Evening Star Newspaper, January 3, 1928, Page 4

4 WASHINGTON IS ON THRESHOLD Growth in Recent Years Unsurpassed. But| jerans' Bureau, fd OF NEW DEVELOPMENT ERA 3" Leaders Agree Fiscal Relations . Problem Must Be Solved. Note—This fe the first of a servies of fre antic o the future of the National Capital. The second article will be pub. lished tomerrow BY BONALD A CRAIG. Washington is on the threshold of A new era of development 3 tn indications too ovériooked those who have been watching the trend of recent events. With post-war veadjustments nearly complete in zovernmental affairs and 2 1d. the National I future is everywhere < more sccure than that of any other city in the world, is resum- the steady. no halting. adow a period, indetinitely, which od by expansion in . national and in- cconomic, 4 srowth which 1o an even higher great cities of the aceordi numerous to be by siness W seientific will lift place amonz wor Such are the and the fu e the n.ultifariou center her One Problem te Be Solved. the ures of the present aled by a survey activities which n and _character nd in zreat n in wh wdvantag favarable pon the way taken of con husiness world pdv of citizens, organ- a problem to he to be removed, hefore Washi can enter this promised land with any aseurance. It s no new problem, but its dimensions increase from vear to year. By some it is held as now retarding the proper development of the Capital. By others is held as menacing the future de- opment of the Capital. The prob- lem lies in equitably distributing the burden of Capital maintenance and, developn.ent hetween those who live here and those who, living outside of the District. 1ake an American’s pride in the Federal City Beginning with the adoption of the organic_act of 1 and continuing until 1924, when the appropriation act for the fiscal vear 1925 was adopted hw Congress. the expenses of main- taining and developing the Capital were shared in fixed ratio between the District and the Federal governments. Since 1 the fixed ratio has been | shoved aside and a lump sum of about | $9.000.000 has represented the annual contribution of the Federal Govern- ment. Meanwhile, tie cost of main- taining the Capital has been increas. | ing steadily. But instead of increas-| ing its contribution in proportion to this growth Congress has decreased its proportionate contribution.” The result is that, despite a 100 per cent| increase in local assessments in’ the last few years, the tax rate has; for the most part been climbing with it in order to raise revenue to meet addi tional demands. Washingtonians are now paving a disproportionate share of taxation, with the prospect that as the city grows and develops this share will likewise increase. Progress May Be Hindered. Waehington is unique among the | municipalities of the country. It is| the home of the Federal Government | and it is exclusively governed by the| Federal Government. Many \mflneu* men feel that unless this unique con-| dition i® met by unique but scientific| methode of providing for its expenses Washingtop's future.progress is in! doubt. The systein followed between | and 192 li-kept and poorly-equipped city o | the Capitai of todav. ating opinion of Washingtonians to-| day is thut unless this system, now | provided by law, is reinstated by prac- | tice the futuzk of Washington will re- maén ip doubt, its prosperity under a cioud. This thought, it is emphasized, | must he taken into consideration in any forecast of Washington's future. The National Capital quite naturally | has been slow in settling hack to a normal rate of growth after the big! “kick forward” which it received from |ments came ) the greatest [the th ured by Far from nflict. unin- | r rmies, Wash inzten was the nerve and husiness ¢ [ ter of America’s enormous and unpres edented war activities, 1t receives greater impetus than other citices out e the war area from the tremendous and successful cffort of America and our allies. “The population of the eity denly increased beyond expects tion. Government wor tlocked bere from every corner of the land. ' The city was filled with enlisted men and officers of the Army. Navy and Marine e The Government pay roll leaped upward. Money flowed into the Treasury from the pockets of the | people and flowed out into the chan- nels of business in a e stream. | Ioreign princes and rulers innumer- able representatives of other govern. B was sud. | to remain until the war was over iness boomed in every line. Readjustment Hz - Followed. During the years that have followed the unusual activities of the Federal Government resulting from this n; onal emergenc have been gradually eliminated The gr army of Gov- ernment employes in Wi on and in the field has been reduced e, and the Government pay roll here and clsewhere consequently has shrunk. Loeal business, along with Gavern- ment, has had to readjust itsell 1o evervday conditions. Business here continued after the close of the war. local business men besan to pr for the return of quote President Harding's term—immediately after the return of peace. Money continued to be plenti- | ful. Outside capital sought secure in- | vestment here and found it. This| condition still prevails. Building operations went forw an unprecedented scale, houses expanded, new shoj of every description were opened Many per- sons acted as if they believed the hus ness boom would never come to an end. Of course, the abnormal cond tionx had to come to an end, but the return to normalcy has been gradual Nobody has been seriously hurt. While this was going on far-seeing business men and financiers in the local field hegan to make the neces ary adjustments. Certain that the war hoom must end. but equally conti- dent that nothing could stop the prog- ress of the Nation’s Capital Cit) 4 permitted their expenditures gradu- ally to fall back to a normal rate. They prepared for the future, but for a future of slow and steady growth. For this reason business here has almost | imperceptibly slowed down to an even, forward pace without a bump. Today it is gathering itself for the long and steady upward elimb that is clearly toreshadowed. City Will Be Greater. The impetus which the National | Capital received from the World War | is not spent even yet. It is not likely | ever o be entirely lost. Those whose | positions make them hest able to! judge agree that Washington can never be the same city it was hefore 1917, but must always be an immeas. urably greater city. Washington's population continues | to increase at a rapid rate, just as it | has done ever mince the heginning of the Civil War. As local buxiness condi tions become stabili-. I the prospect grows brighter for the immediate and the more distant future in the eyes of those who are keeping watch on_de- velopments from week to week. The rtatement that Washington grows as the Nation grows perhaps is a bit| rd on mercantile raised the Capital from | threadbare, but if it has been much|ton by the first used it in because of its truth. It is today. The number of Government em. ployes in Washington today is 50 er cent greater than it was before the war. Reductions in the total force have practically ceased. The number | seems likely to grow larger from this time forward. The Government pay roll is increasing again, slowly but eertainly, as promotions are won and | Congress provides for the normal growth of the Government to keep They are for people in every walk of life: For the business man or woman who should have money f For the profession or emergencies— al man or woman whose money should be accumulated for future in- vestments For the wage earner who knows the neces- sity of having money in reserve— For the 'housewife who can and should bank a sum, small or large, weekly, for un- foreseen emergencies— For the young man and woman for their education— American Security & Trust Co, Bank of Brightwood Bank of Commerce & Savings Chevy Chase Savings Bank Columbia National Bank Commercial National Bank Departmental Bank District National Bank Fast Washington Savings Join a Club at One of Farmers Bank Bank Christimas Savings Clubs are | paint a glorious picture. | s & Mechani Federal-American National Bank Frawklin National Bank necoln National Bank Mecluchlen Bunking Corporation Merchants’ Bank & I'rust Co, Mount Vernon Savings Bank ational Savings & Trust Co, THE EVENT pace with the growth of the Natlon, Such great institutions as the Vet instance, are prod. which are here tg, en a cursory glance at the pr entiday city hy those persons who like to indulge in prophecy based upon facts of the day and the experience of the past re %0 much Yood Tor optimism that they do not hesitate to Once n few almost lost in 100 und marshland, on has expanded seattered village: o miles of the City of Washing until it is not only ssent District of Columbia, com square miles, but i the etropolltan arca, already ter Washington, which n X i 3 center of known as tends far out 1 and Virgini ion, which is part of the fonal pital in everything hut name and loeal zovernment, is closely knit to the city by rapid nsit lines and an| everincreasing network of fine motor | roads, | Leads as Residential City. As a residential e'ty, to which the| wealthy, Jeisure class of persons from every State in the Union ard from foreign antries is more attracted every v Washington is taking f rank in this country, a resort eity, bu ty of permanent homes. It is also rapidly hecoming a literary and artistic center. ch vear sees more persons who are lead- ers in these fields establishing their permanent residences here. As @ scientific and educational center it is accepted as surpassing any city in the Nation. Few cities in the world can | compare with it in this respect, in the | opinion of educators and marvelous libravies, school: and universities. In the world of society Washington is unique. Nowhere else in this coun tr ean one move in the official. diplo matic and local society cireles that are s0 characteristic of the Capital City. To this is added the charm and heauty of the city itself—its outward, physi eal appearance—which, in the opinion of nany persons who have traveled the world over, now surpasses in at- nd dignity that of any city on the And vet it is agreed that the Washington of today is only a foretaste of the Washington laboratories, With its fine and buildings, its muscums, ies, art galleries ‘and Government workshops: | with its colonial homes and magnifi- cent modern residences: with its in- | terest as the home of the President of the United States, Congress and the Supreme Court. and the almost count- less Government departments, bu- reaus, commissions and other agenciex, Washington is a permanent tion citv. a world’s fair. to which thousands upon thousands of persons annually tmivel from all parts of this and other countries for asure and profit. for sight-seeing and educational purposes. It is a_fountain of knowl- edzge. A visit to Wash.ngton has he. come A mecessary t of the pro zrams of many colleges, high schools and other institutions of learning throughout the Nation Wealth Gains Rapidly. The wealth of the people of Wash-| ington is rapidly increasing. A re cent census estimate placed it at approximately $1,750.000,000. Tt s greater than the wealth of any one of nine States—Arizona. Delaware, lda- ho, Nevada, New Humpshire, New | Mexico. Utah, Vermont and Wye. ming. It is plainly evident from Gov ernment statistics and a superficial perusal of the local press that money and brai vitating toward the an alwavs increas. | nd finding perma Presid ployed Maj. W Pierre ¢ out the Feder hington em- arles L'Enfant 1 City on the lines of a great capital and that enthusiastic ilitary = engineer n hix lines through woods and wet | across | many v plantations, persons thought the dream of ogr| first President would never he real- ized. Indeed, for many vears it seemed! that it never would be. The Fedoral City, renamed the City of W ashing- Commissioners, hes| came a joke to the rest of the Nation. co The preponder- | probably has never been truer than it | The Federal Government moved hore | frem Philadelphia in 1800 123 clerks in the executive departments, By 1514 it was only a town—called a’, “eity” by courtesy—of 8,000 inhabit ants Within the District of Columbia Maj. marked out in the earfy 179 a city ha Creek and the En Potomac River and Florida eomprising territory am large in that day, which had a population with part o coterminous w nh‘r It is not | 1 public | 19 of 800,000. Wnshington's populat| then was practically nothing at ington hns grov n until it has a poi half a million. Karly Growth Stow. Since 1900 the population has pr teally doubled, according o pres estimates, At the present rate growth it will double { paratively few years Itte willion m: of r If it reac! as | o here in 1500, be one fourth ne gre tion of the whole ides into Mary- | outlying re- United States the first 70 years of ny persons b that it would ev of George Washing of the city | it indust wost ports on th that reason Pre on. The found 5t ident Washi canal which was to conm West. Rut the coming of | and the development of . | phia lan this. The Tto he a principal | merce with foreign natians. Fefore the Civil War, although made but slow progress, identinl center, but Potomae River ceas cil { charm mps were 1 { a big village, ettlements log [ rather of ¢ Iy knit the Dis zethe tin 1860 was only Jumped in Civil War. But the next d which the Civil War a nzht the first steps to 1 reconstruct of the war-torn Nation were taken jumped to 131700, Thereafter monnted vapidly Aur 1880 mated. January 1) “The Census Bureau 540,000 <ix months a by obtaining the av crease for the estimate e of that date | same rate. If the fizures are car ark in another quar an entively likely event xe as London was al Government moved Its population will then | t the popula fon 080, NG _STAR., WASHINGTON, fon all. During the more than. a century a d @ quarter gince this beginning Wash- pu- lation extimated today at more than rac: ent hew ter in its Washington grew so slowly n o despair er fulfill_the dreams | ers 1 it would become a al city and one of the Atlantie coast, ng ton chose the site at the head of tide water on the Potomae River and pro. moted the organization of a company ect | Wl City_with the great unde- the the v York, Philadel- nd Norfolk changed sed highway of com- the it had scientists | streets were poorly paved or not paved | wha are constantly making use of its | at all and street Its or yse of ing ind ion it in in a com-| mated at 536,400, | ax shown by the fol- | | lowing census figures of | in decade and vied out_for six_months wore_on the basis | e, Lo Sl onthe wore on e basie HUMPHREY, | IT BURNS GAS Here is the most efficient form of auxiliary heating available today. Gives you heat WHEN and WHERE you want it Simply strike a match and light it. 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For the school child 1o le and hanking habit, which is son it can be tanght For the haby's account come the foundation of futu the Following Banks: National r Christmas and other arn the valne of thrift the most valuable les- ,ostarted now, to he re snecess and fortune North Capitol Savings Bank Park Savings Bank Potomac Sav Second Na Security Savi Washington T maintained by the Members of the District of Columbia Bankers® Association for the henefit of the community and not as a source of profit ings Bank Riggs National Bank nal Bank ngs & Commercial Bank Loan & ° t Co, ien' Savings Bank shington Savings Bank reached | D - of an annual Increase of nearly the population of the city on the first any of this year s found to be 540,000, as stated in the above table. of the estimated population, has bettered its place since 1920 in the list of the most populous cities of the country, moving from fourteenth to thirteenth It is now between Buffalo, with A population estimated at 550.000, and population Washington, on the basis place. Milwaukee, with a fends N On the basis of the States. ofMcla stimate of 540,000, the population of Washington July 1 of last year was of any greater than the population one of the following nine States: evada, Utah, Ver- u population oming and Delaware com- zona, Delawar Hampshire, mont_ and Wyoming. 21,407 less than the Nevada, W, bined Idah w Mexic "« In nearby Maryland and Virginia— suburbs and some cases virtually integral parts of r 150,000 per- hiefly in thi ad sections which are Washington—Ilive nnothe sons whose husines city and whose purchases are almost exclusively here, T Washington today has a population hat is close to 760,000 When the Federal ¢ the shores of the Potom: miles to the south, on hoth the land and Virgi were with handsome residences of wealthy | planters, each of whom ha wharf. The river was a gr |oushfare for a rich and aristocratic!to have fired at him through a window. Clca,rancc Jales ayear ac ~ TUESDAY, was luid out River numi this point to its mouth, about 100 JANUARY 3. 11,009, 1928. soclety, which added much to the lus- ter of the city of Alexandria, then a part of the District of Columbia, and of Georgetown, and bid fair to give biilliance to the Capital City when it came into existence. But this soclety of old Tidewater Virginia. and Maryland for the most part passed away, so far as the Poto- muc River was concerned. old wharves fell into disuse, decayed and were abandoned. River bonts became r. The ol river seemed to . o ep. Lately, hov.ever, there has heen a i recrudescence along the river. The| “The vender cannot | h0.14770t have relied an Rose's staf. increaxing attractiveness of hing- | escape liability by asking the law to| ments, ton has turned attention also to its | e i ACCIDENT COSTS CITED. | company und had represented |COURT UPHOLDS RULE IN SUIT OVER NOTES Justice Robb Assails Fake Vendors fl'r_g in Approving Verdict in % $1,500 Action. ahout good and colleci 11l an offer of u.wf selling to Smith ca mith repudiated estl- estate, then sued on the ‘notes. collector claimed that Ll fraudulent and about r 4 na cond | envitons. The beauty of the Potor| 4Pplaud his fraud and condemn nis| mac's shores and of the river itself | victim for his credulity.” declared Jus- | has been drawing persons by the |tice Charles H. Robb in rendering the | thousands o' settlo permanently there | opinion of the District Court of Ap or to build Summer homes. Old colo-, Peals affirming the judgment of the nial residences are heing restored, [ District Supreme Court which had 0 Magnificent new homes and estates | fotnd in favor of Howard B. Smith. dustrial Mishaps Causing Blindness are being lald out. Property values|Who had been sued on notes of $1500, .~ on hoth wides of the river have soared. &iVen to the late Robert F. Ross, for NEW YORK, January 3 Once more the Potomac.,is hecoming |4 half interest in the Natlonal Short- dustrial accidents resulting in blind the magnet that is drawing from all |hand Reporting Co. |over the Nation a society comparable| “He whose false representations.’ to that of the old days, | continued the justice, “have induced | another to deal with him is not stand ing upon very firm gronnd when he ! takes the position that bis victim | ought not to have relisd upon hix false statements. There fs ne rule of law which requires men in their busi- | Lewis §f man: eral prohibition agent, was shot and[fl(l‘l tranactions to act upoh the of the socicty, made public the figures presumption that all men are knaves |in connection th killed here late yesterdny. He was re- ; jand liars and which declares them |that the organization ‘mrled to have returned to a house | guilty of negligence and refuses them | name rrhm& National Committes fe raided several days ago to obtain evl- | redress whenever they fail to act | the Prevention of Blindness to N -|dence left there. The owner is alleged | upon this assumption.” tional Society for the Prevention « Rose had kept the hooks 5 the ' Blindness. \NUARY CLEARANCE SALES NLY two clearance sales a vear here—hence Othe eager anticipation of Washington peo- ple, the widespread, concerted movement to take full advantage of them. For the public realizes that Parker-Bridget clearances are bona fide, that every item of merchandise con- forms to our standards, that everv reduction represents a genuine economy-. ' Men’s Suits $29,%39,%49,559 (Many With Two Pairs of Trousers) Ari- New only of in # 310,000,000 annually, the National 8¢ e . - - Dry Agent Killed. SOUTH ST, PAUL, Minn., Janua 3 UP.—~Wenley Frazer, St. Paul F of the Nation's hiind poep said Carris Mary- | dotted i KER-BRIDGET Suits for young men, for middle-aged men, for men with the dignity of advanced vears. Parker- Eridget suits and others of nationally famous make. Overcoats‘ $29,$39,%49, 369 Every style, every fabric, every color approved by Fashion’s arbiters. And as an example of the savings to be made—the $69 group includes over- coats regularly sold up to and at $100. Every style, size and fitting in suits and overcoats now—likewise every indication of a sharp and early demand. JANUARY CLEARANCE TION THE P-B HAT SEC $5 and $6 Felt Hats $3.85 $7 and $8 Felts $5.75 Newest, styles and snap, curl, welt or hound shades JANUARY CLEARANCES IN THE FURNISHINGS SECTION N THE CTION $1 Neckwear, 65¢ $1.50 Neckwear, $1.15 $2 & $2.50 Neckwear, $1.65 $3, $3.50 & $4 Neckwear, §2.65 Sweaters, $3.85 D, mclusive with \ k Six Shoes, Regularly up to & pull-over styles, the latte neck. ( and A Coat at show ; B e i and smaee hrims; pearls, hrowns, gravs and mix tures. $2 & $2.50 Golf Caps, January Pajamas, $1.65 Middy button-front many ot the latter Golf Hose, $1.55 Regularly L0 Plan lacqual patterns, as preierred or up o These fay styles; colors sell regularly at with English collars ar Clearance Prices Prevail Also in the Boys' Shop, the P-B Sports Shop for Women—In Every Department and Section | Smith that a number of accounts were and that he had for the interest for and one-half in Rose died three months later the notes on ry that some of the bills hga heen pald and otherg were néver owed Lorenzo A. Baily, collector of the Rose The £mith had an opportunity to find out about the offer the billa receivable an.! 810,000,000 Annual Loss From In- ). —1In (ness cost the industries of the Nation ciety for the Prevention of Blindness announced yesterday. Fifteen per cent are vic tims of industrial accidents. the report %ing director announcement as changed itd