Evening Star Newspaper, February 23, 1930, Page 3

HOMAGE 1S PAD | NATION FOUNDER Hoover Leads in Observance | of 198th Washington’s Birthday. (Continued From Pirst Page.) of Virginia. Miss Pollard sat on his right and Gov. Pollard on his left, be- | tween the President and Mrs. Hoover. | Make Pilgrimage to Tomb. ‘When the parade was over the Presi- | dent and Mrs. Hoover slipped away un- | expectedly on a pilgrimage to the tomb | of Washington at Mount Vernon. They bowed their heads in contemplation for a moment before the tomb, and then strolled through the grounds and the mansion, returning to the White House | shortly after 5 o'clock. The day was one of general celebra- tion in and near Alexandria, beginning 2t 9:30 o'clock in the morning and last- ing until last night. Ceremonies were opened with a piigrimage to the Tomb of Washington, where a wreath was placed by a committee representing the George Washington Birthday Associa- tion, which sponsored the parade. Following this was a ceremony in the graveyard of the Old Presbyterian Meet- ing House at Alexandria, when the na- tional Masonic body placed wreaths on the tombs of 25 Masonic dead and un- veiled the restored tomb of Willlam Hunter, jr., junior warden of Washing- ton’s lodge in 1789. A wreath also was placed on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier of the American Revolution by the Children of the American Revolu- tion, aided by two direct descendants of ‘Washington. President and Mrs. Hoover had been preceded to Mount Vernon by a com- mittee of the George Washington Ma- sonic National Memorial Association and Alexandria-Washington Lodge, No. 22, A F. and A. M., of which Washington was once worshipful master, which also placed a wreath. Speakers Pay Tribute. A stated communication of the Al- exandria-Washington Lodge was held in the temple on Cameron street at 6 o'clock last “usht, followed by a ban- quet by the ludge In Armory Hall, Al- exandria, where more than 500 gath- ered and distinguished speakers paid tribute to Washington’s memory. Gov. Pollard and his party of 15, ar- riving shortly before noon, were me Union Station by Mayor Willlam A. Smoot and an _official committee. Escorted by the Richmond Blues, the governor rode to the mayor’s residence, next to the reviewing stand on North Washington street. Soon after the gov- ernod and Mayor Smoot went to the National Masonic Memorial and met members of the National Association of Masons. Mayor Smoot was host at a private luncheon for the governor's party at his residence later. President Hoover and his party ar- rived in Alexandria shortly after 2 o'clock and were received by the gov- ernor at the mayor's residence. e party almost immediately went into the grand stand and President and Mrs. Hoover, Gov. Pollard and his daughter, Susie Virginia, and Harry D. Kirl president of the Geo ‘Washington Birthday Association, which sponsored the parade, were seated in a box in the eontar. Siagen Is Grand Marshal. The parade got underway promptly 8t 2:30 o'clock and reached the review- ing stand about 25 minutes later, headed by Capt. W. W. Campbell and a cordon of Alexandria police. Maj. Gen. Pred W. Siaden, commanding officer of the Third Corps Area, headed the line of march as grand marshal. The Rich- mond Blues followed the Army Band. Parade officials, State and guest offi- cials and city councilmen of Alexandria in automobiles completed the first unit of the first division. Led by Brig. Gen. James B. Gowen | and staff, the remainder of the first division, consisting of military and naval units, swung before the reviewing stand. Heading this division was the band of the 13th Engineers. Included in it were Infantry, Cavalry and Artil- lery units, tank companies and machine guns and their crews. Numerous bands interspersed the line of march, principal among them the Navy and Marine Bands and the post band of the Quan- tico Marines. i The second division, consisting of ex- service men, featured Spanish-American ‘War veterans, American Legion units and various organizations of Veterans of Foreign Wars from Alexandria, near- by Virginia, the District of Columbie and Maryland. i The third division, consisting of fraternal organizations, was colorful Among the group were various lodges of Red Men, decorated in their war paint. Civic organizations comprised the fourth division, with many Alexandria and nearby groups represented. Imme- diately following the passing of this unit President and Mrs. Hoover and | their party left the grandstand. Fire Companies in Parade. ‘The final section of the parade was made up of a long series of fire com- panies of Alexandria. Washington, Maryland and nearby Virginia. Featur- ing this division was the old Priendship reel, similar to the one presented the company by George Washington, which «was drawn by members of the old com- pany. Alexandria had eight units of fire apparatus in line, featuring chiefly the new pumper and the 75-foot aerial truck recently purchased by the cit; The celebration was broadcast over the Columbia Broadcasting System, with Ted Husing at the microphone. Secretary of War Hurley and s party of 30 were received at the stand after | having been entertained by Col. Clar- ence Moore and Mrs. Moore at their residence. In the Governor's party were his daughter, Miss Susie Virginia Pollard; Mrs. Ruth Young, Mrs. Thomas W. Murrell, Mrs. Elizabeth Cox, Mrs. George Hildebrandt, Mrs. Virginia Tay- lor, John A. Clarke and Mrs. Lewis Junkins. Members of the Governor's staff and their wives present included: Col. John A. Cutchins, acting chief of staff; Col. John W. Williams, personal aid to the Governor, and Mrs. Williams; Gen. 8. Gardner Waller, Maj. and Mr: I'WILL NOT BE RESPONSIH contracted by others than myself. RUBSELL WORTH, 1013 13ih n.w v 1 WILL N NSIBLE FOR ANY gebts contracted by any other than mysell. ¢ N H st 8.W. 25 | Washington T. Barton, Maj. and Mrs. E. T. Trice, Capt. and Mrs. James R. Sheppard, Capt. G. Stanley Clarke, Capt. and Mrs. John J. Wicker, jr.; Capt. Wills J. | Plummer, Capt. and Mrs. Claude W.| Hooper, Lieut. Comdr. William H. Card- | well, Lieut. and Mrs. Charles W. Crush, Lieut. and Mrs. Marvin I Walton, Lieut. Jesse M. Johnson, Lieut. Russell Bargi- | man, jr; Capt. and Mrs. John W. Mc- | Cauley and Lieut. and Mrs. Roy Flan- Assisting Mrs. Smoot at the luncheon [ were Mrs. Fairfax Harrison, Mrs. Lewis | E. Smoot, Mrs. Albert A. Smoot, Mrs. | Hugh McGuire, Mrs, Gardner L. Boothe, | Mrs. A. C. Pickens, Mrs. Dudley Boog- | her, Mrs. B. T. Boogher, Mrs. C. C.| Carlin, jr.; Mrs. R. W. Fuller, Mrs. Wal- | lace Lawrence, Mrs. Urghart Ansley, | Miss Phoebe Fuller, Miss Anne Corbitt | and Mrs. Anne W. Ansley. Virginia Legislators Attend. Approximately 175 members of the Virginia State Legislature were pres- ent on a special reviewing stand oppo- | site that occupied by the President. | Many members of Congress also occu- pled this stand. The congressional and | State representatives were entertained | separately at the George Mason Hotel | by a committee of which Ashby Rear- don was chairman. Serving with Mayor Smoot on his reception committee were | Dr. Hugh McGuire, Capt. A. C. Picken, Gardner L. Boothe, C. C. Carlin, jr., | and Albert A. Smoot. | VAST THRONGS JAM ALEXANDRIA ROADS | Parade Spectators Require Two Hours to Return to B. C. Traffic jammed all roads leading to Alexandria yesterday afternoon and more than two hours were required to reach that city before the parade or re- turn to Washington after the affair had been concluded. Alexandria, Virginia State and county police and 70 Washington officers strove vainly to keep traffic moving, but were only partially successful. Many auto- ists, realizing the traffic jams they would face returning to Washington after the parade, came back to this city by a circuitous route and over Key Bridge. The head of the jam occurred at the south end of Highway Bridge after the parade, with automobiles from both the upper and lower roads blocking the highway for miles. Many were required to walt at this point for more than an Em;r before they could get across the ridge. The condition of the River road to Alexandria, which is under construction, but temporarily open to traffic, added to the road jam, as the sides of this road are impassable for about 2 miles be- cause of excavating that has been done in preparation for widening the Arling- ton County portion of the road. Troops, Army trucks, Cavalry, Artil- lery and other military units,” passing over the lower road after disbanding | from the parade, also added to the con- fusion, and several of the trucks broke down on the way, temporarily blocking the road. The need for the new Mount Vernon Boulevard and the widening of the River road was shown by the traffic conditions today. E RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY Top: The famous Richmond Blues Mayor William A. Smoot of Alexandria. ington family born at Mount Vernon, The 16th Field Artillery passing in the TON’S s they passed the reviewing stand. Center left: Gov. Pollard of Virginia and Right center: Mrs. Eleanore Washington Howard, the last child of the Wash- phtl:.ll a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Revolutionary parade. BIRTHDAY Below: Soldier. —Star Staff Photos. MASONS TO SPEND $200.000 ON WASHINGTON MEMORIAL| Association, in Annual Session at Alexan-! dria, Re-clects Officers and Gathers Contributions. More than $200,000 will be spent on the work of constructing the George Washington National Masonic Me- morial, being built on Shooter’s Hill, at Alexandria, during the coming year, and the stone work, tower and much of the ground work will be completed. The George Washington National Ma- sonic Memorial Association, which held its annual meeting at Alexandria Fri- day and yesterday, has also announced that the temple would be dedicated on February 22, 1932, which is the bi- centennial of Washington's birth. Col. Louis A. Watres of Scranton, Pa., was re-elected president of the as- sociation at the meeting held in the Alexandria-Washington Lodge, No. 22, A. F. and A. M, rooms at Alexandria, yesterday morning. J. Claude Keiper of this city was also re-elected as sec- retary and treasurer of the association. Place Wreath on Tomb. Following the meeting yesterday morning, the national body, in com- pany with a committee from the Alex- andria-Washington Lodge, went to Mount Vernon and placed a wreath on | the tomb of Washington. Masons from 47 States and the D trict of Columbia gathered for the meeting and contributions from the various States, totaling more than $200,000, were received. Justice Townsend Scudder of New York was named chairman of & com- | mittee to draw resolutions from the body expressing sympathy on the {ll- ness of former Chief Justice Taft, who is & member of the advisory board of the temple association. Recelves Ovation, An ovation, lasting more than one- half hour, followed the re-election of Col. Watres as president of the associ- ation. —Another ovation followed the | renaming of Keliper. Col Warren has just presented the association with & $30,000 set of chimes, which he has had installed in the temple. ‘Three members of the assoclation | have died during the past year, accord- Ing to announcement made yesterday. | They are: Thomas McKenzle, State chairman of Connecticut; Lloyd E.| FOR THE CHILDREN | OTHERS know that milk | M is one of the best foods | | Barbara today, settling themselves for a South, West Virginia, and Thomas F. Pennman. Resolution was also passed express ing thanks to the Eastern Star and J. Edward Shinn for meals and enter- tainment furnished during the con- vention. SANTA BARQA A VISITED. Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge to Rest Two Days at Requa Home. SANTA BARBARA, Calif., February 22 (#)—Former President and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge became guests of Santa two-day rest in the comfortable home of Mr. and Mrs. Mark Requa after a three-hour ride from Los Angeles over pavement made slippery by rain. Requa is a prominent Republican leader. | try | where he stood with the world. He was | & business analyst, an analytical book- WASHINGTON SEEN AS EARLY ‘BOOSTER' Business Magazine Editor Calls Attention to His Varied Interests. George Washington was an outstand- ing business man of his day, with & variety of interests that included agri- culture, engineering, construction and commercial pursuits, Merle Thorps, editor of The Nation's Business, told & radio audience last night, in an address delivered over Station WRC and a na- tion-wide network of the National | Broadcasting Co. Visualizing the Father of His Coun- try as a “booster,” Mr. Thorpe said that Washington's standing as a prac- tical business man enabled him to start America on the road to the industrial pre-eminence it occupies today. He was opposed to Government going into com- petition with private industry, the editor added. Applied Science to Farming. “Everywhere.” Mr. Thorpe said, “there is evidence that Washington was a highly successful business man. He was & banker; he was an engineer; he was interested in transportation, both highway and waterway: he was & manufacturer; he applied science to his farming problems; he was a real estate dealer and one of the first large scale American exporters; he solved single-handed a _distribution question for the citizens of Alexandria. “He was the first to understand and appreciate our national opportunity in the development of the West. Today he would have been called a ‘booster.’ He was the first to conceive the con- struction of the Erie Canal; he was the first to see the possibilities of an all- water route from the ocean to the Great Lakes. He helped to build the first highway over the mountains to the Ohio country. The first Ohio Land Co. was made possible by Washington and his associates when he was engaged in surveying the holdings of Lord Fairfax. “He was the first Virginian to see that tobacco was played out because the land was worn and to meet his farm problems by diversification. He sug- gested the building of canals penetrating into the mountains through the leys of the Potomac and es Rivers, and the stretches of the old Chesapeake and Potomac Canal still endure to at- test his engineering skill. “If we study Washington's ancestry, we find nothing strange in the magni- tude of Washington's business acumen and enterprise. There is a marked strain of business ability to be found in the 25 generations between him and his ancestor Willlam de Washington, who settled the lmglhh palatinate of Dur- 185." ham in 1 Practical Cost Accounting. ‘Washington, Mr. Thorpe pointed out, kept a careful record of his business transactions and used a system of “cost accounting” which was quite unusual in those early days. “Each plantation,” he explained, “had ! its separate reckoning. If he made | something on his wheat, or his tobacco, the gain is plain to see. He shows us | how many slaves he had, and how his | expenses were rising. In his gaming | account he was no less faithful in de- tall. George Washington liked to keep | books. He wanted to know at all times keeper. He was at least a century ahead of present-day business men, who have come to know that a business can be directed efficlently only by an accurate | knowledge of all the factors involved. | He tnu:.p-md our present cost account- m, g sysi . “ ‘Farm relief’ held a practical mean- ing for him, and he interpreted it in ag!pmprl-u terms of crop diversity and t! application of new agricultural methods and implements. He got an English expert to come over and give him the benefit of the best practice abroad. When Arthur Young was car- g‘l.:lg‘ ?;v v%mhr‘;lurm of in ind, Washington corresponded with him in behalf of his own interest in better farming. Washington saw that the fertility of the sofl would be ex- hausted by continued repetition of to- bacco growing. Diversification was his solution. It is worth while to note that he introduced new seeds, and found time to grow many varieties of shrubs and trees. Kept Faith With Customers. “Wheat culture invited him strongly and he made it pay. He put up his own mill and sent the flour to market. He believed in branding his product so that the buyer would have an assur- ance of the quality of the merchandise and the integrity of the producer— just as the responsible manufacturer today keeps faith with customers who know him only through a trade-mark or a label. “There is scarcely a problem which ‘Washin, faced which we do not face y in different forms—finance, trans| tion, public lands, agriculture. One lesson he gave us. As a business man he studied both sides and had tolerance for both sides of every ques- tion. If we have our present prohibi- tion troubles, Washin; had his Shay's Rebellion. And the ical ‘wet’ and the fanatical ‘dry’ cor t greatly by studying the moderation and tol- erance which characterized Washington in the days of the Whisky Rebellion. “Another timely lesson we could learn from this business man President: He belleved, as every good business man does, in placing responsibility where it belongs and of looking for results. A Federalist, he belleved firmly in local self-government. The Executive De- INC’ of NEW YORK 1213 CONNECTICUT;AVENUE, N. W, FINAL REDUCTIONS IN partment which he headed up had less than 50 men and women on the payrol Today that same Executive Department has 559,000. The population has in- creased since his day 30 times; the work placed on the shoulders of the ex- ecutive arm of our Federal Government by communities and States, has in- creased 10,000 times, and the pity of it is that there seems to be no abatement of this tremendous increase.” PAINTING TO DEPICT U. 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