Evening Star Newspaper, November 21, 1931, Page 4

ASKS D.C. OFFICES BE GIVEN NATIVES Fred A. Emery Also Reiter- | ates Stand for National Rep- | resentation in Address. | A plea for Washingtonians in Wash- | ington offices and a reiteration of the organization’s stand for national rep- resentation for the District of Colum- bia, marked the retirement last night of Fred A. Emery from the presidency of the Society of Natives of the District | ©of Columbia. | Following Mr. Emery's plea, the so- ciety adopted a resolution urging the | Board of Education and the superin- | tencent of schools to name only “bona | fide Washingtonians” to positions as officers and teachers in the school sys- tem. except in cases of emergency. Mr. Emery’s withdrawal from the highest office of the society followed automatically the election at the same meeting of Dr. Clarence Weaver as president. Dr. Weaver chosen over Miss Etta Taggert by a vote of 48 to 46. In his retirement address, Mr. Emery declared that “20 mayors, ‘a coupie of governors and & host of District Com- missioners, backed by the dynamic force of public spirit and activities of the real residents of Washington dur- ing the 131 years since the National Capital was founded, have demonstrated the capacity of Washingtonians to func- tion in chaige of their own purely local affairs.” Commenting upon the events of the past two yeirs during which he was ident of the Society of Natives, Mr. ry pointed out that “Washing- tonians have been so often ignored by the appointive powers.” Cat’s Paw of Politics. “We do not believe that the Distriet of Columbia government should be the cat’s paw of Federal politics nor that its purely local offices—the civilian commissionerships, the District bench and so on—should be the gifts to strangers nor the dumping ground of Jame duck politicians.” Continuing he said: “We glory in the fact that one of the District Commissioners today is a na- tive Washingtonian while the other two ~—Doth able and delightful gentlemen: are brought in from the outside as Army officers. along with a military superintendent of Washington police, also _called in from the outside to tell ‘Washingtonians what they must do with respect to their own local affairs. We are dalso proud of the Washingtonians, iwo of them natives, on the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, and on the Police and Traffic and Municipal Courts of the District, including those judges who are members of the Society of Natives—and of the other distin- guished men, official and lay, in the rank and file of this society.” Mr. Emery recalled that for three- Quarters of & century the Federal Gov- ernment was a “guest” of Washington, paying. he said, “no taxes on Federal property and pa; tributions to meet t dens of the taxpaying ‘Washington,” despite the fact that the Federal Government owned more than half of the real estate here. It was not until after the Civil War, he pointed out, that the National Government un- derwonln “:be.hé:‘plb“; the expenses of operating “And we Wi be added, *“are today paying, aggregate, to the Federal Government's income, more than any one of half of the total number of States in this Union al- h denied certain subsidies and benefits the Congress nts to the States. So I say purely 1 Washing- mmmaunue&vnmm . Anjong eminen ns ‘who added Jlmy to_gheir eity Mr. nam¢ Gov. Alexander Shep- berd, Crosby Noyes, former editor of ‘The Star; Willlam P. Mati ly and Myroh Parker. In recognition of Wash- ingtonians' contribution to thelr city |l Mr. Emery pointed out that the So- ciety of Natives suocessfully urged that new schools be nzmed for Crosby Noyes and Daniel Rapine, an early mayor. A year ago, he said, the society paid trib- ute to Theodore W. Noyes, present edi- tor of this newspaper, Mfl"lhl:elcl‘emolt n % tl present @meration.” ‘Tracing further the activities of the society during the past two years, Mr. Emery pointed out that it had strongly reaffirmed its position in favor of na- tional representation for the District. In this pocition, achering to it as to an inspiring ideal, the Soclety of Natives, he said, is allied with “the great or- ganizations iik= the Board of Trade, Chamber of Commerce, Federation of Citizens’ Associaticns and the Mer- chants and Manufacturers’ Associ- | ation.” | Seciety in Active Role. “The share of the Society of Natives in the community life of Washington the past two years,” president declared, “has Tange of civic activities. the Federation of Citizens’ Associations, its delegates ther: have been active in the federation's work and other mem- EDUCATION DECLARED REMEDY"™ FOR WORLD'S ECONOMIC ILLS A. 0. Thomas, Association Executive, Sees Learning as Basis of Growth. Progress Seen, Not Only in| Man’s Products, but Also in Man Himself. Education is the best means of ending world economic depression, according to Augustus O. Thomas, secretary general of the World Federation of Education Associations, who has come to W: ington to establish the federaton's head- | quarters. “Education is the basis of economic growth and prosperity of a community ation,” Mr. Thomas said today discussion of the federation’s t is the basis of prosperity be- cause a primitive people doesn't use re- fined produets and education creates in them an appreciation, a desire and finally & demand for the output of the markets of cultured centers.” Mr. Thomas asserted that if the peo- ple of the United States’ could be brought up to the proper norm in edu- cation and culture, “we'd have a do- mestic market for the output of every | he believes | factory here.” Likewise, that If the world, which now has an fl- iiteracy ri g of 62 per cent, could be brought to a high educational standard, “there'd be no idle factories, no idle men and no idle dollars anywhere.” Through scientific advances labor is | being changed, the educator pointed out. Machines are making “engineers” out of “laborers,” with the result that “if every man and woman in the world today did his work in an educated way, the tasks of the world could be | performed in three hours a day,” he holds. “And that is the challenge to educa- tion,” Mr. Thomas asserted. “Educa- tion's duty is to prepare people for the ‘fluid age' in which they are living: {to prepare them for this rapidly flow- ing and. changing life, which almost overnight smashes the old order as rep- resented by factories and corporations products and of products based on new developments.” ess is being made not only in mian’s_products but in_man himself, Mr. Thomas believes. Far more chil- dren are reaching manhood today than two generations ago, and the men of today are of as good a caliber as his- ‘s_heroes. = T have no patience with those who say—and you hear them all around— that the world is not producing the ‘big’ men that it used to. As a matter of fact only the perspective of time will show definitely whether the men of our memory and today are as great as some of the world’s heroe: “But T believe Abraham Lincoln will ‘be remembered as long as Aristotle: I believe that the name of Thomas Edi- son will go down as the individual who has contributed most to human welfare, and I believe Henry Ford will b historic as an industrialist. There were the great gladiators of Rome—well, I believe that Jack Dempsey is perhaps as great & gladiator as any of those Romans; then there was the Greek marathon that was run by the champion in 3 hours; I saw little Charlie Meller run it in 2 hours and & little more than 29 minutes. And that record has been lowered since' ‘Thomas said the Federation of ‘World Education Associations will un- dertake to effect an interchange of the culture among the nations of the world through personal contact of delegates in in o¢nventions. At the convention in bers of the socicty who are delegates f organ.zations are likewise active, including among these the vice president of the federation.” In concluding, Mr. Emery, who served the complete two terms as president, wed the constitution of the society, expressed, his thanks to the officers and members who have co-operated with him to make the period a successful one gn the life of the organization of na- ves. A tribute to Mr. Emery, read by Miss Margaret E. Forbes, was the signal for scientific | resounding applause In salute to his administration. Besides Dr. Weaver, other officers chosen last night ineluded Judge Rob- ert F. Mattingly of the Police Court, who was chosen unamimously without wuon, first vice president; Mrs. Ada E, Hodge, second vice president; ‘Wilitam H. Groverman, third vice presi- dent. Prederick C. Umhau was re- elected . treasurer, while other officers retained in office included Miss Emma Bright, recording ssecretary, and James | | AUGUSTUS O. THOMAS, Denver, Colo., last Summer, 50 nations were represenied by the 4,000 delegates from every quarter of the globe. The federation’s decision to establish head- quarters at Washington reached at the Summer conclave because here is the center of diplomatic contact and be- cause the headquarters of the National Education Association, its chief mem- ber, is here, Mr. Thomas explained. The federation will seek nlso to ad- vocate compulsory education for a pe- Yl?fl of at least eight years in all coun- tries. Wo s ample time. ENGRAVING, FirsT FLOOR. H. Duhamel as historian. Mrs. M. Z. | Baughman was named corresponding secretary. The society chose Miss Taggert and Mr. Emery as its delegates to the Fed- | eration of Citizens’ Associations. ‘The past presidents of the sopiety, whose ranks Mr. Emery joined last night include Jesse C. Suter. John Clagett Proctor, Dr. Samuel S, Adams. Lee D. 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