Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-25
M|D-C|TY CIVIC BODY
DECIDES. TO BUILD

Seeks Site to Erect Per-
manent Home; 80 New
Members Are Elected.
SURPRISING in interest even the fact
that the membership committee Of the
association gathered in ninety men,
bers in the first three days of the
membership drive was the announce
ment, put in the form Of a motion
which was approved last night at a
meeting of the Mid-City Citizens AS
ISOLATION. that the association Is now
casting about for q suitable place on
which to erect a permanent home for
itself.
Is First Move Of the Kind.
For the first time in organized
citizenship in Washington there Is on
foot a movement by q citizens asso.
citation to build for itself a permanent
home. AS set forth in the original
| motion following an outline Of plans
by A. ]. Driscoll, president of the as
ISOLATION, present plans call for &C
QUESTION of site within a few blocks
of the present meeting place OF the
association at 1909 7th street. 1t was
proposed in the motion that one en-
tire floor of the new building would
be an auditorium for the meeting
place of the association and that the
lower floors could be rented to busi-
ness men and the building made to
pay for itself in this way. In the
meantime, President Driscoll pointed
out, there must be some provision
made for q larger meeting place for
| the association than the present
quarters in order to house the rapidly
| growing membership.
Ninety New Members Elected.
William J. Thorn. chairman Of the
! membership committee of the associa-
| ton, representing the association on the
combined committee for the Federation
| of Citizens Associations, reported to
| the association for his committee the
acquisition Of ninety new members, all
1 of whom were elected. Mr.. Thorn, in
| an address urging cooperation Of the
members of his committee to secure
! new members, said the association has
| made a pledge to the federation to Sc
| cure 1,500 new members during the ten
| days of the drive. You must work
and work hard" he said, Elm order to
| put this drive across. The Mid-City
| Citizens Association has never failed
in any undertaking and 1t is not going
| to fail now. We must and shall get
| 1900 new members and make our asso-
citation the most vigorous body in WASH
| ington. Those men up on Capitol Hill
| are impressed by numbers and when
| they see that downtown association,
numbering on its rolls a great many
of the business men Of the city, wants
| something they are going to think twice
before refusing it." Others who spoke
i tr, Of h ,nv1t II
seph Berberich, president Of the Mer-
chants and Manufacturers Association
| Howard Moran, John r. Galloway, Will
liam Henderson, NJ B. Sullivan and A.
c. Gill.
| New Team Arrangements.
On motion OF NJ B. Sullivan, vice
chairman of the committee in charge
| Of the membership drive, a new list oI
! forty members of the committee was
! divided into teams, each to be in
! charge of a captain from the original
| ten members of the committee. These
captains are: w. ]. Thorne, M. T.
Pines. NJ. P. Sullivan, D. E. Barry. ].
A. Murray, Roger o. Hanlon, NJ. Nc
Burt H. Nevius. Charles Pitt. A. H.
Plugge, S. E. Adler, John Schaefer, D.
Berbazzin and Arnold Hersch.
Each team will be assigned to a
certain territory within the bound
aries of the association to cover and
bring in the 1900 members pledged.
Profteering Discussed.
Profteering in the District of Co.
! lumbia was brought up in the meet
ing by President Driscoll in a talk
concerning the aims Of the member
ship drive. Mr.. Driscoll said he had
recently been talking with Maj. Dom
ovan, secretary to the board of Com
missioners, concerning the convention
of the American Legion at Minneapo-
lis. Washington lost the permanent
headquarters Of the association, he
said Maj. Donovan told him, solely be-
cause it had gained the reputation of
being city where profiteering is
there is any extensive profiteering in
Washington, but admitted that there
might be several isolated cases. One
member said he knew there was prof.
teering in the automobile repair shops
and that he saved money by driving
MS car to Frederick. Nd. for repairs.
Standing Committees Announced.
The chair announced the personnel
ISOLATION for the year as follows:
Law and legislative-Charles s.
Shreve. chairman; James L. Toomey.
vice chairman; Mark Stearman, John
D. Howard. Wade H. Cooper, Howard
Moran, g. E. Mcneil, J. Philip Herr
mann. Vincent L. Toomey and Ernest
Thompson.
Standardization B. zeiler, chair
man; william b Richardson, vice
chairman; William Hahn. M. W. Hen
derson, Q. w. Hammond. Harry T.
Ashton, Albert L. Cheney, John 3.
Ge1er, Or. John Van Schaick and
Louis Giclas.
Streets and al1eys-M. Frank Rup-
pert, chairman; John shugrue. vice
chairman; Joseph Berberich, Karl
Rattelmann. Charles T. Butler. Louis
Gtclas. Joseph zogowitz and william
M. Burkhart.
Public health-Dr. ]. D. Mccue.
chairman: DR.. Frank Abbott, DR.. Z. II
Forster, DR.. D. w. Prentiss, DR.. Fred
Repetti, DR.. A. T. Bronaugh, DR.. G. H.
Rush. Dr.. j. r. Simpson, DR.. H. L.
King and DR.. w. T. Kerfoot.
s. sergeon. A: B. McCloskey. Henry J.
Auth. S. G. Taylor, w. J. Freund, II.
c. Althoff, George H. Amerein, A. Mar
Gus, Harry Kaufman and H. T.
Wheeler.
The special membership committee
appointed is as follows: D. E. Barry,
James A. Murray, Roger O'Hanlon, r.
A. Hudson, p. B. Myers. Max Cohn, Bert
Nevius. A II. Plugge. S. E. Adler, John
S Schaefer, D. Bergazzini. James E.
CNeil. Thomas E. Petty. George Urci-
olo. George w. Huguley, J. D. Howard.
A. B. McCloskey, s. @. Taylor, Charles
T. Butler, II. c. Althoff, A. Marcus. 4,
A. Toomey, x L. Toomey, Wade II.
cooper, Ernest Thompson, William II.