The age-herald., 1902-05-18
MRS. DOVvDELL TALKS OF
 REGENT U. D. C. CONVENTION
Alabama Division Ahandons the Work of Raising Funds to, Buy the White House.
Steps Are Taken Towards the Formation of Chapters of the
 Children of the Confederacy,
HY ANNIE kENDRIcK WALKER.

HY ANNIE kENDRlcK WALKER.
 Mrs. Andrew Lipscomb Dowdell of Dem opolis, president Of the Alabama Division, Daughters of the confederacy is in Bir- mingham and Is the guest of Mrs. John c. Whitfield. at her residence on Nine teenth street South Highlands.
 On Tuesday afternoon from to ' o'clock. Mrs. Whitfield will give a recep- tion in compliment to her guest and to which several hundred invitations have been issued, the occasion to be the bril- liant event of the week.
 Mrs. Dowdell was unanimously re-elect- ed president of the Alabama division at inc annual convention which was held in Demopolis the past week, and while the Daughters believe in the precident of a president serving through two adminis- trations Mrs. Dowdelrs reelection was due not so much to precident but to the entire satisfaction expressed by the Daughters in regard to her wise adminis- tration Mrs. Dowdell has shown her self to be a woman well qualified to pre- side over this distinguished organization, and she enters upon the second term ot her administration with every assurance of cooperation on the part of the Daugh- ters. a state of affairs that speaks more eloquently than words and that tends to emphasize Mrs Dowdells ability as leader.
 During the recent convention an un- usual amount of responsibility rested upon the president, for, in addition to her arduous duties as a presiding officer, she had the added obligations that rested upon the hostess chapter. But the visit ing Daughters, in recalling the incidents of the convention, declare that the charm ing and brilliant president was equal to every occasion, from unraveling parlia- mentary discussion to welcoming with gracious hospitality the hundreds of guests at the various social affairs of the week. the social side of the conYen- tion having been a brilliant one.
 The telegraphic reports have given much of the routine work of the conYen- ton, and Mrs Dowdell was asked yes- terday to talk of the principal work to be undertaken by the Alabama Division during the forthcoming year.
 Mrs. Dowdel referred to the conven- ton as being one of the most successful in the history of the organization, and
  ings.
 ''The Daughters" said Mrs. Dowdell, s'subscribed $1O0 to the Faulkner Home and the same amount to the Jefferson Davis monument which is to be erected in Richmond. Mrs. Charles G. Brown of Birmingham is the Alabama representa- tive on the monument committee.
 "One of the most important matters that was definitely decided upon by the con In al House work, as all the state knows this work is in immediate charge of the White House committee, but so many of the Daughters have been opposed to the work being continued as division work, that this was the most important matter set tied by the convention.
 "The work will be continued by the White House committee, but will be en- tirely separate from the Alabama divis- ion. The motion that the division aban- don the work was made by Mrs Rose Garland Lewis of Birmingham.
 What 1 consider very wise move Is that looking to forming chapters of chill dren of the Confectionery, which will be made auxillaries to the older chapters Other states have organized chapters among the children and 1 am particularly glad that the Alabama Daughters have become interested in this work.
 The plan provides that a director be selected from a chapter composed of the Daughters, who will be well suited for work among the children. She will effect the organization. the officers to be chill dren but the chapter or auxiliary to be entirely under the guidance of the di- rector.
 'I feel that this work will encourage the study of the history of the Confeder- acy. and while inculcating a love of pa- triotism in the hearts of the children, will be of great educative value. It has i9ng seemed to me work particularly appropriate for the Daughters for one If the objects of our organization is ed- ucation.
 'rhe organizing of children's chapters will tend to preserve our records and will result in perpetuating our work, since while the Daughters may join chapters through collateral descent. the children, to be eligible to membership, must neces-