Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-14

should be debarred from membership
in their society. they decided in the
affirmative. American women who
read in the newspapers Of the incident
were indignant One of them. Mrs
Mary A. Lockwood Of Washington,
asked:
Were there no mothers Of the revolu-
ton? Where will the sons and
daughters Of the revolution place Han
nah Arnett?"
Society Organized Here.
1t was this sentiment which crystallized
into meeting held in Washington dur
ing the summer of 1890 for the purpose
OF organizing the Daughters OF the Amer
lean revolution. The act of Congress in
cooperating the society was approved
February 20. 1885,
From the day of its organization the
society has attracted many of the best
known women in American public life.
Mrs. Benjamin Harrison was the first
ton accepted the Office of surgeon gem
eral. The late Mrs. Roger A. Pryor, Mrs
John w. Foster. Mrs. A. w. Greeley,
Mrs: William Cabell. Mrs. Adlai E. Ste.
venson. Mrs. Daniel Manning. Mrs. Levi
T. Morton. Mrs. Daniel Lothrop. Mrs.
Samuel Eliot. Mrs. Leland Stanford Mrs
Joseph Washington, Mrs. Donald Mclean
and the present president general. Mrs.
women who have devoted time and effort
70 furthering the interests and aims Of
the Daughters.
OF these. none has been more beloved
or has accomplished more for the organi-
cation, it is said, than has Mrs. Scott
whose second term of office as president
general will expire next year. When she
was elected Mrs. Scott closed her hand
| some home in Bloomington, ILL.,. and took
up her residence at the Arlington Hotel
here, where she has continued to live
during her administration in order to
give her time to the affairs of the So
ciety. She has executed with success the
vast amount of business and of detail
| work involved in the completion of Con-
tinental Memorial Hall. Few women in
| the society have been well fitted by
experience for task SO large, it is said
In the state of her adoption Mrs. Scott
is always called the best business man
in central Illinois,"
AS set forth at the Continental Con-
gress at Memorial Hall this week. the re-
ports of delegates will show what the
Daughters are accomplishing in the way
of constructive work for home and
country" Mrs. James Pinchot is chair
man, and Mrs. Carl Vrooman, vice chair
| man, of the work on conservation. For
two years the national society has done
much to make conservation a popular
cause. introducing lectures into the public
schools, forming study clubs among chill
dren and making the study of conserva-
chapters.
Help to Foreign Children.
For foreign-born children and those
born in America of foreign parents the
Daughters are doing a specific work, their
aim being to make of these little aliens
efficient and patriotic American citizens.
Children of Republic clubs exist In nearly
every city and hamlet which has a for
eign element in it's population. The clubs
are conducted by the Daughters and
| reach a class of children who have no
revolutionary ancestors, and few social
| advantages from which to learn the in
spring traditions of American history.
In the scores of Children of Republic
clubs already organized the children are
| tary and parliamentary drills, lectures
and debates.
| To the education of children of south
ern mountaineers the n. S. D. A. con-
tributes literally each year.
In these little mountain children
says Mrs. Samuel Ammon of Pittsburgh,
who has been a leading spirit in the
! work of patriotic education done by the
Of general interest. but the added spe-
cial interest that the children of the
| southern mOuntaineers are of the same
blood as ourselves The percentage Of
foreign born population in our southern
| mountains is less than / per cent"
! Besides educational work, and work for
the cause of conservation. the Daughters
have done much to preserve historic
spots made sacred by association with
the American revolution have collected
| and preserved valuable revolutionary
records. and have perpetuated with
memorials and monuments the memory
of men and women who played a stirring
dependence