Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-28
Y. N. c. A. TO AID
COMMITTEE Of 100
National Organ to Print Out
line of Executive Boards
Report.
FEDERATION OF WOMEN
HEARING CAPITALS PERIL
Henry B. F. Macfarland Delivers
Address Before Club Mem
bers This Afternoon.

The Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton is the latest recruit to the list of
big national organizations which have
undertaken to familiarize themselves
with the relations between the District
of Columbia and the federal govern
ment. and to appeal to senators and
representatives against legislation
pending in Congress which would do
away with the ''half-and- half plan
of supporting the Capital city.
This informa ton was brought to
Washington today by Henry B. F. Mac
farland, chairman of the executive
committee of the committee of one
hundred. upon his return from trip
to New York, where he utilized the op-
portunity to speak on the peril of the
capital during an address he had been
asked to deliver at the Union League
Club.
Mr. Macfarland will probably have
something to say about his trip at
meeting he is to attend of the District OF
Columbia Federation of Women's CLUBS
at the Raleight Hotel. which began this
afternoon at = o'clock. After the busi-
ness meeting of the federation he has
been invited by Mrs. Ellis Logan. presi-
dent of the organization, and other
members to explain to them the present
situation with respect to the 'half-and-
half controversy now going on in
Washington. as the Federation OF Wom-
ems Clubs of the District has volun-
teered to aid the committee OF one nun
dred in every way possible, and Mrs.
Logan believes hat the National Fedora
ton OF Women's Clubs, which is to meet
in Chicago early in the summer, Will
also undertake to support the capital
Clubs has membership of 100000.
The District branch has membership
of about 1000 women.
On Fitness of Women.
Mr.. Macfarland is expected to dwell
this afternoon on "Woman's Special
Fitness to Take Part i'll Municipal AZ
fairs" which. he says, lis now every
where recognized
On his trip to New York Mr.. Mac
farland spoke al the dinner at the Union
League Club given by Alfred E. Mar
ling of New York. chairman of the in
ternational committee of the Young
Mems Christian Associations OF North
America, to members of that committee
and its principal executive secretaries.
at which all sections of the United
States we're represented
Mr.. Macfarland took occasion in the
couse of his address to tell these repre-
sentative men of the proposed legisla-
ton threatening the '.organic act and
outlined the facts contained in the re-
port OF the executive committee OF the
committee of one. hundred. copy of
which he promised to send to each man
present.
He also arranged for the publication in
Association Men. the national organ of
the Young Mems Christian Association.
of an outline of the executive commit
tees report. There are over four hun
dred thousand members in the Young |
Mems Christian Associations OF the |
United States and they are found in
every state and city and in almost every |
town in the country,
Mr.. Macfarland stated today:
THE men from all over the country |
whom l met at the dinner and other rep
resentative business men with whom |
talked in my business interviews in New
York yesterday could hardly believe that |
there was d determined effort. even |
among a few men in Congress, to stop
the progress of the National Capital by |
breaking up the half and half arrange
ment' either gradually or suddenly. Like
all intelligent Americans they expressed
pride in the progress that had been made. |
entire approval of the contribution by
themselves and the rest of the country
to the financial arrangement essential to
that progress and strong opposition to
threatened interference with it.
Il really had difficulty in making them
believe that four measures violating the
half -and-half' arrangement had actually
passed the House at this session OF Con-
gress, and that two others were pending
in the House.