Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-10
M|RTH IS KEYNOTE
lat CL0S|NG SESSION
| OF KIWAMS CLUBS
Delegates to Convention At
tend Banquet and Elect
Officers.

Flushed with the success of thei
first annual convention, more thar
700 delegates of the Capital Distric
kiwanis Clubs sang and made merr,
at the dinner given in their honor
by the Washington branch of the
organization at the Washington Hote
last night.
Yesterday was Kiwanis day in the
morning. when representatives from
Baltimore, Nd: Wilmington, Del
Richmond, Norfolk. Portsmouth
Roanoke and Lynchburg, Va, ar.
rived at Union station. until the last
strains Of 1.-THE Star Spangled Banner
had died away at the dinner last
night, members of the organization
had a continuous round of merriment
During luncheon at the hotel Rev
James Shera Montgomery, pastor Of
Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church
made an appeal for all present tc
disregard partisanship. and lend theil
every effort in UNFOLDING the Consti-
tuition and promoting better Amer
icanism, after which Roe Fulkerson
international vice president; j. j
Bober. president of the local Kiwanis
Club and George Selig. international
field representative and song leader
kept the assemblage in roars of laugh
ter.
Immediately following luncheon the
delegates retired to the assembly hal
on the roof of the hotel and were ad-
dressed by William Mather Lewis
chief of the war savings division OF
the Treasury Department.
Mr.. Lewis congratulated the Or
ganization on it's growth in the past
four years and said that acts of good
citizenship were needed more than
anything else in America today.
I'VE are still barbarians," he said
land the great trouble with most OF
US is that we have wrong estimates
of the value of things. We need a
new type of education-an education
that will instill economics in the very
young. and / know of no organization
that is in a better POSITION to pro-
mote this new education than XII
wants."
Clubs Work Outlined.
Alfred G. Goodrich, governor of the
capital district, presided. After satis-
factory reports had been read by the
secretary and treasurer Mr.. Selig out
lined the work being accomplished
throughout the country by kiwanis
He announced that the international
organization now boasts $4,000 mem
bers, with sixty clubs in Canada and
20s in the United States. This, he said
meant that the organization had
After Mr. Goodrich had delivered
his farewell address as governor, in
which he thanked his brother Kiwan-
ians for the cooperation extended
him, the different clubs comprising
the capital district reported their to-
tai membership. which was as fol-
lows; Washington. D. c.. 1856;
mington. 176; Portsmouth, so; Rich
mond, 142; Roanoke, 40, and Norfolk,
1875.
Election of officers of the district
followed, and by unanimous vote J.
D. Hank. lawyer, of Richmond, Va,
was chosen governor; j. ]. Boobar.
Washington business man, first vice
president; W. c. Corey. manufacturer
of Wilmington, second vice president
and John NJ Dimling, merchant OF
Baltimore. treasurer.
One trustee and two delegates from
each club were eligible to vote, and
those representing the different units
of the district" included Eugene G.
Adams. trustee; Franc Shiery and
Maynard c. BurrelI, delegates, Wash
ington: D. w. Sales, trustee; r. NJ.
Strother and J. L. Peasants. dele
gates, Lynchburs;, David Fender.
trustee: Wales Hank and Clifford Ho-
sier, delegates. Norfolk; James A.
Baer. trustee; c. S. McNulty and L.
M. Lane, delegates, Roanoke: Rev. NJ.
IS. Poulson. trustee: F. D. Lawrence
and Sol Fass, delegates, Portsmouth;
John N. Dimling. trustee; Charles N.Y.
erS and Wilmer Back, delegates, Bal
timore; G. Edmund Massie, trustee;
W. Chandler Quinn and ]. d. Hank,
jr., delegates, Richmond: w. c. Corey,
trustee; Guy Ford and w. A. Danen-
hauer. delegates, Wilmington.
The silver cup awarded to the club
sending the largest delegation to the
convention, based on number of men,
bers in parent body and number OF
miles travelled divided by the number
Of delegates present, was won by the
Portsmouth delegation. with fifty-one
members.
On the invitation of Gov. Hank the
convention voted to visit Richmond, Va,
April Q, 1921, and this was followed by
a like invitation from Trustee David
Pender of Norfolk, who extended the
freedom Of that Virginia city to XII
wants in October. 1921, which was also
accepted.
Harry E. Karr, international trustee
of Baltimore, Nd, then invited the
delegates to that city Thursday night
to meet International President Bar
nett. who will be given a reception by
the Baltimore branch at the Emerson
Hotel at $50 pm.
During the afternoon the woman
visitors were shown the sights of the
city in automobiles. under the direc-
ton of T. William Barrett.
Many of the delegates remained in
town over night, and under arrange
ments made by the local kiwanis club
will be entertained today.
The next convention of the organi-
cation will be held at Cleveland. Ohio.