Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-23
.VOTEtESS CAPITAL
/. TO TELL ITS PLIGHT
Election Day to Be Marked
by Dramatic Emphasis on
Districts Status.

Election day, November 8, once again
initiation for the District Of Columbia,s
10000 voteless residents. The Joint
committee on national representation,
decided yesterday upon program de-
signed TO draw the whole Nations at
tention to Washington's voteless plight.
Modern methods of arousing public
interest will be utilized. Over the radio
well known Neutrality-suspicious., men and
women, VIII tell Of the Districts de-
mand for national Representations
vote Tor President and Vice President
and for representation in Congress.
From the sky. airplanes will drop, toy
balloons emblazoned with "Voteless
Washington" slogans.
Make Believe Ballot Boxes.
At strategic points throughout the
Capital Inake-believe ballot boxes.
draped IN mourning colors, will be set
up. During election day decorated
fioat, depicting in allegorical terms the
de- Amer1canized status of District resi-
dents. win tour the streets Automobile
Wlnosnlelos VIII carry Let Washington
Vote for President" stickers. on the
screens Of the Districts movie houses
national representation appeals will be
flashed. Everywhere In the United
States news reels will show to motion
picture audiences the events of election
day in voteless Washington.
Comprehensive plans for carrying out
this elaborate program were adopted
yesterday at a meeting Of the Joint
committee in the rooms Of the Washing
ton Chamber Of Commerce. Among
those who participated were Theodore
W. Noyes, chairman; z. F. Colladay.
Judge Mary O'Toole, Washington Top
nam, Oden 8. Smith, z. C. Branden-
burg, Frederic William Vile, Mrs. Henry
Grafton Doyle. Mr.: and Mrs. George A.
Kicker. Evan H. Tucker. ivan C. Weld
M. q. Douglas, Mrs. Marie Moore For
rest, John Clagett Proctor, Mrs. z. L.
Johnston, Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey.
Walter A. Brown, Mrs. Louis Gutenberg.
Mrs. T. F. Stiles and Mrs. William e.
Chamberlin.
Funds Voted for Purpose.
- The meeting appropriated funds to
enact IN Washington on election day a
series OF scenes that should bring graph
lcally home to the minds Of the whole
country that the District Of Columbia
Is unustly denied national suffrage.
speakers joined In expression Of the
belief that November 8 is an ideal oc-
casion for the purpose.
Inc Voteless League of Women
voters, branch Of the National League
OF Women Voters, announced through
MRS. Johnston that It purposes repeat.
ing the unique demonstration Il staged
on election day, 1924. The league viii
set up pseudo ballot boxes all through
draped In MOURNING purple
ana IN charge Of disfranchised woman
voters wearing emblematic identihca-
ton garb. One Of the boxes win again
be stationed Just outside the White
House grounds.
During election day airplanes from
washington airports will cruise above
will drop from the skies toy balloons
bearing "Voteless Washington" slogans.
The committee In charge plans 9 series
OF prizes TO be given TO persons who
retrieve the balloons and reach an APP
pointed headquarters with the earliest
ones picked up.
Float to Tour City.
While airplanes are depositing ma
tional representation reminders on the
Capital, the float vii be sent through
the streets. It will call attention to
the fact that, while 35,000,00O other
americans that day are choosing the
next President Of the United States
Washineton's 100000 residents remain
voiceless and votelesS.
On the screens Of motion picture
theaters during the two weeks between
now and election day slogans will be
regularly shown, telling Neutrality-suspicious.
IN terse terms of their humiliating po-
litical status. -
The national representation advocates
are not waiting until the day OF hui
initiation" to tell the world Of WASH
tngton's suffrage disability. The radio
Is to be extensively used In the mean.
time for that purpose. The opening
broadcasting gun viii be fred Thursday
when Theodore w. Noyes, chairman Of
the joint committee on national repre-
sentation, will be on the air over Sta
ton WRC from Z to tao o'clock with
an address on "Our Day Of Humilia-
ton" On the same evening, over Sta
ton WMAL, $40 to e:45, Paul Lesh
viii speak on National Representation
and Election Day"
Other Speeches Planned.
On successive later dates, to be an
nounced, f1ve-minute speakers win be
heard over both local radio stations,
Mrs. George A. Kicker, Mrs. Henry
]. Colladay, II. H. Classic and e. c.
Arthur d. Condor, room 1913, Bond
5uuding, Is in general charge Of cleo
ion day arrangements for the national
committee. Names of
volunteer helpers should be sent to him.
VT. Condor Is hopeful that automobile
lsers viii be willing to afflx "Voteless
Washington" stickers to their wind
ihields, and they will be supplied at his
,f1ce. -
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