Evening Star Newspaper, January 11, 1937, Page 6

BROADER POWERS URGED FOR BOARD Special Fiscal Committee|: Recommends Planning Commission Change. The proposal in the President's special Fiscal Relations Committee to clothe the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, to be renamed the National Capital Planning Com- mission, with broad powers to aid in determining the fiscal set-up here, throws the spotlight of public atten- tion on that small group, now housed in the Navy Building. Thomas S. Settle, the commission’s secretary. said the proposal of the fiscal group was “as great a surprise to us as to anybody” and declared that he and his colleagues had no hint of what was coming. His group co-op- erated with the President’s committee and supplied it with information, in- cluding & number of maps, a history of the evolution of the Washington park system and other data, Settle asserted. The committee recommends that the commission’s powers be enlarged “to make it the one responsible agency for physical planning and develop- ment of the District”; that it be charged, among other things, “with analyzing proposed capital improve- ments and preparing the estimates of the capital budget” of the District; that its personnel be modified to in- clude representatives of both govern- ments and local citizens qualified in planning and engineering and that it be relieved of any administrative duties. Present Make-Up. As at present constituted, the Na- tional Capital Park and Planning Commission has these ex-officio mem- bers: Chairman King of the Senate District Committee, Chairman Nor- ton of the House District Committee, Maj. Gen. Edward M. Markham, chief of Army Engineers; Col. Dan L Sultan, Engineer Commissioner of the District, and F. A. Silcox, chief of the: Forest Service. The chairman of the group is Frederic A. Delano, who has served in that capacity for many years and is serving as a resident of the Dis- trict. The law requires that a citizen of the National Capital hold member- ship on the body. Other members are J. C. Nichols, prominent real estate developer of Kansas City, Mo.: William A. Delano of New York, outstanding architect, and Prof. Henry V. Hubbard of Har- vard University, Cambridge, Mass., Jandscape architect and city planner. Arno B. Camerer, director of the National Park Service of the Interior Department, is vice chairman and ex- ecutive officer of the commission. John Nolen, jr.. son of the prominent landscape architect of Massachusetts, is the director of planning and Settle s the secretary and legal adviser. Nichols, the two Delanos and Hub- bard are the “four citizens” men- tioned in the law setting up the com- mission. Set Up in 1924. . In 1924 the National Capital Park Commission was set up “to do for the yest of the District of Columbia what ‘Washington and L’Enfant had done In the old city.” The two years after this, when the need of a planning commission had become obvious, the law was amended and the organization ‘came to be known as the National Capital Park and Planning Commis- #ion, which it has since remained. The duties of the commission are set forth by Congress in this lan- guage: “To develop a comprehensive, consistent and co-ordinated plan for the National Capital and its en- virons in the States of Maryland and Virginia, to preserve the flow of water in Rock Creek, to prevent pollution of Rock Creek and the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers, to preserve forests and natural scenery in and about ‘Washington and to provide for the comprehensive, systematic and con- tinuous development of park, parkway and playground systems of the Na- tional Capital and its environs.” The commission is charged with “the duty of preparing, developing and maintaining a comprehensive, consistent and co-ordinated plan for the National Capital and its environs, which plan shall include recommenda- tions to the proper executive authori- ties as to traffic and transportation; plats and subdivisions, highways, parks and parkways: school and li- brary sites, playgrounds, drainage, sewerage and water supply; housing, building and zoning regulations; pub- lic and private buildings, bridges and water fronts, commerce and industry and other proper elements of city and regional planning.” Had Hand in Growth. Pursuant to this the commission has had a hand in the growth of the city over the last 11 years, and under the Capper-Cramton park purchase act has purchased land for parks, playgrounds and recreation centers in the District and co-operated with Maryland and Virginia in various problems. With the Maryland Na- tional Capital Park and Planning Commission it has co-operated in cre- ating parks in Rock Creek and Sligo aHL SSIW L.NOG | THIRD INTERNATIONAL Y EXHIBITION OF - LEICA PHOTOGRAPHSI “?bmulmpkhmdndfiwn- 1 of photographs ever shown. b ‘January 1lth to Sun. Jamuary 17th inclusive. Hours: 1 @. m. to 9 p.m. ) Hlusiraied Leica Lecture nusry Teth at 8 p. m. in the Itallan rden of the Mayflower Hotel. ADMISSION FREE to both Exhibit and Lecture. Valleys and has plans for Cabin John and Northwest Branch, as well as valleys nearby in Virginia, tributary to the Potomac. The commission is the successor to the old Highway Commission, and thus has & hand in improvements to highways, streets and alleys, as well as approving land transfers, under re- cent legislation, between various agen- ies of the Government here. From time to time Congress has given it specific authority, such as over ban- ning a water-power permit at Great Falls and over the Theodore Roose- velt Memorial. TWO HOME HYGIENE Miss Caroline E. Thomson Will Be in Charge of Work, Start- ing Tomorrow. Two new classes in home hygiene and care of the sick will be offered by the District Chapter of the American Red Cross at the chapter house, 1730 E street, it was announced today. Starting tomorrow, a class will meet Tuesday and Thursday at 10:30 am. and an afternoon group will meet on the same days from 2 to 4 p.m. Miss Caroline E. Thomson, chapter home hygiene instructor, will be in charge. CLASSES ANNOUNCED| THE EVENING CONERESSCHEFS 1P TAX FRAT |Expect Struggle to Restrict | Levies to Those Suggested by President. By the Associated Press. Democratic leaders are counting on diplomacy and the crushing weight of administration majorities as they plot ways of restricing the session's tax legislation to the limited field suggest- ed by President Roosevelt, In his budget message the Chief Executive recommended enactment of & law to continue a score or so of “nuisance taxes” on items ranging from chewing gum to refrigerators. ‘The current taxes expire July 31. A bill to carry out this proposal will be drafted by the House Ways and Means Committee, where all tax legislation must originate, but once it reaches the floors of Congress it be- comes fair game for all who have their own ideas. And on Capitel Hill there are many such ideas. Some want to reduce in- STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, come taxes, some want to raise them, some want excise taxes removed from articles produced in the sections they represent and some want taxes im- posed on competitor products. Once a tax bill is out of the Ways and Means Committee, it can be changed by amendment to include almost anythipg pertaining to taxes. Occasionally in the past, such a sit- uation has got out of hand, and com- binations of groups, each seeking some specific change, have succeeded, by voting as a unit, in having their amendments adopted. ‘The Roosevelt leaders at the Capitol have their ears open for word of NEURALGIC PAIN quicket because its liguid .. ALREADY DISSOLVED amendments, and, it is understood, they already have begun an effort to keep amendments to a minimum by private negotiations with amendment authors. 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