The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-05
Announcement.


 Announcement.
 With the present issue. the assistant editor will sever her connection with this department, on account of a pro- longed absence from the State, extend- ing over several months. After the in stallment of the new State officers at the coming convention, permanent editorial staff will take charge. and until that time, Mrs. Belle Allen Ross of Montgomery, has kindly consented to look after the business of the depart ment. Until further notice, after May 5. all communications should be sent to her address, No. 220 Washington Ave- nue, Montgomery.
 As the names of ninety-three dele gates to the convention have been re- ported, and the greater number signify their intention of going to Shiloh un- yelling, and so far as we have not been advised of the announcement of any railroad rates granted us for May 2, and g, a telegram was sent to the chairman of the Southern Passenger Agents Association, at Atlanta, making one last attempt to secure the eertt- ficate plan for all who attend the con- vention and visit the National Park for the unveiling exercises.
 Our President-Gener will reach Shiloh Park via Corinth. regretting that her engagements at the Mississippi convention, U. D. C., prevents her go- ing with our party. She expresses a desire to meet many of the Alabama Daughters, and we hope for sunny skies and balmy breezes to favor our day at the Park together.
 Quite a number of Chapters have ap-. piled for credential blanks.
 To every Chapter. the blanks were sent April 10th By this time. per haps, they have been received, though the second lot has been mailed to all requesting them.
 In the Interest O fthe Children.
 If eternal vigilance is the price of liberty much more is 1t the price of truth. And the truth may be falsifed as effectually by implication, or even by silence, as by direct misstatement. These covert attacks are all the more dangerous because liable to be over looked by the guardians of the truth. if not even accepted and propogated by the unwary. Hence 1t behooves the U. D. c. to cooperate with the teach CTS in every community of the South to keep a watchful eye on the schools and the public libraries. lest the en- emy creep in unawares while we sleep, and sow our child garden full of tares Our object is not to bring sec- tional prejudice Into the schools. but to keep out that sectional influence which systematically ignores the South and her part in the history of the nation. Not long ago the agent of a great Northern publishing house was travelling through the South in the interest of juvenile work made up of stories for children from United States history. It was we'll written and seemed fair and im- partial. there was not word against the South-oh, no! the publishers were too considerate of their own in- terests for that but a careful exami- nation showed that the South's part in the history of the nation was al- most entirely ignored in the volume treating of the period of the Civil War, there was not word about the ad- ventures of Stuart or Forest or Semmes; not a word about Lee and the birds nest, the prettiest story ever told about a great commander; not a word about Little Griffen. Sam Davis, or the baby in the Fredericksburg battle--tales. every one of them. to thrill the heart of any child any where with the noblest enthusiasm. There were tales galore of daring exploits by Federal scouts, of thrilling escapes from Libby prison, and the like, but
  and heroism of the South in the great struggle of which she bore the chief burden it Is as conspicuous for ab- sence as the tomb of Lee from Arling- ton.
 This tacit ignoring of the South gives a one-sidednesssto to American his- tory as usually prese led that is very obscuring to the truh Even in the national anthem our Npon country is coolly appropriately. New Eng land as The land of >the pilgrims pride" and all the rest of us are left in the cold A more insidious means of determining the loyalty of the children of the South to the ideals of their fathers and breeding in them habit of indifference to their own sec ton, could not be devised. and the chapters in every community should inaugurate vigorous campaign against this Conspiracy of Silence" The unveiling of the Shiloh Monument and the opening of the Jamestown Exposition offer fine opportunities for giving them a few object lessons in the part the South has played in the great drama of American History E. F. Andrews.