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Evening star., 1934-12-30
Senator Frazier to address Pm
Manor Pork Body January
Public Irritation GiUen
for ''COngressiOnaL
Night" Meeting.
Gathering Is Planned as
Tribute to Members
of Congress.

w WITH the new Congress con-
a. ! evening Thursday, the
wv Manor Park Citizens As
sociation is taking the lead
in marking the occasion by
offering as guest speaker for its con-
greSsional night meeting Monday
night, January 7, Senator Lynn j.
Frazier of North Dakota.
Senator Frazier will speak on Con
gress and Its Work" at the meeting, to
be held in the Whittier School, at
Fifth and Sheridan streets, President
Ernest H. Pullman of Manor Park an
nounced yesterday. The public is es-
pecially invited to attend the meet
ing.
THE meeting is planned as a trib-
ute to Congress as a body and its
members as individuals, who too fire.
quently are criticized by an unthought-
full public and whose good works pass
unnoticed," said Mr.. Pullman.
Senator Frazier has been member
of the Upper House since 1922 and was
for six years previously Governor OF
North Dakota. He was born in Mime
sofa of parents who were natives OF
Maine and who became early Western
pioneers, first in Minnesota and later
in the northern part of the Red River
Valley of North Dakota.
After graduating from the Unlver-
sity of North Dakota, Senator Frazier
returned to the family homestead, |,
taking up management of the farm for
Evening star., 1934-12-30
Civic Problems, Civic Bodies
Organized Caizenry Pleased Over Future Open
Hearings of Board Of Education-Plans for
Portable Schools Deplored.

people in the District would be
perfectly willing to have the Fed
eral Government turnover to the
District 80 per cent Of the in
heritance tax collected in the Dis
trict. District citizens do pay an
inheritance tax, but the United
States keeps 1t all, while under
State laws q part Of 1t Is returned
to the State.
Commissioner HAGEN is quoted as
saying: If the Federal Govern
ment would pay its share of the
cost Of the District government, as
provided by law, there would be
no need for talk Of additional
taxes. II Congress were to con-
tribute the 40 per cent obligated
by law, the District would have
enough money to meet all ex-
penses and make needed improve
ments to the school system, the
parks and Fairgrounds"
Many civic leaders would nomi-
nate Mr.. Hazen for the distin-
guished service medal for civic
service during 1884 and he Is still
going strong.
Evening star., 1934-12-30
Effective Smoke Law
Urged for 1885 Program.

n HODE ISLAND AVENUE CIT
II IzENS' ASSOCIATION has
registered its desire for a
new and effective law to reduce
the smoke nuisance to a minimum.
This is in line with the action
taken repeatedly by a number of
associations and the Federation Of
Citizens Associations. The COM
plant Is that there are so many
offenders who are entirely outside
the law that the nuisance con-
tinues to grow in spite of the
prosecutions from time to time of
offending establishments, against
which the present law is aimed.
Railroad locomotives, private
dwellings and public building
plants begrime our buildings. our
draperies, our clothing and the air
we breathe just as extensively az
any against which the present law
is enforced. During the World War
when the most desirable fuel was
not available and during protracted
coal strikes, fuel unsuited to many
local plants had to be used. Dur
ing such times of stress there was
great leniency shown to offending
consumers.
It Is reported that some Of the
present smoke nuisance Is not en-
tirely due to the burning Of coal,
but that some plants using oil
make heavy contribution to the
smoke-laden air. The civic bodies
desire a law which will include all
consumers and all types of fuel. 1t
has been suggested that the en-
forcement Of this law be the duty
Of the Engineer Department Of the
District instead of the Health De-
partment as under the present law.
Evening star., 1934-12-30

his widowed mother, and engaged ac-
lively in farming until elected Cover
nor in 1916. He was formerly chair
man of the Senate Indian Affairs
Committee and for years has been a
member Of the Senate Agricultural
and Forestry Committee, being the
joint author of the Frazier-Lemke farm
mortgage act.
During sessions Of Congress Senator
Frazier lives in his own home, in Ia
koma, D. c., adjacent to Manor Park.
and has always responded to appeals
of the citizens associations of those
areas for public improvements. Re-
Gently he secured adoption by the
Senate of an amendment to the Dis
trict bill authorizing plans for high
school in Manor Park.
Senator Frazier is a member Of the
Citizens Association of Takoma. D. c.
Evening star., 1934-12-30
new GEORGETOWN
BODY IS ORGANIZED
Church, PIT. A. and Citizens
Group Delegates Seek More
Fairgrounds.

The increasing need for playground
space in Georgetown is the primary
cause for the formation Of new as
ISOLATION in that neighborhood, to be
known as the Georgetown Recrea-
tional Council.
The Organizing Committee, under
direction of Mrs. Clinton Ward, has
been active the past few weeks getting
members and drawing up constitu-
ton. The council will be composed
of delegates from churches, citizens
associations, parent-teacher associa-
tions, Boy and Girl Scouts, and various
other civic groups.
The purpose of the council is to
get more Fairgrounds for Georgetown,
Foxhall, Burleith and Glover Park.
At the first meeting, held recently,
the existing recreational facilities were
studied and plans made for survey
of available space, with view to find
ing the best sites for Fairgrounds be-
fore the section is built up. When
this survey is completed the council
plans to submit its findings to the
Commissioners and ask that those
spaces be set aside as Fairgrounds.
According to Mrs. Ward the few
existing Fairgrounds are wholly inad-
equate to take care of the large num-
Der of children in the vicinity. Dane
ing and basket ball are available at the
community center held once week at
Gordon Junior High School, but this
does not meet the needs Of the neigh
borhood. The only other public spaces
now in use are the small Fairgrounds
at the Corcoran and Fillmore Schools,
Montrose Park and Georgetown Play
ground.
The next meeting will be held Janu-
ary 16 in the playground house at the
Georgetown Playground, at which
time officers win be elected andsa con-
stitution adopted.
Evening star., 1934-12-30
A Grand Old Man
Passes On.

CHRISTMAS eve marked the
u passing of the Grand Old Man
of the Federation of Citizens
Associations, William G.. Hender-
son, who for many years was a
delegate to that body from the
North Capitol Citizens Association.
Without doubt there was no more
beloved or respected member of
that assembly than Mr.. Henderson.
Regular in his attendance and
keenly alert on every matter COM
ing up for consideration, he was
ready at all times to engage in ac-
tive debate upon matters of impor-
tance. In his discussions. no mat
ter how warm the contest and ex-
cited the debaters. he was always
the courteous, affable gentleman
and most deferential to his op-
ponents.
Mr.. Henderson's long active life
identified with the Board Of Trade,
his citizens association and the
Masonic fraternity gave him a
wealth Of information and experi-
ence of great value to his civic as
sociates. In years he was 80 years
old, but in his ideas, his activities
and his heart, he was still a young
man. Some time ago this observer
introduced Mr.. Henderson to a
group as a past grand master of
Masons in the District. Mr.. Hen
derson responded with Hush, that
has been so long ago these people
will think am an old man"
Mr.. Henderson was an ardent
advocate of national representation
for the District of Columbia and
had some very pronounced views
regarding the form of government
of the District. He had accepted
an invitation to prepare for The
Stars Civic Page an article setting
forth his views on the proposed re-
organization of the District gov
ernment. He reported progress
from time to time, but always ex-
planned that the exactions Of his
patent law practice had necessi-
tated the delay.
Evening star., 1934-12-30
Civic Reviews of 1894
Show Great Activity.

CIVIC BODIES have put great
thought and energy into their
work during the year 1894.
Their earnest efforts are deserving
of far greater actual accomplish
ment than the record shows. Leg
islative programs containing items
Of vital interest failed to be enacted
into law by the Districts exclusive
legislature, in which it has no rep
resentative. When a large COM
munity has to share its legislative
body with a great and all powerful
Nation the large community Is
merely the little fellow and is left
to pick up what crumbs he can
find.
In any State or municipality in
the land carefully prepared and
widely supported legislative pro-
gram. such as offered by the local
government and civic bodies, would
have had prompt and exhaustive
consideration followed by effective
and satisfactory action. District
matters did receive some considera-
ton in committee. but the records
show very little time devoted by the
two houses to the exercise of the
exclusive legislation required by
the Constitution. This legislative
duty imposed by the Constitution
appears to have the same impor-
tance in that revered document as
any of the other duties imposed
upon the Congress. The only diff
ference as regards the District ap-
pears to be that no member Of
either the Senate or the House of
Representatives is sent there by the
votes Of the citizens Of the District.
To make civic work in the Dis
trict really effective this COM
munity absolutely requires possess
sion of those fundamental Ameri-
can rights now SO unjustly denied
the ballot and voting representa-
ton in the Senate and House of
Representatives and the vote for
President and Vice President. The
Board Of Education has come for
ward with its fine New Year reso-
luton and this can well be followed
by the citizen body firmly resolving
to renewed and more determined
effort for national representation
for the District.
Evening star., 1934-12-30
Detestable Portable Schools
For Powell Junior High,

TINE practical elimination from
IL the District of portable
school buildings was joyfully
acclaimed by the citizens associa-
tions and parent-teacher associa-
tions few years ago. Overcrowd-
ing now necessitates again resort
ing to these unsatisfactory make
shifts. Either underheated or
overheated and lacking in the con-
veniences to which all pupils are
equally entitled, they are entirely
out of place in the Capital of the
Nation.
Much Of the civic interest devel-
oped in the several neighborhood
organizations Is centered around
our public school system and
school facilities. These bodies all
recognize the school needs as Of
flrst Importance. Street paving,
shade trees, bridges and other
municipal improvements, as i'm
portant to the comfort, safety and
Identification as they are, may
all be deferred for a while without
serious injury to any one. Delay
ing school accommodations, how
ever, deprives the pupils of some
thing to which they are entitled
but which is lost to them forever.
Portables at their best are bad
for the lower grades. but when
put into use for junior or senior
high schools it appears to be add
ing insult to injury.
1t is understood that the civic
organizations will put up a united
front for a more liberal school
building program. There is
strong feeling that a more worthy
enterprise for aiding in the reduc-
ton of the unemployed could not
be found than through the provi-
sion Of additional accommodations
for the overcrowded schools.
Evening star., 1934-12-30
TRADE BOARD-CHAMBER MERGER
FORMS LARGEST 1884 CIVIC BODY
Civic Association Calendar
New Year Holiday Causes Shifts in Meetings.
Oldest Inhabitants Announce Program
for Annual Observance.

gram--Action on the Weir report Of
control of public recreation spaces;
discussion of proposed subway un-
der Thomas Circle; taxation discus
sion.
Columbia Heights Citizens Associa-
tion, 8 pm, Fourth Presbyterian
Church. Program-Discussion of
smoke nuisance and efforts to secure
prohibitive smoke nuisance laws; ad-
dress by DR.. Lucas Fourier on The
Flag, Its Origin and Its Future; re-
port from Laws and Legislative Com
mittee on proposal to pay taxes on
monthly installments; discussion of
traffic situation.
Chillum Heights Citizens Associa-
ton, 8 pm. Keene School. Program
Report and discussion of transporta-
ton problems; annual election.
Southeast Citizens Association, 8
pm, Buchanan School. Program
Discussion of proposal to remove car
tracks on Pennsylvania avenue south
east from Eighth street to the Penn
sylvania Avenue Bridge to be re-
placed with bus service; address from
Riley Elgen. chairman of the Public
Utilities Commission; address from
Elizabeth Peoples of the Community
Center Department on the recreation
set up as it affects the schools; action
on proposed association bylaws.
Saturday, January S.
Federation of Citizens Associa-
tions, pm, board room, District
Building. Program-Discussion Of
the Weir report on playground man
apement
Evening star., 1934-12-30
FLOWER SHOW HEADS
IN WOODBRIDGE NAMED
II. T. Stowell to Talk on "Pat-
ented Plants" at January
Meeting of Garden Club.

J. L. Bishop, president of the Wood
ridge Garden Club, an affiliate of the
Rhode Island Avenue Citizens Asso-
citation, has announced the chairmen
of flower shows for the coming sea-
son.
The chairmen are: M. G. Wilson,
narcissus; H. c. Kinner, tulip; j. W..
Hardey, iris; DR.. ]. A. Gamble and
Mrs. M. H. Sutton, rose-peony; H. r.
Stowell, Spring show; F. H. Goetzger,
gladiolus, and Mrs. A. L. Foster, Fall
show. Mrs. j. L. Bishop, who was so
successful as chairman Of the Ways
and Means Committee, will continue
in that position this year. H. G. Kin
ner was appointed chairmen Of the
Awards Committee.
Mr.. Stowen will be speaker at the
meeting OF the Garden Club January
Z. His subject <Will be Patented
Plants"
Evening star., 1934-12-30
Commissioner Hazen's
Brave Stand for Equity.

u their admiration of the brave
and fearless stand of Com
missioner Hazen for a financial
square deal for the District. He
does not at all warm up to the
idea of decorating the Districts
Christmas tree with numerous va
rieties of new taxes. His sense Of
humor would doubtless permit him
to see that some Of these suggested
taxes would please the childish
tastes and make some members Of
our Legislature feel more at home
as they viewed the tree. But old
District official veteran that he is,
he can see that through this
pretty "tinsel' there IS the real
intent to further release Uncle
Sam from his obligation to deal
Justly with his own Capital City.
An income tax for the District,
or any of the other 81 varieties
of new taxes, do not look good to
Mr.. Hazen and his united civic
backing. Ehere appears to be only
one exceLtion, and that is most
Evening star., 1934-12-30
BY JESSE C. SUTER.

~ OOD resolutions are still
in order for both indi-
r viduals and groups. This
~ old established custom
appears to have been rec
ognized by the Board Of Education
in announcing the new policy 1t
Is to follow. Organized civic
Washington halls with delight the
news that from now all meetings
of the School Board, except COM
mittee meetings dealing with the
appointment of teachers" are to
be open to the public, as required
by the act Of Congress creating
the Board Of Education.
Announcement of the new pro-
cedure is a tacit admission by the
board that this public meeting
requirement of the law has here
tofore been overlooked. This must
have been somewhat of a shock
to the superintendent Of schools,
who apparently has been laboring
under the impression that there
have never been any closed ses-
sions since the law specifically
prohibiting them.
One of the chief reasons for
closer cooperation between citi-
zens, both organized and unor-
ganized, has been because Of the
secret sessions of the board. 1t
was in these preliminary meetings
where the discussions took place
upon matters of vital civic in
terest. The "cut-and-dried" char
acter of the public sessions, which
followed, gave no indication of the
controlling reasons for the actions
taken. Inability on the part Of
the citizens to witness the actual
operation of the board in its de-
liberations has made it impossible
to correctly appraise the value Of
the service rendered by particular
members.
Many civic leaders who take
special interest in the operation
of our public school system have
long expressed the opinion that
citizens who lack the courage to
act and discuss school matters in
public sessions OF the board have
entirely too thin skin" for mem
bership on a citizen body handling
an important branch of our Dis
trict government.
Evening star., 1934-12-30
Will Publish Reports.

The annual committee reports Of
the Rhode Island Avenue Citizens
Association will be published In the
January issue of the Neighborhood
News, official organ of the association,
it was announced hV George L. Gee,
president.
Evening star., 1934-12-30
YEW YEAR week each year find

n YEW YEAR week each year finds
most of the citizens associ-
N ations scheduled to meet At
4 that time shifted from their
regular meeting dates.
The Association Of Oldest Inhabi-
tants, scheduled to meet Wednesday
evening, follows its annual custom Of
meeting at 10 am. New Year day.
Two groups-Co Columbia Heights and
North Cleveland Park-slated for New
Year day meetings have shifted: the
first group will meet Friday. while the
latter group omits this months
meeting altogether.
The West End Citizens Association
will also omit the January meeting
1t was to have met Wednesday.
Those meeting this week and their
programs are as follows:
Tuesday, January I.
Association Of Oldest Inhabitants,
10 am, Old Union Engine House.
Program-Reading by John Clagett
Proctor Of the chronicles of 1884; ad-
dress from Ernest N. Smith of the
American Automobile Association on
Fatalities Of the District"
Wednesday, January 2.
Friendship Citizens Association, 8
pm, Janney School.
Thursday, January 3.
Washington Highlands Citizens As
sociation. pm, 1919 First street
southeast.
Friday, January 4.
Burroughs Citizens Association, 8
nm .John RlIrrouchS School Pro-
Evening star., 1934-12-30

Friday, January 4.
Burroughs Citizens Association, 8
pm, John Burroughs School. Pro-
Evening star., 1934-12-30

Thursday, January 8.
Washington Highlands Citizens AS
sociation. pm, 1919 First stree
southeast.
Evening star., 1934-12-30

Wednesday, January 2.
Friendship Citizens Association, 8
pm, Janney School.
Evening star., 1934-12-30

All rerouting plans proposed by
Peoples Counsel William A. Roberts
and various civic groups to the Pub
lie Utilities Commission were studied,
as were measures to provide greater
traffic safety.
The Public Utilities Commission
requested the groups to list changes
in car lines.
The federation adopted q report
Of Williem NICK. Clayton, chairman
Of the Public Utilities Committee, on
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-05

or their revolutionary right to dis
member or overthrow it."
What any one man thinks or
would do is beside the question.
hold nothing against any man for
his views. 1t is his right to think
out his own problems, but the great
trouble with men Of your type is
they let some one else do their think
ing. They try to tell other people
things, as you have, without sense,
rhyme or reason. Mr.. Times Reader
as a poor man, have you advanced
any in the last fifteen years?
Our economic system is wrong and
the Socialist offers the only solu-
ton. For years the Socialists have
warned present conditions were
bound to come under the present
system. It is here and to stay I'M
der this system.
A few days ago the President
stated prices were not yet high
enough. Who is the loser? I'll tell
you. The little fellow working for
small wages or living on our dole
system.
So, Mr.. Times Reader, if you have
not awakened in forty-three years,
sleep on. Socialism is coming with
a bang. Yes, and you will like it.
The only thing wrong is you do not
understand it now.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-05
SIR CHARLES MAKES 1T

WHENEVER a spectacular flight of world
w wide acclaim is completed, we always
seem to ask ourselves, We'll, what did this one
prove?" It shouldn't perhaps be necessary
for it to prove anything, but we always ask
the question anyway. And so it comes up
again. with the amazingly successful flight Of
Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith from Australia
to California.
The answer in this case is that it does not
prove much. other than that Sir Charles fur
Their identifies himself as one Of the worlds
most skiIlfuI hiers. as well as very bold one.
To start out over some 5000 miles of water
in a land plane. as Sir Charles did, was reck-
less. And to do it in a single-motored ship
was tempting the old man with the scythe al
most beyond endurance. But luck rode with
Sir Charles and here he is, safe and sound.
This flight did prove that motors have got
ten pretty good. But it shouldn't mislead us
into any belief that one motor is better than
three.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-05

BY Nine Veterans.
Otto Ray, Democratic nominee
for sheriff, was the subject OF an
attack in the Message Center of
your paper Oct. 8, in a letter
signed, "a Foreign Service Man"
under the pretext of asking for
Rays service record during the
World war.
The signers of this letter feel
sure that The Times, in spirit Of
fairness will give us the same
opportunity to set out the record
of Mr.. Ray as it gave Foreign
Service Man."
Briefly, here is the record: Otto
Ray enlisted in the United States
army, Oct. 5, 1917, despite the
fact that he was offered and
urged to take an exemption from
military service because of the
character of the work in which he
was engaged, work by the way,
which paid him a salary in excess
of 500 a week.
He received an honorable dis
charge May 9, 1919, with character
given as excellent.
During his nineteen months Of
service, Ray held the rank of
duty sergeant, first sergeant and
sergeant first class. AS his dis
charge with excellent character
proves, he did fine job of SOL
diering by carrying out every as
signment given by his superior
officers, by doing what he was or
dered to do and going where he
was told to go, as every good Serv-
ice man did.
Mr.. Foreign Service Man and
others can verify these facts
easily by asking Senator Arthur
Robinson under whom Mr.. Ray
served while in the Three hun
dred thirty-fourth infantry,
Eighty-fourth division.
While in service, Ray received
an injury which sent him to the
hospital. He was advised to take
a surgeons certificate of discharge,
but refused and finally prevailed