Evening star., 1934-01-21
Omission of Sewage Disposal
From Legislative Program.

i suggested last Sunday is con-
sidered deficient by Miss
Elaine Eppley, delegate to the Fed
Grafton of Citizens Associations
from the D. c. Federation of Wom-
ems Clubs and also D. c. dele
gate to the Interfederation Confer
ence. The only fault she finds is
that it fails to include an item for
a beginning of the sewage disposal
system for the District and metro
politan area.
This item was not omitted through
oversight, but for the reason that
1t is believed that this needed prof.
lect will not be ready for legislation
until the pending engineering sur
vey and study of the subject results
in definite plan. The legislative
program necessarily omitted many
needed undertakings which should
probably be set up in a program of
enterprises to be undertaken during
a period of years The National
Capital Park and Planning Com
mission is formulating just such
plans.
Miss Eppley is the chairman of a
subcommittee of the Federation of
Citizens Associations charged with
the responsibility of pushing the
sewage disposal project and of a
similar committee Of the Federation
OF Women's Clubs. She is making
this her special civic job and loses
no opportunity for boosting it.
tomorrow at the meeting of the
Federation of Women's Clubs, in
Barker Hall of the Y. w. c. A. an
address will be delivered by Dr. John
H. Gregory Of Johns Hopkins Uni
versity on Sewage Disposal Plant
OF the District of Columbia" DR..
Gregory is one of the board of three
engineers now engaged in making
the survey and study of a sewage
plant for the District of Columbia
under an allotment of P. w. A. funds
Tor that purpose. This address will
be open to the public and will be
delivered from 1890 to pm
1nterfederation Conference
To Meet at No. 10 Police Station.
TIPON the invitation of Mai. E.
w. Brown. our chief of police,
the Interfederation Confer
ence will hold its February meeting
IN the tenth precinct police station
The major and superintendent and
other high officials of the Metropoli-
tan Police Department will attend
and Lieut.. Kelley, III charge of the
police radio system, will conduct the
delegates through the station and
explain the operation of the system.
The conference at its meeting last
Monday evening. in the Chamber of
Commerce of the United States, elect
ed a new corps of officers for the
ensuing year These officers are
Chairman William c Hull of Airing
ton County, First Vice Chairman
Harry N. Stull Of the District of
Columbia. Second Vice Chairman
Robert Gilbreth of Montgomery
County and Secretary Treasurer E.
L. Bennett of Arlington County.
The proposed Washington Airport
and the proposed high-level bridge at
Little Falls were matters Of consider
able discussion. but no definite action
was taken The question of some
equitable distribution of cost of this
bridge was referred for consideration
and report to committee headed by
Delegate Frederick E. Mann of Ar
lington
The conference expressed its ap-
proval Of the general membership
campaign. During the informal dis
cussion of the proposed member
ship campaign, Delegate Plymale of
Arlington told of the beneficial re-
suits to that section during the last
campaign il 1927. He told the con-
ference several community organiza-
t1ons, as a result OF the drive, in
creased their memberships to such
an extent as to include all the way
from 80 to 100 per cent of the eligible
persons in the area of several asso-
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