Evening star., 1934-05-23
LEAGUE T0F|GHT
0RD|STR|CT VOTE
Women's Campaign Plans
Are Announced at An
nuaI Session.

The District of Columbia Voteless
League of Women Voters will con-
centrate great deal of our energy"
on national representation for this
city during the coming year, it was
announced last night by Mrs. Richard
w. Hogue, league president, after the
annual meeting of the organization
at the American Association of Uni
Versity Women Club House.
Mrs. Hogue, who entered upon the
second year of her two-year term of
Office. presided over the annual meet
ing, when reports were heard from
committee and department heads, re-
viewing the wide scope of work done
during the past year.
New officers were elected for the
following year. Some officers carry
over for another year. The new off,
GERS elected are: First vice president,
Mrs. Jesse C. Adkins; correspond
ing secretary, Mrs. Edna Johnston;
recording secretary Mrs. Alice Col
bert Sheldon; directors for the years
19341936, Mrs Edward P Costigan
and Judge Fay Bentley.
Continuing Officers.
Officers who continue for another
year, beside Mrs. Hogue, include:
Second vice president, Mrs. Gardner
Jackson; treasurer, Mrs. Albert Put
ney, and two directors Mrs. Lyman
Swormstedt and Mrs. Basil Manly.
National representation for the Dis
trict of Columbia came before the
gathering as a vital issue" The
league is constituent member of
the Citizens Joint Committee on
National Representation and carries
forward this work through its de-
partment of efficiency in government,
whose annual report was being pre-
sented by Mrs. Charles Weston. She
called on Mrs. Edna Johnston. who
explained the formation of the new
District of Columbia Federal Suffrage
League.
The new Suffrage League, Mrs.
Johnston explained, is to forward
the cause of national representation
as an auxiliary of the Citizens Joint
Committee. Dues are 81, she said,
and membership is open to persons
living in the District of Columbia or
elsewhere, who feel this city should
have vote. This proposal for Fed
eral suffrage here. she characterized
as the most vital interest" in the
program of the department of eff
cheney in government
The National League of Women
Voters, Mrs. Hogue explained later,
In its national convention recently in
Boston, strongly reaffirmed its posi-
ton in favor Of national representa-
ton for the District of Columbia
Mrs. Baldwin Speaks.
The program of the evening, fol-
lowing the banquet, opened with a
short address by Mrs. Harris Baldwin
of this city, first vice president of
the National League of Women Vot-
ers. Declaring the organization had
reached 'adulthood" and had re-
aligned its new program of work into
six departments, she said that two
parts of the national office, which
had been in New York City, would be
moved to the national headquarters
at 726 Jackson place here July |.
Mrs. Elwood Street, new chairman
of finance was praised for her work,
and in reply said she hoped member
ship of the league would greatly in
crease.
Mrs. C0Stigan wife Of the Senator
from Colorado and past president of
the local organization. expressed graft
fication that many principles for which
the league had been working for years
were being adopted by Government,
particularly the development of Mus
Gle Shoals.
Brief greetings were extended also by
two other past presidents, Mrs. A j.
McKelway and Miss Elizabeth East
man, and by Judge Bentley of Juve-
nile Court.
Mrs. Johnston gave detailed report
of the recent annual meeting of the
National League at Boston, to which
she was delegate, including account
of a memorial service to Miss Ruth
Morgan, who died in February.
Miss Gertrude McNally, who belongs
also to the Maryland league, expressed
the opinion that the new national re-
alignment of work would be better
than had hoped for"
Reports Are Presented.
Annual reports were presented, re-
viewing a large amount of work done
by the league during the past year.
These reports came from officers
committees" and from departments"
League officers and chairmen of these
committees and departments making
reports were as follows: Mrs. Albert
Putney, treasurer; Mrs Winfield Rie-
fler, Financial Committee; Mrs. Gard
ner Jackson, Membership; Mrs. H. l..
Parkinson, vice president; Mrs. Samuel
H. Horne, editor of the Bulletin; Mrs.
M o. Lorenz, Publicity; Mrs. Thomas
j. Howerton, Arrangements; Mrs. Louis
Gutenberg, Legislation; Mrs. Weston,
Efficiency in Government; Mrs. Henry
Chalmers, International Cooperation;
Mrs. Elizabeth Smith Friedman, Legal
Status of Women; Mrs. Jesse c. Ad-
kins, Child Welfare; Mrs. Dumas Ma
lone, Education; Mrs. Bernard C.
Hearn, Living Costs; Mrs. Lawrence
Todd, Women in Industry; Mrs. Will
liam Kittle, head of the new Depart
ment of the Government and Economic
Welfare.
The nominating Committee report
was presented by Mrs. Parkinson tor
Mrs. Clara Boyer.
Several amendments to clarity the
constitution of the league were adopted
upon motion of Mrs. B. M. McKelway,
chairman of the Committee on Re-
vision of the Constitution.