The public ledger., 1919-09-11
ROOT WILL y
SOUND KEYNOTE IN
GREAT CAMPAIGN
Heads List Of Prominent Men Who
, wiz Address Anti-radicallsm
Meetings Throughout the
Country on "Constitutlon
Day." Sept. IL.


New York, September II Elihu
Root, as presiding officer at the Ma
tional Security Leagues Constitution
Day" Amerism meeting In Carnegie
Hall, this city, on the evening Of We'd
nesday, September II, will sound the
keynote of the great nationwide Con-
stitutional educational campaign
which the Security League has been
promoting for some months in asso-
citation with the other leading patri-
otic societies of the country This
campaign, which will have its climax
in the nationwide celebration Of Con
stitution Day" on the anniversary Of
the signing of the Constitution of the
United States, has been aimed at COM
batting un-American radicalism thru
the popularization of the American
ideal of representative government as
embodied In the Constitution.
At the Carnegie Hall meeting, which
will be the principal Constitution
Day" gathering in this city. Mr.. Root
Is expected to make a forceful Amer
icanism plea. He is Honorary Presi-
dent of the National Security League
and will give voince to its platform Of
anti-radicalism.
The other speakers at the Carnegie
Hall meeting will be Hon. Job e.
Hedges, Col. Charles E. Laydecker,
President of the National Security
League; and DR.. Robert M. McElroy,
the Leagues Educational Director,
who is Secretary Of the National Con-
stitutional Celebration Organization
Committee.
DR.. David Jayne HILL the eminent
historian and diplomat, who is Chair
man Of the National Organization
Committee, will deliver the principal
address at the Constitution Day"
meeting in Boston, which will be held
in Faneuil Hall.
Every large city in the country will
hold at least one big meeting on
Constitution Day" In addition to
these meetings, smaller gatherings
will take place in practically every
city, town and hamlet in all the
states. These meetings are being or
ganized by State Directors in the var
rious states, the majority of whom
have working with them Assistant Di-
rectors in each of the counties of their
states.
Many men Of national prominence
will speak at the more important
Constitution Day" meetings in var
ious parts of the country. Among the
assignments already made are
Hon. James NJ. Beck, who is mem
ber of the National Constitutional
Celebration Organization Committee
at Philadelphia, where the meetings
will be held in independence Hall.
Governor Smith, Of New York, and
DR.. John H. Finley, Commissioner of
Education of New York State, at AL
bany.
DR.. Nicholas Murray Butler, Presi-
dent of Columbia University, at st.
Paul.
DR.. Henry S. Pritchett, President of
the Carnegie Foundation. at Santa
Barbara, Col.
Frederic R. Coudert, the noted in
ternational lawyer. at Washington
Irving High School, this city.
Hon. Hampton Lawrence Carson,
former Attorney General of Pennsyl-
vania, at Newark, N. ].
Harry F. Atwood, Of Chicago, at De-
troit.
U. S. Senator Miles PoindeNter, at
Pittsburgh.
DR.. Douglas Freeman, editor of the
Richmond, Va, "News-Leader," at
Winchester, Va.
Hon. Francis ]. Swsey, Justice of
of the Supreme Court of New Jersey,
at Morristown, N. ].