Evening star., 1925-03-29
Capital Sidelights


mission on Fine Arts He specified
the Washington Monument. the Lin
coin Memorial, the Saint-Gaudens
statue in Rock Creek Cemetery and
the little Joan Of Arc that has been
placed in Meridian Hill Park. THE
latter two" Mr.. Moore said, "are two
or the hnest pieces of sculpture that
have been made anywhere in the
world in the past thousand years
Speaking particularly of the Joan
of Arc stEtue, MIR. Moore called at
tention that Paul Dubois spent 20
years on that work, and exhibited It
IL times in the Paris Salon as he
worked upon it. by common con-
sent Of the artists Ii stands today. as
Ne finest equestrian statue Of
modern times" 1t ranks. he said,
with the Colleoni in Venice, CON
sdered by Ruskin to be the greatest
in the world
When Representative Almon of
Alabama remarked that THAT is a
matter of opinion, l imagine" Mr.
Moore replied: NO, these things
@etue down III the process of time
to a consensus of what the world
calls great. And when speak of the
Paul Dubois statue of Joan Of Are
IS great, ! mean that the artists OF
the world have agreed TO call il
L
Gaudens, ] mean the same thing, with
respect to the artists of the world
not alone the artists of America, but
the artists of the world
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miniature model of a 5-acre
playground for city children has been
constructed for the Children's Bureau
and will be displayed as a part of
the bureaus exhibit at the Interna
tional Council of Women meeting in
Washington this Spring. The model.
planned by the recreation expert of
the Children's Bureau, is an exact
reprod uction To scale of playground
adequately equipped for daily use by
approximately 300 boys and girls.
II contains a miniature swimming
pool, shelter house, two tennis
courts, a basketball court, a large
base ball diamond, a smaller diamond,
wading pool for little children,
seats for the story hours, swings,
ladders, flying rings. sand boxes and
all other needed equipment. Tiny
figures of children egaged in the
various sports are part of the model.
This model playground was con-
struCted by well known sculptor
and model maker, and is similar TO
one made for the bureau by the
partment and exhibited at the fourth
pan American child welfare congress
held last Fall in Santiago, Chile.
This model is on permanent display
At the Children's Bureau and VIII be
loaned TO important child welfare
conferences.
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Uncle Sam has started out 10 find
out for hinself-"what books do chill
dren like?"
Now that there arc many more
library books to put into children
hands than there were few years
ago, increasing interest has developed
In giving children the books for
which they will care so much that
they will not only enjoy them, but
form A taste for reading many others.
Supt. Carlton w. Washburn of Win
netka. Ill, is making d study which
will offer much necessary informa-
tion contributed chiefly by the chill
dren themselves. BY means of a
standard test the reading ability OF
each child is first determined. with
the result of this test as guide
books are allotted by the research ex-
perts to the children according TO
their reading ability. The books are
selected from the American Library
Association list or other lists com
piled for the United states Bureau of
Education by experts in the selection
OF childrens reading. These books
are then graded on the basis of bal
lots cast by the children.
1t is hoped that by September of
this year it will be possible for Uncle
Sam to publish A carefully graded
carefully selected list of from 500 to
] 900 books for children, which
l. l. nrS
teachers and children.
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Every once in a while some mem
ber of Congress thinks up some new
way to keep in close touch with the
voters of his district, especially with
view TO showing them that he is
ION the job" in their interests at the
Capitol. representative Meyer Jacob
stein, in New York, has just gotten
out his Second Annual Report to the
Voters of My District" He says:
II can think of no better use tc
which the Congressional Record car
be put than to employ it as means
of acquainting voters with the legis-
lative record of Congress and with
the attitude and vote of their owr
Representatives on important Ques'
tions. We must establish contacts
We legislators and voters must get
on speaking terms. We need team
work The voters are in a true
sense stockholders in this greatest
corporation, the United States Gov
ernment. AS stockholders, you are
entitled to know what the directors
the Congressmen--a doing and what
the condition of the corporation is
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! "Jeferson's antidote" is what We
are fighting for, who deplore the
present situation in the United State:
| which the Volstead act has brought,
says Representative John Philip Hill
of Maryland. Then he quotes the fol-
| lowing from a letter written in 1915
by Thomas Jefferson to French
friend:
II rejoice, as a moralist, at the
prospect of reduction of the
duties on wine by our national legis-
lature. 1.-THE duty-is a pro
! hibition of its use to the middling
class of our citizens, and condemna'
| tion of them to the poison of whisky
which is desolating their houses. NJ
! nation is drunken where wine i:
cheap, and none sober where the dear
ness of wine substitutes ardent spirit:
as the common beverage. 1t is, in
truth, the only antidote to the bant
of whisky
Representative Hill comments thai
1T would be interesting to know
| what the Sage of Monticello would
| say If he could return to find himself
| arraigned against the Constitution
and the law, an apologist for crime
and bedfellow of bootleggers."
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Now that the Japanese cherry trees
| are in bloom about the Tidal Basin
| and along the Potomac Drive, which
were placed there by direction OF
Mrs. Roosevelt after they were seni
as a token of affection by the En-.
press of Japan, Representative