The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-28
Daughters of the American Revolution
 Tn Alabama.


 in Alabama:
 The ratification by the Sixteenth Con- tinental Congress of the action of del- egates from Alabama Chapters, in the choice of a State Regent, clothes your wishes in the robes of gentle authority, which excludes all personal considera- tions, and vests the title to my modest capabilities in the post assigned to me.
 When the announcement of your pref erence reached me in my quiet home, far away from the gracious Hostess City of our State Conference. I felt that 1t would be unjust to those that had so honored me. to accept an office that should lay under tribute distinctive type of womanhood. I can only place in your hands the unwaverIng balances of loyalty to you. whose equal measures hold my gratitude to my countrywomen, and my love for our peerless State. In one I have the amplest security, | and in the other. the largest inspiration in the discharge of the duties, Of the Regency. At this season of universal awakening, I bring you greetings, W- brant with faith. hope and love-
 With them is conveyed congratula- tions in thekrenaissance of the editorial columns of our patriotic and genealog- teal department. under the competent direction of our conscientious and capa- ble State Historian, Miss Anne M. Will jams of Montgomery.
 With fullest confidence in your ap- provaI. I present as Poet Laureate of the Society in Alabama, our Ex- Histo- rian, Miss Metta Thompson of Mobile, whose contributions to our national or gan have given literary prestige to our State in every section of our country.
 Members at large in Alabama are in vited cordially to record within our nos pitable space queries and answers We AAAxx te Qt QffIIlAt0n ranizations of the D. A. R. in Alabama in the conservation of the interests or the parent body. of which each Daugh- ter Is a responsible member.
 announce with proud joy. the cleo tion of our Honorary Life Regent. Mrs. J Morgan Smith. to the office Of vice President General. I assumed the pre- roeative to transmit by wire, the unit ed conRratulations of Alabama D. A. R. to her and Mrs. Donald Mclean on the deserved honors, with which they are crowned The pioneer work of our State Society is complete. l would not therefore put the new wine or our en- thusiasm in the old bottles of precedent.
 The labors of the Society are more tn- uoIved now than heretofore. and the re- snonsibility attaching to each of It's of- 6ces is commensurately enhanced. We advance to the bugle call with single ness of aim, and harmony or action . Let us invite the co-operation or all educational and religious institutions In Inc regular and proper observance of our historic anniversaries.
 Let us enlist the sympathetic support of all clubs whose aims are altruistic. tn the evolution toward a higher pa triotism, namely to live for our country, rather than die for it. This is the hero ism of heroism. I comment to your tbourhtful consideration, the attitude of the sixteenth Continental Congress to- ward the wold-wide irenic movement as demonstrated in the Peace Confer ence held recently in New York City. and to a recognition of our personal ob- 1ipation to foster 1t In dictum and in deed,
 The bursting of the calyx which sheathes the period of bloom in the his tory of the Society of the D. A R. comes to our waiting ears, and Ala hama is foremost sponsor of the event
 Yours for the Daughters of the first of States and Societies,
 Aurora P. Mcclellan.