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bot be- believes that the HLkn.
tbs AAA and sags'ho1f ssigps
should be made more seskablf.
Roosevelt mas given no guar
antics. bat ~ far he seems TO be
accepting some ~ the v, Pa ssa-
gss,lons Barring an unforeseen
clash. personsl of politics. party
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SPRACUE INAUCURATED
GOVERNOR OF OREGON

sALEM-Tne 10th session OF
the Oregon legislature opened AZ
Salem today. with the inaugura-
ton Of Gov. Charles A Sprsgue
the most important business Of
the Day.
At q senate caucus. Sen. Robert
NJ. Duncan Of Burns was unsnl-
mously elected president for the
session.
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lIGH I
An Inside Picture of
Financial and Polit-
ical America

WASHINGTON - Even
President Roosevclt's foes ex-
press frank admiration for his
shift on the political front on
the eve Of n possibly hostile
congress. II was the sort OF
maneuyer which delights the
man in the White House, and
the reaction has been eminent
~ satisfactory SO far.
The Hopkins-Iiarrington switch
Will probably stsys of too search
ing an Investigation Of WPA As
an army officer on detached arrys
ice, Col. Harrington does not have
to present himself 10 the senate
for confirmation. Despite his gu
bernat orial sitdown. Frank Muir
ply 10 regarded on Capitol Hili as
an extremely able lawyer and MIS-
church backs him. Nor did fDK
neglect the personal equation that
weighs no heavily In the eonEres-
slonsl scales All three men are
personally popular IN legislative
circles, even their faults command
ing them a. human fellows.
The prospective appointment 81
sS Senator Fred Brown an con-
trollsr- general will answer com.
plants that the executive Ia defy
ing congress by not fiiiing the
post
Numerous other defeated Demo
Gratis, all possessing great infhi-
enes among their former col.
leagues, will soon b. named u sey
lobs. Lastly. Roosevelt EXTENDED
the silver purchase bonus - dear
10 western mavericks among the
mountain bloc. Ne counts on thsne
and similar moves 20 protect bis
left flank
Nevertheless, the neat few
months viii present the spee-
task Of an historic struggle
b~tsesn the president and the
yies presidsnt The shresa
and Influential Trssn has con
soIidxfsd hls legislative lines
siare his mid December con
terence At the White H0usT.
The two great Democrats have
agreed. IN o friendly and frank
fashion, 10 disagree. but 70 min
insize their differences Whenever
possible. Jack wants no more dis
turb.ns reforms insists On econ
ofny, suggests that private enter.
prize be encouraged instead 81
hampered. Specifically. he urges
less spending On economic expert
nents and reIlef--P%A. WPA,
AIA--snd iess government COM
petition with business ana Indus.
try. He does not advocate scrap
ping Of nsJof fsS Deal agencies,
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Moansy rested quietly today nflss
: ronsins w~icems from : essy thai
was ready 10 hang him "a pears
ago.
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Repairfree
Transportation
Can Be Yours

Cars that can pass any
test with flying colors.
You'll find the pick Of the
lot in the Autos for sale
Classified Columns Of the
Times.
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YAkIMA-James Tudor,
one of five felons who broke
out of the Yakima county
jail Dec. 81, was caught to-
day in another attempt TO
escape.
Night Jailer AL Hagen
discovered Tudor started a
fire in a pan and placed If
under the lock on the door
of the cell in which he was
being held in solitary con-
finement. Haken said
Tudor planned to force the
lock.
JUNEAU--The terri
torial legislature convened
today and elected Sen. Nor
man K. Walker Of ketchi-
kan president of the senate.
NEW yORk--Seerstary Of
State Cordeil Hull warned sg-
gressor states today that the
western hemisphere stands
united In defense Of its terri
torisl integrity, principles Of
international relationship and
national institutions.
Hull voiced his warning
when he returned aboard the
:. :. santa Maria from the
Pan-Ameriean conference at
Lima, Peru.
WASHINGTON - Members
Of a house subcommittee, after
receiving requests tor "PA
appropriation ranging up 70
81 $50, 900 900 predicted pri-
yately today that the new bill
will be cut even below the
ss75. O00. 900 recommended by
President Roosevelt.
SAN FRANCIsCO--Csptsin
Fred ~. West Of the Portland,
Ore. police department died
today al 81. Mays hospital Of
complications following opera
tion Of a double n1astoid lnfec-
lion.
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WEATHER AND TIDES
Unsettled tonight and Tuesday.
Temperatures High. ~: low, ss.
sun rises. s.54 sets tai.
Tides Tomorrow
Evening star., 1939-01-04
Fiscal Relations

New hope for adoption of fairer
method Of apportioning the expenses
Of the National Capital between the
Federal and District governments
has beensgiven Washingtonians by
Senator Overton of Louisiana, new
chairman of the Senate subcommit-
tee in charge of District appropria-
tions.
His statement that he would like to
see the arbitrary lump sum basis of
Federal payment replaced by some
definite permanent formula is graft
flying to the local community, which
has seen more and more of the burden
of maintaining the city transferred to
the local taxpayer during thirteen
years of lump sum practice. Since
1924, when the first departure was
made from the fixed ratio principle,
the total of the annual District bill
has gone up while the lump sum has
gone down, until today the S., 1000 900
Federal payment represents only
about ten per cent of the total bill.
In approaching the problem, Sena-
tor Overton has suggested that the
area of federally owned land in re-
lation to other land in the city might
form the basis for working out
percentage formula. The amount of
tax-exempt property here by reason
of the presence of the National Gov
ernment has been considered in past
studies, but it is not the only factor
justifying more equitable Federal
payment.
With other considerations that
should be given proper weight in
attempting to solve the problem are:
Extraordinary expenses occasioned
by the fact that Washington is the
Capital, lack of opportunity to de-
velop tax-paying industries because
industrial development would conflict
with plans for Identification of the
Capital City, and the fact that the
complete power Congress possesses
over District taxes and appropria-
tions carries with it an obligation to
deal equitably with the unrepre-
sented local taxpayer.
In considering the Federal land
area Senator Overton has in mind
measuring the acreage rather than
appraised values, and including ex-
cess park area over normal municipal
park requirements. This acreage
yardstick is an interesting proposal,
which calls for careful study. The
new chairman also has indicated his
mind is not made up on an exact
formula, and 1t is to be hoped that
the various factors that form the
basis of Federal obligation toward
the Capital will be weighed.
The encouraging point is that the
Louisiana Senator has shown a SYM
pathetic desire to get away from the
inequitable lump sum basis and to
find a more equitable substitute.
Evening star., 1939-01-04
Worthy Undertaking.

Once again, the District is fortu-
nate In having a member of Con-
gress to head its legislative commit
tee in the House who not only is
familiar, but sympathetic, with the
problems of its people and its gov
ernment.
Representative Jennings Randolph,
thirty six-year-old West Virginia
Democrat, who is slated to take over
the helm of the committee, has al
ready, in six years of service on that
group, both by word and action,
shown his deep interest in the
welfare of the Nations Capital City.
And now he has given further
assurance he will make every effort
to be of even greater service to a
disfranchised people.
IF I become chairman of the Dis
trict Committee" he said, II want
the peope of Washington to know
that it shall be my purpose to CO.
operate with them in every possible
way to secure the enactment by Con-
gress of legislation beneficial to the
District and which fits it to the gen.
eral legislation program of the
Nation. . I shall welcome at all
times the advice and counsel of the
individual citizens OF Washington as
we'll as the officials in an effort to
carry out the wishes and provide
for the needs Of the residents here"
Mr.. Randolph wants the people of
Washington to govern themselves.
and also to vote for President and
Vice President, and to elect their
own representatives in Congress. He
has just reintroduced a resolution
to give them that privilege. But un-
til the residents of the District are
"Americanized," he wants his COM
mittee to be more responsive to the
wishes OF a voteless, and politically
voiceless people who happen to live
in the city in which are made the
laws OF the Nation.
Good luck, Mr.. Randolph, in both
OF your undertakings.
Evening star., 1939-01-04
Suggests Ickes Attend
To His Own Affairs.
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
Mr.. Ickes, the Secretary of the Interior,
is the man of the hour. His vehicle to
fame was not humdrum hard work and
achievement in the "job for which he
Is drawing salary" but rather in the
more spectacular manner of championing
the weak. He has fearlessly come out
and has told the dictators what's what.
and is courageous enough to bear the
consequences all by himself-namely,
that the sufferings Of the Jew will be
intensified by way of reprisal. Such
fine bravery should be rewarded-per-
haps it will beat the polls.
Mr.. Ickes, although he is in a position
to do so, has made no practical sugges-
ton for alleviating the plight of the Jew.
His help has all been words, and many
. thinking Jew must turn away in dis
gust from such ostentation and such
empty phrases.
Mr.. 1ckes would probably never have
been heard of for his accomplishments
In his own field. 1t was his stunts that
turned the trick. The laughter over his
last official action has not yet died away.
Just few months ago he refused
helium to Germany, on the grounds that
it could be used for war purposes. Mr..
Ickes must have realized that the danger
of the inflammability Of hydrogen to
civilian air travel would be no deterrent
whatever In time Of war. l.
Docombor 26.
Evening star., 1939-01-04
Obvious Truths

Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia of
New York has a special talent for
saying obvious things that need say
Ing and yet all too often are neg
lected by those who aspire to shape
public opinion. His speech on the
fundamental principles of democracy
may be cited as an example OF his
incisive genius at work. "The enc
mics of democracy and of the free
press" he declared, "are the same"
Such judgment, of course, is self
evident. No tyrant ever wanted his
critics to be allowed to exercise their
natural liberty Of utterance. 1t is
symptomatic Of totalitarianism that
it fears, hates and customarily de-
stroys hostile newspapers, exiles or
imprisons their editors and reporters,
Furnishes their readers. Only in
countries still faithful to democratic
traditions is the press uncoerced to-
day.
But Mayor La Guardia did not
stop with the enunciation of a gen.
erality. "Just as the free press de-
pends for its survival upon democ-
racy," he continued, $50 the progress
Of democracy depends upon its free
press -. To be sure, the free press
cannot be secure unless 1t lends its
voice to strengthen democratic gov
eminent, but in equal measure,
slavery and degradation cannot be
secure 20 long as there Is the free,
Evening star., 1939-01-04
Says Lewis Report Emphasizes
Inadequacy of Funds.

To the Editor of The Star:
Carrying the headlines, Fraud and
Chiseling in District Relief" The Sunday
Star of January carried the findings
Of the Burdette Lewis report as given in
its first section released to the press.
The fact that the Public Assistance Di-
vision of the Board of Public Welfare
has been obliged to assign to its social
workers 135 or more families or appi-
cants (now said to be 1850 each month
is ample evidence of what has been
happening, when the normal load per
case worker would have been not more
than fifty.
In spite of the pleas of social workers
when the last District budget was before
Representative Collins committee, and
that of Senator Thomas, that II per
cent of the allowance to the P. A. D. be
given for administration, 8 per cent was
the maximum granted.
A small proportion of the $207 ,683
credited to "chiselers" in the p. A. D.
would have provided an adequate staff
for investigation, home visiting, follow
up work and possible rehabilitation of
clients, thus saving thousands of dol
lars for more adequate relief Of those
in actual distress. Relief over the coun-
ter" was predicted at the meeting as a
necessity as the result Of being obliged
to act on unverified statements Of appn-
cants. The fact that Mr.. Lewis found
only ~ per cent Of chiselers in the dis
bursement Of general relief speaks vol
uunas for the discrimination shown b.
Evening star., 1939-01-04
A New Come

inns past Christmas Santa Claus
pack was loaded with scores OF new
games akin to parcheesi only more
so, each contestant rolling dice and
advancing one or more men along a
board, trying to get somewhere in
the face Of difficulties. The first duty
of parents was to read the instruc-
tions, and start the children of.
Their second duty was to get roped
into number of games. After day
or two many parents performed what
they felt was third duty, namely, to
get the tired little ones to bed early
so that the cardboard backgrounds
would be available for adult use.
This seasons crop contain severe
penalties for unlucky throws. The
unfortunate player may find that he
has fallen into a pond, been cap
tured by pirates, jailed, marooned,
or otherwise disconnected, and has
to go back a dozen places, lose turn,
or pay fine in very fancy currency
which looks strangely real. Occa-
sionally his gloom is lightened by
Dame Fortune, who tosses him a
stray boon in the form Of an extra
turn or some small honorarium, but
for the most part the journey is one
of sadness and peril, and even the
winner is somewhat battered from
his narrowing experiences.
A much less nerve-racking game
is now in process of invention, called
Capitol Hill. The beautiful feature
of Capitol Hill is that the contest
ants can't lose, because at the start
they are supplied with a lot of XII
bitzerS, called taxpayers, whose duty
it is to feed kitty called the Treas
ury. From time to time a player
fills some key position which entities
him either to rakeof from the
Treasury or a batch of votes. II he
lands on sour spot, he shrugs his
shoulders and calls on the kibitzers
to make good. The game is quite
complex, and space does not permit
the explanation of all details, but
there are numerous odd features,
such as corral with nine spaces,
called the Supreme Court, the first
one to get majority there being en-
titled TO use loaded dice.
Evening star., 1939-01-04

unbridled voice Of the press to cry
out against injustice, to denounce
and castigate tyranny and bru-
tality."
Thoughtful citizens are familiar
with the logic represented in this ar
gument. Yet they rejoice that Mayor
La Guardia deliberately made use Of
his opportunity to set it forth again
for all to hear. He had the noble
precedent of John Milton, who in
sisted: "Give me liberty to know, to
utter and to argue freely according
to my conscience above all other lib
critics" Also, the precedent of Thomas
Jefferson, who warned his contempo-
raries: "Our liberty depends on the
freedom Of the press, and that can
not be limited without being lost"
Evening star., 1939-01-04

members of the staff and hardly supports
the charge of "lackadaisical" methods of
handling cases-at least SO far as gen.
eral relief" is concerned
Mr.. Lewis recommendation that as
soon as possible Congress permit the
use OF funds appropriated to the Public
Assistance Division of the Board of Pub
lie Welfare to pay for investigation of
case loads is recognition of the need
of larger staffs, as urged elsewhere in
the report
Another economy not suggested by Mr..
Lewis, SO far as we have discovered, would
have been to make available funds and
provide explicit authorization for the use
OF the Social Service Exchange OF the
Council of Social Agencies by which al
most automatically overlapping and du-
plication of relief and service would have
been quickly detected and reported, pro-
vided such use was universal by all the
public relief agencies.
Furthermore the claim of social work.
ers that the appropriation for public re-
lief was quite inadequate seems to be
fully supported by Mr.. Lewis request
for increased grants.
While Congress forbade relief in excess
of $50 a month per family, irrespective
OF size, exorbitant rentals, health con-
ditions and the like, Mr.. Lewis bases his
findings of "chiseling" on incomes of $50.
We can only hope that in the consid-
Grafton OF relief budgets for 1910 Congress
will give due weight to the findings of
the report on inadequacy OF both staffs
and relief appropriations and will ap-
prove Mr.. Lewis recommendation for
complete correlation of the different pub
lie relief disbursing agencies.
January 3. WALTER S. UFFORD,
Evening star., 1939-01-04

Year Day, fortified by five successive
votes Of confidence from his own
Chamber, Premier Daladier boarded
the cruiser Foch at Toulon. Con-
voyed by thirty destroyers, he pro-
ceeded into the Mediterranean on an
avowed mission OF demonstration to
all concerned that what France has,
she intends to hold.
Circling the famed birthplace Of
Napoleon, M. Daladier and the escort
fleet were the objects of fervent
manifestations Of devotion to France
and OF violent tokens Of hostility to
Italy and her pretensions. The
Premier told the Corsicans they may
regard themselves as an integral and
inalienable department 6f France,
and asked them to look upon the fleet
that cruised around the island as an
image" Of the might Of France and
symbol of her ability and readiness
to defend her territory in the Medi-
terranean against all comers.
Yesterday Premier Daladier ar
rived in Tunisia on a similar errand.
After thunderously patriotic greet
ing in the fortified naval port Of
Biserta, pivotal French outpost on
the African shore of the Mediter-
ranean, M. Daladier proceeded to
Tunis, capital Of the protectorate,
where the Bey of Tunis provided a
triumphal welcome, in which the
Tunisian native element wholeheart-
edly Joined. The Premier was i'm
pressed with evidences OF Tunisian
satisfaction with the colonys present
status as part OF the French Empire
and Of its aggressive hostility to the
thought of exchanging it for the
doubtful blessings of Fascist rule.
When the Daladier trip to North
Africa was announced, Fascist
spokesmen pilloried it as a provoca-
ton of Italy and limited at reprisals.
1t is extremely doubtful if any such
consequences will ensue. Far more
probable is it that this ocular DEM
onstration of Frances refusal to
bend the knee to the territorial pre-
tensions of the Rome Berlin axis will
put an end, temporarily at least, to
totalitarian bullying and blackmail-
ing.
Evening star., 1939-01-04
"ArNngton. Va,

Arlington, Va.
Dear sir-1 wrote to you some months
ago on the subject Of green water in
tropical aquaria, ard your response was
30 helpful that am convinced you can
help me with my present difficulty.
"since last writing to you have in
creased the population Of the aquarium
to include two guppies, black molly.
two red moons. A month or 80 ago. the
guppies themselves added six new in
habitants The tank holds 10 gallons
of water and is abundantly planted with
sagittaria.
plants produces great amounts Of oxygen,
and have never had any indication of
oxygen deficiency. The water (since
your suggestion to remove snails) has
been crystal clear, and all the fish have
been, apparently. in perfect condition.
However, upon returning to my
apartment after some 72 hours absence,
find that my female guppy is listing
badly to one side.
"She swims at breakneck speed In
clockwise circles, occasionally leaping
almost out Of the water.
"She never goes counterclockwise, and
there is no indication that she can see,
for she runs into any object in her path.
In fact, she strikes the sides OF the small
isolation tank in which I have her now
with such force that fear she will
batter herself to pieces.
AFTER this swimming fit, she sinks
listlessly to the bottom, tail downward,
almost perpendicular in the water. One
pectoral I'm appears paralyzed. 1t is
with effort that she rights herself and
stays afloat.
These symptoms lead me to believe
that she has swimming bladder trouble,
for which I believe no cure exists. I
have placed her in shallow salt water,
maintaining a relatively high tempera-
ture. incidentally, this attack could not
have been provoked by temperature
changes because the tank has been fairly
close to radiator, and the temperature,
by observation, has not been lower than
II degrees or higher than 76 degrees in
over month.
"The sick fish has no fungus or tall
rot. Her eyes seem to protrude slightly
Apparently, she has no desire to eat
OF course, the fish may simply be dying
a natural death of old age Il do not
know how old it was when I purchased
it, Do you have any ideas or COM
ments?
Question No. 2-One Of the guppy
fry has never grown much longer than
e-eighths Of an inch No coloring has
appeared on it, and its scales seem to
be ruftled somewhat 1t is active, ener-
getic, eats at rare intervals, but other
wise seems to be getting along all right
in the weak salt solution in another tank
I believe it must have some fungus, but
it has been under treatment for about
three weeks. Do you advise destroying
it? I would appreciate any suggestions
you have. Sincerely, B. w. T."
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