The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-11-11
PRESIDENT j,
OTHER
OFFICERS HERE
Sister Esther Carlotta and
Other Visitors Guests of
Local Chapter.
INFORMAL RECEPTION
GIVEN AT SAN CARLOS
Interesting Talk BY Sister
Carlotta on General u.
D. c. Convention.

Sister Esther Carlotta, state pres
ident of the United Daughters Of the
Confederacy, and Mrs. S. s. Moore.
Mrs. T. j. Kennedy, Mrs. H. P. Ken
nedy, Miss Margaret Cathcart of
Tampa, and Mrs. Mary Robinson of
Jacksonville, were guests of honor at
an informal reception rendered them
Yesterday afternoon at the San Car
los hotel, by the local chapter, u. D.
=. Tea was served on the mezza-
nine floor, and Sister Esther Car
lotta talked entertainingly on the
general convention of the u. D. c..
just closed in San Francisco, which
she and other members of the state
organization attended. They are pass,
ing through the city enroute home.
No formal decorations of any Kind
were used and no set program Of en-
tertainment was followed, the feature
OF the afternoon being the address by
the state president, which was not
only interesting, but inspirational to
those who revere the South and at
its traditions.
Standing in her black gown, with
the white headdress of the Sisterhood.
and bouquet of white and red carna-
tons, sent to her as a greeting from
the Pensacola Chapter United Daugh-
ters Of the Confederacy, she made a
striking picture, and no true south
erner could have heard her words,
without having been thrilled with the
vision of a sacred past, and inspired
with the hope Of future as noble.
SPEAKS ON EDUCATION.
Sister Esther Carlotta is not only
loyal to the cause she represents,
but she is loyal to the Southland,
which she loves, and at the close of
her address yesterday afternoon she
called upon the Daughters who heard
her to assume the responsibility that
is theirs in raising the standard of
education in the south, and wipe from
our section the stigma of illiteracy
by doing part to educate the boys
and girls of the south who are unable
to obtain an education for themselves.
She called upon them to refute the
assertion made in some encyclopedias
and other works that there is no
southern literature, by studying the
literature of the south, by training
the children of the south to study
southern literature and the true rec
ords Of the land Of their birth; to
SO faniliarize them with the real his
tory Of the past Of this section, that
they may grow up to revere the past
and to emulate the examples of the
splendid men and women who have
made its history.
THEIR FIRST DUTY.
Sister Esther Carlotta emphasized
the fact that the first duty of the
southern women is ii care for the
Veterans. To see that they go down
the last slope of the homeward way
in peace and comfort as far as this
is possible. Next to this is to pay
the obligations that now rest upon the
organization, which include the debt
still remaining on the Arlington mon
unnent, the Shiloh monument, and the
Confederate section of the Window to
American women to be placed in the
Red Cross building in Washington.
The state president declared it to be
her conviction that it was a debt Of
honor for the Daughters to pay for
these monuments debt of honor
they gloried in paying; a debt sacred
to them, and one they had incurred
in love and would pay in love, but
she said that the building of these
monuments was only a part of our
duty to our beloved southland-it was
not all of the duty of southern wo-
manhood. The education of the youth