Evening Star Newspaper, November 30, 1925, Page 4

3 - WANTS NATION T0 G TS HOME President Urges Additional | Quarters for Enormous Government Workshop. + gerond of a‘series:of "-ns'uvl ) us XT ”";""CORNERSTONE IS LAID 1 a =/ IN ROMAN COLOSSEUM[.\."rf.”“il{“‘ "l | cated gn ed to house the | the Gene will be burilt The old cros the express lini |0ld Cross Removed After Fall of Aot her ideration in | plaging the i ud vernment | buthiir Penr co of Temporal Power Will Be Placed on New Edifice. A Getmar )< con | to the ith the Government ated | stone of difice in the ce | the ancier seum upon wi emoved from the colg : fall of the tempore ed, was laid yes: of government offi Dubiic stone were placed a plece of REvENUE R et gl o from Gethsemane ;:‘n{.l“i;! BUREAU | Per 3 ! wylvania @ ve Luigi Bar- | wery center of vi alem. There | cture of Pope By tho As ROME Governmownt acqu Tand he Na tioral Capital there a ty of i { tivitics regs It is ve 1thon ¢ T Vongress miat o pertect” Star. T-Fn i approved also were deposi e ative of holy . S — Traness Sr the L ar frult, and 0 - 5 h e new | educk tionk! er - Jumbe 1Y WILL P. KENNEDY. o el he rew s 0 tho most effecu ermined » me ie Hves ther in this, ¢ and I ghe autha ¥ K of New York PROPOSED I were published in NATIONAL T betcer ont and e N an even hertl the Couti- | ssor, the | itederation, and | red T Asmcuirure Croanaen The Floa: “Pep | building. u score of both e present the Governmen { cupy valuable space in building2 n ed tor office work, even there th re packed away so that they ard, n: ailable for the department ;I‘l ', a al Fine Arts Com " | selves. Thy E always a fire risk\to nost | other fitting build miss zes, which for dignity Treatment of Avenue. the bulldings in which they are stord\. | That action lald a “dead ha attractiveness {s unsurpassed in ider now Penniylvania avenue, and they are in constant danger ok and a | th erty in this triangle o that|any city in the world Main street” of ti fon, con- |being destroyed, as has happened fromy e first| the private ow w0t dared te e National € the legislitive and executive | time to time. By reason of theft ey other-| permanent home for which branches of the Government. As 10 | mutilation many of the mo! iheniithe | stronEly iibstore’ ihis. et the arex between the Avenue and |cant and val administration leader, Senator |the Mall nothing short of radical|lost or destroyed. Cabot Lodge, plans for which | Measures will save the situation, the | government is so neglectful of en drawn by direction of Con- | National Fine Arts Commission | srchives. und ) will be pressed for | fou e y. The | val of Congress in the coming irea of most on, in fitt an of the ongress m hould be tion ox nal Mu-| is now v given over to of produce, live auimals, and oncomitants of open-alr mar- | kets. If the markets are to remain | in this area, they should be put in order, preferably by the comstruction gl I FEEY S0 G of :,rx\lcll hut::lh‘ around an open | g, 5 6f the recerds afion cets might be 2 1o arci, The ownersh! super hould be In the D of Columbia (instead of in the Department of Agric ish Mq entire murket ttainiag this | in_ the Mall galle nd collecti be daclined harn s nt ir nt he matu the Agric Ample spa activities is not out honuld Le reserved keeping with prevailing condition: seums to house With the opening of the vista from |are now offered, cnly t apitol to the Washington Monu- | for want of T . the American people will enjoy | or display ther . should secvice | acquire all of the | the Aran intended to between ivenue, and triangle nsylvania the Gallery of Art, a [De iovernm | by conden is why Need Fireproof Building. As the basis of a nation’s histc >st nation the worle known archives should | be housed in a fireproof bullding, and | should be classified, arranged and in-{ dexed so as to make them av able both to G es and 1o students of 2 south of Per ? the Mall, directly on the and - exercise its Jdac < stiflin £ appr an History. Col- those for the Art, are now beins Smithsontan Ins ice with its charter, vhich recognizes the fine arts equal- I with the science: Continuity in the ithsonian Institu aistingui: ward of rege ganization the one pre-emine ted to receive and admlin wade by patrioti: 2 E e continued reco s of this anization other athered by the ion, in ac the =1 nent bt worked int years on u perf ton and L'Enfant pla testopation ofithe bal urbed by the rentl ¥ west of Seventeenth sireet comprehensive stud: result can be accomplished by oc istee otiiine the end th disorderly and trusts e i 1on | unk condltions may be remedied en o of the approaches to the gifts and 1 Mall from Pennsylvania ctiveness of the | made suitable tions of the I both to ich publie bulldings as may con-|controlling element in crea venlently be placed in this triangular | The conv e of the great body of arex batween the Avenue and the!clarks wi nsuited by the It Mall should be so located. These build- | tfon erment ChIENCiE T ady | ings would include an armory for the | teenth street, and this is the | ome the scientific. as 1 as District militia, a natlonal archives except in replacing the old war-w legislative and admi ive center | bullding, an extension of the already | bLuildings on the seven squares of the count It m; readily be- ‘ outgrown Municipal Building, as well | ground between Eighteenth and Twe the general intelloctunl [as the already designed buildings for |ty-first streets and between B stre center of the Natlon. The |the departments of Justice, Commerce, |and New York avenue northw ongress, the thsoaian | State and Labor. which sites were purchased two vears | Institution and the cont-mplate] Na- | Congress has repeatedly been in-|ago by the Government for approxt tionul Gallery of Art are the nost |formed of the need for the archives|mately $£1.500,000. Here will be lo | . Immediate Delivery o ORTHOPHO VICTROLAS member >uld have -sent ther day Treasury apitol ClieriBin the m 3 ve Princ suc policy to u . enhance the The Dey i Nutional Capi a tenant unde L vic o those tion nc residents of Wa e to the activities cf the Gov- them and i The was by Lerou i ne. | five menin on teacpear tn_ 2 _ClRet-=Rak Jlot Quite. The) ANSELL, BISHOP & TURNER, INC ngton. of ti rent has tive needs m the old £ new bullding to at task of collecting the t Along other lines of executive work | new activities and new agencles have | cu- |been established by Congress to meet | od on | the requirements of the rapid cent fore- | Z2tion of Government. Congress must s on. |I0eet these necessities frankly, fairly Plans, | and with the utmost foresight—so as | eatest | DOt to shift the burden of our days, ik |under hat affords us | { protec ders of our | s children If new shall be located | h reference to convenience of ad- | | ministration the erests of effi | cte . they will fall into certal Those departments which re- | and frequent access to the | HEAR THEM PERFORM tu Washi what stress quire qui | Executive will be grouped about the | White House; those activities which | epend upon Congress will have the | apitol as a center, and the courts, { while independent of one another, will |tend to draw together. Museums and buildings of a semi- | & | public character will be located for the convenience of visitors and sight- {seers. All streets, avenues and park- | ways will be arranged so as to afford | convenfent means of communication. The Mall, the great central people’s |park of the L'Enfant plan, was de- |signed as an artistic connection be- | |tween the Capitol and the White {House. During the slow growth of | Washington the Mall was cut into sec | tions, each of which was subject to | : | spectal and individual treatment. The | vart of both approach from the west to the Capi- for the Govern-|tol, planned as an open public square as may be | was fenced about and called a *Bo- | Oreover, | tanfe Garden.” Congress in recent | ts during | vears ordered the fence cut down, and v_exceeded | Congress has placed in this garden there is 1o |precinct the Grant and Meade Me b land wiil be ac-|morials, with evident intention of re s in the opposite | storing the area to its original purpose as an approach to the Capitol. to buildings—| Temporary and unsightly structures be made between |hastily thrown up on other sections venient housing | of the Mall during the war emergency, ucted buildings and [to house varfous war-time activities, actory hou! n com- (and which have long outlived their ~ting with the dignity of the Gov-|usefulness, are still occupled at ex- nment and the nature of activity ac- |treme fire risk by important perma- sdated. Tt s not really economy |nent activities of the Government., ve money at the exense of theThey must be removed to save the| well-being of clerks and em- | Nation from disgraceful scandal. i ith the result of a low grade | The/general-character of new build- The Government should |ings to be located along the Mall and s well as States |along the now authorized “Way of . or as banks | Heroes™ is determined by present oc- stitutions house | cupations. The. Smithsonian Institu. | people of the |tion. the National Museum, the Army | : cerned that their | Medical Museum and the aquarium of “hall be expressed in public | the Bureau of Fisherles bring into the S Well designed, swell located | Mall daily throngs of wvisitors and ructed.” | sightsee: The Freer Art Gallery, | ik | with its spectalized collections, and the Coolidge Proposal. already-started George Washington President Coolidge, known the world | Memordal, ¢with its auditoriums for an apostle and exemplar of |gatheripgs, great and small, are es- nt economy. has for more than | = - - heen urging Congress to $50.000,000 to start an ade- rogram for the Fed: nment. recognizing that, the davs of Washington the means within the SAVINGS wa >t such as pursue lesizn (o iny Ereat DEPOSITS richest o and s Srerery - .| | MORRIS PLAN BANK Under Supervision U. S. Treasury complete re ent’s portion saying fons extent Ay given to the Presi. dent’s stand by 1e fact that the Con- stitution ordained that the seat of Government should he under the ex- Ive jurisdiction of Congress in all ecases whatsoever, so as to prevent any interference with the orderly con- duet of Government -Business—and now we have the spectacle of one of the great branches of the Govern- ment, the Department of Justfce, ord:- ered to vacate, by a private owner of the main bullding it occuples; and other great departments, llke Com- merce Labor, are similarly in danger. dded weight IF YOU HAD ¢ NECK ‘A8 LONG A8 THIB FELLOW. . R AND HAD AT ALl . THE WAY DOWN IN respect to the memory of our Vice President, HENRY LANSBURGH; Who died suddenly on Sum- day, November 29th, we, his associates with Lansburgh & Bro., bow our heads in reverence. Our loss is great—be- cause he was our friend. His kindly spirit will long be cherished, and his guiding hand sadly missed. 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