Evening star., 1925-04-19
!. D. c. CONVENTION
BUREAU FORMED
c. E. lie Vigne to Direct Work
to Bring Meetings
. to Capital.

The Washington Convention Bureau
representing the Washington Board
/ of Trade, the Washington Chamber
{ of Commerce, the Merchants and
} Manufacturers Association and the
Hotel Mems Association was organ
4 lied yesterday, and f. c. La Vigne, a
< Washingtonian for the past "a years,
6 was selected as director, it was an
nounced at the general meeting of the
/ Board of Trade at the New Willard
! Hotel last night.
Z After several weeks discussion be-
! tween representatives of the four
( organizations as to the advisability
of such a bureau an agreement was
! Preached and the bureau soon Will
( begin to function.
Officers Are Elected.
: The following officers were elected:
z Arthur Carr, secretary Of the Wash
.ington Board of Trade and organizer
; of the movement for the bureau,
z chairman; r. P. Andrews, president
I; of the Merchants and Manufacturers
: Association, vice chairman; Lawrence
4 Mills. president of the Hotel Mems
: Association, secretary, and c. j.
I Gockeler, treasurer.
4 The directors of the bureau are:
Z Arthur Carr and c. j. Gockeler, repre-
(. senting the Washington Board of
Trade; Col. r. n. Harper and Martin
!! A. Leese, representing the Washing
( ton Chamber of Commerce; K. r.
2 Andrews and C. ]. Columbus, repre-
SSenting the Merchants and Manufac-
! EarerS' Association, and Lawrence
Mills and Frank S. Hight, represent
Z ing the Hotel Mems Association.
: E The directors will meet within
few days to outline plans necessary
: TO get the bureau in working order.
: The meeting was held at the Wash
ington Auditorium, which will be the
Z Headquarters of the bureau. 1t Is
planned to- spend about $4,000 this
I year and increase this amount as the
work of the organization expands. "A
I 3Eonyention Day!"wia be the slogan
of the newly created bureau.
~ Representative Free Speaks.
Z A speech against the admittance of
4 Aapanese and undesirable immigrants
10 settle in this country was made by
Representative Free of California.
Z who addressed the board on the new
immigration bill.
After outlining the progress of i'm
Z migration laws from the first one
passed in 1873, which excluded the
Z Chinese, and explaining that every
President from Hayes to Harding had
tentative Free explained why the CEN
sus of 1890 was chosen, as the basis
for the present percentage scheme Of
Z Immigration.
3 Declaring that the time would come
: when the world would be controlled
4 by the colored races and that they
fwere increasing twice as fast as the
white races and already outnumbered
the whites two to one, Representative
+. Free dwelt on the necessity of re-
( tstricting the Japanese immigration.
Reports on New Conduit.
!. A report on the new water supply
was made by Francis r. Weller,
chairman of the water supply COM
mittee. He said the new system
would be completed in June, 1927, and
3that not only Washington, but the
9outlying sections would get properly
filtered water at a nominal cost.
Z He urged that the Brightwood
3be used as a stadium into which it
tcould EARLY be converted.
z d. A. Edwards read the report of the
. .AmericaniZation committee of which
: A. J. DriscoI is chairman. This re-
+, port showed that there are 10000
aliens in the District, $4,000 of whom
yare not naturaliZed.
; w. w. ROSS, told the members that
3the tickets for the annual shad bake,
(which is to be held on May % at Guam
ttico, were selling fast. He explained
that the dinner would be held in one
:of the large hangers and that in case
>of rain indoor entertainment had been
provided.
s Mrs. w. L. Swormstedt of the Amer
cican Association of University Women,
addressed the meeting and urged the
members of the board to support the
association in it's efforts to pay-off
Indebtedness on it's headquarters. 1t
: has $4,000 to raise, she explained
I Brief summaries were made by C. c..
4 fColdren Of the parks and reservations
Z committee, DR.. Percy Hickling of the
I public health committee and David NJ.
Lea of the insurance committee. The
Z Columbia Quartet supplied the enter
.tainment. Harry A. Cunningham, vice
president of the board presided A
Z buffet supper was served following
the business meeting.