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Evening star., 1925-05-31
BY EDWARD M. TABER.

~ June will occur the Tooth ami
versary of the death of the man to
whose artistic and engineering SKILL
~ imaginative power and prophetic
vision the city of Washington is indebted for
the grandeur of its plan, for the splendor of
its parks and for the manifold beauties which
make 1t unique among the cities of the world
Soldier, engineer, architect artist and adopt
ed citizen of the Republic. Pierre Charles
L'Enfant died June 4. 1925. just across the
District line in Maryland and within sight
of the Capitol, in poverty and neglect, and
throughout the length and breadth of the
District Of Columbia street, avenue. park
or building bears his name, and there is alb
solutely nothing to commemorate his history
and achievements to them from an
unmerited oblivion.
He was born in Paris August 2, 1854. He
was the son of Pierre LEnfant, who bore
by royal decree the title painter in Ordinary
to the King in the Manufacture of the
Gobelins." and painted several pictures of
famous battles in which the armies of France
participated.
Service to This Country.
In 1777 Pierre Charles LEnfant then % years
of age and brevet lieutenant in the French
colonial troops. came to America and offered
his services to Washington without pay. He
served a volunteer at his own expense
until February, 177S, when he given a
commission captain of engineers and as
signed to duty with the inspector general,
Dut ne was not content with Stan duty and
was eager sto get into the fighting line, and
was so earnest in his request for active duty
that he was sent to join the Army In the
South and permitted to a volunteer
officer with the Infantry. He led the advance
column under D'Estaing and Lincoln at the
battle OF Savannah, October 9, 1779, and was
seriously wounded and confined to his bed
for several months and compelled to use
crutches for time after, but before he
was fit for duty he insisted on rejoining his
command. He participated in the battle of
Charleston, May IL, $780, and was taken
prisoner when the city was forced to capit-
ulate.
Commended by Washington.
He was a prisoner of war until January
1882, when, through the efforts of Rocham-
beau, he exchanged for Capt. Hey
den, Hessian officer. Washington wrote
him a personal letter after the battle of
Savannah commencing him for his zeal and
bravery, and stated that Congress would
doubtless reward him by promotion, and
after an act was passed by which he was
made q major of engineers.
The war being over LEnfant sailed for
France in November. 1888. Washington had
made him the first president of the Order of the
Cincinnati, and while in his native land he or
ganized the French branch of the order. He
had become much attached to America,
however that he remained in France but a
few months, returning toSNew York April
%, 1884. He. took up his abode in that city,
where his talents as an engineer and archi-
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Coast Guard, the Customs Service and
Narcotic Division.
~ UR fight against rum SNUG
Cling has not yet begun. We
have only been experiment.
" ing thus far. All of our ships
are not yet ready for duty
on the coasts, and we have not been
able as yet to put into effect the regu-
lations which have for their object
the stoppage of the liquor transporta-
ton across the Canadian and Mexican
borders.
1t is hardly two months since / have
been co-ordinating various agencies of
Government charged with law enforce
ment, and / am not yet prepared to
announce the Government plan of
action The concentration of Coast
Guard vessels and the picketing of in
dividual rum-runners was decided
upon merely as an experiment to de-
termine what further measures would
be necessary when all operations of
the Government were really under
way and our entire fleet of ships ready
for action.
l have just returned from very
important international conference on
the Mexican border with the dele
gates of the republic of Mexico and
| am expecting soon in Washington
to meet Canadian delegation to dis
cuss regulations carrying into eff
feet the convention negotiated last
Fall.
/ am glad to say that the spirit of
the Mexican delegation was one of
cordial cooperation and l am deeply
impressed with the desire of the new
government in Mexico to work with
us in preventing all manner of SNUG
Cling on the border. The treaty
Evening star., 1925-05-31
Washington, Unique Among World Cities,
Owes Its Manifold Beauties to L'Enfant

range grand banquet in honor of the birth
of the dauphin, he had hall built especially
for that purpose in Philadelphia, which
LEnfant designed. He also made the plans
for splendid residence in Philadelphia for
Robert Norris without whose financial aid
the Revolution would have failed. but the
plans called for such large expenditure of
money that the mansion was never built.
Selected to Make City Plans
July 16, 1880, Congress authorized Presi
dent Washington to select a site ION the
Potomac River, a territory of 10 miles square,
which should become Federal territory"
Washington already had made up his mind
to the site to be chosen, after much ex-
ploration on horseback of the land bordering
on the Potomac and. recognizing the genius
of L'Enfant engineer and architect,
selected him to make the plans for the Fed
eral City.
LEnfant accepted the commission with the
greatest enthusiasm and threw his whole
soul into the work. He did not content him
self with laying out streets, avenues and
parks, but designed public buildings and
many unique and beautiful decorative fea-
lures. But, although his plans Off
cially approved and adopted, many of his
ideas not carried out and deviations
made from his plans which were, in al
most every instance. detrimental and without
good reason or Justification.
The young engineer projected series of
beautiful public buildings, gardens and spa
cjous residences for ministers from foreign
countries, to occupy all the south frontage
of Pennsylvania avenue between the Palace
of the President" and the Federal House
as the White House and the Capitol were
then called.
Other Interesting Plans.
On the present site of the Patent Office
Building was to be national nonsectarian
church, where memorial addresses and funeral
orations to be delivered and monuments
to the illustrious dead preserved-an American
Westminster Abbey. At precisely $3.50 feet
from the Capitol column TO be erected
commemorative of the Revolution and its his
torc incidents. The distance between two ex-
actly marked points the column and the
Capitol to constitute official unit of
measurements standard mile. East Capitol
street be splendid business thorough
fare, lined with fine stores and arcades. Tiber
Creek to be beautihed by artificial
cascade These, with many other of LEnfants
projects failed to find favor with his prosaic
and short-sighted compatriots. who not
gifted with his esthetic inspiration, his fertile
imagination his prophetic vision. Like the
hero of "Locksley Hail." he
dipped the human eye
could
Saw the vision Of the world and all the wonder
The principal owners of the land COM
prisins the 10 miles square were Daniel
Carroll, Motley Young, David Burns and
Samuel Davidson. Carroll owned "Dud-
dington Manor" which practically all
of Capitol Hill and considerable adjacent ter
ritory. Young owned what is the
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Evening star., 1925-05-31
Foresees Dry Law Violators
Routed by Indignant Public

test will be whether or not the Treas
ury Department decides to use and ac-
tually does use its power and re
sources (both OF which are already
fully adequate) to stop at the source
the abundant streams of denatured al.
cohol inside our boundaries, which is
the basis of nearly all our homemade
bootleg liquor. 1t can, IL it chooses.
but it never yet has made that choice.
No good citizen naturally can question
the desirability of wiping out rum row.
Every shot that is fired against a rum
runner is another of those shots that
are heard around the world. 1t is a
shot in battle that of necessity must
be won. Anything less would be in.
tolerable, since the Government forces
have undertaken the task of win
ming it.
Meanwhile, the crux of the enforce.
ment problem must be faced ashore.
Unless homemade poison liquor is cut
off the attack on rum row will have no
real effect. It's result will only be to
decrease by an unimportant per.
centage the amount of poisoned boot.
leg drink. But If both the foreign and
the domestic bootleggers are hit at the
same time we shall get real progress.
fCopV-ipht
Evening star., 1925-05-31
RTJM-SNUCCLINC FIGHT
ON BORDERS JUST BEGUN
Dry Head Says Border and Coast Block
AIDES Against Bootleggers Are Still
in Experimental Stage.

drawn up is reciprocal. We are not
asking Mexico to do a thing that we
are not obligating ourselves to do for
Mexico. 1t is a long border. but
every agency that can be utilized will
be brought into play.
For we must realize that the prob
lem of breaking up the "bootlegging
spect for the eighteenth amendment.
but to prevent the growth of corrup-
ton in other lines of business which
are more or less related to the Illicit
traffic in liquor.
Freight agents, railroad employees.
in fact thousands of persons who or
dinarily would not regard their action
as criminal, are assisting others to
commit crime by participating in max
ing false bills OF 1ading and other
practices that have for their object
the defeat of law enforcement
The very stability of American bust
ness is at stake. For if corruption is
countenanced in one line of business it
will spread to others, and respect for
the law will be diminished We cannot
and we cannot afford to allow any
agency of the Government to remain
ineffective in the face of organized
or unorganized lawlessness.
What progress have we made so far
on rum row? We haven't started.
We have not yet completed our sys-
tenn for the gathering of information
about the enemy" but I can say
that we expect effective cooperation
from foreign governments, and we ex-
pect to put enough vessels on the
coast to break up any more concen-
trated invasions of our coast line. It
will take time, but in the end the
Government will win because it must
win.
Copyright 1921
Evening star., 1925-05-31
BY CLIFFORD PINCHOT,
Governor of Pennsylvania.

Public opinion accumulates like the
water behind a dam. There is no
noise, no fuss, nothing but the grad
ual. almost imperceptible, rising of the
water. Finally the day comes when
the last necessary pound of pressure
has been accumulated, the dam gives
way and the imprisoned flood, long
held quiet and ineffective, sweeps
everything before it.
So it will be with law enforcement.
When the flood of indignant public
sentiment is finally turned loose the
men who winked at law-breaking and
encouraged crime and otherwise stood
in the way of respect for the Consti-
tuition will have no more pressing busi-
ness than to climb the nearest tree.
Whether the present campaign of
the Treasury Department against
bootleg liquor from foreign ports in
dicates that the dam is beginning to
quiver l do not know The real test
will not be an expensive and spectacu-
lar effort, however successful. to stop
the comparatively small trickle of for
eign bootleg liquor which seeps into
this country from rum row. The real
Evening star., 1925-05-31

~ RESIDENT COOLIDGE, in the
- course of his Memorial day
address yesterday. made some
Il observations on the relations
between the States and the
Federal Government which politicians
declare are likely to produce profound
discussion of economic and govern
mental affairs. The politicians say
that President Coolidge has created
new political issue which may be
ranked as promising to claim the
attention of the Nation and to affect
legislation and governmental action
In the future.
President Coolidge is recognized as
having directed public thought and
consideration of subjects into new
channels in two notable instances
since he assumed the presidency. He
is given credit for having aroused
public interest in reduced taxation,
and the necessary corollary of re-
trenchment of governmental expenses,
to extend ultimately to reduced do
mestic extravaganza.
Quoting the President literally, what
he said yesterday was, What we need
is not more Federal Government, but
better local government. From every
position of consistency with our sys-
tenn, more Capitalization ought to be
avoided" From that statement he
broadened easily to an admonition
to the States and localities of realiZa-
ton of the necessity for recognition
of local responsibilities. He declared
that the reason for increasing de-
mands on the Federal Government is
that the States have not discharged
their full duty. While some States
had done better and others worse in
this direction, he insisted that as a
oil A1,1y-
should. From this, he argued, has
grown up a demand for greater con-
centration of powers In the Federal
Government. He unhesitatingly de-
clared that the remedy would be worse
than the disease.
He realizes that the States would
protest promptly enough anything
savoring Of Federal usurpation. The
President Is cognizant Of the drift
of public sentiment at this time
against the encroachment of the Fed
eral Government, resentful of any In
dications in that direction. The re
lection of the constitutional amend
ment on child labor which is now
forecast by the action of States thus
far in refusing ratification, is regarded
by politicians as an undoubted indi
cation of the state of the public mind
on the subject of what seems to be
invasion of the reserved rights of the
States.
Sees Weakening OF State.
President Coolidge finds that Zone
insidious practice which sugarcoats
the dose of Federal intrusion is the
division of expense for public improve
ments or services between State and
National treasures. THE ardent
State rights advocate he said, "sees
in this practice a vicious weakening
of the States system. The extreme
| Federalist is apt to look upon it-ir
cynical fashion as bribing the States
into subordination. The average
American believing in our dual SOY
ereignty system must feel that the
| policy of national doles through the
States is bad and may become disas
trous. We may so on yet for time
Evening star., 1925-05-31
LOndOners Marvel
At Modern Building

One of London's newest buildings
they are springing up like mushrooms
these days-attracts unusual atten-
ton not only because of it's prominent
position at the corner of the Strand
and Wellington street but because of
a strange departure from the form
that has characterized London struc-
lures for centuries. 1t attracts the
interest Of every one who sees It.
Passers-by stand for long periods gaz-
ing at the chaste lines of the white
stone, wondering what is lacking,
until finally it dawns on them that
there are no chimney pots. STRAW
dinary!' they exclaim and shake their
heads over the fact that the introduc-
tion of steam heat has produced in
London flat-topped building without
a chimney visible from the street.
Evening star., 1925-05-31
NEW POLITICAL ISSUE
IS RAISED BY COOLIDGE
Interrelationshi ps of Federal and State
Governments Broug Int to Fore-Cen-
tralization Trend Again Gets Blow.

with the easy assumption that if the
States will not the Nation must but
that way lies trouble
President Coolidge finds that one
example is in connection with the Fed
eral contribution to road building
which produces constant demands for
more Federal contributions and sees
the possibility of an economic injus-
tice on one side and a political injury
on the other.
The President expressed his appre-
hension of the evasion of the respon-
sibf1ity by the local Government units
which he feels is starting on the
vicious way of disregard of law and
laxity of living. THE police force
which is administered on the assump-
ton that the violations of some laws
may be ignored has started toward
decentralization.
Problems OF State Relations.
The President recognizes that we
still have problems of interstate rela-
tions to handle. He refutes the claim
that this is land of equal opportu-
nifty for all. but that is not so because
of the Emergencies of laws between
the different States. He said, $50
long as some can go to a distant
denied at home there is not equality
in this regard. When some States
grant valuable exemptions from taxa
ton which other States impose, one
person may enjoy while another is
denied these benefits"
The President pointed out if oues-
tions which the States will not fairly
settle on their own account, will have
TO be settled for them by the Fed
eral authorities, it will only be because
some States will have refused to dis
charge obvious duties. He found
there is another responsibility of the
States, quite aside from this one of
forcement. I'VE are not a lawless
people, he said, "but we are too fire.
quently a careless one"
President Coolidge's Memorial day
address will be widely distributed
when it's full purpose and the tenets
he advocates are weighed and duly
considered after first reading. Since
his entry into public life he has been
recognized as a profound thinker on
constitutional questions and economic
policies
Politicians here think that his ad-
dress yesterday can be classed as in
reality a state paper. They foresee
his remarks being taken up by editors
and writer's throughout the country
and that they will be commented upon
by members of Congress who will rec.
ogniZe the ccgency of his arguments
and the appropriateness of the time OF
their presentation. 1t seems to be a
coincidence of the man, the time and
the place.
Evening star., 1925-05-31
Compulsory Voting
In Argentina Fails

Compulsory voting does not seem to
have solved the problems of bad gov
ernment in Argentina. For several
years that country has had compul-
sorry voting laws, but the idea does
not seem to fit the Latin tempera,
ment After every election it is found
that the percentage of blank ballots
cast Is very high.
Evening star., 1925-05-31
l3 Jewellers Located
in 5O-Yard Street

Black Lionyard, near Whitechapel
Church, London, although only so
yards in length, houses 13 jewelrv
shops Except for four other shops and
one public house. Black Lionyard goes
In solidly for diamonds, gold and silver.
Evening star., 1925-05-31

tect subsisted him comfortably for while.
During this period he submitted to Congress
a memorial of a system of national defense. with
elaborate plans and sketches of Notifications.
He also remodeled the old New York City
Hall and drew the plans for the manufac-
turing city of Paterson, y. ]. When the
Evening star., 1925-05-31
BY LINCOLN C. ANDREWS.

Assistant Secretary of the Treasury ir
charge of prohibition enforcement. thf
Coast Guard, the Customs Service anc
Narcotic Division
Evening star., 1925-05-31
BY FRANK III. SIMONDS.

YHAT is to be the foreign pol
M icy of the new Germany?
wv No question Of all the many
which press upon Euro
mean StataSpen at tho
Evening star., 1925-05-31
By n. o. MESSENGER

~ RESIDENT COOLIDGE, in the
- course of his Memorial day
address yesterday, made some
i observations on the relations
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~ N June will occur the Tooth ami
I versary of the death of the man to
whose artistic and engineering skill,
~ imaginative power and prophetic
New Britain herald., 1925-11-06
Observation
On The Weather

Washington, Nov. 6-Forccast
for Southern New England: Partly
cloudy and slightly colder tonight;
Saturday fair, colder; fresh west
winds.
Forecast for Eastern New York:
Fair and slightly colder tonight;
Saturday fair, colder in central and
north portions: fresh west winds.
Conditions: The lake disturb
anec Of yesterday morning is passing
out TO sea by way OF the lower St.
Lawrence valley. II caused gen.
cral rains from Texas northeast
ward to Maine. II Is raining this
morning in Oklahoma, western
Louisiana and Texas. A long ridge
of high pressure stretches from the
southern states northwestward Il
the western Canadian provinces
Temperatures are warmer thi,
morning in New England and cooler
in the lake regions.
Conditions favor for this vicinity
fair and somewhat cooler tonight
and Saturday.
New Britain herald., 1925-11-06
MONEY FOR PARKS
AND TRINNGIES

The Board Of Finance and Taxa
tion, convinced that tool houses
and such sun1ry improvements are
necessary in Willow Brook and
Stanley Quarter parks, will recon-
mend to the Common Council that
$4,000 be appropriated for the
purposes, the money being available
from the Hawley fund.
But the ambition Of fifth ward
citizens to have triangles ut Broad,
Clinton and BurrItt streets beauti-
fed, meets with the announcement
by the park board that there are
no funds on hand for further i'm
provements. although the matter
will besrcferrcd 10 the board OF
Finance and Taxation.
1t would seem that there could
he an appropriation for the second
matter as well as for the first, es-
pecially in view OF the fact that the
cost OF such Identification would be
comparatively little. The money
could not come from the IIawley
fund, such things not having been
specifically included in 1t. , But the
city could make a small appropria-
ton for the purpose in the next
budget.
Opportunities to bcautify the city
should not be overlooked. Here are
minor beautifcations that viii
mean much for the aesthetic sense
Of the fifth ward, and that is some
thing distinctly worth while.
II is 10 be hoped that the finance
board will sec its way Gear to rec
ommend the small sum needed to
show the fifth ward that the city Is
alert to do its share toward improv-
ing these little triangle parks. Tho
effect upon the residents who viii
see the results daily In the future
will be worth much more than the
small outlay required. It will mean
that the city is setting an example
In Identification that residcntcrs
naturally will be stimulated 10 fol-
low.
New Britain herald., 1925-11-06

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New Britain herald., 1925-11-06

The manner IN which man,
after his arrest In West Hartford
as drunken driver, gave the name
Of a local person, posted a bond OF
5000, and has never been heard
from since, was trick that may
ESain POPULARITY If the police do not
adopt more rigid methods Of cor
robora'ing names with automobile
license plates on cars figuring in
such episodes.
New Britain herald., 1925-11-06
Is Years Ago Today

Corporation Counsel Hungcrford
represented New Britain today in
the $4,000 suit brought by Hart
ford for alleged pollution Of the
Park river. The fight at present
concerns the manner Of trying the
case, whether by jury or not.
The Connecticut Co. has pur-
chased a now closed car for use on
the lines here.
Tho common council did not meet
Wednesday night, so the bill sent in
by Contractor +. D. Shaw was not
paid and he gets no wages this
month. Chairman T. II. Johnston
thinks that the board can fix him
up before it is time for another
council meeting.
Engineer Caldwell went to Will
mantle today and will have charge
Of bcautifying and grading the Nor
nal school grounds there.
The first snow flakes Of the VIM
ter fell here today.
1t is understood friends Of Lieu
tenant Colonel Thompson will pre-.
sent TO Govcrnor-clect McLear
facts concerning his qualifications tc
be the next adjutant- general. II
is believed the governor will con.
ciliatn New Britain with at least on,
! appointment in return for the vote
Tuesday.