and in heavy traffic this white car proceeded at a high speed, giving every one the horn and crowding careful drivers to the curb. .I don’t know just what are the functions of this car and its occupants, but I do know the only reason it, and they, ate not responsible for more accidents is that the horn is loud and raucous and the car easily seen on account of its colo. I would suggest that marked copies of The Times be sent to the Governor's Safety Committee and the chauffeur of the official car. Perhaps it would assist in the prevention of an inevitable accident. (State safely officials declined comment.—The Editor.) : 2 » 2

EXPLAINS COMMUNISTS’

FIGHT AGAINST LANDON By Andrew Remes, State Secretary, Communist Party : In the Hoosier Forum of Sept. 7, Mr. Gaylor asked why the recent Communist national convention .declared that its central task in this election campaign was to bring about the defeat: of Landon, inferring that we did this to support “Communistic Roosevelt.” .

The Communist Party does exert every effort in its power to bring about the defeat of Landon. The

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The Republican Party today receives its main support from the American Liberty = League, under whose wings fly the harbingers of fascism: Morgan, the du Ponts, Mellon and all the most reactionary circles of Wall Street. This Fascistminded grouping represents the greatest threat to civil and trade union rights, the very constitutional guaranties of the American people. As such they must be met by the mutual, obstinate opposition, K of all lovers of liberty and progress. That, Mr, Gaylor, is why we declared that the defeat of Landon is our central aim. We did not do this, as you infer, to support RooseAs a matter of fact, we declare that it is a fatal ‘mistake to depend upon Roosevelt to check the attacks of Wall Street, or to advance the fundamental demands of the

What is necessary, we declare, is the immediate gathering together of all forces sincerely interested in democratic rights, peace and progress, into an all-inclusive movement political through the Farmer-Labor Party. This is the path through which the people can maintain and advance their fundamental rights and

MOUSE TO ELEPHANT BY JOSEPHINE DUKE MOTLEY

It must be marvelous to be so grand. All that you have to do is roar or

While foes may - quake or staunch friends may admire;

Yet with your size, an equal ; =. Size must measure your desire.

You are so big that small joys - doubtless pass ; Unheard, unheeded by your bulky

While nwouse like me, I have great

And always lots of fun Pursuing countless little joys While you partake of one.

DAILY THOUGHT

But if any man love God, the same is known to him.—I Corin-

HAT can escape the eye of God, all seeing, or deceive His heart, omniscient! —Milton.

COMMON ERRORS

Never say, “I witnessed the stars falling”; say, “saw the stars fall-

the lake until you stand right on its - shores. Furthermore, . the chateau is on this end, ‘instead of the other end. Obviously,~I had never seen Lake Louise before. And yet, even after my appalling discovery, I can still shut. my eyes and see it as I saw it 14 years ago. See it as clearly as though I were looking at it now. In my image, it is evén framed in the train window. Which surely proves that I am not a liar. So it must be the other. Or maybe I'm just psychic. = = 2 “

N the last year I have. eaten breakfast in more than 300 places. But I happen to be one of those plodding souls. who must have the same breakfast no matter where he is. My menu is: Orange. juice; one egg. bacon, toast and milk. You wouldn't think there could be much difference in the cost of a breakfast like that. It usually runs from 40 to 65 cents. But there have ‘been extremes. - : : The cheapest was in Memphis. That breakfast cost 30 cents, and it ‘was good. r Twice I have been stuck. In the ritzy‘ Harvey Hotel at Santa Fe it cost 90 cents. And I shelled. out the same fee at an elaborate place in Hot Springs, Ark, : That was really something, I thought—90 cents for a simple little breakfast. But I hadn't: been around. I can talk real money now. In the Chateau Louise the other : morning I ordered and ate, my breakfast. When the waitress brought the bill I suggested they obviously had made a mistake. She looked it over. No, there wasn't any mistake. ; My breakfast bill was $1.25. Plus tip, my little nibble set me back $1.40. :

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Today’s Science BY SCIENCE SERVICE

FTER one of the bitterest . droughts of American climatic history it may seem a bit ironic to speak of the ill effects of too much water coming suddenly. Yet if our memory-is as mueh as six months long we §hall recall that the curse of drought in the West was preceded by the opposite curse of disastrous floods in the East.. Those who plan for the long future, most notably engineers, must reckon upon the return not merely of normally moist years, but upon the sudden burden that intense rain sometimes imposes on the face of nature and especia on the works of man. A slow, persistent, “forty -days-and-forty-nights” rainy spell may drive the farmers frantic when they want to get out and plant things. But their

concern is as nothing compared with. the anxiety of the engineer when he sees a month's rain falling as a cloudburst in a few minutes, men=-

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

acing his bridges, pavements, drain age systems in the .city,.and his culverts, road fills, and field terraces in the country. :

Engineers therefore Have welcomed a slender little ent of Agriculture publication, mostly tables and maps, that gives them the statistical probabilities’ of excessive rainfall for the continental United States. It was put together by Dr. David L. Yarnell, the Bureau of Agricultural ring, working with the assistance of several members of the Iowa University engineering faculty and a corps of temporary employes of the government, at Iowa City, Ia. Even to the nontechnical reader, there will’ be great interest in the “isohye ps. An isohyet is a

gral; { 1 tempera through points of equal temiperature, or an isobar through points of “rhe curving lines show, for example, that on the average of once a century an inch of rain may fall fl |in five minutes at any given point {in southern Florida, and in a triangle in eastern Texas. The isohyet | of only one-tenth less rainfall than that—90 inches in five minutes— cuts well back into southern Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi, . runs steeply northward to clip the very southwestern corner of Iowa, and sweeps as steeply southward .aci eastern ; . 1 :