Evening star., 1939-12-10
Club Civics Section
Indorses Summers
Resolution
Women's Group Also
Urges Continuance
OF Dies Committee

The civics section of the Women's
City Club voted unanimously yester-
day to recommend that the club
20 on record in favor of the Summers
resolution for an amendment to
the Constitution empowering Con-
gress to grant national representa-
ton to District residents and to dele
gate legislative powers to local gov
ernment. The action was taken to
reaff1rm the clubs traditional stand
IN favor of national representa-
ton.
It was further voted to request
the General Fedatroin Of Women's
Clubs, of which the Women's City
Club is a member body, to indorse
the Summers resolution at its next
council.
In another action the section voted
to recommend that the Womens
City Club vote for continuance of
an appropriation for the Dies Com
mittee on Un-American Activities.
Stating that, although facts brought
out by the committee have not
always been actually proven" and
the INVESTIGATION has not always
been carried on in the best manner
due to lack of funds" the recon-
mendation declared that I'VE believe
the investigations of the Dies Com
mittee have done great service to
the country in waking up our citi-
zens to the fact that such activities
as Justification of passports, the
teaching of principles subversive to
our form of Government and the
incitement to class warfare are going
on in our midst by certain groups
having foreign alliances, and that
We must recognize that fact"
Reaffirms Club Stand.
Mrs. Harvey w. Wiley, civics
chairman, who introduced both
recommendations. referred to the
message sent by Theodore w. Noyes,
president of the Association of
Oldest Inhabitants of the District, to
the banquet marking its 74th ami
versary Thursday. She quoted the
passage in which Mr.. Noyes stated:
"Our hopefulness concerning po-
ntical equity is based upon the strong
and steadily growing conviction
among the District people that the
winning of political equity is neces-
sary to the attainment of full fiscal
equity"
In presenting the motion to rec
ommend Endorsement of the Sum-
ners resolution Mrs. Wiley pointed
out that, while the club tradition
ally has worked for national repre-
sentation, a review of the records of
the last six years disclosed that no
action along that line has been
taken during that period. Advocat-
ing that the clubs previous views
be reaffirmed, she explained she was
following the rules of the General
Federation of Women's Clubs.
The motion stated that while four
constitutional amendments propos-
ing national representation for the
District are now pending in Con-
gress-the Capper-Norton, the Ran
dolph-Lewis, the Kennedy and the
Sumners-it Is the consensus that
the Summers resolution contains all
the provisions in the other three.
Panel Discussion on w. p. A.
All the resolutions propose ma
tional representation in the House
and in the electoral college, it was
stated, while two give the power of
repeal to this grant in the Senate,
and three give Congress power to es-
tablish local government.
The recommendation also asserted
that the people of the District are
the only citizens "in all the ex-
panse of continental United States
who are without representation in
the National Government" and that
the 100000 Americans in the Dis
trict pay national taxes, obey ma
tional laws, 60 to war in national
defense and are as patriotically in
terested in the national welfare as
the other citizens of the United
States"
The action was taken at lunch
con meeting of the civics section
ut club headquarters, 736 Jackson
place NV. 1t preceded a panel
discussion on the Work Projects
Administration in the District, led
by Mrs. Bernice Schultz, supervisor
of w. P. A. projects. Members Of
the panel were Miss Gertrude Van
Hoesen. who spoke on sewing prof.
ects; Miss Katherine Durnell, house.
keeping aids; Miss Sue Frick, school
lunches, and Miss Thelma Huber,
household training,