Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-09-10
The HQSkin Letter BY =. : 2ss2s
CITY OF HEADQUARTERS

usually more vitality interested than
the opponents. which is another way OF
saying that as a rule selfishness brings
home the bacon. At any rate, tariff
schedules that are to benefit directly
and tangibly the farmer the manu-
f~acturer, and this or that group of in
terests find their way into tariff bills
more easily than free list items.
Fine Buildings Erected.
A few of the 800 organizations that
hold forth in Washington have erected
fine buildings that contribute material
Ily to the beauty of the city. The Aneri-
can Red Cross, the Daughters of the
Revolution and the Pan-American
! Union all have magnificent homes in
Seventeenth street on the way to Po-
tomac park that rank high among the
architectural beauties of the Capitol
city. The American Federation OF La
Dor has a splendid office building in
Massachusetts, avenue at Ninth street,
and close by is a similar structure
reared and occupied by the Interna-
tional Brotherhood of Machinists.
Probably the feature building of them
all will be the new home OF the
| Chamber of Commerce of the United
States. now in course OF erection, while
the Scottish Rite temple In Sixteenth
street and a new edifice IN the old
Dean estate on which the Masons will
! spend millions, are illustrative OF what
fraternal orders have done to enhance
the attractions of Washington. The
National Geographic society is another
organization that has a fine homs OF
its own.
OF the political organizations es-
tablished in Washington the most i'm
portant are. of course. the democratic
and republican national committees.
Each occupies a great suite In q down.
town office building and each main
tains a force and equipment that Is
prepared to do anything except make
money. Any one of the leaders OF any
party, who has had and practical ex-
perience, will tell you that the national
headquarters Of such an organization
should be located in the treasury. IN
one Of the minis. or in the bureau OF
printing and engraving, where there
is quantity production of bank notes
and silver and gold certificates. There
in a popular idea that all the chieftains
of the political armies have TO do Is
to expend large sums of money. That
is a popular fallacy. Their principal
task-and one that must be discharged
before they can do anything else-is TO
raise large sums of money, and Of late
years they have learned that while 1t
may be more blessed to give than to
receive there is no widespread banker
ing for that kind of blessedness.
The Socialist party also maintains
offices here, as does also that organi-
zation that is undertaking a coalition
of the farmer and labor vote and that
may ultimately take the form OF a new
party. The Woman's National party is
represented In Washington and the or
gan,zations that fought for and against
suffrage still maintain headquarters,
although much of the political activity
of women is now linked up with the
organization work of the national COM
mittees of the old, established parties.
Greatest of all the national organi-
cations maintaining headquarters here,
and the one that is popularity supposed
to represent all the people all the
time, is the government itself. 1t Is
the colossal machine and all the others
are but cogs or wheels within wheels
On the whole it does big things in
big way. and gets them done efficiently
too. although many of the minor or.
carnations are obstacles in the way oil
its functioning properly.
It is this great organization that
has done wonders for Washington
making 1t what it should be-the mos
beautiful and the most estinl
capital in the world.