Evening Star Newspaper, December 3, 1934, Page 30

B—10 PLAY PLAN TANGLE FAGES LEGAL STEP Officials Scan Five Briefs | bor Seeking Unified Control of D. C. Recreation. This is the second of a aseries of articles on the report of L. H. Weir, expert 0f the National ~Recreation Association, who "has sugoested four Plans for reorganization of the Dis- trict's recreation system. Four plans, each designed to achieve unification of Washington's scattered recreational facilities, advanced by L. H. Weir, consultant to the National Capital Park and Planning Commis- sion, and a fifth plan suggested by Arno B. Cammerer, director of the National Park Service of the Interior Department, leave the average citizen in a quandary. Legislation will be necessary to unscramble the present situation, in the opinion of officials, and give to Washington a unified system. At present, the Playground De- partment of the District government, the Community Center Department of the Board of Education, the National Capital Parks Office—successor to the defunct Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks—and the Welfare and Recreational Association of Public Buildings and Grounds, Inc., each has & hand in the recreational ple. None of Plans Rated Best. To iron out conflicting authority, to achieve unity and give ‘Washing- ton and its environs maximum recrea- tion at minimum cost, Mr. Weir, who is an expert with the National Rec- reational Association, suggested that one of these four plans be adopted: Plan 1—A recreation commission appointed by the District Commis- sioners. Plan 2—A recreation commission appointed directly by the President of the United States. Plan 3—A recreation department under the District Commissioners. Plan 4—A recreation department under National Capital Parks and the Board of Education. Mr. Weir made no official comment on which of the four plans he thought should be adopted here, preferring to leave the choice to the citizens of the District themselves. He urged that a trained executive be placed in charge of recreation and that a strong group of interested citizens be assembled to guide the program. At the open forum, conducted by the Planning Commission, when the Teport was submitted on Tuesday, No- vember 27, Mr. Cammerer suggested that the three major groups con- cerned—the Playground Department of the District, the National Capital Parks and the Community Center De- partment—get together, pool their re- sources and draw up agreements for & unified system, and employ a trained recreation’ expert. Although Mr. Cammerer indicated that legislation for this would not be necessary, in the opinion of other Government officials the pay of the recreation expert alone would neces- sitate new legal working arrange- ments. In the face of conflicting viewpoints, Mr. Weir points out in his report: “In Washington, as in other cities of the country at the present time, the total of all recreation service and facilities falls far below the general public need. This makes it espe- cially important to secure from in- adequate facilities and budget appro- pirations the maximum of recreation service, “‘A major difficulty in the Washing- ton situation is the inability of the sev- eral agencies concerned with public recreation to get this maximum rec- reation service with existing staff and facilities. As area expansion comes in accordance with the present plans| be. for the acquisition and development of a system of recreation areas and facilities for the city and its en- virons, this difficulty will increase. Furthermore, the constant tendency toward expansion of each of the three agencies now active in the city leads inevitably to certain overlappings, duplication of administrative machin- ery and friction.” Difficulties Reviewed. Among the difficulties presented by the existing set-up, Mr. Weir saw these: The necessity of presenting three Beparate recreation budgets. The necessity for maintaining three separate maintenance organizations, three separate office organizations and three separate advisory staffs. The division of the actual recrea- tional leadership and guidance. The fact that the supervisory staffs of the several agencies cannot now be used as a unit wherever their services could most effectively be used. The complicated system of permits and the point that the designing and construction of areas and facilities are being done by three different agencies. Mr. Weir observed: “Obviously the recreation interests and needs of the people of the District might be more effectively met if, in recreation serv- ice, there could be attained through unified leadership, program planning, design, construction and = mainte- nance, the same high degree of unity and efficiency that has been secured through the National Capital Park and Planning Commission in general planning and in the acquisition of areas for recreation.” Mountain Mirage Seen. CHAPTER 1V. NICHOLAS' PROTEST. OR a moment the conversation was interrupted by the return of the waitress. I sat in grim silence while plates chinked and teacups rattled; then, with the sound of retreating footsteps came my male neighbor’s Cockney accents. “Looked a simple enough business THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1934, VICTOR BRIDGES from the plague. By this time, how- ever, I had more or less recovered my sanity. I picked up the odd cop- pers without even a second glance at her, and walking quietly to the door, began to descend the staircase. “Keep him off, Perce,” she gasped. to start with. There wasn't a doubt that the night of the murder Trench had been around at the house. Os- borne must have let him in himself, because the servant was out. “What happened, no one rightly knows, but the next morning Os- borne was found lying on the carpet with his head hammered to a pulp. The safe in which he kept his papers was open and empty. He'd drawn 500 pounds in notes from the bank before, and that was gone, along with the rest.” “What's he like?” inquired the girl. “Trench—I mean. An artist, isn't he—or something of the sort?” “He's a sculptor—did that funny lookin’ statue outside Victoria Sta- tion. Great bizg hefty chap—make two of me. Gosh, he's a lucky devil it ever there was one.” “Why did they let him off?” “Ask me another! I'd have taken my oath he hadn’t an earthly. Why, when they arrested him, there he was with the notes in his pocket. Bunked off down to some little place in Essex and trying to get hold of a yacht 0 as he could slip across to the con- tinent.” “How did he explain that?” “Said he was acting as Osborne’s agent. Pretty thin sort of a yarn, wasn't it?” “Well, the jury must have believed him, anyhow.” “The jury! I tell you they were hypnertized by that fellow Barrett. He didn't half make a fine speech— fairly knocked 'em off their perch. If it wasn't for him, Mr. blooming Trench would be swinging in a rope, and Dpetween ourselves, that's just about where the blighter ought to A sudden unreasoning anger swept through me. Who was this dirty lit- tle skunk, and what right had he to call me a murderer? 1 jumped to my feet, upsetting my teacup in the process, and almost before I real- ized what I was doing I had thrust aside the screen. Two people spun round and two startled faces stared up into mine. One belonged to & weedy-looking youth in a blue suit, the other to an anemic damsel with bare arms and heavily rougad lips. I took a step nearer. “You know a lot about my private affairs, don’t you!” I said. The young man shrank back. His jaw had fallen and he gaped at me in a kind of petrified terror. “It's him!” he whispered. To tell the truth I was already disgusted at my own foolishness. If there was one thing I wished to avoid it was any further public notoriety, and yet here I was, like a complete idiot, thrusting himself ‘into it at the first possible opportunity. tention to that garrulous little worm? Why couldn't I have set tight and finished my tes, instead of making a ridiculous scene, which would doubt- less be discussed and exaggerated all over London? The more I reflected upon it the more fatuous my conduct appeared; ‘Was this incident in any way typi- cal of the sort of atmosphere I must be to face—did it repre- sent the general impression which my trial and acquittal had produced upon the ordinary man in the street? Mr. Cresswell had assured me that public agreement with the verdict would be practically unanimous, but it was quite possible that in expressing this opinion he nad merely been attempting to cheer me up. After all that pasty- faced youth had sat through the case, and there was no reason for suj that he was any more lhlpm malicious than others of his If he had come away in the con- viction that I was guilty, and that escaped being hanged through eloquence of my counsel, what grounds had I for expecting a ble attitude from the ma- fellow men? disquieting question in mind I emerged into the crowded Ludgate Hill. 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