Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 April 1941 — Page 6

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CITY IS CLEARING 30 Years at Switchboard— There's Still Work to Do!

THAT BIG 16 DEFICIT

Controller ive Its Curious But $350,000 Error Is Being Corrected.

The $350,000 municipal deficit City Yor

incurred through a budget erlast year has been disappearing before the very eyes of City officials and Controller James E. Deery day was at the point of writing to “Our Curious World” about it. “You can believe this the Controller said, but Is Just evaporating.” The Controller said he {first came aware of the deficit when he checked over municipal accounts two months ago. It frightened him a little and he quit checking This week, however, troller nual report—a compilation of astronomical figures designed to show the City's financial set-up. He got a good scare when he saw the deficit was continuing its odd behavior of drying up. Since most deficits are not so good natured about going away of their own volition, the Controller investigated, Today he came to a conclusion and announced that if wants to disprove it, let that. person be controller. The peculiar behavior of the disappearing deficit, he said, is due to a variable which cannot be reckoned with when the budget is prepared. City officials can set an appropriation and they can figure out a tax rate. But they can’t predict how much will be spent or what the revenue will be That's the

to-

of not.”

bhedisappearing!

key. Happily, the spending has been down and revenue has been up this year. the deficit has been reducing to the

the

the deficit

the Con-| began to make up his an-|

gone

anyone | he is willing to}

the |

where it is now a mere shadow | 1ll

By HARRY MORRISON

“Mrs. Mack” is strictly a ‘“get-

back-to-my-work” lady, and little 8

wonder, because she’s been at a City

| Hospital telephone only 30 years and

there's a lot of work left to be done

From the time she started at the

old medical center at Market St. and Senate Ave. she has been answering sick calls and sending out visiting physicians and medical students on obstetrical cases. The excitement is tense around

{her switchboard these days, because

one of her boys—'the med students | 3

she was

hard time, birthday

a her

that have such savs—discovered coming soon. Thursday she'll be 75. Sent Out 3000 Hurry Calls

She's been the voice on the tele-| phone that soothed thousands of| folks worried about their sick rela- | tives. And she reckons the num-| ber of young students she’s nurtured | along and sent out on “hurry calls” | at more than 3000. | Many of those youngsters have erown up to be practicing phy sicians| in Indianapolis. Some of them have | all over the world. During the last war she received letters] from boys as far away as Siberia | reporting back to their “Mrs. Mack.” | Her real name is Mrs. Jennie McNutt, but only strangers call her that And you aren't a very long around her. She got that way from being friendly and understanding with the people who call in to ask help] for their friends and relatives too| needy to pay for themselves.

All

Some families have been calling for help for years. She's had one | particular family “on the books” | for almost as long as she can remember “They she recalled. enough money lls. None of

Knows Them

{ phone only a

came from out of state,” “They never did have to take care of their them was ever very

stranger |:

{ finance

Charts in Washington H. S.,

lone Indianapolis ; changing conditions as reflected in |petcontage line.

| their |strated by a series of charts on a | pre are enrolled in English as|

|bulletin board at Washington High eight years ago with | School.

School News—

ART, ECONOMICS

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Starting from April, 1933, and [running until February, 1941, ascending line on each chart indicates what the enrollment of a de-| pasiment should be if it remained | me percentage of the enee as it was in 1933. A com-| parative line shows the actual enWo in each department. For instance, if the same propor- | of Washington pupils were enrolled in home economics now as in April, 1933, the total would be 1650. Actually it is 1350. There were . : 510 enrolled in 1933. | Changing Times. Just as sharp has been the rise in industrial arts classes at the BY EARL HOFF West Side school. There were 800 The reaction of pupils of at least in the department in 1933 and now high school to|there are 1400, about 400 about the

GAIN IN FAVOR

Begun in "33, Mirror |

choice of studies is demon-| About the same percentage of

2000 now in | In 1933 there were| history, When the |

(the department.

On a basis of percentage gains, 11000 studying

the charts show the greatest gain Legislature put compulsory Indiana | |in Tudustrial Arts and Home Eco- | History nomics.

into the curriculum, the]

Language, mathematics, enrollment bounded to 1500. Now it

{music and commercial subjects are is around 1300. |

|W. G. [Margaret Hannan,

Mrs. Jennie McNutt

{ business. Now the father is dead, but we're still taking care of the mother, and her children—and the children’s children for that matter.” Other families she meets via telefew times. These are usually the immigrant families. She says they seem to be better able to themselves and fight their own battles. Better than that, she they help others. The hardest part of her job to the uninitiated would seem to be telling if a person needed help right away —if it was a REAL emergency. It

says,

(below par in enrollment,

There are approximately 300 puan idea of Principal pils studying art, almost 100 over were made by Miss |the percentage line, Before 1933,

registrar. | four semesters of mathematics were

The charts, Gingery,

compulsory. At that time 1200 pu- more than 400. The commercial one | | pils were enrolled. There were only enrollment has remained below the

music

1150 last month. average of 10933 when there were] In science courses, there were (ggg enrolled. 1100 enrolled in 1933 and there are The language enrollment was 600 about 1500 now. When the new in 1933 and should be around 800) Washington gymnasium was made now. Instead, it is about the same |avallable in 1939, enrollment of las 1933. | both boys and girls physical educa-| - |tion classes rose sharply. However, {the boys enroilment is just below | the 500 it should be now and the! girls enrollment is just above the 600 proportion. With a start of 500 pupils in in 1933, the total is just below that proportion now. Military training enrollment has risen steadily from less than 200 in 1933 t to

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sick, but they gave us plenty of |

was difficult for her at first, too, but | now it's a snap. All she needs to do is turn to a bank of files at her elbow. Here are listed all the persons who have | called for years. If their record is { full of flighty calls, she calmly tells | the caller the “doctor will be out to | see vou sometime today.” Beloved by all at the hospital, her special friends are the medical students. They must take two weeks of obstetrical work at City Hospital before graduation and Mrs. Mack makes records of their calls.

She likes to warn them that they

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