Washington Monument Framed In a Capitol Arch.
Tourists to Our National Capital
Find Many New Structures Have Risen
Prepared by National Geographic Boclety,
Washington, D. C.-WNU Service.
( ( TT LOOKS just like
the postcards,” typ
“*■ ical sightseer’s com
ment on the Washington
scene, is still true. The
Capitol dome is still the same
as in the newsreel backdrop
for senatorial snapshots. The
Washington monument at
night is still a looming land
mark in peaked white hood
with red airplune beacons
for eyes.
But behind the scenes nnd Indoor*
• re many change* which prevent
lait year'* two and three-fourth*
million viiltora to the District of
Columbia from feeling they have
•een everything.
The triangular block east of the
Archive* building, where motorist*
have been staring at blank wooden
enclosing wall* while waiting for
traffic signals at Constitution and
Pennsylvania avenues, has at last
been unveiled to reveal the Apex
building. Thi* new home for the
federal trade commission Is named
for Its position at the apex of the
Federal Triangle group of glorified
office building*, already housing ten
Important bureau* and commis
sions. The new seven-floor Apex
structure has a ‘‘flatiron” floorplan,
with its rounded column-lined tip
pointed down Pennsylvania avenue
toward the cnpitol, five blocks east.
As soon as the Apex building shed
Its screen of gray hoarding, up went
e larger wooden barrier across the
street and two steam shovels be
gan to bite out the foundation for n
National Art Gallery to house the
Mellon collection. Art students may
amuse themselves while wnlting for
its completion by visiting the recent
ly opened Museum of Modern Art,
fifth art museum of Washington.
Beige and ivory backgrounds and
furniture of blond woods lend an
atmosphere of freshness to the Dis
trict’s affiliate to New York clty’a
Modern Art museum. The new gal
lery, In the Metropolitan Club build
ing at Seventeenth and H streets,
presents changing exhibitions in
stead of a permanent display.
For Financier! and Anlmala,
A recent addition to the stern
facades of Constitution avenue Is
the Federal Reserve Dank Hoard
building at Twenty-first street. A
pair of splashing fountains in shal
low black granite bowls flank the
entrance to the spacious low build
ing of polished white gray-veined
Georgia marble. Over the front door
broods a stone eagle four yards
tslL Within, the two-stury marble
hall, with roof of molded glass,
has a double stairway leading to the
12 doors tagged with the names of
the 12 member banks.
Other new buildings on the district
official scene are the additions to
the National Zoological park—the
Pachyderm house for giraffe, ele
phant, rhino, hippo, tapir, and buf
falo tenants; and the air-conditioned
small mammals house for monkeys,
civet eats, otters, and such little
creatures as squirrels, gophers,
chipmunks, and kangaroo rats.
Strictly businesslike is the ap
pearance of the 11-story remodeled
quarters of the Home Owners Loan
corporation, at First street and In
diana avenue, with tidy limestone
front covering almost 200.000 square
feet of office space. Nearby rises
the new District Court building with
Its eight streamlined courtrooms.
Among unusual new structures ir
Washington are several which wil
take their places in the official di
rectory under the obscure title oi
annexes. The Agricultural annex,
also known at the Standardizatior
building of the bureau of agricultur
al economics (“Cotton building" foi
short) is a long six-story rectangli
of tapestry brick at Twelfth and C
(treats Southwest. Here cotton,
wool, hay, seeds, beans, and other
agricultural products are tested and
classified for sale. Continuous win- I
dow strips four stories high and .
special skylights, scientifically de- |
signed to throw shadowless light |
into laboratories used for classing
cotton fiber according to color and j
size, are outward signs ot the sci- '
entitle research within.
Huge Engraving Annex.
The burenu of engraving’s new
seven-story annex across the street
is believed to be the largest fac
tory-typo structure in the world
built of steel and concrete. Pol
ished veneer lining the molds in
which the concrete wns poured gave
the surface a smooth finish resem
bling stone. The same continuous
window strip straight up several
stories Is a feature of the
construction, putting seventeen
glittering vertical stripes up the
Fourteenth strer^ side of the build
ing. The annex’s five massive wings
are visible from the south. Sky
lights with northern exposure are
provided for top floor studios of art
ists and engravers who design
■ tamps, currency, and bonds; as
far as possible, daylight will be sub
stituted for the blazing blue electric
lights so long a feature of the old
Engraving building across the
street. All stamps will be manufac
tured In the new annex, as well as de
signs for other valuable paper; 19
vaults for storage and three non-pil
forable Incinerators, for complete
ly destroying discarded valuables,
are built-in features of the equip
ment. A tunnel connects the annex
with a government loading plntlorm
In tho railroad yards nearby, for
safer shipment of valuables and
quicker unloading of paper, dyes,
and chemicals.
The capital's third new annex of
the year is the addition to the library
of congress, east of the parent build
ing and glaringly white beside its
nge-grlnied elder. This annex pro
vides storage space for ten million
books, as well ns numerous period
icals, with a penthouse for 167 quiet
private study rooms.
Nearby in the capitol, the year
has brought changes in the bronze
population of Statuary hnll—three
newcomers. Nebraska has installed
its first representatives in this
American Hall of Fame, William
Jennings Hrynn and J. Sterling Mor
i ton. General William Henry Harrl
! son Beadle, educator, was sent to
Statunry hall for South Dakota. In
the gaunt somber crypt of the capi
tol basement has been installed a
pearly white plaster model of the
building, made in an accurnto scale
of one fifth Inch to tho foot, complete
even in details of balustrades or
Corinthian capitals of columns. A
detachable section shows how the
East front would look if extended as
the architect planned.
Capitol Now Air-Conditioned.
Most striking development in the
Capitol, from the tourists' point of
view, is the newly installed air
conditioning plant which hns the
cooling capacity of n seven-story
block of Ice melting in 24 hours, or
of 200,IKK) average household refrig
erators. The alr-conditloning op
erates from the cnpitol power plant,
and furnishes cool air also for the
senate offices and the two house of
fice buildings through n giant sys
tem of copper pipes.
Outstanding indoor developments
In the District of Columbia have
taken place In the new south build
ing of the Department of the Inte
rior. The Office of Education li
brnry has been installed, with Its
museum collection of early Amor
ienn textbooks os well ns modern
education material. Near the build
ing's south entrance is the new mu
seuni. dramatising the work of the
nine bureaus and departments o]
the Interior with maps, charts, mod
els, photographs, and 11 diorama;
showing tiny figures in well bull
and lighted scenery.
SEEN
and
HEARD
around the
NATIONAL
(CAPITAL
fy Carter Field ^
Washington.—Perhaps the most
Important effect that the Progres
sive conference in Madison, Wis.,
j will have on President Roosevelt’s
star is that it will start a lot of
admirers of the La Follette brothers
wondering if Roosevelt is really
sound in his New Dealism and in
his economics.
One indication of what may hap
pen to Roosevelt, due to the La
Follette defection, has already hap
pened. Had it not been for the five
La Follette Progressives in the
house who so unexpectedly voted
against the reorganization bill that
measure would have become law.
So that the Progressives have al
ready prevented the President from
having a good deal more power
power which might have been ex
tremely effective, from time to time,
during the next two years.
But the disturbing phase of the
La Follette movement to the New
Deal lies in the fact that on so
many counts the La Follettes agree,
not with the extremists who want
to go a lot further than Roosevelt,
but with the conservatives who think
some of his economic theories and
practices unsound.
This is notably true so far as the
doctrine of scarcity is concerned.
For a long time, for example, Sen.
William E. Borah has been almost
a lone voice crying in the wilder
ness in attacking the idea of cur
tailing production when so many
people ore in need of more—more
food, more shelter, more clothing,
more everything.
“During the six years of the
Roosevelt administration," said
Gov. Philip F. La Follette, "we have
transferred red ink from the books
of private enterprise to the book
keeping of our local, state and
federul governments.
“We have tried to give the farm
ers high prices by restricting agri
cultural production. We have tried
to give industry high prices by re
stricting the production of the fac
tory and the shop. We have tried
to give labor high wages by restrict
ing the output of the worker.
Hits at Rooaevelt
“On top of all this, we have even
kept millions of able-bodied men
and women from productive tasks
by relief and various forma of made
work. A little simple arithmetic
gives the nnswer: Less from agri
culture, less from industry and busi
ness, and less from Inbor can only
equal less for all, instead of more
for all.’*
The sentences Just quoted might
reasonably have been expected in
the monthly letter of the National
City bank. They would have sur
prised no one In particular if they
hod been uttered by Alf M. London.
Or printed In an editorial In the
New York Times or the Baltimore
Sun,
All of which Is not taken to menn
that the Ln Follettes may be found
backing a regular Republican in the
next election. Nor that they would
support the kind of Democratic
candidate who might be approved
editorially in the pre-convention
campaign by the New York Times
or the Baltimore Sun.
But they do hit Mr. Roosevelt ln
a very vulnerable spot, a spot made
sore by much pounding from ele
ments as far removed from the La
Follettes ns the Liberty league!
It mnkos it much more difficult
for Roosevelt to assume his favorite
strategic position—in the middle be
tween two extremes—where he can
! say to both sides: "Look what those
: other fellows would do if it were not
I for me "
| “Baked Potato Story”
The "baked potato story” is still
bothering Sen. Vic Donnhey of Ohio.
{ Since the Ohio senator was named
chairman of the congressional com
j mittee which will investigate the
Tennessee Valley Authority, the sto
ry has been brought up again.
Briefly, the story goes like this.
| Vic Donnhey wns state auditor of
j Ohio while James M. Cox wns gov
ernor, and incidentally while Cox
was a candidate for President on
the Democratic ticket in 1920. Don
nhey attracted a lot of attention to
| his auditing. On one occasion he
forced a state judge to itemize a
bill for a dinner, and then disal
| lowed a 35-cent charge for potatoes.
"Not while the farmers of Ohio are
getting only 65 cents a bushel,” he
told the newspaper men. Which
was promptly printed all over Ohio.
The story was printed recently,
by this writer, with an addition to
j which Senator Donahey takes excep
' tion. The addition incorrectly atat
I ed that later on, with no publicity,
] this item wfas allowed. "I want
' you to know,” the senator writes,
“that 1 di 1 not pass the controver
| sial voucher for payment, and it
j was not approved until a succeeding
■ auditor issued a voucher in pay
ment of this account. I do not think
you meant to be unfair, but I do be
lieve you were misinformed, and
this erroneous statement to the pub
lic should be corrected.”
A* • matter of fact, the true pan
of the story—that the 35-cent pot ate
item was disallowed by Mr. Dona
hey—made a great hit at the time
in Ohio. So did other actions of the
auditor. He was elected governor ir
1922—a Republican had been elected
in the Harding landslide of 1920—
and then came up for re-election
in 1924.
Ohio Liked Donahey
It has often been stated that the
voters of Ohio had come to regard
Vic Donahey very much as they did
Calvin Coolidge, being enthusiastic
about Coolidge’s New England thrift
when applied to spending the peo
ple’s money.
At any rate, Donahey was run
ning on the Democratic ticket, and
Coolidge was running on the Re
publican ticket, that N ivember day
in 1924, and the Ohio voters gave
Donahey a majority o 176,842 and
Coolidge a majority of 698,242,
which means that Donahey ran no
less than 875,084 ahead of his*ticket!
Most New Yorkers, and most peo
ple outside of Ohio for that matter,
will tell you that the most spectacu
lar run any candidate ever made
ahead of his ticket was made by A1
Smith, running for governor of New
York in 1920, when he ran slightly
more than a million votes ahead of
Cox.
But if the fact that there were
slightly less than half as many vot
ers in Ohio as there were in New
York is taken into consideration, the
Donahey run is obviously far more
spectacular.
All of which is also interesting
in that Donahey was appointed to
this committee by Vice President
Gamer because he is an auditor.
"So few senators are apt to under
stand the figures,” Gamer com
mented afterwards to a friend who
inquired why such an independent
senator, a man who had refused to
make a seconding speech for Roose
velt at the Philadelphia convention,
should have been appointed.
F. D. R. Likes This One
One of the two points made by the
16 big financial leaders in pledging
co-operation between business and
government really appeals strongly
to President Roosevelt, if it can be
arranged according to his own for
mula. The other is absolutely at
variance with his philosophy, and
has no chance of adoption.
The point he approves is, in effect,
a short-circuit of the anti-trust laws.
It would permit the interests en
gaged in a particular line of busi
ness to agree on production sched
ules, even prices, and other details
calculated to prevent the humps and
valleys of normal business curves—
if—-government experts, represent
ing the people, sat in on the con
ferences and had the veto power
on any important decisions.
Applying the principle, if. Henry
Ford would agree to sit down with
General Motors, Chrysler, and the
other motor makers, and agree on
how many cars each would pro
duce, What the prices would be, and
to eliminate the possibility of forc
ing sales so hard this year that next
year the result would be lay-offs of
workers, the President would think
that was getting somewhere. But
he would wnnt to have his own ap
pointees refereeing the decisions,
with the right to say “no,” effectu
ally, at any stage. As, for instance,
if he thought the prices agreed on
were too high, or if there were any
attempt to squeeze the small pro
ducers.
This Is a particularly good Il
lustration of the theory because no
one believes It is possible. Every
one who knows anything about Hen
ry Ford thinks he would close his
factories down before agreeing to
anything so violently in conflict with
his whole concept of whut is good
for the automobile industry in par
ticular. and the country in general.
General Motors and Chrysler would
like the theory very much, provid
ing that part about the government
expert having the veto power could
be stricken out, or at least made
innocuous.
Please Other Lines
There are other lines of business
which would welcome the idea. It
is essentially what was proposed in
the original recovery program, un
der NBA. Also, it is essentially
what was in the understandings be
tween the oil operators which so re
cently resulted in their being con
victed in an anti-trust suit.
It is positively not the idea of
Sen. William E. Borah, nor of Rob
ert H. Jackson, nor of Thurman W.
Arnold.
The other obvious proposal of the
“Big Sixteen” is simply absurd,
from the White House standpoint.
The idea of President Roosevelt giv
ing up his economic and social ob
jectives is so fanciful that it is sin
cerely doubted by some friends of
several individuals on the "Big Six
teen” whether they did not have
their tongues in their cheeks when
they signed the document.
The President had Just reiterated
his insistence that a bill providing
for federal regulation of wages and
hours must be passed before con
gress adjourns. He was in the midst
of the preparation of his anti-trust
message. He had on his desk the
speech to be delivered by Trust
buster Arnold. But more than that,
every friend he has knows that ho
has a whole truckful of new ideas
for legislation intended, through the
imposition of the power of the gov
eminent on business, to better the
lot of the downtrodden.
But meanwhile he would like the
approval of business for his spend
ing program!
© BeU Syndicate.—WNU Service.
Treatment of
Peptic Ulcer
By
DR. JAMES W. BARTON
© Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service.
THERE are apparently
fewer operations now for
stomach or intestinal ulcer
in proportion to the number
of cases than there were a
few years ago. This is not be
cause surgery does not give
results in emergency cases,
but because medical treat
ment combined with treat
ment of the patient generally
(not just the stomach or in
testines) gives good results
with less after-effects.
The thought in the minds of physi
cians now is that the ulcer patient
; is of the type who,
curea oi one uicer
by medicine or sur
gery, is quite likely
to simply go ahead
and “grow” another
ulcer unless he
changes his habits
of life.
The patient with
stomach or intesti
nal ulcer is usually
0f nervous type
Dr. Barton and slender in build.
While this, in itself,
may not cause ulcer, it predisposes
to ulcer, so that it is like having
paper and wood all ready to start
a fire; the fire will not start unless
a match—irritation, infection from
teeth and tonsils or other causes,
is applied. Individuals of different
build or physique with the same ir
ritation or infection would not be
as likely to develop an ulcer as
these slender, nervous individuals.
Quiet Life Essential.
Thus when the ulcer patient con
sults his physician his own history
and his family history is learned
before the usual tests, including
X-rays, are made.
“An attempt is made to prevent,
besides cure, peptic ulcer (as stom
ach and intestinal ulcers are
called). Patients with an irritable
stomach or family history of ulcer
should be advised to live a ‘sensi
ble’ life and be placed on a mild
ulcer regime or plan—bland diet,
regular meals, thorough chewing of
the food, a short rest (lying down)
before meals, and a short rest after
meals either sitting up or lying
down on right side.”
This quietness or calmness of
mind means less disturbance of the
muscular walls of the stomach, less
chance of irritation and ulcer for
mation. The avoidance of all infec
tion from teeth, tonsils, sinuses or
elsewhere,' may also prevent the
formation or reappearance of ulcer.
• • •
Tests for Diabetes.
One of the best bits of work our
insurance companies are doing is
the free annual examination of their
policy holders.
One of the tests regularly made
is for sugar in the urine, which, if
present, is a sign of diabetes in
two of every three cases. If there
is really no sign of diabetes pres
ent-drinking a great amount of wa
ter, and passing a great amount
of urine—it can readily be seen that
an early diabetic would not likely
hnve discovered that he had dia
betes had not the urine been tested
by the insurance examiner.
Many factors have been suggest
ed as entering into the cause of
diabetes. Heredity, overweight,
hardening of the blood vessels (ar
teriosclerosis), gall bladder disease,
nervous strain, disease of the pitui
tary gland which lies on the floor
of the skull, thyroid gland disease,
and other conditions have been ex
amined.
Men and women should have the
urine tested once or twice a year.
Cutting down on starch foods should
prevent overweight and the devel
opment of diabetes in those who in
herit the tendency toward it. It
should also do away with the need
for Insulin in early cases of dia
betes.
Leave Chores to Mother
"Life With Mother” may be only
a popular book in America, but it's
a popular custom in Decs, Hungary,
according to W. Seiler, manager of
the American Express travel serv
ice, who reports that young newly
weds in that village live with mother
after the marriage ceremony, and
even let her do much of the house
hold work. Local tradition holds
that young married couples should
be free to enjoy themselves. The
bride, therefore, is not expected to
do housework until her mother-in
law dies, and with good luck, she
need not bake, clean os cook until
| well into middle life.
For Safer Window Cleaning
Several of New York's skyscrap
ers have been entirely refitted
throughout all window frames, with
specially provided monel bolt heads
to which window cleaners fasten
their safety anchor belts, says a
White Metal News Letter. Monel
was used to replace the old bolt
heads since the metal is neither em
brittled by zero weather nor corrod
ed by atmospheric conditions, it was
| reported.
For Street and Home Wear
I ------—1
TWO dresses, as practical as
they are pretty—one for shop
ping and general street wear, the
other ideal for round the house,
and made on slenderizing lines.
Notice that they both use the
I I
smart front closing. Both these
patterns are quick and easy to
make up, and each is accom
panied by a complete and detailed
sew chart.
Frock With Girdled W'aistline.
Fashion says everything must
have a certain amount of soft de
tailing this season, and this
charming tailored dress obeys
with draping at the neckline, the
girdled waist, and bust fullness
beneath smooth shoulders. Easy
sleeves, cut in one with the shoul
ders, make it a cool style for sum
mer.
House Dress for Large Women.
It’s a diagram dress, so that it
may be made in just a few hours.
The long, unbroken, unbelted line,
the utter simplicity, the v-neck,
make this dress extremely becom
ing to women in the 36 to 52 size
range. Short, pleated sleeves give
plenty of ease for reaching and
stretching. Make this up in pret
ty cottons that will stand plenty
of wear and washing—percale,
gingham, seersucker, broadcloth.
The Patterns.
1489 is designed for sizes 14, 16,
18, 20, 40 and 42. Size 16 requires
4% yards of 39-inch material, plus
% yard of contrasting for girdle.
1476 is designed for sizes 36, 38,
40, 42, 44, 46, 48, 50 and 52. Size
It Almost Worked
A most miserly person thought
to train his horse to get along
without food and so subtracted
daily something from his food, till
at last the horse died. “How come
it to die?” he was asked. “Why,
I thought,” he answered, “to get
him to live on nothing and just as
I brought him to it, he died.”
38 requires 5 yards of 35-inch ma
terial.
Spring-Summer Pattern Book.
Send 15 cents for the Barbara
Bell Spring and Summer Pattern
Book which is now ready. It con
tains 109 attractive, practical and
becoming designs. The Barbara
Bell patterns are well planned,
accurately cut and easy to follow.
Each pattern includes a sew-chart
which enables even a beginner to
cut and make her own clothes.
Send your order to The Sewing
Circle Pattern Dept., Room 1020,
211 W. Wacker Dr., Chicago, 111.
Price of patterns, 15 cents (in
coins) each.
® Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service.
ARE YOU
ONLY A
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wife—a wife who ia lovable for three weeks of
the month—but a hell-cat the fourth.
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how loudly your nerves scream—don’t take it
out on your husband.
For three generations one woman has told
another how to go “smiling through” with
Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. It
helps Nature tone up the system, thus lessen
ing the discomforts from the functional dis
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druggist —more than a million women nave
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Why not try LYDIA E. PINKHAM’S
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The Unsocial One
Society is no comfort to one not
social.—Shakespeare.
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Don’t Neglect Them l
i Nature designed the kidneys to do *
marvelous job. Their task is to keep the
I flowing blood stream free of an excess of
toxic impurities. The act of living—life
i Itself—is constantly producing waste
matter the kidneys must remove from
tbe blood if good health is to endure.
1 When the kidneys fail to function as
Nature Intended, there is retention of
waste that may cause body-wide dis
tress. One may suffer nagging backache,
persistent headache, attacks of dizziness,
getting up nights, swelling, pufflness
under the eyes—feel tired, nervous, all
wom out.
Frequent, scanty or burning passage*
may be further evidence of Kidney or
bladder disturbance.
The recognized and proper treatment
Is a diuretic medicine to help the kidney*
tet rid of excess poisonous body waste.
Ise Doan's Pills. They have had more
than forty years of public approval. Are
endorsed the country over. Insist on
Doan's. Sold at all drug stores.
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