The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1919-03-28
Prince Georges County Chapter OF
the Daughters of the American
Revolution.
THE REGENTS REPORT

The Chapter has been fortunate in
that it bas not lost by death any Of it's
members; but the plague which swept
the county touched nearly all households,
and to a considers BILE extent. interfer-
| ed with activities of the Chapter, The
| Chapter however has made creditable
showing in its war report. Its Organl-
zing Regent, Miss Emma Eaton Walker
went overseas where she is now Secre-
| tary in the Y. M. G. A. work. AT pres
ent she is doing educational work IN
the Base Hospital of Il large camp near
! Paris, A large ward of the hospital is
given over for afternoon and evening
classes, and special instruction at the
bedside of the less fortunate. Another
member CT the Chapter was awarded a
service badge bv the Red Cross. n badge
which means 1900 hours of voluntary
work for the Red Gross performed in
the uniform of the organizations. Still
another member, as Chairman Of the
Junior Red Cross Auxiliary, has made
over 100 comfort pillows for the wound
ed at the Walter Reed ospitsl, and a
number of refugee garments, scrap
books and kitted articles, and also COL
lected tin foil, peach stones and maya
zines for the Red Cross. One member
made large number of "hu" masks
for use while the epidemic was at its
height, Another member has aided in
the instruction Of foreign-born parents
in English. Other members donat-
ed jellies and preserves to Walter Reed
boys and aided in the distribution of
cans for the wounded. Others have
entertained and dined a number of
wounded, one having been hostess
for Is wounded continuously for two
weeks. Another took first aid and
helped during the early summer with
missionaries. Another offered her
services as nurse during the FLU epidem-
ic and loaned her car. Another has
fund and with the movement to-chick-
enize France. The United War Work
Campaign, War Stamps and the 3rd
and 4th Liberty Loans were not over
looked. The Chapter has sub scribed
it's quota of the 800. 900 Liberty Loan
subscription of the National Society. |
The Chapter has also determined to I'M
dertake the support of a French war
orphan. The Chapter has had for |
special study, through its historian,
places and events in and around |
Bladensburg. whose history, both Revo-
lutionary and Colonial, is an inter est |
ing chapter in the story of Maryland. |
It will perhaps not be inappropriate |
to make mention, in this connection, of |
a proposed extension of the Society of |
the D. A. R. by the organization of |
Chapters in other countries and especi-
ally of a Chapter in Paris, France, |
The latter proposition, the organizing |
of a Chapter at Paris, has an interest |
peculiar to the Prince Georges County |
Chapter, growing out of circumstances |
in the background of the picture. The |
Organizing Regent of the Prince Geor-
ge's County Chapter, now idehtiied |
with the American Red Cross work in |
France, was, until she qualified as an |
Organizing Regent, member of the |
Sarah Franklin Chapter of the District |
of Columbia, and the kindiiest relations |
as of mother and daughter, have always
existed between the two chapters, the |
Sarah Franklin, indeed, often styling
the present Regent Of the Prince Geof- |
ge's County Chapter 'our adopted |
daughter And member of the |
Sarah FraAk kiln, who has spent much of
her time for the last three years in
Paris and who in the future will pro-
badly spend still more, is u,w proposed
as the Organizing Regent Of the Chap
ter first to be organized in Paris. In
deed, it was in virtue OF her ancestry
1.-TWO members of the little colony of
Huguenots which. in 1854, settled in
Abbeville County, South Carolina)
that the late Regent Of Sarah Franklin
the sister of tue present Regent OF the
Prince Georges County Chapter, was
admitted to membership 10 the Society
of the d. A. K. And in keeping with
the circumstances and proprieties OF the
situations as thus disclosed, the name
so be applied to the Chapter, organized
as above mentioned, will be the name
of distinguished American of the
Revolutionary period who had himself
at Paris represented with honor the
patriots of America -Beuj amin Frank
lin, the father Of Sarah.
Respectfully submitted,
ADA HOWARD JOHNSON,