Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-26
Capper Breakfasts Benefits
to Be Derived From
Cramton Measure.
GREAT FALLS BEAUTY
DECLARED THREATENED
Points Out Congress Specifically
Reserves Power to Control Sites
for Future Needs.

Passage Of the Cramton- Capper park
bill was characterized as "a victory fol
the people over power interests" By
Chairman Capper Of the Senate Dis
trict committee in q radio talk over
the Columbia chain today, in which
he described to q national audience
how the scenic beauties around Wash
tngton will be preserved under the
measure.
In telling his radio audience about
the George Washington Memorial Park
way from Mount Vernon to Great Falls,
which is the main feature Of the bill,
Senator Capper said:
This section of the Potomac has
wonderful potential power possibilities
The power interests wanted 1t. They
have been after it for years. A few
years ago Congress adopted a resolu-
ton prohibiting the Federal Power
Commission from turning over this
power site or any power rights to any
private company.
Industrial Suburb Threatened.
1.-THE construction Of q hydroelectric
power plant at Great Falls and below
the gorge would have done more than
destroy the beauty of the Great Falls
section of the Potomac. It would have
inevitably industrialized this suburb o,
the National Capital and Congress be-
lieved-and the letters and indorse-
ments from all over the country Justify
that belief-that the people Of the
United States desire that the Nationa
Capital be kept free from industrial
plants and surroundings"
Senator Capper pointed out that while
preserving Great Falls for the people
the law just passed at the same tim,
reserves specifically the power Of Con
greSs to control the site in the tnteres,
of the people.
In picturing the proposed parkway
along the Potomac Senator CappeI
said:
This strip Of some 80 or IS miles of
Potomac reaches from the home of
George Washington at Mount Vernon,
through the National Capital that he
founded and which was named after
him, to the old Potomack Canal and
the mill and foundry which he built
at Great Falls.
''The parkway will include the Mount
Vernon Memorial Highway, when con-
structed, and also highway to be built
from Fort Washington to Great Falls
on the Maryland side Of the Potomac. !"
Tells Maryland Plans.
Senator Capper told Of the park plans
in Maryland toward the north OF the
city, as follows:
"A second phase Of the program In
the same measure contemplates the ex-
tension OF Rock Creek Park and the
Anacost1a Park system into Maryland
This affords an opportunity for a con-
tinuous park system with contiguous
areas In Maryland. The hundreds of
thousands of tourists who enjoy Rock
Creek Park are all the testimony need
ed to the public benefits Of such q
park system, and amply justify the ex-
tensions. Furthermore, this extension OF
Rock Creek Park protects the sources
OF ROCK Greek and other streams and
is OF mcalculable advantage to the Dis
trict Of Columbia park system"
The third feature of the bill. Sen
ator Capper said, is the loan of Sl6,-
100000 to the District for development
OF the park and playground system
within the city of Washington, to be
reimbursed without interest at the rate
Of 81 ,000,000 a year.
1T Is my Judgment" the Senator
concluded, that as time goes ON, the
people Of the United States will get
greater personal, individual pleasure
and contentment from this George
Washington Memorial parkway and
park development of the National
Capital act than from any enactment
by the present Congress, although this
Congress Is passing and has passed on
some OF the most important legislation
in years"
Most Beautiful Capital.
Declaring that Washington is on its
way toward becoming the most beauti-
full Capital City in the world, Senator
Capper said visitors from abroad are
entitled to boast of the beauties of
Paris, Vienna, Rome, Berlin and other
capitals, but here at home your
Washington and my Washington has
natural and architectural beauties, some
OF them developed, more of them po-
tential and in the making, that can be
surpassed by few, and which lose
nothing by comparison with the crum-
bling glories of a world that Is older
than ours. Washington is becoming a
magnificent expression Of a young and
vigorous nation"