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Evening star., 1939-01-06
The District BUDGET

For the first time in more than a
half century, a budget for the District
has been forwarded to Congress with
no provision in existing statute giving
a legal rule, policy or yardstick by
which the Federal share of the costs
of the National Capital may be
measured.
The budget carries a lump sum
Federal payment of $5,000,0O0, but
this represents no final conclusion
on the part of the budget-makers Of
the proper amount of Federal respon-
sibility in accord with statute, for the
long-standing provision in substan-
tive law, calling for a 60-40 division
of costs, was erased from the books
at the last session of Congress. The
listing of $5,000,000 sum in the
budget constitutes a mere repetition
OF this years Federal appropriation.
This situation places peculiar re-
sponsibility on the part of the new
Congress, since it now may determine
the size of the payment without the
aid OF any precept in existing law.
For this reason it is particularly
gratifying that Senator Overton, the
new chairman of the District sub
committee on appropriations OF the
Senate, has approached the problem
with recognition of the need for
some permanent, definite and equi-
table formula
The budget proposes expenditures
of some s47,60O,OOO, which will call
for new tax legislation, since the
business privilege levy and the def
mite requirement of a real estate tax
rate of SITS will expire June 30. On
this basis a deficit of between $3,O0O,-
600 and $4O00,O0O is indicated. Com
mittees and congressional experts
already have drafted plans for large
scale revision of the tax structure.
The budget contains one very sur
prising element, a decrease rather
than an increase in appropriations
for the Health Department and its
many-sided services In view of re-
cent concern voiced by the President
over the Districts health situation,
it had been anticipated there would
be greater funds for fighting disease.
Perhaps supplemental estimates will
solve the puzzle.
Capital outlays provided under the
budget plan amount to less than 81
100000, considerably less than munic-
ipal experts have calculated as
needed, but this is offset to a large
degree by the Districts own $780,
600 public works program, now
started. AS desirable as this program
is, however, major needs were not
covered in the P. w. A. plan. The
school building program and funds
for starting of construction of the
new central building for the Free
Public Library are major examples.
Evening star., 1939-01-06
Shooting Stors
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Good Morning, Judge!

Good Morning, Judge!
We used to be stars in the days long ago
When we went to police court and stood
in row.
The papers would mention the things
that we did,
And print what we said; but our glory
is hid
With juries persistently doing their best
To put our great millionaires under arrest.
The pace that we once used to strike
seems to lag,
There isn't much chance for regular
Vag.
Now all sorts of people are out in array,
From kings of finance to tenor so gay,
We feel that we don't quite belong to the
set,
"Mongst those that were present" is
all that we get.
It's hard, after such an extended career,
To be thus overshadowed as great men
draw near.
But now we are beat, from the drop of
the flag,
There's no show at all for a regular vag!
Evening star., 1939-01-06
Skiold Increase

Usually, when an agency of Gov
ernment announces prospective
increase in the number of its en-
ployes, two reactions are noticed:
The increase means more jobs, more
income in the city; but it also means
a slightly greater drain on the tax
payer. In the case OF the prospective
increase of six hundred per cent in
the number of employees on the rolls
of the Districts Alley Dwelling
Authority, neither of these conclu-
sions is exactly correct.
The A. D. A. derives it's funds
almost entirely through loans, not
grants, and it has no direct appro-
priation for administrative expenses.
These are paid out of it's general fund
and count as costs. Thus tax reve-
nues are not drawn upon to pay
salaries. On the other hand, the six
hundred per cent increase is not a
permanent boost. The increase will
be gradual as the program of slum
clearance projects progresses, and
will decrease gradually as it is
completed.
For several years, the A. D. AS
staff of eighteen has carried out a
100000 program to improve the
housing conditions of Washington
lower income group. Starting this
year it is authorized to borrow
million dollars year for five years
to expand this program. This new
fund is expected to provide for COM
pletion of eight small projects in
the near future. In addition, it has
an earmarked fund of $15,OOO,OO0
with the United States Housing Au-
thority, more than $6,6OO,O0O of
which it already has negotiated as
a loan to build four large-scale
apartment communities.
In view OF the tremendous increase
in results by the A. D. A., and of
the benefits which will accrue to the
entire community from it's work, the
= temporary six hundred per cent
increase in its staff appears to be
well justified.
Evening star., 1939-01-06
The Elliott Report

In again urging legislation to pro-
vide a stricter check on Government
expenditures, Acting Controller Gen
eral Elliott emphasizes the need for
applying principle that would
seem to be demanded by the most
elemental of good business practices.
There are score of agencies whose
accounts are not subject to an inde-
pendent audit, either because they
are exempt by law from supervision
by the General Accounting Office or
refuse to submit to it's authority. The
result, as Mr.. Elliott's report points
out, is that millions of dollars are
disbursed without adequate safe
guards. It is the same as though a
Evening star., 1939-01-06
Felix Frunkfurter

The nomination of Felix Frank
furter to the Supreme Court is a
choice that will meet with general
approval.
No doubt some protests will be
heard because Of his close associa-
ton with the New Deal and the
influential part he has played in
shaping some Of the Roosevelt reform
policies. In passing judgment on the
nomination of Mr.. Frankfurter, how
ever, it is we'll to bear in mind that
his efforts have been directed toward
forming the objectives of the present
administration, with which most
people are in sympathy, and not
toward devising the methods for at
tanning those objectives. It is in the
choice of methods rather than ends
that the New Deal has fallen into
its gravest errors.
In matters pertaining to the field
Evening star., 1939-01-06
THIS AND THAT
BY Charles Z. Trace.ueu.

This fault In the old recording has not
been entirely corrected by the modern
ways Of recording through electricity.
The piano, especially in the middle
register, and the French and English
horns are the worst offenders, among the
instruments.
The fact that many persons cannot tell
q sour note from true one is partly the
result Of lack of training.
Especially the playing Of some stringed
instrument, which the performer himself
must keep IN tune, is good for the musical
ear.
Such people always know when a note
is sour, whether they are playing it them
selves, or listening to some one else play
1t.
Their precious ears are accurate, in
other words. They can measure the fire.
quencies OF the notes coming to them,
and, through the nerves and brain, in
form the hearer whether he Is hearing
the real thing or an approximation.
These people are rather critical phono-
graph record buyers. Great names mean
little to them. They know that even the
greatest orchestras on disc may give
forth sour notes, particularly at the end
ing Of a slide.
Once they have heard such a false
tone, wholly unrealized by persons with
less keen ears, forever afterwards they
are listening for it, always hoping against
hope that it will not sound so false the
next time. Sometimes it doesn't; occa-
sionally the needle has something to do
With 1t. Notes are more likely to be sour
on the bowed side of record.
The world of fragrances and smells is
not appreciated as much as it ought to be.
Good or bad, an odor is manifesta-
ton Of some sort of chemical action, or
an action which has taken place.
What Is too heavy for one nose will
seem just right to the next.
Nothing in the world pleases cat more
than the smell of salmon, whereas most
humans find it rather too much of a good
thing.
The odor of good cigar-there is
something very pleasing to some, in
tensely disagreeable to others.
The fragrance of pines is one which
most Of us like, and this preference has
been made the basis of whole industry
today.
Some men have as keen nostrils as any
wolf or bear They can smell the Slight
est thing in the air. There is a local
man who can smell salmon opened in
the kitchen several seconds before the
household cat.
The sense of smell links us closest of
all to the animals. They need it for food
and safety. Today man has cut himself
of partly from the primitive necessity of
a good "smeller," but the olfactory sense
can be cultivated, and should be. Above
all one should never be ashamed of the
ability to smell correctly. 1t is still of
great use.
Evening star., 1939-01-06
Pedestrian Control Held
Demoralizing Influence.

To the Editor of The Star:
In attempting to control pedestrians
there is danger of demoralizing the
public and we should do well to be on
our guard.
The public will be demoralized if
subjected to further police regulations.
Children ought to be trained to look
both ways before crossing a road and
then to walk across-never to run. It
is quite impossible to keep a child always
under close supervision, and if we at
tempt to do so we only weaken the
childs faculties and leave him a prey
to the danger which sooner or later is
inevitable
The police will be demoralized if they
arrest more and more people for techni-
cal offenses instead of concentrating on
the few offenders who really drive dan
gerously. Many of us think there Is
already ground for complaint in this
connection. HERBERT CARTER.
Arlington, Va.
January 2.
Evening star., 1939-01-06

A fragrance Is something you like, q
stink something your nose does not ap-
prove; . smell may be good or bad, and
an odor likewise, although In todays
lingo it is likely to be on the pleasant
side.
The world is full Of smells, some Of
them good, some bad. with q great deal
depending upon the olfactory powers Of
the individual.
Thus there are people to whom the
slightest unpleasant smell is nauseating,
whereas a fine fragrance really sets them
up for the day.
There are people who can't smell the
difference between violets and beefsteak
cooking. Some people are odor-blind,
as it were, often without knowing 1t.
Then there are whole groups of humans
who seem to be totally Indifferent to
odors, good or bad.
The outrageous stink Of an old sour
bonfire does not displease them in the
least; the smell Of burning wood, which
frightens others, appeals to them almost
as a fragrance.
So it goes. u
What is one persons fragrance Is an
other ones stink.
The acrid fumes Of gasoline are dis
agreeable to some, q matter Of complete
indifference to others.
No two persons seem to agree as to
what is pleasant in q perfume, for in
stance.
A keen tangy smell Of woodlands is
entirely lost on some, whereas a heavy,
cloying odor. of the sort which Is abso-
lutely disgusting to one nose, Is the very
acme OF perfection to the next.
~
When the senses are involved, Of course,
1t not only is matter of taste, but above
all OF the equipment the individual was
given in the first place.
Yet the average person seems to over
look this fact. Too often we see some one
judging every one else in the world solely
by his own senses, that is, he seems to
think that the tasting, touching, smelling
and hearing powers Of every one else are
and positively must be exactly like his
own.
Thus he Is inclined to regard you as q
total loss If you do not find agreeable
what he finds delightful In the worlds
of sound, TASTE odor, etc.
You might think offhand it would oc-
cur to almost any one this side of idiocy
that no two persons would have the same
sort Of smelling powers, for instance.
Il
It is a well-known fact that great
many folks who love music are, never
theless, almost totally pitch-deaf.
They do not know when a note is true
or odkey.
When such person buys phonograph
record, he is very fortunate, perhaps, for
then he will not know which notes have
been recorded correctly and which are
just little bit of. or "sour." mostly on
the fiat side.
Evening star., 1939-01-06
Every Home
Needs On Almanac

And 1t naturally follows that If one
needs an almanac at all, 1t should be a
good one. UNCLE SANS ALMANAC.
compiled by Frederic j. Haskin, is. a
private publication assembled mainly
from governmental sources. and it is
conceded to be the best of its kind, for
a dime, ever issued. In this excellent
little booklet Mr.. Haskin brings the art
OF compiling wanted information to a
high level. 1t Is packed with the kind
of facts and figures that we constantly
have need for. Order your copy now
and your book will come to you promptly.
Evening star., 1939-01-06
Sees Little Benefit
From Lima Conference.


From Lima Conference.
To the Editor Of The Star:
In your issue of December 30, last, Is
the editorial Lima Failure" It seems
by the editorial that Berlin says the
Pan-American Conference is Of no mo-
ment.
Germany, having large monied inter-
ests and big business in South America,
could not be expected to praise the con-
ference. To Germany the conference in
question contains threat.
Some of us old-timers can recall many
years ago when we had big business in
Brazil-but lost it to Germany. Not that
Brazil liked Germanys products better
than ours, but where we demanded either
spot cash or short-time credits on our
sales, German merchants gave plenty OF
time on payments. Then there was a
question of packing. Our business men
packed their goods in such frail contain
ers that much was entirely lost in transit
or badly damaged.
OF course there are other countries
with large interests in South America,
and it is hardly to be expected they will
look with favor on this last Pan-Ameri-
can Conference. They are probably sharp
enough to see that the United States,
with her high cost Of production, cannot
meet their price, let alone undersell, so
they are just sitting tight with q pat
hand.
Then there is the military guard that
President Roosevelt says he will throw
around South America, when at the same
time he has raided his own Treasury to
the point which leaves a doubt that he
could protect our own shores against
invasion. +
We of the United States have known
very little Of the Lima Conference. We
rod Wh9s 0sastasy null hAs bssn
Evening star., 1939-01-06
Suggestion for Mr.. Ickes
On w. p. A. Signs.

To the Editor Of The Star:
Even New Dealer should possess a
sufficient sense Of humor to smile at
Dear Harold's objections to the signs
displayed on w. P. A. highway projects.
The writer has frequently heard these
signs criticized for inaccuracy of state
ment for who, after passing one of these
warning notices has actually found the
activity alleged?
The 1ckes Interpretation of the sign,
no doubt, more accurately states the
case by changing an adverb to an ad-
jective, but evidently it is the adjective
that Harold doesn't like. Why not cor
rect the phrase dramatically and MAIN
tain its veracity by placing the noun
first, the verb next and the adverb
with the required "ly" added in its
natural position?
December 30. J. B. MERRITT.
Evening star., 1939-01-06
Thinks Control Favory
Motoring Public.
TO the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
I have almost enough clippings on
pedestrian control to write book. So
far have kept out Of the discussion,
but can't any longer. First, haven't
seen any letters from pedestrians who
favor pedestrian control-in other words,
pedestrian control will react In favor of
the motorist.
Second, why doesn't the police de-
partment concentrate on the prevention
Of crimes; such as robbery and assault,
etc., instead Of wasting valuable time
and energy to regulate pedestrians, who
are endangered enough already. My
vote is to control motorists.
SEMPER VERITAA.
Evening star., 1939-01-06

applauded and praised, and where Mr..
Landon heartily agrees with all that is
done. This latter seems hardly possible.
Many Of us think that Landon was in
bad company on his way to Lima-but
we notice he came home in an airship
January 2. A DEMOCRAT.
Evening star., 1939-01-06
Displeased With Appointment
OF Governor Murphy.
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor OF The Star:
The appointment of Harry Hopkins as
Secretary Of Commerce was bad enough,
but that of Gov Murphy caps the climax
1t will make sick at heart and arouse the
Indignation of every patriotic citizen,
and I'LL him with foreboding as to the
future welfare of the Nation. It is a
recognition of the revolutionary c. l. O.
and will encourage it in continued law
less activities. Gov Murphy has become
a symbol of political cowardice-for his
surrender to and compromise with the
forces of evil and destruction in our
national life. Such was undoubtedly the
opinion of the people Of Michigan, who
repudiated him in the recent election,
and his appointment to the Attorney
Generalship will and should be consid-
cred by them as an affront and an in
suit. 1t is now said in justification Of
his conduct in the sit-down strikes that
to have used force to suppress them
would have resulted in their destroying
the property Of the companies. This is
hardly probable as they would not have
destroyed the only means of their future
employment: and if it did 50 result, which
is of greater Importance, the supremacy
of government and law and order or the
preservation of few material things?
Such an argument, If carried to its
logical conclusion, means that in the
event of revolution the Government will
supinely surrender and permit itself to
be overthrown by the hoodlum and
gangster elements of society. Gov. Muir
phys appointment to the law-enforcing
department of the Government will have
far-reaching and baneful results and
consequence in our national life.
January 2. AMERICAN.
Evening star., 1939-01-06
Appreciated Product.

what do you regard as the most
Important thing produced by Ameri-
cans?" asked one European.
And without a moments hesitation the
other answered: Money"
Evening star., 1939-01-06
Problem of the "DOwn
And Out" Citizens.

Problem Of the "Down
And Out" Citizens.
| To the Editor of The Star:
At the Central Union Mission and
other feeding stations" I have noticed
that these places simply can't provide
sufficient sleeping quarters for all those
who apply. They haven't the room. For
those who have to be turned away it is,
so understand, the box car, the lumber
| yard, some half demolished building, or
else they have to skulk around Union
Station. The attendants there are hui
name but every once in while they
have to make them get move on.
AS for police arrangements for such
here In Washington, I don't know
thing. But in Baltimore, in the old days.
each one of the seven or eight station
houses contained large heated room for
the floor accommodation of such guests.
in bitter cold weather. Here we have
the Union Station again, public lava
tories and such. Those who still have
a front" may also study in the Public
Library, half awake and half asleep.
And so would say: The District, and
not at such great expense, might take
hand. It might rent some vacant
warehouse, heat 1t, light it, provide toilet
facilities. put in lot of old tables,
chairs and benches, and keep the place
open during all hours (from November
to April 15).
The Government, I believe, some years
ago maintained full time" transient
station here (eating and sleeping). Why
not open one just for keeping warm"
purposes? The benefciaries themselves
could be made to attend to the sweeping
and mopping, supervised by some attend
ants ('bum bossesD. These might be
paid something and the Mission no doubt
would be prepared to provide such over
seers
No fancy jobholders at fancy pay. This
is usually the first idea that occurs
whenever some new agency is being dis
cussed. IT wonder if that would make
Job for that brother-in-law Of mine? I
have been keeping that guy long enough" :"
Nothing doing; keep on keeping him. In
the meantime, Here, but for the grace Of
God, am l." FRED VETTER.
December -.
Evening star., 1939-01-06
Protected,

II suppose you will be very careful not
to make any mistakes during your first
term"
"Mistakes!" achoed the new member.
II should say not. am so completely
sighted that don't even get a chance
to make mistakes"
Evening star., 1939-01-06
Vanishing Privileges.

Talk still is cheap! Oh, happy lot!
No doubt if trusts could work it right
Twould be so dear that we could not
Make resolutions New Years Night.
Evening star., 1939-01-06
Working Overtime.

Now doth the politician note
Once more the scrapbook anecdote.
BY changing just name or two
He makes it seem as good as new,
Evening star., 1939-01-06
Says Uncle Eben,

De seasons dey don seem de same:
De climate done disguise 'em.
I knows de different months by name
But ! can't recognize, EN-.
Evening star., 1939-01-06
Letters to The Star

Letters to the Editor must bear
the name and address OF the
Drtter. although the use OF
pseudonym TOR publication is per-
n1iSsible. Please be briet!
Evening star., 1939-01-06
Some of the People.

There is statesman" said the admir-
ing citizen, who is incapable of deceiving
the public"
WELL" answered Senator Sorghum,
that depends more or less on how smart
the public is"
Evening star., 1939-01-06

Many men give good advice" said
Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown. 1T is
always easier to prescribe medicine than
1t is to take it,
Evening star., 1939-01-06
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@. Is The Temple in London a law
school?-J. C.
A. The term, Temple is used to refer
to the buildings in which barristers and
law students reside. The two societies,
Inner Temple and Middle Temple. are
two OF the four Inns of Court established
In early times for the study and prac-
tice of law. They occupy the sites of
the buildings Of the Order of knights
Templars in England.
Evening star., 1939-01-06

WASHIN GTON, D. C.
FRIDAY January 6, 1888