Evening star., 1925-03-29
BY MARGARET b. DOWNING.


the First Congregational, at Tenth
and G. streets, has ambitious projects
in the way of d new structure. pos
slbly tall skyscraper after the sue
ceSSfu1 methods employed IN New
York and other ciSes, is a fascinat-
ing bit of news which opens interest
ing vistas. 1t has been the fate IN
recent years of almost every congre-
cation which numbered a Chiet
Magistrate and his family on It's
roster to find that the ecclesiastic
building had become crowded beyond
endurance in consequence and That
new church was imperative.
President RooseVelts modest
church, the Dutch Reformed, on
Fifteenth street, was one of the
earliest to recognize this new condi-
ton and a larger and more preten-
tious edfice was begun while this dis
tinguished parishioner was in the
Nhite House.
President Taft attended the Uni
tartan Church, at Fourteenth and l.
streets, and it was during his tenure
of Office that negotiations began to
sell the property for commercial pur-
poses and thus realize sufficient for
new church in more congenIal To-
cation. The splendid group at Six
.teenth and Harvard streets is the re
suit Of the impetus given during the
Taft administration.
When President Wilson took over
the reins of government in 1913 the
only Southern Presbyterian Church
in the city was tiny place at Thlrd
and | streets, and his membership in
this division of the John Knox faith
resulted almost Immediately in the
erection of the fine colonial church
at Fifteenth and Irving streets The
Congregational Church is revered
landmark, but even before President
Coolidge became the most important
parishioner it was inadequate for the
regular Sunday congregation. The
lamented President Harding attended
: the Calvary Baptist Church, and
space there on Sunday had been
almost infinitesimaI and a rebuilding
problem would undoubtedly have
ensued.
DIR. William NJ Jardine has found
:. a congenial role in connection with
the several flower shops at which he
. has been a central figure since taking
over duties as head of the Agricul-
tural Department. His delight over
the local amaryllus display was en-
couraging TO all who had part in ii,
= and his enthusiasm over the Won
drous floral exhibits which he attend
ed in Philadelphia and New York was
inspiring. The New York Spring
flower show, staged about the mid
y die of March in the Grand Central
Hall, surpassed all previous events.
= The Mrs. Calvin Coolidge rose was
again the wearer of a blue ribbon and
was used as the principal decoration
at the luncheon which the board of
managers gave in honor of DR.. Jar
: dine. This rose, which has completed
two successful years as competitor in
under glass specimens, Will this
year be transplanted into experiment
tai gardens and tried in the open
1t is a lovely full bloom of a cop
perry tinge shading to deep pink and
is unusually fragrant. The buds are
particularly long and slender and
open slowly.
- Not in many years has Washington
felt so keen a personal interest in the
new appointeeS in the foreign serv-
ice. The former president of Cornell, Mr.
Jacob G.. Schurmann, now Ambassador
to Berlin, is among the veterans in
the foreign service of this Republic,
and if he had retained his connection
with the State Department unremit-
ttngly, he would outrank Edwin V.
Morgan, Ambassador to Rio de
Janiero, who went from college into
consular Office the first year of this
century. The Ambassador to Ger
many was among those who gave
ripe experience to President Nc
Kinley when the Philippine problem
was new and he has been at the dis
posal of every President since in aid
ing TO untangle knotty foreign ques
lions. As Cornell University is CO.
educational and has a large and in
fuential alumni in Washington, DIR.
Schurmann has frequently been here
in the social way. The recently
desi gnated Ambassador to Buenos
Aires, Mr.. Peter Augustus Jay, be-
gan his career in proper fashion in
the State Department. He has climbed
Ia.
secretary's Office to the role of AM
bassador, unaided by the large circle
of relatives which included former
President Roosevelt nor by the fame
which hallows the great-grandson of
John Jay. Many of the other ap-
pointees in the foreign service have
wide acquaintance at the Capital and
the trend of recent assignments is to
give the American diplomatic corps
an entity and dignity which it has
hitherto lacked
1t is many the long day since so
accomplished a disciple of Sir Izaac
Walton has graced the executive cir
Gle, and the genial Attorney General
will have an embarrassment of riches
in the way of Invitations from local |
fishing clubs, not to mention the
temptations which Will be placed in
his way by deyotees in the neighbor-
ing States, who have at present more
leisure than the new head of the De
partment of Justice can expect in d |
year. Mr.. Sargent knows fishing only |
n in his mountain streams and off the |
islands which dot the map of Maine. |
He has many pleasant days ahead if
/ he VIII accept the amenities of GER
tain men who steal off at break of
day and get their lines into the
Monocacy when the black bass is
skirmishing around for breakfast.
The Secretary of War, who is among
the few who knew Mr.. Sargent prior
to his entering the Coolidge cabinet,
is a fisherman of a kind-that is, !
he counts it a real holiday at his
farm near Lancaster, n. H, when he
can spend n day fishing. But he never
INDUCES in the sport about Wash
ington, for he never has time, and
this perhaps will be the regrettable
experience of the Attorney General.
The Secretary of Commrce likes deep
sea fishing, but he has to journey to
California to indulge in it. AS Judge
Wilbur, the Secretary of the Navy
liked to fish and belonged to several
fishing clubs of San Francisco, but he
has never cast a line since coming
to Washington
Representative John Q. Tilson of
Connecticut, who has succeeded
Nicholas Longworth as floor leader
of the Republicans of the House, has
an unique achievement to his credit
and one which has made him a |
familiar figure in the scholastic
world About 10 years ago he wrote
a textbook on the Constitution of
the United States in words of one
syllable, and in this task he sought
the cooperation of young John, then