Evening Star Newspaper, September 20, 1929, Page 36

36 B WORK ANED FOR ENGINEERS President to Apply Business Methods, With Brown Suc- ceeding Jadwin. BY J. RUSSEL YOUNG. Presiden’, Heoover's appointrient of Brig, Gen, Lytle Brown to succeed Lieut. Gen. Jadwin as chief of the Corps of Tagineers, U. S. A, and his an- noiunced intention soon to appoint three regional assistants, are looked upon as the laying of the foundation of a defi- nite program of his own for the devel- opment of the waterways of the Nation, Conscious of the great responsibilities which have been heaped upon the Engineer Corps because of the problems of the rapidly growing public works program of the Nation, and anticipating an even more stupendous program in the very near future, President Hoover has given very careful thought to all this and as a result has worked out a plan, not yet complete in all its detalls, which he is understood to believe will improve the old order. The President has studied this sub- I‘ncc strictly from the yiewpoint of a ighly trained engineer and executive. He is represented as not exactly frown- ing upon the way the Army engineers have been functioning in the past, but as feeling confident that matters could be' improved. “His aim to run the Engineer Corps in the ture more along the lines of a vate engineering business. He is going’ to run this par- ticular branch of the Government just, as he would if he were the president or directing head of some big engineer- ing or construction company—just as he did when he was directing engineer- ing work in varlous quarters of the earth before he entered upon a public career. More Direct Concentration. First of all, he is satisfled that there should_be more direct concentration is convinced that there should be a decentralization of administrative power. According to his opinion, there has b. too much supervision of the publ works projects throughout the country back in Washington instead of on the projects themselves. It was because of this desire for more definite responsibility, more cuntinuity and more localized administration that he has already decided to declare three regions of public works projects and to place an engineer officer in complete charge of each. It is thought that the President has in mind increasing the number of these regions by at least two or three. His plan now is to have an engineer in direct charge of the so-called Lower Mississippi River section, which will include the flood control work; another one in charge of the so-called tributaries to the Mississippi and a third in charge of the Great Lakes and Great Lawrence section. It is understood that he now considering establishing an indi- vidual engineering region in the West Coast and one to cover the Atlantic seaboard, The latter may be divided into two regions. In line with his policy, Mr. Hoover wants the Army Engineer Corps to prove as efficient and as effective as is possible, and in making this possible he wants- to relieve the chief of the Engineer Corps of as much detail and routine work as possible. He wants that responsible officer to have more time to give to the study of plans and pol cles back in Washington and to leave the actual directing of the individual projects to the regional chiefs. Expansion of Program. The reorganization of the Engineer Corps, the President believes, is neces- sary with the fast expansion of the pub- lic works program. Besides being a highly trained engineer himself and therefore familiar with just what the Engineer Corps is facing, Mr. Hoover personally went through the Mississippi flood section two years ago, directing relief work and advising regarding plans upon the individual c;)lmjer:t.m Next, he | posed is | billion. Other great projects authorized r THE EVENING LSTAR, WASHINGTON, D. (.. FRIDAY, for flobd control. Moreovet, Mr. Hoover' has made a serlous study of the water- ways development of the country and is therefore well acquainted with this sub- ject. He has formed well-defined ideas f!?ll‘dlnl':fwht.l:l ps out of the Prosy wal ys develop: rogram/ Besides his opinions as an engineer, the President is mindful of the pledges of his party regarding development of rivers and harbors and flood control, and he is represented as being anxious to live up to the promises made in this direction during his campaign last ryem So conscious is the President of the vastness and importance of the projects’ immediately facing the Engincer Corps that he considers the program in each of the three regions he has decided to establish as being even greater in mag- nitude than the digging of the Panama Canal. He knows, too, that there wilt be projects in the future that: will be even still greater. It is estimated rough- ly that projects under way and others proposed for the future already call for an expenditure of public funds of two or three billions of dollars. The Nicaraguan Canal, which is pro- d and for which a survey already under way, will probably cost one include the reservoir for the Parama Canal, 50 as to increase that canal's capacity; the buud!nfl of Boulder Dam, besides the Mississippi flood control and millions of dollars’ w river and rbor _improvements. e _proposed | Washington to Baltimore By Boat and Rail $12.62 Round Trip Following the ploneery through the his- toricallyp interesting try. 320 miles of delizhtdul crulsing—down the Poto- mec. up the Chefapeake BAy—return by All_information. liferature, Penns. R. R. City Ticket 14th 8t N.W. 5 or Agent's Of Street Wharf. BALTIMORE & VIRGINIA STEAMBOAT COMPANY StsLawrence waterways may not mate- rialize for some years, but it will be a gigantic undertaking and wil cost hun- dreds of millions. Cause for Serious Thought. With all this in mind and havin, fofmed definite ideas in the matter o actually carryi out the work, it is Hittle wonder t President Hoover gives such serious thought to the selec- tion of the man to be the directing head of the Engineer Corps, which President Hoover hopes to make the largest and most efficient cnflneerln and construc- tlunldcomplny the history of the world. He is said to have not known Gen. Brown personally, or even "to have heard much about him before he started to study the qualifications of the long list of ilables to appoint as succes- sor to Jadwin, It is understood that he picked Gen. Brown, who was WE PAY 0 grow. OR MORE on your savings Independence Start now to be financially in- dependent by systematically sav- ing each pay day. Your savings will earn at least 5% interest and you will be amazed how they will Open daily 9 to 5. Saturday yntil nodn NATIONAL PERMANENT BUILDING ASSOCIATION (ORGANIZED 1890) 949 Ninth Street N,W. 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