Evening Star Newspaper, December 15, 1935, Page 14

A—14 = CITY“T00 SMALL” 10 VOTE IN 7805 Discussions at Capitol Re- vealed in Book by Allen C. Clark. Only the “insignificance” of the District of Columbia in population and wealth prevented it from being given representation in Congress and the electoral college, in its early days, according to interesting researches made by Allen C. Clark, president of the Columbia Historical Society. in a bound volume, “Origin of the Federal City,” Clark quotes some sig- nificant excerpts from discussions at the Capitol more than 130 years ago regarding the voteless status of local citizens. John Randolph, jr., of Virginia, in debating resolutions offered in the| House February 8, 1803, for retroces- | sion of the District to Maryland and Virginia, said: “An idea has been held out from a very respectable quarter that this District might in time be- come a State . . . The other States can never be brought to consent that two Senators and at least three elec- tors of the President shall be chosen out of this small start, and by a hand- tul of men.” Clark pointed out that in the debate the abstract right of representation— the principle—was conceded, “but it was contended that representation should be withheld for the time be- cause of the insignificance of the place, in numbers and riches.” Then Only Handful. ‘The “handful of men” of Randolph’s day has become a city of more than half a million inhabitants, with suffi- cient wealth to pay into the Treasury in national taxes more than any one of half of the States of the Union and more than nine of them combined. Internal revenue paid per capita in the District exceeds that of 38 States. Clark’s book points out that the public offices in Washington were | opened on June 15, 1800, and that on November 22, in addressing Congress, President Adams said: “I congratulate the people of the United States on the assembling of Congress at the permanent seat of | their government; and I congratulate | you, gentlemen, on the prospect of a | residence not to be changed. { “It is with you gentlemen to consid- er whether the local powers in the Dis- trict of Columbia vested by the Con- stitution _in the Congress of thef United States shall be immediately | exercised. If in your opinion this im- portant trust ought now to be exer- cised, you cannot fail, while perform- ing it, to take into view the future probable situation of the territory, for the happiness of which you are about to provide. “You will consider it as the capxtal\ of a great nation, advancing rapidly | in arts, in commerce, in wealth and in population; and possessing within itself these resources which if not thrown away or lamentably misdi- rected, will secure to it a long course of prosperity and self government.” Voting in Maryland. Just 10 days before this address the few citizens of Washington had voted | for presidential electors, going to the polls in Prince Georges County, Md., in which they then held legal resi- dence. Upon realization that the citizens of the District were to be deprived of the essential rights of other citizens, however, a group of Alexandrians on February 2, 1801, signed a memorial, » paragraph of which Clark quotes as follows: “As members of a free community your memorialists are prompted to assert that the rights of representa- tion and participation constitute an indispensable quality in all legislative institutions of a legitimate kind; ‘that a privation of those rights under gov- ernment will alone constitute despot- ism.” John Bacon, of Massachusetts, in offering the retrocession resolutions, explained that the government of the Capital was “very diverse” from that in other parts of the Union and ex- pressed the belief that all govern- ments in the Union should be uni- form. John Smilie of Pennsylvania com- mented that when he looked around him in Washington he saw no man, “unless a stranger, who was not a political slave,” and declared this {:c'. gave him “most paihful sensa- lons.” Future “Representation.” Benjamin Huger of South Carolina said: “But because they are now dis- franchised of their rights, it does not follow that they are always to remain %0.” He said he would oppose retro- cession for that reason, looking for- ward “to the period when the inhabi- tants, from their numbers and riches, would be entitled to a repre- sentation on this floor.” Huger added that “when they grow more numerous and wealthy, there would be no difi- culty in giving them a territorial .government.” Randolph declared: “Sir, the form of government such as has been de- scribed, however mild and beneficent it may be in its administration, places those subjected to it in a state of political slavery, and they are as com- pletely divested of self-control as the infant who is dandled on the knee of its parent. As to the existence, then, of this species of slavery, it matters | 3 | articles will get under way, with Maj. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTO Trains Collide Head-on, Killing Three Three persons met death and ten others were injured at Dearing, Ga. The accident occurred when one of the trains failed to take a side track. Railway collided head-on. when two trains of the Georgia —A. P, Photo. Police Ask Help in City-Wide Christmas Party to Aid Needy 15th Annual Distribu-| tion of Food Baskets | May Be Largest Yet. Food, Clothes and Toys Also Sought in Drive Starting Tomorrow. Christmas will not be just another | day fo. Washington's needy, but will | be observed in befitting fashion with plenty of good things to eat for un- fortunate men, women and children if Police Supt. Ernest W. Brown and his bluecoats have anything to say about the matter. For the last 14 years Capt. Joseph C. Morgan’s fifth precinct has been the scene of a Christmas party for persons in dire circumstances and this year the Southeast station again will play a prominent part in the cheer- dispens.ng movement, which will be city-wide in scope. Witk Maj. Brown and other District official. showing a keen interest in the pruceedings, it is planned to make the coming party the greatest since the Police Department has been play- ing Santa to the poor. Tomorrow a drive to assemble food- stuffs, funds, clothing, toys and other Brown acting as president ex-officio and Capt. Morgan chairman of & committee arranging the affair. Head- quarters will be set up in the drill room cf the National Guard Armory in the old National Hotel, Sixth street and Pennsylvania avenue. The job of gathering the things | Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday Save 239, to 307 Capt. Joseph C. Morgan of No. $ precinct, chairman of the Metro- politan Police Department Christ- mas Party Committee, is shown notifying other precinct command- ers of plans for this year's party for needy persons. —Star Staff Photo. needed to properly stage the party will continue until Christmas eve— when distribution will begin. filled baskets of provisions will be sent to families and individuals in On the Cost of Your Glasses TWO OPTICAL SPECIALS @ Distance or reading, vision in one. white or pink gold filled frames, rim or rimless. o Kryptok Invisible Bifocals (lenses only). Distance and reading Regular prices for each $14.00. Special for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday NOTE: Regular fee for ezamination omitted on these three days. Your eye comfort and only s7 .30 vision depend on the proper eye examination and fit My twenty years’ practice assures this confidence Phone ME. 0218 Resistered Optometrist 305-307 McGill 908-914 G = DR. W. F. 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Morgan pointed out that donations should not consist of per- ishable articles. Canned goods and durable vegetables, such as potatoes and the like, will be particularly ac- ceptable. Delicacies are not as im- portant as “necessities.” | The baskets will be sent to the | various precincts from hudqu.nzrl and then turned over to the needy. Those persons unable to call at the precincts for their provisions will have them delivered. At the fifth precinct’s party last year, 5220 bushel baskets of roody were distributed, along with cloth- | ing and toys. — Sanctions Boost Goldfish. Goldfish are now dearer in England decorative fish will arrive from Italy. Ninety-nine per cent of the gold§sh which arrived in the country were bred in the land of Mussolini. The rise in price, however, is expected to be only temporary, for Denmark and America are other places where goldfish are D. C. DECEMBER 15, “DUD" BOMB KILLY U. 5. MISSIONARY Dr. R. W. Hockman Is Fatal- ly Wounded in Examining Italian Projectile. By the Assoclated Press. JIJIGA, Ethiopia, December 14— The explosion of an Italian bomb has cost the life of a 28-year-old Ameri- can missionary, Dr. Robert W. Hock- man. The former Wheaton, Ill, resident ‘was blown to death at Daggah Bur, on the southern front, while handling an unexploded Italian bomb yesterday, it was learned today. Since the outbreak of hostilities Dr. Hockman worked untiringly for the Ethiopian Red Cross, establishing the first medical unit on the front. Heroism Is Praised. “We have lost the most valuable, most efficient Red Cross worker in Ethiopia,” said Dr. T. A. Lambie, sec- retary general of the Ethiopian Red Cross. He praised Hockman'’s heroism when Daggah Bur was bombarded recently. The young United Presbyterian mis- sionary is survived by his widow and a 1-month-old child, who are now at an American mission in Egypt. She formerly lived at New Concord, Ohio. While in the war area, Dr. Hock- T R T T TR T P BRI Atherton’s Pets are “Living Reminders of the Thoughtful Giver” These beautiful young male canaries (guaranteed to sing satisfactorily), 1935—PART ONE. man made a hobby of studying bombs. He recently supervised the digging out of a 9-foot unexploded projectile at Daggah Bur. His body is being taken to Addis Ababa, where he will be buried. Dr. Hockman went to Addis Ababa in December, planning to go to Egypt to see his child for the ‘first time, but Red Cross authorities told him his services were indispensible and he re- turned to _the front. Before the war Dr. Hockman was stationed at Addis Ababa, where he established an American nurses’ train- ing school last Summer and innocu- lated thousands of native soldiers against typhoid, smallpox and cholera. e el $500,000 GIFT TO ARTS CREATES SPENDING JOB Institute Confronted With Prob- lem of Disposing of Anonymous Donor's Funds. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 14—Be- cause of the generosity of an anony- mous donor the American Institute of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Letters were confronted today with the problem of spending $500,000. Gov. Wilbur L. Cross of Connecti- cut, president of the National Insti- tute of Arts and Letlers, announced receipt of the gift, in the form of & trust fund leaving discretion for its use to the organizations. The money will be spent in further- ance of arts and letters, possibly by endowing scholarships. EDITOR OF E. P.1.C. NEWS HITS THIRD PARTY TALK Opposes Townsend Program in Urging Production-for-Use Plank for Democrats. By the Associated Press, LOS ANGELES, December 14.—Pro- jection of any third party into the coming presidential campaigr would be “unfortunate,” Leonard Miller, editor of Upton Sinclair's National E. P. L. C. News, said today. He was commenting on a plan of Townsend pension advocates to have a national ticket. 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