Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-04-22 | Page 4 | A Washington Daybook

i it 1 g t 1 IA A Washington Daybook I j By Bv ROD RODNEY EY r. WASHINGTON April 2 22 22 There is plenty of oC opinion here that the capital gets quite enough visitors and It Is also generally suspected that the rest of the country hears quite quire enough about Washington But the board of or trades trade's greater n national capital committee will spend In the tile next year ear to combat both those disloyal ideas and an expert ex cx- pert perL municipal press agent has been engaged to 0 ro sell Washington as a place to visit to bring more conventions conven comen lions tourists permanent headquarters I tel'S and anti trade organization headquarters heart head quarters here to make better arrangements ar to Lo take care of oC them all and anti to promote the city as the educational musical and art center of America Free Freo Information facilities for visitors tors will be featured New secretaries to members of congress charged with getting the office fixed ned up for the boss boos complain that the government furnishes cuspidors for senators and representatives representative but not ash trays tras The theory Is that somebody with an economical mind decided the thc immense im mense brass braS supplied would hold everything Others on Capitol hill arc sore wre because be bc cause that master showman howman Congressman Con Con- gressman Sol Bloom of oC New York Impresario of oC the Washington tennial unloaded in every cery one of or the offices a m massive sive bust of George Washington two feet l high jh Some members Insist that they are arc qualified to decorate their own offices but the busts are arc pretty heavy and anti none have ha turned up tip yet let at the town dump o Q o 0 oThis This city has been anticipating i it own newspaper merger merser but that the Washington Post ha hart had 1 been sold have bavo been denied by Ned Mr i. Mc Lean Its owner who has been CPI CCle cc for his old Intimacy with with President Harding the lIo Hope diamond dial dis dia- mond and other troubles For months the rumor has been that the p po t would be merged with t Hearst's W Wash h. h ington Herald the other newspaper here b woo 9 e eNo No collection of current local cos g. ossip os- os sip would be complete without men m. lion tion of the unkind things being c ai u by Hoovers Hoover's enemies about the pres dents dent's Invitation to Brjan Bryan boy hero of ot the Colorado bus bm di dl di aster boy at his OV own 11 expense they say and point to the report of the White While Hou House c confer conter on child health and protection which warns against subjecting chil dren to the limelight and nd emotional excitement But the tue Hoover haters are arc always saying mean things like hike that and as ns long as the pr president the boy and the photographers all alt have a a. swell time no one is 13 expected to interfere o e 0 e Nearly persons have ascended the n monument since It was opened in 1838 1888 The cle cleo vator valor incidentally holds 35 perso persons