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United States traffic conditions in the big cities, such as-they are today and with bigger snarls expected when more and more of the new cars come rolling from the production lines, is one of the Nation’s big headaches. There are 31,000,000 cars already on the roads and the total is expected to climb to 51,000,000. In Washing ton the traffic count last month was 12.2 per cent above December, 1945, according to a report by Traffic Director George Keneipp to the Commissioners’ Traffic Advisory Board. This is a view of traffic on lower Fourteenth street looking toward the High way Bridge. I . Breaking Up Our Traffic Jams By J. A. O'Leary, Jr. WASHINGTON, with more automobiles on its streets per capita than any city in the world, presents a gluey traffic problem every day, when 230,000 Government workers converge on the downtown section in the morning and swarm home ward at 5:30 each evening. The best that city officials have been able* to do is designate certain street as “one way” at rush hours and put extra policemen on duty when the traffic is thickest. Stag gered working hours for Govern ment employes might help, but city officials have no control over that. Hush hour is still a fearsome thing ia overpopulated Washington. There has been much talk and little do about the parking prob lem. Shoppers find plenty of room in private lots, but workers who are due at their offices at least by 9:30 a.m. must leave their cars at home and pack the buses and streetcars because parking lots do not want all-day customers. Partial decen- j tralization of shopping facilities has not made F street any less con gested. Taxicabs have been a local prob lem, with the cabbies themselves anxious for a limitation on the number of hackers’ licenses issued. Bans against cruising on some downtown streets have been of some help. To keep reckless drivers off the streets Traffic Director George E. Keneipp last August reacted to a wave of tragic accidents by waging a vigorous campaign against traffic violators through the Police De partment and the courts. Fines and penalties were made doubly severe. Washington has its work cut out plainly. The following Associated Press story tells what problems other United States cities face be cause a man named Henry Ford sat down to mass-produce the au tomobile. So you're caught in the cacophony of a city traffic jam, your nerves Jangled and raw' from the 5-rnile an-hour pace with'nary an open space in sight, and you mutter Irritably: “If it's this bad now, how will it be when new cars and trucks get into full production again?’’ The answer to one of America’s toughest municipal problems lies in the current race between the men who make the cars and the men who make room for the cars on the Nation's downtown streets. New York City merchants, ac cording to estimates, lose more than $1,000,000 a day because of the ag onizing bottleneck on the streets. Boston places its annual loss at $40, 000,000. Practically every city or town of size in the country is strug gling with the headache. To fight hardening of the traffic arteries more and more cities de mand that new buildings provide off-the-street parking and truck unloading facilities. Demonstrating an advance stage of this trend is a drive-in bank in Los Angeles. The bank has a two lane road running through its street level. The motorist pulls up and a counter, stocked with pen, blotter and deposit slips, slides out to win dow level and back again with the deposit. In Akron, Ohio, a depart ment store plans to turn two of its floors into parking areas and in the future customers practically will drive up to the counters. More Elevated Streets Are on the Program In downtown America you can expect to see more elevated or de pressed expressways and limited-ac :ess highways. Also, the dream roads —three-level highways, one for pedestrians, one for cars and one for public transit vehicles—are no longer so remote. But until such things come to pass authorities are agreed that tire first problem is to clear the con gested areas of parked cars, the worst clot in urban circulatory sys tems. The situation, as sized up by Walter Blucher, executive director of the American Society of Plan ning Officials, is this: I can’t name an important city in America which has adequate parking space in the downtown dis trict to take care of the traffic gen erated on our existing highways. "Although every important city is ready to admit that parking is one of the No, 1 unsolved problems, we are now proposing in most of cur cities to build a number of freeways and superhighways which Will generate additional traffic. How we are going to take care of those additional parkers I don’t know.” Mr. Bludher said, “I think one solution fs improvement of mass transportation facilities. That isn’t going to be easy. Another is a re quirement that all buildings which generate parking provide parking space. t We Must Rebuild Central Areas of Our Cities "Probably the major . solution is the rebuilding of the centers of our cities so they again are desirable places in which to live. That would make it possible for people again to walk to work or to take a short ride on mass transportation.” Traffic Engineer Robert A. Mitch ell sold Philadelphia on the need for banning parking during rush hours in a 100-square block area. As a result, over-all vehicular traffic in creased almost 50 per cent, street car movement was stepped up 20 per cent and accidents in the area fell 5 per cent, while they increased city-wide by 29 per cent. Downtown parking also was banned in whole or part last year by New' York, Los Angeles, Dallas, Tex.: Jacksonville, Fla., and other cities. The New York Police De partment says its ban was effec tive because of the stiffness of the fines. They range from $15 to $40, depending on the number of of fenses. Such restrictions are motivated by the principle that it's more im portant to move people than to move vehicles. Mitchell pointed out that 88 per cent of all midcity shop pers in Philadelphia came to the area by some form of mass trans portation. Riders in Private Cars Monopolize Street Space And yet the minority who came by private auto took up the most room. Studies show that the average: peacetime load of an auto is 1.7 per sons. On this basis, 29 autos, enough to fill up a city block, are needed to carry 50 seated persons. One public transit vehicle, public tran sit groups happily emphasize, can carry that many passengers. This might lead to the conclusion that the best solution is to prevent all private autos from entering the congested , areas. But men like Mitchell, Henry K. Evans, director of traffic engineering of the Na tional Conservation Bureau; D. Grant Mickle, traffic engineer of the Automotive Safety Foundation, and Nathan Cherniak, economist I for the Port of New York Authority, agree that would be disastrous .to business. The answer, they say, is more parking space off the street. But encouraging more private parking lots in the key areas is difficult. Rentals usually are high. Parking lot operators say the cost would be prohibitive. Yet parking areas are needed in the downtown areas. Mr. Blucher said long-time park ers—people who work in the busi ness section—should leave their cars on the edges of that section. That would make room for the short time parkers—people who drive in to shop or see a dentist or doctor. But. he suggested, the short timer should be under indirect pres sure to stay no longer than neces sary. That could be accomplished through parking charges ranging upward from 15 cents for the first hour to 85 cents for three hours. Washington’s Own Parking Problem A survey by the American Auto mobile Association here in Wash ington showed that the average motorist cruised more than eight blocks to find a parking space. And he was awfully fussy about where he parked. Another AAA survey showed that if the motorist had- to pay 50 cents or more for parking he wanted it not more than a block from his destination. For free parking, he’d be willing to walk eight blocks. The current trend of thought is that parking is a municipal respon sibility. Mr. Blucher favors the proce dure followed in Kalamazoo, Mich. The city purchased a strip of prop erty, turned it into a shoppers’ park ing lot and billed the beneficiaries— businesses in the neighborhood— for the cost. Mr. Cherniak indicated a growing movement for legislation requiring new buildings to provide their own parking and unloading facilities rather than dump the burden on city streets. Los Angeles adopted a zoning ordnance requiring ov/ners of new buildings to provide a minimum amount of space for parking and unloading away from the street. To a lesser degree, at least 12 other cities passed laws of this type. They include Cleveland, New York, Kansas City, Chicago, Detroit. Washington and Richmond, Va. This should be good news to the man in the crowded street. Women Voters Open School To Study National Economy By Louise Engel Economists of America, arise! You have nothing to lose but those veils of mys tery that set you apart from your fellow men . . . and women. But no more, the women! For this we«k in Washington, at the Stat ler Hotel, the fair sex sets forth to publicly dismantle your hitherto awesome figures, and to mirror you, fore and aft, at the Sixth Annual One-Day School of the Voteless D. C. League of Women Voters. . “You and Your Dollars” is the forthright over-all topic that is bringing together for this all-day session 1,000 of that organization's members and friends, including a sizable showing of men. But when they have finished discussing the Implications with eight nationally known economists, the women will have traced the housewife’s dollar into such elusive backdrops on the economic stage as wages, prices, profits, agriculture, foreign trade, fiscal policies, social security and consumer and producer relations. This all-day battle of dollar scholars will be opening maneuvers of a campaign by the League of Women Voters to show thousands more of their sisters . . . and broth ers ... in simple English, how the wheels of economy go ’round. Private Industry And Government Enterprise The Wednesday ‘'school” will open promptly at 10:45 a.m. in the Stat ler’s main ballroom, with Mrs. Rob ert F. Leonard, president of the local league, presiding. Discussions will center quickly on money prob lems that plague everybody in that audience, from the Maryland and Virginia farmers’ wives, to the wives of white-collar workers and officials who struggle with Uncle Sam’s budget. On such questions as “What part should Government play in these problems; what part private enterprise?” the assembled voters director of research and statistics at the Federal Reserve Board. Classes Will Be Held Throughout Country Miss Anna. Lord Strauss, national president ot the Women Voters, will open the morning session. She has mapped out study and action pro grams which will fan out through her league's 535 State and local chapters. As studies progress, many league members will lead discussions in hundreds of other audiences, small and large, throughout the country. In private homes, schools, clubs, churches, hotels, department stores and theaters meetings are already being scheduled where housewives . . . and their husbands . -. . can gather with prominent economists and talk out their qualms about booms, busts and budgets. A slide film, “Economics for Everybody,” and a pamphlet, “How the Wheels Go ’Round, An Eco nomic Primer,” are part of the kit Miss Strauss is supplying her local leaders. She previewed the films and reviewed the primer last week with members of her District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia branches, and their applause was genuine. The day may be approaching when the economists’ inflationary bulges will look no more impres sive than their deflationary sags to the American housewife; For the League of Women Voters is out in full force to take those economic books off the library shelves, swish off the dust and perk up “the dismal science” for practical feminine pur poses. Half a million is a modest esti mate of the numbers they expect to reach in their Nation-wide meet ings. “Schools” similar to Wash ington’s have already been an nounced in Cleveland, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Philadelphia and Seattle. Ever since the Women Voters Members of the League of Women Voters examine film to be used in their classes on national economy. They are, from left, Mrs. Adrian W. Dewind of the Alex andria League of Women Voters, Mrs. John Langdon Taylor of the District of Columbia Voteless League (hold ing film), Miss Anna Lord Strauss, president of the Na tional League of Women Voters; Mrs. Robert F. Leonard, president of the District of Columbia League, and Mrs. D. V. Sandifer, first vice president of the Maryland Leaaue. will hear from and later quiz Leon Keyserling, vice chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Ad visers, and Ernst W. Swanson, re search economist for the United States Chamber of Commerce. The afternoon session, to be pre sided over by Mrs. James R. Bourne, the local league’s economic welfare chairman and director of the day’s program, will feature a panel of six economists. They include, as chair man, Mrs. Chase Going Woodhouse, former Representative from Con-1 necticut; also Donald Montgomery, consumer counsel of the United Automobile Workers, CIO; Joseph D. Coppock, economic adviser to the State Department’s Office of Trade Policy; Wilbur J. Cohen, as sistant director of research and sta tistics at the Social Security Ad ministration; Carolyn Ware, chair man of the Consumer Clearing House and Howard University pro fessor, and Ralph Young, assistant Those Were the Happy Days —By Dick Mansfield A / I CARE~-5w(iOO'^“ei j ^ Fo'olr^^Il5^^SE H Basing’ \i / MOT POft TH ¥ I t- / ""if* w*' I /N0 I 1 **“ c^V^'Stam r^Um ~ iq,,:|M «r| ^55f[ ^pr s, ? . A * § l^^^eSwwA^, 4 : llJ^iCAt INSTRUMEMiL ¥jt g !p*, ^e^EARti psi^Wi flmmm ^ tew R^&lm tyfcfr^r‘~^ ■ ^' 9 WHAT DO VOO P_. P^fl I flNSWERTi? tASTWCEXj SSSSD * jfl woi^SocAL W2 Ij And 5UNO l Ol< * QANoOISTS op The NiNGTiff. *>t>U AT NEARAy *exr <*eatcjr: EVe^V OOWN-TOWM OEJPART/We/MT —L . V»HAT FAM005 5W^M6S>C<% Sroqg — (ggAABwQgg ? ■ ■^_^|^gg^Mg6TATj30l2y*eSr1N;^ founded their league. 25 years ago. they have been conducting annual “schools” in one to three-day ses sions. The idea is, in fact, inherited from the “citizenship schools” which their first president, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, conducted through those all-but-forgotten years when she campaigned for the woman suffrage amendment. This is their first intensive cam paign on economic problems. But the Women Voters have since 1934 backed specific tax measures, and in i recent months postwar anti-infla tion legislation. Other measures which they have supported, often effectively, include conservation, housing, higher teachers’ salaries and tax policies designed to promote the country’s economic health. Many Leagues Fought Inflationary Prices Many of their local leagues have rallied their communities to fight inflationary prices. Last fall Wash ington, Maryland and Virginia members pledged thousands of neighbors to hold down purchases of overpriced articles and to pay no more than 60 cents a pound for meats. They took turns, standing two hours each in this area’s shop ping centers, while customers stood in line for the privilegs of signing up. “Of course, most of the signers were women,” sighed one member of that corps. “Nine out of ten women we approached signed, but the men . . . nine out of ten W'aved us away. They laughed off our reminders that it was their money we were trying to save on skyrocketing food bills.” But many of the merchants com mended their drive. In one Arling ton center they insisted on the ladies serving their cause inside their warm shop* on a particularly cold day. “It’s okay by us,” they assured their customers. So the cus tomers, leaning on counters to sign pledges, turned 'thumbs down on! 90-cent steak. The Voteless District of Columbia League is following its one-day school with a “Know Your Con gress” course in four weekly lessons, beginning February 6. More and more women confess they are beginning to see a clear relation between Government's bil lion-dollar headaches and their own struggle to make ends meet. This year, in making their New Year’s resolutions to watch the pennies, they pinned a degree of hop>e on suah innovations as the President's economic report and the joint res olution of the budget. They see the critical need of Mr. and Mrs. Johnj Q. Public thinking through the en tire picture that linki home, town and Federal purse strings to an in terdependent world. And that world, they tell you, sees us, not as the averyday folk we are, but as one Nation, holding the balance between prosperity and depressions, war and peace. • A — me--, szwmmm Looking west along F street N.W., from the intersection of Ninth, about 1884. Note horse dawn streetcar in front of St. Cloud Building at left. Shifting Scenes at 9th and F INTH and F streets N.W. is one of the city's early business centers, and yet many persons recall when there were only a few boarding houses and a limited number of business places anywhere along these two streets. In the" writer’s youthful days, when as a newsboy he sold the Daily Critic, published at 511 Ninth street, he recalls few if any stores on either side of Ninth street between E and F. Of course, the St. Cloud Building was there, and had been there for many years before as the Herndon House, and later as an office build ing. The late Henry E. Davis, describ ing this neighborhood Just prior to the Civil War, wrote: “The west side of Ninth street from E to G was also occupied by dwelling houses as also was the east side of Ninth street from E to F, with the exception first of the Methodist Church, since converted into the Maccabees’ Temple, and the Chronicle office, which Joined it on the south. The northwest corner of Ninth and E streets was occupied by the former home of Joseph Gales, Jr., of the National Intelligencer, consisting of a spacious residence with a large yard and outbuildings, such as stables, a smokehouse and the like, the whole approximately a square lot extending from the pres ent Vatoldi Cafe, formerly the home of. Dr. A. Y. P. Garnett, to the cor ner of E street.” Dr. aamett, Mr. Davis wrote, went South at the start of the Civil War and became surgeon to President Davis of the Southern Confederacy. Shops Started Appearing Late in Century Twenty years and more after the time of which Mr. Davis speaks shops began to appear on Ninth street. In 1881 there was a barber shop at 501, conducted by Parker & Lucas; a stove store at 503, run by W. O. Berry & Co.; Thomas H. Lyons, painter, was at 505; Mrs. H. Zypprecht*. stamping, at 501; the Critic office was still at 611, and here Ringwalt, Hack & Miller, owners of the Critic, did commercial printing besides, and Charles E. Hall had a printing office on one of the upper floors. Sarah E. Thecker did stamping at 513, William Young did shoemaking at 519, while Seaman Johnson had a restaurant at 521 and H. Hinkle kept a jewelry store at 525. At the corner of Ninth and E Frederick Philling sold men’s and women’s furnishings, O. R. Wixom & Co. had a grocery at 504; next door was Simon Heller, dealer in »cy goods; Mary Ragan’s restau t w'as at 508, then came Ver milya's shoe store, Mr. Price fur nishings and Ignatius F. Mudd tai lor. Cyrus Keiser, milk dealer, had his business at 514 and D. P. Hollo way, patent attorney, occupied quar ters upstairs; John Boles, real estate dealer, occupied the adjoining build ing, while S. D. La Fetra had a res taurant at 518. Roger C. Glasscock had his ice cream parlor at 520, Douglass & Bro. sold fancy goods at 524 and hoopskirts and corsets at By John Clagett Proctor 526, Weissenstein’s Jewelry store was at 528, while a number of businesses were conducted in the St. Cloud Building. The Washington Loan & Trust Building now occupies the south west corner of Ninth and F, where it erected the present massive structure in 1890. This highly re garded financial institution was founded August 15, 1889, and at first occupied a building at the comer of Tenth and F streets. Qn the northwest comer of Ninth and F once stood the Model House, a bluish-gray brick building, tfcat housed a hotel and restaurant run by a man named Brewer. In 1860 the proprietors were Kipp & Brewer (Seth W. Kipp and Albert Brewer), and here in 1864 the same firm also kept a market store. Fishing Was Done On F Street in 1810 An unsigned article, written many years ago tells something of the locality of Ninth and E streets as far back as 1810: "Gannon’s Row, the four old two story brick houses located in the ravine on the south side of E street North, near Ninth street West, will be remembered by many of the old citizens. They have long since been demolished. Up to about the year 1810, long boats containing some i six cords of wood, came up the branch during high tide within a few feet of this row, where their owners usually disposed of their load. The water frequently reached the doorsills of these buildings, and on several occasions caused the in mates to vacate the lower rooms. As far up as F street North, during high tide, herring and other flsi. have been caught by gentlemen now living. The four small bricks im mediately around the corner, on Ninth street, standing below the pavement, have, for a number of years, likewise been dignified with the appellation of Gannon’s Row.” The building on the east side of Ninth street between E and P, just north of the Gayety Theater, and now devoted to business purposes, is the old Ninth Street Methodist Protestant Church, the original con gregation of which In 1833, with drew from the Foundry Methodist Church and erected a frame build ing on the west side of Twelfth street between G and H. Two years later they erected the Ninth street build ing, which is substantially the same as it was in 1835, except that the front was remodeled in 1877., When crowded out by business, the congregation moved to Twelfth and M streets and finally, in 1902, | dedicated their present church at ; Rhode Island avenue and First street !n.w. ?f)e Sunday £far g! } r U Wtekly Book Survoy Thf Sunday Star hat arranged with tome at u * § « E * 2 * the leading booksellers o) Washington and Xz;§“"fco:”mO suburban areas to report each week the books z£3«of52“ sshieh tell best at a guide to what Washington S5S?T£*ri« u reading A title must be named by at least z'jQa<jwui C three stores to appear on thie chart Bjg^ObCgJ This rspsrt is tee the wcsh srnllni January IS ssJsOtiutJ —FICTION— I I I I I I i I I i I I I I I '' I I B F’l DAUOHTKH." JOHN P MARQUAND p*i |*l*l*l*l*l*l*l*l*l*l*l I * I * H4 LYDIA BAILEY." 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ERIC SEVaREID 1*1 I I I I 11*11 l*l*l*l I I* ' * FRONTIER ON THE POTOMAC." "I I j i i i i li i i I I I • I • JONATHAN DANIELS1*1 I I 1*1*1 I I 1*1 I . I l*l*'« •8ECR.T MISSIONS’ CART ELLI8 ZACHARIAB I I * I * I 1*1*1 I 4 1*1 I I 1*1 _j !_* THE PLOTTERS JOHN ROY CARLSON I I I 1*1*11 I I 1*1*1 I 1*1*1 I* MARINO MONEY AND KEEFtNO IT [ i j T~I PI i F j PI i i i i I. EDITORS ASSOCIATED BOOK PUBLISHERS 1*1 I [ I I I I I I 1*1*1 I I I I1. Stefansson Compiles Historic Travels To Intrigue Armchair Adventurers GREAT ADVENTURES AND EXPLORATIONS Edited by Vilhjalmur Stefans son, with collaboration of Olive Rathbun Wilcox. (Dial Press; $5.) Reviewed by J. N. HAMILTON. Vilhjalmur Stelansson, himself an explorer of renown, has compiled for the armchair adventurer, in his latest book, over 700 pages of au thentic and historic material rela tive to the explorations of man from the Earliest recorded times to the discoveries in the polar regions by Amundsen, Cook, Shackleton. and others. That years of arduous re search went into the compilation is evident, for wherever possible Mr. New Angles to the One-World Theme NATIONALISM AND INTERNATIONALISM By Don Luigi Sturzo. (Roy Publishers; $3.50.) Reviewed by ZANNE BINGHAM. If you can “get through” the first part of the book, which is really a preface, eulogizing Catholicism, ra tipnalizing church policies and con taining a wordy definition of many “isms,” you wiE find in the latter part an intelligent and thoughtful discussion of world problems. You may not agree with Dr. Sturzo's solutions to these problems, but you will find them interesting. Of American foreign policy, he says we must have a definite plan and then be prepared to back it up. He decries appeasement of the Soviet Union, which he predicts, wUl lead to another war. Dr. Sturzo suggests that intema tionaUsbi is Inevitable, that, in time, we wiE subject national loyalty to internationalism. He presents the question of whether this will come about voluntarily or through coer cion. As to another war. Dr. Sturzo doubts that geographical and politi cal problems wiE bring it about. “The core of the problem,” he says, “is the control of atomic energy.” This, he thinks, wiE be infeasible under present world organization. Public opinion is his answer: Public opinion, directed by Individual pos session of a moraEy social con science. OIL FOR VICTORY, by the edi tors of Look (Whittlesey House). A profusely Ulustrated story of pe troleum in war and peace. THE TRADE OF NATIONS, by Michael A. Heilperin (Knopf). An introduction and guide to interna tional trade and economics; Amer ica as a world business power. k A Full Course In Surgery MOUNTAIN TIME By Bernard De Voto. (Little, Brown & Co.; $2.75.) Reviewed by IRVING F. LASH. A vitamin tablet or two gnd some hot tea may help the timid reader through the operating room se quences of this novel about a young surgeon who gets as far as the threshold of success and then locks himself out. It takes a strong willed person to absorb Mr. Do Voto’s full course in surgery without a stimulant. Cy Kinsman takes his medicine seriously, carrying it proudly from Harvard, through the mud of France in World War I and thence to New York as head resident of a big and busy hospital. He also finds time to give nonprofessional atten tion to Josephine, a singer of du bious talent, who sings for her sup per as well as that of her two-timing husband, Sam. A stunted genius, Little Mac, the hospital’s chief surgeon, has X-ray fingertips and cant be bothered by clinical indications that often con tradicted his diagnosis. This an noys Cy, who .doesn’t read Braille and believes in letting the labora tory assistants help solve a patient’s problems. A run-in with little Mac eases Cy out of the hospital and back to his home town, where he becomes a garage mechanic, and a bootlegger, on the side. He's through with} surgery, except for a couple |f un-1 licensed jobs. To wind up a pretty plot, Josephine; divorces Sam and catches up with Cy, who marries her and then de cides to teach high school physiology. ESSAY ON MARRIAGE, by Anne finch (Rinehart * Co). Domestic problems described la Teas. k ' Stefansson has used the dlarres and | notes of the explorers, editing only | to make them more readable. The book opens with the early | voyages by the peoples of the Medi ' terranean, the Cartheginians, Greeks and others. Then there are the adventurous crossings of the world’s oceans by the Vikings, Por tuguese, Spanish, Dutch and Eng lish. Here are the stories of Vasco da Gama, Balboa, Magellan and too many others to list. 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