Evening star., 1927-11-18
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

President Coolidge's church, the
First Congregational, in Washington.
will be turned before Christmas into
a motion picture theater. Itll remain
house of worship, but be open seven
days and nights week as a movie
besides. No entrance fee Will be
charged. Admission will be by card,
and anybody who likes the show can
make a free-will offering on coming
out. DIR. Jason Noble Pierce, the Pres
ident's pastor and fellow alumnus OF
Amherst, hasarranged to install as fine
projecting apparatus as money can
buy. Programs will have orchestral
accompaniment and include up-to-the-
minute news reels. No competition
with Legitimate" movie houses is con.
templated, but high.grade pictures Will
be shown, blending comedy, drama
and history with the religious note. II
believe God intends that His children
should laugh, enjoy music, have enter
tainment and be informed on the days
events" said DIR. Pierce to this OBJ
server. summarizing the plan. Stu
ated in the heart of the downtown dis
trict, he thinks Washington's first
church movie house will speedily
achieve popularity.
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How our transoceanic flyers have
linked the hearts of the nations, while
spanning the seas that separate them.
was exemplified at the recent National
Geographic Society's function in Lind
bergh's honor. Sandwiched among the
heroic American men and women OF
the air who crowded the stage OF the
Washington Auditorium, when Presi-
dent Coolidge bestowed the Hubbard
gold medal on Lindbergh was Fraulein
Theat Rasche, the German aviatrix,
now in this country. She shared the
feminine honors of the historic occa-
sion with Ruth Elder. Later In the
evening a picture Of Baron Won
Richthefen, the daredevil German fly.
ing ace, who was brought to book only
after he had long been the terror Of
the British and French air forces was
thrown onto the ycreen. His lkeQess
was cordially applauded-a Sfeat
American audiences tribute to war.
rior even though he was once an
enemy.
Imminence OF the Washington of.
fetal season draws attention to the
fact that the diplomatic corps--around
which Capital society mainly revolves
lis at this time larger than in all
previous history. The State Depart.
ment blue book, or Diplomatic List. "
as it's formally known, tabulates 55
foreign embassies and legations. by
far the highest number on record. 1t
includes unusual names. absent before
the war, like Albania, Canada, Egypt,
Irish Free State, Latvia, Lithuania
and Luxemberg. Turkey Is the only
pre.war country still unrepresented.
Russia continues to appear, with a
financial attache" tabulated as its
emissary--a hold.over from the Keren.
sky regime. Altogether, the Washing.
ton diplomatic corps totals personnel
Of about $50 men and women. They're
the only persons in the United States
who can bring in all the liquor they
please and be within the law.
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Chairman Green and his colleagues
Of the House ways and means commit
tee expect to hammer away at the
new revenue bill without cessation, in
order to have it ready when Congress
conyenes on December 8. 1t is the
program to pass the bill in the House
before Christmas and in the Senate
not later than February. That will
make its provisions applicable to the
first quarterly tax payable March Is.
1928, on 1927 incomes. The several
millions of individual income tax pay.
ers will not receive any Of the benefits
so substantially accorded them in the
three previous revisions of 1921, 1924
and 1925. In those years corporations
got no slice Of the tax reduction cake.
This time the stock companies Of the
land are to be the only ones which
will profit from the revenue law. The
Democrats will fight to keep the cor.
poration-tax cut to 10 or IL per cent.
but they'll be out'voted, and Secretary
Melons IL per cent proposal will
probably be written into the bill.
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The automotive division of the De-
partment of Commerce Is much inter-
ested in the announcement that the
Fords ara TO begin work on $1,o0o,-
900 D.&at IN Jap3n On tho outskirts