Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-06
Young People Willing
To Fight for Vote
Called D. C.'s Hope
Citizens Plight Described
To Forum Group Of
Youth Conference

The Districts greatest hope tc
achieve suffrage lies in young people
who grow up with the idea they
want it and are willing to fight for
it, former Peoples Counsel William
A. Roberts told a forum group OF
the first Washington Youth Confer.
ence late yesterday.
Mr.. Roberts and Sidney r. Katz
secretary of the Washington and
Maryland Industrial Council. an.
alyzed the District government and
the hopeless plight of its citizens for
group presided over by Arthu,
Bernstein, member of the Executive
Committee of the Citizens Confer
ence on Suffrage.
Those who want suffrage must
be willing to fight for it. belligerent-
ly, openly and bravely," Mr. Roberts
said. They must do things that
are garish and loud. They must
say to congressman, I want to vote
for everything They must 60 out
on mornings, evenings and Sundays
and overflow all committee meetings
in Congress, and at the District
Building, to keep up a consistent
and patriotic demand for suffrage. ;
Job Security Aim.
Mr.. Katz said the c. I. O., with
which he is affiliated, was seeking
to eliminate one obstacle to suffrage
by giving Federal employees job Sc
curity, thus lessening their depend
ence on Representatives in Congress
from their home States.
The labor leader condemned
the District government, declaring
there is a political machine in the
District, and it controls a lot of
patronage He concluded that the
New Deal has come to the Nation
but not to the District government. y
During the morning so young man
and woman delegates to the con-
ference took Wasserman tests in
demonstrations designed to further
the campaign against venereal dis
ease. DR.. Darrell Grain supervised
the tests. More than 100 candidates
were turned away because the test
ing period did not furnish sufficient
time to accommodate them.
DR.. A. B. Coulter of the tuber-
culosis clinic of the District Health
Department, in an address before
the health forum, advocated COM
pulsory Wasserman tests for couples
contemplating marriage and for ex-
pectant mothers.
Other Topics Discussed.
Other forum groups of the con-
ference sponsored by the WASH
ington Council of the American
Youth Congress discussed jobs and
education, housing, crime and rec
reation, civil liberties and foreign
affairs at yesterday afternoons ses-
sion.
Miss Mary Edith Coulson, recrea-
ton secretary of the Council of So
cial Agencies. and Mrs. Eloise B.
de Souza of the Community Center
Department spoke at the crime and
recreation forum presided over by
Morton Hiden.
The conference will close today
with morning and afternoon ses-
sions at Frederick Douglas Hall,
Howard University, after having met
for two days at Mount Pleasant
Congregational Church.
Youth and the Church" and THE
Church and Social Action" will be
the basis of this mornings session,
to start at 10 o'clock. The speakers
will be Colman Breg Stein, local
lawyer; DR.. Bradford Bayhss, di-
rector Of religious education. Chevy
Chase Presbyterian Church, and
Mrs. r. S. Swinney of Neighborhood
Council, Catholic welfare worker.
The final session, devoted to reports,
resolutions and elections, will begin
at 2 pm.