Arizona republican., 1916-05-07

came the grading crew, but. said the farmer, They'll never build it." Then followed the construction gang, laying ties and rails. and still the doubting one insisted, They'll never build it." Finally one day, the road having been completed, a train went through. and they said to him. Now do you believe it? There goes the train!" Yes" said he, but the durn thing'll never git back"
 Every labor saving device had met with prejudice from the steamboat down to the stenotype. The type writer is a good example. For years it was looked upon as an impossi- bility. Only few years ago l saw in lawyers office a set of legal papers from England. all written. or rather engrossed, with the pen
 The report of the Twenty fifth Ccngres of the Daughters of the Amer ican Revolution by Edith Talbot Barnes. actng regent of the Maricopa chapter has been received In part it follows:
 The Twentyfifth Continental Con- gress, D. A. k. has passed into his tory. As is usually the case in years having no presidential election, it was not a crowded congress.
 The report of the committee on ere dentials showed 2.255 delegates en- i titled to vote. representing 1902 chap ters: five chapters not entitled to vote: ninety three not represented at ] la1, ! gates.
 The program committee. following ! a precedent established in 1905. did not arrange business session for the morning or afternoon of the 2lst be- i cause of it's being Good Friday. In the | evening a memorial service for Mrs. 1 Ellen Hardin WalWorth. one of the ! founders, and Mrs. Julius Caesar Bur rows late Cor. Secy. Gen'l. was held. | "Wednesday evening was given over ! to speeches on National Preparedness. 1 A suggestion was made by one of the | delegates that inasmuch as only the extreme militaristic side was sched- | ulad 10 be represented, speakers hold | ing ether views on the subject be in vited 10 address the congress. Per sona!ly she thought 1t was a matter l better left untouched by our organ ! iZation. but since it had been recog- : nized, she believed we should hear all sides of the question, and she did not want to see the D. A. R. made an adj ! junct to the Navy League
 This brought Mrs. Story to her feet with the statement that the prepared ness feature of the program was one that was very close to her heart, but she did not believe anyone could find fault with the program as laid out. She went over the various numbers that have been provided. and analysed the program as d general, patriotic program
 'I do not find any eohnection be-
 tween any of the people on this pro-
 eram with the Navy League" said ! Mrs. Story. "On the contrary. I be-
 lIeve these patriotic people will give
 us real statement of our condition
 The motion picture feature. America lTnprepared. is an exact showing of
 the conditions that exist.
 Not Political Question
 "I want to say that this is not a
 political question. and that in a wide
 experience in connection with the sub
 feet l have failed to find any member
 of the Navy. League who has prof
 tied either in pecuniary or a poli:-
 lcal way from the preparedness, agi-
 tation."
 The vote taken on Mrs. Weeds mo
 tion to amend the program resulted ir
 unanimous approval of the program
 as printed.
 Mrs. Story was much affected by
 the result of the vote. She stated that
 many times the members of the organ
 ization have paid her personal trib- utes, but she regarded this vote as q vote of confidence and as the very greatest tribute that had been paio , her.
 l The afternoon of Monday was giver
 over to addresses by prominent peo- pie. chief of whom was President VII , son who said in part:
 Madam president, ladies and gen
 tlemen: 1 esteem it a real privilege t'
 act as your nominal host again anC
 welcome you to this city where yol / have just as much right to be as have. I have told you upon more thar
 one ocasion of the sentiments whicl
 are chiefly stirred in me by lookint , upon company like this. wa' thinking today that if this organlza ton had been formed in the yer! , carly years of our republic. if would . have been looked upon with goot deal of disfavor. because you woul'
 then have been suspected of setting LII some sort of aristocratic class Il would have been thought that vol
 were acting in spirit contrary to th'
 democratic spirit professed by the founders of the republic itself. | Tradition is a handsome thing Il ! propcrtion as we live up to It. II w'
 fall away from the tradition or th l fathers we have dishonored them. f we fcrgct the tradition of the fathers , we have changed our character; WI z have lost an old impulse; we have De
 come unconscious of the principles II : which the life of the nation itseH + rooted and grounded Therefore, thu , oreanization undertook to keep thos r who feel under it's influence constant. l rapo,nded of the circumstances of tn
 birth of this nation and of the slgnin s canoe of the birth of this nation. Tha I significance was very singular sis l nificance. No other nation was eve e horn into the world with the purpos g of serving the rest of the world Jus
 as much as it served ltseH' e "The purpose of this nation was Il | one sens to afford an asylum to me
 70 ou clac csas and kinds who desired |