Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-17
GOODWILL ENJOYS
LAJD COOPERATION
Richie and Other Speakers
! at Opening of New Road
Exchange Greetings.
BY WILLIAM ]. WHEATLEY,
Stan Correspondent of The Star.


the cooperative activity and the mu
tual spirit Of helpfulnesS to each othel
which has characterized the develop.
nent of n greater Washington by thu
officials of the Federal, District, county
and State governments, officials of these
agencies and civic workers of Washing.
ton and Montgomery County joined
hands across the imaginary dividing
line yesterday afternoon and evening
Tor the purpose OF cementing the ties
that have been made.
New Road Opened.
As an evidence of the results Of these
efforts the celebrantS, first at Sixteenth
street and the District of Columbia
Maryland line, held exercises for the
opening of the east-west highway and
its connection with Sixteenth street
which was pointed to as a result of
the cooperation and coordination be-
tween the people of the District and
those of Maryland.
Later at the Manor Club here the
Montgomery County Civic Federation
was the host to scores of county, State.
Federal and District officials and repre-
sentatives Of civic bodies in the District
OF Columbia at a goodwill dinner at
which they listened to further addresses
on the erasure of the imaginary boun-
dary line and the development of a
greater Washington. During. the after
noon the federation also was host on an
automobile tour of the metropolitan
district of the county to show its guests
the development which is taking place
In the movement to build a greater
National Capital.
Good will Prevails.
The spirit of good will prevailed
lA
Chief OF Police Alvie A. Moxley of the
Montgomery County police, stepped to
the District boundary line, where was
standing Capt. c. M. r. Lord, command
ing the thirteenth WASHINGTON police
precinct, and asked that ofilcial to come
into the State and with him escort
Maryland's chief executive, Albert C.
Ritchle, to the speakers platform sit
uated on a hill alongside the new road.
omcialdom again Joined hands in an
0ther good will gesture, when Mai D. A.
Dawson, Assistant Engineer Commits
sioner. OF the District; Lacy Shaw,
county commissioner in charge of the
northern metropolitan district, and Miss
Cecil Papin Perry of Bethesda, drew
back the Maryland State flag and the
Stars and Stripes unwilling the Good
Will Stone Of granite, which stands di-
rectly on the boundary line in the circle
~ Tie intersection.
Gov. Richie Speaks.
Speaking at the dinner last night,
Gov. Richie said that one of the things
that struck him while making the tour
or the county was that no matter where
you went in Maryland, he thought that
IL could be truly said that nowhere could
De found more civic beauty, more pro-
ductivity, or richness in men and wom-
en- worth while than in Montgomery
County. The other thing that struck
him. he said, was that Maryland spirit,
born in old st. Mary's County, the spirit
OF local government and the spirit
OF religious freedom and liberation.
He told OF reports from other juris-
dicLions OF Communist parades and of
1orclole means of combating them, and,
ne said, he liked to think that nothing
IKE that occurred in MARYLAND. In
Maryland. he said, it was believed that
IL Is better to permit abuse of the right
OF Tree speech and q free press than to
Try 70 suppress them at all. He said
tnat Maryland was justly proud of her
laws, and just as proud of the laws that
she does not have but which some peo-
pie have tried to make her have.
he said that Maryland wanted to
WORK out to the mutual good of both
the problems of that State and the Dis
nope that the future would witness an
increase in the era Of good feeling. He
nopeu that the boundary line would be-
come an imaginary and invisible thing,
merging in a spirit of cooperation and
good will.
Grant Lauds Cooperation.
Lieut.. Col. U. 8. Grant. Sd, director
OF the Once Of Public Buildings and
Public Parks OF the National Capital
and executive officer of the National
Capital Park and Planning Commission.
said that the cooperation received by
the latter body from MONTGOMERY
County made the work of the Federal
commission much easier and he pleaded
for the people to have faith in the Ma
tional Capital region. Col Grant
pointed out that great things had been
done in the Capital in the last five
years and greater things were coming.
Stressing the approaching enactment
into law Of the Cramton park-exten-
sion bill.
Development Of plan by the Dis
trtct OF Columbia and metropolitan dis
trict forces to set a time limit for a
meeting OF the various arterial high
ways, co-ordinating their construction
so that they would meet at the boun-
dairy line. was stressed by Capt. II. c.
Whitehurst. Assistant Engineer Com
missioner Of the District of Columbia.
He added that effective regional de-
velopment can only be carried out by
cooperation and coordination between
the governmental agencies involved.
Arterial Highway Incomplete.
Capt. Whitehurst said that while the
arterial highway was encouraging. It
was far from being complete and had
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While 1t Is difficult, he said, to secure
funds for the development of the ar
teries, he said that he was anxious to
see the improvement of New York ave-
nue., which would provide an artery
from the White House to Bladensburg
road. Another development he desired
was Benning road and Kenilworth ave-
hue to the Defense Highway, which, he
said, would remove lot of the con-
gestion now existing at the Peace Cross
in Bladensburg. Plans are being for
sections of Sixteenth street from Co
lumbia road to the District line by re-
claiming existing macadam. other i'm
provements contemplated, he said, are
Livingstone road. Pennsylvania and
Alabama avenues southeast, River road
and Maryland avenue, as well as the
extension Of New Hampshire avenue.
Board Of Trade Speaker.
George w. Offutt, vice president Of
the Washington Board of Trade, point
ed out that Montgomery County ada
cent to Washington Is an extension of
suburban Washington and that Wash
ington Is urban Montgomery County
He praised the two new Commissioners
Of the District and commended them to
the Montgomery lcountians for Coop
Grafton.
Maj. Lee detailed the development
of the mast few wears in the county and