Evening star., 1927-05-15
WASHINGTON TAKES LEAD
AS CITY OF CONVENTIONS
More Organizations Coming to Capital
Every Year-Regarded as Place
of Common Council.

with naIlOHdi AclG hSSP-
ing such valuable information up TO
dale.
Seventh--There must be adequate
accommodations, sucn as meeting
places. hotel accommodations and en-
tertainment facilities. Washington
hotels in number and In quality of
service are unsurpassed anywhere In
the country. We have more thar 60
hotels. with a combined capacity 81
more than $4,000 rooms.
Meeting Places Many.
We now have the national home s0r
business-the Chamber of Commerce
of the United Statcs--providing meet.
ing places for the smaller trade and
business meetings. We have the new
Auditorium for larger gatherings and
new convention hall il TO he built
TO accommodate monster gatherings
up to 10000 persons. We have the
Pan-Amcrican Union, the u. a. T..
Hail. the auditorium at Central IIisa
School the New National Museum
and other similar halls also evailablc.
The big gymnasium and the crypt ~
the new shrine and the stadium at
Catholic University provide adequate
space for the record. breaking Holy
Name gathering.
| Eighth-The serious program 81
recreation and educative sightseeing,
Here we have the greatest industrial
I establishment in the world, with
widely varied exhibits and processes
| to interest everyone. We have his
| toric environment, with side trips to
Great Falls. Mount Vernon. Airing
ton; to historic Yorktown and James
town. to Hampton Roads to the Naval
Academy to Annapolis, to Harpers
I n -
Ridge Mountains and the Shenandoah
| Valley or TO the seashore at Virginia
Beach. or a relatively short trip 20
Atlantic City. Within a limited radius
there is no place in all the country so
convenient to so many important
points of interest.
President Is Attraction.
| Ninth-Every patriotic American
| citizen wants to visit his Nations
| Capital to call on the President at the
White House. to see Congress in ses-
sion grinding out the laws. to browse
around in the Library of Congress
and make a pilgrimage to the shrine
erected there for the original draft of
the Constitution, which is the corner
stone of our Government: to attend
/ the Supreme Court of the United
States while in session-the most dig
nified and deliberative body in the
| world. All these. not as SideshOws
for the sightseers, but as inspirational
shrines and altars of our Government
so that each may go back home real-
izing more than ever that the United
States Government means Us, and in
creasingly proud TO be an American
citizen.
Tenth-Just as Congress created
here the Federal city so that there
might be no local feeling or influence
to sway the lawmaking body in max
ing laws for all of the people, so also
is it growing upon the people that the
great political conventions should be
held here also for the same reason
that local feeling for favorite sons
might not influence the selection of
candidates.
National Churches Erected. q
Eleventh-The various religious de-
nominations are erecting their ma
tional churches here While this Gov
ernment was an innovation based on
the foundation principle of separation
of church and state. they find il PERI
meated with the spirit of religion.
they find this a city of churches and
of twoscore creeds living in friendly
unity, with the leaders in the Govern
ment giving notable example Of re-
ligious sincerity and almost universal
church attendance by the people.
They find in Washington several me-
mortal churches commemorating Dir
vine Providence in the hour of the,
| Nations trial. and they like to visit
the old church at jamestown and the
Pohick church. a short drive away inl
Virginia, and the church where Wash-
| ington was vestryman, in Alexandria.
Twelfth-Financiers and bankers,
while they may worship at the
| Shrine of Mammon. on Wall street.
when they seek counsel for stability
and integrity OF our financial struc-
ture. must confer with our Treasury
| Department. our Federal Reserve
Board. our Budget Bureau. our ways
and means committee of the House.
| drafting the revenue and tax and
tariff measures. and with the bank
! ing and currency committees drafts
| ing other financial legislation. ,e
See Welfare Work. r
| Thirteenth-Those organizations
! interesting themselves i'm the better
| ment of conditions for women and
I children find the basic statistics they
need in the womans and children'S
| bureaus, find demonstration of ada
vanced principles in the new welfare
| board in the National Capital, and
| in the PoliceWoman's Bureau here.
which is an example for the rest of
| the country.
Fourteenth-Those who are band
| ed together for Improvement Of
measures TO protect society. through
restraint of those who have offended
against society, find basic data in
the Department OF Justice. find in
spira tion for continued labors in az
1r{ui ~ tho rNnu1l inS tft q :
of the District of Columbia. which
are the most advanced steps in
humanitarian treatment of offenders.
Fifteenth-ThoSe who are soul-ei
stirred 10 aid in care of the unfor- :,
tunates who suffer in any calamity
find their leadership here, and well
organized leadership. in the National
American Red Cross Society, and they-'
flock here from all corners of the !,
built as utilitarian structure in :
honor of the tender mercy of thesi
womanhood of the land. "a
Shrines for Patriots. -
Sixteenth Patriots all. whether
members of the National Society of I
the Daughters of the American Rev.
olution. or the Grand Army of the
Republic. or the Sons of the Revolu.'
tIoil, uT just pam you ana Il, WHO love G
our country. who want to treasure its -
memories and best traditions. and
who are ready to serve-unto the "su-
preme sacrifice" If needs behind no =
place on all this broad continent so
crowded with reminders-Arlington :
National Cemetery. the old Fort Ste-
vens battlefield. where Lincoln stood
under hostile fire; the two fields of {
Bull Run: Appomattox. where the,
great soldier and hero laid down his
sword in a lost cause; the West
minister Abbey of our heroic statues y
in so many public squares. our Pen-s: