The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-02
United Daughters
 Of The COnfederacy.

I(especiaIly by chapters located in far away States and territories and North ern states), mainly based upon benevo- lent work, the vote showed adoption or the committees recommendations namely that each chapter ia at liberty to dispose of funds as they desire.
 We are assured that within a short time a pamphlet containing all impor- tant changes of rules. amendments, ruI- ings and decisions. will be issued to each chapter, so that every one may at once become familiar with the acts of the Gulfport convention. The min ntes will be published later.
 It is noteworthy that all the laws governing salaries to officers of U. D. O., were rescinded and only the expense of officers to the convention and of |s0flice are to be paid. Also that, Rob erts Rules of Grder," Is the adopted authority on parliamentary rules at all conventions of U, D. C.
 Now, urge all chapters to cooperate with your president and State recorder in the Cross of Honor registration. Our State does not provide for this arrangement, but to comply with the V. D. C.. laws. we must work to com plete this chain of records. Take time by the fore lock and look over ali ap- plieations and record thern and make out your alphabetical list, ready to sena to the recorder at an early, date, this applying to crosses already conferred. With best wishes. faithfsIIy yours. Mrs. J. N Thompson,
 President, Alabama Division, U. b. 0. Appended Is a clipping Mhm Inc piea i of the Arlington ConfedernEa Monu- ment Association. signed by such nota- ble names as Mrs. Magnus Thomnaon, President D. c. DivIsions U. D. C.: Edwin Kerr. Jr.. cotnmandant. Wash ington Camp, U. S, c. "; Col Hilary Herbert, chairman; Seth Shepard, sec retary.
 Tn this city of washington, so teem- ing with monuments, there is no shaft In honor of the Confederate soldier. or of any Confederate leader. IL "a proposed to erect near this Capital me- morsai, which for geographical and oth- CT reasons will be national, In that it will stand for all the heroes of the nation that is dead
 Our R. E. Lee Chapter of the Daughters has already in hand more than $1,00O. But there should be, we think, no monument planned until VI can command at least s20s000.
 If we can have the generous aid of Confederate organizations generalIy--. and we can not doubt their interest in this enterprise--a small sum, e10, or $20, or $50, from each body---a mere pittance from each membeF--wouf.i enable us to build here at the national capital such monument as would be source of pride to all ex-Confeder- ates. and to their descendants for gen. erations to come.
 "The United states government has generously gathered into section Of it's national cemetery at Arlington the bod les of all our dead comrades that were scattered about in the District of Co., lumbia. The graves of these heroes. each marked with a marble headstone, are all ranged in circles about com mon center, trees have been planted and the grass grows green above them; beautifully graveied walks lead from all directions to a central mound, planned as the site of a memorial. But that mound is vacant. Snail 1t remain soe
 That Is a question which the present generation must answer; and we should answer at once.
 Arlington was once the home of Rob- srt E. Lee. and now 1t Is one of the most beautiful cemeteries In the world. It is withlf sight of the capital Of our country. In the untold generations to come millions from the North and the South. the East and West and from all over the world, will visit it There these visitors will find monuments aI- most innumerable to tbe Union dead the dead of the civil war and of the Spanish war These sight seers, thousand of whom are to be our descendants, will while passing among splendid mausoleums have pointed out to them the Confederate section. They will see the marble headst0nes that mark tine humble graves of our dead stones that were put there by the Uni- ted States. They will see a mound In the center-how long will they find that mound vacant? Is the time ever to come when some guide shall say to visitor, There were tens of thous- ands of ex-Confederates living when the United States government buried these Southern soldiers here and shaped that mound in the center, but the men, women and children of that genera tion have all passed away and this spot is vacant stillP'