Evening star., 1928-12-27
HAVENNER SPEAKS
ON LUMP P-SUM PLAN
Tells Rhode Island Avenue
Group Federal Share Is
Now 22.5 Per Cent.

/ FalIuTe OF tnS 1851 DlStFlCt DuQSet
! estimates to provide for "one item of
maj jor improvement" for the city, and
the fact that the s9,000,OOO lump sum
| appropriated by the Federal Govern
ment toward Washington's expenses will
form only 22l2 per cent of the budget
for that year. was stressed by DR..
George c. HaVenner, president of the
Federation of Citizens Associations. in
an address before the Rhode Island
Avenue Citizens Association in Sher-
wood Presbyterian Sunday School Hall
last night.
While declining to condemn the small
percentage which the $9,000,000 lump
sum now forms, pending the outcome
of study into the subject now being
made, DR.. Havenner pointedly recalled
that when the sum was first authorized
in 1925 it formed over 80 per cent Of
the city's expenses.
Should Have S1.O00,G00 More.
"On the 1925 basis We should have
almost a million dollars more from the
Federal Government" the federation
president declared.
DR. Havenner expressed frank dis
appointment in the failure of the 1890
budget to provide for the elimination
of the dangerous grade crossing on
Michigan avenue northeast by means
of railroad viaduct. He deplored the
abandonment of plan formulated
several years ago, looking to the yearly
elimination of a grade crossing, the
establishment of needed comfort sta
tions and other major improvements" :"
The speaker quoted figures at length
70 c11 3r1 1 q y
budget had multiplied three times. One
feature brought out by his statistics
was that the citizens leaders have been
working to get the eastern half of the
city paved, and asked Thomas !.
| Llewellyn, member of the Rhode Is
| land avenue group. and chairman of
the highways, parks and waterways
committee of the Federation of Citi-
zens' Associations. to see that those
efforts we're continued during the COM
ing year.
The association gave its Endorsement
to f1ve-year building program for
public libraries in the city as proposed
in bills sponsored by Representative
Gibson and Senator Sackett.
Lights to be Demanded.
Informed that District officials had
refused their request for lights along
Franklin street between Seventeenth
and Twentieth streets northeast. the
association voted to insist that the
lights be installed as that street is the
main thoroughfare to the Langdon
School,
The committee chairmen submitted
their annual reports. that of Francis
w Goodman, membership chairman,
revealing 483 new members had been
admitted during the year, bringing the
ORGANIZATIONS enrolment to 1887.
An auditing committee was elected
and a nominating committee chosen to
select candidates for the annual elec-
ton of officers next month. The nomi-
mating committee consists of Dr. A. E..
Cowles. James May. Mrs. w. E. Perry,
Arthur Sievers and H j. Sherwood.
The auditors are A. L. Peterson, j. F.
McBeth and F. D. Scott.
The following II new members were
elected: E. " Schenck, c. E. Taylor,
Mrs. Agnes B. Taylor, Leslie L. Thalen,
Louis j. Vitiello, Mrs. Thomas l.. Win
grove. j. H. Russell, C. F. Ross. Louis
w. Rollman. j. M. Pierce. A. W. Harper,
James c.. Cue, Marion E. Gilbert, Wells
c. Harrell, DR.. william B. Donehay and
Mrs. Mildred Bennert.