Show STE WART WASHINGTON ITON LETTER l L ETT WANT BUT UT NOT P. By HI S I p ItT VAUT NEA XI Service c Writer WASHINGTON ASHINGTON Aug 27 The Thc 2 The Washington chomber of ot commerce I li lis hs AS launched a campaign to make mak the capital one of oC the tho country's I biggest elites cIties a as well as Its most Important In Us Its own peculiar I way vay The commerce chamber doesn't dOl care so much about mak- mak makin mak-I mak in It an Industrial indu center what's particularly aimed at Is selling tile tI place to prosperous people as asan nn nil Ideal spot to lo live in inThe inThe The Washington boosters make mak out a pretty good case Of courso course they Ih y exaggerate Boosters always do They admit there t are W rt nacre drawbacks a a c at all For r Instance th t thy y brag about tha climate II 1 Now ro about the et only I good r this thin I I Its It's It possible to say sa truthfully tr of Washington's climate Is that it IK ni vet ver gets very cold but Lut It tailly does docs get wet and nasty and andIn andIn I In summer r It can give points to the tropics In the th line tine of getting lint hot The boosters mention men lion that I tlc tIc street car service ice Is I InS ing Theres There's plenty of ot room for fot It Housing conditions are pointed to with pride They ought to lo be Houses housed cost enough I Another bad thing about Wash Wash- ash ington she inton-she she s Isn't her own Congress o It When I ine enterprising e boosters are not boosting they they thoy know this Is a bad thing too In their calmer moments they howl like everything for self nation If It the aldermen of oC any an other city cit In tho the United States passed u un ito y one of oC the dozens of oC nutty ordinances n that at the capital l has to rl el I worry along under U the voters e would chuck em out of office In a I I minute But congress isn't aim an- an answerable to Washington So It can experiment and mon mon- monkey monkey key and tinker with the municipal machinery to Its hearts heart's content contentI I and und It surely s dots get set a lot ot of fun Cun out of oC doing so but Its It's its it's well Its It's severe on the Yet Vet Washington Is attractive It I Isn't uncomfortably big yet et though the boosters are trying to make It so It isn't rushed to death Ant And It pleases the tle eye Its It's handsomely built hullt Its terrain Is sufficiently to lo give variety without be be- being beIng ing tog hard to navigate It not only Is well provided with big parks Its It's thickly slotted dotted with pretty little squares and circles There are lots ot of trees Its It's pic pie picturesque Washington's Interesting also One feels that hes he's living here In Inthe inthe the fhe midst of oC things Its It's leis Ide tel II for COl everybody the tho Sa Anti loon league the Association Against th Prohibition Amendment the American Federation of ot Labor al althe all the women's organizations the en- en entile entile tile ilie outfit The presidents president's Jo fo 0 be seen occa occa- occasionally occasionally dodging automobiles just like a human being Going to lo tow work w rk In the morning one meets members of oC the cabinet and sena sena- senators senators tors tos and recognizes em cm and anti may may- maybe be IJ speaks to a few Cew Representatives lies tives are so common they dont don't amount to much Washington's mighty cosmopoli- cosmopoli tan tan more more so than New York even Yorks York's foreign population Is Ia v Iry ery ry large but Washington's is extraordinarily variegated There are arc samples from Crom rons ron's the most way the places placEs placE's Slam I Persia Abyssinia Ab all all lnla-all al kinds of oC queer lolk tolk who add coor color New NewYork's NewYork's and pep to thc tho landscape Yorks York's foreigners are mostly East lerl too Here Hero they're very ton tony diplomats with titles some of oC em Financially WashIngton's highly educational no no end of oC museums and libraries sites librarIes of national big bIg- to be at scenes of historical Interest to be visited True Washingtonians never neve bother bothel with any of oC these things Only tourists do tIo Still they're something here something for the resident to feet feel proud of oC even If he doesn't doesn know what they the look 1001 like n |