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Getting a Little Excited
Over MIR. Lubin
Was he the inventor of
Lubin's Face Powder?
And has he can approach
to a shadow of a shade
of an approximation of
common sense?

ME scene is the Senate, and the matter
under discussion is this: Shall the
salary of Mr. David Lubin, Americas
"permanent representative" to the Internal
tional Institute OF Agriculture at Rome, be
continued discontinued? The salary
specified is $4,000. Senator'S debate it back
and forth. Much comment favorable to The
gifts, capacity and indspensabiity of Mr.
Lubin Gan American citizen from the State
o. California; enters "The Record Mr..
Sheppard says he trusts that the anpro-
priation will be continued" when Mr.. Will
Jams takes the floor. Then the debate
grows rapidly more exciting:
Mr.. WILLIAMS. Mr.. President think just
aboutfiftcen or twenty years ago first talked
with Mr.. Lubn, and found out within two
or three weeks after met him that he was
man of no extraordinary ability at all;
the limclight, in which he has figured ever
since. If this amendment cuts off the ap-
preparation for Mr.. Lubin to represent, or to
claim to represent, the United States at
Rome in an agricultural institute of some
sort hope it will pass. My own private
opinion is that Mr.. Lubin furnishes no
ability of any description. except little
idealism that amounts to very little
The Senator from Texas Mr. Shcpp4rdI
says that he is man Of very large means,
and all that. do not know anything about
that, but if he is he might volunteer to
serve at dollar Il year, like good many
other people Of large means without very
much ability have already resolved to do
and have already engaged themselves for.
have been watching for a great many
years Mr.. Lubin's course. The first time
that | ever heard Of him he came to the
Agricultural Committee of the House of
Representatives, suggesting that we nut a
duty on agricultural exports in order to
control great many things. He was so
ignorant that he did not know that the
Federal government did not have the power
to put duty upon exports. Then soon
after that he suggested a bounty upon agri-
cultural exports. The gentleman from New
York, the father Of the present Senator
from that state Mr.. Wadsworthl !, and had
very careful hearing from Mr.. Lubin. Mr..
Lubin exploited his two great ideas Of re-
Juvcnatng the universe, especially on it's
agricultural side. He did not excite the
to a very great extent. SO far az am con-
.cerned he has not excited mine even yet.
The agricultural institute at Rome is
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diagonal road was intended to run, con-
tinuing beyond the Capitol to a bridge
over the Eastern Branch, now called the
Anacostia River, and continuing beyond
the Presidents Palace into Georgetown,
over Rock Creek
From the beginning L'Enfant had
trouble in keeping his new city intact.
At first it was a mere collection of un-
kempt roads, running through swamp
land, dotted here and there by house.
The diaries of that day speak with pity,
not unmixed with scorn, of the lonely
President, on his eminence, swept by
wind and hail and snow and rain, dis
tinguished by his loneliness. Pennsyl-
vania Avenue was bog. But Washing
ton grew, even if slowly, and there were
attempts a-plenty to interfere with the
remarkable plan laid down for it's de-
velopment. Robert Morris wanted 10
build a house jutting out into one Of
L'Enfants avenues. He even went so
far as to construct a part of it, The
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hmek amoaom

found nothing in Europe better than
L'Enfant's plan, and that all that has
happened to Washington since. under the
guidance Of the Fine Arts Commission
is in substance only an elaboration of it.
Congress authorized the location of
the capital on the Potomac River in 1890.
1t was the next year that President
Washington decided that the exact loca-
ton should be near Georgetown. The
first purchase of land had an area of
about five and a quarter miles. 1t was
bought from nineteen farmers, who were
paid SGT an acre
L'Enfant's plan, prepared in consul
tation with Jefferson when the latter
was Secretary of State, revolved around
two principal points. Jenkinss Hill was
the highest point in the land that had
been purchased, and it was there that
the Capitol was located Tiber Creek,
now only memory, ran near another
hill, and the Presidents Palace was to
find itself there. Between these two y
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story survives that the engineer tore
down the section that transgressed.
Yet even SO much watchfulness and
solicitude for what must have seemed a
mere abstraction to the citizens who
could not visualize future beauty out of
present ugliness could not succeed in
keeping it entirely inviolate When
L'Enfant was scarcely 4 memory and
there was little understanding of what
he tried to do for Washington, his vstas
suffered severely at the hand of the Fed
eral government
The Treasury Building is one of the
finest structures in Washington It's
noble length of colonnade is the nearest
thing Washington has to the Louvre
Yet it gives beauty at sacrifice Of
greater beauty. Without the Treasury
Building where it stands, one might
stand at the foot of the Capitol and look
straight down to the White House
Strangers to Washington have difficulty
in understanding why Pennsylvania Ave.
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part in the scheme. It is at one end of
a similar line, drawn north and south
through the Washington Monument to
proposed group of buildings, to be dedi-
Gated to the founders of the nation.
So much Of this beauty is embryonic.
The Capitol faces, not splendid sweep
ing vista down to the Lincoln Memorial,
but the Botanical Gardens, where inves-
LEGATION disclosos behind an iron fence
and shrubbery the unfinished Grant
Memorial in a dishevelled state, and the
lurking, squat, greenhouses of the gar
dens.
Yet, in time, all this will disappear.
Union Square as it is proposed at the
foot of the Capitol will contain the Grant
Memorial, and possibly memorial to
General Meade. The steps from the
Capitol will not end on the downward
slope in a meaningless stretch of con-
crete and grassy pasture. There will be
circular mirror pool at the head of the
square, with stone walks and balustrades
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may think it-that was his in relation to
the farmers of all the world, until he estab-
hshed by his own unaided efforts the In
ternatonal Institute of Agriculture in the
city of Rome. 1t is true that it is estab-
lshed in the city of Rome, but the United
States of America is part of it, an Ameri
can is the head Of it, and the American
VINO established it and the American who is
.he mead OF 1T is the American who has
JUST been so foully abused upon the floor Of
'he Senate If ne had done nothing else in
lhe course OF his life than to devote it to
th1s one cause of aiding his fellow men. to
DONG som ething OF good to the farmers Of
ms country and Of all the world. as he has
done, he would have deserved. if not tho
praise, at least the silence Of those who
might not agree with him.
Mr. WILLIAMS. Mr.. President
MIR. JOHNSON, of California. v;e1d "a
the Senator; that is, 1 yield to question
or to any correction that the Senator nav
desire to make.
Mr. WILLIAMS. As caught the language
OF the Senator from California, he accuses
me Of fouily abusing MI Lubin. end Sc
caught
MI. JOHNSON, Of California. Mr.. Pres.
dent, will withdraw the s.dverb.
Mr.. WILLIAMS. Mr.. President. I sbou,d
further like the Senator from Californ;. m
Withdraw the word "abuse'.-
Mr.. JOHNSON, Of California will, ,o,
sir wiz ho''
"r. WILLIAMS. Because I did not abuse
"i' huo'h. paid high tribute to him per-
sonailv as man Of character and honesty
VIZ. JOHNSON, Of California. Mr.. Pres
M. WILLIAMS. merely took him in a;s
o'Hc'a' position and said he was not the ran
to fill this place.
W. JOHNSON, of California. Mr. pres,.
oeht, on the contrary, the Senator fror,
Mlsslsslppl described him as a man without
common sense; he described him nc q mo,
VINO mad no conception of what he WAS on
oeaVorlng to do. l am not speaking with
eNactness as to the Senator's laneuape--
Mr. WILLIAMS. think not.
Mr.. JOHNSON, Of California R,+
speaking OF it with substantial accuracy
lie described him camouhaeing himself
with relation to Germany and German
lhlngs, unless misunderstood the lanyrsoo
'"d' was employed by the Senator from
MISSISSIPPI, and l draw but one Inference
from that sort of language and that infer
ehcc' II seems to me, is lcgitimately covered
by the word "abusen N
Mr.. WILLIAMS. MIR. President, wan. to
say that II the imagination of the Senator
rom oai11ornla in his general relationships
10 al questions is to be represented bv tba
oesfee OF ms imagination now with regard
70 "hat have said, leave that to him md
! leave what have said in "The Record
ana l nope he will leave what he has sa,a
IN The Record" because he has said moth.
ing that at this moment is justified bv any
thing that l have said.
mr.. JOHNSON, OF California. Mr.. Prcs;-
aen', the Senator from Mississippi NAV res,
quite content; will leave in "Thc Record
exactly what | have said. exactly ns be
leaves IN THE Record" what he has said
and THE Record" may stand in that r.'
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Until 1t Hurts-A Duty
Now

TWIST and turn as we may we can.
not escape the fact that when v"
came a certain number of young ns'
We're doomed to death so that we nis''
llve In security. From this inexorapa
TACT there is no escape. Nor is tnsi'
any escape from the solemn respohs
oillty of those who were spared, WV
were exempted from the draft by ress0'
OF occupation, dependents, physlcs' "
aolllty or age. Only by giving, s''"s
endlessly until it hurts, by giving iaD'''
time and money to the limit OF ~
physical and financial resources
Trey atone for the supreme sae'A
OF those who were chosen 20 ~
Sunset Magasine. 81
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uildings Already on
- the Mall

There are other details. A parkw,,
will extend from the Union Station !.
the Capitol. And it is stimulating !.
note how far the plan has ALREADY NJ,
crossed. Though the spirit of the \.
jor must wait for his ambassadorial res
dences, he may see with some satisf..
ton the Pan-American Building. the psi
Gross Building, and the home of n.
Daughters Of the American ReyoluH0,
extending down one side of that axis .,
the Mall which runs from the VIII.
House. The Lincoln Memorial is nea
ing completion on the river.
On the main axis of the Mall, betwpsr
the Monument and the Capitol, are th
buildings Of the Agricultural Departmep,
and the new National Museum. The nev
Freer Gallery, which will house the co.
lector,s famous Whistler collection and
his collection of Oriental art works, is
now being built on the south side Of h.
Mall. The George Washington Memorial
Hall will be erected on the site Of the
old Pennsylvania Railroad station on The
north side of the Mall. Congress has
authorized the location of buildings to
house the departments of Justice Labor
and Commerce and of State in the area
near the White House.
At the present time the Mall is occu.
MED between tho Monument ord tbo Cor
itol by great stretches of wooden struct.
ures, temporary buildings for war work.
and more Of them are being built YET
this is only the response of WashingtM
to the ugly demand war makes upon
every phase of civilization. When the
end Of war makes their retention unnee
essary the work of identifying the city
will proceed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-07
Toward MeatIessness

THE number Of crcamcries and cheese
factories has been increased, az we'll
as the efficiency in their operation. Efforts
have been made to encourage the use Of
cottage cheese az a substitute for meat,
and six experts have devoted their entire
time TO encouraging the production Of
this form VI cheese on the farms.--~Ex-
tract from the Annual Report Of the Sec
rotary Of Agriculture, in the depart
naent's Wsekty News Letter.
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at the Slips Twixt Cup and Lip Did to Washingt

about it. Beyond the square >. 4,
Mall, will be another pool, souara ;. us
the form of the Mall itself. Traa. y
flank this scene, and at their edcs W.
future day may see great white ssa as
buildings to house the endless act;s;.. ''
of the legislative branches of vosss .s'
ment. Even Pennsylvania Avenra
lieved of ugliness now at the LOVE-, :. =
only by its trees, may not oscar. s ~
encroachments Of beauty. A'
The White House will be tre.t,,..
similar fashion. The sin of locat;o. !. =
which the two great department bna,
ings near the White House mnst ~.
bear the blame will be pardoned in CIV NV
measure by further details Of .
scheme, which compartments o,s. ~
group Of executive buildings at ann.
pirate distances around the Execnt;s.
Mansion.
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The Golden Book of CONGRESS-

very important institution and ought to be
continued
Mr.. SHEPPARD. 1t was Mr. Lubins idea.
Mr.. WILLIAMS. There ought to be some
body in control and command Of it who has
practical ideas
Mr.. SHEPPARD. Mr. Lubin originated
the idea of an agricultural institute at
Rome.
Mr. WILLIAMS. SO far as know
anything about Mr. Lubin, fifteen or twenty
years ago in the House of Representatives
and three or four years ago, when he came
here to Washington and summoned Senator'S
to his room in his apartment down here
amongst whom | was summoned as one,
have never found that Mr. Lubin had even
an approach to shadow of shade of an
approximation OF common sense laugh ter
and he has not got it yet, so far as
know.
Mr. SHEPPARD Mr. President, may
make a suggestion to the Senator?
The PRESIDENT pro tcmpore. Does the
Senator from Mississippi yield to the Sena-
tor from Texas?
MI WILLIAMS. Yes
Mr.. SHEPPARD. want to suggest the
fact that Mr.. Lubn sent for the Senator
from Mississippi indication of his an
usual ability and knowledge of human
nature. Laughter.
Mr.. WILLIAMS. l deny that That was
mere accidental violation Of Lubin's usual
performance. LLaughteri Of course, the
fact that the Senator from Mississippi was
sent for might have been tribute to any
body who sent for him purpose and with
the deliberate intent and with a knowledge
of what the Senator from Mississippi meant
and intended and thought, but Mr. Lubin
never even had that much knowledge of. the
Senator from Mississippi. OF course he had
no knowledge of America, and not much of
the world outside. Now he has gone over to-
X me
Mr.. OVERMAN. Mr.. President
Mr.. WILLIAMS. Wait moment-At the
head of that institute and has sent some
very valuable reports back to America. or
his institute has sent them. We paid fo~ it
all.
He is man of large means, the Senator
from Texas tells me. | never did connect in
my mind the idea of intelligence with large
means Laughter. Sometimes a man of
large means has intelligence, and some
times blamed fool has large means
laughtcr but l never connected The two
ideas together in all my life do not think
Mr.. Lubin is tcmpcramentally or patriot
cally or otherwise fitted to represent the
United States anywhere at any time, from
my knowledge Of him.
met him down here at the Raleigh Hotel.
He called meeting there of Senator's. of
Representatives, and Of various other nco-
pie. had very intimate conversation
with him. He began to tell me all about
"has Germany was and what Germany
meant OF course, knew more in n minute
about what Germany was and about what
Germany meant, after my course Of strdv
over there for long time, than he knew
after his three weeks travel through thc
German Empire.
listened to him very patiently. of course,
and very politely and very courteouslv. hut
nc made the impression upon me at t6at
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few other things OF that sort--I will not
exhaust the dictionary-if he is all that. let
him serve at a dollar year as man from
the Golden Coast ought to serve the Amer
lean Republics; but even serving at dollar
year, let us put somebody else in as the
active agent of American agriculture in
Europe, and do not let us put Mr.. Lubin in.
whose original idea was to tax agricultural
exports from America and after that to
put bounty upon them.
Mr.. OVERMAN. I want to ask tho Sem
otor----
Mr.. WILLIAMS. One moment. Mr.. Pres
ldent, it there is one thing in the world Of
which I dsapprove-----
Mr.. ONERMAN. want to ask what is
Mr. Lubin's nationality. and if he is the in
ventor Of Lubin's face powder? Laughter
Mr. WILLIAMS. do nor know, but l
imagine from what know of him that he
IS not the inventor Of face powder. He
could have been the inventor of faith
powder very naturally from his tcmnera-
ment.
Tic is good, honest, straight, square fell
low somewhat of fanatic about the things
ne IS tal&in% about, Il bit radical and all
mat re is the sort or Il man that one
would meet very pleasantly in a hotel room
or at banquet board, but ne is of abso-
luteiy no utility to anybody anywhere. un-
1855 he gets rid of a great many false eco
monte notions that he has. One Of them
IS that he can control the trade of the world
by bounty upon agricultural exports. or
course a bounty always comes back to
plague the farmer at whose expense tho
DOuntV fnH !,
OF Lubins face powder?
Mr.. OVERMAN. do NOT know. ,oo,..
made tie inquiry.
MI. WILLIAMS. Neil, he might have
needed Lubins face powder now and thon
upon the general principle that people need
10 save their faces, as the Chinese saw cpd
to camouhage themselves now and then for
purposes of disguise.
MIR. JOHNSON, of California. Mr.. pres;.
dent happen to know the gentleman who
mas pcen the subject of the diatrbe of the
senator from Mississippi MR. Williams1
ana nave known him during all NV lfo
would not claim for Mr.. David Lub;n +ho
perspicaclty, or the acumen, or the ab;,;+v
or the insight or the logic, or some oe ~.
other qualifications or characteristics If III,
Inv
do say to him and say to the Senate that
DAVID Lubin is man who has devoted his
entire life to philanthropy 1t is true he
nad very considerable fortune, and that
very considerable fortune has been devoted
entirely in the endeavor, mistaken though
~ may be considered by the Senator from
mississippi to benefit human kind; and Mr..
David Lubln to-day is the one man who
established the international Institute of
Agriculture at Rome
If there be any virtue or. any value in
TINS international Institute of Agriculture.
the credit is due to Lubin. Lubn COM
menced in the face of obstacles that would
have deferred any less stout-heartcd man:
he overcame difficulties that would have
rendered the task impossible to any man
who was less pcrsevcring and less pertina-
cious. He went forward with unselfshncss
and devotion to an idenlhowever distorted
or misplaced the Senator from Mississipnni
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By Ralph Block
Washington, April ]


q ONE day, if events do not conspire
to change civilization too violent
ly, the city of Washington will be
splendid and amazing city. 1t is not
that now. 1t bears the same relation to
that ideal state of the future as an ado
lescent son of brilliant parents bears 20
his OWN infrequent moments of astonish-
ing mental power, flashed against
crude and commonplace background of
mere long-legged growth. Yet it is the
flash that is significant and illuminating
In time of peace, when growth and quiet
development seemed an assured thing,
and no thunder lowered on the horizon
to mar the expectation of unbroken
progress to the far point of realization,
the men who were remaking Washing
ton must have found the process a fasci-
mating task. Doubtless it is still fasci-
mating, when they have time to think If
it. For war has not stopped the pro-
gramme; it has merely relaxed the en-
phasis.
he Part Played by
l L.'Enfant
What Washington would have been
like without the persistent and scarcely
rewarded Major L'Enfant, it is hard to
say. The lay citizen, whose mental
pockets were crammed in the early years
of the present century with talks of city
planning and civic centres, always greets
the memory of the real founder of the
city of Washington with surprise. It IS
the habit of posterity to misunderstood
and underrate the immediate past 1t is
SO much easier to believe in the beauties
of those cities of the past that are too
Tar removed in the dim vistas Of time as
to make their testimony audible than it
is in the beauties of a time close enough
to be realizable. Yet it is true that what
beauty Washington can show today
and its hopes for tomorrow are due to
the engineering genius of L'Enfant.
Without him the open spaces of Wash
ington, the multiplied circles, the I'M
conventional radiating streets, the de-
Eghtfully confusing diagonals, might
have remained unborn in the land of
might-have-been. Lacking an engineer
to give form to the dreams of Washing
ton and of Jefferson, the capital city Of
the United States might easily have be-
come only another mass of squares to
add to the undistingushed bodies of
most American cities. 1t was something
of tribute to the memory of L'Enfant
that the famous commission. composed
of such men as St. Gaudens, Burnham,
McKim and Frederick Law Olmsteal,
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The Stupendous
r railroad
Machine
wv 7ILLIAM G. M'ADoo, in his ca
wv pacity as Director General Of |


Railways, is just about tn
busiest man in the country according
to Alfred II. Smith. regional director o.
Eastern railways. This is what Director
McAdoo has to manage. Mr.. Smith
pointed out IN speech:
Our railroads have 2Ca.000 miles o.
nam line and 3Sl geo miles of track, which
IS 81 per cent Of all the railroads in the
world. Their main lines would eirdle the
ear'h az the equator more than ten times
Inns IS about seven times greater than al!
'ne railroad mileage Of Germany
hey own 100000 freight cars capable
OF holding about Jo000,0O0 tons; 550@
passenger cars and $4,000 locomotives
lhere are 100000 employees, who
counting two dependents each, sustain
directly 5,40o Geo people. not counting
affiliated supply industries.
Twenty billion dollars Of capital is in
vested, about one-:e..th The tota, wealth Of
the United States to-day.
This stupendous machine during 1911
carried the equivalent. OF 100000 oO0Oe
tons OF freight one mile, which means 4eel
tons hauled mile for each man, woman
and child in the country or this number
OF ton-miles (the common unit Of per.
IoSnance) is nine times as great as hauled
IN Germany, over twenty zines as gres'
as IS hauled in France, and ten times as
great as hauled in Russia during pre-
var times.
Passenger transportation rs. yes'
amounted to 55,o0o,coo, coo passenger miles
equivalent to $50 mites per year 70,
every lahabitant OF equal 10 an annaa
rip from New York 10 Rochester. or 70
Portland, Me-, or 80 Baltimore and return
for each individual.
inns is a rough outline OF the maehia.
'na' passed under government CORFU
ninety days ago for the period OF the #sl.
lhose figures may suggest the task sna
problems involved in such gigan'@
Proposition