Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-03
WASHINGTON AND INAUGURATION
Radio Address of Theodore Nes Chairman of the Citizens Joint Committee
National Representation Over Station WA March 1929.

If seven the States. 1t exceeds that of eight
and probably nine of the States.
1t paid more in national taxes internal revenue)
in 1927 than IS of the States, more than 10 OF the
States combined.
1t sent more soldiers and sailors to the World War
than seven OF the States.
In percentage relation of voluntary enlistments 10
total nductions into the military service in the World
War it surpassed 43 of the States.
In Potential Voters d. C. Exceeds Nine States.
1t has greater population and resources than any
Territory at the time of its admission as State to the
Union except Oklahoma.
Its population Of voting age lover 20 in 1920 was
305, 255, exceeding that of nine OF the States.
If all the United States classified workers in the
District were subtraced from this number. the popula
ton of voting age would still exceed that of eight
States.
Subtract al of the eoored population Of voting
age and the DStrlcts Whe potenta vote Will exceed
that of States.
Subtract the colored and foreign 81 years
of age and the nativeborn whites of voting in the
District will exceed those in II States.
Is it fair wise to slur mpotent weakIngs
population of voting of nativeborn whites surpass
Rhode Island. North Dakota New Hampshire. Idaho
Vermont and Utah?
In 1920 there were more than 100000 compulsory
largely increased Does not this quarter million
of potential voters constitute factor of political
strength election day?
District Factor of Political Strength
This District quarter-milon exceeds the total votes
actually cast in the presidential election of 1924 in any
one of % States of the Union.
1t exceeds the total vote actually cast in neighbor-
ing Virginia in by the Democrats Republicans and
Progressives combined (223535). Virginia has IL cleo
1t exceeds the combined total by all parties
the 1924 election in Delaware South Carolina Wyom-
ing and Nevada (24S43O. These four States have IL
electoral votes
DO not the Districts Of p9 tsnsth
worthy of consideration by the politicians?
After suffering all reasonable carefully calculated
reductions the potential voters of the District constitute
nor Will ssv with
display of sympathetic helpful consideration instead of
surrngy and contemptuousy imputing to the com
munity incurabe political unftness and to the Nation
impotence to cure this evil
An S Call to Nation Wide Organizations.
The Districts population is not only strong in Itself
and sympathetic Nationwide organizations.
The women Of the Nation, including those OF the
District, who have won the national franchise for
themselves everywhere except in the District, will
permit this exception and this discrimination to
continue to exist The hideous mockery of ~Voeless
League of Woman Voters in the District of Columbia
will not be perpetuated The organizations of
America national and local who are fighting for our
rest until this slurring inconsistency is removed.
The American Federation of Labor which supports
amendment hardly be conceived asserting
forever to the reputation voting Americans of its
strong, intelligent, anti-Communistic membership in
the District
The ex-soldier and patriotic organizations, civilian
associations and clubs of the District with powerful
national Affiliations successfully sending out
o cal to their voting associates to them
from the shameful political isolation of the convict
Those who expect Westinghouse to accept COM
pacenty surring appraisement of the citys popula
ton add insult to injury To the injury of deprivation
Of vital American right and power they add the
insult Of slurring mputation Of unfitness to enjoy
them.
They imagine the District voluntarily accepting
the role of shackled imbecie babbing boastfy of
comfort, even luxury, OF his cramping letters.
Indicting Uncle Sam as Impotent.
Uncle Sam himself does not escape this vitriolic
shower of sanderous imputaton The same sur which
pictures Washingtonians vicious weakngs de-
preciates American sovereignty, embodied in the vot-
ing power. negligible and worthless
1t indcts undesirable the representative Repub-
lcan Government of which have been taught
be periodically proud It pictures Uncle Sam himself
mpotent to cure this evil of unAmericanism at the
heart of the body polite.
Will not every red-blooded American who hears
me tonight respond hepfully and vigorously to the
Districts appeal for political equity?
How long, 0 Americans, must we of WASHINGTON be
compelled to say and to sing.
MY country. It's of thee"
Not land of liberty
For District folks;
Where rights for which the fathers died
Are denied and crucifed
Mockd at as jokes.