Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-22
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

The Community Chest, like most good
Things, has a good name.
When the magic word washington"
Is combined with it, to make the WASH
lngton Community Chest, there is little
wonder that it grips the imagination OF
the people Of the National Capital.
Consider those three words for mo-
ment, so that when the Chest PROPOSE
ton is placed before you, you will have
something to go on as the saying is.
Just as Washington comes first in this
name, 1t comes first in the minds and
hearts of all who live here, and, what
some folks never realize, it also comes
t1rst In the minds and hearts of thou
sands of men, women and children
throughout the country.
The name of Washington, D. c., is
magic one to these people, representing,
as 1t does, not only the seat of Govern
tual ground George Washington and
other INDUSTRIOUS great men trod.
sometimes it would seem that this
conception is one which can come only
TO an "outsider'-that IS. one born and
pred somewhere else. Residents of the
National Capital have some advantages
!and also some disadvantages, but
there is one feeling they can never
nave, and that is to look forward to a
No, we who live here cannot know
now the people in the States long to
visit Washington. We already live here!
one mas to reside elsewhere, and to have
heard about Washington all ones life, to
be able to realize lust what Washing
ton, D. c." means.
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One may smile when reading about
attempts to change the seat of national
Government. It will never be done, one
may say confidently, except in the
event OF such an emergency as would
make withdrawal necessary. Too
much history has clustered around this
part OF the Potomac, too many mighty
shades watch over us, to permit any
thing less to change the seat of Gov
eminent.
This is Washington-the first word
in the proud title of Washington Com
munity Chest. 1t means all that WASH
ington means to one. And to all of us
who live here. whether for brief time,
or permanently, as we say, Washington
must mean a great deal. 1t means
what any mans city means to him, but,
above that, it means America. This is
not flag waving" in the least, but a
plain statement of fact This city Is.
to Americans, what London is to Eng
land, what Paris is to France, what
Rome is to Italy.
Sometimes it would seem that we
Americans tend to forget this simple
truth. We have listened too long to
the bright boys of Broadway, who. for
some obscure reason, have ATTEMPTED to
make us think that one should never
believe devotedly in anything. In our
hearts, however, we do believe in
America and in this Capital City, which
II must never be forgotten, is as diff
terent from New York as New York is
from Washington.
New York is going to have a build
ing on the site of the old Waldorf
Astoria l,l00 feet high. with a dirigi-
BILE mooring mast 800 feet long on top
OF that, making a total height of 1,4OO
feet. Bully for New York! But WASH
ington still has its Washington Monu-
ment, and Lincoln Memorial. and be-
hind them still stand firm the spirits
OF those two mighty men. Let us never
forget that great buildings, after all.
mean little or nothing without great
men behind them!
1t is this invisible Washington. be-
hind the visible city, which ever makes
1T the place 1t Is. The tendency is to
forget this in the hurly-burly of every
day life, but when each one of us stops
to think about it we easily remember
the lives of great men which flowed
through the city, an ever-ascending
stream toward mighty America of the
present and future. Let us never for
get that this Is our Washington