Evening star., 1925-09-12

| by glance at the thermal lines upon
thermal map of North America. We
| have no glaciers behind US, but within
the city there is a greater variety in
attitudes than there is within the cor
Iporate limits of Sitka. DR.. Day, the
Iclimatologist of the United States
I Weather Bureau, reports that the av-
erage temperature of Washington last
| month was 732-just the same as thar
or Paradise Isles, in Midpacific Ocean.
IIhat was only one degree warmer than
the average recorded by the Weather
Bureau for the last 50 years. Strange
| how some people who know not Wash
ington have the idea that this is a pc
culiarly hot city, when the very re
been known TO average so degrees, but
all "old residents agree then that the
weather is most unusual and Is sure
to cool off tomorrow"
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Chicago during the first week of
September had an average of 79 de
grees, withs no such shade trees as
adorn Washington's boulevards and
streets. Washington during the same
week. even in the ordinary conditions
Of official registration. averaged only
~ degrees. st. Louis had an average
for the week of IS, Omaha SO, Kansas
City 81 and San Antonio S2-all from
. to II degrees hotter than Washing
ton. While unusual weather" in July
has sometimes run the thermometer
up to 80 average, the official average
July for the past 49 years has been re
corded at the United States Weather
Bureau as only 72 degrees.
X X
Lieut.. Col. Sheriff., director of pub
lie buildings and parks, recently re-
buked the American snobs, who, trav-
cling abroad, speak dispara gingiy OF
their own country and its Capital:
How often are we outraged" said
Col. Sheriff., in q recent speech, 'at
the sight of certain types of Ameri-
cans, revelling in Europe. ashamed to
admit that they are citizens of this
country. It would be difficult to in
still patriotic pride in persons of this
type, but nothing could be more eff
fective in reaching even this class
than in having a National Capital of
outstanding beauty among all the cap
itals of the world"
Washington itself does not invite in
dustries, smoky factories employing
thousands of alien laborers. But there
is strong sentiment toward encour-
aging industrial development across
the Potomac, in Alexandria There lie
more than two miles of excellent sites
along the bank of the tidal river, to
which ocean vessels may come, on the
one side, and many railroads are al
ready on the other. This is the gate
way between the entire South and the
North-the strategical point for as
sembling plants for automobiles and
other machinery, and for other manu-
factures and industries. The employees
can live in Alexandria or commute
| into Washington, just across the river.
The Potomac has minimum chan
| mel of 21 feet to the sea and, by an
| expenditure of only $500, 900, which Is
provided for In this years budget, the
channel will be deepened to "a feet.
That will admit, at low tide, rs per
cent of ocean going commerce and, as
| industries grow, the channel will BE-
deepened to 80 feet or more. The de-
velopment Of Great Falls will give us
surplus electric power.
Now that we have an auditorium
with seating capacity Of 5000 and H.
convention bureau, and its director,
| Mr.. lie Vigne, with a hustling capac-
ity of many million horsepower, theEe
is expectation that out of the zoos
conventions held annually in the
United States, the National Capital
will welcome several hundred each
year. Every convention adds to the
enthusiasm of future Washingtonians
and arouses a consciousness of the i'm
portance for all large enterprises to
establish here their executive offices
or other headquarters.
President Coolidge Is on record as
determined to urge upon Congress this
year the Importance of erecting ade-
quate public buildings, in place of the
temporary war buildings and the rent
| ed quarters now housing third of the
Governments departments.
tcopyright 1925. by Paul Y. Collinsl