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3 i WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 12, 1930 : PAGE: B—1 HEALTH OFFICIALS SAY FUNDS NEEDED IN YEAR §623.20 New Proposal of Survey Would Almost Double Amount Now Appropriated. INCREASED PERSONNEL LISTED AS LOCAL WANT Many More Clinics Also Declared Necessary for Welfare of Dis- trict Residents, Appropriations must be bnearly dou- bled to provide “the minimum allow- ance that seems necessary for effective administration of the District Health Department.” Such is the conclusion of a report of the United States Bureau of Efficiency to the House District committee on a survey of public health administration here made in 1927, which found several of the health services inadequate for the needs of the growing population and not in keeping with the most approved scientific methods. The_survey was conducted by Surg. Paul Preble of the United States Pub- lic Health Service. Three plans are submitted for the reorganization of the District Health Department. The an-| nual cost of the first of these, which ! alone is worked out in detail, is esti- mated at 8653520, compared to an| expenditure of $344,034.09 in 1926, the yeer for which the figures were availa- ble when the survey was made. Service Now Inadequate. | “When the present resources and | activities of the District Health Depart- | ment are compared with the generally accepted requirements of modern public health practice,” the report states, it is believed that sufficient evidence has been offered to justify the conclusion that the health service now provided for the most important municipality of the Nation is decidedly inadequate and ineffective in many of its component activities.” Among the more important recom- mendations are: More adequate office space. A division of popular health educa- tion under the direction of a trained publicity agent to issue pamphlets and bulletins, and conduct special news- paper campaigns, lectures and exhibits. | Employment of supervisory nurses to | direct the nursing staff. A bureau of medical services in charge of a full-time medical director to co- ordinate the statistical, nursing and medical services provided for the con- trol of preventable and communicable diseases, maternal and infant hygiene and school care. Would Add 250 Beds. A reorganized division of statisfics | and records in charge of a physician. | with an experienced statistical assistant. disease control, addition of a unit of | CAPPER MEASURE PROVIDES FOR NEW §1,300.000 MARKET Bill, Introduced in Senate, Is Referred to District Committee. $800,000 FUND ASKED FOR LAND PURCHASE Project Would Be Operated by Commissioners Under Terms of Draft. A new Center Market costing $1,300,- 000, to be operated by the District Commissioners, is provided for in a bill introduced late yesterday by Chairman Capper of the Senate District commit- tee and referred to that committee for consideration. Senator Capper has been working on the measure since the Senate some time ago adopted a resolution providing for the cloeing of the present Center Mar- ket June 30 of this year to make way for the new Department of Justice Building in the Federal construction program south of Pennsylvania avenue. This resolution is awalting action by i the House. Plans Public Hearings. Shortly after introducing the bill yes- | SENATOR BAIRD. READY FOR WORK, Legislative Tasks Await First| D B BUMMIIIEE | of Pennsylvania avenue and as near to | s . “he population and geographical cen- ters as practicable. Of the total amount authorized in the Capper bill. $800,000 would be for the purchase of land. and $500,000 for construction of the necessary market str;}cltur!s. e site would be selected fointly by the District Commissioners, the seycref tary of Agriculture and the director of buildings and public parks. Session of Senate Body Tomorrow. With all vacancies filled, the Senate | ket center shall be used for the con- { District committee tomorrow will be in {Struction of shelters for use by farm- | position to meet as & body to consider | | public Construction of the market and the making of necessary regulations for its operation would be under the jurisdic- tion of the Commissioners. A feature of the bill is the provision ithat not less than 200,000 square feet | {of the land acquired for the new mar- ers for the sale of farm produce. approximately 250 beds to the present | approved by the Senate. Railway Merger Up. Municipal Hospital for communicable | disease cases, provision of emergency | personnel for epidemics, and reorgan- | ization of the present disinfection serv- ice. The extra hospital space is declar- | A separate division of tuberculosis under a full-time director with suffi- cient trained personnel “to make pos- Cféllflmli!tE's study. - o | ably will be deferred until a report has | ed of “paramount impartance. | been received from Dr. Milo R. Maltbie, ! ‘The proposed street | legislation regulating District affairs. The membership of the committee was completed yesterday when the re- port of the Republican conference com- | mittee assigning Senators David - A. | Provisions of one supervising nurse | Baird, jr., of New Jersey, and John M.'as are other appropriations to cover and eight staff nurses for communicable | popion of Kentucky. to the group wa railway merger | is among the subjects awaiting the| Consideration prob- an expert engaged by the committee a | year ago to study the plan the last Provides for Financing. The bill provides that the sums au- thorized are to be charged against lu !general funds in the Treasury and | |against the revenues for the District | of Columbia, in the same proportion | < | the expenses of the Government of the | District of Columbia. At present the | Federal Government appropriates a {lump sum of $9.000,000 a year toward {the expenses of the District, and what- ever remainder is needed to meet the | jamount appropriated comes from the | District. | The bill gives the Commissioners au- | | thority to make leases for space in the | new market at rentals to be fixed by them. No lease, however, could be Road Builders Meet To Give Impetus To D. C. Airport| Washington Men to At- tend Annual Convention in Atlantic City, N. J. Strong impetus will be given the cam- | paign for establishment of a model | municipal airport for the District of | Columbia at the twenty-seventh annual convention of the American Road Build- ers’ Assoclation, opening tomorrow in the city auditorium at Atlantic City, | J. N. J. The association is taking an active part in the establishment of airports through its committee on municipal air- ports and the city officials’ division. Two sessions will be held for the discussion of airport problems, the first of them, Tuesday morning, to _be fea- tured by a discussion of the National Capital's airport problems by Edwin A Schmitt of the office of the Army en- gineer for the District of Columb! who has done all of the preliminary engineering for the National Airport site at Gravelly Point. Progress to Be Told. Mr. Schmitt is expected to describe in detail the progress of the long fiight for the National Airport and to reveal some new facts in connection with the campaign for and against the Gravelly Point site. At this session, which is to be held by the city officials’ division, a report will be received from the committee on municipal airports covering the re- cent municipal airports’ conference held in this city, which brought together airport designers and builders and city officials in charge of airport building or operation from all parts of the United States, Alaska and Central and South America. This report, it is un- derstood, also will contain a recom- mendation that the association favor the construction of the finest possible airport for Washington. Analysis of Prosperity. The airport discussion will be re- sumed at _a session of highway con- tractors Tuesday afternoon. Included in the program for this session is an analysis of prosperity in the United States as revealed by a comparison of the 1929 and 1930 highway and airport programs. A majority of the Latin American Ambassadors and Ministers in this city are expected to attend a Pan-American | session Wednesday morning. Addresses will be made by delegates from the Latin American countries. At this ses- sion the formal dedication of the Pan- American Highway will take place. The participants will be representatives of the States through which the highway passes in this country and representa- tives from Canada, Mexico, Guatemala and Salvador. Many_ Federal and District govern- ment officials from this city are to take part in the convention. | District Highway Department are mem- | bers of the association. Capt. H. C. | Whitehurst, co-ordinator and chief en- gineer of the District Engineering De- partment, is president of the city offi- | clals' division and will preside at the opening airport session and at other sessions of the division. REVENUE BUILDING 80 PCT. COMPLETE terday Senator Capper said his com- : | mittee would hold public hearings, the | date to be fixed later, to ascertain the | public viewpoint on the question. At | the same time he made public a report | from a special committee of the Feder- | ation of Citizens’ Associations favoring | & new retail market somewhere north | Courts Will Be Embellished With | Artistic Fountains and Stone Seats | community Effort to Begin| Officials of the | | again holds her post as chairman of { necessary .in order to make a thorough DINNER 10 LAUNCH LARGE-GIFTS DRIVE FOR CAPITAL CHEST With Work of Chief Unit Friday Night. CAMPAIGN UNDER WAY OFFICIALLY BY JAN. 28‘ R TR e | Number of Organizations Receiv- ing Benefits Has Been Increased From 57 to 75. Although the 1930 Community Chest campaign does not get officially under way until the night of January 28, the campaign for larger gifts, conducted by the special gifts committee, of which Newbold Noyes is chairman, will be launched Friday night with a dinner for the entire unit at the Willard. Mr. Noyes expects to have the personnel of his committee, including 10 workers for each vice chairman, complete by the time of this meeting. John Poole, campaign chairman, stressed the importance of the work of the special gifts committee, at a meeting of the executive committee the past week, explaining that the larger number of organizations in the chest this year, combined with the need for increased service, due to the city's growth, greater demands upon organiza- tions now in the chest, and exhaustion of cash balances which were on hand at the beginning of the 1929 campaign would necessitate the raising of a larger fund this year, with need for a conse- quent increase in the size and number of special gifts, which constitute ap- proximately 50 per cent of the cam- paign total. ‘The campaign this year will be con- ducted in the interest of 75 affillated | organizations. connected with the chest, { this including the 10 appeals combined in_the one appeal of the National Capi- tal Civic Fund, all of which have ob- | tained money for each separate enter- prise in preceding years. The amount o be ised has not been definitely although Frederic A. Delano, stated, president of the chest, stated recently 8t a meeting that “the possibilities are | that the chest will have to raise in the | { neighborhood of $1,750,000.” Leaders of Campaign. Organization this year will be along | the same general lines as that of last. John Poole again is the campaign chairman. Merritt O. Chance, a regional chairman in the metropoli- tan unit last year, is chairman of the unit for the 1930 campaign. William C. Sullivan _again heads the _speakers’ bureau; Mr. Noyes is a newcomer in | the post of chairman of the special gifts | { committee; Mrs. John Jay O'Connor the information unit; and Corcoran Thom has succeeded the late Charles J. Bell as chairman of the budget com- mittee. An increased number of workers in the metropolitan unit is expected to be canvass of the city, the executive com- mittee having decided to solicit Govern- ment_workers at their homes, instead of using mail solicitations, as was done last year. It is probable that close to 4,000 workers will be enlisted in the drive. The special gift committee will also be enlarged. This year’s campaign, according to Elwood Street, director of the Com- | taxes amounting to $900,000 a year, with “MARY ANN” “Mary Ann,” the instruction doll Throat Hospital, is worn out from demonstrations of treatments on her eyes, A new instruction doll Mrs. M. nose and throat. the Community Chest drive. Ann,” who was constructed by Miss Jean Scott (on the left).—Star Staff Photo. IS WORN OUT at the Episcopal Eye, Ear, Nose is one of the hopes of the hospital from F. Faire, student nurse, holding “Mary SIMMONS SEES TAX BOOSTTOPAY RAISE Asks Citizens’ Opinions on Proposals That Would Increase Expenses. Citing the proposal to increase the | pay of firemen and police as an example, | Chairman Simmons of the House sub- | committee on District lppmpn.lnonsi asked yesterday that it be “put up w"“ the various groups of citizens “who are | continually indorsing some project that will cost a large amount of money” whether at the same time they are willing to pay increased taxes to meet the bill. Mr. Simmons said that at present his subcommittee has before it proposals generously indorsed by various groups, the cost of which would run up to $25,- 000,000. Mr. Simmons said that additional an estimated increase in the tax rate of 7 cents to meet the cost of the proposed pay increase for police and firemen, would be necessary. The increase has been indorsed by the Federation of Citi- zens’ Associations, the Chamber of Com- merce, Washington Board of Trade, Merchants & Manufacturers’ Associa- tion and various other large groups. Not only must. the people in indorsing such proposals, Mr. Simons said, figure whether these are meritorious, but also whether they are immediately meritori- ous and whether on top of that, there are other munieipal expenditures which must be displaced or a further increase in taxes made necessary. He declared that in the last few years there has been ‘“‘progressive legislation” for the relief of the police and firemen. PUBLIC QUESTIONS T0 BE DISCUSSED | Citizens’ Associations Plan Consideration of Wide Range of Topics. Eleven of Washington's citizens as- BILL TO REGULATE SALE OF GASOLINE 1S BEING FRAMED Roberts Begins Draft of Measure for Submission to Congress. TWO-FOLD PROTECTION PURPOSE OF AUTHOR Legislation Would Prove Guaran- tee to Buyer and Reputable Dealer. George M. Roberts, superintendent of weights, measures and markets, be- gan the draft of a bill yesterday to regulate the quality of gasoline sold in therhbllh'lcl. a A e proj legislation, accor to Mr. Roberts, will have a tw purpose—to protect motorists from in. ferior grades of fuel and prevent un- fair competition among dealers. Sin lar laws, he pointed out, already on the statute books of a number of States, but no_attempt has ever been made in the District to regulate the quality of motor fuel. ‘Will Qutline Gas Standards. Mr. Roberts plans to write into the bill minimum specifications for various grades of gasoline, such as straight, high test and the blended varieties de- signed to preclude motor knocking and carbonizing, with provisions requiring the oil companies and the dealers to meet these standards. Assistance of experts on motor fuels at the Bureau of Standards will be sought in the preparation of the specifications. Congress will be asked to enact the bill as an amendment to the weights, measures and market law. In framing it Mr. Roberts intends use the North Dakota law as a model, with certain modifications to meet local con- ditions. fol sociations will meet tomorrow night to discuss local public questions ranging from national representation to legisla- tion pending in Congress to authorize a merger of the street rallway com- panies. Other subjects scheduled for discussion include traffic, the 1930 Com- munity Chest campaign, and legislation providing increased pay for members of the District police and fire depart- | ments. | Traffic conditions will be the principal topic of discussion at two of the meet- | ings, those of the Kalorama and Stan- ton Park Associations. Roland Bibbins, nationally known engineer and traffic authority, is scheduled to speak to the Kalorama Association. Traffic Director ‘William H. Harland will speak at the Stanton Park Association meeting. ‘The Northeast Washington Assocfa- tion will discuss five bills lflecv.h#hme District pending ' in Congress. lese measures provide increased pay for police and firemen, abolition of capital punisiment. authorization for a merger of the car lines, compulsory automobile Gasoline pumps under the proj d legislation would be required lpo g:rury, in addition to the trade name of the fuel, signs indicating whether the fuel { af d is straight, high test or blended with chemical ingredients to prevent motor carbonizing and knock- ing. Tests would be made from time to time by inspectors of the weights, measures and markets department to determine whether the fuels dispensed from these pumps comply with the specifications. ‘Will Protect Makers and Buyers. Mr. Roberts explained that his pre- posed legislation will assure motorists of a high-grade fuel at all times, while at the same time protect the interests of the reputable oil companies which zealously guard the quality of their products. The District at present, he said, has no legal weapon with which to combat an unscrupul dealer or dis- tributor, who might - put the lower- price aigh line - in high-test tanks d sell it at the higher price. While there have been no complaints of this' practice, according to Mr. insurance and' the regulation of the type of buildings erected near Govern- ment buildings and parks. The Brookland Association will dedi- cate its meeting to the Community Chest campaign. Addresses will be made by L. W. DeGast, secretary of the | Community Chest; J. E..Colliflower, regional director of the Community Chest, and the captains in the Brook- Roberts, it can be done without the knowledge of an unsuspecting motorist. The bill he is drafting, however, will make it possible to detect such frauds, as the inspectors would make purchases and have the fuel analyzed to dete: mine whether it complied with the specifications for high-test gasoline. Mr. Roberts hopes to complete the draft of the bill this week and will submit it to the Commissioners for ap- Congress did not act on. land district. made for more than a year at a time | sible the field service necessary to an | active campaign against this disease”; ystematic investigation of all reported | tuberculosis cases, increased nursing service under a special supervisor to} give necessary instructions and super- vision in isolation and disinfection, to follow up known sources of infection, | and to locate unrecognized cases of tuberculosis; a larger central clinic, ad- ditional clinics in different sections of the city, more examining specialists, and more clinic nurses; doubling the present number of beds available for! tuberculosis patients, providing special | facilities for patlents expected to live but a short time, and more provision for ! the care of pay patients in private rooms; employment of four social| workers for tuberculosis cases. | Need More Clinics. An investigation of police affairs in | ‘Washington is in order for the Wllce]Au subcommittee. Reports are that Sena-, tor Vandenberg of Michigan is being | considered as chairman of the group to | succeed former Senator Sackett of Ke: tucky, who during the holidays was ap- pointed Ambassador to Germany. ! Michigan Senator is said to be reluctant | i10 take over the assignment because of | modities, his duties as chairman of the subcom- | mittee on streets and highways. ! Robsion Takes Oath. Senator Robsion, who was appointed by the governor of Kentucky to succeed | contained in the bill to close any street | plete. Mr. Sackett, had been a member of the or alley within or adjacent to the site | House since the Sixty-sixth Congress. | He took the oath yesterday. The committee faces the necessity of | obtaining another member, for at the | conclusion of the London Disarmament ' and subletting would not be permitted. $monies collected from operation of the new market would be deposited in the Treasury to the credit of the Dis- rict. The Commissioners are authorized to The | adopt regulations for collection of rents | and fees, “the care and sale of com- the orderly conduct of tenants and fair dealing with the public.” Penalties of not to exceed $25 fine ! could be fixed for a violation of any of | by | the proposed regulations for the opera- | construction engineer, in charge for the | tion of the market. Authority also is selected for the market. Cite Reasons for New Market. In the report it filed with Senator Capper. the special committee of the A separate division of venereal disease | Conference, Dwight W. Morrow, a dele- | Federation of Citizens' Associations ad- control with a full-time medical di- | gate, is to succeed Senator Baird, who | vanced the following contentions in rector and essistant, one additional | was appointed only recently to succeed ! support of establishing a new center physician, < four workers and two attendants; better fol- | low-up of sources of infection, a broad | educational _program. larger clinical facilities, and special clinics for children and for maternal and congenital cases. Three additional prenatal clin more free beds for maternity cases, training end supervision of midwives, | five additional infant welfare stations; | provision of mental hygiene service for | pre-school children; additional hospital | facilities for children; adequate super- | vision of day nurseries and boarding homes; increase of physicians %t child welfare clinics from 7 to 15, nurses | from 7 to 39, nutrition workers and | maids from 7 to 17 An increase of school medical in- | spectors from 2 to 20, school nurses | from 10 to 32 and dental inspectors and hygienists from 16 to 18; addition | of a school peychiatric staff of 4. i More adequate apparatus for the pub- lic health laboratories and addition of four office assistants. Appointment of two trained sanitary | inspectors as director and assistant of the Bureau of Sanitation. Would Create Bureau. The creation of the Bureau of Hos- pitals in a charge of a medical director under the Department of Health and the transfer of -all municipal hospitals, ambulance service, medical service to the poor and appropriations for con- tracts with private hospitals from the Board of Public Welfare to this newly | created bureau. Building of & new communicable dis- ease hospital providing approximately 250 beds, additional facilities at Tuber- culosis Hospital and additional hospital facilities for women and children. Transfer of the pound service to the police or some other department; trans- fer of the District crematorium to the Board of Public Weifare. The report proposes a gradual in-| crease in appropriations uatil. the full| sum of approximately $650.000 is reached, in five years. The chief in- creases in the ‘annual appropriation would be $12,000 for popular health education, approximately $30,000 for venereal disease control. $46,000 for tuberculosis control, $84.000 for school health activities, $94,000 for maternal| and infant hygiene. “The District of Columbia is barely mediocre in health service,” says Her- bert, D. Brown, chief of the Bureau of Efficiency, in transmitting the report. “The time has come to make it first class, in keeping with the standards ex- pected of the Nation's Capital.” City Below Average. The survey was made by Dr. Preble during 1927, but has just been issued a8 & public document. With an allotment of barely 60 cents to Paris. It is regarded as unlikely that | Mr. Morrow, who until recently was| Ambassador to Mexico, will be assigned | to_the committee. | Baird is filling the committee place | formerly held by Senator Hastings of { Delaware, who was transferred to mem- bership on the interstate commerce committee. Army Changes Listed® ! Col. Charles H. Danforth, Air Corps, | at Seifridge Field, Mich., has been or- dered to this city in June for duty in the office of the chief of staff, War Department. First Lieut. Frank J. Thompson, 4th Cavalry, at Fort Meade, S. Dak., has been ascigned to duty at the New Mexico Military Institute at Roswell. Maj. Robert A. Gillmore, Philippine Scouts, will be placed on the retired list August 10 on his own aj i plication, after more than 30 years | servic = i ed for 100 large cities in expenditures for the control of communicable dis- | eases, tuberculosis, venereal diseases and | maternal and child hygiene. At present, it is pointed out, only three diseases—diphtheria, scarlet fever | and smallpox—are regularly placarded | and ordinarily no action is taken in cases of measles, whooping cough, | chicken pox and other communicable | | diseases except mailing to the families; | coples of the laws and regulations con- cerning these diseases, “a procedure of | | doubtful value.” | “In recommending immediate steps to provide more suitable and adequate facilities for the isolation and treat- | ment of patients suffering from com- municable diseases,” says the report, | | “consideration should be given to the | | addition of an adequate unit to the, present municipal hospital. now ad- | ministered by the Board of Public Wel- | fare. Responsibility for the_control of | | communicable diseases is { function of the Health Department.” Plan to Study Schools. In the section devoted to tuberculosis | care and control in the District the re- port urges an intensive study of the present plan of “health schools” pro- vided by the Board of Education for children excluded from the regular schools because of tuberculosis, to be | made jointly by the school and health authorities. Further studies also are urged to establish the need for more special open-window classes and “pre- ventorium care.” In urging additional pre-natal elinics it is pointed out that only approximate- ly 40 per cent of expectant mothers in Washington receive any pre-natal care. logically & | social | former Senator Edge, now Ambassador | market: “That pre and post season perish- ables, for which there would be slight demand at markets. find ready sale at a large market having a reputation for an al- most complete assortment of perish- able foodstuffs. “That a large market in a central location tends to stabilize prices at reasonably low levels because of the presence and close grouping of many competing vendors. “That net revenues of the Center Market have averaged about $90,000 annually from 1923 to 1928, both years inclusive, which sum is sufficient to amortize rapidly an investment of about $1,500,000.” The federation report also recom- mended that the functions of Center tion in the present or a temporary loca- tion pending the completion of & new structure. Early last vear Congress completed enactment of a law_authorizing estab- lishment of & new farmers' market in the Southwest section near the water- front. Under the Capper bill for a new Center Market there would also be a space for farmers’ stands. PROGRESS REPORTED ON MEMORIAL ROUTE Rip-Rap Stone Foundation Wall Between Columbia Island , and Rail Bridge Built. The Bureau of Public Roads of the Department of Agriculture announced yesterday that the rip-rap stone foun- dation wall between Columbia Isiand | and the Rajlroad Bridge on the route | of the Mount Vernon Memorial High- way and construction of a cofferdam at the Virginia end of the Highway Bridge have been completed About 15 per cent of the work on the hydraulic fill, being carried forward by the United States Engineer Office, under the direction of Maj. Brehon Somer- vell, at Gravelly Point and Roaches Run, at Four-Mile Run and in the basin formed by the rip-rap wall, has been completed, the bureau announced. The rip-rap forms a seawall for the fill, over which the highway will run, and the cofferdam is erected at pier 3 of the Highway Bridge, where a new abutment will be built after the first two spans of the bridge are remove to make the necessary connections be- and of this only 2 per gent is furnished capita, Dr. Preble points out, the ct fell below the averages report- by the Health Department. {ween the Memorial Highway and the Alexandria roads the bureau explained. small or widely scattered | Market be continued without interrup- | Artistic fountains of polished pink granite surrounded by greensward, paths {and stone seats will be among the em- | bellishments of the four large courts of | |the Internal Revenue Building, into! | which_thousands of Government work- | |ers will move June 30. The fourth| court yard is to be for service, to admit i trucks and automobiles. An under-| ground garage has capcity for about| 100_cars. The building ftself is now estimated | Neal A. Melick, United States | Government, as about 80 per cent com- {" The principal rooms of the building! { are located and finished as follows: The office of the commissioner of in- { ternal revenue will be on the third floor, { southwest _corner, trimmed in mahog- any, and the onlv room in the building | ! with a wooden floor, which will be cut | in_parquetry style. Virtually all of the | |other floors are of concrete, covered ! |over with a yielding substance known {as “mastic,” which will be colored, brown. Quarters for the Board of Tax Ap-| | peals, which is now located in the Earle | Building. are on the second floor, where leight large hearing rooms are being| | finished. They will be paneled in ma- | hogany and with wainscot of black { marble. The ceilings are treated with so-called “acoustic” plaster of a rough- ened surface to provide better acoustic properties. ' The Court of Customs and Patent | Appeals, which is now located in the | National Savings & Trust Building at! Fifteenth and New York avenue, will| have commodious and imposing quar- ters on the seventh floor, with a highly | vaulted ceiling, also of acoustic plaster. | On this floor will also be quarters for the judges, officers of the court and the Iibrary. An’interesting feature in equipment will be the system of electric clocks, which are all to be run by electric mo- tors and set by electricity. be 875 of these clocks, said to be the largest installation of these clocks any- where under one roof, connected into one system. {WEST IS HONOR GUEST | OF ACACIA FRATERNITY Grand Master of Mn;flnl Is Prin- cipal Speaker at G. W. U. Dinner. 1 James A. West, grand master of Masons of the District of Columbla, was honor guest and principal speaker last night at a formal dinner given by the George Washington University Chapter |of the Acacia Fraternity, 1707 Massa- | i chusetts avenue. Other speakets included Dr. Cloyd H. Marvin, president of George Washing- ton University;: Dr. C. Butte, special assistant _to the Aftorney General; ,J. Claude Keiper, grand secretary of Masons of the District of Columbia, and James R. Kirkland, assistant United, States atforney, who served as toast- master. Some 60 active members of the chap- ter, alumni and guests were seated. Other guests were Harold Teegarden, | special assistant to the Attorney Gen- eral; John R. Lapham, dean of George Washington’s School of Engineering: A. Yeager Dépew, professor of public speaking at George Washington; Prof. | Arthur F. Johnson, and L. H. Dishman, president’ of the George Washington University Masonic Club. “Police of Montrege, Scotland, have voluntesred to suppéy clothing to desti- tute children of the city. | the director points out. \of the campaign. munity Chest, will be based upon the | record of the chest during 1929. Last | year, while the chest was making its first’ appeal for funds, the people of Washington were promised that 57 ap- peals for funds would be_eliminated by the chest. This, Mr. Street savs, has been done. The people were prom- ised that the cost of collecting and dis- bursing the funds, which had been approximately 15 to 25 per cent under the old system of separate appeals, would be reduced to 6 per cent. This, the figures of the chest auditor, Andrew Landrus, show, has been done. The cost may be reduced still lower this year, Mr. Street says. Better Results. The people were promised that more relief per dollar expended would be obtained under the chest system, and the reports of the chest organizations show that this has been done. Much | of this is due to the reorganization of | the social service exchange, which has been placed with the Council of Social Agencies and which keeps a confidential Tecord of all cases handled, preventing duplication of effort among the various | organizations. i The people were promised that the | chest would be instrumental in weld- ing all races and creeds into one great | community and the manner in which everybody connected with the chest campaign co-operated to make it a success shows that this has been done, “The Chest is no longer an_experi- ment,” President Delano said. “The peo- ple of Washington have witnessed its work for the past year. They know that it is productive of more service than ever was possible under the old plan of money raising. They know that its record entitles it to their sup- port in a larger measure this year, because of greater needs engendered by the affliation of 75 organizations, in- stead of the 57 of last year. Knowing all these things, the people of Wash- ington, I am confident, will rally to the support of the Chest this year, and will subscribe the necessary amount to put it over the top once more.” Business Bureau Aid. Assurance that the Better Business Bureau will give its utmost support to the Chest campaign is contained in a letter received yesterday by Mr. De- lano from Louis Rothschild, director of the bureau. With a cast gathered largely from among the workers in the various organizations offiliated with the Chest, Mrs. Marie Moore Forrest, director of drama and pageantry in the Commu- nity Center Department of the Pubiic Schools, is making rapid progress in perfecting the pageant which is to be given on the occasion of the opening Rehearsals are to be held Tuesday and Wednesday nights in the Frank- lin School Administration Building, Thirteenth and K streets, starting at 7:45 o'clock. The chorus of workers from the pageant is rehearsing on Thursday afternoons at 5 o'clock at Mrs. Gertrude Lyon's studio, 1325 G street, and the witches will be re- hearsed by Miss Judith Lyeth at the g:ro{lne McKinley studios, at 1735 I eet. i Tennesseeans to Meet. The Tennessee Society of Washing- ton will hold its annual election of of- ficers next Saturday night at 2400 Six- teenth street, when there will be a dance and entertainment, it was an- nounced by “Bob” Baker, president of the soclety. The program will start at 9 o'clock. All Tennesseeans In the city have been invited. He said that a report prepared by the Bureau of Efficiency will show that the police and firemen in the District are paid about as well as generally through- out the country. 1f the people want the pay of the police and firemen to be ihcreased and insist upon its being increased. they ‘must be prepared to pay the bill, said Mr. Simmons. ‘The . District budget now und\ con- sideration for the fiscal vear 1931 pro- vides for 1,265 policemen and 884 fire men, a total of 2,149 to be covered by the proposed salary increase. AIR LEGION AWARDS PLANE RIDE TICKETS Local Flying Club Has Card Party and Dance to Pay for Parachutes. Tickets for airplane rides were givei? as prizes at a “parachute” dance and card party given by Legion, local flying club. last night in the Hamilton Hotel. Proceeds of the affair are to go toward the purchase of, parachutes to be used by student pilots in dual and solo instruction flights ‘The tickets were for 10, 20 and 30 | minute flights in the training planes used by the legion at its Hybla Valley training field, near Alexandria, Va. No parachutes have been used by students or instructors. Anticipating that the Department of Commerca goon will pass regulations requiring the use of parachutes for student instruction, however, the legion members decided to meet the requirements before they become effective. GIRL, 7, IS MISSING. Police were requested last night to search for a 7-year-old deaf and dumb girl who has been missing from her home at 610 Louisiana avenue since 5 o'clock yesterday - afternoon. She s Georgia Sotirakos. Her motier, who made the report t~ the Woman's Bu- reau, could give no clue to the child's disappearance. the D. C. Air| National representation for the Dis- trict will be the chief subject of dis- cussion at the meeting of the Hillcrest Association. Other associations to meet tomorrow night are the Takoma Park, Piney Branch, Congress Heights, East Washington, Edgew: and Lanier Heights. 'GLASS WOULD AMEND ' RESERVE BOARD LAW Senator Suggests Possibility of Separating Treasury Head From Chief Place. Legislation to amend the Federal Reserve act, removing the Secretary of | the Federal Reserve Board, is under consideration by Senator Glass, Demo- crat, Virginia, a co-author of this act. | Senator Glass, who was a former Sec- retary of the Treasury. said yesterday, off the floor, that he has felt for some time that the Treasury has become the dominating influence in the Federal | Reserve Board, “which never was in- tended.” The Virginian offered this comment |in response to the suggestion made Friday by the United States Chamber of Commerce that the Secretary of the Treasury be separated from the chair- manship of the Reserve Board. How- ever, in view of other legislation he has in mind, Senator Glass is uncertain| whether he will propose such an| amendment now. “I have observed, as a general propo- sition,” sald the Senator, “that the Treasury overshadowed the board. I don't think it ever was intended to be so, and I don't think it should be the Justice Coming for Quis. BOISE, Idaho, January 11 (#).—. tice William E. Lee planned to_le: today for Washington to appear before a Senate committee for questioning in connection with the confirmation of his appointment as interstate commerce commissioner. CAFRITZfi ADOPTS FOR WORK ON NEW STRUCTURES! | Local Construction Company Puts Policy Into Effect for Building *The Cafritz Construction Co. has adopted a five-day-week plan for all its building trades employes as a feature of its building program for the new year, it was announced last night by Morris Cafritz, president. This is the first construction firm ‘in the District to adopt the plan on all its operations, it is said. & At the same time Mr. Cafritz an- nounced that he is planning consider- able expansion of the building program of his concern for the new year as compared with the past year. The five-day-week plan will be in- augurated tomorrow, and workmen will have both Saturday and Sunday for recruuxx, The ghilder pointed to the success of FIVE-DAY WEEK | Trades. and said it was adopted as a measure to make the local building trades work- ers happier and more contented. ‘The Cafritz organization now is erect- ing a large apartment hotel on Fif- teenth street and Rhode Island avenue and has several other operations. It is planning to start shortly a number of dwelling operations, where about 100 houses will be erected, Mr. Cafritz said. Other projects also are contemplated. It has not been decided yet, he said. whether under the new system the men would work eight or nine hours. With the five-day plan in effect, Mr. Cafritz said he was convinced work- men would be happier with the extra the Treasury as ex-officio chairman of { proval and transmission to Congress. 'PARK EXECUTIVES TO ADDRESS C. OF C. Col. Grant and Charles W. Eliot | Speakers at Special Luncheon Tomorrow. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d. executive offi- cer, and Charles W. Eliot, 2d, city planner of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, will be speakers at & special luncheon meeting of the Washington Chamber of Com- merce, devoted to the “Park System of the National Capital.” to be held in the City Club at noon tomorrow. Plans for the meeting were made by the chamber's committee on parks, playgrounds, highways and bridges, of which Elwood Street, director of the Community Chest, is chairman. It is the first of a series of four luncheon meetings planned by this committee, the object of which is to afford an ac- curate perspective of each of the four | major subjects falling within the scope of the committee. At the first luncheon meeting tomor- row Col. Grant will present the pres- ent plans of the commission for the development, co-ordination and exten- sion of the park and playground system of the National Capital, with reference in particular to recent and proposed legislation and changes necessary to promote the proper and adequate growth of the park and playground system in both Washington and ade jacent States. Maps and diagrams il- lustrating past progress and future plans will be displayed and explained by Mr. Eliot. [CLAPPER IS ELECTED TO GRIDIRON CLUB Manager of Washington Bureau of United Press an Way to London Conference, Raymond Clapper. head of the Wash-: ington Bureau of the United Press Ase sociation, was elected a member of the Gridiron Club at the January meeting of the club in the Willard Hotel last night. Mr. Clapper is on board the steamer George Washington on his way to rep- resent his press association at the Lon- don naval limitation conference. He was notified last night of his election by radio. The new member has_been engaged in newspaper work in Washington for many years. POST TO GIVE BALL. Victory Legionnaires Set Date fop February 3. 3 Plans have been made by Vietory Post, No. American Legion, to hold’ the first annual ball of the organiza- tion the evening of February 3, at the: Willard Hotel. A commitiee of .the’ post met last night®o discuss the cele- bration, which is to be sponsored also by the Victory Post Auxlmry and the day off duty, and that as a result just as much work would be accomplished the plan as employed by Henry Ford as under the presents five-and-a-half- day schedule. post’s drum and bugle E "The ‘committee Intends to. fivite sev= eral Government officials, as well ag members of the diplomatic corps. 18