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Evening star., 1937-01-08
81, ,465,0)O ASKED
FOR D. c. JOBLESS
Budget Bureau Proposes
Sum for Continuing Re-
lief in 1937.1938.

Appropriation Of 81, ASS, 900 for con-
tinuation Of relief to the unemployed
during the next fiscal year is pro-
posed by the Budget Bureau.
While this Is reduction Of $135, 900
below the current appropriation, it Is
offset by an increase for old-age PEN
sions Of $144, 900, to cover the transfer
Of such cases from relief to the old
age program.
At the same time the pension fund
for the needy blind was reduced by
$1,000.
Meanwhile the Commissioners are
considering an urgent request from
the Board Of Public Welfare for sup
Elemental direct relief appropriation
by the District for the remainder OF
this fiscal year amounting to $3.50 900.
The board declares this Is needed to
prevent hardship for some 5000 cases
dropped from the direct relief rolls
because they contain "employable"
persons, but who are said to be un.
able to flnd work.
The bureau allowed an increase of
$67,430 over the existing appropria-
tion for Gallinger Municipal Hospital.
The budget shows a reduction from
$75,0O0 to $4,000 for Children's Hos
pital for medical charities and the
current appropriation Of $4,000 for
care Of INDECENT patients at Casualty
Hospital was dropped entirely.
The budget message states that the
reductiins at Children's and Casualty
Hospitals "are Offset by correspond
ing increase In such services at Gal
Evening star., 1937-01-08
PUBLIC LIBRARY
ETS%,0)O MORE
Budget Recommendation De.
nies More Personnel and
New Buildings, However.

A net increase of $4,000 in the 1888
appropriation for the free Public
Library was recommended by the
Budget Bureau, but nothing was
allowed for additional personnel or
new buildings, as requested by the
Board of Library Trustees.
The only addition made in the pro-
posed new budget was an increase
Of $4,000 for new books, periodicals
and newspapers, making the total for
this purpose $4,000, as against the
current appropriation Of $60,000. OF
the new sum, however, $4,000 was
earmarked to stock the new Petworth
Branch Library, to be erected this
year at Kansas and Iowa avenues.
The total appropriation approved by
the Budget Bureau for 1898 is $685.
$40, the same amount approved by the
District Commissioners. The trustees
had sought $685., 1902.
Personnel Need Cited.
Perhaps the hardest blow delivered
to the libary system was the denial
Of additional funds for new personnel.
Citing the increase in hook circula-
ton and in the number Of book bor-
rowers, the trustees asked for four adj
ditional library assistants, four junior
messengers, one Junior librarian for
school service, six new workers for
technical departments, two for ad-
ministrative departments. five for Gus
todial service, five to permit the CEN
tral libary to remain open u hours
per week, and 20 to staff the new Pet
worth branch Of the last six and
one-half months of the year.
The total allowed for personal serv-
ices for 1898 was set at $352.o20, the
same amount provided in the current
appropriations.
For binding, the current fund OF
$4,000 was recommended for 1888,
although an increase Of $4,000 was
asked. For maintenance, alterations
and repairs the fahd was reduced from
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$36,500 to $34,500. For renting quar-
ters for the Chevy Chase and Wood
ridge branches the fund was kept at
the current figure of $4,320, although
$4,000 was requested.
S75,000 for Petworth Branch.
An appropriation of $4,000 was
recommended for the completion OF
the new Petworth Branch.
The proposed budget leaves out q
request for s125, 900 to build and equip
new branch library in Aracostia
and another for $27 500 to replace the
60-year-old structure now housing the
Conduit Road sub-branch, both of
which had previously been eliminated
by the District Commissioners.
In ear-marking $4,000 for books
and periodicals for the Petworth
branch only $4,000 is left for the
balance Of the library system. The
current appropriation allows 100000
for the entire group of IL buildings.
The personnel Of the IL probably
will have to be reduced, instead Of
increased, to take care of the staff
for the new branch, since no provision
was made for Petworth's personnel.
Evening star., 1937-01-08
U. S. MAY LOSE MILLION
IN jig SAW RULING
Appeal From Decision Holding
They Were Not Games Is
Held Unlikely.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON. January 8. - United
States District Attorney Francis j.
w. Ford said last night the Govern
ment probably would have to get along
without revenue from taxes on jig
saw puzzles, doubling, he said, an
appeal to the United States Supreme
Court could be taken from the Cir
cult Court Of Appeals ruling that they
were not games. The Associated Press
enormously reported Wednesday the
Circuit Court Of Appeals ruled the jig
saw puzzles were games and not a
sport.
The Government anticipated one or
two million dollars of revenue an
nually before the appeals court up
set a District Court ruling that held
the puzzles taxable as games. The
appeals court said they were not
games because they weer not played
by more than one person at . time
and required ingenuity rather than
manual skill.
Evening star., 1937-01-08
Message on Fiscal Relations
essary Legislation for Establishing of Equitable
Dealings Between Two Governments.

ments shall be established for the
reimbursement of the cost Of spe-
cific intergovernmental services
supplied either government by the
other. Appropriations therefor
shall be included in the respective
annual departmental budgets.
II. Capital outlays of Joint in
terest.-The National Capital Plan
ming Commission proposed in the
report) shall determine the extent
of the respective Federal and Dis
trict interests in capital outlays
and improvements to be included
in the District budget.
III. Per capita governmental
costs-Pending the grant of broad
er powers Of local control over
purely local affairs, the excess Of
the District governmental costs per
capita over the average Of those
in comparable cities shall be as
sumed by the Federal Government:
Provided, hoUeDer, that such ex-
cess District governmental costs
shall be assumed only after allow.
ance has been made for reimburse
ments due to unusual costs occa-
stoned by congressional enactments.
I also recommended that, concur
rently with enactment Of any legisla
ton which carries into effect tn
provisions Of this continuing formula
the substantive law providing TO
annual Federal contributions of
fixed percentage Of District appropria
tions be repealed and that the system
Of annual Federal lump-sum con
tributionS be abandoned.
The application Of this formula t
the 1888 budget estimates would pro
vide for a net reimbursement by tn
Federal Government to the Distric
Of Columbia of $2,533,357, made VI
as follows:
I. Intergovernmental
contractual services 81 1896, 40
II. Capital outlays- $685. .95
III. Excess per capita
District of Columbia
governmental costs ------
Evening star., 1937-01-08
HART w of the Presidents bud
- get message, which relates to
i the District of Columbia, fol-

Il Ah1I4 Nv Va tllC lCSASNAAG bd0-
- get message, which relates to
i the District of Columbia, fol-
lows in full:
The first section of the 1887 District
of Columbia appropriation act, ap-
proved June %, 1886 public, No. 762,
Seventy-fourth Congress), contains
the following provision:
mot to exceed $5O,00o shall be
available for expenditure, under
the direction of the President, for
making an independent study OF
the fiscal relations between the
United States and the District OF
Columbia and enabling him to
report to Congress at the begin
ming of the next regular session,
what, in his judgment, is fair ana
equitable amount to be paid by the
United States as an annual con-
tribution toward the expenses OF
the government Of the District OF
Columbia; such sum shall be avail
able for personal services without
regard to the civil service laws and
the classification act Of 1928, as
amended, and for such other eX-
penditures as may be necessary IN
connection with such study"
Pursuant to the above, appointed
a director and an advisory committee
of three members to conduct an in
dependent study Of the various ele-
ments and conditions affecting the
fiscal relations between the United
States and the District Of Columbia.
The report contains detailed ind
ings and recommendations with the
supporting data and information COL
lected from the Federal and District
governments in Washington and from
II comparable American cities and
the capital cities of 81 foreign coun-
tries.
The application OF the basic prin-
ciples and. recommendations as out
lined and detailed in the report is
reflected in the following 3-point
formula, which I recommended be
carefully considered by the Congress
with a view to enacting such legisla-
ton at this session as may be neces-
sary to establish equitable fiscal re-
lationships between the two govern
ments.
I. Intergousrnmental contractual
services. - Contractual arrange
Evening star., 1937-01-08

under the first two divisions of the
formula. Comparative cost payments
for the District and the average Of
other comparable cities. for the latest
year reported, indicate that there
would be in 1887 no payment by the
Federal Government to the District for
excess governmental costs per capita.
The recommendations provide that an
adjustment shall be made, If necessary,
when comparative data for the fiscal
year 1887 become available.
The net amount Of $1,s48,014 shown
in table 3A for intergovernmental
contractual services comprises the MT
excess Of District over Federal costs
for operation and maintenance OF
services not now reimbursed, IN esti-
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Total --- $2,533, 1857
After the application Of the formula
there will still be deficit in the gen.
eral revenue account of the District
of Columbia Of about 50 $780, 900, which
will make it necessary, Of course. to
provide additional revenue. Sources
Of additional revenue are indicated in
the report.
Evening star., 1937-01-08

provisions in the three-point formula,
the making of estimates Of SPECIFIC
amounts to be paid by each govern
ment to the other for special inter-
governmental operating services will
be a matter of routine in the prepara.
ton of the annual departmental
budget estimates. Accordingly, esti-
mates for the fiscal year 1888 are not
included here pending completion
by the Bureau Of the Budget of the
1888 departmental budget estimates
for the District and the Federal Gov
ernments. Under the proposed pro-
cedure, estimates for capital outlays
for 1899 and future years will Be
prepared by the National Capital
Planning Commission. :
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se20s $50 sseso2s5 So aa6 a01 $25a 264 81 072 037

~ made necessary
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Net Excess Of District
Over Federal Outlays.
The net amount of $224,023 shown
in table ga for capital outlays not
now reimbursed comprises the net ex-
cess of District over Federal capital
outlays of joint interest, and the
amount of District outlays reimburs-
able through charges to individuals.
The charges to individuals include
(D allocated portions Of capital out
lay expenditures in connection with
operating services rendered to these
individuals, and (2) the deficiency In
special assessments for water main
extensions charged for at statutory
rate which covers only so per cent
of the cost Of extensions. Excepting
for the water main assessments, the
amounts estimated for capital outlays
are based upon three-year averages,
computed from data in appendix C.,
tables TX, x and XII. Items making
up the total Of 1924 ,023 are as follows:
Capital outlays Of joint interest, exclusive
of water service (averase Of 3 years.
1e34-36; inclusive):
Outlays by the Federal Gov.
ernment-
Actually reimbursed by
District Government 5000
Not reimbursed by Dis
trict Government 122 ,S02
Total s123.4e2
OUTLAWS BY the District Gov
ernment-
Actually reimbursed by
Federal Government S770, ,635
Not reimbursed by Fed
eral Government 165, 5,227
Total 1895. .s62
Net difference, nonreimbursed
outlays--excess Of District
over Federal costs. payable
by Federal Government S42 1855
Capital outlays reimbursable by
private individuals:
Increased rate Of assessment
for water service mains,
statutory rates -~~- s16o.ooo
service: rendered non-resi.
dents average Of years,
1934-36. inclusive)-
Library facilities --- 1,094
Total chargeable to
tndtvidualS---- $1S1 ,65S
Total amount payable
to District Govern
ment for reimburs-
able capital outlays-S224, ,023
With enactment by Congress OF the
Milford chronicle., 1937-12-10

married, the unions terminating b
death. Yet when they obtained thei
marriage license and at the weddin
ceremony, both appeared to be jub
liant, just as IL 1t were their frs
venture on the sea of matrimony
Both are very popular in the nor
thern section of Sussex county. Th'
bride for many years has been ac
tive in civic affairs of Lincoln City.
DuttOn-Ingram
Mrs. Lavinia Dutton. daughter o
the late Mr.. and Mrs. James B
West, of Milford, and Benjamin F.
Ingram, son of Mrs. Mary l. In
gram and the late Nehemiah Ingram
of Milford, were married at the Lin
coin City NJ. E. Circuit parsonage. on
Saturday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock,
by the Rev. S. l.. Handy.
West Elliott
Announcement of the marriage of
Mrs. Bertha NJ. West, of Millsboro,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Peter ].
Mumford, near GumborO. and the
Rev. Milton r. Elliott, of Delmar.
pastor of the Pilgrim Holiness
Church. at Gumboro. has been made.
The wedding took place at Days
boro. on November 20. the Rev. w.
T. Archer performing the ceremony
CriscO.Baker
Miss Helen H. Crisco, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Crisco, of
Bridgeville, and Charles W. Baker,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Charlie Baker.
of Seaford, were married on Novem-
ber 81 by the Rev. f. J. Mccarthy.
pastor of the Milford r. c. Church.
Smith Workman
Friends of Miss Dorothy NJ. Smith.
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. David
Smith of Glendale, were given
this week when it became
known that she was married on No
vember IS to David B. Workman,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Work
man, of Milton. The wedding took
place at Harbeson. six miles east of
this city, with Rev. J. P. George per-
the ceremony.
DOLLS AND TOYS for Girls and
Boys. Ben Franklin Stores. Milford.
Del. 1t
Milford chronicle., 1937-12-10

MIR. and Mrs. Chester Hudson have
moved OFF on Mr.. Wilmer Evans
place, near Roxana.
Mrs. Myrtle Hudson spent Sunday
afternoon at Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Lynch's.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Hudson and
family spent Monday evening at Mr..
and Mrs. Will Hickman's.
Milford chronicle., 1937-12-10
VANISHED

Absent-minded professor: Il for
got my umbrella this morning, dear. 4"
wife:-"How did you remember
you had forgotten it?"
Professor: well. I missed 1t
when l raised my hand to close it
after the rain had stopped"
Milford chronicle., 1937-12-10
HUDSON'S X ROADS

Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Hudson and
family spent Saturday evening at
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Shockley's
Mrs. Lille Hudson spent Sunday
at Mr.. and Mrs. Chester Lynch's.
Miss Orneva Hudson spent Sunday
with Miss Irene Murray of Frank
ford.
Mr.. Amos Hudson is home and
has to go back to Beebe Hospital ev-
cry other day to have his lung wash
ed out. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hudson
visited him Sunday afternoon.
Milford chronicle., 1937-12-10

DOLLS AND TOYS for Girls anc
Boys. Ben Franklin Stores. Milford
Del. II
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-04
IGNORANCE IS .~l.ssx
No EYCIIGE - -- - : p szss

One case, ana fortunately ONLY one.
has been reported in Imperial Valley in
Whlch the foreman of a working crew
discharged man because he had at
tended union organization meetings. The
foreman was violating the law Just as
surely as the laborer would have been
violating it if he had put stick of dyna-
mite under machine, and set it off.
1t Is unfortunate that recent labor
troubles have aroused a sentiment. wide
spread IN some quarters, against all
union organizations 1t is still more un-
fortunate that there are some employ
ers and employers agents who attempt
TO prevent unionization at all costs. They
are like pygmies trying to stem with
their bodies a Colorado river flood
The Wagner Act IS law. It provides
that no man shall be discharged from
Job solely because he engages in union
activities. The employer who violates the
law by dlscharging an employe for union
activity not only is violating the law
he is encouraging the very state of af-
fairs he dislikes. The most successful
industrial leaders are those who make
an honest attempt to know their labor
ers and their problems. and TO help the
working man with a sympathetic under
standing. The least successful are those
who adopt a dictatorial manner with
their employees, attempting to control
even their processes of thought.
There is no use denying that we are
going through period of social change.
1t is no good clinging to reactionary
theories and aged industrial ideas The
man who does not see that they are
changing is like man who dyes his
hair to make himself think he is not get
ting gray He is fooling himself.
Current troubles are not to be blamed
entirely on one side. Labor is to be
blamed because its radical elements have
refused to see that there is any merit
in the arguments of industry. Employers
are to blame because they have not met
labor on common ground, but have
attempted to exercise a strict control
over human destinies. When each side
realizes that there is some merit on the
other side, industrial strife will be a
great deal nearer its end.
Meanwhile, as a practical start to a
common meeting ground, it would be
we'll for all employers to instruct them
selves, and then to instruct their agents,
about the things they can and cannot do.
as we'll as the things they should and
should not do.
When industry's house is spic and
span. then industry will be in q posi-
tion to criticize labor, without having
the criticism rebound.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-04
Bruce Cation Says:>>
Dearth of Great U. S. Oratory is Good Sign

been IN some exceedingly tight
spots, for a great Grafton is al
most always a curtain-raiser II
hardship, and The orator as likely
as not is the man who Is bringing
the hardship on.
1t takes a bad atmosphere IL
grow orations. They sprout and
blossom when there is blood on the
moon and people can see the face of
doom peering out from behind the
clouds. From the days of Demos
themes, who did his Grating when
the Greek city states were about to
be over-run by the crude Macedon-
ianS. down to Hitler, who played the
tremolo on Germany's emotions at
a time when the country was fall
ing to pieces, oratory is prima facie
evidence that there is trouble com
ing.
AS Mr. Peattie suggests, America
has not been productive of great
oratory-and a blessing it is. We.
have had some hard problems td'
solve, and now and then we have
got ourselves into a tragic fiX-as
in the 1360'S-but in the main we
haven't had the kind of atmos-
phere that produces famous orators.
And that fact is one of the best
things in our record.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-04
News Behind the News
The Thomas Jefferson Protests
They Don't Want Memorial Cherry
Blossoms in the Way

WASHINGTON.-There has been such ter
rifle din of protest against plans for the Thomas
Jefferson memorial here that it now seems al
most inconceivable that the sponsors can ever
get away with it.
The project has been bombarded strafed bay
oneted, blasted and riddled by nearly all the
local folk. reinforced by members of Congress.
Add a large number of recent visitors who be-
came enraged on hearing that their beloved
japanese cherry blossoms would be destroyed
if jefferson were to properly honored in accord
ance with the official blueprints
Objections have been aimed at three chief
points:
l. The design. which is that of Greek
temple closely resembling the Pantheon.
2. The site, which calls for rejiggering of
the Tidal Basin around which the cherry
blossoms bloom annually in thick unbrok-
line and for reconstruction of large
which Washingtonians consider espe-
cially beautiful in its present FORM
3. The fact that the architect, John Russell
Pope chosen at star chamber session
rather than in open competition.
Responsible for all this was the official COM
nlittee headed by Congressman John Boylan,
a veteran Tammany man and real estate oper-
ator. For years he evidenced his intense ad-
nliration for jefferson by ANNUALLY introducing
a bill for a memorial, and. finally under
Democratic administration, obtained authorize
tlon for S3,000000 for that purpose.
Given full power by Congress- Boylan and
his commission have been able to dictate. They
can be checked only by refusal of the House
Appropriations Committee to vote grant of
s50O000 which President Roosevelt and the Bud
get Bureau have approved for start on the
project or, failing that, by vote of the House
or Senate to delete the appropriation.
Three Senate members of the commission ap-
proved the plan in secret session. But conspicu
Gus on the commission was Joseph P. Tumuty.
a r-lobbyist here since he was secretary to
Woodrow Wilson. Opposing public hearings
Tumulty is said to have declared that we are
not going to connect Jefferson with anything
commercial or utilitarian."
So the result was approyar OF the claSSlciSt
Pope and his design for a huge temple with Ionic
pillars which would practically overShadow the
Lincoln Memorial. Standing at the south end
of the Tidal basin causeway, the temple
and rest of the plan would require making the
irregular basin rectangle and the destruction
of most, if not all, the 723 cherry trees in the
affected area. Such a huge amount of drain
ing, filling-in, highway building and other work
would have to be done that engineers and certain
architects have said the ultimate cost would
run between s1O,000000 and s15000,000. Pope,
incidentally would be paid per cent of So 000,-
O00
Critics complain that the temple with its
"squatty dome" would be "grandioSe" but dull
and pompouS." The League for Progress in
Architecture says the design is completely in
appropriate and completely without imagination
or vitality" Logical citizens associations are
bowling day and night.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-04
MEXICO NOT SO
COUULINTSTTC, AFTER ALL

"We want no part of Communism or
Fascism. We want only free Mexico"
1t was the statement of one of Labor
Days principal speakers, a leader of
the powerful GROIN union, at Mexicali
last Saturday His statement drew pro-
longed applause.
The united front in Baja California
against the government sanctioned Ag-
rarian program is revealing. The Agrar-
ian movement comes nearer to direct
Communism than anything else on the
North American continent. Its great
unpopularity in Mexico demonstrates
that the southern republic is still on an
even keel.
Governments can give lip service to
a radical theory-they can even attempt
to put it into practice; but when the
majority of the people rise against the
practice of Communism, there is direct
evidence that the radicals, after ALL have
not overcome the instincts of freedom
in free race.