Evening star., 1912-11-15

BY vote 1t was decided to ask the men,
bers of the United Daughters of the
Confederacy to contribute the annual
sum of 80 cents each toward the monu-
= ment fund.
Confidence in Gov. Wilson.
we know that Woodrow Wilson, as
President of the United States, will be just
to the north and to the south We
United Daughters of the Confederacy
must stand back of him. We must be
slow In making any adverse criticism
We must let him know We believe he will
do the very best thing in the very best
way
This was the assurance of zyHpathy. Of
the southern women for the coming
democratic chief magistrate of the nation
and an expression of the expectation that
the Southland would come into its own
under his administration, given by Miss
Mildred Lewis Rutherford, historian gen.
erai OF the L. d. C.. at the fourth annual
historical session of the convention last
night, in the ballroom of the New Will
lard.
Miss Rutherford, the orator of the
evening, presented an extended exposition
of the attitude of the south to historical
truth as they see 1t. While she COM
mented adversely upon many existing
conditions, charging the inaccuracy of
printed history from northern sources,
her remarks were temperate throughout,
and laid the blame for these evils upon
the supineness of southern writers. who
have failed to preserve in printers ink
the glorious incidents forming the tradi-
tons of the southern people.
Raps the Book Trust"
As long as the book trust controls the
boards of education, text books of his
tory written from the northern view
point will find their way into the hands
OF the southern youth, to give him false
concepts of the war between the states,
declared Miss Rutherford. The northern
historian she justified as writing history
as 1t was told to him. She exto led the
north In the fact that IL cared enough
for the deeds of its sons to record them,
recfttng the absence of knowledge re-
gardins equal y significant facts re-
sarding southern history, while the tradi-
tons OF the north are given widecast
publication.
Referring to the terrible reconstruct
ton days" Miss Rutherford said that the
!wise men Of the north now know 1t was
necessary to fight for the supremacy Of
the white race. Declaring that interpre-
tation of the Constitution was the rock
on which north and south split, and that
this Issue and not slavery was the cause
OF the civil war. she said that Gen R. E.
Lee made his slaves free before the war.
armies. did not free his slaves until after
the war.
The south has smarted under the charge
OF tIlfteracy, she said. Miss Ruther-
ford then recited the facts that WASH
tngton and Mary University was the first
university established In the new world.
that Georgia had the first state univer-
sity. that North Carolina was establishing
public libraries in 1868. and that there
were public schools in South Carolina as
early as ITO
The United States is advancing toward
sectional peace, she said In her perora-
ton, and she hoped II would soon arrive
finally. and that We would become a ma
ton with temperance and purity for
standards OF manhood. and become
known TO all times as the greatest ma
tion OF all times.
The acting president general. Mrs
Frank G. Odenheimer. presented Mrs
Marion Butler, president of the District
OF Columbia division and hostess of the
convention. at the opening of the even
fngs proceedings. Mrs Butler in turn
presented the historian general Miss
Rutherford's address, intenty listened 70
and punctuated with frequent and loud
applause, consumed nearly two hours
in delivery.
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of the crosses of honor. Mrs. l.. H.