Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-09
Senator Gallinger Quoted.

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at that time. reads:
THE covenant between the govern
ment and the District was entered
into by the terms of a solemn statute
approved June II. 1878. Let me read
the substance of it:
ITO the extent to which Congress
shall approve of said estimates Con-
gress shall appropriate the amount Of
so per cent thereof. and the remain
ing so per cent of such approved esti-
mates shall be levied and assessed upon
the taxable property and privileges in
said District other than the property
of the United States and of the Dis
trict of Columbia
That is our pledge and that is our
solemn obligation voluntarily entered
into by Congress.
Shall it be kept or shall it be ruth
lessy violated?
There are those in public life who
would tear it to tatters and relegate the
District of Columbia. the home of the
government, to the passions and dangers
of partisan politics.
while no man more strongly than I
can believe in popular government, l
cannot bring myself to the view that this
District granted to the government.
should be permitted to pass out of the
control of the national authority.
To-day every citizen of the republic is
stakeholder in all that makes Wash
ington the pride of the nation, and l can
not but regard with profound apprehen-
sion every suggestion of radical change
in the management Of District affairs
Money Needed in District.
Following up the spirit of the half-and-
half plan, the report suggests the advis-
ability OF spending more money in the
District and taking a more active interest
in the children of the District.
.'It has been the policy of the admins
tration to spend our time and money in
our own city. Mountain educational work
is a worthy cause and heretofore the
District chapters have sent out a great
deal of money to further this cause: but
this year we found greater need here
at home.
I'VE found the waits of our own
streets neglected or injudiciously cared
for owing to the lack of probation Off
GERS in our Juvenile Court. 1t was our
privilege. therefore. to supply this Off
Ger for the period of seven months. 1t
was due to our activities along this
line that the United States Congress
was made to see the need for extra
officers in the Juvenile Court. and to
appropriate sufficient funds to remedy
conditions at least in part"
The remainder of the report shows
the growth and strength OF the Dis
trict organization.
Statistical Showing.
A statistical resume shows that there
are 1916 members of the d. A. r. in
the District, that POS new members
were admitted this year: that eighteen
Daughters died: 374 meetings were held
by the forty-six chapters. and thirty
seven socials and receptions; that the
money spent for patriotic objects in
the District totaled $1,000. the money
spent elsewhere for the same purpose
amounting to $226: that the money
spent in the District for patriotic edu-
cation was $257. and that outside the
District s1,284 was spent. chiefly in the
education of mountain children of the
south: that in the last year the Dis
trict had contributed to the Continental
Hall fund about $500. bringing the
total of the District third IN the list
Of states, being exceeded only by New
York and Pennsylvania.
Reports of Chapters.
The individual reports of the forty-six
CHAPTERS which were read at a meeting
of the Daughters of the American Rcvo-
lution April ., are now for the first time
made public They show the many and
diversified interests which engage the
time and money of several chapters. and
the various lines of activity in which the
members are engaging for the good of
washington and the District
All of the chapters have been actively
engaged in the clean city campaign
which, though seemingly forgotten in the
rush of war news. is still engaged in
making the already clean city cleaner
A large number of the local chapters
| contribute to Friendship House and the
| Young Womens Christian Association
| Educational work is heartily supported
! by the local D. A. r. One chapter Lucy
| Holcombe. is educating a little mountain
| girl in the Vale Crucis School down