Evening star., 1931-12-22
CIVIC GROUP MAKES
NE v SUGGESTIONS
ON PARKING RELIEF
!nterfederation Conference
Ignores Proposal for Mall
Restriction.
ADDITIONAL MIDTOWN
SPACE IS ADVOCATED
Committee Is Named to Study
Mapes Bills and Report at
Next Meeting.
BY HOWARD NJ. BAGGETT.


The suggestion Of the Fine Arts Com
mission made some weeks ago that all
parking in the Mall area and about
Government buildings and parks be
eliminated, as detracting from the
beauty OF these areas, was ignored in
the report of a special committee on
parking problems of downtown Wash
lngton which was adopted by the Inter-
federation Conference meeting at the
United States Chamber of Commerce
last night.
Inc conference, which is composed Of
delegates from the civic federations of
Montgomery County, Md; Arlington
County, Va, and Washington, ordered
the study OF the parking situation at its
November meeting following a discus
sion OF the suggestion Of the Fine Arts
Commission.
Relief Suggestions.
Among the suggestions for the relief
Of the parking problem and traffic con-
geStion contained in the report as
adopted were: Utilization of vacant and
unused parcels Of land for parking,
whether privately owned or controlled
by the Government, with screening or
landscaplng operations in harmony with
general surroundings; encouragement
OF private capital to operate public
garages for profit; providing Of addi-
t1onal parking space by the Government
for use OF its officials and employees at
number of places nct necessarily ada
cent to Government buildings strict
enforcement of the double parking re-
striction, with an increase in the COL
lateral requirements for infractions of
the rule; application Of the bypass
system to carry traffic around the con-
gested areas, and the establishment of
parking centerS outside of the congested
areas, with preferential fares provided
by bus lines and street cars.
The report as presented by the COM
mittee. consisting of Stephen James,
chairman; Robert E Plyma!e and Ed :
win S. Hege. also contained suggestions
for the extension Of the one-hour park
ing areas and the areas where parking is
prohibited during morning and evening
rush-hour periods, the gradual elimina-
ton OF all-day parking downtown and
suggestion for staggering the hours
Of Government employees, but these fea-
lures were voted down after lengthy dis
cuSSionS
Will Study Mapes Bills.
ue several phases Oh IDP MaDeS
financial bills now before Senate COM
mittee, which affects the District Of Co.
lumbla and those earning money in the
District, were discussed at some length
and committee was named to go into
and study the matter with relation TO
the District of Columbia and the sub
urbs and report at the next meeting or
to special meeting which might be
called by the president. The committee
named TO deal with this matter consists
OF Hugh j. McGrath of Arlington
County, chairman; Stephen James of
Montgomery County and Mr.. Carothers
of Washington.
Discussion Of the activities Of the
conferences committee which was in
strumental in getting President Hoover S
Unemployment Relief Committee, headed
by Gov. Thomas Campbell, to recognize
the right of Government employees liv-
Ing outside Of Washington to name well
fare organizations of their own COM
mun1tles to receive their donations of
three days pay, brought out reported
instances where few departmental
heads and drive chairmen failed to COM
ply with this principle, and the commit
Tee was instructed to again call on Gov
Campbell to seek to have his commit
tees stand on this matter made clear
to those who were handling the collect
Ing and disbursing Of these funds.
This committee, consisting of Fred
eric P. Lee, chairman; Mrs. C. S.
Semones and DR.. M. M Mclean, will
seek to have the instructions to the
department heads and drive chairmen
conducting the campaign for relief
1unoS among the Government employees
clarified so that all employees living out
OF the District will be given an oppor-
tun1ty to see the list of approved agen-
cleS IN their own communities, and also
that the department heads will handle
the funds and turn them directly over
TO the suburban welfare agencies.
Name Nominations Group.
A nominating committee, consisting
Of Robert N. Anderson of the Arlington
County Federation as chairman: Fred
eric 2. Lee of Montgomery County and
E. S. Hege of Washington, was ap-
pointed and will report nominations at
the January meeting
New delegates to the conference from
Arlington and Montgomery were certi-
he'd and seated. Delegates from the
washington federation will be named
after the January meeting, the old
delegates retaining their seats until that
time, Arlington County delegates are
Robert N. Anderson, G. o. Basham,
Robert E. Plymale, Mrs. Alice w. Sc
mones, William C. Hull, Hugh ]. Nc
Grath, Frank G. Campbell and E. L,
Bennett. Those seated from Mont
gomery County were Col. Alvin B. Bar
Der, present president of the confer
ence; w. B. Armstrong, its present sec
retary; Frederic P. Lee, DR.. L. M.
Christie, Hugh M Frampton Stephen
James, Col. ]. L. Gilbreth and Ralph