The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-15
WOMEN TO COMMEMORATE
 FLAG DAY AT PORTLAND

On the program of days for special observance at the Lewis and Clark ex- position tn Portland. Ore, the patrf- otic management placed Flag Day, June 14. It is just 12s years this June 1t since Congress oficialiy adopted the stars and stripes as our republics em- blem. although over Washington's headquarters in the patriot army there had fioated for year the banner de- signed and fashioned by Betsy Ross. first official fiagmaker to the United States of America.
 It was a graceful act to place the celebration of Flag day at Portland largely in the hands or the Daughters of the Arssrican Revolution. No or ganization in America Is at once more patriotic and more decorative. not to say more ornamental At the very first reception given to the Daughters, the one which stamped them with the social seal of approval. the national banner played spectacular part. Beautiful American flags adorned from top to bottom the Washington home of the hostess on that occasion, Mrs. W. D. Cabell. This first reception to the Daughters was on February 22, 1891. It was during the Harrison adminis- tration, and the Presidents wife her. self stood within the entrance to the spacious rooms and received the mem bers of the Society. The ladies passed between lines of guards dressed like the "old Continentals." in bun and blue.
 Mrs. Benjamin Harrison herself was one of the incorporators and the first President General of the Society thus brilliantly launched. Among the his- toric names of other incorporators was that of Eugenia Washington. a lineal descendant of the family to which George Washington belonged. Num- erous individuals of the Washington name and blood still reside In the vi- cinity of Charlestown. ". Va tN
 The subtle yet thorough revenge that fate sometimes brings about Is to be traced in the history and present wide influence of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Like the fa- nous Sorosis Club, the society of the Daughters of the American Revolution owes its existence to bitter snub ad- ministered to womanhood by men. For many years there has been an orgafi- ization called the Sons of the Ameri- can Revolution, though it is now ai- most obscured by the greater efrul- gence of the Daughters.
 In April. 1890, the Sons of the Amer ican Revolution held a convention in Louisville. Naturally the women de- scendants of the Revolutionary fath- CTS considered they also had a right to belong to a patriotic organization founded only on the fact of such de- scent They wished and expected to become members of the mems society. In high conclave the Sons thrashed the question out and at length voted to exclude their sisters, the Daughters of the Revolution.
 A storm of indignation swept the length and breadth of the land. Mrs. Mary S. Lockwood, a newspaper writ CT of Washington. Aasked:
 Were there no mothers of the Rev. olutfon? Where will the Sons and Daughters of the Revolution place Han nah Arnett?"
 Chtvalrous men took the side of the snuhbed daughters. A Washington journal republished the thrilling story of Hannah Arnett, written by her great granddaughter, Henrietta Holdich. Finally one of the woman patriots grandsons, Mr. William o. McDonald's s issued a public call for the formation of an organization to he called the Ma tional Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Thus 1t will be noted that to man the Society of the Daughters owes its immediate incep-