Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1912-11-10
WILL CAPTURE CITY
Daughters of the South to BE Royalty
Entertained at First Convention
Ever Held North Of Line.

convention north of the Mason and
Dixon Line.
This year the Daughters come to
the capital of the nation, and Wash
ington is putting on its best bib and
tucker to receive their distinguished
| ladies'.
The women will capture with ease
the city. their fathers, tried to get in
vain
Moreover, they will receive a joy
GUS Welcomed very different well
| come from that which would have
been accorded their fathers 50 years
ago.
Moreover again, the obJec, OF the
invasion Of the Daughters is far dir
ferent from that of their fathers.
Monument to Confederate Dead.
The main purpose of the United
ing to Washington is the laying
the cornerstone of the monument to
the Confederate dead in Arlington
Cemetery.
The fair visitors will be welcomed
to the nations capital by President
Taft, whose father helped to keep their
fathers out of Washington and thus
preserved the city in good order and
condition that the Daughters might
hold their annual convention, which
begins next Tuesday night, the 18th,
in surroundings worthy OF them.
The local members of the U. D. G.,
with Mrs. Marion Buxer at their
head, have Ieen lahoring Industrious
ly in preparation for this historic
event with the result that their visit
ing sisters will be royalty entertain
ed. ~ t-
The fact that the Daughters have
never before met in any strictly
northern city is more of a coincidence
than anything else.
The Work Of the U. D. c..
j The organization has a membership
/
in the south and the annual meetings
have been in the south for the sake,.of
convenience. =. guR r.ss. 7s
The daughters of the men who
fought under Lee and Jackson did
not organize for the purpose OF keer-
ing alive the animosities engendered
by the war. Their object was to soft
en- the lives of the men who came
broken in body from the battlefields of
the great RI bellion and to provide for
the widows and orphans of those who
never returned from those pattle-
fields.
But since they first organized time
has relieved them OF most of this
work and they are now devoting their
energy to educational subjects. In
this connection they are keeping up
! scholarships in colleges of both the
north and the south, for the benefit OF
sons and daughters and grandchildren
/ of Confederate Veterans.
| Laying OF cornerstone.
/ The cornerstone of the monument In
Arlington cemetery will be laid. Tues
day afternoon at which time speeches
will be made by several eminent pee
pie.
This monument is the outgrowth OF
an act of Congress, passed several
/ years ago, which provided for the
gathering of the Confederate dead In
and about the District of Columbia and
putting them in Arlington cemetery.
When this was accomplished the To-
cal members of the U. D. c. and the
IConfederate Veterans obtained permits
sion from President Taft. who was
then secretary of war, to erect
monument in memory Of these dead.
While the project was srarted by the
district members, interest IN the work
spread throughout the entire member
ship and soon the, organization as a
whole was contributing 20 the monu-
ment. & 8 ~
| The sessions of the convention,
which will last four days, will be pre-
eide dover bv Mrs. Alexander B. White
lof Paris. Tenn, President General.
I Among other nationai officers who
win attend the convention are Mrs.
Frank 6. odenheimer, first vice presi-
dent general. Jessup.s Md. Mrs Druryi
II. aadlow. Waahht6ns p 2 second
vice president general; Mrs. J. ).
McAlester, McAlester, OHIO, third vice
president general;, Mrs. Roy Weaks,
McKinnen Paddczh. Ky., recording
'secretary general; Mr.. Edvssd Carl