The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-09-11

any rate, tariff schedules that are to
benefit directly and tangibly the
farmer, the manufacturer, and this or
that group of interests 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 mater
tally to the beauty of the city. The
American Red Cross, the Daughters of
the Revolution and the Pan-American
Union all have magnificent homes in
Seventeenth street on the way to
Potomac park that rank high among
the architectural beauties of the
capital city The American Federation
of Labor has a splendid office building
in Massachusetts avenue at Ninth
street and close by is similar struc-
ture reared and occupied by the Inter-
national 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 Six
teenth Street and new edifice on
the old Dean Estate on which the
Masons will spend millions are illus
trated of what fFaternaI orders have
done to enhance the attractions of
Washington The National Geographic
society is another organization that
has a fine home of its own.
OF the political organization estab
lished in Washington the most i'm
portant are, of course, the Democratic
and Republican National committees.
Each occupies a greatssuite in a 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 any practical
experience will tell you that the ma
tional headquarters of such an organ
| ization should be located in the Treas
ury, in one of the minis, or in the
1 Bureau of Printing and Engraving
where there is quantity production of
bank notes and silver and gold certif-
/ icates There is a popular idea that
/ all the chieftains of the political arm
| les have to do is to expend large sums
of money. That is a popular fallaey.
/ 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 it may be
more blessed to give than to receive
there is no widespread hankering for
that kind of blessedness.
The Socialist Party also maintains
offices here, as does also that organ
izatien that is undertaking a coalition
of the farmer and labor vote and that
may ultimately take the form of a
new party The Weman's National
Party is represented in Washington
and the organizations 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 committees 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. It is the Co
lossal machine and all the others are
but cogs or wheels within wheels On
the whole it does big things in a big
way, and gets them done efficiently
too, although many of the minor or.
CARNATIONS are obstacles in the way OF
it's funetioning properly.
i It is this great organization that
has done wonders for Washington
making it what it should be-the most
beautiful and the most interesting cap
ital in the world.