Evening star., 1927-10-26
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

One of the most interesting acts Of
the incoming Congress will be to con-
slider and approve a report by n cabi-
net committee on a fitting Govern
ment memorial of the Wright
brothers first airplane fight in 1908.
December II, 1928. will mark the
twenty-fifth anniversary of that event.
which will be commemorated by the
unveiling Of a suitable monument at
Kitty Hawk, n. c.. scene of the epoch.
making hop. Just before adjourn
ment of the Sixty-ninth Congress,
Senator Bingham. Republican, of Con-
necticut, and Representative Warren,
Democrat, of the Kitty Hawk dis
trict, secured passage of a resolution
appointing the Secretaries of War,
Navy and Commerce committee of
three to recommend plans for the
memorial. Messrs. Davis, Wilbur and
Hoover have had the subject under
consideration and will submit a report
before the Winter is very far ad-
vanced. There's been a suggestion
that the United States might appro-
priately hold a great international
aviation exposition next year in honor
Of the history the Wrights made.
The Spirit of rs" famed at a meet
ing of irate Washingtonian on Octo-
ber "a. called to protest the threatened
desecration of Sixteenth street
Avenue of the Presidents''--by the
erection of a fire engine house in the
midst Of it's handsomest residential
section. People who live out in the
nfranchised United States don't
realize that yoteless Washington has
few forums for ventilation of it's civic
frysirN nn pf I,n soft iony
socations'' that flourish in various
parts of the District of Columbia. The
association which holds watch and
ward over Washington's noblest
boulevard was in high dudSeon at it's
engine house meeting. The atmos-
phere was redolent of that in which
the Revolution was born-in Massa-
chusetts and Virginia-l51 years ago.
At root, the meeting sprang from a
kindred cause. Washingtonians are
taxed, as the original colonists were,
without representation" That is
| why they seek to interest the rest of
the Republic in their humiliating suf-
frage plight.
President Coolidge will not surprise
some of his friends il he seizes the oc-
ca sion of his visit to the Union Lea que,
| Qualification of his political purposes.
| The Union League Is celebrating it's
sixty.fifth annual Founders day. AS
| it prides itself on three generations
| Of rock-rihbed. regular republicanism.
| it'll provide an ideal forum for an
| epoch.making Coolidge pronounce
| ment. Every Republican President
| since Lincoln has been Union
| League guest except Roosevelt and
| Harding. ''T. RS" squabble with
| BOSS" Penrose kept him away from
Philadelphia. Harding's friends under
| stood that the late President boy
| cotted the Union League because
| Pennsylvania failed to provide G.. o.
| r. sinews Of war generously in 1920.
| Former Gov. Sproul of Pennsylvania
extended the invitation to President
Coolidge. Sproul is now president of
| the club.
Mai Gen. Hanson T.. Ely, L. S. A.,
| who goes from the commentaries of
the Army War College to the blue
ribbon corps area command tsecond)
| at Governors Island. n. Y, rejolces
that his last big job in Washington
| was to put over the recent Army
| carnival here. 1t was organized.
| largely at his instieation. for the bene-
| fit of the Army Relief Association.
| Receipts of $25 900 broke all records
and placed the society, which minis
| ters to the widows and orphans of
| enlisted men. on the best financial
basis it's ever enjoyed. Relief needs
| in the Army have increased pro.
digiouslv since aviation began taking
SO deadly toll among both officers
| and soldiers attached to the Flying
| Corps.
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Chalk up still another Republican
| favorite son with 1928 presidential
| ambitions--Senator Guy u. Golf of
| West Virginia. Goff apparently is not
impressed by the fact that the last
man fropa fVIo rL sbrrc the