Evening star., 1917-06-02
WASHINGTON Of future
DEPICTED BY SPEAKERS
Unity Of Effort Urged at Meeting OF
the Chamber Of
Commerce.

Pictures of Washington as the great
est educational center in the United
States: as a commercial and industrial
center: as a home for conventions and
an even more popular place for tour
lists and as a place for the citizens of
the states to invest their money were
drawn by speakers at meeting of the
Washington Chamber of Commerce at
the New Ebbitt House last night.
One great civic body in place of the
numerous organizations now existing
was urged by speaker after speaker as
the only way in which to bring the
greatest success to the city. Joseph
.Berberich. member of the Chamber of
Commerce. Board of Trade and Retail
Merchants Association. urged that the
presidents of all three of these bodies
should tender their designations and
effect a great joint organization with
which the many smaller organizations
will Zine up"
Telling how in the recent campaign
for members for the Chamber of Com
merce he had repeatedly been met with
the reply, 'I am willing to join one big
organization. but will not join any un-
til there is only one body here" Mr..
Berberich said 80 per cent of the busi-
ness and professional men of Washing
ton who have the interests of the city
really at heart are in favor of one
central organization and 'tare agreed
that the best cannot be done for Wash
ington as long as there are so many
organizations"
Each Would Be cit"
Each organization feels that it
ought to be the big organization. and
that the others ought to come to it,"
he said. IF the presidents of these
bodies are sincere in what they say re-
Karding their desires for the good of
>JA 4 \ 4
enough to come forward and offer to
resign. II by their designations the
interests of the city may be for
warded% He then urged joint meet
Ing Of representatives from each body
establishment Of university in
Washington greater than any now eX-
isting in the United States. or even the
World. to assist in the reconstruction
Of the world following the war. was
urged by DIR. P p. Claxton. United
States commissioner of education. Such
an institution. he said. should have an
income of at least s1O,O0o.O0O yearly.
Washington Is already a center Of
education. said the speaker. The pub
lfc school system. he said. should be
model for the entire country from every
point of view. Then. he said, the Dis
trict should also have an institution
corresponding to state university. He
also urged the establishment in the
District of a national conservatory of
xnpsic.
I'VE shall never have music of our
Down; we shall never have a great dem
ocratic music. until We have such
school as this" he said.
DR.. Claxton advocated the establish
ment here of school of fine arts.
Plan of George Washington.
Speaking of the establishment in the
District of a great international insti-
tuition. Dr.. Claxton said that George
Washington had wished to found uni
versify where people from all the
states might meet. Such a one, he said.
might have prevented the civil war.
The founding of a university of inter-
national scope-not for youths but for
men and women who have received the
ordinary university degrees-will make
fpr internationalism of high type. he
Students and the younger professors
~ the great universities abroad have
ded In the trenches. and the leader
khip. educationally, is practically
thrust upon the United States.
The speaker also advocated the erec.
tion of a suitable building here for the
United States bureau of education
where the educational library and g
suitable exhibit might be maintained.
.Former Representative James T
Lloyd urged that more publicity be
given Washington. He said that the
people in. the stateB did not know
enough about the National Capital. Mr.
Lloyd declared that instead of the
slogan Forward Washington adopted
early in the Chamber of Commerce
campaign. the slogan now would be
were the sentiment OF the city can
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