Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-08
MR.. MOVES ADDRESS.
President Outlines Aims Of the
Society,"


The annual address of Theodore w
Moves, president of the Association of
Oldest Inhabitants of the District Of
Columbia, delivered at the meeting Of
the association last night follows:
Nothing pertaining to Washington
Is foreign to the Oldest Inhabitant.
But he is primarily interested in the
animate as distinguished from the in
animate city. in the men and women
of the Capital rather than its buildings
and avenues, its parks and monuments.
For himself, he delights in "Reminiscences,
to live again in the past; for his chill
dren and grandchildren his deep con-
Germ is for the future.
The inanimate Washington Is now
in process of wonderful development
The animate city claims for itself and
its welfare lige measure OF enthusiast
tic devotion.
THE Oldest Inhabitants fight to Be-
cure for the men, women and children
of Washington:
81. Political equity, national repre-
sentation. voting representation in Con-
greSS and the ELECTORAL college. When
the power involved in this vital right is
won the campaign for financial equity
and for the satisfaction of every other
wholesome need of the District will be
wonderfully strengthened
20. Financial equity. When a taxing
body has, in violation of American
principle, no representation in it of the
taxed, fair play demands from the alien
tax gathererS special sympathetic con-
Sideration of the wishes and welfare of
the unrcpreSented taxed. When Congress
| In fiscal relations with the District obeys
the injunction put yourself in his
place" and when there is reciprocity
in forbearance. in regard and in good
will between Congress and the people
of the District, financial equity pre-
walls.
-. The Washingtonian needs access
on equal terms with other Americans
to the Federal courts; the same right
to sue in a Federal court as that en-
joyed by the citizen of a State. In this
respect he is now, the United States
Supreme Court has said, on q lower
plane than aliens.
-. The WaShingtonian needs access
for his sons and daughters 70 local
means Of Self-Support, that they may
not be exiled in order to live. The
establishment of light and clean manu-
tactureS, like those of Paris and Vienna,
and the development of local trade,
wholesale and retail. must be encour-
aged. Then repeal or amend, i'll the
interest of the District. the appOrtion-
n;ent of Offices law. SO that the youth
Of Washington, If the most meritoriouS
OF all applicants may have ready ac-
cess to the Government departments
and workshops, which for Washington.
take the place of iron mills in Pitts
burgh and the cotton, wooden and shoe
factories OF many New England cities
Congress, by its policy of discouraglng
commerce and manufactures at the
Capital, excludes all other great fac
tories and workshops than its own, and
then by the apportionment of Offices
law "a relic of the old spoilS system,
distributing offices like bandits plumber
among the States in proportion to their
Strength) shuts out the growing youth
OF the city from the classified service
and from access to the only local means
OF Self-support of this kind which it
permits to exist. In the Nations city
national workshops are local. Wash
lngton is the only community in the
world where employment of the local
youth in the local workshop, instead of
being encouraged. is prohibited; where
the young man must go abroad in order
to become eligible for employment at
home.
During the World War the apportion-
ment OF offices law was exposed In all
its unbuSineSSlike, hurtful inefficiency.
In order that the National Government
to meet the requirements Of the bust
ness of war-making, the hampering APP
portionment OF offices law was eVaded,
ignored or suspended. Under q true
merit system the Government should
be able to use to do the Nations work,
whether In war or peace, the best
fitted OF American applicants, ire
spective OF the State or territory or sec
ton from which they hail. AS an in
tergal part Of the system of business
efficiency to which the new administra-
ton is sincerely committed, the appor-
tionment of Offices law should be re-
pealed as unsound in principle and
hurtful in practice.
IS. The Washingtonian needs relief
from defamation against which he is
helpless If it comes from the immune
zone on Capitol HILL He neds con-
tinued and ungrudging recognition by