Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-19

speaking aliens in the knowledge Of our in
stitutions. and bill has been passed by
the Legislature authorizing the eStabEsh-
| ment of night schools for particu ar IN,
struction in the English language and
American government. New Jersey fas the
distinction of being the first state In the
Union to take action in this direction ana
II is ardently hoped that eventually 1t may
become a national movement.
Among Mountaineers.
'In regard to the work among the south
ern mountaineers we are glad to report
great activity and a real awakening to the
sense of our responsibilities. From all parts
of the country have come most encourag-
ing reports Many chapters have taken
scholarships through the Southern Indus
trial Educate Association of Washing
ton, d. c., which We would here state Is a
finely organized and well conducted body
Most careful supervision is given by them
to the schools receiving their assistance.
and where it is possible, Industrial teachers
have been placed by them in the schools
and colleges already established. Their aim
is to keep the mountaineer upon his own lit
tie inheritance, and teach him how to make
a living from 1t, rather than to allow him
TO take his family to the milling towns
where the children are put at an early age
to work in the mills, with most deplorabe
results. Hence they are introducing teach
ers of agriculture, carpenter1ng, etc, for
the boys. and sewing, cooking, weaving,
playground with its garden, is being eStab
liSEed in many localities.
These little farm patches have been
given out in the vicinity of many cities with
marve ously good results. We hav2 most
interesting report of good work of this char
acter which is being carried on among the
children of the East Side, in NewyYork city.
Your chairman had the privilege to address
the children in the Baron de H.rsch schools
in New York city on Memorial day, and
| must bear her testimony to the splendid
work being done in patriotic education by
the educational alliance among the Russian
Jews
Country Schools.
In South Carolina a great body of wom-
en- have banded together to make better
the condition OF their country schools, and
in some of the older states Ike work has
been taken up. The Society of Children of
the Republic keeps up its good work. The
school city is spreading. In New Jersey
several have been organized quite lately.
We are fully aware that until Memorial
Continental Hall is completed we cannot
hope to draw largely upon the money re-
sources of the members of our society for
educational purposes, and We would not
have ii otherwise. We. as loyal Daughters,
glory in this great memorial building, the
only one ever reared by any body of men
or women in any age of the world to honor
the heroes OF given period. So We say
let us all strive 10 complete il. and then
we can have available large sums of
money which can go legitimately TO the
building up of a still more enduring monu-
ment TO our patriotic ancestors-that of
making good American citizens.
Dissertation of the Flag.
In the same vein is the report of the
committee to prevent desecration of the
flag, given by its chairman, Mrs. Francis
Saunders Kempster. The report. which
teens with energy and live suggestions, is
in part as follows:
I'VE find that the thought of protection
for national flag is old, old thought.
Thirty-fGur centuries ago, fifteen hundred
years before Christ, the laws of Manu-, the
pronounced punishment for the breaker of
a foot-br.dge. of public flag. of pail
SADIE and of idols made of clay. Thus early
do We see the master mind protecting life
and the emblems OF nationality and
ligion equally by the majesty of law.
America. great, free-hearted America,
alone in her western oceans, has always
could harbor disloyal thoughts. and enemies
from over the sea were no more real than
the characters of opera bouffe.
The Stars and Stripes fioated in the
heavens for The happiness of all: wlrat
more?
so. doubtless, it seemed when first bill
was presented in 1880 to the Congress of
the United States to protect the American
flag from Dissertation ~ advertisement. 1t
died-as they all have done-in the congress
sional committee room, and ten years
elapsed before similar attempt was made
in 1890, when a bill against the use of the
flag in advertisement was passed by the
House of Representatives. bug 10 action was
taken by the Senate. From 1894 to 1897