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

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 a meet
ing Yesterday afternoon OF the organl-
zafion'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
of residents of Washington to vote Tor
President since it was organized. about
10 wears ago. 1t is now proposed 70
ioin with the Citizens Joint Commit
tee in pushing the movement with re-
newed earnestneSS.
The committee which met yesterday
consists of Mr.. Suter, chairman; WASH
ington Topham, Theodore W; Noyes,
irwin L. Rose and Lew P. Mohler. III
will report its recommendations to
meeting of the society Friday evening
at 3 O'clock at the washington Club,
Seventeenth and K streets.
MIR. Emory's Letter.
A letter to the committee from Fred
A Emorv. president of the Society OF
Natives. was read by Mr.. Suter at yes
terday's meeting. Mr.. Emory wrote:
"As your committee on national rep
resentation is organizing today to m
itiate its activities in behalf OF the So
ciety of Natives in the great FORWARD
movement for Washington, let me. aS
president of the society, express appre-
citation of your years OF spienula t asnU
for the cause and of the great construc-
five achievements of that great CIVIC
leader Theodore w. Noyes, who Is a
11,en1her of the committee. The work
that the Joint Citizens Committee on
National Representation Is donlg,
1,ork st the head of which Mr.. Noyes
has stood in the forefront, as ne mas
in every great civic movement IN tne
district of Columbia, has attracted
widespread interest throughout Ine
country. ,...o. tror,
Mrs Ferdinand w. Jaccard OF For.
worth TEX. She has read with interest
what the Citizens Joint COMMITTEE Is
fiohtinr for and she has volunteered
the earnest, wholehearted and enthusi-
astic hope and prediction that sucn
inst cause will meet with the approval
az Congress and the States.
at also have before me the copy OF an
interview forwarded to me from VI
same city, from Mrs. Ida van Aanus
Jarvis. S6-year-old pioneer motner OF
e.itv councilman Van Zandt OF Fort
worth. In this interview Mrs. JARVIS
saws that while her father, Isaac van
Zandt who was in Washington as the
Minister of the Republic OF Texas Wnen
she was born in 1874, and both heI
Parents were living in the Uniteo
states. she is technically q torelgner
because she was born in washington
the Nations Capital.
Mrs, Jarvis holds three responsive
posts in the First Christian Churcn OF
FORT worth. one of them that OF dea-
CONGRESS and she is an active leader In
the Young women's Christian Associa-
ton despite her years. The interview
aupears under the caption Washing
fnr1.Born. and of Texas Parents, lde
van Zandt Jarvis Can't Be President.
Illustrations Typical.
IT cite these two instances as only
tvuical illustrations of far-fiung interest,"
IN the injustice of the present unrepre-
gerted condition of the almost 6O0.OOC
regulation of the District of Columbia
Gas chairman of the Society OF Ma
tives of the District OF Columbia COM
naittee on national representation you
will naturally coordinate with you1
services as vice chairman OF the citizens
toint committee on national representa-
ton for the Distrfce Of Columbia. And
the Natives Society along with your
citizens joint committee, Of whose ex-
ecutive committee am also proud TO be
q 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
other responsible organized citizenship
of the District in the movement for ma
tionai 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 oil
Congress and in public life generally
agree with us in the justice and right,
eousness of the movement for nationa
representation. of the District Of Colum.
nia IN fsnYaoraca