Evening Star Newspaper, December 13, 1928, Page 30

NEW CENTER SITE FUNDS ARE URGED Underhill Tells Board of Trade Delay Will Add Greatly to Cost. Strenuous efforts should be made at this session of Congress to obtain an initial appropriation for the purchase of the site for the new munic ter, north of Pennsylvahia tween Third and Sixth stree sentative Underhill of Massachu told the Board of Trade last night at| its meeting at the Willard Hotel. | In a brief address, in which he in-| dorsed statements to this effect made | by Municipal Architect A. L. Harris.| who outlined the plans for the new civic center, M=, Underhill warned that | delay in acquisition of the site would | result in a great increase in the cost. | Quoting an_ “authol reporting | » that owners of parcels in the Federal triangle south of the Avenue had asked | prices ranging from 127 to 500 per cent above the ass alue of their | property, Mr. Underhill asserted that| the District government would find it self in a similar predic t unl “immedi tion is taken. Criticisms of the Burcau of Ei y contained in a public_statement this week by Frederick A. Fenning, former | District Commissioner, who _resigned | following a barrage of attacks on him | in Congress, were denounced by Her-| bert D. Brown, head of the “entirely without basis of fact Physicians Were Assigned. Mr. Brown refuted a charge by the former Commissioner that in the b reau's study of the District Health D partment “no active medical man par-| ticipated in these investigations, for it | was apparent that the Bureau of Effi- ciency recognized and relied upon the | competency its expert laymen to un- | cover defects and offer remedies.” Mr. Brown retorted: “This state ment is absolutely false. The truth that we had the co-operation of Di Cumming, surgeon general of the Pub: lic Health Service, who assigned a num- ber of doct~'s and physicians, under direction of Dr. Paul Preble, to make a study of the District health activities.” While no “carping criticism” of the staff of the Health Department fol-| Jowed the bureau's investigation, Mr. Brown added, it was shown that Was ington stood seventieth in health ex-| cellence from the top of a list of 100 cities of the country. The bureau rec- ommended a five-year program for re- | organization and expansion of the per- sonnel, services and expenditures of the | department. | “Mr. Fenning's other criticisms of the | Bureau of Efficiency are also entirely without basis of fact” Mr. Brown de- clared. Citea $287,000 Saving. The Efficiency Bureau head ave a comprehensive outline of work of the organization, asserting that recommeml dations_concernin the District so far | adopted have resulted in saving $287,000. | A radical change in the appointment | of city officials also was urged by Mr. | Brown in renewing recommendations | that these officials be placed under the | Civil Service rules. “It is certainly out of harmony wl&hl the spirit of the times that employes | of this city should be given office under | the old spoils system of appointmen enue Repre- HOOVER, (A Hint 1o Husband's/) he asserted. “Washington is one of the few cities of its size that enjoy the same unenviable distinctions.” He added that he was not advocating expulsion from office of any present em- ploye or urging the extension of office holding here to people not residing in the District. Referring to the study made of fiscal relations here, he announced the report would be made public about January 1. He voiced praise for the work of John Joy Edson in connection with im- provement of the penal system here and commended the work of Represent- ative Gibson of Vermont, who headed the special committee which made ex- haustive analyses of affairs here. Early Action. Mr. Harris, who, as municipal archi- drafted plans for the new civic made a plea rly action for acquisition of the s ting out that it is located in what is now a section f downtown Washington having a low essment, but whic in value. present low cost of the large e, its ssibility, the economy of grouping municipal buildings in one site and the economy of operation of such a center. The Board of Trade indorsed a plan for providing greater water pressure for downtown Washington, held badly needed for fire protection, submitted by Asa E. Phillips. The plan calis for the installation of three centrifugal pumps at the now unused Bryant street pumping plant for “stepping up” the pi ure in the downtown water mains now 1l dependent on the gravi tem which was in vogue during the Civil War. The cost of this system, Mr. Phillips stimated, would not e and would add but a sm: to the Distr so indorsed the bill setting up restrl possession and tral the District, on motion submiited by Odell S. Smith, of the public order | committee. Elwood Street, director of the Com- munity Chest, cutlined the purposcs, aims tion of the plan for co-0p! acing of local charities and social service agencies A referendum of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States provid- ing change in its organization plan was approved on recommendation of E. J. Murphy. A ‘motion_picture of the 1928 Britis Industries Fair, including pictures Famous for 64 Years! Nationally recognized as quick relief for coughs and colds. 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