Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-11-10
Negroes Should Be Thank
full for Easy Road from
Savagery to Civilization.
THUS DECLARES
u. D. G. HISTORIAN
rresident-Genera Urges Cooperation
Of Daughters and Sons II Success
TO BE Achieved in Return Of
Cotton Tax Money.

ton Of slavery caused the civilization
of the old South, Miss Mildred Lewis
Rutherford, the historian-general. told
the United Daughters of. the Confed-
eracy in an address before the con-
vention today.
at was, undoubtedly, the institu-
ton of slavery as it existed in the
South" declared Miss Rutherford, "a
difference in the slave holders them
selves from other slave holders ina.
caused the civilization OF the old
South. These were men OF the ola
cavalier stock and the fear of God
gave them minds attuned to justice,
hearts trained to love and pocket
books open to the needs OF humanity:
"rhe black man should thank God
for the institution of slavery as 1t
existed in the South-the easiest road
that any slave people ever passed
from savagery to civilization under
fine kindest and most humane mas
tiers. :,
"This civilization was destroyed
not so much by the thirteenth amend
uent freeing the slaves as by the
noIicv 1T reconstruction in the South,
and that exodus order given by Thad-
deus Stevens through the Freedmen,s
bureau. followed by the fourteenth
and fifteenth amendments for which
the negroes were not prepared.
Had there been no interference
by the North there would nave oeeh
no race problem today"
Miss Rutherford said it must DC
admitted that the civilization OF To-Day
was along broader lines but that its
fearful activity, it's rush and gfina
Of work. was wearing out the human
frame.
eve have NO time now to study
ethics" she continued eve no long
or are polite enough. chivalrous
eno,1eh-the charm of home life is
fast roing-the Preside almost de-
stroyed."
In the old days, she said. there
was leisure to think to read and TO
mediate In the rushing life OF to-
dav. she said, Southern people have
| lost the social graces, the charming
manners, the gift Of letter writing
and even the gift of conversation.
"It is now hurry, hurry, hurry, TO
keen I'M with the telegraph, the tele-
phone. the automobile. the movln':
picture show-yes, and the Tying ma
chine, too How restful the Ola hie
was. What picture OF contentmsnt
| peace and happiness 1t presented. u
| reminds ore of our gfandmothers
| gardens with box bordered beds. SO
[ disnified, so orderly and so stately"
President. General Right.
fractional differences in two STATE
divisions Maryland and Florlda-are
reflected in decisions rendered by TIC
! Reimbursement, Mrs. Cordelia POW
en- Odehheiner. and made public TO-
| day in her report to the United
| Daushters OF the Confederacy.
| Members of the Baltimore chapter
have refused to recognize as Mary
land state president candidate whc
was given the office by virtue OF a
decision by the president-general. An
appeal has been taken from the de-
cision and is expected to come be-
fore the convention later IN the week
The Gainesville, Florida. chapter
has appealed from decision OF the
| president-general, revoking its char
Ter because it had refused to pay lts
dues to the state organization with
which it was at odds.
| Among the president-generals re-
! Communications were the following:
"That a chapter or division cannot
have as a member of its advisory
council or advisory board any on.
who is not a member of the United
| Daughters of the Confederacy.
THAT honorary officers or honof-
| ar ymembers cannot hold executive
I office or vote"
| At the New Orleans convention d
resolution was adopted calling on
! each division to appoint a committee
! to bring before their congressman
| the matter Of the cotton tax collected
| from 1862 to 1858 and request them
to cooperate in passing a bill to re-
turn this money, approximately $685.
coo, 900, to Southern states. these
states to return the taxes to thell
Illegal owners or heirs. The president
general reported that number OF
bills had been introduced in the
house making different disposal OF the
money but that only that offered by
Senator Simmons in the senate ac-
corded with the resolution.
80 far as am personally able to
judge" says Mrs. Odenheimer's re-
port, there seems little present prob
ability of any portion OF The sixty
eight millions being distributed IN
any shape whatever and only thru
concerted and persistent effort on the
part of the Daughters, the Veterans
and the Sons can AMY results be ex-
pected. 1t is imperatively necessary
that agreement is arrived at covering
the exact form or manner in which
this distribution is desired by them.
Most OF the bills introduced pro-
vide for distributing the, money
among Confederate veterans or their
families.
The president general called atten-
ton to bill introduced by Senator
Martin appropriating $4,000 for re-
binding an old volume discovered in
the archives OF the war department