Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-15
NATIVES SOCIETY
TO NAME OFFICERS
Annual Meeting viii Be Held
at Washington Club on
Friday Evening.

The Society OF Natives Of the Dis
trict Of Columbia will elect officers FOL
the ensuing year at-the annual meet
ing at the Washington Club, Seven
teenth and K streets, Friday evening
There also will be a musical program
and refreshments.
The retiring president, Fred A
Emery, who has served two terms, viii
review the activities of the society dur
ing his administration.
The other present officers are: Vice
presidents, Judge Gus A. Schuldt, Mrs
Henry Fenno Sawtelle and Ralph l.
Hall; treasurer, Frederick G.. Umhaui
recording secretary, Miss Emma A
Bright; corresponding secretary, Mrs
Roscoe L. Oatley; historian, James F.
Duhamel: delegates, Miss Eta L. Tag
CART and Mr.. Emery. The chairmen OF
the committees on entertainment and
on membership, Mrs. Ella G. Robinson
and Ralph L. Hall, were appointed by
the president.
VIII Transact Business.
Brief reports will be submitted by
officers and committee chairmen on
the developments during the past year,
and other business will be transacted.
The musical program will be under the
direction of Mrs. Robinson. The pro-
gram will include: Piano solo, Miss
Louise Varnum; soprano solo, Mrs.
Freda Phillips, with Mrs. Robinson as
accompanist; piano solo, Mrs. Fritz
Hauer; violin solo, Mr.. Hauer, with
Mrs. Hauer, accompanist.
At the tea table following the pro-
gram will be Mrs. Watson v. Shelton
and Mrs. Robinson.
During the past two years the So
ciety Of Natives has reaffirmed its posi-
ton in favor of national representation
of the District of Columbia in the two
houses of Congress, joining the or
Guiding the Board of Trade, Chamber
of Commerce, the Federation of Citi-
zens' Associations, Merchants and Man
ufacturers' Association and other civic
organizations.
It also went on record-and so ad-
viSed President Hoover and Attorney
General Mitchell-as believing that
only permanent residents of Washing
ton, permanently identified with its
civic AFFAIRS" ought to receive appoint
ments to the civil commissionerships of
the District or to other administrative
and judicial offices whose jurisdiction Is
limited to the purely local affairs of the
District.
1t is expected that at the next meet
ing resolution viii be presented ask
ing the public school authorities to re-
strict the appointments of officers and
teachers of the public schools of Wash
ington to bona fide residents of the city.
Billboard Policy Approved.
The society also opposed proposals to
increase the gasoline tax of the District
and registration fee for automobiles.
1t approved the anti billboard policy of
the Commissioners OF the District and
urged the preservation of rural land
scapes in the environs of Washington.
One of the notable events of the
two-year period was the signal honor
ing OF Theodore w. Moves as 1.-THE fore
most native Washingtonian" of this
generation. That was at q BANQUET in
the course of which the then chairman
of the House Committee on Public
Buildings and Grounds, Representative
Elliott of Indiana, now deputy con-
troller general, predicted that so years
hence Washington would have q pop-
ulation of $500, 600.
The society, as a eitv-wide organiza-
ton. has participates In outstanding
local events during the past year.