Arizona republican., 1914-04-12
CLUB NOTES

ot the Cincinnati. or the Society ot the Sons of the American Revoiution. al, three having been founded for similar patriotic purposes.
 These. with various other societies have their places and each one most important place in our national
 life and they served. and still serve to keep alive the memory of the Puritans the Quakers. the Hugue- nots. the Cavaliers. and all who came in the wake of Columbus. and the pride with which the descendants Of the MlaylloWer, the Colonial Danes, the Cincinnatis. and others point to their lineage. is more than justified.
 t is certainly a just and q lstud able pride and very many Daughters of the Revolution are also members Of one or more of the societies re- ferred to above and for that reason we can say. without danger of giving oftense. that the inception of the Society uf the Daughters of the American Revolution was greater be- cause il was more democratic. The democracy is so all embracing that We may point with pride to our first president general Mrs Benjamin F. Harrison, while at the same time we welcome some obscure woman. albeit one who is in every way acceptable, who comes to over the long (and sometimes arduousl trail of her ln- cage directly back to some patriot of the American revolution.
 shortly after the civil War there grew by leaps and bounds. We now see the idea that patriotism" was d word the meaning of which we had almost forgotten. but for that great strife
 We are wont to think of all things patriotic as having their birth in the eastern part of our country. The society of the sons of the Revolution Wds organized in Stn Francisco. No one seems to understand why the women could not have been included and the society called the Descend ants of the Revolution
 It was natural for them to resent this exclusion and later to form q society of their own, and the great est assistance the founders of the { Daughters had was a man whose name We do not recall.
 IL is not generally understood that | the Sons of the Revolution and the Sons Of the American Revolution are two separate organizations. as are the Daughters of the Revolution and the Daughters of the American Revolution. being organized preyi-
 ouslv to those with the word Ameri- can inserted The story goes that U ere being many in France descend ants of soldiers in our war, wishing i to perpetuate the name and services | tfeir grandfathers rendered toward : bringing about American indepeiid : cnce. objected to the name given the
 iIst society, fearing that il would in
 time he understood as referring to i the French revolution. Therefore q new societies were organized called tie Sons of inc American Revolution, 1 and the Daughters of the American i Revolution. respectively.
 l The Daughters of the Revolution 1 is strong organization. but it is
 tIe Daughters of tbe American Rev
 olution that counts it's numbers with i six figures
 While 1880 saw us but mere
 nesting. we were ready to try our wings alone. Perhaps there may i have been at the time of our earliest efforts, just enough resentment 1 . ganst what we at that time con
 sidered an unjust exclusion. to make
 the founders and their staunch as sistants quite alert as to the ont come. II would never do to fail after all our fuss. and we did not fail, and
 we have not failed; neither do we i ever intend 10 fail We have out
 grown our first ideas, which mean.
 to the rank and file-social- patriotic i endeavor-until now we consider ourselves q great patriotic memorial
 to our brave forefathers,' as one has taptlv expressed it.
 There is no competition whatever between the D. A. R. and other pat rotit societies, for we realize that
 they have their work. while we have olus
 ] As to the real work of the Daugh- . tcrs of the American Revolution, we
 claim to he patriotic. but that is
 something that must be proven. It i will not prove itself by mere state
 ments It would take many and large volumes to give an adequate
 history of the endeaVor and achieve
 ments of the D. A. R., but We must
 content ourselves with mere men
 ton of the most important features : Of patriotic wort, which has been
 done and We ale continuing to do.
 Largely through our efforts the