Evening star., 1935-11-03

FEDERATION HEAD
Succeeds James G. Yaden
as President by Unanimous
Vote of Delegates.

Vote of Delegates.
Thomas E. Lodge, veteran delegate
10 the Federation of Citizens Associa-
tions. last night was elected the or
eanization's president to succeed
James G.. Yaden, president for the
past five years.
Lodge, youngest delegate ever to at
tain this honor, was selected by unan-
imous vote after two other nominees
L. A. Carruthers and Fred A.. Emery.
had withdrawn. After their with
drawal George E. Sullivan moved that
the federation instruct its secretary to
cast a unanimous ballot for Lodge.
The federation Immediately approved
the motion.
- Carruthers Defeated.
Carruthers, retiring federation first
vice president, was defeated for re-
election by Henry N Stull by mar
gin of one vote. The new first vice
president polled 40 votes while Car
ruthers received 80. Eighty votes
were cast, but one ballot for Mr..
Emery was declared invalid because
Emery was not a candidate.
Mrs. George Corbin, delegate from
the District Of Columbia Congress of
Parents and Teachers, was elected sec
ond vice president. She succeeds Mrs.
Eta L. Taggert, who had given no
tice she would not be candidate for
reelection. A second ballot was
needed to decide this election. In the
first ballot Mrs. Corbin received "a
votes and Mrs. Harvey w. Wiley %,
Mrs. Marie F. Maddox, II, and Mrs.
Elizabeth Sullivan, II. A majority vote
was required. After the first ballot,
Mrs. Wiley withdrew from the election,
and on the second vote Mrs. Corbin
was elected.
Two Are Reelected.
David Babp secretary Of the fedora
ton for II years, and A. H. Gregory,
treasurer for many years, were de-
clared reelected by unanimous vote.
> The following were elected to the
Executive Committee:
Kenneth p. Armstrong. Carruthers,
William NICK. Clayton, Mrs. Corbin,
George R. Ellis, Emery, Elaine Eppley,
Edwin S. Hege. Mr.. Stull, Mr.. Sullivan,
Jesse c. Suter and Mrs. Wiley.
Asked to Make Speech.
Asked to make speech when
escorted to the presidents chair, Lodge
said:
I'm going to make the shortest
speech on record. I thank you all"
He sat down and was appIauded
loudly.
Yaden, retiring president, had an
nounced he would not be candidate
for reelection to the Office which he
has held longer than any of his
predecessors.
Unable to attend the meeting last
night he then informed delegates by
letter he Is in Kentucky to exercise
his voting privilege Tuesday. He
wrote:
"I sincerely wish every delegate in
the federation had the right to vote
on next Tuesday, and I shall continue
!, IN the future to do what little ! can
TO see that you get the right to vote.
! "As step aside as president wish
q to assure you am turning over to the
incoming president federation which
I have striven to the very best of my
ability to build up both as to useful
ness to the city Of Washington and as
to prestige. I sincerely hope and
trust that as the years go by We
may continue to make it more use
full and more powerful. This we can
sdo by performing the same construc-
tive woodwork that viii appeal to
the Congress, the District Commits
ssioners and to the governing author
tiles as sane, sound and sensible"
Named Delegate in 1926.
> The new president came to the
federation as delegate Of the Amer
ican University Park Citizens Asso-
citation in 1925 and has been serving
in that capacity since. For the past
five years he has been chairman of
the Laws and Legislation Committee.
Dispute arose over the question of
sectionalism in the selection of Off
GERS during the nomination Of can
didates for first vice president when
Clayton, member Of the Brightwood
Citizens Association, held the North
east section should be accorded the
honor of having one of its delegates
as first vice president, since Lodge
is a delegate from a civic unit in
Northwest Washington.
Suter, however, declared section
alism should have no place in the
federation. The selection of officers
should be based entirely upon the
merits and abilities of the candidates"
Restaurants Identity Sought.
Acting on a proposal by A. F. z.
Scheer of the Dahlgren Terrace unit,
the federation voted to request DR..
George c. Rutland, District health
officer, to make public the names of
restaurants and stores guilty of vio-
lating sanitation rules.
H. L. Willett. jr., spoke on behalf
Of the Community Chest, and L. B.
Free of the Corporation Counsel's Of
flee told the federation a number of
new bills affecting District residents
are being prepared for introduction at
the next Congress. These include, he
said, bill prepared by the bar asso-
citation to bring into existence a new
corporation law; bills affecting the
narcotic and drug trades and q bill
which would make possible drunk
farm" for the cure of habitual drunks.
Suter was named chairman of a
committee chosen to study a number
of proposed changes in the constitu-
tion and bylaws recommended by
Suter land several other delegates.