Milford chronicle., 1926-04-30
Washington Becomes A Mecca
For ExcursiOnists And Con-
ventiOns.
SWARNINCNOTE
Saws Failure OF People To Vote
ImperiIs Safety OF The Re-
public.

soul so dead" that he does not
want to see the Capital OF his coun-
trv and its historical embellish-
ments that include the Capitol, the
white House. Mount Vernon, Ar
lington House, and the Natlonal
Cemetery. Sir Walter Scott mlght
lust as we'll have said something
about women and children when he
expressed his opinion about men
whose souls were not deau, DuI
since he forgot it we will add then
to his statement of fact. Ihe hlsh
schools of the country have sent
TENS of thousands of their pupils on
excursions to the National Capltal
this Spring. They have arrived IN
train loads and motor bus loads
and the wonderful spirit of YOUTH
vigorous and resplendent, has leit
A happy impression upon the dlgm-
fed Capital.
The next great party" that fol-
lowed the invasion by youths dur
ing their Easter vacation was the
daughters of the American ReVolu-
tion. President Coolidge addressed
this magnificent body of patriotic
women and warned them that II
they would preserve their Republic
that they must join with other
forces that offer loyal support TO
their Government. In characters
tic fashion, and without mlnclnS
words, he stated that when 1Or eV-
erv 100 votes cast in 1920 there
were 96 stay-at-hOmes or absentees,
that there was presented a national
problem that constituted wllltul
neglect of it's citizens. He suggest
ed that the women of this country
who brought about the adoption OF
the nineteenth amendment to the
Constitution should take the initla-
tive in producing a condition whlch
will get the voters to the polls.
When c. E. La Vigne was select
ed by the representative citizens
organization of Washington year
ago as director of the Washington
Convention Bureau good many
neODle wondered just what the
DIans and purposes of the bureau
might be. The profession OF dlrector
of such a bureau is a comparatively
new one in the United States. But
the Washington director figured 1t
out that more people preferred TO
see washington rather than any
other city, and he worked on the
hypothesis that when people leave
home that there is usually an OBJ
iective connected with choosing the
destination for their travels. In
our highly organized social and &C.
Onomic life conventions have be-
come great annual events with hun
dreds of thousands of people. SO
Mr.. La Nigne performed the old
time operation of putting tWo-and-
two together and then he proceeded
cordially to invite these Organ1za-
tiOns to Washington. Of course
they wanted to go to the Capital
anyway, but they never had Dee1
asked, and when conventions were
assured a hearty welcome to the
National Capital, the members Ol
the various organizations hitcheC
I'M their family buses, or boarded
trains for Washington. The Presl
dent greeted many of them at tn'
White House; Senators and Cab
met officers made their best speech
as: Congressmen initiated greatel
activities in helping to make thel
constituents welcome. Photograph.
cot into the game and these leaders
of national industry and natlona
Thought found some satisfaction II
the rotograVures and other Illus
trations that showed them in clos
contact either with the President o
other important national figures. A
the end of a year Director La Vlgn'
reports 63,324 convention visitors Z
Washington-and he says they al
had a happy time in their own Cap
ital.
The report of the Federal ReserV
Board shows the suspension OF 61
banks in 1925 as compared to II
in 1924. Fifty-twO institutions
were closed in February OF thl
year.
An industrial accident confer
ence" has been called by Secretar!
of Labor Davis to meet in Wash
ington in July, and it is INTENDED
to extend the present scope OF coop
erative work between Federal ant
State bureaus with the purpose IL
view of reducing the frequency o
industrial accidents. An ottic1a
Government statement disclOsei
that less than One-third OF all ac
cidents in the past resulted from
poorly guarded machinery. Public
officials who have been studyinG
the question are convinced that ac
cident statistics indicate that thu
lurking dangers of industrial EN-
Dloyment have not been very deepl!
explored, and that it will be neces
sary to follow new lines of investi
cations other than outstanding haz
ards of unguarded machinery which
plainly showed up their own weak
nesses.
Coffee, which makes the pOliti
clan wise, and see through al
things with his half-shut eyes" fig
ures in the industrial situation in ;
very interesting way. The imports
of coffee from Brazil for sever
months had a value of $419,170,O8O
! This in dollars and cents was a de
crease of approximately SO per cent
The charge has long been bandiet
about that Brazil has had an air
tight monopoly on coffee. The Uni
ted States Department of COmmerc
claims that Brazil last year i'm
ported coffee into the United State
at 20 cents a pound as compares
with 12 cents in 1928, a differenc
of Sc per cent in two years. Hence
the %oficial gossip" about an al
legged coffee trust.
American business efficiency
preserving the prosperity of tn
country, says the Federal Reserv
Board, which has demonstrated it
own efficiency by shipping million
of dollars into Cuba to avert finan