The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-29
OAR. MEMBERS
URGE UNIVERSAL
TRAINING In U. S.
State Conference Adopts War
Resolution, and Sends it
to Governor.

The twenty-fourth annual state con-
ference of the regents, delegates and
alternates, elected to represent Con-
necticut at the twenty-sixth Contin-
entail Congress of the Daughters of
the American Revolution, was held
yesterday at New Haven. Mrs. John
Laidlaw Buel of Litchfeld, the state
regent, presided.
The election of officers resulted in
the unanimous reelection of the fol-
lowing:
State Regent-Mrs. John Laidlaw
Buel, Litchfield.
State Vice-Regent-Mrs Charles
H. Bissell, Sufield.
Recording Secretary-Mrs. Starr
c. Barnum, Danbury.
Treasurer of State Utility Fund
Miss Jennie LOOMS, Windsor.
Counsellors-Mrs Karl, P. Har-
rington, Middletown; Mrs. William B.
Glover, Fairfield; Mrs. Christian
Swartz, Norwa1k.
To Gov. Hocombl
The following resolution, presented
by Vice Regent Mrs. Charles H. Bis
sell Of Suf1eld, was adopted:
ITO Governor Marcus H. Holcomb.
Resolved, That the Connecticut
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton send greetings to our governor,
His Excellency, Marcus H. Holcomb,
and desire to express to him our pride
in the stand he is taking for practi-
cal preparedness, thereby making
Connecticut the leader and model for
all other states in the preparation and
organizing of our resources to meet
the present crisis, and to assure him
that if he would take an inventory
of the women, also, he would find in
slant and enthusiastic response in
every one of the fifty chapters of our
state" !.
Mrs. George M. Minor. vice-presi-
dent general from Connecticut of the
National Society, Daughters of the
American Revolution, presented the
following resolution on universal SER
vice, which was adopted
Whereas, BY sinking all merchant
ships without warning, by numbering
our citizens on the high seas while
peacefully exercising their just rights
of travel thereon, by plotting to in
wade and dismember our territory,
by stirring up treason and sedition
within our borders, Germany has
made war upon us and that, there
fore, we are now by her act alone in
a state Of war and
Whereas. Owing to our tradition
al and blind belief in our ability to
get ready in a moment we now find
ourselves unprepared to face such a
catastrophe; therefore, be it
Resolved, That we urge upon our
President, to whom we have already
offered our fullest support, the need
of exercising his authority to the ut
most limit in the UNFOLDING of our
national honor and self respect and
that we urge upon Congress the need
Of adopting not merely emergency
measures but that it should definitely
recognize the principle that the duty
of defending the nation rests equally
upon all citizens capable of service
and not merely upon the loyal Ma
tional Guard and patriotic volunteers,
who should not be left alone to bear
the brunt of national defense and to
this end that it should establish i'm
mediately a permanent and demo-
cratic system Of defense based upon
universal military service and train
ing; and further
who send our sons, husbands and
fathers to the defense Of our coun-
try's rights and liberties so basely as
sailed hereby declare our right to
demand that they be adequately
trained and prepared now and here
after to meet the enemy on fair and
at least equal terms and not defense
less as a visionary and traitorous pa
cifism would leave them, that we
hereby condemn such pacifism as dis
loyal and dangerous, giving aid and
comfort to the enemy and likewise
condemn all other acts designed in
this hour of peril to prevent the adop-
ton of measures for the protection
of the country, and
Resolved, That we, as descendants
of the men and women who founded
this nation on the basis of human
liberty, do hereby declare our readi-
ness to make like sacrifices as theirs
for our country, and furthermore we
call upon all Americans to show their
answering loyalty in this world war,
against a savage militarism to those
same principles of democracy now at
stake in Europe;
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