The National tribune., 1910-10-13

lCapitol even before the war. The
White House has been remodeled and
remodeled until it presents very small
appearance of the original We have
outgrown our beautiful Treasury Build
ling, our State, War and Navy Building.
we have outgroWn two Postal Depart
ments, and we long ago outgrew the
10 miles square of the District bound
aries. In fact. the residents of Wash
ington have Tapped over into Maryland
and Virginia at great rate. The
Treasury Building is of ancient Greek
temple design. and simply cannot be
lremodeled. To add to or take from 1t
a single stone would be to ruin it,
iarchitecturally speaking. 1t is said to
be the most perfect example of Greek
art in this country, but the Treasury
| Department had to have more room,
and SO they unpinned the roof and
showed it up some on the sides and
made a little more room skyward. The
State, War and Navy Building always
was hideOuS, being what is called ltal-
ian renaissance. and not at all suited 10
the solid, last-forever necessities of the
| United States Government, and 1t looks
as tawdry as possible when brought as
| it is into iuxtaposition with the White
House and the simplicity of the Greek
Temple of Finance.
When the building was put up which
was to house the United States Postal
Department and the City Post Office
some architect, with wheels in his
| head, planned sort of Cologne Cathe-
dral building, which is a long ways OF
| from being big enough for either De-
| partment and doesn't match anything
| in the Government building line IN
Washington. After this structure was
put up there was a reform in ideas for
| Government buildings, and since then
| they have been along the stately, sub
stantial line The finest recent exam
pies of these are found in the splendid
white marble buildings constructed for
the House and Senate Office Buildings,
which have for the central figure the
beautiful white marble National Capt.
tol with the Congressional Library and
its gilded dome in the foreground, this
to be offset some day, it is hoped, by
Department of Justice over toward the
Senate Office Building. The new NUM-
cipal Building, just opposite The Ma
tional Tribune Office, and which might
be called the City Hall of the District
of Columbia, is one of the finest exam
Piles of simplicity and strength in pure
white marble. The last building to be
erected for the district is that for the
District Supreme Court 1t is one of a
group of buildings to be symmetrically
laid in the southern half of Judiciary
Square. The style of architecture for
the interior and exterior is said to
and was selected so as to harmonize
with the south facade of the old City
Hall. 1t is built of granite and lime
stone, and the cost of the building, in
Guiding furnishings, was about $780,
900.
In all probability the next fine build
ing that will be erected in the District
of Columbia will be one for the De-
partment of Justice. and, as has been
stated, this will belong to the group of
buildings surrounding the Capitol IT.
self.
Military Training for Boys.
Gen. Leonard Wood, Chief of Stan.
U. s. Army, has been attending the
National Guard Conference, held in st.
Louis. He there said that the War
Department would support a bill to ap-
and enlisted men of the guard. He also
stated that every boy in the United
States over 13 years of age should be
trained as soldier, and he clinched it
by saying that he would out-German
the Germans by instituting compulsory
education in all the schools. He be-
lieves that boys of 13 and upwards
of rife as part of his school course, |
and then we would have a generation |
of crack marksmen. He added:
Il should have the boys instructed !
in the rudiments of military science |
They should be taught to throw up |
of defense. These studies would teach |
them the initiative in combat that mod |
ern warfare requires.
Military drill would be part of the |
compulsory education Uniformed |
companies in the public schools would |
be advisable tho not Indispensable |
Wars come without notice NOWADAYS. |
so that we should be always prepared |
Our standing army of 10000 men |
is far too small, and Congress should |
provide for its increase to at least
lao. 000O men. We have not only the |
philippines and Alaska to guard, but |
the Notifications at the Isthmus of |
Panama will soon have to be manned" |
And who is there to dare say that ,
Gen: Wood is not right? After all, |
would not it be well for boys to receive |
military training in the public schools !!
which teaches them that high sense of |
honor toward each other and regard |
for governmental institutions and de-
sire to protect them even at the cost Of
life? Certainly 1t would be a much
better training for these youngsters
than turning them loose upon the
streets to roller skate, ride wheels or
un automobiles, to learn cigaret smok-
ing, crap playing, profanity and the
thousand other vices that kids let free
upon the streets are bound to learn
There Is, after all. something in mill
tary training which puts manhood into
a boys heart above almost every other
kind of schooling that you can give
MIN. Or course, there will be lots of
sone-to-seed women who deprecate the
Idea of military training for boys, but it
is most fortunate that these women
nave no controlling force in the mat
ter. They object to the military train
ing which would give their misguided
sons thought above playing on the /
streets, but have not control of them
to teach them anything themselves,
The boys are left to grow like evil
weeds, and poor Providence is blamed
II they go wrong. Gen. Wood seems to
have the right idea, and that is that
boys should be trained in stern schools,
rather than being graceful at pink teas
and calling mother dearest" In fact.
the boy who takes good military train
ing nearly always grows up a gentle
man, and loves his mother much better
than the youth with the training of the
streets, who goes off wrong and then
weeps in his cell because mother did
not hold stronger hand over him.
Cardinal VannutefIi's Visit.
Washington surely had a surfeit of
Princes and potentates last week, and
in all probability the most prominent
Of them all was His Eminence, Cardi-
nal Vannutelli, who came to this coun-
Al