Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-05
FEDERATION WORK
TOLD IN Review
Havenner Expresses Con-
fidence in Future of District
Citizens Associations.

tional representation for the District,
and opposition to the 1929 street car
merger plan and the proposal to in
crease fares were the principal matters
on which the Federation of Citizens
Associations directed its attention dur
ing 1929, according to the annual re-
Eort of its president, DR.. George c..
Havenner.
In looking to the future, DR.. Haven
ner expressed entire confidence. THE
federation today" Or. Havenner said,
"enjoys high prestige. Each passing
year sees this prestige strengthened
Its spokesman are welcomed IN the
halls of Congress and at the District
Building. City-wide movements, such
as the Community Chest Drive lean
upon it for support. A great past is
behind Us, a greater future ahead Of us.
Recalling that the Federation was or
ganized in 1910, he said Its policy
always has been to work for only tn Sc
things that look to the making of Cur
city a better place in which to live and
in which to instill into our citizenry
that loyalty and love of service to the
city that every one living within its
borders should bear
Activities Are Listed.
During the past year." he continued,
''the federation has actively participated
In all matters of vital Importance to
the residents of our city, acting always,
we believe, in their interests such as
opposition to a proposed street car
merger that did not fully safeguard the
interests of the users of our transport
tation system; opposition to the pro-
posed increase in street car fares; adop-
ton of resolutions urging proper main
nf
school and public library systems; OPP
position to certain changes in the zon-
ing regulations; aiding to secure an
authorization from the Congress for the
construction of two high-temperatur
incineratorS for the destruction of re-
fuse; participation In matters pertain
ing to the fiscal relations existing be-
tween the Federal Government and the
government of the District of Column
bia; indorsing the proposal for an cleo
tive school board attempting to obtain
suffrage for the citizens Of the District
of Columbia; participating in the dis
cusSionS relative to traf1c regulation,
and urging extension to our water and
sewerage systems and to our street
paving and lighting programs Many
other questions of city-wide Importance
were considered by it during the past
year.
AT the November, 1928, meeting the
president was authorized to appoint a
special committee to study the work
OF the federation and to submit report
thereon with such recommendations as
it deemed advisable to improve the bust
ness methods and practices Of the
federation.
This committee submitted its report
at the January 5, 1929, meeting. The
committee recommended amendments
committee and authorizing the presi-
dent to appoint corresponding secre-
tary. Both of these amendments have
been adopted and they have facilitated
and improved the work of the fedora
ton.
New Organizations Admitted.
six new organizations were admitted
to membership in the federation during
the mast wear. namely, the FoxhaH VII
laRe Association in December, 1928; the
District of Columbia Medical Society
in May, 1929; the Citizens Forum OF
Columbia Heights in June, 1929, ana
Forest Hills, Burroughs and Columbia
PARK Associations in october, 1929. The
total membership of these organizations
at the time of their admission 10 the
federation was approximately l.4Oo.
During the past year the federatlon
Cramton of Michigan on the bill pro-
viding for the George Washington
Memorial Parkway from Mount Yer
non and Fort Washington to Great
Falls: by w. II. Harland, director OF
trafnc, on the rotary left-hand turn,
and by Elwood Street on the Com
munity Chest.
AT the May, 1929, meeting OF the
federation the following persons were
M citizens
yisory council: DR.. z. z. Richardson,
Thomas E. Lodge, Charles 1. Stengle,
r. Tracy Campbell, A. F.. E Scheer and
Hugh NJ. Frampton.
Representation was had by the fed
Grafton on the Hoover-CurtlS inaugu-
raj committee, on the committee APP
pointed to make arrangements Tor the
Fourth of July community celebration,
in the work of the Community Chest,
on the citizens joint committee on
national representation and on num-
Der of other committees having TO do
with city-wide activities or celebra-
tons"
Supplementing his report of the fed
eration's activities last year by an ac-
count Of some of the campaigns in
augurated in previous years and stead
lily pressed forward last year, DR..
Havenner said:
FavOrs National Representation.
THE federation also reiterated its in
dorsement In favor of national repre-
sentation for the citizens of the Dis
trict of Columbia, and its president, on
April Is, 1929, delivered talk over
station WRC urging an amendment to
the Constitution in order to permit
citizens of the Capital to vote for the
electors for President and Vice Presi-
dent Of the United States and for vot-
ing representation in the Congress OF
the United States.
THE federation has annually urged
increased appropriations for our public
schools. 1t has urged completion OF our
first five-year school-building program
and the authorization of a second five
year school-building program in order
that all portable school buildings may
be abandoned and our school children
furnished with the best In school facili-
ties.
THE federation has repeatedly urged
appropriations for branch libraries for
various sections of our city, and will
continue to urge appropriations for this
service until every section of the city
has its branch library. The federation
favored establishment of a teachers
college in order that a great number of
our young women would be eligible for
appointment as teachers in our public
sEN1ols.
N has favored increased appropria-
ttonsAfor park extensions and has urged
the beilding of fort drive to connec,
all Of our Civil War forts. The fedora
tson and nearly all of its member
bodies urged the enactment into Law
II the Cramton bill establishing tn,
George Washington memorial parkway
along the Potomac River to Grea
Falls, and the advancing of funds
without interest, from the Fedora
Treasury to the National Capital Parl
and Planning Commission for the &C
nuisition of land in the District o