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Evening star., 1939-01-26
Randolph 10 Be Heard
On D. {. Suffrage

Chairman Randolph of the House
District Committee will discuss the
campaign for suffrage in the Dis
trict at a dinner to be given by
the District Voteless League of
Women Voters at the American
Association of University Women
headquarters Tuesday evening at
$50 o'clock.
The league pointed out today, in
announcing plans for the dinner,
that this will be Mr. Randolph's s
first speech on the suffrage ques-
ton since he became chairman of
the committee handling District
legislation in the House.
Another speaker at the dinner
will be Mrs Harris T. Baldwin. vice
president of the National League
of Women Voters. who will discuss
the Government merit system.
The program also calls for dis
cussion from the floor of the Federal
civil service setup and proposals
for a separate civil service in the
District. Mrs. B. NJ McKelWay
will explain the bill proposing to
Evening star., 1939-01-26
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Evening star., 1939-01-26
Nitrogen Gas Found
Good Insulation
Inside Cables
New Way Of Reducing
Underground Costs
Told to Engineers
BY HOWARD w. BLAKESLEE,

BY HOWARD w. bLAhESLEE,
Associated Press scienes Editor.
NEW YORK, Jan. ga discovery
that nitrogen gas is good insulation
inside electric power cables was an
nounced to the American Institute Of
Electrical Engineers today.
The gas is new way of cutting
down the expense of underground
power cables. The first two lines
have been laid in New York City and
Yonkers and were described by G.. B.
Shanklin of the General Electric
Co., Schenectady.
Power cables are made of thin
lead, air tight. They contain bun
dies of copper wire, each insulated
with wrappings of impregnated pa
per. This insulation takes a lot Of
space, so much that many areas face
the expensive job of enlarging un-
derground conduits to make room for
more wires.
The new cables have three round
channels running lengthwise, into
which, when the cable is manufac-
tured, nitrogen is pumped at 10 to
Is pounds pressure square inch.
Seeping into the paper, it reinforces
the insulation so much that the
thickness of paper can be greatly
reduced. and more wires be used.
Very little nitrogen, Mr. Shanklin
said, is lost in the laying. In Yonkers
the new cable is connected with
nitrogen tanks every 1000 feet to
maintain pressure. In New York
City, as an experiment, the cable has
no nitrogen tanks, and is main
tanning satisfactory pressure.
Evening star., 1939-01-26
Former Kaiser Thanks
Dutch for Hospitality
By the Associate6 Press

BY the Associated Press.
DOORN, The Netherlands, Jan.
26-Former Kaiser Wilhelm, hale
and hearty on the eve of his 8Oth
birthday, expressed appreciation to-
day to the government and people
of the Netherlands for their hos
pitality to him during more than 20
years of exile.
The manner in which this hos
pitality was extended hade it easier
for his majesty to bear his dire fate"
said the former German monarch S
adjutant, Baron Ulrich Won SELL
The former Kaiser will receive a
gift from the people of Doom to-
morrow when the largest assemblage
of Hohenzollerns since Wilhelm cele-
brated his 10th birthday will gather
here.
Evening star., 1939-01-26
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establish the District merit system
Chairman Summers of the House
Judiciary Committee and a repre-
sentative of the United States Civil
Service Commission also will take
part in this discussion.
Mrs. Louis Gutenberg, president
of the league, will preside at the
opening of the meeting. The speak
ers will be presented by Mrs. Charles
Weston, chairman of the league S
department of government and its
operation, in charge of the dinner
program.
Evening star., 1939-01-26
Entry Of Refugees
Under Bond Souqht

By the Associated Press.
Senator Smathers, Democrat, Of
New Jersey proposed today the
United States admit aged political
and religious refugees whose rela-
tives in this country can guarantee
their support with $4,000 bond.
He introduced a bill to amend the
immigration Act SO such persons
could be admitted without reference
to quotas.
The amendment would prohibit
the aged refugees from engaging in
Evening star., 1939-01-26

trade here under penalty of for
feiture of the bond, would not allow
them citizenship and would prevent
them from becoming eligible for old
age pensions.
Evening star., 1939-01-26
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Evening star., 1939-01-26


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Evening star., 1939-01-05
Presidents s w. P. A. MESSAGE
$875,ooo,o0o Deficiency Appropriation
Asked; States Control Opposed

The text of the Presidents mes
sage today to Congress, asking a de-
ficiency appropriation of $875 5,OO0, 900
for the w. P. A., follows:
In my message of April IA, 1888, I
presented to the Congress certain
recommendations covering programs
for the Works Progress Administra-
ton, for public works and for hous-
ing, which were designed to increase
the purchasing power Of the Nation,
to stimulate business activity and to
provide increased employment. SUBJ
sequently, in the Emergency Relief
Appropriation Act of 1898, approved
June 81, 1888, the Congress appro-
priated to the Works Progress Ad->>
ministration the sum of sl,425 ,OOO,-
900, together with certain balances of
previous allocations to that Adminis-
tration which remained unobliAted
on June 80, 1888 BY other legislas
ton S23,000,000 of this appropriation
was reserved for specific purposes
and therefore was not available for
the Works Progress Administration
program. In section of the act, the
Congress provided that the available
funds should be apportioned over the
first eight months of the fiscal year
1889, and further. authorized me to
modify that apportionment in the
event of an extraordinary emergency
or unusual circumstance which
could not be anticipated at the time
the apportionment was made.
Since the enactment by the Con-
gress of legislation providing funds
for the programs recommended in
my message, substantial business and
industrial improvement has oc-
cured throughout the country. How
ever, during the period prior to the
adoption of this legislation, when
Evening star., 1939-01-05

is the amount which I recommend
to the Congress In view Of the fact
previously mentioned, that the funds
now available are barely sufficient to
finance the Works Progress Ad-
ministios, through the month OF
January, 1889, / urge speedy action
on the part Of the Congress to pro-
vide these additional funds in order
to prevent disruption of the program
and consequent suffering and want
on the part Of the unemployed.
I realize that the Congress may
wiSh TO prescribe by legislation the
manner n which funds appropriated
to the Works Progress Administra-
tiion, and other appropriations, shall
be distributed. However, the prob
lem OF distributing work-relief funds
Is complicated one involving
factors not only Of population. but
Of economic, and unemployment con-
ditions In various sections of the
country. The hasty adoption Of legis-
lative provisions, to be Immediately
effective, which radically change the
present method of distributing
Works Progress Administrator
funds, would greatly complicate the
administration Of the program in
the coming months. : I therefore. be-
Ieve that the Congress should make
this question the subject Of study
and hearings, with a view to de-
termining a policy to obtain in the
fiscal year 1910, but that the ap-
preparation recommended in this
message should be made on the same
terms as that for the first part of
the fiscal year 1889.
Opposes Turning Program
Over to Local Boards.
No one wishes more sincerely
than I do that the program for as
sisting unemployed workers shall be
completely free from political mani
pulation. However, any one who
proposes that this result can be
achieved by turning the admins
tration Of a work program over to
local boards is either insincere or is
ignorant OF the realities OF local
American politics.
1t is my belief that improper po-
,litical practices can be eliminated
only by the imposition of rigid stat
utory regulations and penalties by
the Congress, and that this should
be done. Such penalties should be
imposed not only upon persons
within the administrative organi-
zation OF the Works Progress Ad-
ministration, but also upon outsiders,
who have, In fact, in many instances
been the principal offenders in this
regard. My only reservation in this
matter is that no legislation should
be enacted which will in any way
deprive workers on the Works Prog
gress Administration program of the
civil rights to which they are en-
titled in common with other citizens.
In connection with the above, I
invite your attention to the fact
that under the provisions of execu-
tive order No. 1916, the adminis-
trative employees of the Works Prog
resS Administration, with the excep-
tion of relatively small number of
positions, will be brought under the
civil service February l, 1899.
1t Is my intention to transmit to
the Congress, probably in the month
of April, supplemental estimate
covering the appropriation which
will be required to provide work re-
lief for persons in need in the fiscal
year 1910.
Evening star., 1939-01-05
Putting ". P. A. Staff
Under Civil Service
Draws Fire
80
Order Will Protect Many
lncompetent Employees,
Opponents Assert
0y The Associated Press.

By The Associated Press.
clear-cut opposition developed In
Congress today to placing w. P. A.
administrative employees under civil
I serSice. =
Opponents interpreted the move
to sput $4,000 employees under civil
service February as trend toward
making the w. P. A. permanent
agency. They declared it would give
a preferred job-holding status to
many administrative employees they
consider incompetent. s.,
Proponents replied that 1t was q
step toward eliminating the politics
IN relief" for which the w. P. A. has
been criticized.
Col. F. G. Harrington, new relief
administrator, said the move would
involve all administrative personnel,
IN washington and the field, with
the exception of a small number of
poHcy-making positions"
Says Step Mandatory.
He said the step was mandatory
under a presidential order approved
last June "a, and that he heartily
indprsed it.
Tt's marvellous perversion Of the
ordinary American process" COM
mented Senator Vandenberg, Repub-
lcan, of Michigan.
Ordinarily, the result of such an
Indictment as was filed by the Shep-
Dard committee against the w. P. A.
would mean the wholesale evacua-
ton OF the gangSterS.' Instead, they
are to be rewarded by life tenure in
their rocking chairs"
Senator Vandenberg referred to a
report of the Senate Campaign Ex-
perditures Committee which criti-
edzed instances of political activity
Ey w. P. A. officials and exertion of
political influence on some w. P. A.
workers.
''The w. P. A. as an emergency
sgency," the Senator continued, Ger
sainly ought to be run on a merit
oasis, but any transfer to such
basis ought to carry no implication
CT permanence. Merit standing
ought to be determined by free COM
petitive examinations and not
merely by putting sleeps clothing
on the wolves"
NOn-COmpetitive Examination.
The Executive order provides that
w. P. A. officials will be taken into
she civil service by non-competi-
tive examination. The Civil Service
Commission could reject any that
1t found unfit.
Senator ByrneS, Democrat, OF
South Carolina, chairman of a spe-
slal Senate Relief Committee, in
sisted this method was the rou-
tine procedure when departments
are taken into the civil service.
1T puts the w. P. A. in the same
status as every other department
Of Government-no better and no
worse" Senator Byrnes said. IF
politics are to be kept out of it, it
will be up to the Civil Service Com
mission to enforce the law that pro-
libits such politics.
Senator Wheeler, Democrat, of
Montana said he believed it would
3e a mistake to place many of the
present administrative officials un-
Ger civil service. But Senator Adams,
Democrat, of Colorado, chairman
OF the subcommittee which handles
relief appropriations, predicted the
public would approve the action.
However" Senator Adams added.
7 personally doubt the wisdom of
putting any temporary agency un-
der civil service"
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unemployment was increasing, the
increase in the number employed on
the-~Works Progress Administration
program did not keep pace with the
need for employment because the
Works Progress Administration had
funds to employ only part of those
who were out Of jobs.
Lag Before Impact Of
JObless Reaches w. p. A.
In addition, in period of increas-
ing unemployment there is a lag be-
fore the impact of the jobless
reaches the Works Progress Admin
istration. This is because workers
who lose their jobs exhaust their
private resources before applying for
relief. Furthermore, the time inter-
vening between the loss of private
jobs and the need for Works Progress
Administration employment is now
considerably greater than heretofore
because of the operation of the un-
employment compensation program.
Therefore, with the passage of the
Emergency Relief Appropriation
Act Of 1898, the Works Progress
Administration expanded its pro-
gram in an effort more nearly to
meet the needs of the unemployed.
While beginning in July, 1888, 1885,
600 to 100000 workers were volun-
tarily leaving Works Progress Ad-
ministration projects each month,
1t was necessary to add from 2OO,-
600 to 100000 others monthly to
the rolls in order to met the needs
OF those whose personal resources or
compensation benefits had become
exhausted, and to take back as re-
quired by Section II of the act. those
who had left the Works Progress
Administration for private employ
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w. P. A.
Continued From First Page)

four factors as making the addi-
uonal funds necessary, over and
above the 81, ,425 ,000, 900 appropriated
for the first eight months of this
year.
Two factors, he said, were foreign
developments and the New England
hurricane. Others were that en-
ployment on w. P. A. projects failed
to keep pace with the need because
OF lack of sufficient funds, and what
the President called a customary
lag before the impact" of the job
less reaches the w. P. A. He said the
875000,000 sought would employ an
average of 100000 workers in Feb
ruary and March and diminishing
number beginning in April. He pre-
dicted the total would 60 down to
2,700,000 in June.
He said the w. P. A. rolls increased
from 100000 at the beginning of
July, 1888, to a peak of 3,350,OOO.
This number has been declining in
the past few weeks and on Decem-
Der II 1t had fallen to 3112OO0.
January employment on w. P. A.
would approximate 100000 he said.
The President said the relief pro-
gram at present was being conducted
at an average Federal cost of about
$6l per worker per month, of which
only 81 was overhead administrative
expense.
s3,1s7 $685. 900 Outlay.
The proposed five-month allot-
ment is the second work-relief allo-
cation the administration has re-
quested of Congress for the year
which began last July /.
The first appropriation of $1425.-
100000 was expected to last until
March l, but w. P. A. officials have
reported it will be exhausted by
February 8.
Mr.. Roosevelt estimated that all
recovery and relief expenditures
including aid to farmers and home
owners, the works program and di-
rect relief, would amount in the II
months ending June 80 to $3,187,-
695, 900.
The comparable expenditure for
the succeeding II months, he said,
would be $2,266, 165 900, provided the
tentative $l,500,O0OO for the
w. p. A. still seems to be adequate
when he sends up revised relief esti-
mates in April. Thus he contem-
plates . reduction of 1921 $50 900 In |
recovery and relief expenditures In |
the next fiscal year. ]
Evening star., 1939-01-05
Christmas Decoration
Winners Announced

The Waycroft Citizens Associa-
ton of Arlington County, Va, has
announced the winners in their
second annual Christmas decoration
contest as follows:
John T. Funkhouser, Abs North
Washington boulevard, first prize;
Roy Harrison, 4914 Eleventh street
north, second prize; Frank L.
Louckes, jr., 1920 North Washington
boulevard, third prize, and Kelvin
Pardoe, 1907 North Dinwiddie street,
fourth prize. The prizes were do
mated by neighborhood merchants.
The judges were Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
ward Coulson and Harry Pail, men,
bers Of the Neighborhood Garden
Club Of the county.
Evening star., 1939-01-05

ment and whose employment had
been terminated through no fault
of their own.
The demands upon the Works
Progress Administration appropori-
alton were increased by two addi-
tional factors. The critical foreign
situation has had an adverse effect
upon American business and indus
trial employment in this country,
and has been an unexpected de-
f1ationary force affecting the prices
of commodities entering into world
markets, such as certain Of our i'm
portant agriculture commodities.
This has accentuated relief prob
lens in important areas in the coun-
try. In addition, the hurricane
which devastated large areas OF
New England last September seri-
ously dislocated industry and trade
in the northeastern section of the
country and added to the relief
burden In that area.
Number of Workers Drop
In Past Few Weeks.
AS a result of the foregoing fac
tors, the employment provided from
the Works Progress Administration
appropriation increased from $780,
900 at the beginning of July, 1898, to
peak OF 3,350,000. During the past
few weeks the number has been de-
clining. On December "a, 1898, the
total had fallen to 3,l12,O0O, and it
Is expected that the employment
during the month of January will
approximate 100000. The forego-
ing figures include employment pro-
vided with funds transferred by the
Works Progress Administration to
other Federal agencies under the au-
thority Of Section of the act. An
average Of 10000 persons are thus
employed under conditions entirely
similar to those pertaining in the
main Works Progress Administra-
ton program.
Under the conditions outlined
above, the funds appropriated to the
Works Progress Administration will
be barely adequate to finance the
operations Of that agency through
Evening star., 1939-01-05
$4,000 for Syphilis Study

ANNAPOLIS, Md, Jan. 5 (P.-
DR.. Robert H. Riley, director of the
State Health Department, an
nounced here today a gift of $4,000
had been made to the department
for expansion Of syphilis control and
study in Queen Anne's County. The
donor Of the fund wished to remain
ANONYMOUS, .
Evening star., 1939-01-05
Cost approximately SCI
Per Worker Per Month,

The Works Progress Administra-
ton program is at present being
conducted at an average Federal cost
OF approximately s61 per worker per
month, of which only 50 is overhead
administrative expense. Therefore, to
provide the employment set forth
above. a deficiency appropriation of
$875 900 900 will be required, and this
Evening star., 1939-01-05

Cle mOIlCn OI Jauudry, 1859. lncre.
fore, in accordance with the author
ity contained in Section Of the
Emergency Relief Appropriation Act
Of 1888, have apportioned those
funds to be used during the first
seven months of the fiscal year.
It is believed that sufficient funds
should now be appropriated to the
Works Progress Administration for
the balance Of the current fiscal
year to employ an average Of 3,OO0,-
600 workers in February and March,
and a diminishing number begin
ming in April which would reach
figure of 2,700,000 in June. This
would include the numbers to be
employed with funds transferred
to other Federal agencies. The en-
ployment proposed for February and
March, which Is the same number
that is expected to be reached in
January, is justified by seasonal
factors and the lag in outside con-
struction operations which always
occurs on account of weather con-
ditions. In fact, there is normally
an increase in the need for employ
ment during these winter months.
and the funds available to the Works
Progress Administration have not
been sufficient to enable it to as
sign to its program a large number
OF employable persons who have
been certified as in need of relief,
The Washington times., 1939-01-28
BY Ray Moore

sS1 ~So
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Look in the section your BIRTH
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your outlook is, according to
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FOR SUNDAY, JANUARY 20
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