Evening star., 1923-01-19
VOTELESS DELEGATES FOR D. G..
OPPOSED BY BOARD OF TRADE
Proposal Called Step Backward and APP
proval Is Given Resolution for Voice in
Both Houses and Electoral College.

president of the university. and Theo-
dore Roosevelt. assistant secretary
OF the Navy. addressed the board on
this subject.
DIR. Durkee presented statistics re-
garding the students at the college
and of the shortage of colored doctors
in the United States, while Mr..
Roosevelt said that Howard Univer
sity should be supported in the in
terest of our children"
The following resolution was adopt
ed by the board:
Howard University is an institu-
ton for the higher education OF col
ored youth, of recognized standing
among colleges and universities gem
orally. Its school of medicine is the
only class A medical school in the
United States specializing in the
training of colored physicians. dem
tlStS and pharmacists. The general
education board of New York city has
offered $250.000 for the needed en-
dowment for the extension and de-
Nelopment Of the work Of this school
on condition that the authorities Of
the university secure like amount
by July /, 1923.
The Washington Board of Trade
cordially lndorSes the movement 70
secure Increased endowment as a
worth while effort to advance the To-
cal and national usefulness of an in
stItuuon Of recognized merit"
IndOrse Garfield Drive.
\ resolution introduced by Rober
-. W Nhlietord, indorSing the drive for
$ote.OO0 now being made for Garfield
hospital, was unanimously adopted
The resolution reads:
1T has been brought to the atten-
t!on of the people of the District
that he supply of hospital beds and
rooms are far below the lowest nor
NAL standard OF safety. and insult
hclent 10 meet the ordinary demands
Of disqualification
Garfield Memorial Hospital, an in
stItutlon that for forty years has
efIclently served the people of the
District. through campaign now in
progress, is raising through sub
scrlptions the sum of 100000 to con-
Struct building to hospitalize sew
enty-eight patients and a nurses
home to care for 100 nurses
1t appears that both Of these pro-
posed structures are absolutely nee
eSsary for the safeguarding of the
IuoIlc health and the protection; of
the people of the city and their
guests.
The Washington Board of Trade in
all RESPECTS indorseS and approves
SAID campaign and urges the people
OF Washington to support the move
ment."
Characterizing industrial strikes as
a menace to the development and
welfare of the United States and in
S1stIng that it is within the power of
the government to pass laws to pre-
vent strikes, Merton L. Lewis for
mer attorney general of New York,
IN an interesting and comprehensive
address suggested remedial meas
ures to curb this growing evil
PreventabIe by Law.
interference to interstate COM
merce by strikes have generally here
tofore been regarded as non-prevent-
able" said Mr.. Lewis. I'VE have felt
and perhaps many of us still feel
that liberty of individual action is
of the highest Importance and that
such liberty must be maintained re-
gardless of consequence. The time is
coming, and if am not greatly mis-
taken is near at hand, when liberty
of individual action will to a con-
siderable extend be necessarily sur
rendered by those who enter into
the employment of corporations. rail-
roads and other public service cor
porations.
You have seen from the quotations
from the opinions of judges of the
Supreme Court that the power does
exist, that Congress can enact laws
which will operate to prevent inter-
ruption of interstate commerce.
Such a law should provide that
any person entering the employ
of a public service corporation or of
any corporation charged with pub
lie intrest should be required by law
to sign a written contract; that such
contract should specifically provide
that under no circumstance should a
strike take place.
"A just and fair agreement between