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) < ® WOMEN SEE REPRESENTATION HERE AS FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT| Organizations Demand Voice in Govern- ment of District, Holding Basic Prin- ciples Are Being Violated. BY ELLEN SPENCER MUSSEY, harman of Woman's Committes on 1'onal Representation for the District ¢ the United States, the greatest the world, should disen- 1 o of its National Capital ha satisfactorily ex- plained. That taxation without repre- sentation is t v is a basic principle of our Government. The citizens of the Diciriet of Columbia have responded v to all calls for civie and military fos. and bear their full share of taxa port of the Govern- Na n to the houses of Con- tatives chesen by the would be of . insur- e bodics of per- the conditions and tct and_directly re- ng the presence in gons familiar with ago br the late Champ Clark, then of the Heuse of Representa- e jam of the last measure of great s of a Congress 3 importance to the District seemed | As a member of a rested citizens. 1 a: e Speaker, for 1 kne v to b2 lost he af t he bel portance fo the com- ed at me sternly and times have I toid vou nothing without suf- trict?” However, the this parti W ilarly those from dis- in regard Iy changes. mind the cffort to ire playgrounds for During the time I tion there was great opposition to ex- itures for this purpose from influ- bers of the House. I very ber on one occasion that tive from a Northern city should we have play- The streets are wide. My the streets and thev have taen hurt” In the course of the viewpoint of that man nged. but he was called to other irman of the legislative mittee of the District Federation of en’s Clubs it became my duty to in procul the first appropria- rzartens as a part of the 0 em. The only kin- dergart in the city at that time were maintained through the generosity of the late Mrs. Fhoebe Hearst. Year efter year the item for kindergartens 1 the public schools was stricken out of the District bill. Eventually, co- operating with the superintendent of the public schools, I procured from the chairman of the Senate appropriations committee an opportunity to appear before the District subcommittee. Sen- a&tor Allison of Jowa, who was then chairman of the committee, had been a resident of the District for many years end knew conditions here. As a result ©f our hearing the item for kinder- gartens was put back in the bill. The conferee from the House on this bill was an elderly bachelor who objected strongly to usinz public mon: kindergartens. "Kindergartens, he, charities, and next you will b ing for a larger appropriation.” 1 told him that the value of kinde g2rten training to the children would establish a record on which we prob- ably would ask for larger appropria- tions. We would never have elected from the District of Columbia to rep- %esont us in Congress men who knew 80 little of the requirements of our titutions, A Simple Declaration of Faith in D. C.’s Cause ;l’ MRS. FRANK HIRAM SNELL. rman Executive Commitise, Women's Natonal Democratic ¢ 1 favor National Representati the District of Commba om0 Fair Play Demands Votes For the Washingtonians BY JEANETTE FERRIS BROWN, Won At on in ven's Christian oteless is to be volceless in overnmental affairs, There seems to e no good remson why the citizens ©f the Disirict of Columbia should not n matters relating to the a President for Fair play demands it head of the Young Women's Assoclation, which on of mem| ral thousand women 1 realize the ance of having a voice in ques- of housing, trafic regulations, problems, education, laws re- 10 1 nd ail others which their import tion re of the el Half Million Cilizém Require Recognition. RILEY. lieved in the measure and | of members of . | representatives to the Congress, would Itrict of Columbia. My dentist, an elderly man, a native of Weshington, {tel's me he has never seen & ballot nor cast & political vote. Surely this is an unhenlthy civic condition for nearly haif a million citizens of a democratic | country In 19 ict pald taxes equal to approximately per cent of the an- nual cost of governing the District. Yet the appropriations for schools, librarics, streets and other necessary concerns continue to be made at the whim of suceessive Congresses, in which no rep- resentatives of the District sit. These appropriations are uncertain and some- times pitifully inadequate. Such go crnment s “taxation without repre- sentation.” The District League of Women Voters is not seeking a change in our local government. 1t is, however, asking for An amendment to the Constitution of the United States providing that the District of Columbia shall have elected Tepresentatives in both houses of Con- gress and in the electoral coliege. In no other way can our share in govern- ment be made substantial and our citi- | zenship be rationally expressed. In no other way can half a million people, whom fate has brought to the District of Columbia, be or remain genuinely Americanized. Votes for Washington Are Needed for Posterity BY MARY O'TOOLFE, Judge of the Municipal Co Why do I favor suffrage for t trict? As well ask me why I want to eat. One seems quite as obvious as the other. One eats to live, well, maybe, sometimes, only to enjoy eating. True it is that one can exist physically on | very little to eat, but to live joyousl | work heartily and achieve results mea | consumption of good food and plenty the steam engine called the i body, healthy enough to digest and as- | similate it. | One needs the right to vote to bring {about and protect that which makes |life worth while spiritually and men- | tally. The principle 'is the basis ‘underlying the upward and onward imovement of the human race, con- | sciously or unconsclously, from time im- memorial. In city and country all over our land. except the District of Columbia, the boys and girls from time to time hear | discussions about candidates for office, home folks. maybe next door if not in | their own homes. about meetings and speeches for and against candidates, /proposed bond issues or other question of moment in the community: they iearn that it is all settled by the elec- fon; that it is necessary that the vote | be cast, counted, etc.. and thus they a8p- | ply the theory of representative govern- {ment taught in school, and become con- !scious that they themselves may have part in it. mayhap become & part of it. Our children are taught the theory, !too. but it can make small impression because the practical demonstration of | organizing the machinery of government {is denied to them. Why should our {children be so discriminated against? | What have they done? Selected par- ‘ents who have the good sense to live in the District of Columbia, find it a privilege to be able to do so, In spite of ! the limitation of no representation in | | government. 3 | |~ Practically, for instance, if we elected | {we have the deplorable conditions in | respect of our schools, which are a dis- |grace to the Capital City of our rich Nation? We would not! Why? Life iand legislators being what they are in this year of grace, an appropriation for an unneeded post office building, say, in Podunk, would mayhlr be the price of giving our children well paid teachers | for full time in proper school buildings | €h, what? Washington Is Tru'y Entitled to the Vote | | BY ANNA E. HENDLEY. | Honorary President Susan B, | Foundation. Inc. | The Federal Constitution gives ex- clusive jurisdiction over the seat of Gov- ernment to the National Congress. and | thus far ess has so construed and exercised its exclusive power as to bar {the American citizens residing In the | District of Columbia from all participa- tion in governmental affairs. | These residents of Washington, the Capital City, are as truly entitled to the advantages of our free democratic Gov- ernment as are the residents of Maine, Calffornia, or any other State. Most | of them live in this particular part of | | the United States for the same reasons | that people live in other parts of the | country. A very large and rapldly in- creasing proportion were born here, consequently had no cholce in selecting their home. Truly are they to be pit- jed, that fate placed them in the one ! 11t1le corner of this great country where native Americans are compelled to live under that burden from which all other Americans were freed more than a cen- | |tury ago. 1 mean, taxation without rep- | resentation. These loyal American citizens pay national taxes with no voice in how or when such taxes shall be laid; have | borne their part in every war waged by | the United States; paid their full quota | | for Liberty bonds, and fulfilled every other duty as stanch American citizens. And yet, they have no representation in Anthony | an| Government Was| o por genate or House of Representa- principies. of repre- id the doctrine of equality the American people, or group Genied ' the vere relieved of . 1L would b in Word “Voteless” Is Blot On District Escutcheon. PY MES FDWARD P, COSTIGAN t i Colaraao when the e U after en ply s viere foimed for the study guilitiemi v, e it rewl Bna sk participation ef " e sl i the Die achinery snd e erd inte € et hie £ “Uuiihin the confines of Wa womnen ! Uves of the National Congre: denied a vole in the electo which elects the President President of the United States | Living under the shadow of the dome | of the Capitol, symho) of free govern- | and venerated by all progressive | of earth they are sull classed | Bupreme Court itself ay lower in L1 status than the alien and im- | L within our guates denial of participation in all af- government 35 becoming more unbearable Tons of cltizens come of age, and re- fuse 1o mccepl the oulgrown provision of the Constitution as sufficlent rea- son tor the denisl of these inallennile | Hghts Ve nsk this for the same reason that | our wncestors demanded 3t from King | George 111 We vant 1o have a volee 2 tures on our own property. We | Lo e sble to take our causes Into | aurt of the United States udication, Just cltizens of parts of the eountry do We want w ve our own representative n Cong that we may hold them | rcponzible for our weltare We wan! o el them i they do not represent | us falthitully thst we shall replace them with others who wiil £ cvtld vith more than 500 guardiss | Likely t be wtally neglected or killed I s much wttention. We ure l|4.| nd are | college, ! nd Vice | 1on but huve reached our have young men and | women coming of sge every year whi | ant 1o vote for tie President of the | d Brates. who feel the humiliation | 4 with aliens “The for numbering 35,000, 1y ington, cun- | rotand why, when they have | nmturalived s American citi- | Uiat they ennnot casl i vote We, efore most respectfully ark the | pwin 6 Ahis great republic Lo give 1 U residents of thelr Capital City wdventagen common Lo cepital cittes of | the sepubiics of Mexico, Bouth Amer om i the new republics of Europe Ve v ould hve our Tequests granted. o gkl lon must know Uil we ’ Lo s thu | o l [ all know int whit s everybody's st~ 1t i | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN WHO ASK NATIONAL REPRESENTATION MARCH 4, 1928—PART 1 HARRIS, TWING MRS. EDWARD P. COSTIGAN. of & body of constituents who stand with ballots in our hands. Fundamental Question Harats & EWING MRS, FRANK HIRAM SNELL. of Simple Political Justice BY BELLE estdent. National League of W National representation for residents of the District of Columbta is funda- mentally a question of simple justice. Whatever problems it raises have to be faced and solved with that In mind. To be a disfranchised community in a land of universal suffrag> subtly af- fects the springs of public life, Citizens, however public spirited, are of necessity wards and suppliants. The injustice cuts deeper than dissatisfaction because of heavy taxation without representa- tion, though that anomaly in this coun- try is a very present and conscious bur- den, The situation results in & deep- seated and constant grievance which admittedly good government cannot re- move. The condition s sharply with those principles which we mn the United States have baen brought up to SHERWT. | regard as essential to the form of gov- | To is ernment we have chosen ns “best.” it “the consent requisite. of the governed” National Representation Not Panacea, But a Right BY MABEL G. SWORMSTEDT. President. Tuentieth Cantury Years ago Josh Billings said, “Wom- en suffrage? Yes, I beleeverin women suffrage. Let 'em suffer! We men hev tu.” And here in the District of Columbia, at the very heart of the Na- tion, “we men” and we women, 100, are suffering for the very lack of that suffrage which is the inalienable right, frequently unappreciated and often un- exercised, but nevertheless the right of all other adults throughout ihese United States. 1 do not for on» moment think that the enactment of the amendment now under consideration would be a uni- versal panacea for all of our local trou- | bles. I do not know that residents of the District would vote with any more enthusiasm or in any larger numbers than those of nicighboring States. But for uncounted ages men have fought, bled and died to achicve and maintain their civic rights. It is only human nature to want that which i3 morally and ethically and politically one’s due. A fundamental cause for the Revolu tionary War was taxation without rep- resentation, and just now It seems that Congress 1z playing King George to its District stepchild. “Fathers” Would Be First to Recognize Our Rights BY MRS. WILLIAM E. CHAMBERLIN, Presutent Housekeepara’ Alliance. All of you who have been following this question and its exporition in ‘The Star are quite familiar with the strong- t convincing reasons why est and most h we should have national representa- | tion—why we are undoubtedly entitied | to it--hecause we are the leading ex- ponents in the world of that thing which has always been tabu in Ameri- ca, taxation without representation; be- cause it is “ours but to do and die/ without having anything to say about it—a most undemocratic procedure in the chief democracy of the world, and on wmmn& against it T have never heard; excuses for not granung it, y but no reasons. With what are met? The fathers decreed otherw Now, nobody 15 a greater admi the fathers than I am, no ¢ greater respect for thelr judgment and far-sightedn but they could not foresee everything that was to happen in the world, and the C been chunged In other respects. Why o in this? I clalm that 1 have had just . direct and ntimate revelations from the fathers In recent years ws anybody elye hns, and they have never told me that the citizens -1 beg your pardon - sidents - of the District should continue 1o be classed with Infants and ldiots! 1 have cnough falth in the by mindedness and the clear-headed falrs ness of the fathers 1o be quite certaln | that if they were here now they would be the first o recognize the justice of our appeal and 1o grant our modest res 1 ndmiits that the population tal City I above the avers age In intelligence, and why not” More and more we are gelting to be an edu- cntionsl and art conter, ns well as the governmental center, more nnd more Lations) organizations of ull kinds are cstablishing thely headquarters here, wnd the people who wve tesponsible for Wl of these activities are wll of them people of & high degree of ntelligence Who ate going W Wve here and who only hiang on o thelr voling privilege some- where else hecause they want to con- Unue to be people! This 1 true, ton of great numbers of e Government nployes Wiy shouldin't we have (he pe rights A0 seems o e that they are really inalienable pights, even though we wre deprived of them the inhabitants of other world capitals who aje governed Rs mre we by thel Congressen? One other patnt We we have not tvo Hinee sentatives 1n the Congres one there 16 our representative af course, 10 i an ideal senne wre tald it m four e hut thit every “Thin i it we ness is mobody s business And | de BoL means An &y way 10 refiect ipon « Pail any member of the houses of Congre pstitution has | L consent of the governed” still holds fen Voters. | a* variance MRS. ER MUSSEY. |We have met always with the most { courteous treatment there, we have fine and interested men on’ our District committces, but the fact remains that 1o every one we must come second to their own constituents. and this s nec- essarfly true. Quite recently I heard one of the members of the House District committee, than whom the District has never had a better, friend, speak of the | “duties of a_Congressman," every Con- {gressman. When we had heard the tatement of what was expected of them | by their own children, we realized that | they had no choice but to give their i stepchildren the “leftov of their | time, if any. Only own represents | atives can’ be, in the nature of the case, entirely famillar with our needs {and conditicns, simply because there is not time, just plain time, for any one 'else o gain this familiarity. We feel at they would be of tremendous help {to all of our other friends on the Hill, as well as to us, because they would not only be able to put clearly our point of | | view, but they would save a tremendous !amount of that most valuable time { which s now spent by men from out- side in brcoming acquainted with our | local needs and conditions. | 1 feel, too, there {increase in sentiment for us through out the States, where until we began 10 discuss this question in a way which | {was Natlon-wide, many people had no {idca that we were not voters! Thi should count i |, Oh, what a time! How long, O Lord, i how Jong? | Half Million A;eri-cans | Should Be Enfranchised BY BESSIE TURNER RICKER. Chutrman ot I €. R e Kalotanie Citiy a natfve and resident for many | jears of New York State, which en- | franchised its millions regardless of sex | before the passage of the nincteenth | amendment, and a descendant of the | Pligrim fathers and mothers, who came to find freedom and liberty in the wilderness of a new country, and as a { dascendant of several of “those who | {fonghit and died that that freedom | { might be permanently established, pre- {served and maintained, I appeal to the | | present Congress to act favorably on onstitutional amendment 2 of the District of became true Americans I as in name and may | have a volee in the hody which makes | their laws, n vote for the President of | [ the United Stutes, who appoints their mmissloners, and the sume rights ai ot tes before the Supreme United States. 1 belleve at three-quarters of the stes ure willing (o accede this 1o us should Congress see fit to give them the appor 1* the tmmortal Declaration | dependence 1 sl the found {1deal of our Republic and | ment derives 1 that lenst | of In- tion and | “govern- - Just powers from the while taxation without represcntation I8 AU s unfade ws 1t was In 1776, the surely we deserve relief from the humiliating position I which we have been far too long Madison, durig (he constitntional | convention, objecting to the use of the | word permanence” in disenssing the locatlon of the Nutlonal Capital ax early us 183, in the record of that | Congreass sald” “OWr acts are not those of the Medes und Persians, unulier wble " And rurely that han been proven In the history of the last 160 years when ehanghig conditions have neces sarily brought w chunge of outlook and a small handful of people In w newly created Clly ha grown Into a great world center with more than half w! milllon mhabitants, who feel they have a right to e u furt of the Government | which they loyully help to support and mulniain Will Not Congress Quickly Right This Obvious Wrong? ny Vi A WHITE SP) " o bt i Fedesation ol \ From v ade the Distelet of Colinmbla Fedevation | of Women's Clubs hins not only tndorsed bt cven plead for the righta of fran chise, with n neeming ever-diminlahing | chance of vealization. Tt seemn quite 0o goud o be tiue that & star of hape 5 been A great |~ {8 now shining above the at la S MARY 0'TOOL horfzon: that tne residents of the District of Columbla may be granted of the ballot the right of every America are humble and conciltato the right to full suffrs ourselves as willing to b and accept only presentation in v Congresa. Surely this sop a limited suffrage the privileges which is conceded to be We fve ng atisfied with asking the fona p to Cerberus n citizen ry, and w might be conceded to us who pay taxes I and try to fulfill ali the right The residents of all throughout the civilized w shorn of their privileges at an appointed time. follows, so far as known. not we do likewise? It I to the men and Washington their home n to express themselves by the great political fssues o women duties of up- citizenship. other apitals world are not s citizens, ihm are permitted to cast their ballot No bad result | Why may s humiliating who make ot o be able their vote on of thelr time. | t Let the District of Columbia have the rights which, under the of the United States, ar you realize, gentlemen of that the basic principle up country 13 founded is you not sec your way to this wrong? Representation Neede From Moral BY MRS, cHan Wits of Snator ES L. Fiu “that | without representation is t Constitution ‘e theirs; for the Congress, on which this taxation yranny.” Can | making right d Standpoint MeNARY, I believe that the District of Colum bia should have represen Congress of the United tation i the States, it BT FOR D. C. MRS, WILLIAM E. CHAMBERLIN. lutely neces that marily because it is abs sary from & moral standpoint every citizen of the U State: A volce through the! in Congress in which they live the principles of de that taxation without representation is that it is unjust to tax a com- munity without the consent of the peo- ple who are taxed. 1 also belie it is the right of every cf United States to vote for | dent and Vice President Right to Voice in BY E Preaitent o | ot the { That “taxat n s tryanny hen the saying came into being. Con- tderations of expediency Can in 1o way lter the basie truth. Its practical ap- plication to the citizens of the District of Columbia is a matter of justice which should be accorded them The right of the people to & volee fn [ the assembly which governs them is fundamental in our American Govern- ment. This right 1s not one to be looked upon as a favor, tobe granted or with- | held from the citizens of the District beeause of collateral tues vital & matter ean only be prop- ctermined by the application to it of the principles upoa which our Gov- ernment s founded Measured by this ule the right of the people of the Dis- trict of Columbia to a volee in Congress s unanswerable the W Dist without representa- erly d TAX PAYING TIME! C INSULT WITH US AND WE MAY BE ABLE TO HELP YOU PAY YOUR TAXES SMALL-MONTHLY-DEPOSIT BY OUR PLAN. For cach $60 or Jraction borrowed you agree to de- osit $§ a month n an account, the Kw“fl“ of which may e used to cancel the note when due. Deposits may be made on weekly, semi- monthly or monthly basis as you prefer. T = Easy to Pay Loans $120 $180 $240 $300 $360 $540 $1,200 $0,000 Loans are pass- vithin @ day frer filing arrllrurlun with few excep- tions, Monthly Depasit For 1) M - $10.00 $15.00 $20.00 $25.00 $30.00 $45.00 $100.00 §500.00 MORRIS PLAN notes are usually made for 1 year, though they may be rnvu for any period of from 3 to 12 months, R MORRIS PLAN BANK Under Supervision U, 8, Treasury 1408 H Street N. W, Congress Undeniable | 15 as true today as| TWO AVIATORS AND ESKIMO CHEAT DEATH ON ICE FLOES | ‘Trio Forced Down in Ocean—;paddle in Tiny Pans to Land—Raw Walrus Meat Their Only Food. By the Asen oA Prece, | OTTAWA. Maren 3—The victory : |three men over ice, cold and starvation | headirg aw from land | vas told today in the curvival of two| They turned about, and i | Canadtan air men and an Eskimo guide ' small emergency rag who cheated death after two weeks on | began the jour ice flocs of the North Altantic and the | the raft was lo mountain wilderness of Labrador, | open water twee =1 | "“The harrowing tale of the sur<fzal of | ice pans s the trio was related in a message to the | After consuming part of marine department from Squadron | geney rations the fiyers and 1 Leader T. A Lawrenice, at Port Burwell | were foreed tn lizhten (on_Hudson Straits by throwing the rest e long baitle began when Pilot A.| meat of walrus, shot by |A. Lewls and Flight Sergt. N. C. Terry | guide, furnished food from then o [ with an Eskimo gilde; were - forced | * o irnished food from then on. |down on an ice floe 60 miles at sea | Make Way to Port. in the North Atlantic, and ended when| They landed on the Labrador coast the trio staggered into Port Burwell. | in the vicinity of Kamakts from 1 Euhflr' they made their way o 40 Ice Pans As Rafts, p or 30 miles of o o SHiall 166 patisiused as rafts 'l {he| ooy lo oy o rust mo o journey shoreward, the keen marks- manship of the Eskimo guide who pro- | vided raw mea* for food, and the help | of a native hunter over Labrador | mountains, brought the trio out of the | | North alive. ' Coming down in thick weather and facing the intense cold of Arctic Win-| | ter, the trio lost two days at sea when | being without bearings, they traveled | HESSE IS ACCUSED ‘1 OF TAKING DRINKS BY HOUSE MEMBER | eastward for one day before the weather of | cleared and they discov 7 were ng thelr was lost, land After across smail on - to Port Burwell “When abandoned,” the message said, “airplane was intact, with exception of broken propellor and stif lezs skis, caused by running into he: rifted ice.” { The airmen were lost while making a fortnightly patrol over Hudson St: designed as a study of ice conditions with a view to establishing aids for ship navigation. 'DR. ABBOT OFFERS TO CHANGE PLANE LABEL FOR WRIGHT (Continued from F (Continued from First Page.) do what the Constitution s: he shouly do, and to do what I saw him and nrarg ,him hold up his hand to high heaven | and say he would do. and that is, to enforce the law of this land. “Talk about your enforcement offi- cers that your superintendent of police o 3 has put in charge of enforcement! | jor o W miral David W, Tay- Says Citizens Gave Evidence. ‘:m: ‘gce chairman, respectively, of the °F eall attention to the evidence that | mirtes o Aorsanal Advisry Cofite X t mittee for Aeronautics (of which body very substantfal citizens of the District ol f S have brought before us in this respect. %mpd K;’gfifmk i i s One of your policemen in the * * * * Snoratary Walcott h precinct. until he was put in charge of amined the rerord: this prohibition enforcement. was hard | chine. fnelud up all of the time, borrowing money, a correspond quarter at a time, from his colleagues. poric bog mrees Now he has a fine automobile * » » » | Der's &7d presented & reper “Prohibition enforcement here in the | fiof 10 (%, Press June 9. District for a police officer is quite a po % FETSEG O accord remuneraive job. And we had one "0 R0 e of your bondsmen here in the Dist “ ‘LANGLEY a man who honds criminals, come be- B RO fore our committee and testify toda that after this ‘hi-jacking’ proceeding. when the three bootleggers came to him and told him about being ‘hi-jacked’ by a policeman. he told them they ought to squawk and put the police- man in jail, and they were going to squawk, but a friend of that police- man got him around there with these bootleggers between 10 and 11 o'clock at night. in the basement of a build- ing down there, and he agreed to turn their liquor back, and they have not squawked on him and he did turn the liquor back. s this going on with impunity, re within a stone’s throw of the Na- on's Capitol? I call on the President as the chief law enforcer to see to it. first, that there is 2body in this’ District attorney’s office to en- force the law.” . do my colleagues. and canno Then followed the attack on the any <h us to recant fa operation of Maj. Gordon's office and f"’bl?fil: e gt e reani 0 i conclusion. Blanton said: “I want 1 o tell you something: if you put me in charge of enforcement of the law in this District 1 would tell every one of the 1,348 policemen. ‘T am going to hold you responsible for what goes on on your beat, and if you let a single thing g0 on there that is against the law, I am going to have you put off the force.’ That is the way that I would talk to them.” A reporter last night made a check on the places described by Mr. Blanten to observe operations. One he found to be a darkened two-story frame dwell- ing, apparently unoccupied. Innocen inquiries about the neighborhood, ir fact, also developed it was unoccupiod At another address a plumbing sup; house stood. But at a third, with only a dim light burning, a peep through the window disclosed a familiar old-time bar stretching the length of the room. The doors were locked and it was only 8:30 o'clock. At another was a delicatessen |store familiar to Government workers | who pass it every day. The last place visited was the cafe Maj. Hesse was said to frequent. It stands o the corner of & busy thoroughfare. a combination cafe lunch room and cigar store. rear of the plainly furnished quarters was an inviting dini with cloth-spread tables [ cigarettes was all the reporter tion in the Nationai label attached. which was prepared i 1925, according to the advice of & com- mittee Two gentlemen from outside the Smithsonian, namely, Dr. Joseph Ames of Johns Hopkins Unive: “ ‘The Original La ng Mackine of 1903, ed. “‘Int inion: of many compet: o judge, was the first heavier- than-air craft in the historr of t! world capable of sustained free flig! under its own power, carrying a man. ““This raft slightly antedated the machine designed and buil Wilbur and Orville Wright, December 17. 1903. was the history of t! id to accompiish tained free flight under its own power “I belicve that labsl to be t will openl: way that he aporeci; the Smithsonian Institutton h: 3 believes that the Langley machine of 1903 was capable of tained free flight under CAITying a man. and that it now removes that public statement. nct in confession of error. but in a gesture of good will for the honor of America. then I am will. ing to let Langley's fame merits and to reduce the Langley to this simple st Aerodrome—the Original Langley m:x.\! ine of 1903. Restored.’ “T_will do this. of course. provided Mr. Wright will deposit the Kiflp,\‘ Hawk as been wanted, will have the place of h where the label will state that it was vier-than-air craft in history of the world to sccomplish su: tained free flicht under its own power. o e - and where it will be s nviolate to the Wrights' - petual honor.” o i MEXICAN LABOR HIT. House Camn:it:eo Hears Workers Pictured as Co Mexican as a breeder o Hesse Invites Inquiry. Maj Hesse issued a stateme | day, inviting an investiga unbiased body of men of N and that of the Police Dep, under his administration. “If Repressntative Blanton has evidence against me, it is hu present it to the Commissi District,” sald Maj. Hesse. right to have opportunity to cross amine his withesses and o testimony in my own behalf. o face any investig and utterances by and cotton planters w menace to co v committee de tary K — v for defense and d w t d by law that they be submitted | to the trial board through me by obligate myself to submit to t | board without further investigs without changing his language, charges Representative Blanton care to bring against any of my subor, nates who will thereupon h. fgation by dody of of record and that of the police depart, 2 administration 10 ascertain any | that record TR TEITINERY 2 (With safety pilot) Unusual new features gl 2% New low price See It Before You Buy Sold by The Gas Co., Your Plumber or EDGAR MORRIS SALES CO. Factory Distridutors 1308 G St N.W. Main 032