The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-04

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 American Revolution of Alabama by our National officers, and their praises
 or your wisely directed energies and the exhaustiess enthusiasm manifested In their plans for future achievement challenges my deep gratefuiness to them and to you for the inspiration it
 has given me in the discharge of my official duties.
 Each Daughter whose name ap-
 pears on chapter register has been provided with copy of the handbook or our State society. It contains It's complete enrollment and the definite gains made within the past two years.
 Viz; Cherokee. Colbert and Twicken- ham Town chapters. The National board at its December meeting will add
 to these Captain John Bacon chapter,
 Alexander City. The reappointment of Mrs. G. A. Henry of GuntersvilIe has
 been asked and granted in considera-
 tion of her valuable services to the
 society.
 Promotion of Education. T would not be justified in antici- pating the reports of the committees
 in their diverse spheres of patriotic activity. but I am constrained by a sense of pride in the state of my nativ- fly to- forecast the actual accomplish ment of their purposes and plans with in a brief period. the success of which this conference may secure.
 Tn the subsequent clause of Article 2. Section g. of our National consti. tuition we are pledged to the promo ton of liberal education. viz.. TO carry out the intuctfon of Washington in, hts farewell address to the American people. to promote as an object of prtmaTy importance institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. thus developing an enlightened public opinion. and affording to young and old such advantages as shall develop in them the largest capacity for per- forming the duties of American citi- zens.'
 "In accord with the spirit and Iet- ter of the fundamental principles and objects of our society, chapters in our state are fulfilling one of the most exalted missions of our organization. bid them Godspeedi
 "The large philanthropy of Miss Mar tha Berry of Rome, Ga, has found ex- precision in a school for the mountain lads of her State and of Alabama. It is worthy of our sympathetic interest and assistance There Is no claim on us so vital and insistent; no obligation so whose calyx Is enseathed possibilities so incalculable as that of child labor. As deep answereth unto deep the heart of universal motherhood responds to the cry from the mill children of our land: more agonizing because of its multitude than that of Judean mothers for their prattiing babes. It is infin- itely. sadder than any other for the req son that it's source is found in the atrophy of the inherent sense of pa- ternal love and protection of their young, that cannot unaided rise above an environment more hopeless than de. picted in Dapte's Inferno. Daughters, oi I the American Revolution, as vestals nt the altar of patriotism, call you to the rescuel
 ''The marking of the Santa Fe trail by the heroic women of the west was i the parent movement to preserve tns | historic highways of our broad domain An contemplating citizen of Spokane l wash. has sent out an appeal to the l States traversed by the oregon trai to combine sentimental and commercial | interest in building a memorial roae | from ocean to ocean.
 Mark Jackson Roads. l "since this monumental tribute VII I he paid the pathffnders of the North west. we can be sure that we have saf' l and exalted precedent in marking tn. | Natchex trace, the Jackson roads and l otlier primitive highways of Alabama l. sThere ia to us no duty so urgen' | ssa A fFnnerafive as Daughters Of sthi | American Revolution as that of liqulda' | tiou of the debt voluntarily assumed ns | the society for the completion of Me moriaH Continental Hall Alabama | a direct beneficiary of this tnstltutlon l in that she has been granted the honoi | og calling one room her own.. It's di' | ynenslons are not of appalling magni' l tude, but 1t is spacious enough to ex' hibit the liberaiity and taste Of oui state in its interior decoration and Fur
 q invoke at the hands Of the D. A R. of Aiaabma a renewed anu mcrs practical interest in Ths American Monthly Magazine. Our state agen' | ana fhe chairman of the magazine com. mites. like the organsfof our National | aoclety, is beyond panegyric from me | Yts buRle note elarions the spirit Of tns i times, which I give you In the words oi
 Ebert Hubbard:
 ss srhe reward life holds out fol work Is not idleness nor rest, nor i'm munity from work. but. increased oapae' Iity. greater difficulties, more work. "The Napoleonic watchword. 'Beyono I the Alps IS Italy had no place In th' so,,ls of our forefathers, nor have iti | aIluring promises any witchery over | fha women who have committed them | selveE to the. preservation of the insti' l tutions of our country and its citiSen' I ahln we may levy tribute from thC | poet and the dramAtist and repair and | reflil the broken cisternS of our early | history. Tn fact. American womanhooc | has kent and will forever keep th' | ceaseless vigil over its past, present
 and future, which Is the price of fiber
 1when the master builder of Tsrae said: tEvry wise woman buildeth hel house: but the foolish pfucleth |
 down. he spoke of his family and lin cage. Therefore we are constrained al religious women to build and not dis
 mantel the house of our fathers.
 ".As the Alps nourish from year tC
 year
 The self-same plants, their rushing
 streamlets flow
 Der the same beds, the clouds them
 selves and winds Follow the same unutterable course, So have from sire to son their anclen
 forms
 lDescended down unaltered, nor in trutl Can they endure to change or turr
 The old accustomed even march O
 Aurora P. Mcclellan. 'state Regent"
 Report of Historian.
 Miss Ann Marks Williams, State His | torian, submitted her report as follows
 Madame Regent, Officers and Dele.
 gates to the Tenth Conference oi
 the Alabama Daughters of thu American Revolution:
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