The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-01-20
REVOLUTIONARY
SONS PLANNING
For Observance of Washing.
tons Birthday-Members
Admitted.

It is expected that at the next meet
ing of the board of managers of the
Hawaiian Society. Sons of the Ameri-
| can Revolution, steps will be taken
for the proper observance of Washing
toms birthday. February p.
T., At an enthusiastic meeting of the
District of Columbia Society, S. A
r., held at the Arlington Hotel last
! month. there were addresses by many
prominent members, among whom
were Ambassador David Jayne Hill,
Hon. Terence v. Powderly and Hon.
Henry Stockbridge.
| In his address on the future of the
National Society, Hon. Henry Stock
bridge of the National Executive Com
mittee said:
] ITO the close observer of this coun-
try the problem of the proper assim-
ilation and education of our vast inn
| migrant population is one of great Sc
robustness. OF the population of this
/ country today not less than is per
cent. is foreign born. The annual ac-
| cession to this number is in the neigh
| borhood of a million. This is a force
within our body polite which can not
| safely be ignored and may sooner or
later have to be reckoned with. Let
| there be no misunderstanding. Tt is
not intended to be suggested that this
| vast number Of people are of vicious
| tendency or inimical to well-ordered
i condition of society or state; but many
of them are impressionable and pos
sess but a meager education, and it
future well-being of our country,
whether they become citizens or not,
that they acquire a correct under
| standing and appreciation of this
United States, its institutions and
manner of government. 1t is there
Il fore of vital moment to the State
whether their first impressions of our
country and it's institutions shall be
that derived from some demagogue or
| professional agitator, or be intelligent
/ and comprehensive. It may make all
the difference between a law-abiding
resident and a law-defying resident.
Is there not here an opportunity, a
/ duty even to be performed just as
patriotic as serving a gun in action
! or bearing the starry banner on a
mareh?"
| In speaking of patriotic holidays.
Mr.. Stockbridge said:
/ What are we doing in proper OBJ
servance of these days? Par
tiaI investigation made has shown
that but a very small percentage of
our foreign-born population can, if
called upon, give any intelligent con-
! ception of that which is intended to
be commemorated by the days which
have been set apart in our busting
life to honor and perpetuate the great
achievements in our history as a ma
|. acknowledgements which are the more
important because they involved or
established some great fundamental
| principle of our governments and so
serve as milestones in the march of
human progress. These anniversaries
should therefore be made to serve
! double purpose, the paramount one be-
ing to instruct all, whether citizens or
mot, in the vital fundamental princi-
pies upon which our government
rests :
i But who is to do this work, who
will create the sentiment which shall
take practical form? To whom have
the citizens of this country to look
for such a step, if we. calling our
selves patriotic organizations. and
. boasting our descent from patriots
proved in the time of the country $
} need, stand supinely by and make no
t move? go
The following members have been
admitted to membership to the society
from Hawaii:
Josephus Carlyle Axtell Honolulu, Ha-
waii dSs3O. Son of Jonathan Reeve
t and Mary (Smith9 Axtell; grandson
of Silas and Elizabeth Ooree) AK
tell; great-grandson of Henry Axtell
Major New Jersey Militia.
Raymond Carlyle Axtell, Honolulu
Hawaii dS94O). Son of Josephus
Carlyle and vina (Carlyle) Axtell;
grandson of Jonathan Reeve and
Mary (smith) Axtell; great-grand-
! son of Silas and Elizabeth Ooree)
Axtel; great great grandson OF
Henry Axtell, Major, Colonel Ford's
= Battalion New Jersey troops.
|. Bernhard Rudolf Banning, Ho-
' noiulu, Hawaii 0S939). Son Of
Frederic and Clarissa armstrong
Banning; grandson of Richard
and Clarissa Chapman Armstrong
great-grandson of Samuel and Han
Z, -J,a no, OF,