Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-01
FOES OF 100000
PARK ITEM BEATEN
Joseph Drops Fight in Mary.
land Assembly as Final
Vote Is Taken.
BY staff Correspondent of The Star.

by a staff Correspondent of The Star.
ANNAPOLIS. Md. April PRO
vision for parks and Fairgrounds in
the Maryland Washington metropoli-
tan district in Montgomery and Prince
Georges Counties. with pecuniary aid
sured last night, when the last OPP
%nosition to an appropriation of $780,
900 for this purnose was overwhelm-
.ingly voted down in the House of
delegates. Even the opponents went
afpr the measure when they saw that
they could not prevail The amend
ment, which would have killed the
appropriation and which was offered
shy Delegate Daniel c. Joseph of the
fourth legislative district of Baltimore,
was finally withdrawn by him.
With this last opposition having
ben blown down, and to clinch the
appropriation while the House was so
overwhelmingly for it, Delegate James
y. Lindsay. jr., ma ority floor leader
of Towson. Baltimore County, moved
that the House rules be suspended
and the State debt bill, which carried
the provision, be Immediately taken ND
Fon third reading for final passage.
This was done and by a. unanimous
viva voce vote it was approved. The bill
rs the State measure which authorizes
the creation of State debt for GER
tain projects within the State, and
the amendment carrying the Wash.
s1ngton metropolitan district appropria-
etion was added in the Senate by SEN
Eator Walter j. Mitchell of La Plata,
8harleS County. Under the terms of
fthe amendment the money will be-
come available in two equal sums next
syear.
For Park Purchases.
The money is to be expended by the
sproposed Maryland National Capital
Park and Planning Commission for
tine purchase of parks in Montgomery
and Prince Georges Counties i'm
medIately adjacent to the National
sCapital. and in what is to be known
as the metropolitan district.
AS soon as the State debt bill was
placed before the House by Speaker
lee on It's second reading, for amend
NfnentS, Delegate Joseph, following his
announcement, Immediately offered an
amendment to strike out the provision
sIor state money to be used for the
znurcnaSe or parks exclusively in
rince Georges and Montgomery
sCounties.e
IL is unfair to the taxpayers of the
state as a whole. Mr.. Joseph said.
~ charge them with an expense and
sTAise tneIr taxes purely for the pur-
pose OF providing parks in a certain
Georges Counties. The CITY of Ralti-
smore cannot get State aid for the
purpose of providing parks in its
metropolitan districts. he said. and
SInese parks will be purely for the
snenent OF the people in a small por-
ION OF these two counties and for
me District of Columbia.
L lie said that i'm the cry for econo-
my that has been pressed in this
LEGISLATURE, ne did not Sc how the
Legislature could reconcile itself To
Jake this 100000 of State funds
IRON the people who pay the taxes.
sand many of whom will not get any
cement from these parks. The State
BHoulu not be asked nor should Ii
Hccede to demands for an appropria-
uon for this purpose at time when
EFFORTS are being made to cut down
s1penses and reduce the tax rate.
Necessary to Capital.
Burton L. Ford, College Park.
member of the Prince Georges
county delegation in the lower house.
said that this aid was necessary for
the two counties bordering the Dis
frict of Columbia in order that they
might be developed to conform to
the plans for the Identification of
sthe National Capital into one of the
finest in the world. Maryland, he
said. is the logical place for the over
flow to come but Virginia is making
"a great bid for this business and this
development, he said, and was get
ting some of it.
The two counties are so fortu-
nately situated that the growth is
being welcomingIy forced upon it,
and everything was being done to
keep stride with the demands for
improvement of the area into
municipality. The people on the bor-
der of the District of Columbia do
not want the people to go to Vir-
cinia, and they want to make the
great State of Maryland attractive
for them. to improve the area out
side so that visitors to the Nations
Capital viii not bet bad impression
for lack of development
1t is partly State duty to help
spreserve the beauties of the State
which are being slowly wiped out by
the spread of population, and the only
way It can be done promptly to save