The Washington herald., 1911-03-14

An interesting meeting on behalf of the
patriotic education movement in the
Daughters of the American Revolution
took place in the red parlor of the New
Willard last night, when the District pa
triOtic committee Of the Daughters held
its annual social evening. Mrs. Small
wood, state regent of the District, pre-
sided
In her welcoming address Mrs. Small
wood outlined the objects of the patri-
otto education committee of the d. a R.,
which she declared was first ito instill
into the minds OF all American people
the perpetual memory CT the great Rev
olutiOnary heroes: to teach all men, wo-
men, and children to live for the same
patriotic principles as did the patriots
of old"
Would Teach Patriotism.
Mrs. Smallwood pointed out the work
done among the foreign children of the
city and country. She said the D. a. r.
took especial pains to teach them the
great principles for which this country
stands, and the meaning of being able to
live in free country. She spoke of the
work of the $1,000 Daughters Of the
American Revolution, who have done
more than any other American Organiza-
tiCn to compile data of interesting Rev
olutionary events; to compile Revolu-
tiOnary army roll calls, and mark various
historic spots and soldiers graves and re-
store Revolutionary cemeteries.
The speakers endeavored to show the
patriotic committee ways to carry on
their work. Mrs. Mary s. Lockwood,
president of the Junior Republic. and also
founder and honorary vice president gen.
eral OF the d. \. r., pointed out the good
work which might be accomplished by the
District Daughters in the Junior Repub-
lie. She pointed out the fact that the
mems committee of the Junior Republic
had called on the women of Washington
for aid during the first years of it's life.
Mrs. Lockwood also told of the journey
to the Junior Republic of herself and
Mrs. c. W. Fairbanks, wife of the former
Vice President and former president gen.
eral of the Daughters,
Later said Mrs. Lockwood. "a
league of the National Junior
Republic was formed with Mrs. Fair
banks as president. During the first year,
s.. 500 was raised for a new building and
the work has been steadily successful
ever since"
Mrs. Lockwood asked that each Daugh-
10 the work. if only to allow her name
to be used as a supporter Of the project
An especial appeal to the patriotism
of the Daughters was made by Mrs.
Martha Gielow, who asked that a settle
ment school be established in the noun
tain regions for the mountain people,
who. she says, are the children OF Revo-
lutionary heroes.
For n Living Monument.
Il ask said Mrs. GieIow, that after
your great marble temple. Continental
Memorial Hall. is fully paid for. you
turn your efforts toward a living monu-
ment 10 the Revolutionary sons and
daughters and found for their children
school which may be known as the
Mountain Settlement School of South
ern Patriots of the Daughters of the
American Revolution I ask that you
do this for the children of the men, who
made this great nation possible, and have
been shut away in the mountains for $50
years"
Other speakers were Rev. Zed H. Copp,
chief probation officer of the Juvenile
Court. who asked the aid of the d. A R.,
in establishing a Curfew law in the Dis
triCt; Miss Florence Shelton, of the Y.
W. c. A: Mr. Baldwin, who is the United
States delegate TO the tuberculosis Con-
greSS in Greece, who asked for aid in
an outdoor school for tUber-
culosis children: Mr. Chesley. of the Y.
NJ. c. A. Boy Scouts; Arthur Moses, of
the Playground Association: Mrs. Edith
Kern, of the Childrens Welfare League,
who asked support in her efforts to i'm
prove the comic supplements of the Sun
lay papers. and Mrs. Shepard. president
IF the Womans Christian Temperance
Union.