Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-22
DISTRICT NATIVES
SOCIETY TO DEMAND
CAPITAL GET VOTE
Jesse Suter Named Leader
of D. C. Representation
Fight Group.
NINTH ANNUAL DINNER
PLANS ARE LAUNCHED
Organization Will Honor Theodore
w. Noyes as Washington's
Foremost Native.

appointment of a committee to CO.
operate in the movement to secure
national representation for the Distric'
was highlight of the Midwinter con.
Ventlon OF the Society of Natives O.
the district OF Columbia, held las
nlgnG at the Washington Club, Seven
tenth and K streets.
In an address preceding the namine
OF the committee, Jesse G. Suter. vice
chairman Of the Joint Citizens Com
mlttee on National Representation
voiced a strong appeal for votes fol
Ine Dlstrlct. Several other speeche.
were delivered appropriate to the eve
OF WaShingtons birthday.
Voting Right Fundamental.
Both Washington and Lincoln" Mr.
Suter said, stood firmly for the funda-
mental right of the American citizen to
participate in the Government, a right
which has been completely denied the
residents OF the District of Columbia.
Washington led our Continental
Army through years of hardship to
final victory to establish the principle
that all men are created free and equal
that governments derive their lust
powers from the consent of the gov
erned and that there should be no taxa
ton without representation. He, was
deeply moved by the decision to build
a great Capital City which should bear
his name, and he visioned a city that
would rival the capitals of the Old
World. He pictured a great metropolis
having large business interests and
commerce.
There is nothing to indicate, how
ever, that he pictured a community OF
political aliens in the city honored with
his name.
cit is inconceivable, after the hard.
ships Of the Revolution, that he coulc
have pictured a community with q
population equal to or greater than any
one of eight States of the Union anc
yet entirely outside the pale of the
Constitution-National Government.
Lincoln Teaching COntrOverted.
Lincoln once said, 4 am opposed t.
the limitation of the right of Suf-
frage and am in favor of its extension
or enlargement Surely the anomalou:
condition existing in the National Cap
ital does not measure UP to the teach.
ingS of Lincoln, the great emancipator.
President Fred A. Emery, who pre-.
sided at the meeting, appointed the
following committee to represent the
society in the fight to gain the vote fol
the District: Mr.. Suter, chairman;
Washington Topham, Theodore w
Noyes, Irwin l.. Rose and Lewis S
Hohler.
Other speakers in last nights program
were James F. Duhamel, q former mem.
Der of the New York State Legislature
and native Of Washington; MIR. Top.
ham, former vice president of the So
ciety; Mrs. Watson Shelton, who spoke
on Fredericksburg" and Miss Mar
garet E. Forbes, who read an article
The Mother of Wash ngton," prepared
by Miss Ina C.. Emery.
To Honor Theodore w. Noyes.
Plans for the ninth annual dinner
to mark the tenth year of the society, al
which special tribute will be paid II
Theodore w. Noyes, one of its members
as WaShington'S foremost native, were
announced by the president. The dinner
will be at the Raleigh Hotel, on FRIDAY
evening, April IS, at 1880 pm
The dinner executive committee wa.
named as follows: Fred A. Emery
chairman; Judge Gus A. Schuldt
Mrs. Henry Fenno Sawtelle, Ralph
L. Hall, Miss May E. Hungerford, Miss
Emma A. Bright, James F. Duhamel
Frederick G. Umhan, Mrs. Ella G
Robinson, Miss Eta L. Taggert, Mrs
j. c. Kondrup, Mr.. Topham, Miss Mar
garet E. Forbes, Irwin L. Rose, Mrs
Irene Durham, Mrs. Roscoe j. Oatley
Mrs. Watson Shelton, Miss Elizabeth
BereSford. Miss Hungerford is chair.
man Of the committee on tickets; Mr.
Rose, chairman of the committee on
flowers; Miss BereSford, chairman of the
committee on printing; Mrs. Robinson
chairman of the committee on music
The full committee on the dinner, il
was stated, will be announced later
The president announced that all ticket
reservations must be made to Mis-:
Hungerford as promptly as possible.
Auxiliary Captains Named.
A number of prominent members Of
the society were named as captains Of
auxiliary teams for boosting the dinner
Those named were: Mrs. Henry Fennc
Sawtelle, Mrs. j. c. Kondrup, Miss Eta
L. Taggart, Miss May E. Hungerford
Irwin l.. Rose, Mrs. Dorothy Bishop
Mrs. Ida Polkinhorn Battle, Lewis S
Mohler, Mrs. Roscoe j. Oatley, Henry
Joseph Hallam, William H. Groverman
Washington Topham, Miss Margaret
Forbes, Miss Emma A. Bright, Mrs
Irene Durham, Jesse c. Suter, Percy
B. Israel, F. G. Umhau and James F
Duhamel.
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