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...Reichstag assembled and began to debate the Budget...
...City pointed with pride to their balance sheet for 1927. It had cost $1,080,135,266 to run and improve the city for twelve months. This was $176,000,000 less than the total cost of running all Italy in 1927. It was almost twice the entire Belgian budget. It equaled about a fourth of the U. S. budget. . . . The second-largest U. S. city, Chicago, last week approved for 1928 the largest budget of its history...
Last year the Student Council successfully introduced the budget system to take care of the running expenses of undergraduate organizations as well as charities in which the University is interested, a method calculated to save much time and trouble for all concerned. This year the system has worked much less successfully, and more than one appeal has been made that pledges be paid as promptly as possible. In this connection it is particularly significant that the Princeton Student Council which has in recent years employed a community chest for the same purpose has been faced, by the insufficient response...
...been forced to send letters to the parents or guardians explaining the situation and seeking their help in meeting the obligations neglected by the undergraduates. Such a crisis has not been reached as yet at Harvard; it might never occur. But to such as are prone to take the budget pledge somewhat lightly and to have no proper qualms about neglecting it, the experience at Princeton should be a sufficient warning. The budget pledge system has proved a great convenience and a valuable immunity. It would be highly unfortunate if it were to be found impractical merely on account...
...Department needs arise. No question of profiteering would enter because the orders would be on such a small scale, "and, in fact, we could watch the profit very easily." The proposed "educational" orders would add only three millions to the War Department's 392-million-dollar budget. In return, U. S. factories would surely contain models of all the special tools, jigs, fixtures and gauges without which the U. S. cannot defend itself...