Evening star., 1927-04-21

| Wallace w, Hanger of this city; Mrs,
| Eleanor Washington Howard Alex
| ndria Va by Mrs. Jesse Reese
| Shicl and seconded by Mrs. Charles
Ross of Indiana. and Mrs. Richard
jackson Barker OF Rhode Island,
nominated by Mrs. William Man.
chester and seconded by Mrs. l..
Morgan Smith.
After the nominations were made
the candidates were presented to the
audience by Mrs. Brosseau. Each car
rted flowers as gifts of their delega-
tions. Mrs. Eleanor Washington
Howard was not present AZ last eve.
nings sessions.
Applause Greets Lecture.
Bursts of applause greeted the
presentation Of an Illustrated lecture
hv Charles ColfaX Long, which toi-
lowed the nominations ON the topic
"WashinCt on, Our National shrine.
The enthusiasm of the delegates
mounted higher and higher as heauti-
ful scene after scene was shown. but
reached its high pitch when portrait
of their president general, Mrs. Alfred
T. Broseau. was thrown on the screen.
They gave her a long ovation, but she
modestly refused to reveal her where
abnus in the darkened auditorium,
where she was sitting in the press
box as a special compliment 20 the
men and women of the fourth estate
covering the congress
In Mrs, BrosSeau's introduction of
Mr.. Long she save for the first time
a peroration she has written on the
city Of Washington which has unusual
literary beauty. She said;
"Washington--the city of strange
contrasts. Of contradictions and OF
variable moods A spot Of rare white
beauty and of dark sordidness; of
architectural perfection and the in
finite Of crude nonconformity.
THE place Of all places where life
meets supreme Justice and ignoble de-
feat where hopes are relentlessly
crushed and ambitions dazzingly real
;Zed
CITY Calls Alluringly."
"A city where truth stalks naked
and unafraid and where treachery.
c0rceously apparelled. blinds with
illusion: city that calls alluringly as
a siren from the rocks, and then
erushes and rejects: vet that enfolds
its traditions in loving arms with the
tenderness of 81 mother
"A city that stands as impregnahle
as a fortress and that sinks under the
relentless searchisht of Illumination
into a blockhouse from toyland.
"A city untramelled in its progress
and in its expression of the new but
with links that bind it indissolubly
TO a glorious past.
"a city of pure white austerity and
dancing sprites of desire.
"A place where need walks in
council with the concentrated wisdom
of the ages and discerns In the offing
the revelry of cap and bells
THE place where one turns in the
twinllling of an eye from the sound
of stern debate to that of frenzied
eXhortation.
The place where rainbow tinted
dreams come true as though lifted out
of fairyland, or where they are trans
formed with black magic into
hideous nightmare.
"A city where priceless gifts are
bestowed in mad bewildering profusion
and where the heart of life is ruth
lessly seized and left broken and
bleeding A city of dazzling MONDAY
brilliance and nights of pale gold
serenity with soft subtle lights cast
upon dome and marble shaft--lights
that haunt and allure, that succor and
satisfy the soul of man. Washington,
the most hated and feared the most
loved and revered; the city of enchant-
ing beauty-the heart throb of Amer
iCa."