Evening star., 1927-05-08
Welcome, City-Planners.

Washington this week welcomes the
leading city-planners from all over
the United States TO conference here,
and welcomes also to a co-ordinated
conference the leading architects,
sculptors, painters and craftsmen.
Between these two groups the entire
week will be devoted to common coun-
ell for the benefit of municipal and
regional developments all over the
country, with the National Capital as
an object lesson.
One entire session-Tuesday eve
ning-will be devoted to a discussion
of the various phases of the develop
-nent of the National Capital and It's
environs, embracing such subjects as:
The Development of the Plan Of
Washington, the Part of the Munie'
ipal Authorities, the Nations Interest
in the Nations Capital, the Public
Buildings Program, the Esthetic
Value of City Planning in the Ma
tional Capital, the Importance Of Com
'munity Recreation Centers in Connec'
ton with the Park Development,
Bringing the L'Enfant Plan Up to
Date and Good Planning is Good
Economy, each discussed by ma
tionany recognized authority.
Cooperating with the District Com
nissioners, the three business assoeia-
tions and the many local organiZa-
tions are the Montgomery County
Civic Federation of Maryland and the
Arlington County. Va, Civic Fedora
tion, and more than score OF ma
tional organizations.
They are going to consider plans
for the Greater Washington that is
already on its way-with cotempo-
raneous development of the Maryland
and Virginia suburbs-that we may
have a wider and not higher city,
leaving the upper air for the future
centuries perhaps to populate, but
making the most while the opportu-
nifty offers of the ground space of our
dear old Mother Earth.
Washington, already on the way to
unprecedented development and en-
bellishment, thus has the attention of
the civic leaders from all over the Ma
ton focused upon its future-all of
them experts in some particular line,
and all cooperating to do the best
possible work in the upbuilding of
their Nations Capital.
Not only in the refinement of archi-
lecture and esthetic adornment and
artistic coordination of all of our
great improvement projects will this
great cooperative interest be ex-
pressed, but its effects viii be prac-
ticaily and vitally helpful in other
wavs.
These delegates are here from every
State in the Union, representing inn
portant local and national organiza-
in civic affairs and they are doing in a
superior way what we wish each In
dividual citizen from all over the
country might do-that is, come to
hiAOH anu AONE tlIS Adp1AdA lily
In the steady, constant, day-after-
day reference among their own peo-
pie back home, in all communities, to
the Capital City and it's great des-
tiny-in educating the people to the
idea that Washington must transcend
anything ever before achieved by the
hand of man, in making them consid-
er it, as President Coolidge character
lied it, "soul CITY," and in insistent-
ly impressing upon them that they
must do their duty nationally in sup
port of this Capital City which is
theirs just as much as ours-these city
builders are our emissaries to the peo-
pie. They are the crusaders for the
cause of Washington.
And so, we welcome them, as in.
terested, eager, able friends. jealous
to work with us in making Washing.
ton all that its great destiny demands.
Hail and Godspeed!