Evening Star Newspaper, September 9, 1925, Page 11

WIEDFELDT SEEKS BIG STEEL MERGER Move Is on to Unite Rhenish Industries and Regulate Production. the Associated Press BERLIN, September $.—Dr. Otto Viedfeldt, former rman ambassa- to the United es, now head e, ha € | one doll -| French. *| have records of spending $524,000,000 | o fluctuation in character of has not been ected to take the with 000 mar who 1s a keen s mriu\nnl met -| coming decade are: Detroit, $383,000.- | [ B the Assoctated Press CHICAGO, September 9.—The mod- ern kings of democracy, the American voters, spend for their public improve- ments sums vastly larger than the kings of old lavished on their show places, public and private. Louis XIV of France spent a sum estimated at $100,000,000 on Ver- sailles. Five midwestern cities have announced plans for publie improve- ments in the next decade alone which total almost one billion dollars, or for every ten cents of the King. Eleven of these cities ich improvements in the | decade, and the regular running ex- penses of clty governments annually {in 15 of them are $103,000,000, or more {than the great Louis spent on his major undertaking. Detroit Heads List. The five cities with the definitely announced improvement plans for the 000; Chicago, $350,000,000; Clevelan THE EVENING CIVIC EXPENDITURES IN.U. S. DWARF LAVISHNESS OF KINGS Five Midwestern Cities to Spend Nearly a Billion for Public Works That Combine Beauty With Utility. Detroit Has $383,000,000 Program. both use and beauty. The school chil- dren are promised $61,000,000 in new schools and equipment. Reflecting the automobile, street widening is - esti- mated at $81,000,000. Parks draw $11,000,000, library $3,000,000 and sew- age disposal $79,000,000, Chicago’s third of a billlon includes something unique in_beautification— the laying of a park 15 miles long di- rectly across the face of the city, at an estimated expense of $75,000,000. Years ago a wrecked salling vessel on Chi- cago’s lake front accumulated sand about it until land was added to the front worth many millions. his cue, the city government | e lake front facing | a continuous park On one side is the Topaz and r Lake and on the other the Skyscraper Cliffs. The width is from a few hundred feet to nearly half a mile. The site {s not a flat plain, but STAR, Las some hills approximately- of 40 feet high. For sewage disposal the city plans to spend $125,000,000 in ten years. The Chicago Plan Commission has recommended 15 public and pri vate improvement projects, some of which fire under construction, includ- ing $14,000,000 forest preserve devel- opment and such private enterprises as the $75,000,000 Union Station, al- ready completed, and the $88,000,000 Illinois Central Station, to be bullt. St. Louts' $85,000,000 in the coming decade includes 2 municipal plaza and extensive street, water and sewage improvement. Kansas City's estimated $40,000,000 covers a _twenty-million plan of the Kansas City public im- provement program, five millions for schools, eleven for water works and more than five for sewage. Cleve- land’s proposed $40,000,000 embraces an airport and the Mall, which will be bounded only by buildings of speci- fled helght and architectural fitness. The 15 midwestern cities covered spend annually to operate their city governments, in approximate round numbers: neapolis, $: 000,000; hllrl»ll nati, $6,000,000; § Des Moines, $3,000, 000,000; Milwaukee, $: 0/ eland, $14,000,000; Min- ,000,000; St. Paul, $10,- $103,000,000: Cincin- i and Indianapolis, $11,000,0 WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, s, $25,000,000; | AMERICAN SCHOOLS PATTERN FOR EUROPE Kramer, Back From Tour, Says United States Plan Is Displac- ing Private Systems Asst. Supt. of Schools Stephen Kramer returned to his desk at the Franklin School yesterday after an |~ extensive tour of* Europe, during which he learned that educational authorities in the old country are looking to America for ideas. Mr. Kramer found that European schools are being modeled along lines of the American public schools, with the result that the public school is rapidly becoming popularized where 1ce the private school was the Vogue. SEPTEMBER 9, 1925. Publio achools once were regarded as “charitable” institutions, Mr. Kramer points out. In the Kramer touring party were a number of American school officiais and teachers from various cities. The following Washingtonians made the trip: Miss L. L. Sherd, Mrs. J. S. Stearns, Miss Elsle Stearns, Mrs. Sara C. Johnson, Miss Constance Leubkert, Miss Helen Perriam, Mrs. H. W. Dra’ per, Miss Lulu Robbins, Miss Jessie Robbins, Miss Grace Littie, Miss C. Tower, Miss Louise Larcomb, M Retn. Mengel, Miss Margaret Fishburn and Miss A. F. 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