Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-22
WASHINGTON PAID
TRIBUTE IN HOUSE
Lessons From Life of First
President Are Urged
on Nation.
Continued From First Page.)

Washington, paid a tribute to "the
faithful guardianship of an association
OF patrlotlc women" who have preserved
washington nome and tomb, and de-
scrlbed Some Work of Washington as
Statesman in His Home County"
He recorded that Washington. in July,
lW4, convoked a general meeting of
freehoIders and Inhabitants of the
county at Fairfax, with resolves of
epochal Importance. He said Washing
tc-' tried to forbid slavery decades be-
fore the abolition question agitated the
country, and how the people of that
county sent money, food and other re-
lief to Boston.
He stressed Washington's leadership
IN the county for "a we'll regulated
militia force" because he considered a
standing army ever dangerous to lib
erty." He reminded his colleagues that
Whlle Washington differed with many
statesmen with whom he conferred at
Mount Vernon, as with George Mason
ana Patrlck Henry on the question OF
ratification of the Constitution without
change, there was no bitterness.
Tell Of 1892 Celebration.
Representative Moore, a member OF
the Blcentennial Commission, declared
That Congress loves its establishment
and existence to him whom we acclaim
the greatest man of all the centuries. "
House Leader Tilson, also a member
OF the Bicentennial Commission, and
William Tyler Page, its executive Sec
rotary, explained the Nationwide cele-
bration in honor of Washington in 1882
and plans for this event which have
been approved or proposed.
Other speakers in the symposium
were: Representatives Moore of Ohio
washington as a Pioneer; McSwain
OF South Carolina, Washington as q
Soldier; Sloan of Nebraska, washing
ton, the Business Farmer" and Temple
of Pennsylvania, "Washington's Place
Among His Contemporaries.
Representative Luce in streSsing prac-
tical application of Washington's ad-
monitionS, without mentioning prohibit
ton or the recent speech made in the
House by Representative Beck of Penn
sylvania, made answer to some of MIR
Beck'S constitutional arguments.
Asks Warnings Be Needed.
"It is worth while" he said, ito light
a candle before the shrine of Washing
tons memory, but all the better will il
be If the rays of that candle also ira
date themselves. Recollecting the great
and good serves only a minor purpose
CuIlOSlLN
as to the sources and proofs of human
grandeur. 1t will have been of small
avail to refresh our memories as to the
debt we owe George Washington for the
Constitution unless we pay heed to the
admonitlonS with which he handed over
to succeeding generations this greatest
OF his gifts to the American people"
In his speech on Washington's work
as a statesman in his home county,
Representative Moore said, in part:
of course, somewhat distant from
here are the scenes of WaShingtons
military activities, but it rather quick
ems the pulse to consider that nearby,
within sight of the Capitol, is the Vir-
ginia county of Fairfax, where he lived,
then including the present county of
Arlington and the City of Alexandria,
which was the county seat. There was
his Mount Vernon home, where he re-
sided from his sixteenth year, and
which might have disappeared long
ago but for the faithful guardianship
of an association of patriotic women
Mount Vernon was not only his home
and his burial place, but the place from
which he started streams that broad
ened out into the ocean of his final
achievement in creating our tnstitu-
tions"
Following tradition, the Senate's pro-
gram included Washingtons farewell
address. Senator Vandenberg. Republi-
can, Michigan, was designated to read
it by Vice President Curtis. Converting
an hour earlier than usual for its spe-
cial program, the House cleared the
way for nine speeches by members of
the George Washington Bicentennial
Commission which is preparing for the
2ooth anniversary two years hence.