Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-16
The City of All the People.

s.. Practically no other city in the United
States has the same opportunity to
impress itself upon the minds of the
people of the country at large as Wash
ington, and 1t is to be hoped that ad-
vantage will be taken of this exceptional
chance by proceeding in the direction
suggested in The Star yesterday to &C
quaint all visitors with the peculiar
status of the District, its requirements,
its limitations and its dangers Through
the assembly here of conventions WASH
ington entertains in the course of a year
many thousands of delegates from all
parts of the United States, representing
great range of Industrial. commercial
and professional activity and ali degrees
of social standing. As an illustration of
the countrywide range of Washington
guests in the course of a single year
the following list of conventions meet
ing in Washington in 1910 will be signifi-
cant:
us The executive committee of the Ameri-
can Bar Association. National Civic
Federation. Conference of Governors,
Association of Accountants, Association
of Life Insurance Presidents, National
Liquor League, Association of Marine
Engineers, National Board of Trade.
American Association of Masters. Mates
and Pilots. State and Federal Stock
Feed Officials, National Organization for
Food Control National Association of
Ladies' TaiIors, Interstate Builders and
Traders Association. Grand Lodge of
knights of Pythias. National Conference
on Weights and Measures. Eastern Com
nercial Teachers Association, Sigma Phi
Epsilon Fraternity, Bnai Birth, Daugh-
tiers of the American Revolution, Daugh-
tiers of 1872. Colonial Danes. American
LaryngologicaI Association, National Tu-
bereulcsis Association, Congress OF Ameri-
can Physicians and Surgeons, American
Therapeutic Society. Pharmacepeial Asso-
citation, Polish National Congress, Ameri
can Federation of Art. United Typothetae
of America, United States Brewers Asso-
citation, Southern Association of Con-
ductors and Trainmen, convention of
colored Elks, congress of -Esperantists.
National Medical Association (coloredD.
Association of Car Inspectors. National
Association of Building Managers and
owners. Supervisors of State Banks, Su-
tional Humane Conference. Ladies Cath
of Locomotive Engineers Agricultural
Chemists. American Ornithologist Union,
association of Agricultural Colleges and
Experiment Stations, American Red
cross, Warehousemen's Association,
american Civic Association, Internal
Revenue Association, Eastern Fruit
Growers Association Institute of Dental
Pedagogics.
Could all the people who attended those
meetings be brought into one gathering
they would be remarkably representa-
tive assemblage. standing for a wide
range of the worlds work. Patriots,
technicians, scientists, business men, phi
lanthropists. financiers, they came from
every state and from every walk In life
Their numbers were In the aggregate
perhaps more than 10000 With their
families and friends accompanying them
they made an army of fully quarter
of a million people. Some came from
overseas. some had been here many
times before. All of them were interested
in Washington, as a municipal creation.
as the national city. as an expression of
the American civilization. Zach of them
should have been told the story OF Wash
ington I'm simple terms and In a manner to
make them all at least friendly to If not
enthusiastic partisans Of the partnership
arrangement which makes 1t possible, and
by which alone 1t Is possible, to main
tain here a city commensurate in app ONT
nents. IN dignity. IN physical eouipmen,
as the seat of government.
From year to year this tide Of vista
tion grows larger. Precious time is pass
ing that should be employed to the full.
est extent in carrying on a propaganda
of education that will tell the people OF
the country. who are in truth the federal
partners Of the national capital arrange
ment. how matters stand with the Dis
trfct-