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12 §501,000 ECONOMY INVIRGINIA PLAN Governor’s Committee Rec- { ommends Abolishing 28 i Government Agencies. By the Aseociated Press. RICHMOND, Va., February 12 Abolition of 28 of Virginia's eight-odd governmental agencies and consolida- tion of the others into 11 major admin- Istrative groups is recommended by the citizen’s committee of 38 in_its report to Gov. Harry F. Byrd. This report is the basis of the governmental reforms of the governor will ask the General at its extraordinary session in March to inaugurate. uction of the entire finan- tem of the State is proposed by the committee, which recommends @ unified financial accounting and con- trol, whereby every dollar collected by a governmental agency will pass through the State treasury Besides outlining an_entirely new governmental system, the committee proposes the issuance of licenses for passenger motor vehicles on a twi year basis and recommends that pe Detual educational certificates bear ing 6 per cent be refunded at a lower Interest rate. These two items alone, it 1s estimated, will save $160,000 an nually. A total saving of $500,000 predicted by the committee if its recommendations are followed. It recommended increasing the gasoline tax from 413 cents to b cents, which will add $400,000 to the estimated revenues for 192 Would Abolish Secretary. Eventual abolition of the office of the secretary of the commonwealth is recommended by the commision. The | second auditor, the State accountant, ':ha commissioner of State hospitals, @nd superintendent of public printing are officers slated by the commission for abolition. Such agencies as the State board of industrial rehabilita- tion, convict time board, State fee commission, State tax commision and State purchasing commission —are among the groups recommended for ontinuance. ms’;‘:he committes recommends that the title of State motor vehicle commis- gioner be abolished and that the pres- ent department be made a division un- der the division of finance. It would ®lso have the title of State highway commissioner substituted for the one now held by Henry G. Shirley. The 31 administrative departments pro- by the committee are: Taxation, finance, highways, education, corpora- tions, industrial relations, agriculture ®nd immigration, conservation and de- welopment, health, public welfare and W "Tha recommendations took 25 pages Pt typewritten report, and do not include many of the proposals made fin the report of the New York bureau fof municipal research, which took 319 pages. One of the most radical changes proposed is the issuance of a wo-year automobile license for pas- nger automobiles. Trucks will not be affected by the ruling. Under the committee’s plan, the present policy of selling licenses would be used. At ipresent. the cost of a license is based m the weight of an automobile—70 gcnu for each 100 pounds or major part thereof. Under this plan, the wcommittee reported, licenses for two frears would cost $i40 for each hun- dred pounds. Under the proposed the license would cost 70 cents or each hundred pounds the first ear and 80 cents for each hundred ds the second year, a saving of cents on each hundred pounds. } 5-Cent Gasoline Tax. The committee also recommended an in the gasoline tax from 4% ents to § cents a gallon. This would an increased revenue to the State 1927 of $400,000, it estimated. ‘The report said it cost $220,000 an- faually to issue licenses, while it only cost $6,000 a year to collect the gaso- line taxes, which amount to a larger sum. Under the plan, it 1s believed, e State would save $125,000 annually. It is estimated that $100,000 would e saved by the system of unified financial accounting and control, Wwhich is recommended. The com- imittee reported that the department of finance would promote a business- like, effective and economical admin- gstration. The report said $17,000,000 in taxes and other fees collected by the present State departments and lgencies are collected and deposited to individual agencies and depart- fments. The State tax commissioner, ap- yointed by the governor, would be | the executive head of the depart- ment of taxation. The State tax commission would be abolished ‘The duties of the auditor of public mccounts would be transferred to the department of taxation. | The committee recommended that the tax on capital in business should be administered by this department and estimated that there would be ®n annual saving of $60,000. There would be four divisions in the de- partment of finance. The auditor of public accounts ‘would he elected by the General As- sembly, as now provided, and would werve as a continuous check on the financial acts of the administration. It is recommended by the committee there be established in that division, | under the controller, a complete sys- tem of general accounting for the whole State government. The State Treasurer, under the committee’s recommendations, would supplant the auditor of public accounts as chair- man of the finance board. The State | treasurer and controller are to per- form the duties of the sinking fund | commissjoners under ' the proposed plan of government. Executive Office Divisions. Tn the governor’s office there would be four divisions, one budget, records, military affairs ings. The committee believed that £16,000 could be saved by adding to the present work of the director the | editing and reducing to concise and readable form any printed report pro- posed by any tate department. The division of records would be under su- pervision of the secretary to the gov- ernor, abolishing the office of the sec- retary of the commonwealth. B. O. James is now secretary of the com- monwealth, and Peter Saunders secre- tary to the governor. The superin- tendent of grounds and buildings and the superintendent of the State office buildings would be merged under the Aivision of grounds and buildings. Under the division of purchase and printing the State purchasing agent, the State purchasing commission and the superintendent of public printing are abolished, and one director is placed in charge. Several important changes are pro- osed in the department of education riefly they are that the governor should appoint the board, numbering | five; the State board of censors woul be made a part of the department, with only one member instead of three, ®s at present. The five State normal schools would be placed under the supervision of the department. The department of agriculture would gee several changes. The inspection and grounds and build- | l Gets Reform Report. | HARRY F. BYRD. , whose committee on n of the State govern- tem has made its recom- reorgani | mental | mendati | game and inland fisheries and the com- mission of fisherfes. The department of highways sees jonly two changes. The commission | would be appointed by the governor land the chairman would be known as the State highway commissioner, for uniformity with other commissioners. The bureau of insurance and the | division of banking of the State cor- poration commissfn would be consoli- dated into the department of corpora- | tions. The commissioner of insurance | and the chief examiner of banks would | then be abolished. The indu: r‘al com- mission and the bureau ¢ labor would be put in one office. The committee recommended that the legislative reference bureau be merged with the department of law, to {be known as the division of legisla- tive drafting. There is a constitutional amendment already proposed, the report said, to abolish the office of commissioner of state hospitals for the insane. The governor would appoint the commis- sloner of public welfare instead of hav- ing him appointed by the board of public welfare. The committee recom- mended that the boards of directors of the four State reformatories be merged into one board of five. Local Government Plans. In the field of local government the committee recommended that the con- stitution be amended so as to permit the General Assembly by general law to authorize an optional form of county government to be submitted to popular vote. The existing county indebtedness in Virginia, the report sald, was esti- mated at approximately $28,000,000. Lack of State supervision over such indebtedness, sald the report, causes the counties to pay high rates of in- terest for funds. Adequate State supervision, without impairing the principle of self-government and with- out in any way obligating the State, should be established, it was recom- mended. If established, the report said, the annual savings to the tax- payers of the counties through a credit improvement would be larger, ?er}mps as much as 1 per cent, or 280,000, It was also recommended that no city have more than one collector of taxes. The city treasurer, under the recommendation, would collect all local as well as all State taxes which are collectable locally. The committee recommended enact- ment of a statute requiring proper audit of all school funds and accounts in cities by the city auditor or city controller. All school funds and ac- counts should clear through the city auditor's office or the city controller’s office, the committee recommended. It proposed that all school properties in cities be made to stand in the name of the city owning them and not in the name of the school board. It recom- mended that the constitution be amended so as to authorize the Gen- eral Assembly by general law to per- mit any city to exempt from local taxation, in whole or in part, for a period not exceeding five years, the land, buildings and machinery of any new manufacturing plant which may locate therein. i Constitution Report Near. Special Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va., February 12.— Gov. Byrd's committee of five appoint- ed to suggest amendments to the State constitution is preparing to submit its report. At least 50 changes will be recommended, it is sald. Judge R. R. Prentis of the State Supreme Court is chairman of the committee. —_— WAR’S HUNGER BLOCKADE STILL FELT IN GERMANY | Effects of Undernourishment Ten Years Ago Seen in Inability to Resist Disease. | By the Associated Press. BERLIN, February 12.—Effects of the “hunger blockade” imposed upon | Germany during the war have not yet {been wiped out, Henry Hirtsiefer, | Prussian minister of public health, | says in a survey upon which he based | his request for an increase of 500,000 | marks in appropriations to combat | disease. While the fact that 800,000 clvil- fans died as a result of the blockade | brought about a slight decrease in | the death rate after the war, he sald | that the effects of undernourishment ten years ago have reduced the vital- ity of the people and impaired their power to resist disease. Tuberculosis and typhoid fever, he sald, have increased. The alarming decrease In the birthrate from 28 per thousand before the war to 20 per thousand last year was such, he de- | clared, that unless a concentrated effort ‘was made to decrease infant mortality there would be no surplus of births over deaths. Polluted drinking water sources and antiquated sewage disposal methods he blamed for the spread of typhoid, which in the Hannover epidemic alone | caused more than 200 deaths, The epidemic was such a drain on the city treasury that a state loan of 3,000,000 marks was necessary to prevent a deficit. . | Officers to Go to Kansas. | Lieut. Col. Hiram M. Cooper and | Majs. Martin C. Wise and Harry L. | Twaddle, all of the Infantry, have been relieved from duty in the War | Department General Staff and detailed |as instructors at the General Staff | School at Fort Leavenworth, Kans, Colonel Is Ordered Here. Col. John 8. Switzer, United States Infantry, at Brattleboro, Vt., has been ordered to this city for treatment at Walter Reed Gencral Hospital REAL ESTATE LOANS MADE AND SOLD J. LEo KoLB 923 NEW YORK AV. MAIN 8027 THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FEBRUARY 13, 1927—PART 1. REFINEMENT AND RARE BEAUTY MARK TEMPORARY WHITE HOUSE {Some Furnishings, in Miss Genevicve Hendricks, interior decorator, has been in charge of the decorations at 15 Dupont circle for the past two years. She knows in minute detail the furnishings of the “temporary White House.” BY GENEVIEVE HENDRICKS. There are in Washington many elaborate homes which might have made a fitting abode for the Pres dent and Mrs. Coolidge during their absence from the White House. It is in keeping with the natures of President and Mrs. Coolidge that they have not accepted the most elaborate of the houses that have been offered {to them, but have chosen instead one | Which is better known for the refine- jment and simple beauty of its fur- nishings than for its ostentatiousne: Contrary to popular belief, the Pat- terson house is not a particularly large house. It is a comfortable, livable house, which contains but 15 main rooms, besides a number of service rooms and the servants’ quar- ters. Having been for many years the home of a woman of rare taste and discernment, who is constantly study- ing the appearance of her home, it is known as one of the best kept houses { in Washington. French in Character. The house is French in character both in its architecture and in the ma- Jority of its interior furnishings, al- though the exterior shows Italian in- fluence as well. "It is of the restrained and classical period in French decora- tive art, rather than in the more elaborate periods popularly thought of as representative French. The house has an imposing setting and faces Dupont Circle, one of the loveliest of Washington’s many small parks. Formal gardens at the sides and rear, green at all seasons of the year with ivy and boxwood, give the house a spaclousness and distinction of which few Washington homes can boast. E The proportions of the house, not only of the exterior but of the inter- ior as well, are as nearly perfect as it would be possible to have them. They are a credit to the architect, Stanford White. The carving, both in the out- side stone and marble work and in the interior marble and woodwork, is restrained and beautiful, an example of the finest in ornamental design. Harmony in Color. An interesting feature about the house which makes it one of charmn is that it expresses unity and harmon: in the color and type of its furnish- ings. One passes from each room into the next without consclous shock from jarring notes of color or widely varying periods and types of furniture. An _object lesson for American Use 30 Years, Attest to Value of Purchasing for Quality. chairs and tables and sofas have been carefully arranged with a view to their being comfortable for conversa- tional groups. One 1s not annoyed in this room by having to raise the voice in conversation. Ivy Graces Sun Room. The original coverings of the chairs |and sofas’ and benchss, the majority |of which are Louis XVI in design and many of which are original, having through time become worn, have re- cently been replaced. Several pleces have been covered with old Arbusson in soft and beautifnl floral designs. A small sun room with latticed walle up which ivy clambs in great profu. sion is a delightful spot. Here glazed chintz curtains with large colored 'flower designs aga a clear yellow ground give a sense of Spring even on the bleakest of Winter days. The wicker furniture in this room®is of French origin and is painted a soft green. The chairs e thin pads cov: ered in glazed chintz the same as the curtains, piped in lacquer red. The large library is one of the in- teresting rooms. This again attests to the taste of its first owner and of its present owner, who has held to the vriginal design. At «a time when many people were building houses poor in design and with cheap and gaudy decorations, Mrs. Patterson chose rather to have her library sim- ple and of enduring beauty. walls of this room are lined with bookcases of waxed Circassian wal nut, with simple classical mouldings Above them and to the ceiling the walls are covered with a soft, green brocade in a design true to the Em- | pire period. Marble Gives Contrast. A beautiful mantelpiece of Italian marble in soft, pinkish brown tones gives contrast to the green of the walls and hangings. The original large plain rug of green has recently been replaced by another plain one, this one being in deep plum color. again in contrast to the greens and browns of the room. . Four original Italian armchairs of the eighteenth century, still painted in their original cream and gold, have been covered in a soft gold taffeta. Grouped about a table on which stands an onyx lamp of simple, classi- cal design, they give to the room a lightness that would not be possible without them. A number of portraits occupy posi- tions of importance vn the walls above the bookcases. Happily there is in several of these paintings a rich cop- per color of a pinkish hue, which gives a most pleasing contrast to the other colors in the room. The furni- ture in the room, except for the four armchairs mentioned, is true in design to the furniture of the Empire period i householders might be learned from a fmost of the pieces being original. They study of the history of the furnish- ings of this house. Everything that has come into the house has been of the finest quality. Mrs. Robert W. Patterson, the mother of the present owner, Mrs. Elmer Schlesinger, like her daughter, was a woman of artistic discernment and judgment. That she purchased well is proven by the fact that by far the large majority of the furnishings in this house are those which she placed there some 30 years ago. Whatever has been placed new in re: cent years in the house has been se- lected with a view to fitting in with and supplementing, if not replacing, the original furniture. Its owners have held to one ideal of taste and have not wandered along the treach- erous by-paths of fads and fancies in decoration. For State Functions. For state functions there will be a very lovely ballroom, perhaps as charming’ as any that might be found in this country. Against paneled walls of soft French gray the pastel shades in the materials and rugs give pleasing contrast. The ceiling is high in this room and beautifully modeled. The walls are undecorated except for two large portraits and an old mirror over the fireplace, which graces one end of the room. Bronze electric fixtures in old gilt when lighted give to_the room a satisfying glow. In the center of the room is a large Arbusson rug with flowered medal- lions in soft shades of rose and mauve and green against a soft pinkish background. The furniture in this room is all French in design, except for the large grand piano which stands in one cor- ner. This is covered with a piece of old silk brocade and is partly screened off from the rest of the room by an old French screen, aleo covered in antique brocade. Unlike most large rooms of this character, the ballroom has an invit- ing quality to it. This is becaus= e Ay are of French manogany decorated with Ormulu mounts of finely wrought bronze. Lovely Lighting Fixtures. The lighting fixtures in this room are as lovely as any in the house They are of hand-wrought bronze and represent draped winged figures. There area number o small tables con. veniently placed close to chairs and sofas. On them are lamps, some of ala baster, others of porcelain, all simple and consistently beautiful in design. The dining room is one of rare charm. Here again careful buying by the original owners has prevented the necessity of furnishing and refurnish. ing during the last 30 years. The walls are lined with paneled wainscot- ing painted cream, above which i: crimson brocade to the fretted cor- nice. Hepplewhite chairs of the shield back design, many of them originai, line the walls. Here, as in the library, old portraits give color and interest to the walls. A beautiful screen, covered in Chinese paper of the late eighteenth century, shields the view into the service rooms connecting and gives an interesting mass of design. At one end of the room 'a large Hepplewhite sideboard is l].lfla,c!d against the center of the wall. Lamps Are Interesting. A small drawing room with blue- green painted walls is perhaps out- standing among all rooms in the house. One entire wall of this room is covered with books, whose leather backs in varied hues give marked con trast to the walls. A little mantel- plece in Adam design forms the cen- ter of interest on another side of the room. Drawn up about it are chairs and small tables coveniently placed for conversation or for tea. Two over- stuffed sofas in this room, built along the most delicate and graceful lines, are covered in a flowered chintz in which soft crimsons and greens and blues are in contrast with the yellow &) B A & P GYPSIES HARRY HORLICK, Director IN CONCERT Earle Theater Feb. 13 to 19 —rich, realistic, satisfying! TWO GUITARS . . . ‘THE SHADOW OF THE FLEURS D’AMOUR . “A DARK NIGHT” . . VARIATIONS ON THE THEME ] Then prolong your enjoy- ATTEND the concert. ment of this famous artist. Take home this inspir- ing music on new,electrically-recorded Brunswick Records Your Brunswick dealer will gladly play these selections for you: PAST .| . MARIGNY—(PARISIAN TANGO) . OF PR { ravy. He has specialized in suhmarine cream of the background. The floor is covered with a plain carpet of deep reddish purple, on which is a small Aubusson rug. The lamps in this room are particularly Interesting, with shades of soft yellows and gold colors. Fresh flowers here, as elsewhere in the house, give added charm. While all the bedrooms are interest- ing, perhaps the most delightful of them is one which has painted walls of a very soft delicate green. The curtains here and in the little sitting room which adjoins it are of a pink- ish yellow, and the Louis XVI furni- niture, much of which Is original, is covered in old glazed chintz and mod- ern reproductions in glazed chintz, Two beautiful cabinets in Chinese lacquer red give point and utility. The plain carpets in these rooms are of a deep eggplant color. Distinctive Bedroom. Another bedroom that stands out as being distinctive is the only one which is furnished in the spirit of the Amer- ican colonial. This is one of only two rooms in the house that is papered On the wall is a flowered paper of an old English design, its sprays of flow- ers being in soft tones of mauve and rose and blue on a cream ground. This paper has been on the wall for year: Again attesting to the wisdom of buy ing for qualitv. The long overcurtains in this room are of a mauve chintz bordered with a wide silk fringe of French blue. On the four-poster bed is a striking bed: spread of blue striped with a soft erimson, as practical for use as it is beautiful in design and coloring. Be- fore the fireplace are drawn up a large comfortable armchair with a slip cover in mauve chintz like that at the win- dows, and opposite it a small settee covered tight in a glazed chintz of dif- ‘erent design and with yellow and blue ind mauve on a soft mauve ground. Pillows and chair seats in this room are of blue like the bedspread. Rare etchings and fine old prints hang on the walls throughout the house. Each of the main rooms has an open fireplace. In the social rooms these are of colored marbles and are large and imposing, in keeping with the size and design of the rooms. In the bedrooms, however, they are of painted wood carved with all the grace ind delicacy of the late eighteenth century. e OFFICER ASSIGNED ON NAVAL MISSION Lieut. Comdr. Henry B. Burnett Succeeds Lieut. Comdr. H. B. Grow, Resigned, in Peru. By the Associated Press. Lieut. Commander Henry B. Bur- nett has been assigned to the Unitel States Naval Mission in Peru, suc- -eeding Lieut. Commander H. B. Grow, resigned. Grow, who aided aviation develop- ment for Peru, came here recently to order six airplanes for an air line on he Amazon River between Lima and ‘quitos. It is understood he will re- main in charge of hir project as a civilian for the Peruvian government. Burnety, is expected to assist in sub- mbarine development for the Peruvian work and probably will help train ‘rews to man the two submarines now under construction for Peru at New London, Conn. MacNider to Set Record. Col. Hanford MacNider, Assistant Secretary of War, is likely to break 4l records for signing personal lef ers. As president of the 2d Division Association. he is signing individual letters to 35,000 former officers and | =nlisted men of that division, inviting | them to attend the convention of the 1ssociation to be held in this city in Tune, to arrange for the erection of a memorial to 5,259 members of the division who lost their lives in action luring the World War. Col. Mac- Nider says he will sign these letters in his “off hours only,” and expects o complete the task In from 10 days o0 two weeks’ tim N This Co ———————— This Coupon will be taken as the first payment on the ADVERTISED $247 Player Piano Be sure to bring this Coupon with you LYRIC PIANO CO. 1738 14th St. N.W. §— —s o e AS FIRST SMOKY MOUNTAIN PARK FURTHERED Governors of Two States Fa- vorable to Funding Na- tional Project. While the Shenandoah National Park project is still marking time, plans for establishment of another great Appalachian national park— that in the Great Smoky Mountain areas of North Carolina and Tennessee —moved swiftly forward yesterday. Virtual agreement was reached by Governors A. W. McLean of North Carlina and Austin Peay of Tennessee, at conferences with Secretary of In- terior Work and with their State ad- visors, on a program of State co-opera- tion in expenditures which will insure early establishment of the park. At the same time the Federal Gov- ernment took a long step toward actual completion of the park project when Secretary Work promised the governors he would instruct engineers of the National Park Service to go into the Great Smoky area “as soon as weather permits,” to make a survey of the approximate 428,000 acres deemed necessary by the Government for the proposed park area. Tssue “Progress Statements.” Although secrecy surrounded the departure of the two governors from their home States Friday, and no in- formation was given out at the Inte- rior Department in advance of the conference, the State executives both issued “progress statements” after their meeting and were frank in de- claring that harmony will rule the re- lations between the States in their efforts to secure the park as a heri- tage for the American people. The statements of the two governors follows: Gov. McLean said: “I was present at a conference with Secretary of Interlor Work and Gov. Peay of Tennessee in regard to the proposed Smoky Mountain National Park. My purpose in attending the conference was to obtain all informa- tion possible as to what is involved in the project so far as North Caro- lina is concerned in order that I may be able to answer intelligently ques- tions asked me by members of our General Assembly as to whether or not the interests of the State will be safeguarded in the event the General Assembly acts favorably upon the pro- posal now pending before it to make a $2.000,000 appropriation to the park project. “The requirements of the Federal Government were explained very fully by Secretary Work and the status of the matter in Tennessee wa 2 plained by Gov. Peay. Obviously, I did not attempt to come to any definite conclusion as I realize very fully that the matter is one for the General Assembly to determine and mnot the governor, especially as it involves an appropriation which only the General Assembly can make.” Gov. Peay's Statement. Gov. Peay made the following state- ment: “At a conference with_ Secre tary of the Interfor Work, with Gov. McLean of North Carolina and others interested in reference to the proposed Great Smokies National Park, the Secretary indicated the purnose of his department to have the described area of the park under the terms of the legislation laid off as soon as the weather will permit. Other de- tails of the project were discussed. Another purpose of the conference was to obtain as far as possible uni- formity of procedure between the two States. The plans seem to be work- ing out as well as might be expected and the outlook is satisfactory.” Secretal Work explained that ,000 ac must be secured by the two States or by one of the States to serve as & binder for the deal to give the area to the Federal Govern- ment for park purposes. 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Both Legislatures are in session and are sympathetic to the project. Abparently the only ele- ecessary to acquisits property is time. Frh The two governors, according to In- terior Department officials, are anxi- ous that the two states act as one in purchase of the property and ar- ranged the conference in Washing- ton in order that their views might be reconciled in conference with the Interlor Secretary. ‘ennessee has already little more than 80,000 p‘::g,m.{!:gi Special—This Week bill {8 now pending in the North Carolina legislature to appropriate $2,000,000 to the park project. Mem bers of the state conservations com missions and officials of the National Park Service attended the conferenc: with Secretary Work. — o BIG GAME HUNTERS WED. Aleen Hughes and J. Clarke First Met in Africa. LINDSAY, Ontario, February 1: (P).—A courtship which began in the heart of Africa two years ago resulted in the marriage today of Aleen Hughes, youngest daughter of the late Gen. 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