Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-18
WILL URGE NATIVES
TO SUPPORT VOTE
More Active Part in Cam
paign for District Represent
alton to Be Asked.

1 More active participation by the So
ciety of Natives of washington in the
campaign for national representation
for the District will be recommended
TO the society as the result of meet
ING yesterday afternoon Of the organl-
zation's committee on national repre-
sentation, headed by Jesse G. Suter, IN
the rooms of the Board OF Trade In
The Star Building.
The Society of Natives has been on
record in favor of representation for
the District in Congress and the right
al residents OF washington to vote Tor
President since it was organized, ABOUT
10 years ago. 1t is now proposed 10
hin with the Citizens Joint Commit
Ire in pushing the movement with re-
1lewed earnestness.
consists of Mr.. Suter, chairman; wash
fnpton Topham. Theodore w. Noyes,
irwin L, Rose and Lew P. Mohler. IL
will report its recommendations to a
rneetine of the society Friday evening
81 8 o'clock at the washington CIuo'
Seventeenth and K streets.
Mr.. Emory's Letter.
"a letter to the committee from Fred
4 Emory. president of the Society OF
Natives. was read by Mr.. Suter at yes
terday's meeting. Mr.. Emory wrote:
r"As your committee on national rep
rrsentation is organizing today 10 IN
itiate its activities IN oehaI Oh elle %
rietv of Natives in the great forward
rnovement for washington, let me, as
president of the society, express appre-
rsation of your years of splendid ngnt
far the cause and of the great construc-
tive achievements of that great CIVIC
Ieader. Theodore w. Noyes, who Is a
member of the committee. Tne WORK
that the Joint Citizens Commlttee on
National Representation is DONG,
work at the head of which Mr.. MOVES
has stood in the forefront, as ne mas
in every great civic movement IN III ct ttaJ
District OF Columbia, has attracteo
widespread interest throughout the
country. 500 4-a,,
MRS Ferdinand W. Jaccard OF Fort
worth, Tex. She has read With intereSt
what the Citizens Joint COMMITTEE Is
Arhtinr for and she has volunteered
the earnest, wholehearted and entnusl-
astic hope and prediction that sucn q
tlst cause will meet with the approVai
0f Congress and the States.
IT also have before me the copy OF an
interview forwarded to me from the
same city. from Mrs. Ida Van Ianot
Jarvis. 86-year-old pioneer motner o.
City Councilman Van Zandt OF FORT
worth. In this interview Mrs, JARVIS
saws that while her father, Isaac van
zandt, who was in Washington as tne
Minister of the Republic OF Texas wnen
she was born in 1874, ana DON me-; ne
parents were living in the Unlteo
states. she is technically foreigner
because she was born in Washington
the Nations Capital.
1 Mrs. Jarvis holds three responsible
POSTS in the First Christian Churcn Oh
Fort Worth, one of them that OF oea-
congress, and she Is an active leader IN
the Young Women's Christian Assocla-
ton despite her years. The interview
snnears under the caption washing
kon-Born, and of Texas Parents; LA
van Zandt Jarvis Can't Be President.
Illustrations Typical.
at cite these two instances as only
typical illustrations Of far-flung interest
"a the Injustice of the present unrepre-
eented condition of the almost 6O0,O0o
: POPULATION of the District Of Columbia.
"As chairman of the Society OF Ma
kives of the District of Columbia COM
unittee on national representation you
Rill naturally coordinate with your
services as vice chairman of the citizens
foint committee on national representa-
Don for the District Of Columbia. And
The Natives Society along with your
citizens Joint committee, of whose eX-
ecutive committee am also proud to be
a member, joins with the washington
Board of Trade, the Washington Cham
Der of Commerce, the Merchants and
Manufacturers Association, the FEEDER
alton of Citizens Associations and the
ether responsible organized citizenship
Of the District in the movement for pa-
Eonal representation.
MY own personal feeling is that the
main obstacle at present is apathy
rather than of opposition and it is that
which we must overcome, for many of
the Nations leaders in both Houses of
Congress and in public life generally
agree with us in the justice and right
eousness of the movement for national
representation of the District of Colum-
bia in Congress-"