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The Washington times., 1939-01-06
WARNING GIVEN
TO NURSES ON
GROUP HEALTH

Warning to nurses to be on their
guard against possible pitfalls in
the trend toward State medicine
was sounded today by a speaker
at the symposium on nursing at
Catholic University.
Sister Rita Voss, the director
Providence Hospital School OF
Nursing of this city, declared:
Estate medicine which has
been developing rapidly in the
last few years may have its af-
feet on nursing schools,
ADVANTAGES WEIGHED
"The question that arises is
whether or not the influence of
State medicine will be an ad-
vantage or disadvantage. Will
the help of the States be of a
greater advantage to nursing
education than can be offset by
having the States dictate to us?
Can nurses become Suf-
ficiently powerful as to influence
the Government to take the
right direction in the control of
nursing? Nurses should watch
State medicine and prepare
either to fall in line or struggle
against it,"
Another speaker, Miss M. Cor.
della Towan, executive secretary,
Examining Board of the
District, touched on the question
of group health when she said:
I'VE have seen some of this
planning for group health. We
will probably see a great deal
more in the fture.
WARNING SEEN
1.-THE present threat to medi-
cine of the loss of control un-
less planning takes social needs
into better account, might well
be warning to nursing"
The two speakers were among
more than a score on the second
day program of the symposium on
nursing education, a feature of
Catholic University's, golden jubi-
lee.
The Washington times., 1939-01-06

the part of English women that
the duchess does not rate a
curtsy. And I believe that soon
that will be changed, that she
will be accepted by the royal
family, and then every one will
curtsy to her. And I'm glad that
I'm one of the first to have done
it.
Il see nothing wrong in
curtSy. For one thing, when
come on the stage, / always
curtsy TO my audience. I have
received six medals in Europe,
and when they we're presented
l always dropped a curtsy to the
royalty making the presenta-
ton"
When she landed in New York
Miss Moore was wearing the blue
ribbon Of the Belgian Order of the
Crown, which was presented to hel
on November %.
When Miss Moore saw the
duchess at the Cannes concert
she dropped her curtsy to the
duchess, and added:
Il think she's a wonderful
woman, and 100 per cent Amer.
lcan. She has made the duke
happy"
The Washington times., 1939-01-06
MAN, Wife HELD
IN FAKE HOLDUP

A husband and wife were held
for action of the Grand Jury to-
day under $1,000 bond each on
charges of grand larceny follow
ing a hearing before Judge Ho-
bart Newman in Police Court.
Those held are Ira Underwood, 27,
and his wife, Mrs. Dora Under
wood, 49,.
Mrs. Underwood was employed
in an ice cream store in the 1900
block H st. N. E., and on Decem-
Der 81 reported she was held up
and robbed. Later, police said, she
admitted she and her husband
kept the money.
The Washington times., 1939-01-06
PAY DAYS
Commissioners Hit
Wage Board

Decision was made by the Dis
trict Commissioners today that the
Minimum Wage Board has no au-
thority to force employers to pay
wages once a week solely because
weekly payments have been Gus
tomary.
In the same decision, the city
heads authorized the board to
intercede where employers refused
or neglect to pay the stipulated
minimum when the time arrives
for payment.
Corporation Counsel Elwood H.
Seal had advised the Commission
ers that if the board had set no
time in its order within which an
appropriate wage should be paid,
the board could not demand prop
erly weekly payments on the sole
ground such was the usual Gus
tom.
The Washington times., 1939-01-06
China Family Life

Victor K. Kwong, of the Chinese
Embassy, will speak to the Players
Club of the Central Community
Center next Wednesday night in
the Chinese Room of the Central
High School. His subject will be
Chinese Family Life"
The Washington times., 1939-01-06
Idaho S Governor
Still a COIumnist

BOISE, Idaho, Jan. G.N.S0.
The adage "once a newspaperman
always a newspaperman" seems to
hold true for Governor-electC C. A.
BottolfSen of Idaho, who will con-
tinue to write column or two
Tor his paper, The Arco Advertiser,
after he takes office January 9.
The Washington times., 1939-01-06

RATES BY NAIL FOR VIRGINIA.
MARYLAND. WEST VIRGINIA
AND NORTH CAROLINA
The Washington times., 1939-01-06
Police Save Boat
Drifting in Channel

A runaway" 26-foot cabin
cruiser was towed to the safety
Of the harbor police dock last
night after a report had been re-
ceived that it was drifting down
the Washington Channel toward
Alexandria. Police said the boat
is listed to Harry Wilder, 800 block
I st. N. w., and broke from its
moorings in the channel near the
Municipal Fish Wharf.
The Washington times., 1939-01-06
j. ). Movies Liked
By British Public

NDON, Jan GN.S0.
Great Britain has paid Hollywood
$50 100000 for royalties on Amer
lean films during the past three
years, report by the Board of
Trade showed today.
The Washington times., 1939-01-06
RELIEF HEADS
BEING COUGED,
SAYS PROBER
Finds People on Rolls
With 5000 Incomes

Continuing the indictment he
launched almost a week ago,
Burdette G. Lewis. the relief in.
veSttgator, charged today the Pub.
lie Assistance Division and the
District WPA has failed in It's
responsibility to the underprivj-
legged and is Being "outmaneu
Vered" by chiselers.
Lewis said he found that 1,748
or "a per cent Of the 1858 house
holds on general relief here were
constantly facing starvation"
while 1913 per cent were fighting
poverty" on monthly incomes
ranging from $50 to $120.
NICE INCOMES FOUND
The balance, or 6.2 per cent Of
the total, Lewis described as "the
comfortable middle class" enjoy.
ing monthly incomes of from $120I
to 5000 and more.
The investigator declared he
found IL households receiving gen.
eral relief here as of last May
that had an average income of
1910 a month and at the same
time were getting on the average
$22.50 a month in public assist
ance grants. Furthermore, Lewis
charged, these IL households
were collecting, on the average
$6 worth of surplus commodities
each month.
AS to the District WPA, Lewis
said there were 11.418 households
with one or more members so
employed as of last May.
MANY NEAR STARVATION
The investigator found 36.2 per
cent of these households were
continually facing starvation"
sos per cent were fighting pow
erty," 1872 per cent came within
the comfortable middle class"
and less than / per cent were
sable to afford luXuries."
Lewis said he found % house
holds with an average monthly
income of $3.50 and an average
WPA wage of slightly over $50"
This compared with an average
monthly wage of $3.50 for the
entire District WPA.
He charged that the Public AS
sistance Division. to a greater ex-
tent, and the District WPA "less
flagrantly" are doing too little
to relieve the unemployed from
pressure of nature in the raw"
SUGGESTS CHANGES
Asserting "a big change in ad.
ministration is in order here"
Lewis recommended:
i. Appointment Of an execu.
tive director of a coordinated
and consolidated, District De-
partment Of Employment and
Social Security. He noted:
this is no task for a business
executive, or a tenderer than
thou politician or a big idea
woman"
2. Continuation of the inter-
departmental effort and COOP
Grafton which Lewis himself
''has enjoyed" since the invita-
ton of the present investigation
last April 20.
8. Agreement on utilizing all
present activities to meet the
needs Of those facing starvation
or fighting poverty and to pre-
vent human misfits in all ranks
of society. and
4. Adaptation here of the (
English principle under which
relief payments to individuals
are adjusted to prevent the re-
lief Of distress due to unemploy.
ment from becoming a premium
upon idleness.
For the first nine months of
1888. Lewis said, the average num-
Der Of unemployed here was
$4,000. OF these, he estimated,
$4,000 were on relief work pro
grams or engaged in emergency
governmental work and 1900 were
actually receiving direct relief or
social security grants.
The Washington times., 1939-01-06
Lillian Roth
TOSue Mate

CHICAGO, Jan. 6 G.N.S).-As
one former film star departed
with her divorce decree today, an
other stage and screen actress
planned to follow in her foot
steps.
Constance Talmadge Netcher
shed her third husband, the
wealthy Townsend Netcher, on
The Washington times., 1939-01-06
SENATOR KING
BACKS LIBERAL
SCHOOL FUNDS
Also Seeks Adequate
Health Budget

Although withholding fina
comment until he could analyze
lit, Senator William H. King, o.
Utah, gave his tentative approva
to the District budget today after
a glance at some of the major
items.
AS chairman of the Senate Dis
Itrict Committee he will sit with
the District Appropriations Sub
committee, of which Senator Johr
H. Overton of Louisiana is chair
man, in passing Judgment on budg
ct estimates and writing the new
District appropriation bill.
FAVORs SCHOOL ITEMS
81 am in favor of very liberal
appropriations for the schools
and for public health" Senator
King said. Those have always
been my chief concerns. I am
glad to see that the budget es-
innate for the schools is so lib
eral. We must not neglect
them.
1T is also gratifying to see
that the Budget Bureau has
made more satisfactory provi-
sion for personnel and services
at Gallinger Hospital. 1t may
be that we will have to be some
what more liberal also in other
directions, as the pubic health
is very important.
Although l like the idea of
keeping down the total of ap-
propriations as much as possible,
1 should personally be in favor
of looping off appropriations
somewhere else if necessary to
make adequate provision for the
health department and public
school system"
OVERTON ENCOURAGING
Senator Overton, who likewise
said he had not had a chance to
examine the District budget in de,
tail, agreed with Senator King
that the school and health pro-
grams should come first. He
thought forty-seven-million-dol
lar level for the budget about
right" and suggested that his
formula for the Federal contribu
ton to the District might work
out in sucn way as to wipe out
the prospective three or four-mil
lion dollar deficit without increas,
ing District taxes.
Il hope SOL" he said in offering
this bit of encouragement to tax,
payers.
The Washington times., 1939-01-06

charges of desertion, testifying:
HE treated me very we'll
except when he left me-"
Lillian Roth announced she
planned a divorce in February
from Municipal Court Judge Ben
Shelleck, of New York. Proceed
ings may be started on the West
Coast if she is successful in geS-
ting a screen job, the brunette
SongStreSS said.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-03-23

Advertising is "the salt of the
earth" in business.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-03-23
Do We Appreciate Our Great Heritage?

many op
peoples of the world
this pognany manifested this week when Italian
New York City reach
Amer he on kissedth ground
Emoionalsm! Senmenaity! To But that
he had and in his heart realization that this
blessed land he would be free
An American writer visited Italy few months Returning
he told falling with day
unloading Italy
spending the United States In the
American his bitter awakening
the terrible
the dock and s kiss the hawse holding the ships the
because felt
beloved America he expected again
1t not long that Americans led
the
They inclined think perhaps
follow the exsmpe that being Italy
and Russia Apparently they could that dictatorship will
death liberty spirit mankind
development misery
people
individuals
and their bending effort withstand the
that threatens personal liberty
throughout the world The of the
Asia nbe will bring
great heritage heritage
familiar
its beneciares realized and
that heritage
This time for weakngs The America should their
which heart would
be life RECOMMENDATION slavery
chnery O al-powerful overpoweng
Perhaps the soul of that Italian who kissed the soil of
America realization something Americans
thing would comply
Of old which uttered Take
thy feet for the land which thou andest holy ground
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-03-23
A Senator's Editorial

II would be difficult add clarity the Of Senator
Pat Harrison {demoa governmental
qualified
the Senate Finance
here As citizen and worth while
mem
The governments fiscal must be carefully
vision and not through a colored lens.
we confronted billion
dollars appropriations national
billion dollars
would industry
business.
appreciate difficulty everyone connected
with the operation of Government
ave departments will realize the fiscal situation confronting
and counsel together mapping plan
finchngy and without political
accomplish results that will
people and financial stability Government
If immediate unified plans
economic confusion and chaos inevitable
confidence
ourselves out of this economic disorder
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-03-23

Lincoln County. Montana, at their
July. 1882. meeting were certainly
legal charge against the 1882 road
budget appropriation, for the claims
were incurred during the 1882 IFS
cal year. and prior to the close OF
the 1882 fiscal year, which was
June 30, 1882. And there was a
balance remaining III the 1882 road
budget appropriation to pay SAID
claims. and the 1892 road fund ap
preparation accounts remained open
SO that such claims could be paid.
So | am at loss to know what
kind of an Interpretation of the
Montana budget law any person can
give to show that the above men
toned road claims were paid out of
the 1888 road budget appropriation,
when the 1888 road budget ap-
preparation was not made until Au-
gust. 1892. The preliminary budget
for 1888 had not even been set up
on The first Monday in July, 1882.
And the only road budget appropria-
ton in Lincoln County, Montana, the
first Monday in July. 1882, was the
1882 road fund appropriation. aid
the road claim bills that the board
of county commissioners allowed at
the July. 1882, meeting of the board,
were bills in payment for claims
incurred during the fiscal year end
ing June 80, 1892, against the 1892
road fund appropriation.
To me. it seems very reasonable
that the trainers of the Montana
budget law should have provision
in said law whereby any claims
incurred during the fiscal year end
ing June 30, could be paid by the
board of county commissioners at
the following July meeting of said
board For it is evident that said
trainers knew that any claims in
Cured against any budget fund APP
preparation ending June 30, the end
of the fiscal year, could not be al
lowed until the following July
meeting of said board.
It quite often occurs that some
person who has claim against
Lincoln county for service or mate
rial furnished said county, fails 10
present his claim for a period of
two or three months and some times
lOh lOilBei pSIioQ dltsl VIC oSl VIE
has been rendered or the material
has been furnished And it seems
very unjust to censure board OF
county commissioners or the county
clerk and recorder for carrying such
claims over. when the Said claims
had not been presented to the coun-
ty clerk so that he could file said
claims. If some person furnishes
material to the county in April,
1899, and does not present his claim
until August, 1899, neither the coun-
ty commissioners nor the county
clerk and recorder should be cen
sured for carrying that claim over.
When these delayed claims are final
ly filed with the county clerk and
recorder, they can be allowed by
the board of county commissioners
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-03-23
Working For Uncle Sam

of the Y Civil
$1,000 holding Federal jobs
This the highest army
navy, CCC WPA PWA
Thus the complexities Washington government
veaed by the fact that million persons
Then if the CCC WPA
included it estimated that eight
population his that
the other somehow
and at the time contribute the support
local governmental agencies
So is not enough that living
no matter what his wageswhether they sufficient
things he and his family would like havehe
OF his help
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-03-23
TO WHOM 1T MAY CONCERN.

This article is a reply to numer-
Gus recent inquiries regarding the
official acts of former members of
the different boards of county com
missioners of Lincoln County. Mon
tana. since the present budget law
became law And as the writer
of these lines served as one of the
former county commissioners from
July H. 1923. until September 8.
1885. hence. this article.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-03-23
Welfare Office Cost
Is Only 81 Per Cent

In an address prepared for radio
delivery, Administrator M. Brand
jord Of the state welfare depart
ment said the administrative cost
for relief in the state is only 90
per cent, instead of 30 per cent as
charged by legislative investigating
committee. The 90 per cent in
cluded the state department and
county departments. 1t did not in
clude the administrative cost Of child
service and aid to crippled children,
the administrator said.
Brandiord also pointed out that
the administrative cost of the wei
fare department for the two-year
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-03-23

Section 1862 of the Revised Codes
of Montana. says. The board of
county commissioners, except as
otherwise may be required of them,
may meet at the county seat of their
respective counties. on the first
Monday of each and every month of
the year, for the purpose of allow
ing bills and attending business that
may regularly come before them,
and may sit not exceeding three
days, except at the December meet
ing, at which they may sit not ex-
ceeding eight days.
Consequently, when a board of
county commissioners meet the first
Monday in July as required by the
above law, to allow bills, just what
bills are they required to allow ut
this July meeting9 The preceding
April bills were allowed at the May
meeting. and the preceding May
bills were allowed at the June
meeting. SO the only bills which
remain unpaid for the board to al
low at this July meeting would be
the previous June bills and any
other bills incurred during the elev.
en- months previous to June. and
had not been presented to the coun-
~ clerk and recorder to be filed by
him until this July date
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-03-23
NOTICE.

The Attorney General has re-
quested all county attorneys to give
notice that under the law 8 hours
shall constitute a days work and a
period of not to exceed 48 hours
shall constitute a weeks work in
all cities and towns regardless of
the number of their inhabitants, for
all persons employed in retail
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-03-23

in the next ensuing budget if not
presented in time to be acted upon
during the fiscal year in which
said claims were incurred, as the
last sentence of the last paragraph
of section 4613.6 Montana budget
law says. And any lawful claim
presented thereafter against any
such appropriation shall be provid-
ed for in the next ensuing budget. :"
(Signed) II. E. BRINK.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-03-23
Thursday, March %, 1899

stores, and for all persons EMPLOYED
in delivering goods sold in such
stores, and has instructed county at
torneys to prosecute all violators.
II | am otherwise correctly in
formed the last legislature passed a
law extending the hour law to
hotels and restaurants; particulars
later
THOMAS D. LONG.
County Attorney,
II. Lincoln County.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-03-23

period ended March 2 was consid
erably less than the amount the 1887
Legislature earmarked for admins
tration He declared that not "one
single dollar, dime, nickel or penny
has been dishonesty expended"
through the welfare department.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-03-23

The last paragraph Of section
46136, of the Montana budget law.
1885 Revised Codes:
All appropriations. other than
appropriations for uncompleted inn
provements in progress of con-
struction, shall lapse at the end of
the fiscal year; provided that the
appropriation accounts shall remain
open for period of thirty days
thereafter for the payment of claims
incurred against such appropriations
prior to the close of the fiscal year
and remaining unpaid. After such
period shall have expired all an
preparations, except as hereinbefore
provided regarding uncompleted i'm
provements, shall become null and
void, and any lawful claim present
ed thereafter against any such ap-
preparation shall be provided for
i'm the next ensuing budget"
The records show that the board
OF county commissioners at the July
1882 meeting of the board, allowed
bills against the 1882 road budget
appropriation amounting to $4,l73.-
90, which sum left a balance re-
naming in the 1882 road budget
appropriation of S2,349.5l. Now.
these bills which were allowed at
the July, 1882, meeting of the board
OF county commissioners we've bills
Incurred during the month eli June.
1882, or some other month during
! the 1882 fiscal year, which had not
been filed with the county clerk and
recorder SO that said claims could
be acted upon by the county COM
missloners before this July, 1882.
4 date.
And from the above extracts from
the Montana budget law, there is a
provision made in said budget law.
whereby claims incurred against
any budget appropriations prior to
! the close of the fiscal year and
remaining unpaid, can be allowed
during the period Of thirty DAYS
after the close of the fiscal year. as
the appropriation ACCOUNTS remain
open for a period of thirty DAYS
after the close of the fiscal year
June 30, for the payment of claims
incurred against such appropriations
prior to the close of the fiscal year
and remaining unpaid.
The above extracts from the Mon
tana Codes and the Montana Budget
Law show conclusively that any
bills allowed at a July meeting of d
board of county commissioners in
the state Of Montana, applies on the
budget appropriation accounts Of
/ the fiscal year ending June 80, i'm
medlately preceding said July meet
ing Of the board Of county commits
sioners. And not on future bud
+. get appropriation which has not
been made.
Now, the above mentioned road
claims that were allowed by the
board Of county commissioners of
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-03-23
BIG NEWS IN ROME.

According to press dispatches,
there was great JOY in Rome when
wages of 7,000,000 workers were
raised 5 to 10 per cent. The same
dispatches said industrial workers
in Italy received about ii cents per
hour in 1888. The daily pay was
close to 10 cents.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-03-23
THE FORUM

This is a department for the dis
cussion of pertinent topics by anyone
who so desires II is open to every
one and any suitable subject may be
considered. However. what appears
in this department does not neces-
sarlly reflect the views of this pa
per-The Editor.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-03-23

The reason there seems TO be so
few good people in the world is
because the newspapers have so lit
ties to say about them. while the
awful bad folks are so darn we'll
advertised
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-03-23

The Western News for Lincoln
County news.