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LEGISLATORS BID
10 VOTE PARLEY
D. C. Committee Members
Asked to Attend Meeting
on Suffrage Poll.
Members of the Senate and House |
District Committees have been invited
to attend the mass meeting to be held
tomorrow night at Central High School
to arrange final details for the suffrage I
plebiscite April 30.
Invitations have bepn extended to
the committee members by Wilbur S.
Finch, chairman of the Citizens’ Con
ference on District Suffrage, which is
sponsoring the plebiscite.
Meantime plans were being pushed
forward for the suffrage vote by the
subcommittee on elections, headed by
William H. Mondell. At a special con
ference in his office Mr. Mondell con
ferred with a committee of representa
tives from the citizens' associations
concerning selection of supervisors for
the various precincts. At the confer- ;
ence were Harry N. Stull, David Babp 1
and Orrin Davy.
Information Booth.
The Junior Board of Commerce has
thrown its support behind the plebis- :
cite and extended its offer of co
operation. The board was repre
sented by Bradfoni Ross, chairman of :
its Committee on National Repre
sentation. who conferred with Chair
man Mondell of the Elections Com
mittee.
With a view to helping inform the
public as to the plebiscite. The Star \
today opened an information booth in
its lobby, which will make available !
all necessary information concerning
the movement.
A committee of outstanding women |
civic leaders has taken over responsibil- ■
itv for operating the booth and will
assign from day to day various groups
of publ.r-spirited women who volun
teer their time to the cause.
Committee Members.
The committee consists of Mrs.
Edna L. Johnston, Mrs. H. L. Parkin
son and Mrs. Alfred Klein, all of
whom are members of the Voteless
IX C. League of Women Voters. Mrs.
Parkinson also is a member of the
Women's Bar Association and is chair
man of the Committee on Laws and
Legislation of the Burleith Citizens'!
Association. Mrs. Klein is a member
of the Women's Bar Association and
of the D. C. Legislative Conference, i
Mrs. Johnston is president of the
Kalorama Citizens' Association and
treasurer of the Voteless D. C. League.
In the booth, where The Star
formerly displayed its Art Apprecia
tion pictures, are presented cartoons
by Clifford K. Berryman. Star car
toonist, depicting the voteless plight
of the District of Columbia. The
central cartoon shows the District
calling on Washingtonians to vote in
the plebiscite.
The two questions are shown: ‘ Do
you want the right to vote for officials
of your own city government? Do
you want the right to vote for Presi
dent and members of Congress from
the District?”
John B. Colpoys. chairman of the
Democratic State Central Committee,
who is United States marshal here,
issued a statement last night urging
Washingtonians to vote in the j
plebiscite.
Held Un-American.
Pointing to the Boston Tea Party
as an example for home rule for
Washington, he said:
‘ It was never intended by the fa
thers of our country that a situation
should exist such as can be found in
the District of Columbia. The great
est heritage that should be ours is to
make us American citizens in all that
the name implies.
"I would liken our condition here
somewhat to conditions prevailing in
some of the foreign countries, where
they are deprived of a voice in govern
ment. Surely this is not American. |
“To accomplish our purpose we
must continue to agitate, educate and
organize. I ask that all residents of
the District go to the polls on April
SO and register their opinion on this
vital and most important question.”
Chairman Mondell of the Elections
Committee and Arthur Clarendon
Smith, civic leader, will discuss the
plebiscite at the Sunday evening serv
ice at Lincoln Congregational Temple,
Eleventh and R street*.
LEWIS URGES UNIONS
BACK SPENDING PLANS;
John L. Lewis, chairman nf the Com
mittee for Industrial Organization,
called on all C. I. O. affiliates today to
support the relief-spending program
outlined by President Roosevelt last !
week and now before the House Ap
propriations Committee. The program
should provide jobs for 3.500.000 un
employed, Mr. Lewis said in a letter.
"Enactment of the program for re
lief and recovery, in addition to an
adequate wages and hours bill, are the
first steps necessary to stem the de
pression and begin a return to recov
ery." the C. I. O. leader said. “No ef
forts should be spared in seeking en
actment of these measures."
One-Armed Man
F iles $50,000 Suit
Over Tombstone
Inscription Causes
Him to Be Suspected
of Murder, He Says.
8? »h« Associated Press.
LEHIGHTON, Pa., April 21.—A one
armed deputy game protector charged
today In a $50,000 damage suit against
a monument firm that an inscription
on a tombstone over the grave of a
man killed on a hunting trip had
caused him to be suspected of mur
der.
The tombstone, built by the Wenz
Oo., Inc., of Allentown. Pa„ was
erected nine months ago over the grave
of Aquila Henning, fatally shot five
years ago. The 8-foot stone depicts a
one-armed man leveling a pistol at
another man and bears this inscrip
tion: "An innocent soul sent to
eternity.”
Harry Wilkinson of Freeland, Pa.,
the protector who brought the suit,
and his brother Robert were members
of the hunting party. Robert was
freed of a charge of murder in Hen
ning’s death. At his trial he testified
he fired a shot at Henning when he
aaw him aiming a shotgun at Harry.
D. C. Plebiscite Information Booth Opens
::
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In the lobby of The Evening Star is shown the information
booth where Washingtonians are getting information concern
ing the vote on D. C. suffrage April 30. Officiating at the booth
are, left to right: Mrs. H. L. Parkinson, Mrs. Alfred. Klein and.
Mrs. Edna L. Johnston.
__•—Star Staff Photo.
*
Americanize
The Washingtonian
The half million Americans of the District constitute the only
community in all the expanse of the continental United States—
populous, intelligent, public spirited, of adequate resources—which is
denied representation in the National Government.
As a suitor in the courts of the United States the District resi
dent has, the Supreme Court says, a lower standing than an alien.
To Obey; to Pay; to Figbt.
In relation to national laws the sole function of the District resi
dents is to obey. They take no part in making the laws which they
must obey.
In relation to national taxes their sole function is to pay. They
have nothing to say, like other taxpayers, concerning the amount and
kind of taxes they shall pay and how the tax money shall be spent.
In relation to national war their sole function is to fight in obedi
ence to command. They have no voice, like other Americans, in the
councils which determine war or peace. They have no representation
in the Government which requires them to fight, to bleed and perhaps
to die.
National representation is a distinctive, basic right of the Ameri
can citizen—in a government of the people, by the people, for the
people—in a government which roots its justice in consent of the
governed—in a representative government which inseparably couples
taxation and arms-bearing as a soldier with representation.
Since the half million Americans of the District pay
national taxes, obey national laws and go to war in the
Nation's defense, they are entitled on American principles
to be represented in the National Government, which taxes
them, which makes all laws for them and which sends them
to war.
Not to Disturb National Control.
The constitutional amendments which we urge empower Congress
to correct this inequity without disturbing In the slightest national con
trol of the Capital. Congress retains every power in these respects
that it now possesses. All that happens will be that the District
becomes a small fractional part of that Congress, and politically an
Integral part of the Nation which that Congress represents.
National representation will clothe the Washingtonian with a
vital American privilege, to which he is undeniably in equity entitled;
will cleanse him of the stigma and stain of un-Americanism, and,
curing his political impotency, will arm him with a certain power.
It will relieve the Nation of the shame of un-Americanism at its
heart and of Impotency to cure this evil.
It will inflict no injury or hardship upon either Nation or Capital
to counteract these benefits.
Consistency and justice; national pride and self-re
spect; the will to efTace a shameful blot from the national
escutcheon; the spirit of true Americanism and righteous
hatred of autocracy in any guise; the patriotic impulse
toward full preparedness of the Nation as a champion of
democracy and representative government everywhere in
the world—all combine to make irresistible at this very
moment our appeal for the necessary amendment of the
Constitution.
The Capper-Norton Amendment:
What It Is and What It Is Not.
I. What it is and does:
By enabling Congress to give the District of Colum
bia voting representation in Congress and the Electoral
College, it will become possible to—
1. Make Americans of over a half million people—soon to
to be a million—whose present political prospects are
less than those of aliens elsewhere in America.
2. Put into force (though tardily) the principle of “no
taxation without representation” at the center of the
American republic.
3. Add representative participation in Government, now
denied, to the duty, always borne, of supporting that
Government by paying taxes and fighting.
4. Remove the present stigma, humiliation and moral
an1..P°|,Vca* enf**blement resulting from permanent
political impotence of a people more numerous than
the population in each of 10 American States (Census
Bureau’s 1937 estimate).
5. Make the heart of our own Nation “safe for democ
racy having in 1917-1918 engaged in a world crusade
lor democracy.
6. Make it no longer possible to say that the American
Capital City is the only national capital that has no
voice in its National Government.
II. What it is not and does not:
Our constitutional amendment—
1. Does not propose the admission of the District of Co
lumbia as a sovereign State.
2. Does not propose the destruction of the “Ten-mile
sy,u?™ provision of the Constitution or lessen in the
slightest degree the complete control of the Nation
over the District.
3. Is not in itself a measure for local self-government,
but is an essential step to obtain that effective partici
pation in local government which is in reality approxi
mate self-government and not a delusion.
4t Does not disturb in any way the financial relation of
the Nation and Capital, either by the abolition or per
P;tuat,on of the definite proportionate contribution
fThese same points apply in general and in
principle to the Lewis-Randoljfh amendment.)
BUSBOY GETS $1,150
SAN FRANCISCO, April 21 </P).—
A year ago Guadalupe Martinez, 39
year-old busboy, found a $1,000 bill
and three $50's.
He told police and the find was ad
vertised, but no one claimed it. T(
day the money was turned over 1
Martinez for keeps.
"I'm not going to get married c
it,” he said. "That's not enoug
nowadays. I’m going to have ir
teeth fixed.”
uni—..
$1,000,000,000 Is Declared
Available to Boost
Big Business.
By the Associated Press.
A high administration official said
today that President Roosevelt's efforts
to promote federally-financed expan
sion in the utilities industry were
aimed at eventual stimulation of a
j huge utilities building program,
i The Reconstruction Finance Corp.
! announced yesterday it was ready to
j meet the financial needs of all comers
in an attempt to end the industry's
construction slump.
White House advisers have estimated
that possibly a $1,000.000 000 utilities
building program could be undertaken
immediately, with quirk and far-reach
ing effects in other industries such as
steel, cement, brick and lumber.
Utilities executives told the President
several months ago they were about j
$3,600,000,000 behind normal building
schedules.
Impetus to the campaign to enlist
utilities in the recovery movement
came from a conference yesterday be
tween the President. Chairman Jesse
H. Jones of the R. F. C„ and William
O. Douglas and John W. Hanes of the
Securities Commission.
i omplaint From Utilities.
Mr. Jones said afterward the utilities
had complained they were unable to
get money for expansion and that now
the R. F. C . with available funds of
$1,500,000,000. was ready to supply
that money, either through loans or
I through purchase of bonds.
Another informed official said that
several small companies have evidenced
a desire to obtain Government money
and that the administration “hopes
the larger ones also will take ad
vantage" of the R F. C. offer.
Other phases of the recovery pro
gram went forward swiftly. The House
Appropriations Committee called Au
brey Williams, deputy W. P. A. admin
istrator. to testify on the supervision
of work relief.
Administrator Harry Hopkins, ap
pearing before the committee yester
day. forecast an increased relief load
beginning July 1. He said the *1,250.
000,000 requested for relief from July
1 to February 1. 1939. would care for
2.800.000 -unemployed, 200,000 more
than at present.
Mr. Roosevelt prepared to send
Congress by tomorrow at the latest a
message recommending reciprocal
State-Federal taxation of future issues
of Government securities and the
salaries of all public officials.
New low-rent housing and slum
clearance projects totaling *40,728,000
received presidential approval.
Program Advocated.
Meanwhile. Janies A. Farley, chair
man of the Democratic National
Committee, and James Roosevelt, the
President's son and secretary, advo
cated the administration's recovery
program in speeches in Garden City,
N. Y., and Middletown, Ohio, respec
tively.
Mr. Farley told the Nassau County
Democratic Club:
"If the moneys spoken for in the
President's recent recommendations to
Congress put us as far ahead of where
we are today as the sums expended
in the past put us above where we
were six years ago,” he said, “it will
be the best Investment this Nation
ever made.
“It is because of these things that
the country retains its faith in &
President who had the skill to recog
nize the emergency that confronted
the country when he came to office
and the courage to find new paths
to lead us out of the wilderness of the
depression.”
Young Roosevelt, addressing a din
ner of Middletown Democrats, de
clared that recent experience in cut
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ting public works expenditures, showed
"when we taper off, your income goes
down and we go farther away from a
balanced budget.”
T here would have been a balanced
budget this year, he said, if the greater
national income produced by Govern
ment spending from 1933 through the
first months of 1937 had maintained
its higher level.
Spending was stopped, he said, at
the insistence of those who argupd
"business could go ahead under its
own steam," but the result was that
"business quickly went into a tsilspin j
and the national income dropped $12 -
000.000,000.”
"The Federal Government ran pull
the country out of depression by
spending wisely and can drop the coun
try in again by economizing foolishly,”
he asserted.
At Madison, Wis, Gov. Philip F.
I^a Foliette, followed a similar theme,
but he was sharply critical of the
tapering off.
"The national administration be
lieved that the war on the depression
had been won and that we were out
of the woods,” La Foliette said. "In
stead of a comprehensive program it
began to break ramp and disband its
army. Bob i Senator Robert La Foi
lettei and I disagreed with this policy.”
Gov. La Foliette declared that the
Federal administration could have
prevented the recession, which he
called “the same old depression right
back on our doorstep.”
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MALE VOTERS HONEST
BLOOMINGTON. Ind , April 21
—Male votes at Indiana University
are not for sale.
Members of one of the four sor
orities backing candidates in the
prom queen election disclosed they
bought $50 worth of cigars and $25
worth of popcorn for the junior men
voters.
The sorority's entrant lost.
Assails Dickstein After
Rioting During Rally
in New York.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. April 21—A con
gressional investigation of the activi
ties of Representative Samuel Dick
stein, Democrat, of New York, was
asked by the German-American Bund
today following a riot at a Bund rally
celebrating Adolf Hitler's 49th birth
anniversary.
Seven men, members of a group
who attended the meeting wearing
American Legion caps, were beaten
so severely by uniformed storm
troopers that they required hospital
treatment. Pour persons were ar
rested.
A squad of 75 policemen fought half
an hour to restrain street crowds, in
tent on retaliating, from invading the
meeting.
The rally, held in a casino in York
ville, Manhattan's German community
and scene of many pro and anti Nazi
demonstrations, was attended by ap
proximately 3,500 Bund members and
sympathizers.
James Wheeler Hill, National Bund
secretary, in a telegram to Speaker
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EUGENE C. GOTT, President
Bankhead In Washington, said Rep
resentative Dickstein, a critic of the
Bund, had predicted in Congress there
would be bloodshed if the meeting were
held.
‘‘We respectfully emphatically re
quest,” the telegram said, “immediate
investigation to determine any con
nection of Representative Dickstein
with troublemakers who attempted to
cause riots at this meeting and fur
ther request public censure of Repre
sentative Dickstein for any remarks
Inciting to riot he may have made.”
Jean Mathias, one of the injured
veterans, said the riot began when he
“ose to interrupt a speaker, who had
mentioned President Roosevelt and'
Secretary of State Hull during his
address, delivered in German.
“I asked ‘will there be any English
spoken here?' ” Mr. Mathias said, “and
with that a bunch of men in Nazi
uniforms jumped up and began to
punch me and trample on me.”
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Firemen to Meet.
FRANCONIA, Va„ April 21 'Spe
cial).—A business meeting of Fran
conia Volunteer Fire Department will
be held this evening at 8 o'clock in
the engine house. The organization is
sponsoring a round dance tomorrow
evening from 9 until 12 o’clock in the
auditorium of Franconia School.
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