Evening star., 1912-11-17
UPHOLDSU.
Taft Sanctions Its Use in Con-
tinentaI Hall.
HOLDS 1T MERE EMBLEM
President Has His Own Confederate
Banner. Hung Up.
INCIDENT JUST DISCLOSED
Brought Out at Final Sessions of
Southern Women-Several Reso-
lutions Are Passed.

For the display of Confederate flags in
i the Continental Hall of the Daughters Of
the American Revolution on the occasion
Of the Welcome night inauguration of
the convention of the United Daughters
of the Confederacy President Taft him
self gave authorization. This was told.
last night. in one of the reports of the
closing session of the convention, made
by Mrs. Mary Cecil Cantrill, chairman of
the committee on emblems, notices and
historical souvenirs.
1.-THE President settled the matter Of
flags said Mrs. Cantrill. when the ques-
ton was raised to allowing anybody
into Continental Hall who carried a flag
of the Confederacy. The President said:
Let them come in. The time has come
for a united country. The Confederate
flag is an emblem merely. I'll bring my
own flag and put it up.
"And he did that. Then he said: III
keep it there all evening if necessary.
And he did. And perhaps you ladies do
not know it, but if the President had left
the hall his flag would have come down."
Whisky Labels Opposed.
Esther Carlotta, president of the Flor
ida division, received Endorsement of her
proposal that the convention declare its
opposition to the use of the name and
portrait of Gen. r. E. Lee on whisky
abels. A resolution asking state legis-
latures to make laws prohibiting it was
assed
The convention. during the afternoon,
voted to extend the time, without limit,
for the distribution of crosses of honor
to Confederate veterans and their
a
Der ! Of this year, according to legis-
latiOn by the last convention.
A recommendation of the committee
on the recommendations of the presi-
dent general. to make final the records
of the War Department in deciding
eligibility to membership in the United
Daughters of the Confederacy. after
long discussion was laid on the table.
The amended constitution. after con-
sideration of several paragraphs. was
next convention.
A resolution was adopted to ask the
government to name Notifications to be
erected at Cape Henry. Va, after Mat
the originator of the idea of the trans
atlantic cable. Mrs. Frank Anthony
Wake Of Norfolk Va, made the sugges-
tiOn.
Prizes Awarded.
Mrs. l.. X. Schuyler OF New lOrk,
chairman of the committee on award of
prize. Columbia University, announce
that the Observation-Disclosures award had
been made to Frances Caldwell Higgins.
a student in Teachers College of the uni
versity for a monograph upon plantation
life in the south before the war.
In view of the infirmity of Mrs. E. X.
Trader, formerly Ellen Newsome, the
Florence Nightingale of the South" the
convention voted. on, motion of Mrs. Nor
man V. Randolph of Virginia, to provide
for the expenses of her domicile in a
home If she is willing to accept such an
asylum in her decline.
Thanks of the convention We're ex-
tended to the hostesses of the convention,
the members of the D. c. division: to
the President of the United States; to
w. J. Bryan; to Corp. James Tanner;
to Mrs. Marion Butler, president of the
d. c. division; to the president general.
Mrs. A. B. White; to Mrs. Frank G.
Odenheimer acting president general;
to Commissioner Cuno Rudolph: to the
general officers of the conventions: to
Mrs. Matthew Scott. presiding general
of the D. a. r., and to the press and
others