Evening star., 1925-04-12
CITIZENS COUNCIL
+. RACE TO Be CLOSE
More Than Score of AsSo.
Citations Put Candidates
Into Field in Week.

Although only week mas elApSet
since it was decided to create a Cit
liens Advisory Council to confer will
the District Commissioners on all i'm
portant municipal questions, mort
than a score of neighborhood asso
Citations have nominated candidate!
for the first election to be held earl!
in May.
Since the council plan calls for the
election of but eight members, indica
tions are that the initial election viii
be a spirited one.
Jesse c. Suter. president of the
Federation of Citizens Associations
who will be ex-officio chairman of the
council by virtue of his office in the
federation, last night issued re
mtnder to affiliated organizations
that the names of nominees must be
filed by Tuesday in order to be on
the ballots.
Six to Be Named May ..
OF the eight members to be elected
10 the council. six will be chosen by
the Federation of Citizens Associa-
tions at its meeting in the District
Building, Saturday evening, May :
The remaining two members will
DS erected Dy the euSTdllOu VI NINlN
Associations, which represents the
colored neighborhood organizations
The civic federation probably will
hold its election early in May also
Engineer Commissioner Bell has
announced that as soon as the coun-
Gil is organized he will invite it to
consider two important questions
First, how much the commissioners
should ask for in the next municipal
budget. and, secondly, what legisla-
tion the District should seek at the
next session of Congress.
Proposal Explained.
Col. Bell has indicated that it is
not his idea that the council should
go into detailed items of expense in
connection with the budget, but that
they should study the total amounts
required for general classes of i'm
proements.
He plans to furnish the council with
a report showing how much Congress
has appropriated for the next tisca
year for municipal progress. such as
paving, lighting, sewers, schools anC
similar outstanding functions.
The council. he believes, could ther
give the Commissioners its opinion
as to whether the present rate a
which appropriations are being made
permits of satisfactory progress.
The plan for the creation of the
council provides that each associa-
tion affiliated with either the Fedora
tion of Citizens Associations or the
Fedora ton of Civic Associations shall
be entitled to nominate one candidate
for the council.
Election Outlined.
The names of all the candidates
will be placed on a printed ballot and
each federation then will proceed tC
elect its respective quota. At the
meeting of the Federation of Citizens
Associations the six candidates re-
ceiving the highest number of votes
will be declared elected, provided each
shall have received a majority OF
votes cast. At the meeting of the
Federation of Civic Associations the
two candidates polling the highest
number of votes will be elected, pro-
vided they have a majority of the
votes cast. In4both cases additional
ballots will be taken when necessary
to complete the quota.
The term of office on the council
will be for one year.
Many of those who have been nom
mated for posts on the council are
men who have long been active in
city affairs.
dent of the Federation of Citizens
Associations, was nominated by two
associations, the Conduit road body
and the Northwest suburban associa :
ton.
William S. Torbert, a member of
the committee of the federation which
drafted the plan for the formation
of the advisory council, was put for
ward by the Rhode Island avenue as
sociation as its candidate.
Others Prominent.
Among other nominees who are
strongly supported for places on the
council are: w. 1. Swanton of the
Columbia Heights association, Will
liam S. Quinter, the Connecticut Ave.
nue. association; George C. Havener
the Anacostia association; James G.
Yaden, the Petworth association
Proctor L. Dougherty, the Chevy
Chase association; Z. ]. Brennan, the
Michigan Park association; Ernest H
Pullman, president of the Manor Park
association; c. A. Langley of Chillun
Heights association; A. J. Driscoll
president Of the Mid-City association
DR.. G. H. Richardson of the Public
Interest Citizens Association of Easr
Washington; w. II. Lewis, jr., of Gar.
field association; Lemuei Fugett
oOuIISdSI " dSLlIlS ION association
DR.. U. ]. Daniels, Potomac associa,
ton; DR.. A. r. Collins, Southwes
Washington association, and Huvel
l. Brown, Pleasant Plains associa
tion.
Two women probably will b,
named as candidates tomorrow. TIL,
District League of Women Voter
and the Parent-TeaCher Association
both recently taken into federation
membership, may name candidates
from among their numbers.
The Cathedral Heights Associa tioI
meets tomorrow night to name a can
didate.
The kalorama and the Georgetown
associations will meet tomorrow nigh
to name candidates to the council
Only two associations have decidet
not to name candidates. They ar
the Central Association. which op
posed the council plan because i
would not be a representative body
according to members of its execu
tive committee, and the District So
Ciety of Natives, whose president
John Claggett Proctor, said suf1icien
time had not been given to enable tn
body to hold a meeting.