Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-11-11
KAL0RAMA CITIZENS
TAKE IN HARD|NGS
Choose President-EIect and
Wife for Honorary Member
ship in Association.

| President-elect and Mrs. Warren G.
| Harding were elected to honorary men,
bership in the Kalorama Citizens Asso-
| citation at a meeting of the organiza-
ton held last night at the Highlands.
| Senator and Mrs. Harding live within
the jurisdiction of the association, and
| 1t was unanimously agreed by the
members that even If the two are to
move to 10th street and PENNSYLVANIA
avenue on March the association de-
/ sires to retain their names on its rolls.
| The association adopted resolutions
! requesting Congress to make liberal ap-
| preparations to relieve the school con-
! jestion here. More school buildings for
the District was favored
w. H. Haycock, assistant city post
master. told the association of the OPEN
ing of two postal stations within the
neighborhood next month. The Office
last year. Mr.. Haycock said, handled
225. 900, 600 letters and postal cards. He
urged the citizens to mail early for
Christmas"
Lee Lamar Robinson and others called
attention TO the lack of lights at Sheri
dan Circle. In a discussion of the rents
situation here. James W. Murphy de-
clared that cit would he bold and
brave man who would deny that there
has been outrageous profiteering in this
District
Mrs. Anna f. Hendley founder and
pItSiutHt Vi tHe [ANiHOliN ledSue- maze
a stirring appeal for a twentieth amend
ment to the Constitution TO grant the
people of the District the right to vote
for President.
.. Mrs. Hendley said:
, "All over the United States there
was great excitement and general re-
joicing because of the great event
which took place November 2-name
ly. casting the vote for the President
of the United States-the first time
which this privilege was exercised by
thousands and tens of thousands of
women. Amidst this general rejoic-
| ing the half million approximately
citizens of the District of Columbia
seem to have been forgotten. There
is no rejoicing for them. They are
still waiting for the bright light of
the new day of freedom to dawn.
They are still living in darkness and
praying for the march of progress 10
come their way, still hoping that the
time may come when they will no
longer be classed with the criminal.
insane, pauper and other disfran-
chised folk. When they read in nu-
merouS magazines and newspapers of
the wonder of the new electorate and
its beneficent influence they resign
themselves with sigh to the condi-
ton of one who has been forgotten in
the midst of feast.
To many good citizens of this
great republic this seems proper. not
having thought out the principle of
the situation. not realizing that this
government cannot exist half slave
and half free II it cannot exist
when the proportion is half and half.
is it not reasonable to think that it
cannot become the perfect type so
long as any part of the citizens are
not free? That the people of the Dis
trict of Columbia should rest under
the present condition is to think that
they are lacking in loyalty, leader
ship and intelligence
But when we remember that no
group of people in any part of the
United States worked more faithfully
and courageously for woman suffrage
than did the group of earnest men
and women in this same District, we
dare not stigmatize them by such
suspicion. The nineteenth has been
ratified; the fruits of the victory will
be seen in the present election; the
whole world is full of the joy of
achievement. Is it too much for us.
the forgotten ones. to hope that by
means of twentieth amendment, rat
flied before 1924 we may also have
vote for the next President of
the United States? In the name of
the two great emancipators of the
American citizenship. Abraham Lin
coin and Susan B. Anthony. we APP
peal to the free citizens of the whole
nation that our hope may be full
filed