Evening Star Newspaper, March 28, 1933, Page 5

BUDGET CUTS MA CLOSE LIBRARIES & . o..cccon wouta B Chevy Chase, Tenley and Woodridge Hit by New Recommendations. The closing of three Public Library subbranches—those at Chevy Chase, Tenley and Woodridge—will be neces- sitated if the decreased appropriation for library personnel recommended by the Burcau of the Budget is approved, Dr. George F. Bowerman, District librarfan, said today. Service Impairment Seen. ‘The library service also will be seri- ously impaired in other respects, Dr. Bowerman said. Inasmuch the demands on the central libr and on each branch and subbranch are more than can be taken care of and are constantly in- creasing.” the librarian said, “it is impossible to reduce the force of any agency. The only way to meet the propesed cuts is to close a sufficient number of agencies to make up the deficiency in the appropriation.” Dr. Bowerman pointed out that the library’s present appropriation for serv- ices is $219,440. Deducting 15 per cent, the amount of pay cut expected under the economy act. the balance is $271,- 524. This sum, the library official said, is necessary to retain the library's pres- ent force.” The budget figures have, in the estimates submitted by Director of Budget Douglas yesterday, been ;gdu(‘(‘d to $260,000, a deficiency of 524 The total net salaries of ‘the three subbranches at Chevy Chase, Woodridge and Tenley total $11,526, Dr. Bowerman said. The salaries at the Chevy Chase subbranch total $4,860, or $4.131 after the 15 per cent pay cut. The Wood- ridge salaries total $5.280 gross, and $4.488 net. while the gross salaries for the staff at the Tenley subbranch total $3.420, or $2,907 after the 15 per cent deduction Tne amount of rental for the quarters in Chevy Chase and Woodridge, how- ever. are left in the estimates submit- ted yesterday. Statement of Dr. Bowerman. D:. Bowerman stated that a recent tabulation of the work of the library s that since 1929 there has been rease in the number of registered readers of 60 per cent and a correspond- ing increase in book circulation of 60 per cent. The library, he asserted, had 72,000 registered readers in 1929 and 116000 n 1932, The book circulation ‘was 1,500,000 in 1929 and 2,500,000 last year “All of this increase in use came about without increase in staff other than the original staff of the new Northeastern branch, opened in March, 1932 Dr. Bowerman said. “The Chevy Chase subbranch, lo- cd in rented quarters more than s from the central library, 1932 a circulation of more than volumes. Woodridge, also lo- cated in rented quarters more than four miles from the central library, circulated more than 86.000 volumes, and the Tenley subbranch, housed in an abandoned police station at Wis- consin avenue and River road, circu- Jated more than 57,000 volumes that year. “As was pointed out at the hearings before the House Committee on Appro- priations in the last Congress, it is neither possible nor sensible to close the central library or the major branch libraries, or to shorten their hours to keep the subbranches open. If the library force is reduced the only prac- ticable and reasonable thing is to close some of the subbranches.” Discharging Involved. ‘The cut in the library’s personnel ap- < four had 1 80.000 propriation, the librarian asserted, will | involve the discharging of seven trained | The | stafls of these three subbranches, as are | library workers and two janitors. other employes of equivalent salaries, include people educated in college and | library school, who have been on the library staff f have dependen: Dr. Bowerman said. A serious curtailment in the library's | service also will result from the de- crease in the book fund from $54500 to 540.000, he declared. The library is not now able to buy a sufficient number of copies of needed books promptly on publication, and the use of the library is s0 great that more than 25.000 vol- umes wear out annually, he stated. 575 R. F. C. WORKERS END SHORT STRIKE Stete Welfare Department An- ncunces 22 1-2-Cent Wage Scale to Remain. By the Associated Press, WHEELING, W. Va., March 28—In- formed by the Siate Welfare Depart- meni that there will be no deviation from the new wage schedule of 22!, cents an hour, 575 R. F. C. workers last night decided to return to work. Gerald Coffey. project officer of the ©Ohio County, W. Va., Welfare Board, announced that the men agreed to re- sume work today. The men, employed on welfare jobs in the county, launched a strike yester- day. protesting against a recent ruling by the Unemployment Relief Association of Charleston—which has jurisdiction over R. F. C. funds—in reducing th houtly wage rate from 30 to 22!, cents. Coffey addressed a mass meeting of the | strikers last night, outlining the welfare department’s stand and ~announcing that if they would return to work at once they would be compensated for the time lost yesterday. TAKOMA PARK WELFARE SOCIETY IS ORGANIZED Will Meet Needs of Seventh Day Adventist Members and Com- munity at Large. A welfare society to meet the needs of the membership of the Church of Seventh Day Adventists at Takoma Park and of the community at large has been organized by the church, it was announced today. The Executive Committee of the or- ganization is composed of R. W. Con- ard and William C. Young, directors; Mrs. J. W. Mace and Kathryn Jensen, associates, and Mrs. Julian Howe, sec- Tetary-treasurer, The Washington Council of Social Agencies is extending to the group the “clearing house” facilities it affords other welfare and relief organizations in the District and headquarters have been set up in the bastement of the cafeteria building of the Review and Herald Publishing Association of Ta- koma Park. Clothing also_has been supplied by the American Red Cross. _FISHERY BUILDINGS BURN CONNEAUT, Ohio. March 28 (®).— Fire last night destroyed four fishery buildings containing more than 100 trap nets, fishing and packing equip- ment, and caused damage estimated by the owners at from $60,000 to $100.000. Two of the buildings were owned by the Conneaut Fisheries Co., of which C. F. Mischler of Sandusky is the head, and two by M. J. Grow. _Another building belonging to the Conneaut Tisheries Co. was saved by firemen. several years, and who | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D €, TUE T 1933. 28 PROPOSED LUMP SUM SLASH BLOW TO DISTRICT TAXPAYERS From a Figure Already Far Below U. S. Obligations as Fairly Determined. (Continued From First Page.) something approaching a careful, not to say equitable, determination of the obligation represented by that hundred dollars. As long as the Federal Government appropriates so much as a penny for the support of its National Capital, that penny stands for some concrete obligation. All reasonable men should agree that the Federal Government's real obligation to its Federal Capital should be carefully determined by tak- ing into consideration all of the many items, tangible and intangible, that go to make it up. And after the obligation is measured, the Federal Government should meet it fairly and squarely, dollar for dollar |and cent for cent. That, it would 1seem, might be put down as an ele- mental rule of honesty and fair dealing. The Federal Obligation. Has the Federal Government, in con- sidering an appropriation of $5,700,000 for the Federal City, made any determi- nation of the obligation that this ap- propriation is supposed to represent? If it has not made such a determi- ?auon, one of two things is apt to be rue. Either the United States is paying more than its justified share of local appropriations, or it is paying less than its justified share of local appropria- tions and thrusting the difference on the shoulders of unrepresented local taxpayers. The former lump sum of $9,500,000 was not based on any sound appraisal of the Federal Government's obliga- tion to the Capital. The lump sum of $7,775,000 was not based on any sound appraisal of the Federal Government's obligation to the Capital. And the proposed lump sum of $5.- 700,000 is not based on anything except an arbitrary percentage reduction from the last-named figure. How is the Federal Government’s ob- ligation to the Capital to be measured? Of what does it consist? After long vears of neglect of the Capital, which brought the munici- pality and many of its taxpayers to virtual bankruptcy, and after several years of careful ‘inquiry, the Federal Government decided that the expenses of the Capital should be borne be- tween them half and half. That ratio existgd from 1878 to 1922. It was attacked many times. But every investigation justified the equitability as well as the soundness of the system of thus dividing, by a ratio fixed in advance, the expenses between the local community and the Federal Govern- ment. In 1922, however. the ratio was | changed, substantive law being duly amended and the local taxpayers being charged with 60 per cent instead of 50 per cent of the expenses that were divisible between them and the Federal Government Investigation after investigation em- phasized two things—first, the fairness and adequacy of the local tax burden imposed by Congress as measured by the vardstick of what citizens of other, self- governing cities taxed themselves; sec- ond, the real responsibility on the part of the Federal Government to contrib- ute its just proportion of expenses in making up the total sppropriation nec- essary for maintaining this Federally planned, Federally governed Capital land in carrying out the Federally or- | dained development on the scale de- termined by the representatives of all | the people of the United States except those who live in Washington. Substantive Law Repudiated. But, two years after the new division of expenses between the local com- munity and the Federal Government h2d been agread upon by the Congress, the House, by means of a legislative rider on an appropriation bill, repu- diated the substantive law without re- pealing it and put into practice the sys- tem of appropriating in a lump sum Capital City’s running expenses. Congress had refused to repeal the substantive law. But House practice, of breaking away from it each year y mezns of a rider—temporary only for the year in which it applied—stack- ed the cards against the District and left its citizens virtually without appeal. Despite the annual attempts by the Sen- ate to increase the lump sum, the lump sum decreased steadily in proportion as the expenses of the District kept mount- ing. Practically the same story was re- peated over and over again. The Senate would be placed in the position of yield- ing to the House or of killing the Dis- trict bill—as it was killed this last ses- sion. Agreement and compromise were eemed more practical. In 1929 the Bureau of Efficiency was asked by former Representative Sim- mons of Nebraska to make an investi- gation of Washington's tax burden. in relation to that of other cities of the country; also to make an estimate of | what the Federal Government would pay in local taxes if, as a municipal Property owner, it was assessed on its property holdings as other property hold- ers are assessed. This the Bureau of Efficiency did. The results of that in- vestigation fully confirmed the argu- ment of Washingtonians who had claimed that, when the disabilities of the local community were taken into consideration, they were bearing an adequate tax burden. The Bureau of Efficiency also set up a theorctical method of determining | the Federal Government's obligation to | the local community. “In our opinion, said the Bureau of Efficiency, “the solu- tion of the problem of fiscal relations lies in determining the Federal Gov- | ernment’s liability toward the cost of operation and maintenance of the City of Washington along two lines, namely, (1) its tax liability as a municipal tax- paver in Washington in connection with the ordigary costs of government of the municlpality, and (2) its lia- bility on account of the loss of revenue and on account of exuraordinery ex- penditures occasioned by the fact !!"\at Washington is the National Capital. 1928 Obligation $7,440,039. As a “municipal taxpayer that is, as the owner of property which, if taxed, would yield revenue—the bu- reau found that the Nation’s obliga- tion for the fiscal year 1928 was $7,- 440.039. But the bureau made no attempt that year to compute the Federal Gov- ernment's additional obligation “on account of the loss of revenue (to the municipality) and on account of ex- tracrdinary expenditures occasioned by the fact that Washingtcn is the Na- tional Capital.” The next year the Bureau of Efi- ciency brought its tax data up to date at the request of the so-called Mapes Committee of the House, appointed to inquire into the subject of fiscal rela- tions. For the fiscal year 1932, the Bureau of Efficiency found that the Federal Government's “tax liability” to Wash- ington had increased to $8,865,722. The loss of revenue occasioned by the ex- cessive amount of tax-exempt, Fed- erally owned real estate was set at $733,581. The extraordinary expendi- tures occasioned by the fact that Washington is the Nation’s Capital (taking into consideration the cost of excess park maintenance and develop- ment) were set down as $544,088. ‘The total Federal contribution for the fiscal year 1932, if the recommenda- tions and findings of the Bureau of EI- ficiency had been taken into account, would have been $10,183,391. But when these findings were made known—despite the fact that they were arrived at independently after thorough investigation and at the spe- cific request of the House Committee | | | | | | instead of in relation to the total of the | —they were repudiated. Instead of a Federal appropriation for 1932 of $10,- 183,391, the “lump sum” for that year | was $9,500,000—the same figure that had been appropriated for the previous fiscal year. Fair Investigation Made, All men mey not agree on the Bu- reau of Efficiency’s method of comput- ing the Federal obligation. But the investigation upon which this compu- tation was based was a fair one made with the idea of suggesting a definite and tangible formula by which to set- tle the figure in dollars and cents each year. And that investigation, if it erred, erred in favor of the Federal Government. Those who have argued Washing- ton’s case in Congress for many years have always held that the basis of the Nation's obligation of proportionate contribution toward the maintenance and develcpment of Washington is not solely untaxed ownership of District real estate. though a substantial and continuous obligation does arise in con- nection with such ownership. The strongest obligations resting upon the Nation are equitable in their nature and based primarily on the circnm- stances of the Nation's creation and the treatment of the Capital by the Nation | ever since the birth of the Nation's | city. | The general Government, by the fact of planning a magnificent Capital, cov- ering a large area and characterized by broad streets, avenues and reservations | to an extent unsuitable for a self-sup- | porting commercial city, and by found- ing the Capital in a place comparatively uninhabited, as well as by the terms of | the bargain with the owners of the soil, and by the declarations of its represent- | atives at the founding of the city and afterward, showed an intention to build up a national city, at the Nation's ex- | pense, on a grand scale, irrespective of | the future population of the District. The Capital was to be primarily a cen- ter of Federal action, and the occupa- | tion of the ground by settlers was merely incidental to this great purpose. It was to be a meeting place for the use, convenience and entertainment of the people of the entire Union, and the | expense of its support and ‘adornment | was not to be limited by the scanty re- | sources of what permanent population it might acquire. The original owners of Washington donated five-sevenths of the city’s soil and yielded the right of self-govern- ment to the Nation on the understand- ing and implied agreement that the Nation was to build up here a magnifi- cent Capital at its own expense, reim- bursing itself from the proceeds of the sale of donated lots. A pretentious city | was planned and lots were sold by the Government on the strength of this un- cerstanding. For three-fourths of a | century the Nation violated or neglected | the obligations which it had thus in- curred. In 1878 the Government, which had in the beginning impliedly under- taken to meet all the expenses of capi- tal making and then shifted that bur- den, in the main, upon private citizens, | decided that justice required it to pay | one-half of the District’s expenses. Washington’s Equities. | Study of the equitable foundations | upon which proportionate contribution | toward capital maintenance by the Na- | tion is based brings the conviction that no fixing of that proportion can be just | which ignores national neglects of obli- | gations in the past in determining the | equitable measure of proportionate con- tribution for the future. As an annual contribution to munici- pal maintenance in a definite and liberal amount the Nation has since 1878, un- | der the wise and fair legislation of that | year, surpassed other nations in this ‘ form of patriotic expenditure. The re- | sult has been to restore the Nation's | self-respect as a fulfiller of Capital | obligations, and to build up the Capital | of today, in which every American has roprietary interest and in respect to h every American now feels a pro- prietary pride. The second obligation, that which is coupled with and measured by the de- | gree to which the Nation controls its Capital, is extraordinarily great in Washington's case, | ~ Obligation is coupled with power: i. e, financial obligation is coupled with political power. If the Nation con- trols, it pays, and to the extent that it controls, it pays. ‘Washington is the only capital in the world in_ which. if certain proposed policies prevail, the Nation would do all ?f the controlling and none of the pay- ing. The assumption and exercise of abso- lute and exclusive legislative power by the organic act were coupled with recog- notion of a pre-existing and continuing | financial obligation, The Nation can- | mot_equitably repudiate or reduce fo a minimum its financial obligation and retain and exercise its full despotic and exclusive power to tax and to govern. Such equitable consideraticns may not be as easily reduced to tangible sums in dollars and cents, as the Bureau of Efficiency succeeded in doing by its method. Nor, on the other hand, can the Federal contribution to District Tevenues be entirely discarded when comparisons of the financial responsi- billty and burden of this relatively small community, dependent for its very ex- istence upon the Federal Government, are made with those of independent, self-governing, self-taxing and self-sup- porting cities. But if the Federal Government is re- garded merely in the light of a mu- nicipal taxpayer—a conception that is entirely theoretical as the Federal Gov- ernment, of course, cannot tax itself—is it reasonable or fair to other local tax- payers if this Government decides to re- lieve itself of such obligations by ar- bitrarily cutting its municipal taxes 26.8 per cent? If the Federal Government paid a lump sum measured merely by its “tax liability,” the lump sum would have been $8,865,722 for the fiscal year 1932. Suppose any other Iccal taxpayer, also weighed down by obligations to be met Wwhile his revenue, in the form of salary, has been cut, decided to solve his prob- lem by reducing his own tax burden 26.3 per cent in one year, 40 per cent in two years? He would, of course, forfeit his prop- erty. His government would allow noth- ing of the sort. The other taxpayers would support the government, refusing to allow one taxpayer to reduce his own taxes while the others are denied a similar privilege. Taxes as High as Ever. Granting the needs of economy, can the Federal Government, in fairness or equity to the unrepresented taxpayers of Washington, arbitrarily decrease its own contribution and decline to extend the same privilege to other taxpayers? Every time the Federal Government decreases its contribution, the decrease | | PASSENGERS—EXPRESS—U. 8. AIR MAIL AIR TRAVEL Information Reservations ine destinations EASTERN AIR TRANSPORT SYSTEM 808 15th Strect, N.W. (National 7161) Washington Airport (National 3646) WASHINGTON-NEW YORK EVERY HOUR ON THE HOUB METERS FOR CABS UP T0 CONGRESS Commission’s Order Cannot Be Enforced Without Leg- islative Approval. The question of whether the Public Utilities Commission may be permit- ted to enforce an order requiring in- stallation of meters on the taxicabs of Washington is tied into the new Dis- trict fund bill as sent late yesterday to Congress by the Budget Bureau. t was revealed in a study of the measure tdoay at the District Building that the bureau proposal would leave with Congress final determination of the question of metering the cabs, but that the proposed measure does not carry an absolute prohibition against meters such as exists in the appropria- tion act for the current fiscal year. Requires Congress’ Approval. ‘The present law prohibits the use of any District funds for the enforcement of an order by the Public Utilities Com- mission requiring cabs to install and operate under the meter system, rather than on the existing zone rates of fare. ‘The bill sent to Congress yesterday by the Budget Bureau carries a pro- vision that an order by the Commission ordering metering of the cabs shall not be enforced unless and until such order has been approved by Congress, it is explained. Strong opposition to metering of the cabs developed during consideration of the former 1934 budget estimates by committees in the past session of Con- gress. Pends in Court of Appeals. Should the new Budget Bureau pro- vision be enacted, however, and should the decision of the new Congress be that some proposal for metering of the be left with the possibility of proposing to Congress a metering plan. An order issued by the commission a year or more ago required installation of meters. The case, however was taken to court. When the commission was sustained in the lower court the case was carried to the Court of Appeals where it now is pending. SKELETON IS “JAILED” Found by Man Seated at His Side on Park Bench. NEW YORK, March 28 (#).—It didn’t Lielp James G. Lern’s peace of mind any to find a skeleton, with its legs crossed, suddenly sitting beside him on a bench in_Central Park yesterday. 3 Lern hurried away to Patrolman Pins- ker, who took the skeleton to a police station. An assistant medical examiner said it had probably been placed on the bench by a medical student. It was taken to the Bellevue morgue. is met by an increased proportion in the amount demanded from local tax- payers. The reductions in the Pederal contributions have been made at the expense, and out of the pockets, of the local taxpayers. In the fiscal year 1924, the last year that the 60-40 principle of appropria- tion was in effect, the local taxpayers contributed $14,463,329 and the Fed- eral Government contributed $9.440,424. ‘When the lump sum went into prac- | tice the year following. local taxes (not {including gasoline or water taxes) jumped to $22,030,316 and the Federal contribution dropped to $9.145,355. In 1931 the local tax burden had risen to $36.125.251 and the lump sum remained practically stationary. | Today local taxes remain as high as | they ever were—but the taxables, out- |side of real estate assessments, have shrunken. But the Federal Govern- | ment, the supreme arbiter, relieves itself again at the expense of the local taxpayer by proposing. in the name of economy, to reduce its obligations | 26.8 per cent. If the recommendation prevails, local taxpayers should in fairness have | similar relief. But that will leave unsolved the in- creasingly serious problem of deteriorat- | ing municipal services, more widespread | unemployment, and the drastic curtail- | ment in what, to begin with, was a merely nominal program of public im- provement. | ~ USE A QUART of MILK DAILY for EACH MEMBER of the FAMILY cabs be adopted, the commission would | Spendin _FOODDOL DISTRICT FUND BILL LEAVES CALVERT BRID $575.000 for New Spa: ferees in Last Sessio Approval by Congress of the District fund bill for the next fiscal year as it was reported by the Bureau of the Budget yesterday would leave on the hands of the District the problem of the old structure now serving as the Calvert Street Bridge over Rock Creek which since 1928 the city officials have asked be replaced. An item of $575,000 for the smung; of the building of & new span there was | agreed to by House and Senate con- | ferees in the closing days of the past session of Congress, but was left out of the new bill by the Budget Bureau, though there are available funds for the work in the gasoline tax revenues. ‘The need for the replacement of the | bridge was clearly shown in hearings | before the Senate Committee during the last session. 'The existing bridge was built back ;m 1891 and is regarded by engineers GE UNREPLACED n Agreed to by Con- n Was Left Out by Budget Bureau in New Measure. as being of the old “Tin-can” type, Congress was told. Maj. John C. Gotwals, when testify- ing last Winter before the Senate com- mittee, said: “This bridge excited attention as long as 23 years ago. There has been a good deal of comment about it. I do not want to say anything alarming, but the bridge certainly needs replacement. That was indicated very clearly in the replacement of & similar bridge on Kin- gle road. When we replaced that bridge our views were verified that it needed it very badly. “We have had designs made by ex- pert engineers. All the ingredients are called for, everything. The amount of the authorization would have no effect at all on the contract price. That is already set, whatever it would be. The primary thing is that this bridge may he replaced, which is very badly needed.” NEW CONGEPT SEEN IN USE OF LEISURE 'Dr. Paul H. Furfey Addresses Meeting of Council of Social Agencies. The American people have a new | concept of the uses of leisure time, Dr. | Paul H. Furfey, professor of soclology at Catholic University, told volunteer | | soctal workers yesterday in the fifth| lecture in & course in social service being conducted at the United States | | Chamber of Commerce under the aus- pices of the Council of Social Agencies. Dr. Furfey cited the vast increase | in park and recreational facilities in | municipalities throughout the country | | in the past 30 years, particularly since | | the World War. | He was introduced to the group by Mrs. John Jay O'Connor, chairman of | the Council Committee on Volunteer | Service. H> said that whereas the former idea was to landscape public parks for the scenic beauty alone, authorities have come to realize that the use of these parks for recreational purpose in- volves a different treatment, which | combines both beauty and utility. He cited the impetus given outdoor recreation in the past few years by the activities of the Boy and Girl Scouts, | the Young Men's Christian Association and the Young Women's Christian As- sociation, the 4-H clubs and other groups. Schools, making healthy play a part of the physical education of the pupils also have provided an im- | petus for provision of recreational facilities. He cited a study made in Cleveland, where it was found that 75 per cent of the juvenile delinquency among those studied, was due to improper use of leisure time. He said the poorest economy at this time is the cutting down of recreational facilities, PLOT THEFT CHARGED STABILIZED COAL INDUSTRY SOUGHT Union Leaders and Cabinet Members Confer With Roosevelt on Plan. By the Assoclated Press. A way to stabilize the coal industry is being sought by President Roosevelt. While an administration-sponsored conference looking to improvement of | the ofl industry was in progress yester- day, the President called in leaders of the United Mine Workers and two cabi- net members to see what could be done about coal. After the conference the White House issued this statement: “There was a general discussion of the coal industry and mining condi- tions throughout the country with a view to finding the best means for im- proving these conditions. Further con- ferences with the President will be held.” John L. Lewis, president of the miners’ union, made no comment. The belief is held by some, however, that the union leaders hope to get Mr. Roose- velt behind new stabilization legislation along the lines of the Davis-Kelly bill. That bill would allow operators to form marketing combines under Federal regulation and permit miners to or- ganize in non-union fields. LOCAL APPOINTMENTS ASKED FOR D. C. HEADS Association Instruct Secretary to Write President Roosevelt. Georgetown Citizens’ Although refusing to indorse any particular candidate for the office of District Commissioner, the Georgetown | Citizens' Association, at a meeting ]lst: night in St. John's Parish Hall, instruct- | | ed the secretary, John Paul Jomes, to! Court Asked to Prevent Showing of | Film “Gabriel” Here. Claiming the plot of the motion picture, “Gabriel Over the White House,” had been taken from a copy- righted book he wrote, Albert Small, ! 1120 Vermont avenue, today asked the District Supreme Court to prevent the showing of the picture at a local theater next week. He also asked the court to enjoin the Washington Herald from publishing the story of the play. Small said he is the author and copy: right owner of a book entitled “As Is, from which, according to his petition, the idea and characters ror the picture ‘were taken. '»‘.\\\1 LARS write a letter to President Roosevelt, | asking him to appoint local men to the_positions. | The letter of the law requires an ap- | pointee shall have been a resident of‘ the District for the three years next before his assumption of office, and that | he shall not have claimed residence in any other State during that period, the | association points out. In explaining its refusal to advocate an especial candidate for the commis- ' sionership. the association asserted it traditionally has not proposed candi- dates for public office. In the absence of the president, B. Agee Bowles, the | presiding officer last night was Frank P. Leetch. “I have found that using More Milk helps me feed the family Better at Less Cost.” Nature demands fo od for three uses: First—Fuel and Energy Food, to keep us warm and to provide power for work; Second—Building Food ( bodies and keep th Third—Regulating Foods, and blood in good « « « For these uses no othe pare with Milk. everything your body needs. It comes to you ready to eat. no waste! remove nothing. You consume all. will support life indefinitely. food that will! 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Perhaps one of the heaviest cuts made in items of the estimates was a slashing of a request for miscellaneous street repairs from $250,000 to $25,000. ‘This item provides for street exten-| sions which are provided for out of | general revenue funds, but which are subject to condemnation awards and | assessment of benefits which brings refunds in large measure back to the District Treasury. | Reduction of this item to $25,000 will deprive a large number of highway | workmen of employment. | Many Would Lose Jobs. ‘The slash made in the proposed ex- penditures under the gasoline tax revenues, however, would deprive a much greater number of workmen of employment over a period of months, as well as to halt virtually all but main- tenance operations under this class of appropriations, it is explained, The budget report calls for appropria- tions for street work out of the gasoline tax revenues to the extent of $1,237,400, as compared with an earlier request for $2.277,850 Since the requested larger amount still would have left unexpended in the ‘Treasury a large amount of gasoline tax funds, and since by law these revenue funds' cannot be expended for any pur- pose other than highway improvements, the further proposed reduction would | serve only to pile up a greater unused | | balance in the Treasury. A check of the gasoline tax items in | the budget report indicates that not much work under this class of appro- priations can be done except main- tenance operations and an amount of resurfacing_projects. Another blow to the hopes of District officials and informed taxpayers was | the elimination of an item, to be met | {out of the gasoline tax funds, of $575,- | 000 for the beginning of construction of a new Calvert street bridge, over Rock Creek, which would carry the| | street car tracks there. I Requested Several Years. An item for this project has been requested for the past several years | but each time has been eliminatd. Ex- | | pert testimony before congressional committees has shown that this old structure is none too sturdy and should be replaced. | The proposed budget does contain an item of $148,500 for completion of the Benning Bridge, which now has been carried to an advanced stage of construction, and for which the Dis- trict Government is subject to a con- tract for payment of the remaining work. One of the important street proj- ects under the gasoline tax items which was eliminated by the Budget Bureau is the widening and repaving of Con- stitution avenue, from Delaware avenue to Second street and from Pennsyl- vania avenue to Sixth street at a cost of $138.000. | “One important effect of the heavy | reduction proposed in new street and | | highway construction appropriations is that a much greater call would have Here’s A—w to !;e made on funds for maintenance work. In other words, when a street is to be resurfaced or repaved in a definite- ly scheduled program, it is possible to make only emergency repairs for sev- eral months prior to laying of the new paving. But with so large a portion of new street construction eliminated, much more repair and reclaiming work must be done out of maintenance funds, it is explained. $500,000 Gives 1,000 Jobs, Just how far the proposed slashes in estimates will serve to increase un- employment is seen in a calculation that each $500,000 expended on con- tract highway work let by the District provides employment for 1,000 men for a period of three months. It has been estimated roughly that the work planned by District officials would have provided employment for 2 many as 3,000 men for from five to s months. In addition, it would hav kept at work about 700 per diem em- ployes on the District rolls. ‘The reduced budget, of course, will mean a reduction in the personnel of the highway department as well lack of work for private workmen. RED CROSS GLASS OF 22 GRADUATED Miss Mabel T. Boardman Presents Certificates and Pins to Young Women. Twenty-two young women, compris- ing the 1933 class of staff assistants of the District of Columbia Chapt the American Red Cross, were ated this morning at ex the National Red Cross auditoriu Gen. F. R. Keefer, cl District of Columbia Chapter the gradugwe. who are d last year, at& the Army Ban rector of the Speake Red Cross, addressed #iem, afte Miss Mabel T. Boardman presented certificates and pins The graduates are Peg Elizabeth Brainard, Kath Ida L. Clagett, Gertrude W. Lane Foster, Florence Ber Mrs. R. W. s Kent, Jean Kingman, Hele Margaret C. Nixon, Mary L snider, Josephine' R. Ri Rodgers, Virginia Ru Shouse, Margreta C. Sykes, Harriet S. Tod: and Elizabeth K. Twq American Flyers Believed Lost in Nicaraguan Jungles. MANAGUA, Nicaragua, (#).—The Government inst search late yesterday for A. Fl of Dallas, Tex., and Harry Scott of Orleans, who left here in a s motored plane for Puerto Cabezas Sunday, and who are believed to been forced down in the dense ; of eastern Nicaragua. ‘The plane carried only sufficien: line for a five-hour flight. Scott is an official of the Bra Bluff Lumber Co. of New Orleans The plane was said to h: over Tierra Azul early afternoon. FLYING ANTS (Termites) Osgse $40.000.000 Damage Annuallv to Waod Work in Homes and Buildings UARANTEED TREATMENT Vpeating Unnecessary—Free Inspection Terminix Co. of Washington 1102 National Press Bldg. 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