The Washington times., 1923-06-11
CH|LLUM FOLKS
IMPROVING
DISTRICT
Citizens Association Has Rec
ord for Real Betterlnent
Accomplishment.
By GEORGE FRANKLIN.

DY r 1GEAKNA1A1Ns Il
Organized in 1894, when the Sec
ton it represents was little more
than a wilderness, the Chillum
Heights Citizens Association offers
a record of accomplishments unique
among those OF similar organiza-
tons in the district.
Lighted in those days by naphtha
lamps, with police from distant pre-
cinct stations, without sewerage
service, it's highways unimproved,
Soldiers Home for the education of
the children of that section, the or
ganiZation faced a situation full of
opportunities for improvement.
To Enlarge School.
Conditions in the section today
show conclusiveIy how efficiently it
dealt with situation before which
many an organization, less deter.
mined to succeed, would have with
drawn. Several streets have been
cut through with connecting high
ways. They have been or are being
improved. Sewers have been laid,
police patrol boxes placed, electric
lights have taken the place of the
oil lamps on street corners, the
WOODBURY. School has supplanted
the institution maintained at the
Soldiers Home, and the association
is now backing a proposal to en-
large the school by the addition of
four rooms.
One problem still exists to be
solved. Transportation facilities
must be increased. one Of the
plans advocated by the organiza-
ton calls for the extension of the
bus service to include the associa.
ton district. Another favors the
extension of the line of one or the
other of the traction companies to
take in the section. Either i'm
provement will meet with accept
ance by the association, but one or
the other, members declare, must
be secured and without further
delay.
In street improvements secured
through the cooperative activity of
the organization may be mentioned
the opening of Rittenhouse street
the first cross road between Georgia
avenue and Blair road-Concord
avenue, New Hampshire avenue
and Kennedy street. At present
the association is working to Sc
cure the surfacfng of New Hamp-
dVGHAC ~ Liz I1kA6tSlH Quar-
Home and the District Line, the
opening and improving OF Quacken.
bos street, east of Blair road and
the surfacing of Concord avenue.
School Modernized.
Recently, through the urgent in
sistence Of the organization the
Woodbury. School was moderniZed,
sewerage SYSTEM being put in
and running water provided.
Included among the sewer de-
velopments advocated by the asso-
citation is a project to meet the
requirements at the Masonic Home
Appointment Of Washington resi-
dents to District offices is endorsed
by the association. 1t also takes
stand favoring the development
Of any improvements affecting the
city generally. Following out this
policy it is ever ready to cooperate
with other District citizens associa-
tons interested in securing I'M
provements in other sections Of the
city.
Through organized neighborhoods
cooperating together public opinion
expresses itself most effectively"
said one of the members today.
so we stand ready to back up
citizens associations in the District.
We are properly represented in the
federation and join in advancing
whatever 1t endorses. believe the
association as a body favors Dis
trict suffrage"
President Is Veteran.
1t is interesting to note that the
president of the association, Charles
A. Langley, has served in that
office for the past Twenty-Five
years, having been first elected vice
president at the time of it's or
ganization. While in the latter
office he was called upon to dis.
charge the duties of president when
Thomas Morgan, the first presi-
dent Of the association, was forced
by i'll health to cease active par
ticipation in it's activities. This is
believed by association members to
be the longest record in office Of
any citizens association president in
the district.
The association holds it's meeting
monthly in the WOODBURY. school
The officers are: Charles A. Lang
ley, president; Mrs. Finis d. Morris
vice president; Thomas w. Joy, sec
rotary; FINS d. Morris, treasurer.
Delegates to the Federation of Citi-
zens Associations are J. b. Hopkins
and H. T. Overman