Evening Star Newspaper, May 21, 1931, Page 24

B—-8 » PROBE OF HIGHWAY BODY SUGGESTED Maryland Official Former Would Have “Critical Ex- amination” Made. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, Md., May 21—Sugges- tion was made to Gov. Ritchle last night by Howard Bruce and John K. Shaw, former members of the State Roads Commission, that a “critical ex- amination” be made of the commission. This move was an outcome of the recent friction which developed between the State Roads Commission and Mont- gomery County regarding the payment of the county’s debt to the commission accruing since 1924. Bruce Issues Statement. The suggestion was made in a 10-page | statement, issued by Mr. Bruce, in an- swer to the criticisms of the commission | resulting from the Montgomery County affalr. Mr. Shaw concwred in Mr. Bruce's statement, which contained a detalled exposition of how Montgomery was allowed to accumulate a $510,000 debt egainst the roads body. Gov. Ritchie made no definite answer to Mr. Bruce's proposal, saying he would like several days to consider the matter. “Apparently the very thorough statement of Mr. Bruc: clears up the facts of the situation,” he declared. “I would like, however, to have the op- portunity to go further into the subject matter of the statement.” Mr. Bruce and Mr. Shaw retired from office May 12, when they were succeeded by Maj. E. Brooke Lee, Mont- gomery County Democratic leader, and Robert Lacy. They were appointed fol- Jowing the State Roads Commission ears down to and Including the re- :’enj settlement,” he declared, “I fall to find any T'mlndl for the charge of discrimination. The only way any in- Justice could be done would result from an_unreasonable charge for interest.” | Inviting Gov. Ritchie to order an in- vestigation of the commission, Mr. Bruce said: “How far my statement will go toward carrying conviction I do not know. Personally, I would be delighted if a critical examination were maide of the organiation we turned over to our successors. ‘The Governor has as State auditor & man of high standing in the community as a certified public ac- countant; he is fully compstent to re- view our methods, or there would be entalled no very great expense or labor for the Governor to call in a group of two or three public accountants to re- view the system we have set up. Operations Complicated. “The operations of the State Road | Commission are much more compli- cated than the ordinary person realizes, and it is extremely ‘difficult in any brief statement to make clear their op- erations. The only safeguard that I know is to keep the public fully in- formed on all the activities of the com- mission.’ Mr. Bruce explained how the debt of $510,000 had been allowed to accrue in the case of Montgomery County by | saying that when his commission ‘took | over the affairs of the old commission, its accounts were mn such shape that| | current affairs would have had to be| | suspended to arrive at once at exact | figures regarding the debts of the vari- | | ous countles to the State. | DR. HEALY STRESSES | U. S. FOREIGN AFFAIRS| | Assistant Dean at Georgetown ’I‘ells; { Rotaries of New World | Conditions. | Describing the position of the United States in international affairs as one of | increasing prominence. Dr. Thomas H. }Helly. assistant dean of the George- | town University School of Forzign Serv- |ice, yesterday asserted “the time has scandal of 1928 for the expressed Pur- | come when this country must give pose of cleaning up the commission | greater thought to our international, as and transforming it into an efficlent | contrasted with our national, responsi- organization. System Declared Not Perfect. ‘Mr. Bruce stated last night that “the system we have installed is not perfect, but it does represent a businesslike method of administering affairs of this character. It is subject to many im- provements, not only in accounting and financial divisions, but also in the or- ganization of the physical end of the | work. Unless continuous pressure is kept upon the organization to improve its efficiency, I think eventually the entire organization will drop back int> a rut. A realization of this condition is one of the principal reasons why I felt it was necessary for me to resign, as it was physically impossible for me to give to the State’s work the amount | of time which I believed it required.” Reiterating his bellef that Mont- gomery County should be charged in- terest on its recently settled debt, Mr. Bruce suggested that the State Roads Commission arrange to collect interest in the future from counties “on any expenditures in excess of actual ac- cruals in the hands of the State.” He sald it had been impossible until | this year to determine the exact amount of Montgomery County's debt to the ‘commission. Denies Discrimination. Denjal was made in the statement that there had been any discrimination retiring from the commission, Mont- would have been permitted to settle its account as the new com- mission allowed it to do by cash pay- ment and crediting it with its 1931 al- location of State road construction | funds. ‘After examining the Montgomery County transaction over the past six | pities. Dr. Healy was addressing the weekly | | luncheon meeting of the Washington | Rotary Club in the Willard Hotel. | 'In discussing our country’s new posi- | tion, Dr. Healy traced the evolution of | | our foreign policy from the early “mind | cur ‘own business” days down to the | | present, with 400,000 Americans living | | permanently in foreign countries and | with $18,000,000,000 of American money | | invested ‘abroad. He sald the time has come when we must give increasing | thought to our position in the forefront | | of world nations. | JAMES A. HESS SPEAKS James A. Hess, Government scientis | at Pedro Miguel, Canal Zone, on leav: | in Wi , 8] on the develop- ments of the Panama Canal and the | Canal Zone at an essembly of upper | classes at Webb School today. | Mr. Hess spoke of the canal, demon- strating by the use of a large-scale model constructed by sixth grade boys at the Webb School, under the super- | vision of Miss May V. Beller. He has |been in the Canal Zone for 22 years, and Ja & member of many sclentific Subscribe Today It costs only about 1% cents per day and 5 cents Sundays to have Washington's best newspa- per delivered to you regularly levery ‘evening and Sunday morn- ng. Telephcne National 5000 and the delivery will start immedi- ately. The Route Agent will col- lect at the end of each month. O THE LABOR BODYVOTE FORWINEANDBEE Maryland and D. C. 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