The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-02-01
CHILDREN'S AUXILIARIES
Not chldrens Chapters Are Advocated by Miss
Dunovant, President Of Texas Division, United
Daughters of the Confederacy.

Daughters of the Confederacy.
In seeking the press as the medium of removing from
the public mind impressions of the Texas division
United Daughters of the Confedeaoy created by remarks
in address of Mrs Reynolds Of Kentucky published in
The Post Of January a8, and by communication in the
issue of january under the caption Mrs Reynolds
Statement" ! reasonably the medium EN-
ployed by Mrs Reynolds
Furthermore recognition Of the logical relationship
based upon interesthe advancement OF Texas)
Of Texas association to the Texas press and the Texas
people suggests the press as the medium OF communication
with the people For it is Mrs Reynolda stranger
in Our mids-bu to the Of the Texas division that
Texas leads all the States not only in numbers but in
progress Every year general convention every
State officer OF Texas has received unusual recognition
each for the successful and brilliant conduct OF her office
And l would add (though any who have intimate
knowledge OF our association need not be todd that Texas
has long since adopted plan interest the young people
in the Southern Confederacy"
The Texas division has through State historian Miss
Dunovant for than three years taken steps toward
educating the children of Texas and indeed the general
public
The Texas division is the only division $50 far as my
information extends) that has in its constitution provision
ment offered by the State historian
The Texas division is the only division that has ritual
for Decoration Memorial Day. 1t is both educational
and upng--the work of the State historian.
The Texas division was the first $50 far as know to
bring before the general convention plan for nstructng
children. This was plan formulated by Miss Dunovant
the State historian and embodied in the report the Chem
state president Mrs. Stone, the convention in Richmond
Va, in 1900 1t is on Of the minutes of that
vention.
The Texas division has had the honor of the in
dorsemcn by the general convention or Miss Duuovants
plans chdrcn plans having been embodied in her
report the last general convention as chairman of the
general historical committee which report unanimously
adopted
The Texas division has had the compliment of having
the plans Of its historian especially commended by the
eminent women who composed the general committee on
hstory-Miss Rutherford State president and State his
toran of Georgia Mrs. Mccullough Of Virginia second
president of the general associations Miss Poppenheim
State historian of South Carolina and Mrs. Virginia Clay
/ Clopton OF Alabama.
The Texas division claim the distinction of having
the general methods which we're inauprated in this d
three years ago by historian presented to
chapter in every State and Territory Miss Dcuo-
chairman OF the general committee history
ing thus widely distributed circulars with signature and
those OF the prominent ladies above mentioned
! In addition TO all this numerous addresses reports
songs circulars Call published and widely ccuaed) attest
the fact that the Texas division has not slept upon her
privileges and that she without fear of contradiction
claim that she is the pioneer OF the educational
The question to which would call especial attention is
my methods for chIdren auxilaries-not chap
This distinction being understood by strangers who
in work leads to conceptions and
confused statements That however is of comparatively
1t is the gradual destruction OF the very principles we
represent that is threatened by the establishment OF chill
dren organizations 1t is this danger call attention
would unequivoeay add that those who engaging in
the work wholly unconscious of this danger
Our association IS based upon reverence How
ereuce be cultivated il children subject to their
eders II is said that is only through the auremen OF
Office that children be induced join the organization
Then il they will sit at the feet of the mother whom
they know and love how they be expected reverence
ancestors whom they have never known?
/ How superior the plan for chdren's auxiliares No
can deny that chdren's auNaries are based upon
biblical teachings and upon the practices of all religious
denominations And worthy examples elsewhere he
found How inconsistent believe in Sunday schools in
church auxaries and in U. D. c. schools and auxi
aries.
Has childrcns church been heard OFF Picture
the confusion the variance of belief the destruction Of
nuity. the shifting from established tenets the gradual
oheraon OF fundamental doctrines If each generation OF
religious denomination should up for itself separate
religious society lust so with association of the
United Daughters OF the Coniederacy Its continuance
doomed unless its ranks filled in BY younger generations
My plans for chdrens auxiars is that every chapter
OF the Daughters OF the Confederaey form auxiliary 10
be under instruction OF the chapter (no officers no con.
sttuon fees), until familiar with the constitution Of
chapter which they auxiliary and sufficiently ao-
quanted with Confederate history take upon themselves
the responsibility Of membership
The incorporation, from time 20 time Of members of the
auxiliary with the chapter which they have been a1x
airy will supply chapters with well trained recruits and IN
this way--this way aonecan the association of the
/ Daughters OF the Confederaey be perpetusted
The idea Of chapters FOR children nv any
The organization knewu the Mary Gusts