Evening star., 1931-12-22
PEOPLE OF y. S. ASKED TO KELP
DISTRICT RESIDENTS GET\VOTE
Theodore w. Noyes Makes Radio Appeal
to Nation for Representation in
Congress and Electoral College. !,

are OBVIOUSLY unreasonable carry the
flgure OF possible potential voters in the
States up to 10000.
If from the total population of vot-
ing age In the States and District the
torelgn-born residents not naturalized
be deducted, ans. If from the District s
population of voting age there be fur
ther subtracted 10000 covering liber-
ally every possible reasonable and some
unreasonable deductions), the resulting
District Of Columbia population OF vot-
ing age (25l ,439) will be only 6,lO2 less
than that Of New Hampshire t257,54l),
only 824 less thin that of Utah 1852,
263), 1880 more than Arizona 1238,-
8l9). 1855 more than Idaho (238. .784)
1924 more than New Mexico OLA
1850, 4800l more than Vermont (2O3,-
438). 109.309 more than Delaware t142,-
1907, l24,309 more than wyoming l27,-
300. and 195,726 more than Nevada
(55,713).
What gross inconsistencies are evi-
dent In present conditions!
Own Citizens Neglected.
by Americanization schools and
otherwise We Americanize the immi-
grant aliens who flock here as to a
haven OF refuge, yet inconsistently neg
lect the Americanization of these half
million residents of an integral part OF
the original United States.
AS Philander johnson aptly puts it:
1.-Two American voters
Met here just by chance
One came from Russia
And one came from France.
With pride in their franchise,
They learned with regret
That a man from Right Here
Isn't naturalized yet
1T was proclaimed that We went into
the Great War to make the whole world
safe for democracy and for the liberia
tion of its peoples. 1t was declared that
we fought for the right Of those who
submit to authority to have a voice in
their own government.
Surely the Washingtonians who went
to war in response to their countrys S
call did not shed their blood or lay
down their lives to secure representative
government for everybody else in all
the world except themselves! Fighting
to make the world safe for democracy
America would not deny and betray the
principles of democracy at home.
If the purpose of the war was to
substitute democracy for autocracy
everywhere. let us make a beginning by
substituting democracy for autocracy in
the National Government of the Ma
tons City.
I'VE did not go to war to establish
representative government in all the
world only to spit upon, mock and cru
city the principle of representative gov
ernment in the Capital Of our great
self governing Republic.
How can the Nation itself escape
unhurt from the consequences of main
tanning the evil and injury working
paradox Of non-representative, un-
American government of the National
Capital territory under exclusive ma
tional control?
Encourages Anti-American Radicalism.
This inconsistency encourages anti
American bolshevism and radicalism
vindicates that slurring appraisement
of the dignity and value Of American
citizenship and of American principles
and ideals in which anti-American boil
shevism and radical Communism are
rooted-the present-day deadly menace
to the fine, strong spirit Of American
nationality
1T disables Uncle Sam in fighting
the unpatriotic indifference or con-
tempt Of which the non voting evil is
symptom. Uncle Sam appeals to the
patriotism OF recreant non-voting
Americans: he denounces and threatens
them. But how can Uncle Sam appeal
to or denounce or threaten with any
effectiveness when he himself at the
seat OF government sets the example of
contemptuous slurring of the basic
principles of representative government?
How can he lash the stay-at-home
potential voter when he himself arbi-
trarily bars from the possibility of par
ticipating in their National Govern
ment community Of half a million
Americans, with more than 300. 900 resi-
dents Of voting age. who constitute one
OF the most intelligent. conservative and
progressive communities In the Repub-
lie, and who are urgently petitioning for
the right, privilege and power of par
ticlpatlng on American principles in
their own National Government?
Should not the Nation insist in its
own vital interest that there shall no
longer exist at the very heart of the
body polite this foul abscess of non
Americanism, with its threat of blood
poisoning?
"A constitutional amendment is now
pending which enables Congress to cure
this evil condition. Will not every red
blooded American who hears me TODAY
petition and demand that this remedy
be quickly applied"