Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-29
Washington Ticker
By the Associated Press.

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BY the Associated Press.
Keeping up with the progress OF civil
aviation in the country for 1880 VIII
cost the Government about $6,250,OOO,
and with July /, when new approprla-
tions become available, there will be an
appreciate speeding up of the Gov
ernment's program. The tremendous
expansion of commercial flying during
1928 increased Unexpectedly the demand
for regulatory activity and extra serV-
ice. with the result that during the
last few weeks of the Government S
fiscal year, which ends on the date
given, the civil aeronautics branch has
been held strictly to routine, less eH-
penditures run above budget allowance.
For 1880 our expenditures VIII go
heavily to the extension OF alrWayS, ana
to the improvement by. additional naVl-
gational aids of airways already plot
ted" said Clarence M. Young, director
of aeronauticS for the Commerce De
partment "Airway extension promises
to be the Governments chief contrlbu-
ton to commercial flying for some
years, in a money way. and the appro-
priation for it during 1880 is S5,4OO ,OOU.
I'VE should end up the year with
5000 miles of standard lighted thor
oughfares for flyers, and experience has
shown that this will entail an annual
expenditure of about SITS per mile by
the Government for maintenance. The
demand for additional mileage is not
abating at all. However, 1t should be
remembered that civil aviation in the
United States is not receiving dollar
of real subsidy, and the policy OF laying
out channels at Government expense
merely carries into the air work what
has been done with rivers and water
ways for ship navigation ever since the
birth of the country.
The balance of aeronautlcal eXpendl-
ture for 1880, amounting to $958,OO0
will cover the cost of inspecting for
safety and enforcing regulations for air
use. Though the sum is smaller than
the airway expenditure, it is in this
field that the greatest OF our burden
comes 1t has been the endeaVor since
the start of the Government regulation
to make our regulation as little OPP
preSsive as little extended as we could
lest by restriction and rigid control we
should hamper the pioneering work
which is still so precious in the field.
Reviving hopes for reparations set
Element between the allied and German
emiSSaries are now being received IN
Washington official quarters with a
good deal of satisfaction. Though this
is one subject that administrative per-
sonnet is unwilling to talk about freely
the cross-section of opinion expressed
has shown singular unanimity for
three weeks in advancing expectation
that the European conferences would
result in an agreement. All the darker
news reports of differences have failed
to shake the expressed confidence.
To describe the view taken by in
formed officials, European political lead
ers and representatives participating
directly or indirectly in trying to fix
sum for the reparations total are re-
garded as forced to demonstrate tc
their national opinion that they have
done the best they could. German
spokesman are committed to paying
nothing that is not inevitable: allied
representatives are equally committed to
foregoing nothing that ever could be
collected.
Northumberland American COM
mercial observers are most emphatic in
echoing this view--the interests of all
Europe are considered to demand an
ultimate and early agreement. Thus
the Washington view clings to the con-
clusion that in spite of all backing and
filling, signatures will go on settle
ment this Summer.
Merely the collecting of the metal
| junk of the United States in 1928 was
billion-dollar business, it is now point
ed out by a Bureau of Mines study
Though the polite term for the trade
is expressed in the official classification
| of the output as secondary metal" the
basic unit in it is the deceptively dis
orderly looking back street junk yarc
of the American small and large city
About 100000 tons of scrap iron anc
| steel head the output, and there are
| 5000 iron yards in the country accu-
| mulating the supplies.
Second is the 100000 tons of scrar
copper recovered annually, while re.
! used lead runs up to $1,000 tons. Zinc
| tin and aluminium complete the list Of
more important products that are sc
| collected. Many plants have extensive
and expensive equipment for the work
| which includes variety of metallur-
| gical treatments as we'll as the sledge
! hammer breaking up of original shapes
and parts.
Wheat acreage figures compiled by
| the Agriculture Department disclose
more output than will add to the hap
| piness Of the American producer, whose
l. price has been so badly hit in recent
days For 81 principal Wheat-producins
countries, surveyed as of May 20, acre.
age planted for 1929 production wa'
| 1873, 100000 These same countries ir
| 1928 planted 1888 766,000 acres. The
| 1923 world wheat crop, which is con-
coded to have been embarrassingly
large, was estimated in the same survey
to have amounted to 1906, 100000 bush
against 3,640 100000 in 1927.