Evening Star Newspaper, December 8, 1926, Page 29

MEMORIES AND VISIONS BLENDED AS OLDEST INHABITANTS DINE Association Observes Sixty-First Anni-. versary—9peakers Recall Past and Forecast Future of Capital. 12N Memories of Washington as it used |from being present, but his annual to be and visions of the greater Cap-|message to nis fellow members was ftal that is destined for the future|delivered by Vice President Henry L. were blended by speakers who ad-|Bryan, the toastmaster. Mr. Noyes dressed the Association of Oldest In-|took as the keynote for his address habitants of the District of Columbia, |the permanent slogan of the organiza- @ssembled at the Franklin Square | tion, “Fair Play for Washington,” Hotel last night for a banquet in ob-|and under that hecading he made a servance of the sixty-first anniversary |plea to Congress f financial and of the organization. political equity for the National Cap- Smiles lighted the faces of these |ital. Washingronians_as former Commis- Decensed Menibers Hotiored. sloner Cuno’' H. Rudolph and Commis- sioner Proctor L. Dougherty turned' The members paused at the outset back the pages of time and recalled of the program to pay silent tribute happenings of the past that still | to their &5 associates who died during ) lnger clearly in the recollections of | the year. As the name of each de: | parted member was read by the rec- played an equal in | ording s v, J. Eliot Wright, a | ainted by L white flower s drawn from a| gloner Bell of what can be accomplish- | bouquet and placed upon the speak- | ed in the Washington of tomorrow. | er's table. Those who passed away | Iiness prevented Theodore W.|du the vear were: Clarence E. ng Noyes, president of the association, Curtis . Davis, R. N. Don- "I EVENTNG STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1926. city, of their fine record of loyal sac- | a faithful end efficient official In his in the subject was aroused and the aldson, John F. Donohue, Lemuel | Ergood, John F. Freeman, Clarence I. Gessford, Willlam B. Hartley, Alfred Ho!mead, James W. Hughes, William T. Keenan, Michael J. Lane,Charles | D. A. Loeffler, John B. McCarthy, Frank L. Ourand, John B. Peyton, Anthony Schilling, Charles H. Scott, Thomas H. Smith, Juliug Strobel, H. G. Thyson, Wiliiam P. Van Wickle, Alston’ C. Whitney, Henry K. Wil lard, Willlam W. Windom. George H. O’Connor, accompanied at the piano by Matt Horne, also brought back memories to the oldest inhabitants by singing songs that were popular many years ago. -John Claget. Proctor added to the enter‘ainment of the evening a humorous poem, in which he also carried them back to days of long | ago. The program was brought to | a close with the singing of “Auld Lang Syne,” by the entire gathering. Rev. J. J. Muir, chaplain of the United States Senate, delivered the invocation, after which Vice Presi- dent Bryan read the message of Mr. Noyes, in which he said: Commends Patriarchs. “Tonight the associaiion celebrated | its sixty-first birthday. The youthful veterans of its membership number 1. Six venerable members are over | 90 years of age: Patriarch J. Willa Saxton, 97; Patriarch C. S. Bundy, Patriarch Owen T. Edgar, 95; Patriarch L. A. Delwig, .91, and Patriarchs 8. F. Rynix and J. T. Petty, 90. “May these patriarchs enter the grand order of centenarians as vigor- ous and as content with life as they are today. ““At the invitation of the House sub- committee Washingtonians are voic- ing their views of the Capital's needs. “Our association’s response to this invitation is condensed in its per- maneat slogan which demands ‘Fair Play for Washington’; and under the hanner thus inscribed our associatior: fights to win for Washington (1) finan, cial equity, (2) political equity, and (3) physical and spiritual health and beauty, involving concern for the men and women of the Capital as well as for its material equipment and development. i “Political equity means national representation, voting representation in Cong ess and the el ctoral college When this vital American right and power is won the campaign for finan cial equity and for the satisfaction of every other wholesome need of the District will be distinctly strengthened. “We fight for Greater Washington, | ‘the City Beautiful, and city of parks and avenues and buildings and monuments; but we fight distinctively and with special enthusiasm, for the animate as distinguished from the in- animate material city; for the men and women of the local community of half a million who constitute the real Washington. Need for Unity of Effort. “In this home-folks gathering of Washingtonians not another word is ssary to explain and sustain the sociation’s slogans. Indeed, there are present in this room representa- tives of the great civic organizations which have co-operated in citizens’ Joint committees to fight harmoni- ously and eftectively for both finan- cial and political equity. Unity of efort, as thus exemplified by these co-operating organizations, is an obvious outstanding need in the development of the National Capital. “With this unity of effort on the part of Waghingtonians the Greater Washington of which we dream will be made a reality, not only the City Beautiful, but the Americanized City, the City Healthful, the City Intellectual, and the City Good—the City of its People as well as the ma- terial city of the Nation. “The Washington of our affection and pride is not all a dream of the future. The Washingtonian of today wells i mean eity.’ “The Washingtonian and the Old- est Inhabitant suffer from certain o' known iniu-ious discriminations which ought to be removed and which must and will be removed. But in | spite of temporary disadvantages it is an_honor and source of pride to be a Washingtonian. We are proud of our c s material development and superficial beauty in+ buildings, ave- nues, trees, parks and monuments. ‘e are proud of an honest and effi- cient municipal government and of its fruits in good works. We are proud of the real Washingtonians— upright, capable, energeti, inspired 1‘h,\' intense civic loyalty—whom the. | President has appointed and is ap- | pointing as the city’s municipal exe- cutive heads. “We are proud of the people of our rifice of life, of blood and of on the Nation’s altar in time of war, of their high-grade intelligence and culture, of their activities in making the - Capital an artistic, literary and educational center, and of their rec- |ord of public-spirited labors for the community’s welfare, both in material advancement and in moral uplift. We are firm believérs in our own Ameri- can form of representative govern- ment and we are proud of Washington as the Capital of the world's great representative republic. We are proud of organized Washington, of the civic army to fight for Washington which our strong citizens’ organizations under able leadership are co-operating to develop. “And finally we are proud of the growing strength in man power, in i material resources and in the power which comes from unity of the new ‘Washington, the city of its people, al- ready half a million strong, with over 1300,000 residents of voting age, which | exceeds in population seven of the States, which sends more soldiers to war than eight of the States, which pays more national taxes than fifteen of the States, and in which civic con- sclousness, the community spirit, and civic loyalty -and pride grow stronger and stronger every day.” Rudolph’s Service Lauded. In presenting former Commis- sioner Rudolph, Mr. Bryan said that Mr. Rudolph has been active in the civic life of the community for 30 vears and that Washington has lost & Lansburgh & Bro. retirement from the District govern- ment. No Lights on Moonlit Nights. Ad the association for the first time as a fellow-member, former Commissioner Rudolph drew a sharp contrast between the Washington of 80 years ago and the Washington of today. He provoked laughter when he reminded his audience of the long- gone days when the District was so economical that it extinguished the street lights ‘“on nights when the moon was full enough.” Touching on his retirement from the Board of District Commissioners, Mr. Rudolph declared: I shall always be with you and my other fellow-citizens in spirit and in effort to make our beautiful city the worthy symbol of our National grandeur. “No one of us is so young,” Mr. Rudolph continued, “that his memory does not reach back to the time when there was no organized public service for the relief of the sick and helpless dependent upon public ald except the insane asylum and the almshouse. Slowly, step by step, new and better conditions have been developed through the work of the Associated Charities, the Board of Charities and the Board of Children’s Guardians, until we have attained the comprehen- sive machinery of the Board of Public Welfare, ‘‘We had no city library until, under the persistent agitation for that-great public need by our honored president, Theodore W. Noyes, public interest practical co-operation of Andrew Car- negie and of Congress secured. ‘“We have seen the Potomac Flats, whose malarious surface was alter- nately covered and exposed by the rising and falling of the tide, trans- formed into the health-giving expanse of Potomac Park. “We have seen the erasure of that degrading blot on the reputation of our city which made a Targe section between Pennsylvania avenue and the Mall the resort of the panderer and a conspicuous object of shame to all visitors to the city who passed through it by rail on the way to the sacred home and tomb at Mount Vernon. “We have seen with amazement the development of the city over the entire District until we are obliged to con- template its extension beyond the District boundaries. From a city of 200,000 or less we have seen Washing- ton grow into a metropolitan area populated by over half a m:'lon. Its future expansion will involv. problems of municipal import as difficult as those with which we have had to deal and require the application thereto of the wisdom and public devotion of our people.” Mr. Bryan announced Engineer Commissioner Bell as an officlal “who from the start has thrown himself into the task of Capital up- building with enthuslasm and who has placed himself in sympathetic touch with the people of Washington and their needs.” Mr. Bryan ex- pressed the hope that Col. Bell's (Continued on Page Thirty.) [ LULTTD able hood LD Enameled CI ish rubber tires, adjust- blue or ivory fin- back, adjustal hood oo hair, in pink, sloo dolly’s clot Doll Carriage, gondola style, reclining Ironing Board, to iron a strongly made..... bicycle dri spring saddle bI.e sl 0.00 no tools for building. Instructive. hes. 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