Evening Star Newspaper, March 20, 1929, Page 17

The Zoening Star l Society and General fl WASHINGTON, D. (., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1929. * PAGE 17 MUNICIPAL GENTER PLANS TAKE SHAPE Design for Group Outlines Placement and Arrange- ment of Buildings. WAY IS CLEARED FOR PURCHASE OF LAND Authorization to Buy Site and Pre- pare Studies Helps Progress of Project. The new municipal center, a group of buildings designed to house all gov- ernmental activities of the District of Columbia, has taken on final shape, as far as the main outlines of the build- Ing groups, their placement and ar- rangement are concerned. ‘The sketch reproduced herewith, drawn under the direction of Municipal ; Architect Albert L. Harris, shows what the group will look like when com- pleted. The perspective is from a point 1,000 feet above the level of Pennsyl- vania avenue, on which the group will | front. | In general, the design consists of two groups of buildings, flanking a coun,i which will lead from the present Dis- trict Supreme Court to Pennsylvania avenue. The location will have a sen- timental interest, as the present court- | house originally was designed as the city hall, and the name “city hall” often is used today to designate the structure. Starting from Pennsylvania avenue, a flight of steps leads about 16 feet to a pool, which extends to D street. Executive Building on Right Entering. | The first building on the right of a| person going up the steps is the execu- tive building, to replace the present| District Building, which must be va- cated by the municipal government to make for the Federal Government's | Pennsylvania avenue - Mall triangle building program. One of the features of this building will be a large auditorium, 80 by 130 feet in dimensions, which will give the District government its first appropriate setting for large municipal affairs. The nearest approach now is the board room of the District Building, which is small and inadequate. This building will house all of the activities now housed at the District Building except the Police and Fire Departments. The latter, with the| ‘Trafic Bureau, will be loca‘ed in the | first building to the left of a person walking up the steps. Library Designed. | North of this fire-police building is | & building at present designed as a public library. The present Public Library, on Mount Vernon Square, is| cramped for space, and so constructed ! as to be difficuit of enlargement. The | plans for the move are unperfected at present, but it is expected that the move eventually will be made. It will be no- ticed that this library building has open courts on either side, which could be used for bookstacks to accommodate the needs of the library as it would ex- | and. . P*Rext to the library bullding, the Tast | of the group on the west, is the court building. This will bz the first to be built, and already plans have been made for it with some degree of exactness. ice, Juvenile and . The building across the court from this has not yet been designated, but -probably will be used for additional courts as the system ex- pands. There is enough room to take care of the court needs of the District for at least 50 years. Land Purchase Is First Step. The first step has been taken to realize the dream of the municipal cen- ter in the passage of a bill at the last session of Congress authorizing the Commissioners to purchase the squares | bounded by Pennsylvania avenue, Third, Sixth and D streets, Louisiana and In-| | | diana avenues, and authorizing appro- priation of $10,000 for preparation of plans and studies for a group of build- ings comprising a municipal center. 1t is hoped that the'next Congress | will appropriate money for condemn: tion and purchase of some of the prop- | erty, which would mean that the first| building operations the center could begin in the Spring of 1931. In that case, the corner stone of the new expedition, by Assistant Secretary of T HOW DISTRICT BUILDING avenue. These plans have the In the group are (1) Fire- building. The District Supreme provide for expansion of court buildings, (5) executive building, Some of the proposed Federal buildings which will line th The picture shows the general outlines of the group of buildings which will for: B approval of the Fine Arts Commission and the National Ca ;fllce Department building, (2) proposed new Public Library, to replace present District Building. e south side of Pennsylvania avenue also are shown, (6) Court (7), originally designed as a city hall, stands at the head of the new municipal group.. of buildings will cover what now is Four-and-a-half street. DARRNOWHEADS COMNERCE BODY Succeeds to Chamber Post| Following Death of Presi- ~dent 1. C. Weld. Charles W. Darr, first vice president of the Washington Chamber of Cam:| merce, automatically has succeeded to the position of head of the organization to fill the vacancy caused by the death last week of Ivan C. Weld, it was an- nounced today. Mr. Darr, an attorney, in January was re-elected vice president. He has been active in the chamber for years and is chairman of its important com- mittee on police and fire protection and public safety. Mr, Darr’s first official act as presi- dent was to address letters to members of the chamber advising them officially of the death of Mr. Weld and announc- ing his succession to the position. President Darr also announced the personnel of the membership commit- tee, which will meet Monday noon at the chamber headquarters in the Homer Building. Robert L. McKeever is chair- man of the committee. EIELSON AWARDED FLYING CROSS HERE Companion of Wilkins, Officer in| Aerial Reserve, Honored by War Department. | ‘The Distinguished Flying Cross was awarded yesterday to Lieut. Carl B. Eielson, member of the Wilkins Polar building will be laid 111 years after the | Wt (o Aviation F. Trubee Davison original start on Washington's nmi citv hall. | v This took place August 22, 1820, and in the words of the official invitation | Eielson and Capt. Sir George Hubert Wilkins recently returned from the Ant- arctic, where important discoveries were made by them by airplane. to the corner stone laying the present| The decoration was pinned on the District Supreme Court Bullding Was | lapel of the fiyer by Gen. Charles P. intended to be “an edifice devoted to|Summerall, chief of staff of the Army, municipal purposes * * ¢ and to be|ip Mr. Davison’s office in the State, War the seat of legislation and administra-|and Navy Building. The citation read: tion of justice for this metropolis when | “Carl B. Eielson, first lieutenant Air it will have reached its destined | Reserve Corps, U. S. A.: For extraor- populousness and * * * to be erected | dinary achievement while participating on a scale worthy of the uses for which|in an aerial flight. Lieut. Eielson, as it is intended * * * also to be|pjlot, accompanied Capt. George W.. constructed with a view to durability | wilkins (an English subject) from Point ! which will extend beyond the age of | Barrow, Alaska, to Dead Man's Island, any of the living * * * not one| Archipelago of Spitzbergen, on April of whom ever will witness the recur-|15-16, 1928, without siop. distance of rence of such an event as the recur-|more than 2,200 miles. The severity of ence of the laying of the foundation!the weather, the storm area through | of this fabric.” | which they passed, with no hope of out- o i id in case of a forced landing, and Architecture Ts Clamical. e enmplete. success of the enterprise distinguished this as one of the most extraordinary aerial accomplishments of history.” Lieut. Eielson will spend a few days in Nashville, Tenn., before returning to New York. He was accompanied by Lieut. Russell Maitland, famous Army fiver; Thomas Markham of Fairbanks, Alaska, an aviation enthusiast; D. J. Richardson and R. H. Gast. SALERT WEEK ALLOWED ALLEN TO PREPARE DEFENSE ‘The architecture of the entire group is described by Mr. Harris as classical, but not severely so. It is designed to harmonize with that of the Federal buildings to be built on the south side of the Avenue, two of which are shown in the reproduction, Owing to the steep grade from Pennsylvania avenue north to D street, with a rise of 33 feet, the | northern buildings will be three stories | and the southern bulldings five stories. The height will correspond to that of | the Federal buildings, Something of an idea of the final cost of the group tan be obtained from Mr. Harris' statement that the first building, the one for the courts, will cost not less than $5,000,000. This may | be compared with the $1,968,870 it cost to build the present District Building. Mr. Harris computes the present value of the District Building and grounds on which it is situated at $5,319,284, an asset which the local government must turn over to the Federal Government without any guarantee of financial re- muneration, although an effort is to be made by the District to be reimbursed to the extent of $5,000,000. It will cost £6€,470,000 to buy the land in the four rquares for the center and this cost as well as cost of the new buildings also is to be paid by the District out of cur- rent funds. The bright side of the picture, paint- ed by Mr. Harris, however, is the great convenience which will result from a centralized housing of all municipal government_ activities around one loca- tion. It will allow economy of admin- jstration and operation and. give ade- Date of Trial for Alleged Un- warranted Use of Gun. Policeman Robert J. Allen of the third precinct, whose attempt to halt a fleeing colored youth with the use of his serv- ice revolver must be explained to the police trial board, has been granted an additional week to prepare his defense, it was announced today by Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, retiring superintendent of po- 1 lice. juse of his gun, but the postponement will not make it necessary for the officer to appear before the trial board until March 28. James A. Frazier, the victim of Al- len’s gun, is still in Gallinger Hospital with a wound in his right leg. Both uate expression to the important func- ?mns of the government of the Capital of the Natien. 1 { | John R. Small, 15, Chairman of Committee on Or- ganization. First Meet'ing of Association Scheduled Third Friday in‘April. Impressed by their elders’ interest in civic matters and handicapped by their youth, which does not permit- them to become members of citizens' associa- tions and take an active part in'civic affairs, high school boys and girls of the Columbia Heights section have started to form an association of their own—to become the first junior citizens’ association in the District of Columbia. Plans for the organization were out- lined at a meeting of the “Citizens’ Forum of Columbia Heights” by John R. Small, 15, years old, of 1330 Irving street last night. Young Small, who is chairman of the committee on organization for the junior group, sald his association would hold its first meeting in the Wilson Normal School the third Friday in April and predicted an attendance of about 150 boys and girls. He said he thought they would arrange to name the new body “The Junior Citizens’ Forum of Columbia Heights.” Small is a student at Central High School and a sergeant in the cadet corps there. Assisting young Small on the com- mittee on organization are J. H. Holmes, YOUTHS OF COLUMBIA HEIGHTS PLAN JUNIOR CITIZENS' GROUP GROUP WILL APPEAR m the municipal center, seen from a perspective 1,000 feet above Pennsylvania pital Park and Planning Commission. (3) Police, Juvenile and Municipal Court building, (4) building to being the proposed Department of Justice | The court between the two main groups JOHN R. SMALL. | Mary Allen Stadden and Luis W. Huerta. ‘W. W. Coulliette, member of the Citi- zens’ Forum of Columbia Heights, principal adviser for the junior group. He is assisted by H. C. Phillips and | Mrs. Ida Kebler, also members of the | forum. Young Small gives assurance that the junior group will be conducted along business lines and that its mem- | bers will take as lively interest in civic | matters as do the members of the vari- | ous adult citizens’ group: BOARD WILL STUDY HESSE RETIREMENT Application to Be Considered at Relief Group Session To- morrow Afternoon. The application of Edwin B. Hesse for retirement as major and superin- tendent of police will be considered by the police retiring and relief board when it meets in the boardroom of the District Building tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. Although the board is expected to ap- prove the application, the District Com- missioners do not intend to appoint Maj. Hesse's successor until next week. ‘The appointment may be made Tues- day, but Commissioner Proctor L. Dougherty indicated it likely will be de- ferred until the regular meeting of the Board of Commissioners March 29. Maj. Hesse's application for retirement will not become effective until March 31, The list of applicants for the super- intendency was reduced from nine to eight today when Commissioner Dough- erty removed the name of Maj. Gen. Charles D. Rhodes, U. S. A, retired, at his request. Gen. Rhodes explained that he was not a candidate for the position and that his name had been submitted by friends, who evidently wanted him considered. HOOVER TO RECEIVE BELGIAN MUSICIANS| Plans for Entertainment of Band:j Announced—Arrive Here Tomorrow. The United States Marine Band to- day announced its plans for the re- ception of the Symphonic Band of the Royal Belgian Guards, due to arrive in Washington tomorrow., The Belgians will be the guests of the Marine musi- clans during the two-day stay in Wash- ington. The Marine Band will meet the 80 Belgian musicians at the Union Sta- tion at 1:30 p.m. tomorrow and will take the visitors by automobile to Mount Vernon during the afternoon, where the ensemble will be joined by | the Virginia Marine Band. The threz | musical organizations will dine in Wash- | ington tomorrow evening as the guests of the Marine Band. At Mount Vernon, a fanfare of massed trumpets from the three bands will play in front of the Washington home. The Belgian visitors will visit the White House Friday and be received by the President. Their only Washington con- cert, will take place Friday afternoon. the visitors leaving ‘at midnight for Richmond, Va. Additiona1 Time Makes Muren 28! Schoolgirls Leave Home on Hitch Hike As Spring Days Lure Them From Books i Springlike days proved too much for Madeline Cash, who is 13, and Florence Hardgrove, two years older, who laid aside their books yesterday morning and disappeared from high school, pre- sumably on a hitch hike to other cities. Their parents have had no word from them since. / If Madeline thought of her father, | Allen was scheduled to go on trial iy, the excitement of the moment. she | tomorrow on charges of unwarranted | iikely forgot that he was critically ill, and that worry over her whereabouts might aggravate his malady—paralysis, doctors say. Madeline’s father is Oscar C. Cash, 4530 Ninth street, an employe of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Mr. and Mrs. John W. Hardgrove, 4506 i Allen and the prosecution are planning to use him as their principal witness, Florence. ™ Thirteenth street, are the parents of It is thought that the two girls, with $3 saved from their zllowance between them, set out for Baltimore or Phil- adelphia. They were last seen on a Georgia avenue street car, apparently on their way to the outskirts of the city. The two girls were described to police, who have been asked to be on the lookout for them. Madeline, large for her 13 years, is 5 feet 3 inches tall, has gray eyes and a mole on her left cheek. Florence. police were told, is 5 feet 6. She has light brown hair and brown eyes, fair complexion and weighs 120 pounds. Madeline was a student at | American Automobile Association, pre- | A A A THREEDAY SESSIN OPENED 1,000 Clubs Represented in Group Meetings on All Phases of Work. Representatives of the more than a thousand clubs of the American Auto- mobile Association gathered at the ‘Wardman Park Hotel from many States today to address themselves, in a three- day meeting, to problems growing out of the travels of an estimated 40,000,000 | autoists. A series of group meetings touching on all phases of automobile clubwork, | both as regarding club management and | service to the public were arranged for | the three-day congress as were general | meetings at which several hundred dele- | | gates were to hear addresses by Govern- | ment officials and men prominent in various fields of dustry. Stereopticon Views Shown. Charles C. Janes, secretary of the | the automobile in-| sided at the opening general meeting this morning., and after stereopticon reels showing services that the A. A. A. gives to motorists had been presented, | Merle Thorpe, editor of the Nétion's Business, spoke on ihe subject, “Group | Effort—the Modern Sesame.” Having in mind the demands made upon mo- | tor club executives to make speeches, | Prof. C. D. Hardy of the School of | Speech Northwestern University, dls-‘ cussed “Public Speaking for the Busi- | ness Man.” Thomas P. Henry, president of the American Automobile Association, wel- comed the delegates at luncheon in the hotel and greetings from Canada were extended T. C. Kirby of the Montreal ; Motor League. ! The hotel lobby was placarded with specimen signs of the association, in- formation booklets and literature of especial interest to home owners who get out their cars for jaunts over strange Toads from time to time. The subjects | of motor taxation and development of the road program of the Nation were assigned especial important places on the program, and Mr. Henry said the congress would concern itself especially with a discussion of means whereby the 1,065 clubs of the association may im- rove their service to automobile owners throughout the country. Two Speak Tomorrow. William P. McCracken, jr., Assistant Sccretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, and Horace M. Albright, director of na- tional parks, are to address the confer- ence tomorrow at lunch, and in_the afternoon group meetings will be held for discussion of motor club work. Entertainment features were provid- cd for delegates, as well as opportuni- ties to visit points of interest in the Capital. Women attending the confer- cnce were escorted to the White House at noon today to pay their respects to President Hoover. Tomorrow evening the_delegates will celebrate “A Night in Barcelona,” which is advertised as “an evening of delight,” from 7 until 1. National headquarters of the A. A. A. will hold open house Friday afternoon and Saturday. Charles P. Clark, assistant general manager of national headquarters, is in charge of the convention. | DINES WITH PRESIDENT. Col. Donovan, Who Refused Philip- pine Post, White House Guest. President Hoover had as a luncheon guest at the White House yesterday Col. William J. Donovan, former as- sistant to the Attorney General. Other guests included Representative Swing of California, Walter F. Newton, adminis- trative assistant to Mr. Hoover, and F. K. Heath of Grand Rapids, Mich. Mr. Donovan recently returned from Santa Fe, N. Mex.,, where he has been engaged on important work with the Boulder Canyon Dam Commission. He Intends soon to take up the practice of law in New York and Washington. His public -service ended with his resigna- tion from the Department of Justice on March 4 and his subsequent refusal Macfarland Junior High School. Flor- ence was attending Business High. £ to accept the post of Governor General of the Philippines, | Clara Bradley, Miss Lou { down to { or dates, 6 cents; 18 pounds of potatoes, | tomatoes and & can of corn, 18 cents: | Por girls from 15 to 18 the estimated 5150 MINIVUN BUDGET FORD.C. FAMILY OF FIVE Sccial Agencies Work Out? Problem of Bare Exist- ence in Capital. CALORIES OF FOOD REDUCED TO PENNIES Figure Includes All but Rent Costs—Housing Figures Difficult to Reach. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. A family of five can live in Washing- ton on approximately $1,250 a year, ex- clusive of rent. That is the absolute minimum budget calculated by the Council of Social Agencies for a man and wife, a boy of 12, a girl of 9 and a child of 3. It is figured out on current prices for the use of charitable organizations direct- ing the budgets of such families in an effort to put them on their feet. They arrived at approximately the minimum figure at which the family can live without sacrificing something essential to_well being. It requires, for example, only 46 cents a day to provide an approved diet for 2 moderately hard-working man and only 37 cents for a moderately hard- working woman. The family can be | clothed for $7.49 a week, or $399.84 a| year, and they can keep clean on $38.40. | They can keep supplied with coal for $4 a week during the Winter and $2 a week during the Spring and Fall. Some families doubtless live in Washington on less than that, but they are defying | mathematics. ~ The family welfare committee of the | Council of Social Agencies doesn’t pre- sent what it considers an ideal budget. | but merely as one on which it is pos- | sible to live and keep healthy. Calories in Pennies. The figures were compiled by Miss | ise O. Beall, Miss Rachel Colby, Miss Emily Din-: widdie and Miss Edna Clark. They are | intended for families who have run into | such financial difficulties that they | apply for aid to some of the social welfare agencies. Naturally the allow- ! ance for running the household is| figured down to the fraction of a cent. | But seeing that one can live on it if one must, it might appeal to other eco- nomically inclined people or families who are having a hard job keeping their heads above water, but never | asked for heer ‘It is & matter of cold | figures—calories of food value reduced to_pennies. The calory requirements, ‘as calculated ! by dietitians, are as follows: = Father, | ve | April 1, and to have a large July 4 c Japanese Cherry Trees Are Budding Despite 1928 Flood ‘Washington’s Japanese cherry trees have weathered the blight- ing floods of last Fall, Charles Henlock, head of the horticultural division of the office of pul buildings and public parks, as serted today. The trees have begun to bud, and an examination revealed that few, if any, of the trees were af- fected by the water, which caused some of them to brown prema- turely, Henlock declared. The best varieties have escaped, he said. ‘The previously announced date of April 5 as the probable time when the single blossoms will be so:’l; still holds good, Mr. Henlock saf URGESPRONETIN TOHESSE'S OFFCE Petworth Association Favors Choosing Police Superin- tendent From Ranks. A resolution was adopted that the appointment of a successor to Maj. Ed- win B. Hesse, retiring superintendent of police, be chosen from the ranks of the department, and a candidate was named Jor the Public Utilities Commis- sion by the Petworth Citizens’ Associa- tion, meeting in the Petworth School last night. Edwin S. White, chairman of the police and fire protection com- mittee, introduced the police resolution. Horace J. Phelps of 830 Allison street northwest was unanimously nomi- nated as candidate for the Utilities Commission. Mr. Phelps is 53 years old and has resided in Washington member of the Petworth association for 16 years. He is vice president of the District Agency Co., a general in- surance concern. He was formerly chairman of the utilities committee of the Petworth Citizens’ Association. The association also took under con- sideration a letter from E. V. Fisher, executive secretary of the Public Utili- ties Commission, advising the organiza- tion that the Potomac Electric Power Co. desires to renew electric wire poles in the section, and asked the organiza- tion’s views on the installation of under- ground conduits and the doing away with overhead wires. The underground conduit work would cost the power company $20,370, while the residents on the streets affected would be forced to spend about $1,831 for undergrcund conduits from the main circuits to their homes. Other routine business included plans for a membership drive to increase the association’s personel to 3,500 bek;re ele- bration this year for Petworth. It was decided to send a letter of ap- | preciation to Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, ! than nine hours a da: First take the model family of five. | director of public buildings and parks | extra work, such of his retention in office here. 3,000 to 3,800; mother, 2,500 to 3,000:" boy of 12, 2,300 to 2.7 irl of 9, 1,700 to 2,000; child of 3, 1100 to 1400. | This is a total of from 74,200 to 91,000 | calories a week. These must be sup-i plied in the form of the cheapest pos: sible essentfal foods. It can be done on | $12.93 a week, by figuring the budget | o the tenth of a cent’on each em. The biggest single item is milk. The ' family requires 24.5 quarts a week, cost- | ing $3.185. Then the food budget calls for 1% pounds of oranges, 23 cents; ' 6 pounds of apples, 25 cents; 1 pound | of prunes, 10 cents; !2 pound of nmn::‘ 24 cents; 5 pounds of spinach, 43 cents; 5 pounds of cabbage, greens, carrots, beets or turnips, 25 cents; a can of 4 pounds of beef or beef and liver, $1: 15 pound of bacen, 23 cents; 114 pounds of fish, 25 cents; dozen eggs, 30 cents: 7, pound of cheese, 24 cents; pound of peanut butter, 13 cents; 3! pounds of flour, 19 cents; 14 loaves of bread, $140: | 212 pounds of butter or oleo, $1.50;,%: pound of lard, 15 cents; 3 pounds of | sugar, 20 cents; ounce of gelatin, 13 cents! 1, pound of jelly, 9 cents: 15| pound of cocoa or coffee, 20 cents: 1§ pound of tea, 10 cents; baking powder, , sod:. salt, molasses and vinegar, 13 cents. Allowance for Guests. Various minor substitutions are al- | lowed on diet. If cod liver oil is bought for the baby it should be included in this list. Fifty cents a| week is allowed for guests or for a family celebration. Families must re- vise this formula according to the age and sex of the members. The com- mittee figures that the cost of feeding an_individual should be as follows: Child, 1 to 2 years old, 19 cents a day; 2 to 3 years, 24 cents; 3 to 4 25 cents; 4 to 5, 25 cents; 5 to 6, 26 cents; 6 to 7, 27 cent 7 to 8, 28 cents; 8 to 9, 30 cents; 9 to 10, 31 cents; 10 to 11, 32 cents; 11 to 12, 34 cents; 12 to 13, 37 cents; 13 to 14, 41 cents; 14 to 15, 45 cents. Up to this point girls eat as much as boys. cost is 40 cents a day and for boys between the same ages, 47 cents. The committee works out the fol- lowing schedule for clothing a family, based on the current prices of ready- made garments. Some saving can be effected by home sewing in the cases of women and children—14 per cent| of the allowance for infants, 22 per cent for children between 3 and 6 and 16 per -cent for girls and women. ‘There is practically no saving in mak- ing clothes at home for boys and men. The clothing cost. per week is calcu- {lated as follows: ‘Workingman, $1.95; sons at work, $1.88; sons 15-18 years of age, $1.7 sons 12-15 years of age, $1.23; sons 6-9 years of age, $1,14; sons 3-6 years of age, 91 cents; woman at home, $2.27; daughters at work, $2.64; daughters, 15-18 years of age, $2.42; daughters 12-15 years of age, $1.69; daughters 9- 12 years of age, $1.25; daughters 6-9 years of age, $1.11; daughters 3-6 years of age, 79 cents; sons and daughters 1 and 2 years, 53 cents; infants under 1 year, 70 cents; family of five, $7.49. Personal Essentials. An equally fine schedule has been worked out for personal essentials, such as soap, tooth brushes, tooth te, hair cuts, shaves, hair pins, nail blades, shoe polish, etc.. With women and girls a great deal depends on whether they are old-fashioned or modern—that is, whether they have long hair or short hair. The woman with long “hair cah get by with 10 cents a week, while her bobbed sister can barely squeeze through on 18 cents. ‘The weekly budget for other mem- bers of the family can be reduced to the following: Girls, 12 to 14, .14; man,-working, 1.26; boys, 16 to 20, .26; boys, 12 to 16, .14; children, 7 to 12, .10; children, 2 to 7, .06; children under 2, .04. The cost of fuel, light and house- hold supFHm for the family is calcu- | lated as follows: | Coal—During Winter months, ! ton | Jber week at $16 & ton, $4 a week; CTZENS GROUP TARES NEW NAME dolumbia Heights Organiza- tion to Be Known as Citizens’ Forum. The New Columbia Heights Citizens' Association official changed its name to the Citizens’ Forum of Columbia Heights at a meeting in Wilson Normal School last night. ‘The change was made, it was ex- plained, because of the similarity with the name “New Columbia Heights Citi. zens' Association” to that of “Columbia Heights' Citizens’ Association.” ‘The New Columbia Heights Citizens' Association was formed last year by former - members of the Columbia Heights Citizens’ Association after they had resigned from the latter body. The new organization now has approximate- ly 140 members, it is stated. A resolution was adopted approving the section of the Cramton bill provid- ing for the appropriation of $16,000,000 for 30 years. He has been an active| HOUSEWIFE STILL HAS HANDS FULL, SURVEY REVELS Works About as Many Hours as Her Husband, Study Shows. 1 \BUREAU SEEKS TO FIND i MONEY VALUE OF LABOR | 1 Life of City Dweller Is Little Easier Than That of Woman on the Farm, It Is Indicated. Thg American housewife still has a full-time job. Despite can openers, readymade clothingz, bakers' bread, model kitchens, nursery schools, wash- 1 Ing machines and all the other contri- butions of modern science to domestic economy, she still has approximately as many working hours as her husband. This is shown in a study now under way by the Bureau of Home Economics of the Department of Agriculture under the direction of Miss Hildegarde Knee- {1and. chief of the economics section, Typical groups of housewives on farms and in villages and cities were studied The statistics are made up from the daily records of 2,000 homemakers as | to how they spent their time for seven days of a typical week. The work now is being extended to find out the mane:' value of the housewife’s time. The average working time of all the women studied, Miss Kneeland reports. was slightly over 51 hours. More than half spent over 48 hours, and one-third, mostly in the country, more than 51 hours. The figures include only actual working time, and even some of this is excluded where work is combined with recreation, as when the mother 1s out of doors with her children. The figures show that the life of the city housewife is very little easler, so tfar as working hours in the home are , concerned, than that of the women in the country or small village. The aver- age time cpent in homemaking by Wwomen in towns of from 2,500 to 50,000 is 51 hours a week, while for the large cities the average remained slightly above the 48-hour standard which has been fixed for union workers, Only 10 per cent of the city women spent less than 35 hours per week, and the study was conducted among women of a | stightly superior economic group. The farm records, based on t - | perience of 750 women, werenmhmeiee’:o jinclude only the time actually spent in { housework or home management. But when all work was included the figure ran up above 63 hours a week, or more s caring fof poultes g for poultry milk and gardening, falls naturally he lot of farm vom%n. i i Ligtle Varlation. e of the most surprising results of the study, Miss Kneeland !repom. is the showing that there is little varia- tion according to section of the coun- Lr"e;.lon’rh&re 'I‘:n about the same distri- h e amo; | household tasks. Hd { In care of members of the family jand in management, the survey shows, city homemakers spent more than twice ! as much time as women on the farm. ‘They spent an average of about six hours a week on these tasks, which | were taken almost entirely from pre- | paring and clearing away meals. For | cleaning, laundering, mending and sew- jing their figures were almost identical 1 with those of the rural women, as fol- |lows: Cleaning, 74 hodrs a week: | laundering. 5'; hours; mending, 1, { hours, and sewing, 4'; hours.. In pre- ty woman spent | paring meals the ci 2 hours a week, compared with i and {tot & { i 2 on the farm. She spent only 45 | minutes a day clearing :1; the t.ynblr- and diswashing, compared to more | than an hour, a day average in rural households. | __The conclusion seems inevitable, Mis: Kneeland says, that the time spent by i married women in housekeeping must be reduced to a reasonable full-time Job | for those now overworked and to a | leisure-time job for others who are bet- i ter adapted to some other line of work | but are unable to follow their natural ’bents because of their heavy home | duties. She points out three possible | solutions—increased use of hired help, for the acquisition of park and play- | 8reat efficiency in household tasks and ground sites by the District. | more use of large-scale outside agencies, { legislation to make a survey of segre- | les, razor | 7 ‘The association adopted a resolution authorizing its committee on law and | gation laws, with a view to ascertaining what legislation could be enacted here. | A resolution also was adopted author izing the association’s committee on re estate conditions to inform the Estate Board that the association ob- jects to dealers selling houses in the so-called white sections to any but white persons. A resolution of regret over the illness of Dr. Lyman F. Kebler, one of the as- sociation members, was adopted, and a committee, composed of H. C. Phillip, R. Coltman and J. Z. Yoder, was ap- pointed to call on him. B. W. Payne, vice president of the association, presided in the absence of Charles S. Easterling, president. o Legislature Lasts 8{1)-y:. RALEIGH, N. C., March 20 (#).—The longest Legislature of the twentieth century in North Carolina adjourned sine die at 8 o'clock last night. It had been in session 69 days. Increased State aid for schools, reduction of property taxes, a workmen's compensa- tion act and the enactment of an Aus- tralian ballot law were outstanding achievements. during Spring and Fall months, !5 ton per week, at $16 a ton, $2 a week. Oil, Light—During Winter months, 2 gallons a week at 20 cents a gallon, 40 cents a week: during Spring and Fall months, % gallons a week at 20 cents a gallon, 15 cents a week. Heat —During Winter months allow 7 gal- lons a week at 20 cents a gallon, $1.40 a week: during Spring and Fall allow 315 gallons a week at 20 cents a week, cents. Gas—Usually from 50 cents to 75 cents a week. Ice—10 cents a day during the Sum- mer. Household replacement supplies—35 cents to 40 cents weekly will cover this expense for the average family. Cleaning supplies—An average of 50 cents a week will supply cleaning ma- terial for a family of five or more. In families of less than five, 10 cents a week per person will take care of their needs. Rent, of course, must be figured apart from all this. A housing standard has been prepared by a member of the committee, but the rent problem is Real | | such as laundries. Paid Manager Seen. Miss Kneeland sees as a_ future pos- bility “the paid household msml:‘r. ho takes over the running of severai homes, giving only part of her highly paid time to each home and directing | less skilled workers who perform the routine work. Would not this solve the problem of the homemaker with a full- time, fairly well paid outside job who cannot afford a full-time skilled house- keeper and yet has not time herself for the odds and ends which cannot be left to the unskilled employe?” Little more is fo be expected, she says, from efficiency methods in the home, for they demand uniform conditions of work which, are hard to obtain in prac- tice. Besides, she points out, the tasks are too many, too varied and too fre- Something is to be gained, she points out, from new labor- | saving devices, but insists that these will never cut down the work the full extent necessary. ‘The major reduction in the house- keeper's hours, she insists, probably will come from the increasing use of outside agencies, such as laundries, bakers, com- mercial housecleaning services, etc., for the household work. After presenting the bureau’s statistics of the overworked housewife, Miss Kneeland urges the ne- cessity of each individual making a time schedule so that the necessary work can be done with the least duplication and waste of effort possible. sil W quently changing. | JEWELERS ENTERTAINED. Baltimore and Wilmington Groups Guests at Dinner. The jewelers’ section of the Mer- chants and Manufacturers’ Association entertained a delegation of jewelers of Baltimore and Wilmington at a dinner at the Town and Country Club yester- day evening. Plans for the fifteenth annual convention of the jewelers ot Maryland, Delaware and District of Co- lumbia were presented by Arthur J. slundlun. chairman of the local jew- elers. Mr. Sundlun announced that speak- ers for the convention will be former Senator Bayard of Delaware, Repre- sentative Kelly of Pennsylvania and Bartley Doyle, publisher. Roe Fulker- son will be the toastmaster. Baltimore jewelers asked the Wash- tricky to calculate. Certain variations from the schedule are, it is admitted, necessary. ington and Wilmington jewelers to be their guests at a dinner to be held ar Baltimore April 18.