Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-08
Emphasizing Progress.

In IneSe summer Gays WHICH, tAC
tourists from all the States are motor
ing into Washington and then back to
tell the homefolks and neighbors all
about the Capital City, they are seeing
development projects advancing I'M
presSively which remain fixed In their
minds to be talked about again and
again as evidencing the progress being
made in Identification OF this world
center.
The front that has just been placed
on the new central, administration
building in the Department of Agricul-
ture group; the facing stones being laid
in place on the steel structure OF the
new Internal Revenue Building, the
foundations of the worlds greatest Of
flee building being erected for the De-
partment of Commercial visualize
the importance and stupendousness of
the Federal building program here to
adequately house Uncle Sans work.
shop in which picked employees from
all the States labor for the betterment
of each individual community and
home.
For this Federal housing program
President Hoover has just advocated
another $25 1000 900, so that the work
can go forward uninterruptedly, well
co-ordinated and to meet the pressing
demands for Government-owned quar-
tiers. The visitors are impressed with
the fact that while the physical build
ing helps to adorn the Capital City the
appropriations flow into other States
for the building material and even for
the labor employed, and that the build
ing will afford better facilities for carry
ing on work of direct benefit to each
State rather than to the Capital City
itself.
The graceful spans Of the new Ar
lington Memorial Bridge, which will
physically unite the North and South,
is thus symbolic to the visitors, but
also serves an important unitarian
purpose in affording a convenient and
impressive entrance to the Capital City
for tourists from the South and West
When our tourist visitors find them
selves welcomed and made comfortable
in model camp, convenient to q
Water-side playground, from which
they can make comfortable sightseeing
trips not only through the District OF
Columbia but into the neighboring his
toric and scenic areas in Maryland and
Virginia, they 60 back home with q
truer realization of what the develop
ment of the Nations Capital means tc
each individual citizen. It gives them
a pleasant part in the building Of the
worlds most beautiful city-and it gives
them personal service.
When they see the wartime struc-
lures known as "the Government
Hotels" between the Capitol and Union
Station being torn down, so that
citizens from all the States who come
here by rail may have pleasingly i'm
pressive first sight of the Capitol build.
ing which is the physical monument Of
our self-government, new feeling Of
respect, confidence, pride In their owr
citizenship surges through them.
These are but casual illustrations Of
the works of progress that are impress.
ing our visitors, sending them home
with deeper devotion to their country
greater desire to aid in Capital build
ing, a confidence that their form o.
Government is secure, a zeal to make
Washington "soul city" as President
Coolidge urged-to make it represent t.
the world the strength, power, resources
dignity and culture Of the American
people.
Our Capital City is the home city o
all the people, and each visit to 1t b!
our tourists makes them love it NOR
and more.