Evening Star Newspaper, January 18, 1929, Page 29

SIMMONS DEFENDS M ST. SPAN WORK Takes Direct Issue With Fine Arts Commission Chairman. Chairman Simmons of the House subcommittee on District appropriations took direct issue in the House yester- day with Charles Moore, chairman of the Commission of Fine Arts, in de- fense of District officials regarding the type of bridge being erected at M street. In hearings on the independent offices appropriation bill, Mr. Moore had called that bridge “an ugly service bridge of a type unfitted for park purposes,” and that in Rock Creek Park “they are put- ting in ugly bridges which are out of ell keeping with other park bridges.” Mr. Simmons told the House that this “is an unfair and unwarranted criticism of the District Commissioners and the Highway Department of the District.” He said that the facts in the case are that “that brdige is being con- structed in strict accordance with an act of Congress. If Mr. Moore had read case are that “that bridge is being con- tinued Mr. Simmons. “The Highway Department produced plans for a steely girder bridge; a bill was introduced in Congress providing for the erection of a steel-girder bridge, it was reported to the House of Representatives by the legislative committee of the District of Columbia and considered and passed iu this body; the bill was sent to the Senate, there studied and there re- ported and there passed, providing for & steel-girder bridge. “At a later time the District Com- missioners came before the appropria- tions committees of the House and Senate and asked for money to build that bridge. The authorization limited the committee to $250,000 for that pur- pose. The House committee on appro- priations carried the appropriation of $250,000 and the Senate concurred in that appropriation. So there were four distinct times in the proceedings at- tending the passage of the bill and the appropriation of the money by Con- gress—twice dn the House and twice in the Senate—where Mr. Moore had an opportunity to protest the building of the type of bridge that is now being built at that point. He either did not protest—and so far as I can discover, the records do not show that he did— ©r else Congres ignored his advice. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, (CAR[@N-—By Gardner Hunting (Copyright, 1928, by Public Ledger) In the year 1935 Radley Brainard has perfected his invention, called because it pe: vicariously by events out of t 5 tancing the efforts of Complete Illusions, nc., the company which then controls ali the 'improvements of the motion picture. Radley first demonstrates his device ‘to his sweetheart, Phyllis Nori mother and brother. John; heart, Carol Gould,” and Brainare Relief. While he is'showing them given for a movie actress Who died, a man suffering from amnesia into’the studio, and’ though he is unable to tell who he is, he calls Phyllis by name. Brainard dubs him Van Winkle. : Brainard shows a scene of Mr, Norman's home being _robbed, and then ihe police, who have been looking in on a similar projection, arrive with the criminal, Honer, but he escapes. Besides the large machine intended for public showing, Brainard in- vents a small “receiving set.”” _While look- ing into one of them Carol faints. (Continued from Yesterday's Star.) INSTALLMENT XIIL N the window of what was now his private office on the eleventh floor of the Bonmar Apartment Building, Radley Brainard stood looking down upon the newly boulevarded street of Santa Monica. In the afternoon sunlight of June the heaving crowd that filled the pave- ments from wall to wall looked like a gigantic swarm of varicolored, crawl- ing bees. As far as the eve could see up the avenue, Swarm upon swarm of them, thinning here a little and there a little, centering as if upon vari- ous hives! The sound of their hum- ming came up to him, the drone of human voices, forever like the purr of a vast boiler's imprisoned energy— the sibilance of restless human feet, forever like the whisper of restless steam! High above their heads, almost op- posite his own, Brainard’s own index of the phenomenon hung in gigantic signs: TODAY In AN Theaters THE VICARION. There they were! The flood was started! Here was the first gush of the rising tide! In six little weeks since his first private showing to the invited few the whisper of his achievement had spread like a leaven through his im- mediate world. He had offered them no flaunting announcements; he had shouted no promises; he had merely set time and place for them to have what he had to give them. “The world knows what it wants!” he was whispering o himself over and ovar again as he stocd with his forehead “In any event, the record is clear that the Commissioners are building exactly the type of bridge at M street ahzt Congress ordered to be built. ‘The type of bridge that Mr. Moore Mwants built is an arch-type bridge. The Lommissioners had no authority to build it. ‘The committee on appropriations had no authority to appropriate for such & bridge. When Mr. Moore went over the heads of the Commissioners and asked the municipal architect to prepare plans for an arch bridge instead of a steel-girder bridge he was asking for lans to be drawn which could not be stalled there under the act of Con- gress. Had he read the law he would have known that that was true. When he comes before the committee on ap- propriations and attempts to make it appear that the Commissioners and the Highway Department of the Districf are not carrying out the will of Con- gress and that he is the only man who ‘wants to carry out the will of Con- gress, I think the facts should be known. “His attitude is not only unjust and anfair, but it is based upon an easily ascertainable false premise. Mr. Moore has no right to claim that there is lack of co-operation on the part of the Com- missioners in this matter, To my pers sonal knowledge they gave him every consideration and co-operated just so far as the law permitted. What he complains about is that he has been unable to dictate to the Commissioners and unable to compel them to proceed at his request in violation of a clear rovision of law. The position taken y the Commissioners is correct. If there is any blame attaching to any one, 4t attaches to Mr. Moore for neglecting make his views known prior to and ot after Congress had acted,” Mr. Simmons put into the record r statement prepared at his request by he Engineer Commissioner of the Dis- trict, pointing out that the bridge which Mr. Moore asked for could not have built under the act of Congress; hat it would have cost $160,000 more #o build that type of than the %ype now being built there; that Con- fgress had not authorized that expense, nd that it would have created consid- le disturbance in the water system jof the District if Mr. Moore's wishes khad been carried out. [Life Saved, Held L; Intoxication. Saved from drowning last night by unidentified men who saw him fall the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal while along the tow-path, John icketts, 38 years old, of 1052 Poto- ac street was booked for intoxication it the seventh precinct police station d later sent to Gallinger Hospital Jor treatment. Continental Trust Co. 14th and H Streets Capital, $1,000,000.00 Checking Accounts Savings Accounts Acceptance Credits Time Deposits Foreign Exchanges Commercial Credits Travelers’ Credits Travelers’ Checques Collections Real Estate Loans * Collateral Loans Investment Securities Corporate Trusts Individual Trusts Administrator, Executor Safe Deposit Boxes Continental Trust Co. 14th and H Streets WADE H. COOPER, President Capital, $1,000,000.00 SOOTHING, heling, standard prescription for against the window glass like a boy stering in at a showcase where lies the toy of his dreams. But a fever flowed in his blood. He had fired a bunch of grass and learned that the prairie would burn! . Triumph was already his to taste. Triumph! The whole race was of the same inflammable stuff. 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UBOBIT moment his established quarters, was filled with men and women who were efther working for him or who had pur- chased the privilege of sitting in his projection rooms for what they called his first runs. Patrons and employes alike were his tools. Alike they flocked to him—men and women who would see and handle and experience! The Power! He had tried to discount it in anticipation. But no man discounts in advance the fire of the mightlest of | A stimulants in his blood. He knew he |t was drunk with the sense of achieve-| I gy ment, of monopoly, of holding suddenly in his hand the world’s leash—a leash such as no man had ever held before! him as that import became more vious to nol’mhll D‘cl(;‘pltl:l Ti':i“ vél;lls tu;:; sistent enough Wi the idea thal | . fer. mind was partly clouded. But the thing let mere affection blind him to her. contained 8 special form of irritation for the man on whom were now center- ing all eyes in wonder and appeal. Van Winkle seemed neither much to won- der nor to appeal. calmer and more calm observation, a cooler and more cool cynicism, less and less surprised—more and more galling! strange manifestation, surely, boti he_irritation mdk its ca pose you know,” sal “that c%mplete illusions’ so-called at- tractions are being <helved generally in favor of liquid events.” His was ever a 50¢ popular light and dark shades, $1.15 Women's $2.25 Chiffon Silk Hose, full fashioned; gunmetal light gunmetal and dust, with P 61 58 ‘Whoopee Socks, in silk- and " 39c¢ BLOOMERS Heavy, rich quality, in a make of national reputation. Regular, ex- Pink, peach, nile, orchid, coral, tan and $1.00 RAYON VESTS—Women's vests with bodice top and re- inforced arm shields. All colors ers. to match your bloom s‘ 69 c ‘What were mere military conquerors to him who held humanity by the cords of its desires? What was the command of mere marching hosts to the command of the passions of peoples—peoples of every language and every clime! What were guns, gases, liquid fire—liquid death!— to Liquid Life—this liquid life he could give to their lips or withhold at willl Down there in the street they were already striving to reach the cup—his cup. And he had yet offered them a mere diluted drink! What would be the flame of appetite as knowledge cf the flavor spread? The world also would presently be drunk! And mad with a craving thirst that would send it to him with its treasures to buy more and more! And he, standing here immune, because of this other, mightier thing, distilled for him alone! ‘The door of his room opened behind him and the Van Winkle came to his side. “Are Ballard of Complete Illusions? secretary sald——" he began. Brainard turned on him. “Yes! I'm expecting them! Of course, I'm expect- ing them!” He whirled and pointed down to the street below. “Why wouldn’t I expect them?” “Well, they just phoned—- Say, T should think you might be expecting them!” The Man of Mystery, whose own little affair, which he now called his reincarnation, had paled to- in- significance in the sweep of greater things, stared down at the throng surging before the little city's long the- ater front. “Well, say!” he exclaimed softly. No phrase from any living lips would have been adequate to the demand of Radley Brainard’s emotions at that mo- ment, but this man might have been looking at some interesting phase of the habits of flies on the window screen! Brainard had kept the fellow here orig- inally to study into his case. But the rush of events had made every one lose sight of his case. He had seemed, too, more than willing to drop into an in- conspicuous place in the growing or- ganization. But Brainard had been vaguely aware sometimes that he did not react nominally to stimuli—that he seemed to become less and less alive to the tremendous import of affairs around you expecting Mortimer and Your “Of course I know it,” returned Van ‘Winkle. “And that over there on my desk is a sheaf of radlograms an inch thick offer- ing me theaters in every city of impor- | tance in America?” | “Certainly.” “Well, why shouldn't Complete Illus- fons come to see me?” Van Winkle pressed closer to the window and gazed down at the crowd. “What are they seeing today?” he asked. “Assassinations or mermaids? Amazon voodoo—or fire-damp ex- plosions?” “You know what they are seeing,” said Brainard, surprised at his own an- noyance. “Where have you been?” “Busy with my own job, figuring cross-dates on Charles the Second! By the way, did you know that Nell Gwyn had a namesake who was a king of the fairies among—" “Look here, Van, are you trying to be offensive? I'm not interested in—-" “Mr. Brainard! Offensive? Certainly not. Certainly not. Let me see—oh, yes. my hardest job I haven't mentioned —keeping my own head. You don’t mind if I try to keep my head?” “I don’t care what you do with your head!” Brainard found relief ‘n a laugh. Rip Van Winkle was proving an ingenious and useful helper in the “location department,” as the growing Jargon of the new craft had it. “How Is Phyllis?>" asked Van Winkls abruptly. Again Brainard was irritated. The man persisted in this famillarity in which he had been at first indulged because of his misfortune. But his question irked Brainard for a more positive reason now. Phyllis was re- covering from her long illness; every- body knew that. But there were those, Van. Winkle among them, who seem=d to feel that this should be his, Brainard's, chief concern. He was under no obligation to explain to them —but Phyllis was not his chief concern. 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It was only when he was not keyed' to meet his world single- handed, as he was meeting it, that he felt the intoxicating phase of his power. But he felt called upon to explain. “Her troubles are almost as temporary as Carol “Oh,” returned Van Winkle, they? I mean, are Carol’s temporary “Well, wasn't she out and around the next day after her little upset here? Isn't she in here every day since, with her nose in a bag after her daily ration of sensations? These women are nu- morous creatures; you'd think their souls were scorched one minute with a thing they’re panting for the next.” “Oh,” said Van Winkle, “then you'd y that—Carol has recovered?” ‘Well, dammit!—what do you think?"” “I? Oh, I don't know. I just wonder if—if some of the things you see in her face nowadays—some of the things you see her do, and hear her say—some of the ways she treats young John—some of the ways she has, as you say, of coming in here every day to put her head in the bag—I wonder if they aren't scars!” “Wha ‘The man’s words brought the fa of Carol Gould up before index was lost from the bomb. But what right had the little fool H broke off; Van Winkle was regarding him with surcrised eyes. “No,” he said. “No, I suppose we never shall know what she—saw. Un- less she tells us, which doesn’t seem likely. “Stop it, man!" cried Brainard. He could have seized the other and choked him for his sly harping on the single | chord. But Van Winkle was unstopped. He seemed to drift on without conscious- ness of Brainard's resentment. “I suppose, if we really savored the things of everyday life about us they'd grow too poignani. in an anesthetic at- mosphere. It's queer how the Vicarion seems to wake one up. Sometimes it seems that you've not only condensed life but concentrated it. You feel it as you feel it in a dream—intensified—and wake up envying your sleeping self the experience. You feel—as if you'd been living through a lens! Perhaps to Carol it was a sort of—burning glass!” Brainard turned away from him to the window. “I take it you're not going to be mar- ried right away,” said Van Winkle. “June, wasn't it to be?” The intimacy of this was exasperat- “I shall hardly be married till Miss Norman is well.” Van Winkle looked out the window beside him again. “Well, well!” he exclaimed softly once more. “I don't wonder you feel like a sort of—a sort of god, Brainard!" This was a less unwelcome sugges- tion at least. After all, this chap was only a poor, half-crazed innocent. Brainard laughed. am a—sort of god, Rip.” You're bound to be—when every one has to come to you for what they want. But don't forget—you don't forget, do you?—that power is only one attribute of a regular god.” “If you have power, you can com- mand most of the other things you want.” Brainard was thinking of women whose vision could stride with a man’s. “I suppose a man might become nearly omnipotent and yet be quite a bit short on omniscience,” went on Van ‘Winkle. “Now what?” “Honer! Why where he is?” “I know.’ “You do! With the police hunting for his body ever since that night they failed to find it under your windows?>" don't you find out| 29 is downstairs worl on one of : condensers—and_has been ever since I found out tha¢ he jumped into & mop} slose‘t instead of out of our hall win- low!" “Well, well!” sald Van Winkle. An- other man might have grown profanely amazed. | (Continued in Tomorrow's Star.) |Dor’t Endure Slipping FALSE TEETH Do your false teeth drop or slip whe | you talk, eat, lnugh of sneeze?” Dot g a new sprinkle on _your plates. holds teeth rm. 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Was it not—for a man to whom such reproach had become a matter of angry rather than weunded remembrance? “Of course,” Van Winkle was going on, “I'm a mere onlooker. How can I be anything else? But you know, I saw that smart little feminine swes meat, as I think of her—I saw her snatch a look at life—at what you call Liquid Life—tempering with real things for fun, as her kind claims the right to do. And it was sort of pitiful to see her change the way she did, under our eyes, and drop down in a heap there in front eodf'!our machine, as if she was— “Oh, stop it!" cried Brainard. “I don’t know what she saw. 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