Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-29
CLUBWOMEN VOTE
HELP FOR CAPITAL
State Federations All Over U.
S. Urged to Aid Committee
of One Hundred.
DISTRICT BODY ACTS AT
RALEIGH HOTEL MEETING
Macfarland Tells Washington Mem
bers What Recently Passed
House Measures Mean.

House Measures Mean.
! The District of Columbia Fedora ton
of Womens Clubs, consisting of 1000
| members. deplores the recent attempts to
| repeal the spirit if not the letter of the
! organic act, and feels that the future
/ growth and prosperity of the city of
Washington depend upon the continue
| ton of the present 'haf-and- half system
| of taxation: therefore, be it resolved,
| To indorse the efforts of the committee
| of one hundred toward preserving present
| conditions, and to pledge all possible CO.
| operation and assistance to them in car
| rying out their plans for the improvement
| of our Capital city.
Resolved that we request the state
| federation of Women's clubs to assist
US in this work. and TO enlist the support
and indorsement of this measure by their
| representatives in Congress when this bill
comes before them for consideration
The foregoing resolutions introduced by
Mrs. Charies +. Grandtieid, chairman of
the clVlcs committee, were unanimously
adopted at meeting of the District of
Columbia Federation of Women's Clubs
at the Raleigh Hotel yesterday afternoon.
The resolutions We're introduced by
Mrs. Grandneld following an address by
Henry B. F. Macfarland former Commis-
sloner of the District of Columbia. and
chairman of the executive committee OF
the committee of one hundred.
Women of Country Patriotic.
The women of Washington and the
women OF the country Mr. Macfarla nd
said, individually and collectively are
already doing as much as the men in this
campaign of education TO protect the
progress of the National Capital. The
National Society of the Daughters of the
American Revolution has already petit
toned Congress in the name of the 10000
spreading the facts among its members
everywhere for their individual action.
Local branches of other national organi-
cations are doing the same Individual
women are enthusiastically working per
sonally and through organizations in
which they are members. This is but
natural for there are no truer patriots
than women and they are quick to act,
resourceful and persistent.
You and the National Federation of
Women's Clubs, with their membership
of 1,O0QOOO. can be of greatest service to
our common capital by laying the facts
of it's relations to the country before your
fellow members and before senators and
representatives in Congress. l trust that
at the biennial convention OF your great
federation in Chicago in June you will
place the matter before the thousands of
representative women there assembled SO
that they will Systematically cooperate
for years to come in this patriotic en-
deayor.
Woman's Special Fitness.
'Womans special fitness to take part
in municipal affairs is now everywhere
al safe
guard and promote the interests of the
National Capital is apparent. Besides
her natural interest in the esthetic
progress, she has an even greater in
te-est in the moral progress of the
capital. You have only to show her
the facts outlined in our executive
committee report, which We should be
glad to furnish any one, to convince
her that both moral and physical prog
ress depend upon the continuance of the
present financial arrangement between
the country and it's capital
Remind her that the majority of the
House committee on appropriations de-
clined to provide for any of the moral
progress items in the District Commits
sioners' estimates and by cutting these
estimates S3,000,000 kept from ap-
preparation one and a half millions Of
money that you and l and the other
taxpayers will pay as local taxes for
local purposes in the year beginning
1
Gus section 8 of the District appropri-
alton bill that local money should be
turned over to the national Treasury
as miscellaneous receipts"
They frankly avowed that this was
meant to reduce by that amount the
one-haf contribution of the United
States government to the s11,00O.00O ap-
propriated by the bill. thus making the
Districts contribution $500. 900. and
that of all the other $4,000 900 people
of the United States $4,000 900 for the
common capital
What It Meant.
Ihat meant the loss of the much need
ed municipal hospital, to take the place
OF a disgraceful makeshift: an inebriate
hospital: new bathing beaches: new pub
lie convenience stations; additional play
ground facilities; additional school build
ings and repairs on old school buildings:
the much desired greater utilization of
the public school buildings; increased
force and facilities for the health de-
partment. nurses for the public schools:
additional probation officers for the Juve-
nile Court; additional inspectors to safe
guard the wards of the board of children's
guardians in private homes: and similar
modern improvements along the lines of
better municipal housekeeping and social
justice were rejected in order to violate
the 'half-and-half arrangement of 1878
FOrtunately, the Senate struck out
section and the proviso that the play
grounds should be exclusively paid for
out of the District revenues and added
provision for the municipal hospital for
the school nurses, for additional inspectors
for the board of childrens guardians and
additional probation officers for the Juve-
nile Court.
| Now, we are told that some of our
| fellow -citizens are working for the re-
| tenton in the conference committee of
/ these additional appropriations, but we
are not told that they are working for
the thing which is essential to these and
all other appropriations, namely. the
maintenance of the 'half-and-half prin-
| ciple under which all thep rogress of the
| last thirty-five years has been made
We must all realize that the House ap-
propriations committee meant just what
| it said when 1t gave as reason for cut
ting out the social program item that 1t
desired to upset the half-and-half' ar
rangement and convey million and a
| half of local tax money into the national
| revenues. nevermore to be used as Dis
| trict revenues. Piecemeal advocacy of
particular measures is partly responsible
/ for our present crisis, for 1t has ignored
the one thing needful, namely. the money,
without which no progress can be made.
Social Justice Due District.
No social justice is more important
| than the social Justice due the District