The spectator., 1919-08-19

congress will sit until the time of the
 conventions next summer is that as yet
 the majority party in house and sen
 ate seems fully determined to adopt program of legislative endeavor with which to appeal to the country in the presidential campaign next year. | Poindexter Seeks Nomination.
 Another candidate for the Repubi- can nomination for the presidency has entered the field, or at any rate is de- clared to be about ready to enter it.
 This candidate is Senator Miles Poindexter of the state of Washington. | The Republican candidates announced. or having friendly organizations ready to announce them are these: Leonard | Wood, Hiram w. Johnson, Frank o. Lowden, Warren G. Harding, Philan- der C. Knox, Miles Poindexter, and one certainty stage.
 Capitals Summer LoveIiness.
 Steady rain for two weeks failed to wash the beauty out of Washington. The capitals beauty is proof against everything except fool man. Time and again efforts have been made by men to erect atrocities in the shape of buildings, statues and memorials of other kinds. Occasion ally the attempts have succeeded, but in the main they have failed. The promise is that hereafter they will fail every time.
 Washington today stands in mid summer lovelneSs. The rains have helped rather than hurt, for while they have torn petals from many of the blossoms they have kept the leaves green and slistening. It is q fair town today.
 1 have tried to find out what for eignerS think of the city of Washing ton. There are men from foreign parts in this town who have visited nearly every capital of the old world, and some of whom were stationed in other days as officials of their govern ments in several of the capitals of Europe. An EngliShman is rather loath to admit that anything anywhere is finer than corresponding things in his own land. In times past he has been loath also as a rule to admit that America holds many things more beautiful. or more commanding. than the continent of Europe has to offer. Seemingly Englishmen in the past have felt obliged to champion the con tinent aS well as their island.
 Most Beautiful of Capitals"
 Not long ago I asked the corre- spondent of the greatest London newspaper. who had been in Wash ington for some time, what he thought of this city. He said: Tt is the most beautiful capital in all the world In the expressive, if inelegant, lam guage of the boys. this was going some for an Englishman.
 James Bryce. former British ambas- sador to the United States, not long ago delivered an address on the city of Washington. It was packed with praise but there was a thin inter- lardng of suggestion. Ambassador Bryce felt so warmly toward this city iIt NhS ulldlu lIldt III tlie titS eA- pansion 1t was possible that man might allow it in part to be spoiled by incongruous buildings, or by the running of some of the wonderful wis taS He urged many things and his advice was followed, although it may be that the plotters and planners of the growing city simply had viewed things as the visiting Britisher had viewed them.
 Washington Is growing rapidly, but perhaps not so rapidly as to overtake and overwhelm the proper prepara tions for orderly growth. Suburbs have been planted and thanks to the rulings of sanity they have been planned well.
 The Mall is one of Washlngton's chief beauties. A right line extended from the center of the capitol passes through the uncompleted Grant monu ment. the Washington monument, and the nearly completed Lincoln me morial On each side of the line are green swards and garden spots with the magnificent Potomac bordering the spaces lying toward that river.
 It is perfectly true that temporary buildings neceSSitated by the eXgen- cies of war have been erected on the Mall. but in the course of time they will disappear. their places to be taken in part by white marble struc- tureS housing the growing activities of government.
 View From Cathedral Heights.
 The highest spot in the city of Washington proper is that from which rises the one completed tower of the Protestant Episcopal cathedral. The place Is called Cathedral Heights and from 1t one gets wonderful view of the city, it's buildings. the Potomac river and the far-reaChing Virginia
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