The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-04-15
GROUPS
HELPCITY'S
GROWTH
Many National Organizations
Maintain Headquarters
and Stats Here
BY RICHARD HATTON.

Il no 58IOW1uS lnpOIIAnC VI (AAS
city as Irrational business center
can be no more strongly emphasis
ed than by a glance at the mum.
Der of great national industries and
business organizations which now
maintain offices here.
What the establishment and
maintenance of these headquar-
ters means to Washington viii be
realized when it is stated that
considerably over one thousand
people are employed in, them per-
manently and that they represent
vast industrial enterprises located
in every section of the United
States. ts
So important has become the
National Capital as a center for
national industry that the represen-
.tatives Of many Of the larger
business enterprises maintaining
years formed what is known as
the Monday Lunch Club, which
meets once each week at the City
Club to discuss informally such
business problems and questions II
mutual interest as may be pre-
eentSd
The club was organized by Judge
Nathan 3. Williams, council for. the
National Association OF Manufac-
turers, and its membership in
cludes the following: Edgar T.
Allen. of the National Lumber
Manufacturers Association; w. B.
Barr, of the Grain Dealers Nation.
al Association; T. r. Barrows, OF
the National Association of Sand
and Gravel Producers; J. ID. Battle,
of the National Coal Producers
Association; E. A. Brand OF the
Tanners Council Of America; Eu-
gene C. Brokmeyer, Of the National
Association of Retail Druggists; j.
r. Callbreath, of the American Min
FnR Congress; Frank Carnahan, of
the National Retail Lumber Dealers
Association; Ira C.. Cochran, COM
missioner of the American Whole.
sale Coal Association: Wilson Comp
ton. of the National Lumber Manu-
factuFers Association; George II
Cushing and Norman Damon, OF
the .Nation8f Automobile Chamber
of Eommerce: j.. Deadly, OF
Armour and Company. Alvin z.
Dodd OF the Chamber Of Commerce
of the. United States; Fayette 3.
Dow, of the NATIONAL Petroleum
Association: Norman Draper, Of the
Institute OF American Meat Pack
ers; E. H. Duff. Of the American
Steamship Owners Association: VIII
liam J. Eynon, of the United
Typothetae Of America.
Burton A. Ford, OF the National
Lime Association; r. s. French, Of
the National League or Commits
sion Merchants of the United
States; John c. Gall. of the Ma
tiona1 Industrial Council; John B.
Gordon, of the Bureau OF Raw
Materials for America; Carroll B.
Huntress, Of the National Coal
Associations Harry L. Candy, Of
the National Coal Association: Ben
jamin r. Jacobs. Of the National
MacaroTlie Manufactured Associa.
ton; Pyke johnson. Of the National
Automobile Chamber OF Commerce:
Franklin D. Jones, OF the National
Wholesale Lumber Association;
Erving F. Kemp, OF the Proprietary
the National Association OF Build
ers Exchanges.
A. M. Loomis, Of the National
Grange; w. C. Markham, Of the
American Association OF State
Highway Officials: Alfred T. Mark,
of the National Brick Manufactur-
ers Associations; r. G. Marshall, IT.,
of the Associated General Contrac.
tors of America; Allen B. Mcdaniel,
of the American Association Of
Engineers; e. J. McVann, Of the
Smokeless Coal Operators of West
Virginia.; Royal d. Mead, Of the
Hawaiian Sugar Planters Associa-
ton; E. E. Mountjoy, Of the Amer
lean Bankers Association; r. w.
Noxon. of the Railway Business
Association; George w. Offutt, OF
the American Automobile Associa.
ton
Truman G. Palmer, of the Amer
lean Beet Sugar Association; James
Craig Peacock, of the National
Council of American Cotton Manu-
facturers: James F. Pickett, of the
United Medicine Manufacturers OF
America: Carey e. Quinn, OF the
American Hardware Manufacturers
Association: Edwin B. Reid, of the
American Farm Bureau Federation;
George A. Kicker, Of the Portland
Cement Association: John M. Rog-
ers, of the American Sugar. Cane
League; r. H. Rowe Of the Amer
lean Wholesale Grocers Association;
D. H. Sawyer, of the Association
Of General Contractors of America.
Harry II. Semmes. Of the Farm
Bureau Federation; H. H. Shelton,
of the Tobacco Merchants Associa.
ton Of the United States; Ernest
NJ. Smith. of the American Auto
mobile Associations; c. T. Starr, Of
the Coal Bureau, Chamber of Com
merce of the United States; Henry
r. Stringer. of the Hydraulic Press
Brick Company; II. B. Thompson,