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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-15

%HE Ambassador Of Germany and
Frau Won Prittwit5 und Gaffron
and their young daughter have
left for Hot Springs, Va, where
the latter two will spend several
weeks The Ambassador is expected to
return next week.
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Mrs. Frank Morrison will be hoste:
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Washington Motor Coach Depot
aA21 Psnnsytvanle Ave-, D. w.
PhomN AaekrepoiltaH S31a-s31S
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Mrs. z. A. Hartman is sailing June
~ for few weeks in France with Miss
Louise Zabriskie of New York. Mr.. Har-
rinan will join her later, returning in
September.
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duct of the Governments affairs be-
came the subject of general criticism
and attack.
That was the old way. The adoption
Of the budget system changed all that,
although the change was gradual IN
deed, the change is still going on, but in
the main 1t has been accomplished.
The old ways of laxness, inefficiency
and wastefulness are gone.
OF course, there Is still waste in Gov
eminent spendings. There always will
be. There is waste in every business,
public or private. The Budget Bureau
has corps of workers who earn many
times their modest salaries by uncover
ing waste in the executive departments
and correcting it and by devising new
and more ef1cient ways of accomplish
ing tasks.
But waste on a wholesale scale no
longer exists. It exists, where 1t exists
at all, in isolated and retail instances
and these holes are being plugged The
big holes were plugged during the early
days of the budget; year after year it
becomes bit more difficult to find new
holes to plug, a bit harder to save more
money
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AS TOLD TO WILLIAM p. HELM, JR.

AS director of the Bureau OF the
United states Budget, or, to put 1t an
other way, as the Presidents chief OF
finance. I had charge. under his direc--
ton, of the preparation of the annual
estimates of Government spendings and
of the supervision of expenditures total
ing more than $4,000, 100000.
For many years, the last seven OF
which l spent as director of the
budget, 1 have been a Government en-
ploye. It has been my good fortune 10
hold intimate contact with the great,
going business we call the Government
of the United States.
AS I look back over this period OF
service with its thousands of contacts
and incidents, one clear, outstanding
conviction is indelibly in my mind-the
United States Government Is the best
managed big business in the world.
It's mammoth expenditures of from
S., 500 10000 to $4,000,000000 a year
are wisely administered. The Govern
ment gets virtually 100 cents worth Of
value for every dollar that goes out
of the Treasury. Its ha1f-million and
more civilian employees are efficient,
alert, loyal and devoted to their work.
The proportion of instances where this
Is not true Is negligible.
My personal contacts while I was
director Of the budget were largely
with heads of departments, boards COM
missions and bureaus charged with
carrying on the vast and complicated
work of the Federal Government. 1t
has all passed in review before the
Budget Bureau many timees. For all
agencies entrusted with the Govern
ment's far-flung enterprises and inter-
ests must come alike to the Public
Treasury for sustenance, and the way
to the Treasury for the last seven years
and more lay through the Budget
Bureau.
Hence, the Budget Bureau has come
to acquire knowledge of the workings
of the Government no other agency
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-08

possibly could have. The whole sweep
ing panorama has stretched before us
periodically; we have not only seen it
in its entirety, but we have looked
closely at It's details, the high lights
and shadows that go to make up the
picture. Indeed, there is no detail
whatever of the Federal Governments
business with which the Budget Bu-
reau has not become intimately familiar.
The All-Seeing Budget Bureau.
And whether those details concern
an engineering problem in Alaska, intri-
cate plans of flood control, the hire of
an additional clerk in Shanghai, en-
craving of money or the reduction of
taxes, 1t Is the Budget Bureaus bust
ness to study and know them.
The Budget Bureau knows. Not only
from the 10 men who constitute the
Presidents cabinet and the larger group
who head the independent Offices of
the Government, but It knows from the
rank and file from the clerks in the
Federal Offices. the messengers, the char
For a long time 1t was my custom TO
devote part of each day to strolling, I'M
announced, into Government depart
ment-often as not through side en-
those with whom would not come in
contact otherwise. So have heard the
complaints alike of cabinet officials and
the humbleSt clerks, have seen their
common pride in what they were doing
and witnessed their efforts to do it we'll
Out of that long and intimate con-
tact there has grown upon me the reali-
cation that there is no body of workers
with quite the esprit de corps, the pride
of service and the loyalty of the Fed
eral employees. Here and there in the
mammoth chorus one finds discordant
note-in what private business with half
a million workers will one not find an
occasional shirker? But taking them all
in all the employees of the Federal Gov
eminent are far above par, and I'll
match them for efficiency. loyalty. brains
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-08
The Old and the New.


, wholly to the adoption of the budget
system of Government finance. Con-
slider, for a moment, the old way and
the new.
Under the old system the annual ap-
preparations for carrying on the Govern
ment's work were made without either
knowledge or thought of what the
Treasury would be able to provide in
funds. Each department head once a
year made an estimate of his require
ments for the coming fiscal year and
sent 1t to the Treasury The Treasury
had no authority to change these esti-
mates in any way. It merely collected
them, had them printed and bound and
sent them on as they were to Congress
No department, board or commission
considered the needs or work of any
other branch of the Government. Each
was a self-contained unit, going ahead
with its own plans. And 1t was only hui
man nature for each executive to con-
slider the work of his own department
board or bureau as of greater impor-
lance than any other work in the Fed
eral establishment. It was only human
nature for him to desire and labor to ex-
pand his activities as field after field
opened alluringly before him.
Congress struggled with the estimates
cut them, changed them and appro-
priated in greater or less degree as the
arguments and influence of the various
department and board heads prevailed
After appropriating the money Congress
left it to each branch of the Govern
ment to spend the funds wisely and
well.
Became Subject Of Attack.
No thought of the cloth from which
the garment was to be cut, no careful
measurement Of, the funds the Treas
ury would provide for the payment of
all these various bills, no follow through
on their expenditure to insure the
spending Of the money either efficiently
or economically-small wonder It was
that laxness, ineff1ciency and waste
crept in; that the Government, being
everybody's business; or that the con-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-08
Spending a Billion Dollars
HERBERT M. LORDS OWN STORY
OF His Work as Director of

Work Director of United States Budget.
series
than$ Government funds
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and stamina against any other group,
large or small, under the sun.
We have witnessed revolution in
Government management the past eight
years. Waste has been eliminated large
ly, efficiency has been enhanced greatly,
economy has been the watchWord. The
old way has passed. The new way in
sures the taxpayers full return on all
they place in the public Treasury. The
spendthrift and the profligate no longer
find even a niche in the Government
service Their day is done
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-08

OOK OUT! There is danger
ahead on the hot roads this
hot weather for tires whose weak
ened condition may cause heat
prostration. Figures show that
more weak tires 60 out of service
during the month of July than any
other month Of the year.
Here's real cooperation for you!
just at the time when you need tires
most and when you appreciate
real liberal tire offer we announce
to local motorists a ''once-a.year''
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-17

LONG ISLAND CITY, N. Y, No
vember 16.-Early Winter fogs and
freezing temperatures at attitudes of
1000 feet or more are a combination
of circumstances conducive to the for
nation of ice on the wings of airplaneS.
Henry Boynton, head of the aviation
division of an aviation accessories firm
stated upon surveying the report of
Jack WebSter's recent forced landing
between Bellefonte and Kylertown, Pa.
Webster, National Air Transport
pilot, left Bellefonte at 2:05 am, on
his mail route from Cleveland to New
York. "Hell's Stretch" 30-mile strip
over the Allegheny range, lay ahead
of him. Immediately after taking of
ne ran into rain and sleet accompanied
by low temperature.
Ice Forced Ship Down.
1.-THE wings of my ship quickly COW
ered with a heavy coating of ice and /
was unable to see the plane in the
air." Webster said. THE heavy load
forced me down Fortunately, the speed
OF the plane was reduced When 1
struck, 1t was in dense brush that broke
the fall"
Such a forced landing is character
istic, Boynton said. The ice forms on
the leading edge of the wing and cIeeps
back over the entire surface. The aero
dynamic efficiency of the plane is re-
duced to such a point that the ship
becomes a flying motor which settles
slowly as the forces of gravity slowly
neutralize and overcome the lift OF the
wing surfaces
A similar instance of the dangers
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-17
TWO SITES SOUGHT
FOR GLIDER FLIGHTS
District Air Legion Unit Plans
Camps for Weekly Train
ing Meets.

Search for two sites, one for primary
gliding practice and the other for soar
ing flights in gliders is being made by
the District Air Legion Glider Unit, with
view to establishment of camps for
weekly glider training meets, it is an
nounced by Alva Sole, president of the
legion
The first site, for short glides only, is
sought near the city and will be confined
to qualification of members TO the legion
for the more difficult soaring flights to
be made later. Farther away from the
city, at a place where the necessary
heights and currents of wind may be
obtained, the legion expects to train
members in gliding flights.
Search for the two sites is being MADE
by T. ]. Waggy and John Shaw OF
the legion glider committee.
President Sole recently reelected by
the legion. today announces the follow
ing committee chairman appointments:
Bylaws. Robert D. Burbank; pub
licity. John A. Shaw; membership, t.
j. Waggy; entertainment, M. G. Dooley;
grievance, j. Elmer Kreis ways and
means, H. S. Kempf; audit, C. K. Glad
hill. John A. Shaw will continue as
editor of the legion monthly paper, the
Legion Take-Off.
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SHOW GLIDER FLOWN
BY MISS EARHART
Baltimore Event to Feature Big
Exhibit of Motorless
Planes.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star
BALTIMORE. November 16.-The
glider named after Miss Amelia Earhart,
transatlantic flyer, and flown by her
lasS Fail, has been purchased from
Gliders, Inc. and will be exhibited at
the Baltimore Aircraft Show December
Q to II. according to Ray Krimm, man.
ager OF the exposition.
1t will be on exhibition undoubtedly
as the central attraction In small
covey of these aerial vehicles. The
Orion concern alone may send a half
dozen
Krimm explained that practically
every aircraft show in other cities has
boasted a glider exhibit, which in some
cases has resulted in sales to visitors.
Krimm said:
Although Baltimore doesn't have a
glider club or any one who seems
directly interested in their develop
ment, believe this latest arranged part
of the show will prove major incentive
to attendance.
We are going to have little movie
house at the show where films OF gliders
in fight will be unreeled. This will
give visitors a good idea of just what
these engineless birds are capable Of
doing"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-17
FREEZING FOGS TMPERH
FLYERS DURING WINTER
So Far Have Failed to Elm
mate Menace of Ice Forming
on Wings.

OF ice has been recorded of two Army
officers who took off from Langley
Field, Va, in weather just cold and
humid enough to warn them that ice
might form.
One pilot took of and reached an al
titude of 400 feet before he reached
cloud formations Within few sec
ondS the plane began to settle. He
opened the throttle but still lost alti-
tude. Looking at the wings he saw a
thin coat of ice which continued to get
thicker. He turned back and barely
reached the field. Three minutes later
the other pilot landed with the wings
heavily coated.
Preventive is Sought.
Tests made by the national advisory
committee on aeronautics indicate that
no artificial method of precluding ice
formations has been discovered. Chemi-
cal compounds, wing warming devices
and solutions are impractical and use
less, they reported. The only manner of
avoiding ice lies in the ice warning in
dicator, a sensitive thermometer which
gives the air temperature soon enough
to enable flying the plane into warmer
strata of air.
Inasmuch as ice will form only at
temperatures slightly below 80 degrees
Fahrenheit, where the surface tension
OF icy drops may be broken and pass
into the solid state, pilot may avoid
the possibility of being forced down.
Boynton added Air closer to the ground
is usually warmer and will serve to
preclude any accumulationS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-17
10000 Airplanes Year Annual Rate
Of Production In 10 Years, Says Expert

last year the peak of 4.24O,5sO cars was
reached.
while aircraft manufacturers just
now are selling performance rather than
thrills and while the sales appeal is
made mostly to commercial houses and
to transportation companies, the plane
for individual use is more and more
coming into its own. and the time is
not far distant when aircraft taxi fleets.
connecting outlying airports with the
heart of the metropolitan business dis
tricts. will be operated like the bus and
taxicab companies of today
"A few inventions and Improvements
and aviation, it should be remem-
bered, has a strong ally in radio-will
have to come before private ownership
warrants mass production. But as soon
as the human equation is eliminated
and airplanes are made foolproof and
we have the vertical lift, which will
permit landing on the tops of skyscrap-
erS or on platforms over railroad termi-
mails, the public will become air minded
and the airplane will be as ubiquitous as
the automobile.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-17

aye anu IlGIICOpCSL IuOuC1osia
of fight and the history Of aviation Will
be undertaken.
Accumulates Vocabulary.
In his report on the club to Mr.. Will
klnson, r. I. Vaughn, head of the de-
oartment of applied science of the school
system, stated:
by building both the scientific and
scale models the boy accumulates a vo-
cabulary of aviation terms which per-
mits him to greater appreciate litera-
ture, lectures and exhibitions OF matters
relative to aviation in general. He must
know the elementary principles Of the
theory of fight in order to make his
heavier than air machine stay in the
air. In the construction of scale models,
both fiyirT and n-flying, he develops
an appreciation of the proportions OF
the different parts of a plane. He Is
inspired to design a ship of his own
and finally may reach the decision to
specialize in some branch of aviation"
The instructors for the club are
George A. Fergu on of Armstrong High
| School and Charles Baltimore of the
Shaw Junior High School. Club men,
bers are limited to not more than six
boys from each of the junior and senior
high schools.
| The club will meet at the Armstrong
High School. During the month of
/ May an exhibit of the models con-
structed by members and a contest for
the planes will be held.
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PLANES TO CARRY 200
SLEEPERS PREDICTED
Aerial Taxi Service From City
to Airport Is
Visualized.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, November 16.-Air
liners capable of carrying 200 persons
with all the comforts and conveniences
of the modern railroad car are forecast
by Ralph S. Westing, World War flyer.
Speaking at luncheon of the Bal
timore Association of Commerce, West
ing propheSied that in the next to
20 years it would be possible to go to a
platform some 600 feet square, and,
located either at railway terminal or
at dock in Baltimore, there take a
taxiplane and fly to a large landing
field beyond the city limits.
At the field the traveller would board
an air liner. go to bed in a comfortable
berth, and be awakened from 10 to II
hours later in Kansas City. He would
not know when the plane left the
ground or when 1t landed at his desti-
nation, but would be awakened by the
porter.
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DETROIT Especially An annual pro-
duction of 10000 airplanes within 10
years, 100000 within 20 years and, per-
haps, 5000, 900 within 80 years.
Such was the optimistic prediction of
Edward A. Stinson, one of the Wright
brothers first proteges, successive stages
of whose adventurous career have car
ried him from transformer and frog
hopper" to a trainer of World War aces
and head of a big plane concern.
Those who have followed the prog
ross of aviation" said Mr.. Stinson
hardly have to be shown the analogy
between the airplane and the automo-
bile.
I'm 1900, when a ride in a 'horseless
carriage was as great an adventure as
is an airplane trip today, automobile
production-4,192-wa approximately
that Of last years airplane production.
I'm 1901 the number of cars turned
out had jumped to 1000, and by 1910
10000 passenger cars we're manufac-
tured. From this figure, production
leaped by 1920 to nearly 5000, 900. while
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-17
BALTIMORE AIRPORT
TO RECEIVE WEATHER
Building for Housing New Depart
ment Is Being Planned
by Leaders.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, November 16.-Plans
for construction of a new building at
the Municipal Airport for the housing
of a complete weather bureau now are
being formulated.
Negotiations are under way for the
building, which will house a depart
ment maintained under supervision of
Weather Bureau sSnerts from the De-
partment of Commerce at Washington.
There also will be Office space for the
field representative of Pitcairn Aviation.
Inc, which handles air mail on the
Baltimore circuit.
A new steel hangar is to be erected
for the accommodation of planes
forced down because of weather condi-
tons or whose pilots come to this city
for brief stays. A section Of the new
building will be outf1tted with sleeping
quarters, and an ample supply Of food
stuffs will be kept on hand.
The Weather Bureau will operate in
dependently of the bureau maintained
here by the Federal Government, and
will supply information concerning fly
ing conditions to the mail pilots and
other pilots who stop at the field.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-17
SEA HOP PLANNED
BY MEXICAN ACE
Col. Roberto Fierro'S Flight
Is Scheduled for Next
March or April.
BY TED EDIGER.

MEXICO CITY, November 16.-Sinct
Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh'S gooc
will flight to Mexico in December, 1927
aviation has been booming in this re-
public. There have been nonstop
flights, goodwill flights. exploration
flights and commercial flights.
The first transatlantic flight to be
made by a Mexican, however, Is sched-
uled for March or April, 1880, when
Col Roberto Fierro, Mexican military
ace, will attempt to negotiate the dis
lance.
Colonel Fierro is now considering two
routes for his trip. One will take him
across Canada and to Iceland. from
where he will hop to England, and the
other will take him south to Brazil
Africa, and then to Europe.
The principal stopping points on the
first route would be Washington, New
York, probably several cities in Canada,
Newfoundland, Greenland, Icel d.
England, France, Germany, Spain and
probably other countries in Europe.
Seeks Government Authority.
The second route would also take the
famous Mexican flyer to Washington
and New York, but from New York
instead of flying to Canada he would
circle southwark to Havana, and from
there to Bahia, Brazil. From Brazil
he would fly to several European coun-
tries. 4
Fierro is seeking Government author
ity to make his flight official. The
Government has already promised to
cooperate with him in his attempt
and together with several large aviation
organizations here will undertake to
raise the necessary funds for the flight.
Ill DC nf a wranGt
famous of many outstanding Mexican
flyers. He first attracted international
attention in 1928 when he made nom
stop flight to Havana, Cuba. Recently
he took second place in the Mexico
City to Kansas City air derby won by
Col. Arthur C.. Goebel.
Coincident with the announcement
of Fierro's projected flight, the an
nouncement was made here that an
other prominent Mexican pilot, Miguel
Colorado, of the National Aerial Force,
will undertake an ambitious trip.
Plans to Start In November.
Colorado plans to start his trip late
in November. He will circle around
Mexico in nonstop hops, and then will
fly to Denver, Colo.
His prospective itinerary includes
hops to the following places: From
Mexical, Lower California, to Merida.
Yucatan, in the opposite corner of the
republic; Merida to Tapachula, Chiapas.
on the Guatemala border; Tapachula
to Matamoros, Tamaulipas, opposite
Brownsville, Texas; MatamoroS to
Mexicali, passing over Monterrey, Chi
huahua and Nogales; Mexicali to Den
YER: Denver to Mexico City.
The first Of Mexico's flyers who drew
wide attention was Emilio Carranza,
who after his good will flight to the
United States was killed July IS, 1928,
at Mount Holyoke, N. j., on the return
trip.
Recently Col. Roberto Sidar made a
good will flight to South America
Sidar returned to Mexico City several
days ago and was accorded a tremen-
dous ovation.
Colorado plans to make bis flight
with the same plane that Fierro used
on his nonstop Cuban hop, the Mex
lean made Lower California No. g."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-17
AIR FUND SOUGHT.
Scholarships for Men and Women
Proposed.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, November ia pro-
posal that the city provide a number
of scholarships at local aviation schools
has been put before Mayor william F.
Broening by Councilman James j..
OMeara, who is known as the father
of the Baltimore Airport"
Mr. O'Meara, discussing his sugges.
ton, pointed out that the municipal
government has committed itself 20
facilitating aviation by providing an
airport and added that the city should
90 step further to encourage young
men, and possibly young wd pen as well,
TO taSe up aeronautics as q life work.