Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-19
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Columbia Historical Society
Urged to Act-Papers
Are Read.

Members Of the Columbia Historical
Society today Joined with other Wash
ingtonians in the fight to Americanize
the citizens of the District of Columbia.
At meeting last night in the Shore
ham Hotel they responded with enthu-
siasm to a suggestion by C. Allen Clark,
president. that every member do all
within his power to urge upon Congress
the necessity and justice of establishing
within the National Capital the prin-
ciples of democracy upon which the ma
ton is founded
Mr.. Clark declared that taxation and
representation form the corner stone of
this government, but that in the Dis
ltrict of Columbia these principles arc
as widely separated as it is possible to
get them. While Washington is a beau
tiful city in which to live, its greatest
beauty will come, he asserted, when it
has been Americanized. WITH its resi-
dents enjoying the rights of citizenship
that are granted to other Americans un-
der the Constitution.
Paper on Lewis C1ephane.
The December meeting was devoted to
the reading of two communica tions-a
Pioneer Washington Republican, pre-
pared and read by his son, Walter C.
Clephane, and eulogy of Clara Barton,
Humanitarian" presented by Mrs. Cora
Bacon-FoSter.
Mr.. Clephane was an ardent repub1i-
can, and some of the stirring political
times in which he participated were in
sterestingly described by his on. There
We're few posts of honor that did not
come to Mr.. Clephane in reward for his
active services in many matters con-
nected with the growth and development
of the capital. Born In Washington, in
1924, he remained a resident Of the capt.
tai until his death. He served as post
the inaugural committee for the second
Inauguration of Lincoln. and was identi-
fed with numerous civic enterprises.
While Mr.. Clephane's account was re-
chronological events in his fathers
public services, President Clark supple
mented the reading of the paper with
a tribute to Mr.: Clephane, under whom
he worked in the office of the collector
of taxes. He declared that Mr.. Gle
phane had introduced economies in the
bookkeeping and other methods of the
office which had resulted in q saving
of thousands of dollars to the District
government.
Tribute to Clara Barton.
Mrs Bacon-Foster,s tribute to Clara
Barton was a comprehensive descrip-
ton of the life and work of the great
humanitarian, which began with her
youth and touched every important
event connected with her long services
in national and international relief
work. Her early school days, expert
ences as a teacher and her miuistra-
lions of mercy in the civil war were re-
counted, was the growing work of
her life, the organization of the Red
Cross
Miss Barton's relief work ID foreign
lands, the immediate and effective as
sistance which she never failed to or
ganize for the victims of disasters in
this country, such as the Johnstown
flood, and her remarkable achievement
in taking the first relief ship to Cuba
after the battle of Santiago. in spite of
her then advanced years, all were
woven into an interesting account that
stamped the paper as one of the most
valuable historical contributions that
has yet been submitted to the society
Mrs. Bacon-Foster told of meeting Miss
Barton when, at the age of seventy-nine
years, she visited Galveston and organ
lied effective relief for the flood suf-
fers there. She read numerous tributes
from statesmen and public men, show
ing Miss Barton III be one of the most
beloved of Americans, not only by her
own countrymen but by the world
PRESIDENT Clark announced that the
society at its next meeting will receive
communication from Justice Job Bar
nard on an early history of the District
OF Columbia Supreme Court