Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-04
CHARLES F. SCOTT.
Judge, Police Court.


I'm no year prior to 1904 has the District
OF Columbia citizen been permitted to wit
ness such a magnificent exaltation of the
true spirit of charity in which the unfor-
tunate and dependent have been partici-
pants. Witness the summer outings of the
sick and feeble children, so bountifully cared
for last summer; the efforts made to pro-
vide homes for the aged and inrm who.
through misfortune of one kind or an
other, are left homeless and friendless, and
who are too infirm and feeble to longer sue
cessfuly battle with the ills of life: in the
esta bllshment of larger and a greater num-
Der Of institutions where the worthy poor
those bereft of the bread winner of the
household through fire, flood accident or
other dispensation beyond their control, are
mute sufferers, and who too often hide
their misfOrtunes rather than parade them.
Then there is the Junior Republic the
board of children's guardians and the
Juvenile court for the trial of the youthful
offenders, where the effort is to lessen the
number of hardened criminals by prevent
ing association of juvenile offenders with
such; the Prison Reform Association that
by intervening in the criminal proceedings
of our criminal courts saves many a young
man from being sent to prison, ascertainng
their home life and furnishing transpOrta-
ton to their homes. thereby making glad
the hearts of fond parents and saving the
subject of their care from ascriminal career,
and whose work of restoring to good citi-
zenship those whose terms of prison service
are about to expire by providing work and
homes for them and helping them to bet
ter life; the Sanitary Housing Company, to
relieve the inSanitary and congested slums
of the city. All these named, and many
more, are voluntary aids to the church as
sociations, the organized charitable asso-
Citations, the Young Mems Christian Asso-
Citations and supplement the grand effort
made last year by District people to anne
liorate the condition of the worthy poor and
needy.
What of 1905? Shall the material inter-
ests of the District be advanced and how?
The answer to the question rests largely
with Congress. The reinstatement of the
half-and-half policy of meeting the eXpendt-
lures for the annual budget will tend to
build up the best interests of the District
and hasten the promotion OF Greater
Washington desired and urged by the
taxpayers resident as well as the great
numbers who visit the city Congress
might well supplement this progressive
policy by granting the oft-requested policy
of our business men, and authorize the IS
sue of bonds, as is done in all the wide
awake cities of the states, extending the
time of payment over period OF twenty or
thirty years. and with the proceeds or
which let the extraordinary improvements
contemplated in the future be at once en-
tered upon and brought to perfect1on with
In the lifetime of and be enjoyed by those
who are now spending millions of dollars in
building magnificent business blocks ana
private bank buildings, thus attesting their
faith and interest in the future of the city
in most substantial manner, even that OF
putting their means in such shape as will
furnish revenue, by taxation, Tor the pulio-
ing up of every interest OF the Dlstrlct, ana
United States within the District, and at
the same time giving indisputable evidence
of the ability and reliability of those con-
cerned to handle any and all bonds that
may be issued to the best advantage Ihere
should be no hesitancy in this matter, for
the citizens of this District, at least the ma
jority, are chosen by the individual Con-
gresham from among his local consiltu-
encw hecanse of their intelligence, probity
and business capacity, and hence are Sc
lect number. not excelled in any congress,
sional district, fully able to assume ana
perform wisely the duties of municipal gov
eminent