Evening star., 1933-12-31
FEDERATION YEAR
MARKED BY PART
IN ALL D. c. ISSUES
High Spots Were Tax Rate
Cut, Liquor Control and
Varied Probes.
Active participation in all major pub

Active participation in all major pub
Nc issues confronting the District Gov
eminent and Congress marked the ac-
tvities of the Federation Of Citizens
Associations in 1893.
Virtually every question from tax
rates to school house construction was
discussed by the federation at its va
rious meetings and definite action taken
on number Of subjects.
Specifically, the organization advo--
Gated a reduction of the tax burden on
the residents of the District through
lowering of the assessment on real and
personal property and waged a vigor-
Gus campaign for reduction in water
gas and electric rates. 1t also took
credit for the movements which re-
suited in investigations Of milk and
bread prices made at the direction of
the Senate District Committee
Co-operated With Officials.
Throughout the year the federation
co-operated with District officials in
procuring grants from the Public
Works Administration for highway and
bridge construction projects and fought
vigorously for an allotment from P w
a funds for construction of the Courts
Building in the Municipal Center.
In addition, the federation contin-
ued It's intensive interest in problems
OF the, public schools and as the year
termined efforts to ascertain the cause
Of delays in school house construction.
The federation has taken the posi-
ton that there is no necessity for the
long period between the time appro-
priationS for schools become available
and the start of actual construction
and has set out to determine the cause
and bring about correction of this con-
dition,
Special reference was made by the
organization to the delay in the con-
struction of a Junior high school to
be erected in Anacostia and to the
proposed new senior high school TO be
built in Fort Reno subdivision. Ap-
preparations for the starting of con-
struction of these schools have been
made by Congress, but the contracts for
the projects have not yet been awarded
by the Commissioners
Liquor Control Studied.
Near the close of the year the
federation devoted considerable atten-
ton to the proposed liquor control law
for the District and at special meet
ing outlined its own program for the
sale and distribution of alcoholic bev-
erageS.
The major features of the recon-
mendations favored sale of liquor by
the glass in restaurants. hotels and
clubs, and the establishment of a
liquor control board which would be the
only agency allowed to import alcoholic
beverages into the District for sale
This agency, under the federation's
plan. would sell liquor to restaurants,
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licensed to dispense it on the premises
by the drink. 1t also would operate
retail liquor stores, which would be
the only places in the District where
liquor could be bought in packages,
not for consumption on the premises
The licensed establishments would sell
liquor only between II noon and mid
night and the municipal stores only
between am. and pm, Sundays
and holidays excepted in both cases
The federation recommended that no
stores or licensed places be set up in
communities where the residents OBJ
jected to their presence; that no sales
be made TO minors; that newspapers
and radio stations refrain from handling
liquor advertisement; and that sales by
the drink would be for cash only.
At the annual meeting in November,
the federation reelected all the officers
who served during the preceding year.
These are James G. Yaden, president;
Thomas z. Lodge. first vice president;
Mrs. Elizabeth Sullivan. second vice
president; David Babp secretary, and
J. H. Gregory. treasurer.
The federation also took official
recognition of the honor conferred on
one Of its delegates. Henry l. Quinn,
In his appointment to membership on
the Board of Education. Quinn. sn
active participant in all public issues
ticular attention to matters affecting
the public schools. His selection for
vacancy on the School Board by
justices of District Supreme Court is
believed to have been result of his