Evening star. [volume], January 11, 1937, Page A-6, Image 6

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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 a 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
8ultan, 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
«f the National Capital hold member
ahip 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
Tard University, Cambridge, Mass.,
landscape 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
It 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.
4 In 1924 the National Capital Park
Commission was set up "to do for the
rest 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
sion. which it has since remained.
The duties of the commission are
aet 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
aet 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
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Valleys and has plan* for Cabin John
and Northwest Branch, as well as
valley* nearby In Virginia, tributary
to the Potomac.
The commission Is the successor to
the old Highway Commission, and
thus has a hand in Improvements to
highways, streets and alleys, as well
as approving land transfers, under re
cent legislation, between various agen
cies 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.
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TWO HOME HYGIENE
CLASSES ANNOUNCED
Miss Caroline £. 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 a.m.
and an afternoon group will meet on
the same day* from 2 to 4 p.m.
Miss Caroline E. Thomson, chapter
home hygiene Instructor, will be In
charge.
MAP TAX FIGHT
Expect Struggle to Restrict
Levies to Those Suggested
by President.
By the Associated Prn».
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
a 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 Capitol Hill there are many
' such ideas. Some want to reduce in
come taxes, some want to raise them,
some want excise taxes removed from
articlea 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 anyth^pg 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
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