Show LUTEk AUGUST TOURISTS TOURISTS IN 1 CAPITOL GAZE UPON TOMBSTONE TO E SHOW snow POLITICIANS WITH LOST HOPE SlOPE FEEL BADLY A BADLY A MEAN JOKE ON 1 CONGRESS By RODNEY ROD LY DUTCHER BUTCHER NEA LA Service Ice Writer WASHINGTON Aug 22 August tourists trekking here to look upon the grandeurs of the capital are gaz gaz- gazing gazIng ing first on the worlds world's grandest cemetery as they step out of the rail rail- railroad railroad railroad road station Between the station and the senate office oHice building just a couple of hun bun hundred hundred bundred dred yards from the capitol itself and andon andon andon on the federal governments government's own ground the Memorial Craftsmen Craf men of or 0 America are putting up their Art and Design show where the art of or the tombstone designer goes Into direct competition with the art of the archi archi- architects architects architects responsible for the Washington Monument the Capitol the Congressional Congressional Library and the Lincoln Memo Memo- rial nial tl I Tombstones tombs monuments I headstones urns and fancy II crosses crosses everything everything that goes to make modern cemeteries so 60 arty arty are are set up in the exhibits which is under canvas SAD SIGHT FOR SENATORS A thousand tons of stone are being used It will be artistically scattered over oyer grass plots with pebbled walks and md interspersed with evergreen e trees especially brought from President Coolidge's home state to mark off of the booths and end their secretaries for forthe forthe forthe the past two or three weeks have been gazing out at the two big big- tents used to o house the exhibits Something akin akino to o consternation may have struck them as workmen began to move the marble and granite In Not many senators are here now but the occa occa- occasional occasional occasional one who faces a fight for re reelection re- re reelection reelection election next year probably is glad that the funeral layout which can be plainly seen from his window is not permanent The exhibitors are mostly manufacturers manufacturers quarrymen and designers and the he exhibit Is meant for the retail trade rade but it Is open to the public and anyone who cares to march in and whose eye is subsequently struck by a particularly handsome tombstone will not find his business scorned NEW STYLES IN TOMBSTONES TO S What your our correspondent asked Mr C. C E. E La Vigne manager of the show are the latest styles in tombstones The new tombstones replied Mr Ir La Vigne are as Individual Ind as ns art can make them They are directed at the personal personal- personality Ity ty of ot the individual In the past the general notion of or the he trade has been to make large monuments In their attempts to please customers But now the trend Is toward the smaller and more artistic memorial The artistic urge is expressed through carvings can symbolic posies and various whirligigs and more than ever cyer of ot this is being done largely through perfection of the process or sand blast carving caning Sand blast carving de is ex exquisite ex- ex exquisite almost aimos beyond description explained Mr La Vigne In the deli delI- delicacy delIcacy delicacy cacy of its edges and aliveness of its conventional motifs it shows that It has las caught and kept the artists artist's dream It is a boon to t all those who work on ornamental tributes of or mem mom ory cry ory REFINED ED JOKES PERMITTED The lot of which the million dollar exhibit Is ls being shown is part of the federal park system and Is being de demoted de- de devoted devoted voted to commercial purposes for the last ast time As custodians co-custodians of the park jark land Vice President Bastes Dawes and Speaker Nicholas Longworth granted permission to the tombstone makers to o make themselves at home on the property Foreign and American makers will both be represented The tombstone men insist that their heir convention must be taken seri seri- seriously seriously but they do not object to nice refined Jokes like the one about the tourist mistaking the exhibit for a memorial to the last congress and its hopes a- a t |