The Washington times., 1912-04-15
CONTINENTAL HALL
CROWDED AS D. A. R.
|. CONVENTION "OPENS
MRS. Matthew Scott Receives
Il Ovation as She Takes
Ink Chair to Preside.
CONTINUED from FIRST Pass.)

Mrs. Story's friends will line up be-
hind the following six women for the
Mrs. Joseph s. Wood of New York; /;
Mrs. Richard II. Clark, Of Alabama;
Mrs. George Minor. of Connecticut:
mrs. Belle Bond, of Massachusetts,;
and Mrs. Cunningham, of Georgia.
( y Aspirants for Reelection.
| The administration slate SO far as
made up has been printed several times
1t Is headed by Mrs. Noyes. Mrs. An
( drew K, Gault, of Nebraska. and Mrs
George Shackelford. of Virginia, candi-
dates for reelection Others to be
ffopnd on the Scott ticket so far as
known now are Mrs, Chalmers William
son, of Mississippi, and Mrs. Charles
johnson, Of Maine.
candidates which neither side will for
nally indorse, full tickets of ten will
mot be pushed, lest support be alienated.
which may come If only six or seven
The report OF the credentials commit
tee read by the chairman Mrs. Henry
L. Mann, showed the daughters now
dr1g 5oral OF sUss N oS an TIN: In
,lldes some honorary members. the
total actual paid-up membership total
hen Mrs. Samuel w. Jamison had
read the report of the program commit
tee the congress adjourned until d. M,
after singing THE Star-Spangled Ban
ner" The singing was lead by Mrs
Delegates reassmebling at the hall this
afternoon at o'clock were due to hear
an address of welcome by President
TAFT and then the president general, 9
annual address. Following her talk will
come addresses by Mrs. A. w. Greely.
Mrs. Alexander Patton, of Pennsyl-
ivania; Prof. William Libbey, secretary
Iof the Sons OF the Revolution, and DR..
Moses Greely Parker. president general
OF the Sonstof the American Revolution.
Mrs. Scott, in her opening address, de-
parted from the usual address on pat
riotism. urging upon the members of
THE d. A. r, such activities as the Con-
sumers' League undertakes, pleading for
interest in education by all women. and
urging that the Daughters do for the
home what a distinguished inventor
has done for the factory-that is. in
troduce an efficiency system which will
do away with our present waste of
both money and time"
In, beginning her address Mrs. Scott
spoke with fervor of current misconcep-
ltion OF the purpose Of the organization
loft which she is the head. saying:
ladies, / regret to state that there
are people in this land who still persist
an our aims ana pur-
poses. There are those who, in spite
|of all the evidence to the contrary, de-
lcltne to see In us anything but a mutual
admiration society for the promotion
of pink teas and ancestor worship. To
them our chapter meetings as we'll as
opr State conferences and national con-
gresses seem to be mere inconsequential
gatherings of a semi-social nature, for
the purpose of reading the minutes of
the last meeting and electing officers
parSt ISs fS5thGo%ng Snes and To them
merely a cloak to hide our real pur-
pose, namely, the furthering of the pal
try, tawdry ambition of the alert among
us; to gain admission to the social cita-
des. Of the elite. What a fatuous and
himsy travesty upon our unrivaled So
ciety ts this nightmare of the destruc-
tive Imagination
.t. Must Not Sleep.
In urging women to attack problems
of the day Mrs. Scott said that the peo .
iple of this country had been content
in recent years to doze. and to sleep
on our moral and political laurels OF
world leadership. Americans. like the
Germans of this generation, have TO-
lcifsed their attention too largely upon
lthe victories of the market place. and
have been all too ready TO risk their
Elves, their fortunes. and. in many
cases, their sacred honor In the pursuit
OF the selfish sodden IDEAL of mers
IfinaIcialt success. ,...i
Among the many opportunities for
public service which today are open 10
women In this country there are three
tp which I wish 70 direct your attention
this afternoon. The first Is that of the
lunfealized possibilities of the home life
~ the nation. There can be no disput-
ing The fact that gaodly number of
American women are, wonderfully sue
Ssssfri home home makers, but At the same
number Of our hous shold mistresses
must plead guity to the charges OF ex-
Itrafasance. technical ignorance Of
degree Of all-round inefficiency. both rs
Ihousekeepers and as home seekers. for
me terms are not synonymous"
4 ~ Purchasing Power.
Mrs. Scott's second opportunity was
i education. and the third was the pos
sihle effects Of the purchasing power of
women.
i II call your attention to the fact"
4 continued Mrs. Scott. that IL the
women Of America would but poll their
purchasing power and, resisting all the
establishments of the bargain counter
and the sales based on sweatshop labor,
would demand pure goods made under
sanitary ami salutdrv conditions, more
could be ACCOMPLISHED for the moral
duu ndlSlldl upllLt OF tn6 factory
worker ami the saleswoman than by
the enactment of Il volume cf' restric-
tive statutes, the breaking OF which we
tA0uS Shticssly connive at and become a
party to in our mad scramble for
cheapness at any cost of human degre-
dation and wreckage."
Mrs Scott then went on to indorse
the Consumers League" as superb
crsanization" for the purposes above.
Rumor had 1t this morning that a
new development in the matter of the
Chalkley papers is likely. Opponents
of the publication of these genealogical
records of Augusta county, Va, which
comprised part of Virginia, West Vir-
gtnia, Ohio, and Kentucky, declared to-
day that they would raise a parliament
ary point regarding the action of the
national board of management of the
Daughters which last June authorized
Mrs, Mary s. Lockwood, regent of the
District state conference, to raise the
money for publication.
Opposed to Change.
At the twentieth Continental Com
gress held in. Washington last April,
after a long and heated contest, It was
decided that the librarian general
should do this work. Now the board of
management had no right, say oppo-
nents Of publication. to take this
action-that the acts of the congress
Ia he