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A HONORPAD * TOANEADDANS Tributes of World Leaders| Arrive at Presentation of Bryn Mawr Prize. Br the Associated BRYN MAWR, Pa, May 2.—Janc Addams, internationally known soctal worker, was hailed at Bryn Mawr Col lege today as “ a citizen of the greater world community” by Prof. John Dewey of Columbia University. This was one of many tributes paid her by prominent men and women a the exercises in Goodhear Hall bestow: ing on her the M. Carey Thomas prize award, valued at $5,000. This award Is made at intervals “to ‘an American woman in recognition of eminent achievement.” The Alumni Association of Bryn Mawr College in 1922 raised $25,000 in honor of M. Carey Thomas, then pre: dent of the college, to found the award. It was given for the first time in June. 1922, tr Dr. Thomas, and was awarded this year for the second time. The award was made by Prezident Marion Edwards Parks of Bryn Mawr College, after several speakers had eu- logized Miss Addams. Many Places to Spend. “I suppose,” sald Miss Addams in accepting the award, “that people will wonder what I will do with the money. First, I might give it to an unemploy- ment fund. Then there are a lot of people whom T have met at Hull House who have since moved to the country s may lose their little farms unless {3ey receive aid. There are many gifted wmigrants in this counttry studying mmar, music and painting, who need a lift at_crucial times.” From President Hoover came the fol- lowing tribute: “I am glad to learn that the M. Carey Thomas prize is to be awarded to Miss Jane Addams at Bryn Mawr College on May 2. Miss Addams' distinguished achievements and her eminence in American life deserve every possible recognition in addition to that which she already possesses in Nation-wide admiration and affection.” A message from Ramsay MacDonald, British premier, also paid tribute. It read: MacDonald Sends Message. “1f sincerity in belief and simplicity 1n life, devotion to one’s fellows as per- sons and service to them as a com- munity, an allegiance to a faith in the certain triumph of the good and a daily testing of that faith by work, an em- bodiment of charm and energy in the way one does things—if these are qual- ities which awaken affection in people's hearts and create memories which defy time, Miss Addams is one of the best- beloved women in the world and her name and work will be known for many generations after she has gone.”s “I thinl Addams, “her greatest contribution to our institutions is what she has done to keep them from becoming institu- tionalized—hard and inflexible. She has kept her faith with democracy and kept it pure and unalloyed.” Other speakers included Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, former president of the National American Woman Suffrage Assoclation: Miss Grace Abbott, chief of the Federal Children’s Bureau, and Miss Frances Perkins, New York State Department of Labor. NEW YORK LEGIONNAIRES VISIT UNKNOWN'S TOMB Costello Post of Washington to As-| sist in Ceremony of Colors. ‘The second annual pilgrimage of the New York Department of the Amer Legion, its auxillary and War Mo s will be conducted to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery this afternoon. Maj. Amos A. Pries, organizer and former | ¢hief of the Bureau of Chemical ervi fare Service, will address the delegation at ceremonies to be held in the Amphi- | theater at Arlington. World War veterans of New York £tate in Walter Reed General Hospital will accompany the delegation to the National Cemetery and also will accom- { pany them on a tour of the city. The | group will participate later at a cere- mony at the tomb of former President :oi’dmw ‘Wilson at Washington Cathe- al. A special guard of honor, consisting | of members of the Drum and Bugle | Corps of Costallo Post, No. 15, Depart- | ment of the District of Columbia, will| assist in the ceremony of massing the colors at the Unknown Soldier's tomb. The American Legion's National Pil- grimage Committee is handling all ar- rangements. The chairman is Lieut. Col. H. Edmund Bullis, vice chairman, Clyde B. Stovall; secretary, Edgar R. Baker. CLUB'S ORATORY TITLE AT STAKE WEDNESDAY Fcur Members of Y. M. C. A. Or- ganization to Ccmpete, Speak- ing on “America.” Four members of the Orators’ Club of the Y. M. C. A. will compete for the club champlonship in the forensic finals Wednesday night at 8:30 o'clock in the auditorium of the Central “Y" Bullding, 1736 G street The quartet, I Jack Hurni, Barry mour Goodart, will speak cn “Americ the Land of Opportunity,” before an audience of members and friends of the Y. M. C. A. Leonard W. De Gast. general recretary. will preside and make the prize awards. The judges have not been announced The four competitors won the right to enter the finals as a result of their victories in the semi-finals held recent- Jy. In the elimination contest they &poke on “Great Americans.” The cl was organized several months 2go by a group of young busi- ness and professional men, who wished Cevelop latent oratorical powers The club meets weekly under the lead- ership of Carl King, member of the White House social stafl. Gold leaf is 1.200 times thinner than heet of paper. FREE 50 sald Prof. Dewey of Miss | Gen. | THE SU NDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MAY 3, T the present time the legal resi- dents of the District of Colum- bia, almost half a million people, have no vot2, and they are de- risd the right to sue and be suea in the Federal courts. BY KATHERINE A. FREDERIC. Published and copyrighted by the Department cf Efictency in Government, National League of Women Voters. Reprinted in The Star by permission. In asking for the fianchise resldenk‘ 'of the District of Columbia are united | in urging Federal suffrage, which means granting legal residents the right to vote for President and Vice President and to elect at least one Senator and Representatives in the House in pro- . portion to population. A constitutional amendment is neces- sary because Congress lacks power to giant natlonal representation by law. The Constitution gives Congress power “to exercise exclusive legislation, in all cases whatsoever, over such district (not. exceeding 10 miles square) as may. | by cession of particular States, and the/ become the acceptance of Con he United gress, seat of the Government of t! States ! | According to this broad provision Congress may set up under its jurisdiction any form of local govern- | ment and may even provide for local | suffrage, which existed in the District for moie than 70 vears:® it may place the District under any one of the | Federal executive departments, or may | allow representation in Congress with- cut the right to yote.® —Congress may not allow resideri#s of the District to vote for President and to elect their {own voting representatives in Congress becaus> these privileges are restricted to residents of the States. An amend- ment glving Congress this power would | not limit its exclusive furisdiction, but | would rather enlarge its powers. An Enabling Act. The amendment is in the nature of an enabling act. After it has been | passed by Congress and ratified by three-fourths of the States, Congress will have the constitutional right to grant Federal suffrage to the legal residents of the District of Columbia, | and it is likely to do so when it has {been_assured that such s the will of | the States. | “"Because the District is not a State, the amendment is needed to give its | residents _the right to sue and be sued |in the Feoderal courts. According to | the Constitution, * the couris ¥ United States are open to contro | between citizens of different Stat: not be presumed to te impartial. It was Chief Justice John Marshall who said: | “It 1s extraordinary that the courts of the United States, which are open to aliens and the citizens of every State | in the Unton, should be closed to them.” * Special Status of the District. violate the intention of the framers of ceeding 10 miles square” should be under Federal governmental control, as | the seat of the Government of | United States. Residents of the Dis- | trict recognize the need for Federal jurisdiction, but they quote Madison to show that the framers of the Consti- tution assumed that the citizens living at the seat of the Government would share the fundamental political rights of all Americans: “. . . 8s the State [ceding the territory] will no doubt | provide in the compact for the rights and the consent of the citizens habiting it; as they will have had their voice in the election of the | Government_which is to exercise au- thority over them; as a municipal legis- lature for local purposes, derived from their own suffrage, will of course be allowed them . every imaginable cbjection seems to be obviated.” From their own experience the fram- ers were convinced of the necessity of preventing any conflict between State ral jurisdictions over the same Therefore they provided for “All the contemporary | that the existence of | political rights . . . was not considered incompatible with exclusive jurisdiction.” * The United States is the only nation in the world where residents in its capital are completely disfranchised. In republics with constitutions patterned | after that of the United States, fuch as the Argentine Republic, Brazil and Mexico, the people of the federal dis- trict, which is under national control, are represented in the national gov- ernment. * Present Indirect “Representation” Unsatisfactory. The claim that the District of Co- lumbia is already represented in Con- gress by every member of both Houses who represents, not only his own con- stituents, but also the District, is open to both practical and theoretical ob- jections. Too often “what is every- body's business is nobody's business.” Undoubtedly the committee on the District of Columbia in both the Sens*e and House of Representatives and ma, other members of Congress work con- | scientiously for the good of the District. but testimony in hearings has pointed out how difficult it can be to secure desired legislation when residents of the District have no exclusive claim upon individual members. All Congressmen have more demands made upon them by their constituents than they can easily satisty. Turther, this so-called representation is a denial of the first principle of our Government, for, in the words of the Declaration of Independence, govern- ments “derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.” If the 13 colonies had accepted the suggestion that people not of thelr own choosing could be considered their representa- tives, there would have been no reason for the Declaration of Indepcndence. nor for the Revolution. District of Columbia residents have never accepted their present status willingly. From the time when the Federal Government moved to Washington and assumed legal jurisdiction over the territory ceded by Maryland and Virginia, ° protests been made “un- " con- dition of American citizens living at the seat of the Government. The words written by a citizen in 1801 apply today: “This body of people is as much entitled to political freedom, as much entitled to the enjoyment of the rights of citi- zenship. as any other part of the people 4of the United States. There can exist no necessity for their disfranchisement: no necessity for them to repose on the mere generosity of their countrymen to be protected from tyranny: to mere spontaneous attention for the regulation | | of their interests. They are entitled to UVENIRS GIVEN AWAY DURING THE WEEK COME IN OF MAY 4th AND SEE !in other cases where a State court might | The proposed amendment would not | the Constitution that an area “not ex- | the | Federal | { TEA TEA é % | TAXATION = \THoULT | g wiTHOUT | i ,57 YEARS AGO wsrml HARBOR OYR REFATHERS SAID a participation in the general councils, on principles of equity and reciprocit: i Move for Recession. | 8o great was this dissatisfaction that | proposals continued to be advanced for | the return to Maryland and Virginia of the areas formerly under these States In 1846 a petition of residents of Alex- andria resulted in the cession back to Virginia of the area west of the Po- tomac. The petition read in part: “We are deprived of the elective franchise, privilege £o dear and sacred that we | would present its deprivation in the | strongest light. . . . Side by side with the trial by jury and the writ of habeas corpus may be placed the righ! of the ballot box. . . ." Further, Presidents from the days of Manroe and Jackson have urged the right of the people in the Nation's Capital to a voice in the Government. In 1920, when the ninet-enth amend- ment gave women the vote. women, like men in the District of Columbia, re- mained disfranchised. Measures introducad in every Congress for many years tostify to the active | interest of District residents in securing | national representation. In 1922, the | Senate Committee on the District of Columbia, after exhaustive hearings, recommended to the Senate that the measure be passed. This position was | reaffirmed in 1927." In the House com- mittee less progress has been made.’? The popular demand for Federal suffrage has grown steadily more unified since the formation in 1916 of the Citi- | zen’s Joint Committee for National | Representation. 1In 1931, it sepresented | 27 leading organizations in the District | | of Columbra, including three which are | | associations; the Federation of Citizens' | | Associations, for example, represents 62 | | n~ighborhood groups. In addition, many | | State and national organizations | | throughout the United States have in- ‘ dorsed the principle for which the Citi- | zens' Joint Committee is working. | | A non-voting delegate such as is| | provided for Territories would by no | |means give adequate representation to | the District of Columbia. Such a dele- | | gate from the District sat in Congress | | between 1871 and 1874. The people of | | the District are not on a frontier or ! remote from the United States: there- | | fore the constitutional purpose for which | the territorial form of government was | outlined is unsuitable. "The District of | | Columbia is the Capital of the Republic. | Its residents are taxpaying American | citizens fully qualified to share the priv- | leges as well as the dutles of citizen- | ship. | Completing the Argument. | Most people in the District of Co-| lumbia cannot maintain a voting resi- dence in the States. In the first place, it is difficult and frequently impossible to maintain a residence in a State with strict registration laws when not living | | there. Only a third of the States per- | mit absentee registration and it is not | | always postible to return at the specified | | time to register in person. Further-| more, there are some States which do nct allow absentee voting, and many which limit the privilege in different ways, and it might well be impossible for a qualified voter to return to cast a ballot. Even were these obstacles not insurmountable, and ignoring the ques- | tion as to whether a person out of touch with his community and State for years should be permitted a voice in determining its policies, there is no olution to the problem for the second generation. Born in the District and without claims upon any State, they are residents of the District of Columbia | and_therefore disfranchised. | The District of Columbia is not too | small to have its share of representa- | tion in the Senate and House of Rep- | resentatives and to have a.voice in the Eiectoral College. ~Since 1370 its pop- | ulation hes equaled that required for a congressional district. If it is still considered to small, then eight States which have less population, according {to the 1930 census, should relinquish their Senators and members of the House of Representatives, which total |27. These States are: New Hampshire, Idaho, Arizona, New Mexico, Vermont, Delaware, Wvoming and Nevada. The population ol several of the more set- tled States is increasing so slowly that HECHINGER CO. Is Selling at 3 Yards Salvage Material From Wrecking BARGAINS . . BARGAINS . . BARGAINS DOORS BRICK FRAMES LUMBER WINDOWS FLOORING PLUMBING LAVATORIES MANY MORE BARGAINS BERRY BROTHERS I} PAINT DEMONSTRATION From 9 AM. to 5§ P.M. at RUDOLPH & WEST CO. 1332 New York Ave. N.W. ogram on Station, Listen to Our Pr I WMAL at 6:30 P.M. Every Monday [ OPEN 7:30 P.M. TO 10 P.M. Monday to Friday | Reproduced from The Evening Star of December 16, 1930. | since the District of Columbia had no | Columbia struggled, with | ratio was changed to a 60 per cent | voting delegate zat in the in the last 10 years the District has cutstripped one of them. To be sure, it is only in the House that population is the basis of repre- sentation. There are those who would have argued before the passage of the seventeenth amendment, providing for the direct election of Senators, that State Legislature it had no way of electing Senators, but this position would be untenable today. The claim of the District to membership in the Upper House is based upon its right as a distinct political unit to a voice in both bodies making laws for it.'* The Fiscal Division. The District should nct be denied representation because of contributions | recetved from the Federal Government. Between 1800 and 1878 the District of almost no aid, to carry out the plans of the | founders for a beautiful and impres- sive National Capital. Thereafter, un- til 1921, the Federal and District Gov- | ernments each contributed 50 per cent | of the funds for all expenses of the District. By the organic act of 1022, the principle of definite proportionate contributions was reaffirmed, but the | contribution by the District and a 40 per cent contribution by the Federal Government. Although this act still is law, temporary provisions renewed by Congress in each annual appropriation since the fiscal year 1925 have alloted | the lump sum of $9,000,000 to the Dis- | trict. For the fiscal year 1931 this amount was raised to $9.500.000. The | 1930 appropriation met only 16 per cent | of the total expenditures of the Dis- triet. ** To be sure, the Federal Government | is now engaged in an extensive building program for the National Capital, but it | ing deleg is for the enjoyment of all the people and for the transaction of their busi- ness. It is well to note in considering the question of taxation that Govern- ment properties are tax exempt. It is also of interest that police and fire pro- tection, street paving and improvements, water mains, sewers and many other services from which thousands of visi- tors to Washington, as well as residents, benefit annually, are pald for entirely by the District of Columbia ‘The $9,000.000 contributed to the Dis- | trict by the Federal Government is) emall indeed in comparison with the $123.279,000 expended for the fiscal year | 1930 in Federal ald for highways, vo- cational education, agriculture and the many other channels through which funds are granted to all the 48 States. History. By act of July 16, 1790, Congress accepted land on both banks of the| Potomae River which had been ceded by previous acts of Maryland and Vir- ginia for the seat of the Government' of the United States. On the first Monday in December, 1800, Congress assembled in Washing- ton for the first time. In 1801 Congress took over the gov-| ernment of the District and the laws| of Maryland and Virginia ceased to operate. From 1801 to 1871 Congress passed | all legislation needed for the District | of Columbia, although ordinance- making powers were exercised by the | five local governmental units—the county of Washington, city of Wash- | ington, town of Georgetown, county of Alexandria, and town of Alexandria. | White male citizens had local suffrage, ' which in 1867 was extended to all male citizens at least 21 years of age who had been residents of the District of Columbia for one year. In 1846 Alexandria was retroceded | to Virginia. since petitions, followed by ! a popular referendum, showed an over- whelming vote in favor of return From 1871 to 1874, Congress set up a | territorial government for the District | consisting of a governor, a legislative | assembly of two houses, and two boards | with ordinance-making powers. A non- House of Representatives Congress _retained authority to repeal or annul‘any act of the assembly. The Board of Public Works undertook a needed but costly plan of improvement that was largely 60 Houses Complete Assortmente For Every Building Need * Material on Sale Only at Our 3 Yards x LOWEST PRICES x Come To Our Nearest Yard: 15th & H Sts. N.E. 6th & C Sts. S.W. 5925 Ga. Ave. N.W. [] responsible for faflure of the territorial | THE CASE FOR FEDERAL SUFFRAGE ' N THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Government. In 1874 a temporary Government was set up under Congress in which resi- dents of the District had no vote and suffrage was abolished in local affai In 1878 the present Commissicn Government was set up by Congress. Present Government. All legislative power is vasted in Con- gress; there are committees on the Dis- trict of Columbia in each House. The executive power is exercised by a boerd cf three Commissioners, two appointed by the President and Senate | for three years and the third detailed by the President from the Engineer Corps of the Army. ‘The adm’nistration of District affairs is divided among a great many agencies: approximaicly 12 “deal with District afeirs exclusively; approximately twice that number of Federal agencies deal in part with District matters; and six other Federal agencies make contracts for the District of Columbia. The District of Columbia has special courts. Judges are appointed by the President. Residents chised. Population (1930 Census). Total: 436869, of which 341465 (70.1%) were of voting age. Of those of voting age 73.9% were white; 25.9% colored; 2% other races. A special inquiry when the census was taken shows only 15,105 people in the District with & voting residence in the States or_territories, leaving 326,- 360 citizens who cannot vote anywhere. Approximately one-fifth of the District residents of voting rge are Govern- ment. employes. > The total population is greater than that of any one of eight States: New Hampshire, Idaho, Arizona, New Mex- ica, Vermont, Delaware, Wyoming and Nevada. The District cf Columbia_sent more soldlers and saflos to the World War than any one of seven States and its percentage of voluntary enlistments as against drafted men was higher than that in 43 States. Taxation'® (fiscal year, 1930). In 1920, the District of Columbia paid $15.724.675.72 in internal revenue taxes (which constitute three-fourths cf tne total reccipts of the Federal Government and are the only taxes upon which a comparison can be based). This sum was more than that paid by any one of the following 25 States: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Col orado, Georgia, Idaho, Towa, Louisian: Maine, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, Washington, and Wyoming. The District contributed almost as large an amount as 10 of these States together, which are repr: gress by 20 Senators and 21 Repre- sentatives. The District of Columbia’s total ecn. tribution to the Federal Treasury in property, water, gas and_ miscellaneous taxes was more than $30,000,000. It received in return as the Federal Gov- ernment’s share in financial supporc of the National Capital $9.000,000. The per capita contributicn of the District to national taxes is $32.20. a figure greater than that of 43 Slates and excesded only by Delaware, Tllinois, New York, North Carolina and Vir- ginia. The District's per capita con- tribution s more than the combined per capita ccntribution of 12 States with 24 Senators and 62 Reprosenta- are completely disfran- | tives. Foot Notes: iArticle 1. Section 8, paragraph 17. :Por a brief historical account see Walter Fairleigh Dodd. The Government of the Dis triet of Columbia: A Study in Pederal and Municioal Administration _ (Washington John Byrne & Co.. 1909), pp. 30-3 J1¢ the District of Columbia were consid- ered a territory within the constitutional meaning of the term. at least one non-vot- to the House of Representatives w. ate. ision for one could ni made point see: Hearings Before the Commit- tee on the Judiciary, House of Represent. First Session 8; Laurence e search, 1928). p. 855, “Article III, Section 2. qHepburn and Dundas v. Elizey. 3 Cranch, “The Pederalist, TProm the brief on behalf of the Citizens' Joint Committes. befors Congress, Januars. 1921. in the Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary, Houss of Representatives, Sixty-ninth grese. First Session, on H. J. Res. 208 (1926), p. 50. +Relations of Nations of the World to Their Capitsis.”” Hearings Before the Com- mittee on the Judiciary. House of Hegr! sentatives. Seventieth Congri Pirst sion (1928), H. J. Re PP {tables) *The first act of Congress providing for government of the District was that of Feb- 327, 1801 (2 Btatutes at Large, 103’ May 3. the City of Wi ston b politic No. 43. 27-34 on 5. body e (3 Statutes at Large, 195 1oFrom Considerations on the Govern- ment of the Territory of Columbla, by Epaminondas [Augustus Brevoort Wood- ward] (Washington: Metropolis of the United States, printed for the suthor by Samuel Harrison Smith . . . MDCCH v (Originals in the Library of ‘Con- ss and in the Washingtoniana collection, Liby t the District of Columbia.) 11"Memorial of the Committee of the Town of Alexandria for Retrocession.” in House Report No. 325, Twenty-ninth Con- gress. Pirst Session (1846), to accompany H. R. N 110, ® ry o 29, p. 1:8enate Report No. 507. Sixty-seventh Congress, Becond Session (1922). to sccom- pany 8. J. Res. 133, and Senate Report No. 1815, Sixty-ninth Congress, Second 1927). to accompany 8. J. Res December 12, . measur subject have been referred in th the Committee on the Judiciary. es_on _this e Senate to g In. Well You can dress in style and at lowest cash prices if you use the forioueiKisof eaV BT g5 M conts at 15th and H N.E. 10085 PENNA. SO & West Virginia | 'nted in Con- | CI). No. | D | articles, editorials and cartoons provide 5 Worth or Money Back aufman AST CORNER 1931—PART ONE. ART SHOW PLANNED AT ROYAL ACADEMY 1163d Annual Exhibition at | London Opens to Public i Tomorrow. i By the Ascoclated Pres LONDON, Mesy Th> Royal Acad- | emy becomes an artistic m on Monday. when tte 163d annual exhi- bition opens to the public. Generally considered a citadel of | conservatism, the dignified old galleries in Piccadilly are crowded with etch- |ings, statues and paintings. In all 1,691 works of artists, ranging from academicians to firemen, have been ac- | cepted by the Selection Committee, which winnowed through at least as many more. Four American Exhibitors. Among the exhibitors are four Ameri- cans. Mrs. Bessie Callender of New York and London. a native of Wichita, Kans., has a black marble statue, "Af- rican Antelo D. Evans of New York, a bronze d, “Marghette”; P. 8. Seers of Brookline, Mass., a bronz> status, “Shooting at tae Stars,” and J. T. Arms, Fairfield, Conn,, two etchings of cathedrals. The general lsvel of the exhibition seems conservative, with many por- traits in the tradition of the British school, but at least one academician, Sir Willlam Orpen, has hung three sur- | prises. He has three portraits in his usual style, and also three pictures more in the primitive style, which are likely to provoke discussion. One, “Palm Sunday, A. D. 33." de- piets Christ on a Gonkey, with two women nearby holding palms. The | drawings and pigmentation obviously | are intentionally crude. | For the averags Britisher he has| three portraits of royalty—the King. | .Pflnkceu Elizabeth and the Duchess of | York. Private view today drew many no- tables, for the academy exhibition is one of the starting guns of the London social season. | House the Committee on the Judiciary has | | always been the one to consider this mat- fer. Resolutions in the Seventy-first Con- I 43. introduced by Mr. | . May_ 16, 1929 (calen- J. Ree 64, intro- | in committee; former. The latter was ta no ction was taken on the 131n this connection testimony in a recent hearing is of interest: “Recognition of the District as a ‘separate political community.’ | porsessing an organic, social, and political | fite of its own, has been reiterated in . cases in which the Supreme Court has placed | the District. for certain purposes. on the | same footifg ns the self-governing States of | the Union. = (Geofrey v. Riggs, 133 U 8. | 258, 260. Metropolitan R. R. Co._ v. District | 8. L 9)." Hearing be- | 3 . of Representatives, Sixty-ninth Congress. First Session (1926). on H. J. Res. 208, p. 49. 14Por a discussion of the financial history of the District of Columbia see Schmecke- bier. op cit. pp. 39-61. The Evening Star. Washington. D. C.. has also carried articles on the history and present financial rela- tions of the two governments. T'Based on estim: rom the United | Btates Civil Service Commission, the Cham- | ber of Commerce of the United Stat-s. and | the Citizens Joint Committee for Na‘ional Representation. Information from 1930 cen- sus not et available. | 14Chief Justice John Marshall held that ly the Constitution does not consider their want of a represent; n | Congress as exempting it from equal taxa- V!ilv)’n.' Loughborough v. Blake, 5 Wheaton | Selected References: |, Representation of the District of Co- lumbia in Congress and the Electoral College: Argument of Thecdore Noyes Before the Committee on the District of Columbia, United States Senate, Sixty-seventh Congress, First | Session (January®12, 1922), on 8. J. | Res. 133." Washington: United States | Government Printing Office, 1922 | ' National Representation for the | Residents of the District of Columbia: Hearing Before the Committee on the | Judicary, House of Representatives, Seventieth Congress, ~First Sessicn | (January 24, Pebruary 2, 16; March |8-15, 1928), on H. J. Res. 18. Wash- ington: United States Government Printing_Office, 1928. | "The Government of the District of |Columbia: A Study in Federal and | Municipal Administration, by Walter Fairleigh Dodd. Washingt<n: John Byrne & Co. 1909. | 'The District of Columbfa: Its Gov- ernment and Administration, by Lau- | |rence F. Schmeckebier. Washington: The Institute for Government Re- ‘unrch, 1928. See especially chapters |1-I1X and LXVIIL The Government and Administra- | tion of the District ¢f Columbia: Sug- | gestions for Change, by Laurence F. | Schmeckebler and W. F. Willoughby. | Washington: _The Brookings Institu- tion, 1929. See especially Chapters I and IT. The Evening Star, Washington, D. | C., has waged a iong campaign for suf- frage fcr the District of Columbla: its | valuable current material. { (Copyright, 1931, by the National League of \ ‘Women Voters.) Folks: 7 How!!!— 1930 * Price $25 & $30 ——— % CASH BALANCE 10 WEEKLY OR 5 SEMI- MONTHLY PAYMENTS Ine. ’ A. AVE. EYE 1744 PEN) 14T Newspaper Vendor Is First Victim of Market’s Passing Illness Dating From Start of Excavation Work Becomes Fatal. The passing of Center Market has | claimed its first casualty in the death cf Charles E. 8mith, colored, who sold rewspapcrs on the southwest corner of nsylv-nia avenue for more than 63 ars. He was not only the oldest news A-§° PLAN NATION-WIDE YOUNGEG. 0.P. UNIT Republican National Commit- tee to Organize in Every [ State of the Union. x By the Associated Press. Plans for a Natlon-wide ganization of young Repub litical or- an voters vendor in point of service in Wash- { were announced yesterday by the Re- ttee ington, but when the famous old mar- kot place was at the height of its popularity he was a leader in the num- ber of sales a dav. His relatives said yesterday that from the time the first walls of the market began to crumble under the onslaught of the excavators’ hammers, Smith be- came a fick man. When the market was completely deseited and he no longer saw the many friends he had made during his long stand near the market square his interest in life began to wane. He died Wednesday at Provi- dence Hospital. Smith first began t> sell newspapers when he was 8 years old and his clientele grew until at one time his daily Evening Star sales amounted to approximately 1.500 copies. He was_thrifty, buyving his home at 1233 Four-and-a-Half street southwest, and supported a fam- ily of six. Funeral services will be held from his late residence tomorrow afternoon at 1:30 o'clock. Burial will be in Har- mony Cemetery. VICTIM EJF STAIR FALL ASKS $20.000 DAMAGES | Mrs. Grace Hughitt, a tenant, has filed suit in the District Supreme Court to recover $20.000 demages from the Fulford Apartments, near Seventeenth and Euclid streets, for alleged personal injuries. Her husband, Charlss F. Hughitt, asks an addit onal $4.000 dam- ages for the loss of the services of the wife and the expense incident to her illness. | Mrs. Hughitt charges that the stair- way of the apartment was kept in a darkened eand dangercus _condition, | causing her to fall from a landing to | the basement. over & span of years | | publican National 5 | Rcbert H. Lucas, executive director, said that a conference would be held | here June 11 and 12 to map & of organization work. National and | State party leaders will address the | meeting. | “The national committeeman in | each St2t> has been requested to desig- nate one young man, and the national committeewoman has been requested to | designats one young woman to_repre- | sent the State in this conference,” Lucas | sald. “Those who are defi‘?nlhd to attend will assume the leadership in | the “organization of young voters on their return to their respective States.” Organization of a young Republican group was originally sponsored by the National Capital Republican Club with the intention of forming a nucleus of three young men and three young women to assist the party during the 1932 campaign among the voung voters. Lucas gave it the indorsement of the National Committse at a recent meet- ing. 'HONOR SOCIAL WORKER UPON 76TH BIRTHDAY A gift of si'ver w2 Mariina Waple at oratic of the cso=ial xth birthdsy Priday night i ge Waple praired by several speakers, including Dr. John E. 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