Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-23
Bust or Picture Not in Pan
American Building.
PAGE POINTS OUT SLIGHT
Cites Great Work of Statesman for
Latin Republics.
SPEAKS TO PATRIOTIC SOCIETIES
National Society of the Daughters
of American Revolution Host
at Large Meeting.

Declaring that it was Henry Clay who
first proclaimed and carried through the
doctrine of reciprocity with the Latin
American republics, Thomas Nelson
Page, in an address last night before a.
distinguished audience in Memorial Con-
tinental Hall. deplored the fact that In
the PanAmeriran building there is to be
found neither bust nor portrait of the
great American statesman.
DR.. Page addressed the National So
ciety Of the Daughters Of the Ameri-
can Revolution and their guests. in
Guiding members of practically all
patriotic societies of the District of Co
lumbia. His subject was Henry Clay
and the Treaty of Client" John Bar
rett, director general OF the Pan
American Union. was among the guests
of the society.
Aided Birth of Republics.
The an-American building said
DR., Page contains portraits or the
busts of a number of eminent men.
thus honored for their work on be-
half of the South American republics.
and of the relation between us. But
Clay is not among them. More recent
Secretaries of State are thus memoir
idiIZeu. anu possibly some PreS1OentS,
but there is no niche filled with bust.
no wall bearing portrait of him
who. more than any one man, and more
than all the North Americans who are
there cOmmemorated, brought these re-
publics into being.
81 do not wish to be too critical of the
accomplished director. who has undoubt-
eddy shown great zeal and energy in his
personal efforts to establish closer re-
lations between the peoples of the two
sfA1tf y,a, / anil r-;el~
part of the zeal which he has shown in
recognizing the contributions of a more
recent generation of well wishers of the
South American people had been devoted
to commemoration Of at least one OF
those whose devotion to their cause bore
some small part to the establishment
of those nations
Describes War of 1912.
DIR. Page discussed not only Clay and
the signing of the treaty Of Client, but his
address was scholarly account Of the
events leading up to the war Of 1872, the
war itself and the political events i'm
mediately succeeding it.
The meeting was arranged by the inter-
national peace arbitration committee of
the National Society of the Daughters of
the American Revolution. and was pre-
sided over by Mrs. Claude A. Swanson,
wife Of Senator Swanson of Virginia
Prior to the introduction of DIR. Page,
Mrs Matthew T. Scott. president gem
| eral of the ID. A. r.. addressed the men,
bers and guests. She said. in part:
Mrs. SCOTS Speech.
Fairly Overwhelming are the
thoughts and emotions. surging up to-
night, as we gather I'm this hall, con-
| secrated to the patriotism OF American
II ;- t,rHf Jan
were met in narrow strait: the
memories of the wars of the revolution
and Of 1872, the meaning of the hum
dred years of peace awaiting their
glorious commemoration next year.
War and peace. We have put as wide
gap between them-we Of America
and of the mother country--as modern
| history records. Elsewhere, in this
hundred years just passed, war and
peace have still alternated, like storm
and sunshine, like joy and pain, life
and death.
The great English speaking common
wealths have learned the better way, and
unless all signs fail we are going on to
surpass our own matchleSs record. we
are going on to establish arbitration of
national disputes, and especially the arpl-
tration Of differences involving the ma
tional honor"
Mrs. John Miller Horton. delegate of
the d. A. r. to the Geneva peace con-
ference, was presented at the conclusion
of Dr. Pages address. and extended the
greetings of the conference to the So
ciety.
Stereopticon illustrations OF the sign
ing of the treaty of Client by the in
Interchangeable bureau OF lectures ana
slides Of the n. S. d. A. r. were shown
nv Mrs Bertha NJ Robbins Music was
furnished by the Marine Band.
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