Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-28
DEVELOPMENT PLAN
TOPIC AT BANQUET
Speakers in HyattsviIIe Urge
Coordination to Aid
Capital Growth.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

EVANSVILLE, Md, June 2S.-De
velopment of a great metropolitan
area embracing the District of Column
bia and nearby Maryland and Virginia
was a principal topic discussed by
speakers at the annual Midsummer
boosters banquet of the Chamber If
Commerce of Eyattsvile held last
night in the Masonic Hall here. and
attended by about $50.
Dorsey w. Hyde. jr., secretary Of
the Washington Chamber of Com
merce, expressed the belief that no
similar territory in the United States
had the future possessed by this see
1ion. He said that the business men of
Washington are planning big things
and that they are looking to adjacent
Maryland and Virginia to join in put
ting them across He called attention
to the movement now on to obtain an
airport for Washington and assorted
that If it is secured it Will prove a
potent Stimulant to the growth of
Washington and enVirOns. Mr.. Hyde
stated that the people of Washington
wished to enlist the 60 operation of
nearby Maryland ard Virginia in plans
for great National Capital for the
mutual advantage of all three sections.
lie said that Washington had no de-
sire to annex nearby sections, but was
depending upon these territories to CO.
operate with it in the orderly eXpan-
sion of the metropolitan area.
Urge Unified Appeal.
James G. Yaden president of the
Citizens Advisory Council of the Dis
trict of Columbia. also thought the
Capital and vicinity had a great flu
ture, .pDd pointed out that the Dis
trtct, because of its limited area, must
necessarily depend more and more
upon nea;by sections as the years pass
4Or proper development. Mr.. Yaden
thought that the Federal Government
should bear a substantial share of the
cost of this expansion, as in beautify-
ing metropolitan Washington the Cap
1tal of the whole country was being
improved. He urged that the people
of Prince Georges County combine
with those of Montgomery County,
Md, and Arlington County. Va, and
other sections in urging their repre-
sentatives in Congress to see to it that
the Federal Government appropriated
generously to the project.
Mr. Yaden invited Prince Georges
County to join the Interfederation of
Citizens Associations of Montgomery
and Arlington counties and the Dis
1rlct in working out plans for the
proper development of the area.
DR.. II. t. Willis, mayor of Hyatts-
vile and former president of the local
Chamber of Commerce, said that the
local chamber should adopt the slogan.
'On to Washington" and work I'm.
ceasingly for the Identification of ey-
cry foot of territory between this sec
fI~ia nj
concentrate its efforts toward inprov-
ing the property between here and
Baltimore.
Coordination Held Necessary.
Former Mayor irwin Owings. chair
man OF the newly created MARYLAND
National Capital Park and Planning
Commission, said that this BODY had
a big vision of Metropolitan Wash
1ngton, but if its plans that are being
worked out in cooperation with the
National Capital Park and Planning
commission are to be successful there
must be coordination of effort among
the District and contiguous MARYLAND
and Virginia. He said the Maryland
commission was just beginning to
function and, realizing it's great re-
sponsibility, was moving slowly but
none the less surely to put it's plans
for development of greater Washing
ton into operation
Mr.. Owings declared that Hyatts-
Vile has Just begun really to grow in
the past four years. during which the
number of its houses and its popula-
ton has doubled. If the Hyattsville
railroad grade crossing is eliminated
in manner satisfactory to all and
Rhode Island avenue extended from
the District line to Hyattsville there