Evening star., 1929-12-12
PARK BILLS BACKED
BY GARDEN CLUB.
Heads of National Body Are
SquareIy Behind Getty
Beautiful" Plans.

Impetus was given yesterday to the
movement for Identification of the Ma
tional Capital, especially through the
acquisition of new parks, when the
national president and board of d1rec-
tors of the Garden Club of America
came to Washington for their regular
session here, instead of New York, ana
met with the reorganized committee OF
the National Capital of the Garden
Club of America, of which Mrs. Frank
B. NoyeS is chairman.
Several activities of the Government
for development of Washington were
placed before the visiting club women
during the day, but their attention was
especially directed to the need for OBJ
taining park lands. They pledged sup
port informally but energetically to the
Cramton bill, which provides for COM
prehenSive development of parks from
Mount Vernon to Great Falls on the
Potomac and for city park developemnt
within the District.
The park problem was presented by
both Mrs. NoyeS and by Charles w.
Eliot. I'd, city planner of the National
Capital Park and Planning Commits
sion.
The sessions, held for the most part
at the Carlton Hotel were presided
over by Mrs. William A. Lockwood OF
New York, president of the organiza-
ton.
The meetings heralded a period of
new and more concentrated activity on
the part of the National Capital COM
mittee here for Identification of the
city.
New Members Named.
New members of the committee OF
the National Capital group of proml-
nent and outstanding women, were an
nounced by Mrs NoyeS, who also made
public the names of an advisory coun-
Gil of public officials, who advise the
committee from many important tech
nical, artistic and scientific viewpoints.
1t is intended to set up the new COM
mittee here into groups OF four or flVe
each, Mrs. Noyes announced, in order
that each group may work for one OF
the separate phases of city beautlt1ca-
ton.
New members of the committee of
the National Capital as announced by
Mrs. Noyes are: Mrs. Frederick G. Wal
colt, Mrs. Charles D. Walcott, Mrs.
Hamilton Kean, Mrs. Tasker L. Oddie,
Mrs. Gorge H. Moses, Mrs. Jesse Met
calf, Mrs. David A. Reed, Mrs. William
Castle, Mrs. Borden Hartman, Mrs.
Charles L. McNary, Mrs. Arthur H.
Vandenberg, Mrs. George B. Mcclellan
and Mrs. Frederick Brooke.
The honorary chairman of the Com
mittee of the National Capital is Mrs.
Herbert Hoover; Mrs. Noyes is chair
man, and the other members of the
committee which now is being aug
mented, are: Mrs. Fairfax Harrison,
Mrs. William Corcoran Eustis, Mrs.
Cary T. Grayson and Mrs. Robert Low
Bacon.
The advisory council consists of
Charles Moore, chairman of the Com
mission of Fine Arts; Frederic A. Del
ano of the National Capital Park and
Planning Commission; Lieut.. Col. U. S.
Grant, Sd, director of the Office of pub
lie buildings and public parks of the
National Capital; DR.. Frederick v. Co.
Agriculture, acting director of the
national arboretum; DR.. A. F. Woods,
director of scientific work, Department
OF Agriculture; DR.. John G. Merriam,
president of the Carnegie Institution of
Washington; DR.. Vernon Kellogg, per-
msnent secretary of the National Re-
search Council. and James Parmalee.
Weight Of the national organization
was thrown behind its committee here,
and the national president, Mrs. Lock-
wood, bespoke the enthusiastic support
of the Garden Club of America towards
the movement for early consummation
OF plans already well developed.
View Toy City Model.
Plans for the future of Washington
were presented to the club officials in
various ways. The directors first met
in the hotel in the morning They then
went to the Treasury Department where
they viewed the TOY city, model of
the proposed development of the So
called Mall-Pennsylvania avenue tri-
angle. Representing Secretary of the
Treasury Mellon at the Treasury in
showing the directors the model was
David Edward Finley, special assistant
to the secretary.
Going to the motion picture audi
torium of the Department of Agricul-
tlue. the directors viewed the film made
under direction of Secretary Mellon and
David Edward Finley showing develop
ment of Washington. The film vividly
depics the present Federal building pro-
gram, its sntecedents, and the princi-
Piles upon which it now is being pur-
sued. It was first shown at series
of two sessions at the Chamber of Com
merce of the United States, when Presi-
dent Hoover, members Of the Cabinet,
Senate and House spoke, urging further
development of the National Capital
AS guests of Mrs. Noyes the club
officials were taken on tour of the
big building projects under way here,
passing around the Lincoln Memorial,
by the Arlington Memorial Bridge, and
along street where the monumental
of ha L1odaral TsOvarproeY1t