The Caldwell tribune., 1919-03-21
STATE REGENT REPORTS
ON D. A. r. WORK IN IDAHO
Mrs. Fred Kress Made Full and Ex-
haustive Report at State Con-
vention Held at Pocatello.

| Venuon Held at Pocatello.
A great many Caldwell women are
interested in the D. A. r. An effort
is being made in Idaho to call atten-
ton to the organization and the work
it is doing.
| The following report on D. A. R.
work was made to the state conven-
tion which recently met at Pocatello
by Mrs. Fred Kress of this city:
In this. our seventh state confer
ence, Daughters of the American
Revolution of Idaho, l feel that, first
OF all, We should give thanks that
America has again successfully de-
Tended her own independence and
also proven to be a decisive factor
IN the world war for independence
OF other nations. Our young men
OF today have shown themselves
worthy OF their revolutionary ances-
tors by holding steadfast and fight
ing valiantly for the principles es-
tablished by these ancestors a CEN
tury and half ago. May We not
dedicate this day to the men of our
land who made America; and to
those who have SO recently defended
liberty? The following is quoted
from an address to his allied armies
by the wonderful Ferdinand Foch,
marshal of France: After having
stopped the enemy you have for
months fought him with faith and
indefatigable energy. You have won
the greatest battle in history and
saved the most sacred cause.-The
liberty of the world. Be proud. You
have adorned your flags with i'm
mortal glory. Posterity preserves for
you its recognition" Could any
thing more be said?
Today we are thanking God for
the inspiration that led US to our
duty in dispelling and shattering for
ever the ominous dream of world en-
pire by force of arms and murder
and systematic falsehood. Crowns
have fallen, democracies are rising;
and though we know not what the
future has in store in the way of
world peace, we can hope that the
present reign of bolshevicism in other
countries, the menace of the |. w.
w. in our own country, the threat of
anarchism in other countries, may be
speedily dispelled and may have
melted away as the morning dew be-
fore the sun. and that all nations
may be at peace. ere we meet again
in our eighth state conference
Let us not forget that other Libcr-
ty loans are to be made if we arc
to push to completion what has been
begun. that conservation of food
is still to be practiced If we are to
feed the hungry world.
Last years continental congress
must surely have been a wonderful
one, with addresses by Secretary
lansing. the French ambassador.
Monsieur Jusserand; ambassador of
Italy, minister of Servia and English
major general and other celebrated
personages, ! want to call atten-
tion to the wonderful work of for
mer president general, Mrs. Mathew
T. Scott. now chairman of War Relief
Service committee. and Mrs w, II.
Wait. state regent of Michigan and
publicity director of the war work,
! wanted to give portion of their
report to the last continental con-
gress, but found that it required more
time than l felt could be given at
this time. and so will give the to-
tai of war expenditures by different
states in D. A. R work as shown in
her report Now this total was So
AIS, 1850. and the report explains
that this did not include $24,672 raised
by one Daughter in New York for
war chest; $1,000 raised by one chap
ter in New York for Great Britain
war loan. and numerous other bene-
fits which will not read.
In the report of the registrar to
the twenty-seventh continental con-
gress she says that at the opening of
the war il seemed to be the opinion
that memberships in all organiza-
tons would languish, and that it
would be necessary to cut down the
clerical force. "But," she says, "on
the contrary. the war has stimulated
the demand for information regard
ing the American revolution and a
desire to become a corporate part of
the greatest patriotic society our
country has has been materially in
creased. Descendants OF the old New