Evening star., 1921-12-13
TELLS HOW BOARDS
Of TRADE DIFFER
Economic Adviser of British
Government Addresses
Local Body.

lard Hotel
Sir Hubert outlined to the Washing
ton business men the activities of the
London Board of Trade. He said that
the British and Washington bodies were
alike in name only and characterized
the British body as Trade without the
Board and the Washington body as
Board without the Trade"
London Body an Old One.
In explanation Sir Hubert said that
the London Board of Trade was founded
in the time Of Oliver Cromwell; aad
fourished for a time. died out grad
ually; had been revived in the time of
King William; suffered another setback
in the revolutionary war; had been
started again and at the time of the
world war had been an active body
dealing with the railroads. labor. COM
merce, and many other industrial mat
ters. Sir Hubert pointed out that the
British body was always government
body, and compared ii to the Denart
ment of Commerce in this country. He
said that there were no board meetings
and that it did not function as board
so that therefore he called it trade with
out the board.
The local body, he asserted, was in
terested in civic development, so that
it was certainly a board without the
trade. He complimented the Wash
Ington organization on it's president,
accomplished.
Brnndenburg's Report.
Mr.. Bradenburg. formerly president
Of the board, and an uutiring worker
for national representation for Wash
ington. made an interesting report on
the progress of the hearings before
the Senate District committee on ma
tional representation for the District.
There is an apparent misunderstand-
n P~a do no
three bills before Congress for suffrage
for Washington. They are the PoindeX-
ter, Capper and Jones measures. One
provides for non-voting delegate to
Congress from the District. This the
Board of Trade has refused to ap-
prove. Anothe.' is designed SO that
the District people can elect their
own public officials. We don't want
that, either. The other is for full
national representation for the Dis
trict, with the right to vote in the
election of President and Vice Presi-
dent, representatives in both houses
of Congress and the right to sue and
be sued in the federal courts.
The Jones resolution provides for
these things. 1t is in the form of a
constitutional amendment.
II think that the members of the
board will be very much pleased to hear
that in a conversation with Senator
Ball. chairman Of the District COM
mittee, he expressed himself in favor
of q constitutional amendment provid-
ing for votes for District people in the
election Of President and Vice Presi-
dent: that he will advocate no bill which
provides for change in the local form
of government, and that on the Ques-
tion of Washington representatives in
Congress he has not made up his mind.
Statistics Repeated.
Now every Washington business man
has heard these statistics which l am
going to give, but they will bear re-
peating, because they show Just why
Washington wants. and should have. full
national representation In both houses
of Congress and in the electoral college.
I'm the 1910 census the population Of
the District Of Columbia was $4,000.
This figure exceeded in number the
population Of Nevada, Wyoming. Della
ware, Arizona, Idaho and New Mexico.
Therefore. even in 1910, the popula ton
of the District of Columbia exceeded six
other states in the Union.
''In 1920 the census showed that the
population of the District was 437, 900,
and the state Of Vermont was added to
the list Of states that had less popula-
tion than the District; That makes
ally. is within 5000 population of New
Hampshire and Utah.
''Now let's take up the question of
taxes. 1t is a mistaken impression
that Washingtonians live in a beauti-
full place where there are no taxes to
pay. Far from it. While we do not
have the varied taxes Of states, we
have flat tax which is greater than
that paid by the citizens of many
states. In the year ending 1916 the
Columbia aggregated S1.506.0o great
er than that paid by twenty-one
states of the Union.
Tn 1917 we paid s2,66s,o0 greater
than any one of nineteen states. These
are just some of the reasons why we
are entitled to representation.
Let's take up the contribution Of
troops in the world war. The number
Of volunteers in the District was 1914,
greater in number than eight states.
$500 men. making a total Of 1895.
And now let me tell you an astonish-
Ing thing. The District of Columbia
had a greater proportion Of volun-
teers to the total number sent to war
than any other state in the Union,
with the exception of four.
And now here is one more thing
that shows our fitness to have repre-
sentation here: In the first liberty
loan the District quota was $10,0O0,-
900; we subscribed $19.261 900. For
the second loan our quota was $780,
100000: we subscribed $22. 600, 900. The
third 'can H"r quota was $12,87O, 900;
We subscribed greater
tnan As,s one Of eighteen states. In
the fourth loan our quota was ST.
GOs.00O. and we subscribed s51, ,262, 400,
The per canita substitution Of the
District resident in this loan was
only averaged ss7.
few Of the reasons
why the business men Of Washington
want full national representation for
the District of Columbia. We are en-
titled to 1t and should get it."
Three annual committee reports
ch"i-nnrr They were: Public order.
odell s. Smith, chairman: rivers and
harbors. Frank P. Leetch, chairman,
and parks and reservations, Fred G.
Coidren, chairman. The reports were
adopted unanimously by the board.
Eleven Recommendations.
Eleven recommendations were made
by the public order committee. They
are:
"one hundred and fifty additional
men Immediately to adequately police
the city and perfect separate and
distinct traffic squad. with an in
1,400 men in its traffic squad"
have ten.
More money - increased salaries
for our men, to meet the loss Of the
bonus. which is sure to be discon-
tinued in the very near future, and
to put the men on the same basis as
the men Of the departments OF our
size ard character.
"A clothing allowance for men. at
Iea st OF the first year, so that in
order to join the force each man viii
not be compelled to make an outlay
of from $50 to $75-thereby making It
somewhat easier to obtain men.
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