Evening star., 1926-11-14
Capital Sidelights

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| suppression, due to the fact that Con-
/ greSS was not having any proceeu'
ings.
The only reason for this Record.
| which Is one Of the smallest on rec
| ord, Is that the Senate was in session
,, for 10 minutes on Wednesday. having
voted to recess until November 10,
! when 1t intended to start the i'm
parchment trial Of Judge English, and
then just on the eve Of the trial the
Judge resigned and there was no trial.
The proceedings, with submitted
letters, occupied just a page and
half Of the Record, so the Govern
ment Printing Office had to scurry
around and fill in enough to make n
four-page document with notices held
in type, and including a roster OF the
Senators and their Washington ad-
dresses.
The hearings before the Gibson sub
committee Of the House District COM
mittee on the municipal admin1stra-
ton of the City Of Washington show
that there are a great many facts
about the National Capital and It's
government which are very little
known.
This thought is well developed by
William Mather Lewis, the erudite
and efficient president of George
Washington University, who calls at
tention that:
I'VE usually neglect in life those
things that we could most easily
obtadn. That this has always been
a human characteristic is illustrated
by this statement Of Pliny the
Younger, who was born 81 years
after Christ: objects which are
usually the motives of our travels
by land and by sea are often over
looked or neglected. If they lie
under our eye we put off from time
to time going and seeing what we
know we have the opportunity of
seeing when we please
"Washingtonians seldom climb the
Washington Monument; New York
ers do not take the boat trip around
Manhattan Island; Chicagoans rarely
see the treasures of the Art Institute
except the lions on the outside. We
travel far to see the features Of other
cities and go daily from our house
10 our office without discovering the
more interesting things of our own
community"
Now that a board of specialists
for the Interior Department and
expert accountants from the con-
troller generals office have been max
ing independent investigations Of st.
Elizabeth's Hospital. for Congress,
growing out of sensational charges
before a special House committee in
the last session of Congress- 1t Is ap-
propriate to emphasize the important
place that this institution holds In
psychiatry.
Juvenal says: Our prayers should
be for sound mind in a healthy
body"
st. Elizabeths Hospital offers facili
ties for the instruction of students in
psychiatry, neurology and kindred
branches which are not eXcelled else
where in this country.
1t gives instructions by its staff to
students Of the Army Medical School,,
the Navy School,, the United States
Veterans Bureau and George Wash
| ington, Georgetown, Catholic and
Howard Universities.
1t offers opportunities for training
social workers, maintains a mental
hygiene clinic and trains nurses.
1t keeps the medical profession in
| touch with advances in psychiatry by
numerous papers presented to medical
| society groups, and informs the pub
| lie by popular and semi-pOpular lee
! lures before national bodies.
1t publishes standard monographs
on nervous and mental diseases,
psychology and allied subjects.
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The very important collection of
art works in the Capitol Building
furnishes a reservoir from which art
| institutions throughout the country
| may draw special attractions for
| notable exhibitions-and this is an
| other Government service from Wash
| ington about which little is known by
| the public. Yet this custom Of loaning
art works goes back many years.
Referring ito the letters Of B. H.
LatrObe, who was the last of four
architects in charge of building the
| Capitol, we find that the plaster mod
els of Giuseppe Franzoni, representing
Agriculture, Art, Science and Com
merce, which were carved in high
| relief upon the frieze Of the old Hall
of the House of Representatives, were
| loaned in December, 1903, to the Penn
| sylvania Academy of Fine Arts. This
old Hall of the House of Representa-
tives was completely destroyed by the
British forces August "a, 1914. other
loans have been made at different
times to this and other art institu-
tions. During the last year there
occurred at the Pennsylvania Academy
Of Fine Arts an exhibition Of the
| works Of John Neagle, and by Public
Resolution No. 81, Sixty-eighth Con-
gress, the portraits Of Daniel Webster
| and Henry Clay, both painted by John
Neagle, were loaned for the exhibi.
| ton. The cost Of transportation and
insurance was borne by the academy
These works have been returned in
good condition and now occupy their
former places on the walls of the
| Capitol.
When members of the Senate sour
ried back here last week from all over
| the United States for a session Of the
| Senate which lasted only 10 minutes.
and when many members of the
House trickled into Washington for
appropriations, ways and means and
District committee meetings to get
| hearings out of the way for early in
. production Of measures after Congress
/ reassembles on December 6, what a
marked contrast it was to the first
| meeting Of Congress
On August 10, 1774, four men left
| Boston to attend the First Continental
| Congress in Philadelphia. These
worthless were John Adams. Thomas
| Gushing. Samuel Adams and Robert
Treat Paine. The setting out on such
| a voyage was a tremendous event
The four departed from Boston,
! from Mr.. Cushing's house. and rode
to Coolidge's. where they dined .
with large company of gentlemen,
who went out and prepared an enter
tainment for them at that place. A
most kindly and affectionate meeting
we had. and about four in the after
| noon we took leave of them, amidst
the kindest wishes and fervent pray.
ers Of every man in the company for
| our health and success. The scene
| was truly affecting, beyond all de.