Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-29
BY JOSEPHINE TICHE.


The Place: A small one-story
brick church in Columbia Heights.
DramatiS PerSonae: squad Of
busy, alert, important looking police Report
erS and photographers. TRAFFIC cops Secret
Service operatives. Loafing messenger boys.
And more than likely a few cranks. Two
long lines of men. women and children stretch
In queue-like. west and north.
ImpedimentS: TaxicabS Sightseeing buses.
Private automobiles. Movietone cars with SUI
perimposed cameras and yards and yards of
Outstretched Misunderstanding hose.
Finally, The Person, Himself. A Quaker
goes to meeting. He Is the Chief Executive of
the most important country In the world. Her.
bert Hoover, President of the United States.
At O'Clock any Sunday morning, rain or
shine in chill or heat. the police squad
marches to the corner of Thirteenth and Irving
streets northwest, individual members filing of
to individual duties. One officer placards
tree-trunks and lamp-posts with mo Park
ing" signs. Others drag from behind the
church iron standards, placing them at inter-
tyals around the wide lawns. Of the Friend.p
Orthodox Quaker Church, where the head o:
n nation worshipS Heavy ropes are laced
through tops of these standards, to restrain Wis
jtors from tramplng the barberry hedge or the
grass. One policeman searches basement and
corridors to locate possible secreted trouble
makers Another officer stations himself in q
blind alley extending between the edince and
next building, private residence, occupied by
the way. by family of Quakers
Trafic police take their positions and be-
come human Semaphores, fastening, slowing
or detouring taxicabS, motor cycles, city and
sightseeing buses and streams of private cars
1t II about $50 when these conveyances begin
to arrive and discharge their cargoes of visitors
TO the "PreSiden S church." Pedestrians aug
ment the crowd, which the police keep in line
three and four abreast It is the usual, quiet
" dressed, well behaved throng of churchgoers,
with here and there a fiapper arrayed in prs-
tine glory.
IRON the church issue sounds of congrega-
tional singing, accompanied by a piano
1t is Sunday school time The infant class
'heroically raises shrill. childish treble in the
never-to-be-forgotton song, Hear the pennies
dropping: listen as they fall; every one for
Jesus; He will get them ALT" Then the adult
class ringing out meaningly and triumphantly
Onward, Christian Soldiers"-with many of
the waiting crowds joining in heartily. final
prayer. The infant class Is dismissed wig
Cling and giggling its way out between the
maSSed columns of sightseerS The majority
Of "grown-ups" of the Sunday school remain
for church service.
At precisely 20 minutes of IL some 400 of
the patiently waiting visitors gain admission to
the edifice, while twice as many more are
turned away, because there is no room for
them. Men of the Young Peoples Society act
IS ushers. members of the congregation re-
ceivng first consideration for admission and
seats.
The groups of persons unable to get into
the church remain to be consoled in seeing the
Smart, private car of the President drive up
% the church.
Accompanied by secret service men-always
OF absorbing interest to s'ghtSeers and the pub