POLITICAL NOTES: A Bishop's House

''God himself kept those lots vacant for Clarence True Wilson. . . ."

So declared Bishop William Fraser McDowell, President of the Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church last year in describing the selection of the site of the Methodist Building on Capitol Hill.

Upon "those lots" Dr. Wilson, the board's secretary, caused to be erected a structure which many have charged is the Capital's busiest beehive of lobbying.

Last week God failed to preserve other Methodist lots on the opposite side of the street. These and the...

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