Evening star., 1921-12-11
C|T:Y<CLUb Home
.:.TQ0PEN Jan. "A
Furniture Being Installed in
New 100000
Structure.
GREETED by PRESIDENT
Value Of Forum in Molding Public
Opinion Is Stressed In Messae-
From White House.

| The new $500 home of the CITY
Club. at 1910 to 1920 q street, work
| on which was started June |, will he
! opened to the club members January
! IA, ii was announced last night b,
President f. c. Graham. President
Harding has written a letter to the
| club. cOngratulating il on the COM
pletion of the handsome structure and
praising the clubs purpose in pro-
vidins great educational center for
| the discussion of public questions.
The cornerstone of the building was
laid October 26 by Vice President
Coolidge. The next few weeks will
| be devoted to installing the furnish
| ings. Service will be continued at
| the old clubhouse on Farragut Square
| through the dinner hour January IA.
and the final transfer of the club will
| take place Saturday night.
The opening will be in the nature
of housewarHing celebration to
the members and their families only.
A general open house" for friends
of the club is set for January 81 A
program for the house warming is
| now being arranged by Henry T..
| Stringer, chairman of the house com
| mittee.
Many Rooms In Club.
The new clubhouse has more than.
/ $4,000 square feet of floor surface. to
! be devoted exclusively to club ac-
| tivities, including a large number of
j private dining and conference rooms.
d big assembly hall seating LOO to
400 persons. big main dining
! room; lounge. lobbies. library, poof
! and billiard salon. reading and writ
i ing rooms. womenS lounge and resi-
rooms. gymnasium. baths and showers
and other typical club facilities.
In his letter addressed To his 'f. =
low members Of the city club. Presi-
dent Harding says:
1t is very pleasing, indeed, to send
you a word of congratulation on tho
approaching completion OF your hand
some new club home. l wish YOU
every success in the. membership
drive. SO that you may combine with
your splendid facilities a member
ship which will be a reflex of the
citizenship and CIVIC interest of this
wonderful Capital Of the Nation.
There has been much said lately
about the desirability of full under
| standing. Since it is the intention
Of your club to prove itself more than
mere social organization. and since
| it is designed to serve as an educa
tional center for the unbiased dis
cussion of local and national and
| perhaps international problems. il
I.
| ton Of all who are interested in the
| good fortunes OF both district and
| country.
Public Sentiment Vital
/ Public sentiment is invariably
/ made the law or the policy under
| popular government, and think it
! is fine to encourage every agency and
! every enterprise. which tends to the
development of an intelligent popular
sentiment and a complete under
/ standing of the difficult problems
| with which the government and the
| people are called upon to deal.
The Cld-time town meetings in
which many of our saner policies
were formulated. in many of which
meetings, the ,local policies in New
| England are stffl determined, will
find berominss counterpart in live
! srid forcefui city club in the capita
! Of the nation inasmuch az We all
! crave continued progress for
| representative democracy like ours.
; 1t is highly ESSENTIAL to further every
, becoming, enterprise which encour
ages better thinking. helpful ex-
! chang, of opinion and the crystalliza
| ton OF dependable popular intelli-
gence can well believe the City
| Club mag render a very great ser
vice if faithfully conducted along the
lines which understand to be its
policy"