THE EDITOR SAYS
Evjue, William T.
The Editor Says •By WILLIAM 1. EVJUEWASFINGTON, D .C (Wednes-Vv <Iav>—A crowded day,—yesterday. In a short stay in the national capital there is so much one wants to see and so many prople one...
...Further research substantiates this figure...
...However, consultation with national capitol literature here in the office reveals that the dome, is crowned by the bronze statue of Freedom, 19 feet 6 inches high...
...Quite naturally there is an air of depression over the Norwegian legation out on Massachusetts ave...
...Flower beds with their bright reds and yellows also dot the white house premises...
...Will that turning out of lights ever be symbolic...
...That's what nearly everyone says who sees that building" volunteers the taxi driver...
...When one contemplates how the U. S. supreme court made the 14th amendment to the United States constitution a bulwark for corporate wealth rather than a guarantee of human rights, as originally intended, one wonders if the average man in this country doesn't get about the degree of justice that he is able to pay for...
...The statue is enclosed by three massive walls and a roof of marble with the open front supported by giant columns...
...Casey has gone far since this writer hired him as a cub reporter on the State Journal In pie-World war days and the carefree, boyish face of cub reporter days has now been supplanted by li'.ics and a thatch of gray hair...
...This writer has never seen the new supreme court building in Washington and so we saunter across the park in front of the capitol building toward this majestic pile of stone and marble...
...Ed is still with the HOLC in Washington while his wife, "Hoovle," is with the U. S. department of commerce...
...The foliage on the trees has been pop-ping out in the last week and there is now thilt dainty fresh green tint to the leaves that one only sees before the advent of the summer's dirt and grime...
...Surrounding the park in front of the capitol are the house office buildings, the congi-ess i oft a 1 library, the supreme court building, and the senate office building...
...Ed and "Hoovie" suggest that we go to the Shoreham hotel where there is good music, dancing, a floor show, and where celebrities can be spoiled...
...The height of the dome Is 287 feet and while survej ing the figure at the top of the dome the other day we concluded that it was a figure representing the American Indian...
...We scon arrive at the series of steps which lead to this massive pile of marble, stone, and granite at the end of the Mall...
...On the rear wall is this inscription above Lincoln's head: "In this temple As in the hearts of the people for whom lie .-.avert the union the memory of Abraham Lincoln is enshrined forever...
...If you want to get the real lowdown on Washington get chummy with the taxi drivers as they wheel you around Washington...
...It was the story In which the correspondent said that he was at the telephone and phoning news out of Warsaw while German bombers were over Warsaw bombing the city...
...The restaurant, of course, seeks to reflect a Parisian flavor and we are confronted with a menu card printed entirely in French...
...Glenn Roberts and this writer encounter Paul Rauschenbush in a Childs restaurant yesterday morning and there is much talk, over toast and poached eggs, concerning Madison and social security programs...
...He points to the hulking form of Hank Grrcnberg, the Detroit ball player, out on the dance floor with a young girl who looked like a doll in comparison...
...As we turn to leave the memorial, a thrilling sight unfolds before our eyes...
...Capitol hill at night is a scene of grandeur, stateliness, and majesty...
...To our suggestion that they pick out an eating place that Is unusual and away from the routine, Ed nominates a French restaurant, the Versailles, directly across from the Mayflower hotel...
...In 1933 the Mayflower and other hotels were like tombs...
...It is flanked all the way to Pennsylvania ave...
...A visit to Washington is never complete without a call on Bob Allen who will always be found, until late in the night, pounding away at a typewriter in his offices in the Press Club building...
...The diminutive, peppery Hull scon appears looking better than we have seen him looking in years...
...As we climb the steps, the head of the immortal Lincoln begins to show under the soft lights that are turned on this noble work of art at night...
...Ed Bow-den...
...Following breakfast, a trip to the house office building to call on Cong...
...There is an impressive array of marble terraces and lawns in front of the supreme court building with two fountains sending tumbling columns of ¦water into ,the air...
...When we arrive on capitol hill a scene of surpassing beauty is unfolded...
...He cannot talk freely...
...Since their affilia-1 ion with the Farmer-Labor Prcgres...
...We always understood that baseball players were subject to training rules, but Green-berg was at an adjoining table until after midnight...
...Socialists to Map Drive to Back Thomas Organization of a campaign for Norman Thomas for president and Maynard C. Knirger for vice president will be the rhlrf business of the biennial convention of the Socialist party of Wisconsin June 8 and 9 at Turner hall...
...The original cornerstone of the main building of the national capitol was laid in 1793 by Pres...
...We are received at Cong...
...Representatives of party branches in Madison, lakeshore cities and many northern counties will be present...
...Their pose as champions of peace and democracy is a fraud...
...While whirling down Pennsylvania avenue we see the imposing structure, nearing completion, which will house the Mellon art exhibit...
...In the secretarial offices of The legation we meet a woman who is a cousin of Holden M. Olson in Madison...
...The trees on the white house lawn are beginning to take on their summer raiment and already the blossoms on the palmetto trees are beginning- to fall to the ground...
...It is said that Kenneth Crawford, the new president of the Guild, is having his troubles with the Guild board of directors which has been penetrated by members who are Communistlcally Inclined...
...The north wing was finished in 1800 and the south wing in 1811...
...The Poles are a highly imaginative people and I am inclined to discount the stories that the Germans have evecut-ed 20.000 Poles...
...Then along Constitution ave...
...The room in the capitol building formerly occupied by the supreme court was the senate chamber until 1859...
...The archives building, where the records and the documents of a great nation will be found, looms up beyond...
...Now I believe that they are a distinct menace because they are bent on a program of disintegration of American concepts of government...
...And then we leave the more serious side of Washington for a look at a gayer and more frivolous spot...
...Tumbling water splashes and falls in the fountains in front of the stately federal reserve building...
...The maintenance costs of the building are said to be of huge, proportions...
...Bob said that he looked in on this Negro congress and to his surprise found that at least 20 per cent of the delegates were white people...
...He said that in his judgment conditions were not as bad>Vts have been painted by Polish sources...
...On the side wall to the right are chiseled the immortal wcrds of the second inaugural address, — "with malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right "—and on the left wall are inscribed the wcrds that will endure as long as humankind exists, — the Gettysburg address...
...Everywhere one her.rs the comment that the unemployment insurance department in Wisconsin is one of the best, administered in the country...
...The head measures 3 feet in height and the boot is 312 feet long...
...Along the Mall, thousands of electric lights seem to blink in wonderment as the national capitol, the Washington monument, and the Lincoln memorial tower over the area...
...The Pan American building,—one of the most beautiful in Washington, The labor and interstate commerce buildings are huge affairs...
...There was a wholesale receipt of regrets received at the German embassy from people who had been invited and Mr...
...This fellow Roosevelt has certainly wrecked Washington...
...Thomson's party was a big flop...
...Will forces that are today challenging Lincoln's concept of liberty and democracy someday turn out the lights on "government of the people, by the people, and for the people...
...Olav who is now attached to the legation...
...They glean much important information from garrulous high personages in back seats...
...The heroic statue of Lincoln in the center of the memorial was done by Daniel Chester French...
...We asked Lehrbas about, present, conditions in Poland...
...The entrance to the building brings one into a tremendous corridor leading to the doors of the supreme court...
...on the way to the national capitol...
...Morgenstierne must therefore follow a course of conduct in keeping with that fact...
...In addition to his European service I b-.is was in China for the Aaso-ci...
...Ed says that, particularly, he has in mind a visit to the Lincoln Memorial...
...There are many women present in formal gowns and men in full dress and dinner Jackets...
...One gets an Impression that this lavish pile of stone and marble representing a cost of $11,000,000, was erected to Inspire and awe people and that it was built to stand as a symbol of the majesty of the court...
...And as one trains the eye on the heroic figure above, there is something that just gets a person, — you can't describe it but the blood runs fas:er and one seems to feel the presence of this great figure in our national history...
...the Socialist state picnic to be held June 30 at Banutrove park, near Milwaukee...
...The entire capitol, looms out of the night, entirely bathed in floodlights...
...But we are graciously received by Mr...
...and Mrs...
...Allen then learned that these white people were largely Communists who had bored into the organization and were dominating its activities...
...Norman Clapp and Hank Williams, well known to Madisonians, are also there while Miss McCormiek who was In the governor's office when Phil was governor is now a member of Bob's staff...
...Hull's office by Bill Sanderson, Hull's efficient secretary...
...Then into historic Pennsylvania ave...
...The master of ceremonies takes occasion to introduce the celebrities present...
...But then new office and federal buildings spring up over Washington like mushrooms...
...The marble figure of Lincoln is 19 feet high from the top of his head to the sole of his boot...
...and on up the hill to the< capitol building...
...The statue shows Lincoln seated in a great armchair...
...Norman Thomas and Krueger will b. present to speak at...
...Built as a monument to Mr...
...A'ashington the demands on meni: of congress have increased iroror- ¦ ,<-jy and there is a huge anio'i mail pouring out of these office "'-y...
...I believed that they were valuable as a yeast and a ferment in helping toward social progress...
...the convention announcement declared...
...Is this part of a studied attempt to keep everything connected with the court aloof from the people...
...During the discussion, comment turns toward the political ambitions of John L. Lewis, the CIO chief and the significance of his presence at the recent Negro Congress held in Washington...
...Happy) Chandler of Kentucky is at this table and he takes a bow in his characteristic flamboyant fashion...
...In a short stay in the national capital there is so much one wants to see and so many prople one wants to contact...
...This is the first time we have heard of a new house office building...
...Hans Thomson, in charge of the German embassy in Washington, sent out invitations for a social affair at the embassy...
...But Mr...
...The Shoreham night spot is filled with people and waiters are scurrying about to minister to their wants...
...But building attendants advise that it will be impossible to see the supreme court chambers until the court convenes at noon...
...Around the National Press club there is considerable gossip concerning a split in the board of directors of the American Newspaper Guild...
...The facade is supported by gigantic marble columns and above the entrance to the building is this inscription: "Equal Justice Under Law...
...Milwaukee, party leaders announced last week...
...As one arrives inside the softly illuminated memorial, one instinctively removes his hat,—it would seem sacrilegious to do otherwise...
...in the 3400 block...
...At the Press club we meet Lloyd Lehrbas...
...Before the Hitler invasion of Norway...
...When we ask the taxi driver to take us to the house office building he asks: "Which one.—the old or the new...
...But a delightful, methodical, slow-moving old French waiter comes to our rescue and assures "Madame" and "Monsieurs" with a liberal injection of "Ouis," that there will be no difficulty...
...Carl P. Diet./, and former Emu Seldcl, all o'f Milwaukee...
...Capper of Kansas passes by...
...La Follttte's office in the senate office building nearby and meet members of the staff...
...We stop for a brief stay at Sen...
...Crawford Is battling this bunch and on a recent vote on policy at a New York meeting Crawford won out by a vote of 7-6...
...the well known Associated Fress foreign correspondent who served a stretch as a cub reporter on the SUUe Journal during his student days at the University of Wisconsin* Do you remember the dramatic story that appeared under an AP line when the German troops attacked Warsaw during the Polish campaign...
...Beyond the Washington monument at the further end of the Mall the flood-lighted outline of the nation's capiiol is seen...
...In the eyes of diplomatic Washington, Norway is now a belligerent nation and Mr...
...At a table at the edge of the dance floor there is a group of movie people headed by the rising young star, Helen Parrish...
...the time of tljc convention exact Information will be available...
...Merlin Hull...
...For a long time I maintained a spirit of tolerence toward Communists," said Allen...
...Hull seems quite impervious to any suggestion that he become a candidate for governor on the Progressive ticket this fall, The congressman says that he is just now getting a good start in his long tight to get recognition for the needs of Wisconsin dairying and that he doesn't want to abandon this fight...
...As we are seated at a table, Sen...
...Today they are crowded and have, emerged out of receivership and bankruptcy to make big profits...
...The single blossom cherries have already come and gone but the double blossom cherry trees are now radiant all over Washington in their gorgeous pinks...
...Lehrbas is waiting for a medical checkup before heading for the Balkans on an AP assignment...
...Casey suggests that we go to the National Press dub for lunch which is agreeable all around...
...Hull can become eloquent on the theme that Wisconsin dairy farmers have not been fairly treated by the federal government in view of what has been done for the corn and the cotton farmers...
...I'., these days of centralized powr...
...As we stand on the top steps at the entrance to the memorial, we see the Washington monument perfectly mirrored in the lagoon of water which is known as the Mall reflcctoing basin...
...where we meet Mcr '¦tperior, the young men" siarer and radio empii apcrs at f" per'<" d Manner and ."uperlor...
...When the congress resolved into various state caucuses, it was said that the New York group was overwhelmingly dominated by the Communist crowd...
...In 1BH the interior cf both wings was destroyed ov fire set by the invading British...
...Washington was spreading out in earlier days, too...
...And Washington is beginning to take on its spring beauty...
...The lights are being turned off in the mrmoria' as we turn back to our waiting cab...
...A. Phillip Randolph, the Negro who has done much to build up the organization of railroad porters, resigned as president of the congress because of the infiltration of the Communists...
...Paul is here on departmental matters in behalf of the unemployment compensation division in Madison...
...Old Abe will sit through the ages and gaze, with a slight suggestion of a smile on his face, on the Washington monument and the national capitol beyond...
...But Mr...
...Up there in his chair of marble...
...Members for 28 years or more wiil l>e honored with a public testimonial Die evening of June 8. Among the persons to be recognized at this time will be former Mayor Daniel Hoan, Charles B. Willi null, Supervisor Fred Heath...
...This writer has been coming to Washington for 25 years and during all that time Grace Lynch has been doing secretarial work for the La Pollettes,—father and son...
...There is an arduous climbing of marble steps before one reaches the Grecian facade that forms the entrance to the building...
...has shown an amazing development In recent years...
...The length of the building from north to south is 751 feet and the area covered by the building is three and one half acres...
...with public buildings...
...Morgenstierne...
...The affair was held the day following the announcement of the Nazi invasion in Norway...
...No matter how busy he may be Bob is always glad to take out time to chew the fat with old Madison friends...
...Radford Mobley, The Capital Times correspondent in Washington who knows how to get around in the maize of official Washington, obtains an audience for this writer with the Norwegian minister to the United States, Wilhelm Morgenstierne...
...Over there to the left is tha steel skeleton of a building which we are told wiil be the small claims court building...
...Ive federation, the Socialists have no state ballot column...
...Straight ahead is the floodlighted contours of the gigantic Washington monument...
...The corridor is flanked on both sides by high marble walls...
...The task of restoring the Socialist column for these candidates is now begun, and at...
...As we gazed on this huge figure, we were surprised when "Hoovie" told us that the distance from the sole of the shoe to Lincoln's knee was 8 feet...
...Why shouldn't citizens who paid for this building be able to see the chambers at appropriate times during the day...
...Hull says that he will endeavor to attend the Progressive birthday party at Wisconsin Rapids on May 19...
...As we leave capitol hill, the illuminated fountains in the capitol park are shooting columns of water high into the sir...
...Later, Ed has a happy idea,—why not hire one of the sightseeing autos and see the beauties of Washington by night...
...Constitution avs...
...There's the Congressional Library an imposing storehouse of knowledge and information...
...Washington with Masonic ceremonies...
...The correspondent was Lehrbas...
...Olav was the publicity representative on the occasion of the Crown Prince's visit to the United States...
...We regret that we miss seeing Mr...
...We may say to Wisconsin authorities that federal authorities do not wait until 8:30 in the evening before turning on the capitol illumination...
...Hi...
...Morgenstierne knows that everywhere in Washington there is overwhelming sympathy for Norway's plight...
...Morgenstierne inquires about well known citizens of Wisconsin of Norwegian descent and said that he remembered with pleasure his visit to Madison on the occasion of the tour of the Crown Prince and Princess of Norway...
...Mellon out of money that should have been paid to the government in inheritance and income taxes" chirps this writer...
...It became necessary to build a senate chamber on the north and a house of representatives chamber on the south and the cornerstone of the extensions to the capitol were laid on July 4, 1851 by Pres...
...Dinner Tuesday night with former Madisonians, Mr...
...wjth Ali:.ander i Casey) Jones, now I lie managing editor of the Washington Post...
...Capper is said to be quite a devotee of dancing...
...Platitude or reality...
...f. Clan- ": ¦; : n range, v. have .. ,.;:p:ji...
...Fillmore...
...One of the glories of Washington to this writer are the trees along the curbs in many business sections, somewhat after the continental boulevard style in Europe...
...d Press...
...The statue, chiseled out of Georgia marble, weighs 150 tons...
...The capitol stands out like a huge white-frosted wedding cake under the floodlights...
...And then back to ihe hotel dog-tired from a long day of sight-seeing and treading down marble corridors to see people...
Vol. 10 • May 1940 • No. 19
