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Evening star., 1940-02-26

the discharged Washingtonians were
on public relief, as compared with a
national urban average Of 28.4 per
cent. OF the jobless and renefless
District residents 81 per cent had
no income whatsoever and q total
Of 80 per cent had an income Of less
than SIS a week. OF the 335 WASH
ingtonians who had been able to
find employment Of some kind, one
fourth earned less than SO q week
and the average weekly earnings Of
the group was $16.10.
The Children's Bureau survey,
mentioned previously. showed that
Washington obtained only SOL per
cent of its 1893 public welfare and
health expenditures from Federal
funds, rs compared with . national
urban average Of 49.6 per cent.
This same study revealed that
Washington provided 378 per cent
Of its total welfare and health costs
from local funds, as against an
average of only 81 per cent among
the 20 cities considered, and that
these local funds were supplemented
In Washington by private contribu-
tions amounting to 90 per cent of
the program costs, as compared with
a private contributions average of
SIS per cent. Only one city, Rich
mond, Va, paid a larger share of
local welfare and health costs than
did Washington through its Com
munity Chest. The Chest here met
7.3 per cent of the total costs, as
compared with an average Of 80
per cent.
These figures make it easy to un-
derstand why the local per capita
expenditure for private general re-
lief in 1898 was 8 cents above the
Accent average.
One of the toughest of the local
relief problems, according to Paul
Edwards, w. p. A. administrator,
lies in the fact that increases in the
present number Of Government en-
ployes would have little effect on
the situation here, because the Gov
ernment would gather its additional
workers from all sections of the
country, leaving the Washington un-
employed practically untouched.
Mr.. Edwards emphasizes that he
does not mean that Federal service
should be q job factory for residents
Of Washington, but that he simply
desired to make the point that the
number of men and women brought
here to fill temporary jobs is q
factor TN the unemployment prob
lem.
Many, II not most of these tenn
porary workers hold their Job long
enough to meet the residence re-
quirements Of the District admin
istration," Mr.. Edwards said.
Among our w. p. A. applicants and
workers there are many such per-
sons"
Evening star., 1940-02-26
berwyn Man
Killed by Auto;
Driver Held
Boy, Is, and z Others
Injured in Nearby
Troffic Accident
Traffic Record

The trafic record, as revealed
at police headquarters for "a
hour period ending 8 am. yes
terday:
Fatalities. none.
Accidents, 81.
Motorists injured, 6.
Motorists arrested, Az.
Pedestrians injured, 2.
Pedestrians arrested for vio-
lation of pedestrian control reg
ulations, 81.
The traffic record for 24-hour
period ending at 8 am. today:
Fatalities, none.
Accidents, 81.
Motorists injured, 2.
Motorists arrested, 156.
Pedestrians injured, 5.
Pedestrians arrested for vio-
lation of pedestrian control reg
ulations, 4.
Evening star., 1940-02-26
Lundberq to Speak

A. T. Lundberg. chief engineer Of
the Arlington County Water De-
partment, will discuss the operation
OF his department at 8 pm. tomor-
row before the Lyon Park Citizens
Association at the Community
House. Arlington, Va.
The association will hold its semi
annual card party at pm. Friday
at the Community House.
Evening star., 1940-02-26
Aqed Woman Rescued
From Burning Room
By Hotel Janitor
Jennie Kirkmon, II,
Has Marrow Escape
At the Brighton

Miss Jennie Kirkman, 77-year-old
aunt of Norman w. Baxter, chief of
public relations for the Distilled
Spirits Institute, was carried to
safety by the janitor before fire de-
stroyed the bedroom of her fourth
floor apartment in the Brighton
Hotel, 2123 California street NV,
yesterday afternoon.
Miss Kirkman suffered second
degree burns of the right forearm
and shock. She was treated at the
hotel by DR.. j. Roger Young. She
declared she must have fallen asleep
while smoking a cigarette.
Occupants of the building turned
in the alarm after smelling smoke.
l.. G. Sherman, manager Of the
Brighton, summoned the janitor,
Alvin Thompson, 81, colored, who
entered Miss Kirkman's apartment
with a pass key.
Gropes Through Smoke.
Dense clouds Of smoke forced him
to grope his way along the floor to
Miss Kirkman, who lay semi con-
scious beside her flaming bed. With
the aid of Mr.. Sherman and Arthur
Williams, 26-year-old colored boy,
he brought Miss Kirkman to an ad-
joining apartment, where she was
revived.
"A score of firemen fought the Stub
born blaze As minutes before bring
ing it under control. Miss Kirkman's S
bed was reduced to ashes and most
of the furniture in the room de-
stroyed. Heavy smoke drove many
of the hotels occupants into the
street.
Battalion Chief H. B. Barker esti-
mated damage at $1,000.
Others Flee.
Among the residents forced to
leave their rooms were the Misses
Geraldine, IT, and Barbara, l8,
Fisher, daughters of Carl A. Fisher,
second secretary of the United
States Embassy at Moscow. The
Fisher apartment adjoins that Of
Miss Kirkman Mrs. Fisher was
attending a concert at the time of
the fire.
Miss Kirkman, who lives alone,
has been making her home in
Washington about three years. OF
a prominent Tennessee family, she
has spent much Of her time travel
ing abroad. Her nephew, Mr.. Baxter,
is e former managing editor of the
Washington Post. He is her only
relative living in Washington.
In fighting a blaze in a vacant
store building in the 800 block of
K street NV. yesterday. Sergt.
Walter S. Boss, 80. of No. 6 Engine
Co., cut his right hand attempting
to open a window on the second floor
Of the burning structure. He later
was treated at Casualty Hospital.
Firemen battled the blaze for more
than an hour.
Evening star., 1940-02-26
1907 Under Treatment
At GuIIinqer in Duv

With 1,007 patients under treat
ment, Gallinger Hospital today was
experiencing its heaviest caseload
since January, 1887, when 1,022 per-
sons were under treatment In q
single day
Today's figure also was higher
than the peak load In February,
1899, when the highest daily popu-
lation was zoos.
Hospital ofncials attributed most
Of the increase to respiratory cases.
Evening star., 1940-02-26
Shut-In Aid Topic

Plans for providing educational
facilities for shut-in children in
Washington hospitals and homes
will be discussed at q meeting Of the
Co-ordinating Committee for
Handicapped Children at 8 pm.
tomorrow at the headquarters of the
Washington Council Of Social
Agencies. 1l01 M street NV.
Evening star., 1940-02-26


on relief here only in the direst of
circumstances.
They might be surprised to know
also that in 1888 Washington spent
less than one-fourth as much per
capita for public and private gen.
eral relief p5 the average spent by
20 major cities of the country. Spe-
Officially. the District expended
$1.38 per capita, as compared with q
national urban average of $3.50, &C.
cording to survey made by the
Children's Bureau Of the Depart
ment Of Labor. In that same year
Baltimore spent $2.74 per capita for
relief; Richmond, $3.06; Cleveland,
$3.50, and Buffalo, $15.l1.
This. combined with the fact that
the Government operated District
Of Columbia gets proportionately
less Federal money for public vel
fare and health programs than most
other cities Of comparable size, ex-
plains why private agencies here
necessarily provide an exceptionally
high share of the cost of these pub
lie programs.
More Applicants Rejected.
It will interest civic-minded
Washingtonians, too, to know that
the District rejects a larger per-
centage of applicants for relief than
does any other large city in the
country, except possibly New Or
leans. And that welfare authorities
are convinced that an industrial and
business boom, or large increases in
Government personnel, would leave
Washington unemployed "practi-
cally untouched"
Last November national attention
was on the relief problem in Cleve-
land. Without attempting to mini
mize the seriousness of the Ohio
city's plight. Robert E. Bondy, direc-
tor of the Districts Board of Public
Welfare, points out that many OF
the types of cases dropped from
relief rolls there are not put on
relief in Washington.
Largest of this group of relief in
eligibles here are the employables
including those who can perform
only very light work." which is
rarely available on w. P. A. projects
Washington and New Orleans are
the only large cities which, as q
rule, accept only unemployable cases
for relief. In recent months, due to
w. p. A. layoffs, Washington has
relaxed this policy somewhat and
accepted employables In "emer-
gency cases." Severe eligibility re-
quirements, necessitated by limited
funds caused local public relief au-
thorities to reject 73 per cent (or
1922 Of 1891 applicants for aid in
December. This rejection average
far exceeded that of any other large
city included In a Social Security
Board survey for the month (New
Orleans not reporting).
Fail to Find Relief.
Further indication of the difficult
ties that have beset the financially
distressed residents of Washington
Is contained in a w. p. A. study of
the November status of workers who
had been dropped from w. p. A. in
July and August, 1889, in accord
ance with the 10 months provision
of the 1899 Relief Act. The w. p. A.
found that 61.6 per cent, or 1884,
Of the 3,183 persons discharged from
the District w. P. A. In the two
summer months were without pri-
vate or public projects jobs and
moreover, were not on relief. The
average Of % cities studied was 32.2
per cent. And only 1.8 per cent OF
Evening star., 1940-02-26
Capitals Relief Expenditure
Is Far Under Nations Average
Types Of Coses Dropped in Cleveland Crisis
Never Get on Rolls in Washington
(Second OF a Sertes.)
By JAMES FREE,

Washington has incredibly low standing among major
American cities in the matter Of taking Of Its public relief
responsibilities.
Most residents Of the Nations Capital who joined in the wide
spread expression Of recently when shortage Of funds forced
Cleveland empoyables single and married
without children from its relief rolls would be surprised to
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-01-04
MIR. and Mrs. Watkins
Celebrate Silver
Wedding Sunday

In celebration Of their silver
wedding anniversary, Mr.. and Mrs.
Russell Watkins, Potomac, enter
tanned a group of friends at buff
fet supper Sunday evening.
Among the out of county guests
were Mr.. and Mrs. Uriah Lawson,
the Misses Marie and Mildred Law
son, Miss Rebecca Chandler, Mrs.
Mary Davis and Richard Wenfield,
Washington, and Mr.. and Mrs,
Carl Lewis of Lewisdale.
Guests from the county included
Mrs. Lily Stone, Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert Saunders. Dorsey B.
Swartz, Mr.. and Mrs. Howard
Salter, Miss Shirley Salter, Mr..
and Mrs. Arson Ball, jr., Mrs. DAN
iel Peck, Miss Lucy Peck, James
Peck, Mrs. Cora Ball, Mrs. Bertha
Perry, Mr.. and Mrs. Preston Stern
and Miss Mildred Watkins.
A silver wedding cake with APP
propriate inscription added to the
many presents received by Mr.. and
Mrs. Watkins.
The Sentinel extends heartiest
congratulations and best wishes.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-01-04
Farm Bureau To
Meet Next Week
E. A. O'Neal To Address
Convention In Baltimore

The 2kth annual meeting of the
Maryland Farm Bureau will be
held at the Lord Baltimore Hotel
in Baltimore on January 9, 10, IL
and 12.A Arrangements have been
completed for a very interesting
program according to C. E. Wise,
j., secretary of the State organi-
zation.
Thursday, January IL will be the
big day with President Edward
Asbury O'Neal as the principal
speaker on the afternoon program.
Mary Sue Wigley, will discuss
Making a Living and Living a
Life" and Rev. William C. Roberts
of ST. James Church will talk on
Farmers and Democracy.
Governor Herbert R. O'Conor and
Mrs. O'Conor will be honor guests
at the banquet. The evening pro-
gram consists of a brief talk by
Governor O'Conor and an address
by R. X. Roosevelt, author and
humorist. Following this there
will be a dance for the 700 farmers
attending the banquet.
About 1000 are expected to at
tend the sessions of the convention
product exhibits in connection with
it.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-01-04

servers are forecasting a brief,
routine session enlivened only BY
prediction warm-ups and patri-
otto tub-thunping. No new reform
or anti business laws will be
passed. Only major legislation
which has chance is pro-business,
including amendment of the ~
Wagner Labor Act, (2) Modifca-
ton of the Wage and Hour Act,
and l3l the passage of the Mead
Credit Bill.
| am reasonably sure that no
federal taxes will be imposed. Pay
as-you-go talk in December is one
thing action by Congress next
spring is another. Secretary Wal
Lace would like to see the process
sing taxes revived under some type
e sugar-coating - but this would
MT be good politics in an election
year. You can bet your bottom
dollar, however, that the total
share of your income taken by
Uncle Sam-counting both income
and hidden taxes -will not be q
penny less than IN 1899.
Record Spending
But, because taxes are being
frozen" do not imagine that an
economy wave q sweeping Wash
CONTINUED on page ~
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-01-04
Walsh To Speak
AT Jackson Day
Dinner Monday
Annual Affair To Be Held
At Manor Club January s

William C. Walsh, Attorney
General for Maryland, win be
the guest speaker at the annual
Jackson Day dinner of the Mont
gomery County United Young
Mems Democratic Club, Monday
evening, January 8, at the Manor
Club.
Ono of the outstanding Demo-
cratic leaders in Western Mary
land, and a former Judge Of the
Court of Appeals, Jtdge Walsh is
noted for his humorous speeches.
Senator Robert Peter, Rockville,
will present, Judge Walsh.
Other guests who are expected
to attend areA Laurence B. Fem
neman, Baltimore, president Of
the Democratics Clubs Of Mary
land; Earl Colby, Cumberland.
executive vice-president for the
9Th Congressional district, Demo-
cratic Clubs of Maryland, and,
Robert Clapp, Frederick, Assistant
Attorney General.
Included on the agenda will be
nomination of officers and listen
ing to the Jackson Day address
of President Roosevelt. Alger
Yale Barbee is chairman Of the
affair while Alfred d. ~Bud"
Noyes, president, win preside.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-01-04
County League
Women Voters
Plan Program
Study Groups Formed To
Discuss Phases OF County
Work, Welfare and Foreign
Policy

Z Chairmen OF the various study
groups Of the Montgomery County
Lesgpe ~ osAeIl voters met TINS
week with the League Board and
completed plans for the January
series of meetings.
AS a result of the parley, Mrs.
j. C. Livingston, president, has
announced that there will be at
least five study groups assembling
this month to discuss Child Wei
fare, Foreign Policy and County
activities. The following schedule
has been released:
January II, $50 a. M, Study
group on Foreign policy, at the
home of Miss Louise Davidson,
corner of Edgemoor and Fairfax
road, Bethesda.
February q, Study group on
Child Welfare, at the Jessup
Blair House, Silver Spring.
Study Groups on Know Your
County, will be held at two places,
January 10, at the home of Mrs.
Floyd D. FELTON,, 112 Leland St.,
Chevy Chase; January 10, at the
home of Mrs. Harriet G. Bastable,
BOT West Montgomery avenue.
Both meetings will start at 1000
a. m.
Besides Mrs. Livingston, who
heads the League, other officers
are: first vice-president, Mrs. E.
M. Willis, Bethesda; second vice
president, Mrs. John S. Larcombe,
Washington Grove; recording Sec
rotary, Mrs. William J. Kettler,
Silver Spring; corresponding Sec
rotary, Mrs. P. Cad Bryan More
house, Silver Spring, and treas
urer, Mrs. r. H. Simpson, Chevy
Chase.
Chairman of the Department Of
Government and it's operation Is
Mrs. G. MINER Hostetler, Glen;
while Mrs. p. Cad B. Morehouse,
is chairman of the Department of
Government and Child Welfare.
Mrs. v. L. Ellicott and Mrs. A.
w. Hummell are chairman and
vice-chairman, respectively, of the
Department Of Foreign Policy.
Mrs. Hostetler will have charge
Of the groups studying County
affairs. All candidates for public
Office this year will be invited to
appear before the league. This,
says Mrs. Hostetler, will give
each candidate an opportunity to
discuss his platform, and viii also
afford the membership a chance
to meet the office seekers.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-01-04
Congratulations!

Special commentator is due
DIR. George t. Edmonds, Rock
vile Postmaster, and his staff
for the expeditions manner in
which the holiday mail was
handled. THE SENTINEL has
received many calls expressing
satisfaction in regards to the
proficiency in which the un-
usual volume Of mail was
handled, especially the Christ
mas packages which were de-
livered by Christmas.
The new post office building
is a credit to the town. Post
master Edmonds and his staff
reflect this credit, not only by
the increased volume of bust
ness but the prospect Of a
greater volume in 1910.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-01-04
Credit Group To
Hold Annual Meet
Jan. Is, Frederick
Thomas C. Darby To Pre-
side At Annual Session.
Yearly Reports, Election
Planned

Officers and directors will be
hosts at the sixth annual meeting
of the Frederick Production Credit
Association at Frederick on Thurs
day, January 25.
Scheduled to get under way at
1890 a. m. the annual session will
be guided by Thomas C. Darby,
Darnestown, president. At this
time Walter D. Bromley, secretary
treasurer, will present his annual
report, illustrating by charts the
changes taken place since organi-
zation of the group six years ago.
The directors will also give their
annual reports at the morning ses-
sion.
Principal speaker of the day will
be William H. johnson of the Pro-
duction Credit Corporation. Mr..
johnson will outline the aims Of
the association and future plans.
Counties served by F. P. C. A.
include Frederick, Montgomery,
Carroll and Washington. Two di-
rectors will be chosen for the COM
ing year. Those now serving as
directors and officers besides Mr..
Darby and Mr.. Bromley are Alvie
M. Etzler, William H. Cunningham,
John T. Scott and Ulysses Griffith,
4th, Laytonsville.
In a press release this week Mr..
Bromley states that approximately
500 are expected and that a turkey
dinner will be served the guests
with the officers and directors as
hosts.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-01-04
Allen Contends
New Assessment
Protests Late
Declares January l, Under
Law, Is Deadlne - Ralph
Chase Explains Method

Wilton T. Allen, State Super
visor of Assessments in Mont
gomery County, has announced to
a group of protesting taxpayers
from the Bethesda Chevy Chase
section that unless the amount of
the new assessment was protested
before the first of the year hear
ings would not, under the exist
ing state law, be granted on the
new assessment as the valuation
for the coming year, and that
hearings would only he allowed
where taxpayers had been out of
the state or had other valid rea-
son for not making their protests
before January LIST.
Mr.. Allen pointed out that a
taxpayer can always appeal his
assessments for the coming year
but not for the current tax year,
and consequently taxpayers who
did not appeal the valuation fixed
by the new assessment prior to
January 1st cannot expect a
change until 1941.
The following statement was
given out by Ralph H. Chase,
secretary to the Board of County
Commissioners in explanation of
the method of conducting the
county's reassessment:
Organized group protests of
the reassessment of all the real
property in Montgomery County
lead to an explanation of the
cause of the assessment and the
manner in which the work has
been conducted.
"The reassessment of all the
property in Montgomery County
was required by State law and the
current reassessment was carried
out under the provisions of the
general Maryland tax law which
is the same law under which
sixteen Maryland counties were
reassessed this year and seven
were reassessed two years ago
The State law requires a reassess-
ment every fifth year in each
county unless the State Legis-
lature by special law defers the
date of such reassessment. Since
1927 the Legislature has deferred
reassessments in the Maryland
counties due to the Legislative
acceptance of the contention that
Continued on page 81
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-01-04
BdbsOn Predicts Best Six
Months In 10 Years In 40
Famous Financial Expert Refuses To Forecast
Last Half Of Coming Year; Predicts 10 To Is
Per Cent Business Rise, High Farm Income
BUSINESS OUTLOOK FOR FIRST HALF OF 1910
By ROGER w. BABSON

War peace business in the first half of 1910 will be
the best for six months period since 1929 Jobs wages
farm prices business profits and dividends should all turn in
big gains year ago. They should average higher
than in the three months period just closng At the
time sharp gains in the for either taxes or
living costs Considering all factors, therefore, predict
that will closer to good times" in early 1910
than in any half year since 1929!
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-01-04

Robert Peter, State Senator for
Montgomery County, was appoint
ed to non-partisan committee this
week, by Howard w. Jackson,
Mayor of Baltimore, to study the
sugar refining industry.
In a letter to Senator Peter,
Mayor Jackson points out that
there is considerable danger OF
Maryland loosing its cane sugar re-
fining industry and that he was
appointing non-partisan commit
tee of leading Maryland citizens to
help study and defend the industry
Baltimore is one of the largest
and most important sugar refining
cities in the world.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-01-04
Civil Service Jobs Open

Lowry Riggs, secretary of the
United States Civil Service Board
of Examiners, has announced that
there are a number of civil serv-
ice positions open.
A Junior Poultry Aid, Statisti-
cal Supervisor and a special
agent are included in the list.
Mr.. Riggs states that full infor-
mation regarding the above may
be obtained from him at the Rock
vile Postoffice.