Evening star., 1919-03-26
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, George Washington dreamed of a
great national university at the
capital of the nation" he said at
! is such a university that I would see
! established here. Its doors should be
; open to every man or woman who
showed the capacity to take the train
. ing. 1t should be a postgraduate
! university where men desiring to
study and research would be able to
prosecute their studies to the great
est advantage. 1t should also have
an undergraduate course. which
would be for the education of the
youth of the Capital city. The ma
1ional university should be estab-
lshed by the federal government and
financed by it,
Senator France pointed out the
| vast opportunities for research
through the assistance of the gov
! ernment's scientific bureaus now To-
. of standards, the scientific bureaus
of the Department of Agriculture
the Library of Congress, the Army
Medical Museum. the Walter Reed
Hospital and many other govern
mental institutions would be invalu-
able to the national university.
Walter Reed Hospital, Senator France
said. should be made the center of things
medical in the United States. 1t should
he developed into a great research labo-
ton with it would be the Army Medical
Museum.
For Greater Capital City.
The Maryland senator believes firmly
that the government should spend far
MORE than it does at present in the de-
velopment of a great city as the nations
t2hitaI He would have the ept
take over the south side OF Pennsylva-
MIA avenue and part of the porth side,
between the Capitol and the White
House. as site for needed government
buiidings- He said that perhaps the ma
tional university should be located on
this ground. but that if there was not
room the university buildings could be
established further out, but not too far
from the heart of the city and the gov
eminent departments
Il have been told that the entire cost
OF ali the government buildings through
out the country. which includes those in
Washington, would not exceed the $3.50, :
o0o, 600 which was appropriated by Con-
gress during the war for aircraft pro-
ductiop." said Senator France Yet we
hesitate 10 spend $4,000, 900 or $4,000
"9o. mere nothing in these days. to
make Pennsylvania avenue the gree test
and most bea utful in the world. and to
give the government the buildings whicn
II SO much needs for various depart
ments and bureaus,
"Eyentuallyj there will he estab-
lshed two new departments de-
partment of health. growing out of
the public health service in the
Treasury Department, and a depart
ment OF education, growing out of the
bureau of education in the Interior
department These two departments
with the Department of Labor. will be
the largest and most important de-
partments of the government as time
goes on. They will deal with matters
OF the utmost importance to the peo-
pIe-education, health and employ
ment sites for buildings for these
departments VIII be required"
SECS Expansion of District.
In Is connection Senator France
federal district was sufficiently large
to meet the needs of the government
rs they will develop in the future. He
suggested that it was a mistake ever
to- have ceded back to Virginia the
portion of the original area of the
District OF Columbia on the south side
Of the Potomac river. Some day. he
said, the government may be forced
to seek to increase the size of the
federal district.
Senator France said that he believed
much more liberal and generous in it's
expenditures for the development of
the capital city than it is under the
hah-and-half system. The govern
ment should appropriate large sums
forl.the improvement and beautifica-
ion of the capital He called atten-
ton to the condition of many of the
streets and sidewalks in the city to-
day. and declared their condition was
disgrace. Steps. he said. should be
tal1en as soon as possible to correct
this condition.
He said that Congress had been Pc
nurfous with the appropriations for
thes District. 1t was a mistake, he
said for the federal government not
TO nut UP just as much money as the
Disfrict raises in taxes each year for
improvements of the city, under the
ha1f-and-half plan. In the bill max
ingsappropriations for the next fiscal
year, which failed of action at the last
session of Congress. the total sum
falls far short of the estimated re-
ceipts from tax collections plus like
sum from the federal government.
This, he said. was a great mistake.
particularly when many improvements
are needed in the city.