Evening star., 1925-01-21
SUTER ASKS FIGHT
FOR D. c. SUFFRAGE
Urges KaIorama Citizens to
Get Behind Movement
Vital to City.

Residents Of the District were char
actcrized as victims OF "a lot ot
small-town councilmen," by Jesse =.
Sutcr, president of the Federation OF
Citizens Associations, at meetihS
of the Kalorama Citizens Association
in st. Margaret's Parish HAN Coh
necticut and Florida avenues, last
night The autocratic form of gov
ernment never was and never viii be
a success, he declared, and should
not be practiced at the expense or
Washington. Having no authorized
and qualified spokesman in either
house of Congress to defend the DIS
trict against slanderous remarks
made by unscrupulous members, he
said, the Nations Capital will never
get a square deal on the Hill' until
such time as the legislators see fit to
grant the right of franchise. Mr..
Suter urged the association to get
behind the movement to have turned
over to the District the surplus fund
held in the Treasury to the credit Of
the District.
With a view to lessening traffic
congestion and in other ways i'm
proving the automobile situation in
Washington, the association adopted
resolutions presented by r. w. Bib
bins, engineer and traffic expert,
favoring any traffic bill which would
be continuously effective and meet
the changing conditions. Such meas
ure, it was pointed out, should be a
broad enabling act and not detailed
city ordinance.
Ask Traffic Court.
The resolution provides for need
ed Improvement in judicial functions
by the creation OF traffic court as
proposed in pending bills before Con-
grass, and should provide for ade-
auate man power of police force,
based an adequate and proper stand
ards of efficiency in modern traffic
control. According TO the resolution
there should be esta ablished a com
petent traffic commission with
single paid executive head director,
efficient in engineering training and
expert in traffic control, whose sole
duty would be to conduct traffic sur
veys and solve problems incident
thereto the director to be appointed
by and subject to the authority of
the Commi ssionerS
Judge Milton Strasburger, chair
man Of the committee on schools,
urged the association TO request the
purchase of land adjacent to the Cook
School for playground facilities and
to allow for possible expansion of
this building. Mr. Suter praised the
Board of Education for its five-year
school building program, declaring
that if Congress sees fit to grant all
they have asked for. which is very
much needed, it will have attained
something noteworthy.
Protest was voiced in resolutions
adopted against the establishment of
an additional bathing beach in the
Tidal Basin. The resolutions con-
tanned an alternative proposal that
action on the construction of the
beach be withheld and that the pres
ent bathing beach together with the
one proposed be moved 10 the Eir-
Einia end of the Highway Bridge. An
other alternative suggestion offered.
but not embodied in the resolution,
would provide for number Of muni-
cipal pools to be located on the va
rious Fairgrounds which would be
filled frequently with filtered water.
The association voted to change its
meeting night to the fourth Tuesday
in each month. President George A.
Kicker presided.