Evening Star Newspaper, November 4, 1928, Page 20

NEW TRIANGLE PLAN FORD.C.ADVANGED = Area Near Potomac Park to! Contain Semi-Governmen- tal Structures. dition to the National Academy of Sciences, when the time is n&e and ground is now available for s ex- pansion adjoining the present build- ing. The American Pharmaceutical As- sociation is arrangoing to ereet a build- ing west of the National Aecademv of Sciences and this will cost about $500,- Describing the plans for this “Tri- angle of the Amenities,” as he terms it, Mr. Moore says: “We speak of the blic buildings of the Triangle, m the area south of Ivania ury. ment will be housed in healthful, con- venient and stately structures. Here in the area where Constitution Hall will stand at the back of Memorial Matching the triangle south of Penn- sylvania avenue, from the Treasury to the Capitol, soon to be filled with new | Government buildings, will ariss another —the “Triangle of the Amenis| filled with semi-governmental and organizations’ structures—bounded by New York avenue on the north, Seven- | teenth street on the east and B strect | on the south. This newest phese of | the “Washington pl is outlined by | Charles Moore, chafrman of the Arts Commission. As this new triangle unfolds, it will necessitate the removal of the war- time shacks that occupy part of the | area and the erection of buildings along the north side of B s ble | i { | National .A:ademy of the opinfon of observers, it ma: a new War Department buil house the scattered @nits th find 2 haven in the flimsy, war-time siructures that will have to vaca time, the salient of the new triangl a new Navy Department building to get the present structure off the Mall | and a new Naval Hospital to match the | beauty of the terminus of B street on | Atlington Memorial Bridge Plaza and | connecting with Rock Creek Parkway. | Constitution Hall First Step. The erection of Constitution Hall by | the Daughters of the American Revo- lution, which is expected Lo be ready for occupancy next year, is a step in the direction of realizing this plan. The Corcoran Art Gallery, which fcrms one | of the angles of this mew triznale, has | no immediate building plans in comn- templation, although it has land for ible future expansion and tentative | ould they | ing ther nating $1.- | Spring at and_these last March. to care for LA of Montana, while the sccond n was to permit m-re room for | reguiar crhibits of the gZallery. iand | own»d by the gallery extends westward | to the old Navy Annex building en New York =venue, and is available for the| expansion of tomorrow. | Future vlans for the Pan-American | Tnion call for erection of an adminis- tration building just west of the pres- | ent monumental structure, for which | authority of Congress has recently been | given. This building will be erected on | a small triangle bounded by Eighteenth street, C street and Virginia avenue. Re- cent architects sketches have set the very beginnings of the program in mo-' tion, but much remains to be done. The American Red Cross has- plans for the future, as yet in a tentative stage, directing that a new building, in keeping with the present bzautiful structures, shall take the place of the war-time semi-permanent building that houses the office force of the organiza- | tion. A new building is now being erected just west of the Red Cross headquarters and the plan is to have | & companion building, on the other side | of the lot, for office workers, in the future. Provision has been made for an ad- plans were drawn recently. be desired for use in the b: Building activities approx 020,000 were completed la: the Corcoran Art Galler: ensions were opened Take These Steps via the style route ne | g8 | that daily automobile storage, insolently Continental Hall is another triangle— a significant part of which this new | building will become. It is of supreme | importance that nothing be allowed mar this triangle now in the making. It should become the Triangle of the Amenities. It should express the soul | of the National Capital. To the few | this triangle is as yet a vision; to the | majority it is unknown and unthought | of; to some, alas, it is an opportunity | to capitalize national bcauty for private | in. | “When the project of the National| Academy of Sciences buflding came up. | {the Commission of Fine Arts appealed | yore 508456 feturns in the field di- to Elhu Root, whose foml‘hwdness.’ experience and determined persuasive- ness have won decisive victories for the plan of Washington. The Sciences | buliding the commission tlod him, | should be a portion of the frame of the | Lincoln Memorial, as Memorial Con-| tinentel Hall and its kindred buildings | form a frame for the President’s Park. It needed only the suggestion. There the building stands today, a fitting | part of that line of public or semi- public bulldings and gardens destined to extend from the Pan-American | corner to the Rock Creck Parkway—the culmination of a triumphal thorough- fare leading down from the Capitol and westward to the Potomac. B street, to | be rebuilt on monumental lines, is the | base of this new triangle south of New York avenue. The extension of the Corcoran Gallery, the contemplated third building for the Red Cross, an administration building for the Pan- | ican and this auditorfum are all! of this new triangle. | | Much to be Undone. | “Plans are but guides. They are| carried out by persons. In the creation of this new trianzle, knowledge and | determination be required. There is much to d here is much to undo. Those officials who used the World War as an excuse to invade Potomac Park with enormous utilitarian buildings, as permancntly built as marsh lands would | permit, are now beyond the reach of | personal reprehension. Ours the respon- | sibility to undo their work—to raze the buildings themselves and to remove the open-air garage that cuts into, muti- lates and distorts Potomac Park. By tolerating those factory bulidings and e parts crowding up to the very steps of the Memorial, we dishonor the memory of Abraham Lincoln and degrade the most beautiful building created since the days of the Parthenon. No other people would tolerate such sacrilege. “Twenty-five years ago only the new Corcoran Gallery faced the President’s Park: now Memorial Continental Hall, the Pan-American with its Old World gardens and the Red Cross complete a group which that Jover of architecture, Viscount Lee of Fareham, calls the finest anywhere. Today it seems in- conceivable that less than 20 years ago that potent personality affectionately known as Uncle Joe Cannon opposed the location of th® Lincoln Memorial on its present site, with the plea that it would shake itself down with ague and loncliness. Thanks largely to the persuasive persistence of President Taft the plan prevailed. As | ago,” said Frederic Newburg, head of charge were forced to concentrate their | efforts on the examination of returns | agent than of individuals, there bel in Congress ‘a showy sl one element is added to another—the Arlington Memorial not only for its mccomplishment, the beautiful 'also for its vista into the future. THE SU:\‘DAY‘ STAR, WASHINGTON, EARLIER REVIEWS FOR INCOME TAX[ Sharp Reduction Is Noted in Number of Old Cases on File. Federal income tax returns are now | recelving earlier consideration by the Government. | Eharp reduction In the number of old cases on file in the field divisions of the income tax unit is shown in figures made public yesterday, disclosing that the total number of cases on hand has been seversd in twain in the last two years. Whereas, September 30, 1926, there vt]sl:ns. 58 ;:m;}e m;‘cno: whlchlm been filed during the | ?l'eeed ng years, there were only 246,135 on hand Sep- tember 30, 1928, only 21 per cent of which had been flled during the three preceding years. Agents’ Work Speeded. “With nearly 300,000 returns for pre- vious years awaiting examination on September 30 one year and two years the field procedure division in Internal Revenue News, official organ of the In- ternal Revenue Bureau, “the agents in of these earlier years, deferring work on returns of the most recent year in order to clear their files of returns on which the expiration of the statutes of limita- tion was Imminent. ~ “This year,” he explained, “the agents are in a position to undertake examina- tions of some 1927 returns at once. “To accomplish this result the field force has worked hard and faithfully. Each month has registered a substantial reduction in the returns for the earlier years on_hand. Agents, office auditors and clerks have all contributed their share to the accomplishment outlined. Average Cut Down. “The returns on hand September 30 this year represent an average of 89 for each agent and auditor, 67 of this average representing 1927 returns and 20 representing returns filed for 1926 and prior years. “On September 30, 1927, there was an average of 217 returns for each and auditor, representing an aver- age of "& for the current year and 108 for previous years. “There are now in the hands of field divisions more returns of corporations 133,981 corporation returns and 112,174 indi- vidual returns reported o hand at Sep- tember 30, 1928.” structure progressed and the historioal significance of a location that placed | Lincoln and Washington on a line with the evident, Mr. Cannon exclaimed to Col. Harts: “The trouble with you fellows is that you ‘begin your kindergarten so late.’ Washington plan of 1901, then called United States Capitol became more By kindergarten he meant the sham.’ Now, as Bridge, Mount Vernon Boulevard. National Arboretum. Anacostia Park—that plan is -eelnunbfi D. C. NOVEMBER 4. 1928_PART 1. | Wedded 50 Years I | was 22 and he was 32. Tuesday marked MRS. HENRY CLAY PEARSON. MR. PEARSO! Army Transfers Ordered. Lieut. Col. Harry Graham, Air Corps. Wright Field, Dayton, Ohlo, has been ordered to Baltimore for duty at head- ! | quarters, Ernest W. Wood, Fort Logan, Colo., has been assigned to duty in the Panama Canal Zone. 3d Corps Area; Chaplain Fifty-four of every 100 passengers on British airplanes this year have been | ‘women. COUPLE IS HONORED AT GOLDEN WEDDING Surprise Party Is Given for Mr.| and Mrs. H. C. Pearson by Group of Friends. An old-fashioned surprise party cele- | brating their golden wedding anni- versary was given for Mr. and Mrs. Henry Clay Pearson, 1215 Decatur street, Tuesday evening by a group of their friends and neighbors, | The couple were married when she: | the fiftieth anniversary of their wed- flh;%. | r. Pearson was born in Somerset, Pa., and enlisted in the 21st Pennsyl- | vania Cavalry at the age of 18. Before his nineteenth birthdav he had been pro- 'moted to the rank of first lieutenant. | ; While still in his teens he was dis- | | charged from the Army because of | wounds received in the battle of Hatchers Run, Va, In 1865 he secured a position in the | | Treasury Department, whers he was | continuously employed until his retire- | ment 59 years later. As a young man he was a member of the old Union base | ball club which was later absorbed by the present Washington club. | Mrs. Pearson was Miss Mattie More of New York City. daughter of Col. John More, U. 8. A. She has been a resident of Washington since she was | 17 vears old. At the party the couple were pre- sented with chrysanthemums, gold coins and a golden card upon which were inscribed signatures of the guests ARMY REALTY IS SOLD. Among its many activities, the Army | engages quite heavily in real estate operations. During the past fiscal vear it disposed of 8.555 acres of land, with improvements. by sale. for the total sum of $3.116.375. In those trans- actions 722 buildings were salvagde and the material used for repairing bufld- ings in other military posts and sta- tions. At the close of the year, 1,517 revocable licenses were in operation for the use of Government-owned propert; by private parties, at an annual rental | of $726.068. At the same time there | were in effect 554 licenses for the use | | of private property by the War Depart- | { POLICEMEN TO VOTE | ON OFFICERS TUESDAY- Aszociation Will Eleet Board of Governors—Five Seek | Presidency. | Members of the Policemen's Associa- | tion will follow the national trend and | cast ballots on election day, next Tues- | day. Their ballots will not affect the na- tional election, however, as they will be | cast for the board of governors of the association. The board thus elected ‘will | meet at Pythian Temple next Thursday | and nominate candidates for the several | elective offices of the association. Five candidates are running for pres- ident of the assoclation. They are Headquarters Detective Frank A~ Var- | ney, Private G. B. Wheelock, sixth pre- | cinct; Private P. 8. Tormey, fourth pre- | cinct; Private W. F. McDuffiie, clev- enth precinct, and Sergt. Milton D. Smith, Traffic Bureau. | Tormey fis the present incumbent. | Smith has already served two terms as | president. Wheelock is vice president and chairman of the entertainment committee. | Private J. C. Wilson. who has held | down the job of financial secretary for the past 16 years, has announced his | desire to be relieved. | The election will be held on the first Tuesday in December. JARDINE SAYS FARMERS SHOULD HOLD BACK CORN' Secretary Advises Them to Adjust Feeding Practices to Produce Heavier Cattle and Hogs. By the Associated Press. Secretary Jardine in a statement yes- terday advised fermers.to hoid back their corn and adjust feeding practices to produce heavier cattle and hogs, stat- | ing the opinion that market improve- | ment “is likely before the end of the season.” The downward revision of the Ru- manian crop estimates indicates that | the European corn crop will b> about 23 per cent less than last year. he said, | adding: “This, together with compara- | tively high prices for Argentine corn, | should increase export demand for our ! corn at least until th® new Argentine corn is available.” ‘The domestic situation in the crop is | similar to 1925, he said, but “it should be borne in mind that we have a vary different foreign situation and that! ment, having an annual rental of $415.- 663, a decrease of $4,448 during the! | past year. cattle are now much higher than they were three years ago.” TWO ARE APPOINTED U. S. VICE CONSULS Mannix Walker and Norris B. Chipman Assigned to Foreign Service School. Mannix Walker and Norris B. Chip- man of the District of Colupbia have been appointed United States vice consuls of career and assigned to the Foreign Service School at the State Department. Others simiiarly appointed are Prederick P. Latimer, jr, Con- necticut; Ra’ph Miller, New York: James B. Pilcher, Alabama; Horace H. Smith, Ohio; Sheldon T. Mills, Oregon, and L. R. Stuyvesant, New Jersey. Transfers in the Unitea States For- eign Service are announced by the State Department as follows: Benjamin Muse, virginia, second secretary, from Paris to Lima, Peru: George A. Armstrong, New York, vice consul, from Zurich, Switzers land to Nice, France; Lewis W. Haskell, Bouth Caroiina, consul general, from A'glers to Zurich; Leonard G. Dawson, Virginia, consul, from Messina, Italy, Artistic to Vera Cruz, Mexico; Raleigh A. Gib- g;:n:y Islands, to Guadalajara, Mexico: a Jerusalem to Algiers: J. L. Murphy, New York, consul, from Nice to Maracaibo, Venezuela; Alexander K. 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