Evening Star Newspaper, March 7, 1923, Page 5

¢ ¥ Civic Clubs Unite in Plans . For Uplift Work in Capital { More Than 600 Professional and Busi- ness Men Attend Get-Together Meeting and Funfest. ‘With music and song, intsrspersed &t intervals Ly serious talks, busi- ness Washington, as represented by @Ight of the city's leading male civic Botterment organizations, met” on ®ommon ground at the City Club last pight, tightened the bonds of friend- 8hip and pledged closer co-operation n uplift work for the benefit of the @ommunity. More than 600 prominent commer- efal and professional men, affliated with Lotary. Kiwanis, Civitan, Cos-{ mopolitan. Lious. Optimist, Thirteen &fa Newcomers clubs. had been plac- @d at the long rows of tables in the ballroom of the club when Willlam Knowles Cooper, president of local Rotary, opened the meeting by out- Mning the purpose of the gathering, and after announcing that a speaker from e organization would be al- Jowed “exactly three minutes” in which to explain the reasons for his elub's cyistence, threw formalities to the winds and granted the freedom of the building to members of the respective tions pr. bled Class Day. v n repl campus need her. wi nd colled O'Connor, . ic or Rev. George would jum from their ats in locl around their their careful t n- s would wait patiently ! James. Odell Whipple | Harding gave the ud then they would proceed, by well chosen Iyries. to tell their rival clubfellows just what Civitan stood for, : diy would they tire when Clarence Upde- graff or Roberts began with i 1 iwanians the hall. Bvidently atisfied th its mag- nificent turnout of 100 per cent, the Cosmopolitans rested on their laurels and were noticeably less boisterous. while the Optimist: Thirteen and Newconier delegations confined their activitics for the most part to cheer- ing the other. Tmmediately fter Chairman Cooper had presented it ecretal of Agricul- ture Henr C. Wallacs Charles W. Pugsley. assistant secretary of the #ame department, and Commissioner Cuno H. Rudolph, and each club had given its yell. George O'Connor, as- sisted by " Matt Horne, entertained the big crowd in his inimitable style, Various Clubs Repo: At the conclusion of this number otarian T. C. Dulin, assisted by Rev. homas G. Smyth. who had invoked the blessing, and others was seen carrving a huge egg-timer to the platform, and, accompanied by an out- burst of applause, Mr. Cooper an- nounced that evervthing was In readi- ness for the serfous business of the eveninz. “Remember, gentlemen,” shouted the presiding officer, “exact- ly three minutes; not another second more."” Ernest Greenwood of the Interna- tional labor bureau, and first vice president of International Civitan, started the ball rolling by briefly de- talling the origin, growth, aims and activities of his organization, and said that in three vears Civitan had spread from New York to San Fran- cisco. Hartford to Miami, New Or- leans to Chicago. and, finally, across knows no class, nor political distinction. We——, just then the egg had “cooked Mr. Greenwood sat down. Harry Carroll. speaking for the “Infant Cosmopolitan.” boasted of his club’s 100 per cent attendance at the dinner. and said that it was but an example of how the membership stood as one on matters worthwhile. He sald that Cosmopolitan aimed for bet- terment in citizenship, that there was nothing the matter with America as a place to live in, but that the trouble rested with some of those who live here. He, too, had begun to detail his erganization’s growth, when again the egg dropped { things do Owen, president the Kiwanis Club, declared that it would be impossible to detail achievements of that organization in three minutes, and after referring to the latest ac- tion taken by the local club, whereby $5,600 was appropriated for the erec- tion of buildings at Camp Good Will, and pointing out that today Kiwanis was represented throughout the United States and Canada by 700 clubs and a membership of 90.000, tried to say something about the “un- derprivileged child,” when once more the egg fell. Rev. George F. Dudley, speaking for ‘the Lions, prefaced his remarks = singing the club's song. e, I'my * This robbed him of at Jeast sixty seconds. but he had time enough to state all the splendid things Lionism is doing in America, mong which being its interest ization of aliens y B. Marsh of Evansville, Ind., himself a Rotarian, spoke in behalf of the Newcombers’ Club, the parent of which originated in the Indiana town. Mr. Marsh stressed the neces- sity of extending a welcome hand._to the stranger “in our midst,” and pre- dicted great things for the latest ad- dition to Washington's civic circle. He wound up exactly with the egg. Raymond B. Dickey. speaking for the Optimists, outlined the cardinal principles t well known organ- ization and pleaded with his auditors to forget mistakes and only think of acc s e, too, finished with the John oo national Rotary Glad I'm a Lio ZE. past president of cut his remarks of all similar hodies so short thai he uctually beat the tantalizing timekeeper. and. after referring to the ideals and ethics of his club, ended by quoting ! the organization’s motto, “Servic Above =elf,” and said “Things that we do for ourselves die with us: for others are Im- mortal., Ben A. Lefevre, chief executive of the Tlirteen Club. the last to speak, detailed the aims of that elub, which are to develop the membership's abil- ity in public speaking, parliamentary procedure and constructive criticism. and said that such a program nat-| urally encouraged civic improvement and interests in the country. So pleasing was Mr. Lefevre that many were sorry to hear the crack of the | RE. President Cooper allowed Mr. Green- wood to plead for united assistance from other local clubs to help make the coming convention of Civitan. to be held here in June, a success. This | was pledged. Seeretary Wallacs Speaks. The chairman then introduced Sec- retary Wallace, who spoke briefly on the interrelations between agricul- ture and the business interests of | the country. { He gave many figures to show the | absolute necessity for the closest co- operation between the farmer and business man, pointing to the se-| rious drop in agricultural products in 1920, when the percentage points went from 238 to 1.07, or 6 points lower than they were in 1913. “Few appreciate,” said the Secre- | “that the capital Invested in rm buildings. maohinery and land 1920 amounted to $70,000,000.000, while stock was valued at $23.000.- or enough to buy all the railroads of the country and a con- siderable portion of the mines. “We must not forget the taught us three years ago. ‘The great task before us all today is to stabilize agricultural production, and it is up to such organizations as these represented here tonight to give their unstinted co-operation to the farmers of America. There is need of a better understanding be- | twecn commerce, indu v and agri- | culture for the prosperity of all.” ! During_the evening Mr. and Mrs Louis A. Potter, the former a member of Civitan, deiighted the audience with several vocal selections, and. through the courtesy of Rotarian Robbins, Bennie Fields and Warner Gault, with Charles Thorpe at the! plano, all members of the Blossom Seeley company plaving this week at Keith's, kept the clubmen in rare spirits by their special entertain- ment numbers Those at the guests’ Ben Lefevre, Raymond B. Dickey Clarence I. Harding. John_ Pool Secretary Wallace, William Knowle Cooper, former Representative Focht. Commissioner Rudolph. A. M. Fisher, Rev. Thomas G. Michael Helister, Kk | George ol lesson | table were | THE -EVENING STAR.. WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1923 FIRST PICTURE OF CHIEF EXECUTIVE ON VACATION. PRESIDE) En route to Florida, photographed greeted citizens Mrs. M. E. Nolan, LoneWomanM.C., |Claimed by Wets Mrs. Mae E. Noian, who will be the only woman in the new Con- gress, was declared by the Asso- ciation Against the Prohibition Amendment in a statement today to be “an avowed wet.” Mrs. Nolan, according to the as- has indicated that “vigorously with the Congrezs for a tead act.” soci will work liberal forces in modification of the V The position of the new congress- woman in the matter was quoted by Capt. W. H. Stayton. head of the association, as follows: “J believe in the modification of the Volstead act and am for the control of alcoholic beverages by ion, A. Burk- Clande W. Owen. Joseph Pugsiey hart, A ant Secretary and Harry B. Marsh Given same attention as if 1 personally owned your property. Harry Miller 308-9 Bond Bldg. 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