Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-04-24
'D.AR R. MSTALLS
8NEW OFFICERS;
CONVENTION ENDS
Administration Invested With
insignia by Retiring
Dignitaries.

Dignitaries.
With the installation Of eighteen
officers Of the new administration.
headed by Mrs. George Maynard
Minor. president general. the twenty
ninth Continental Congress Of the
Daughters Of the American Revolution
came to a close today at Memorial
Continental. Hall.
The installation ceremony was brief.
the new officers taking their places on
the platform where each retiring
officer removed her insignia Of office
and invested her successor with it..
MIS-. George Thatcher Guernsey. retiring
president general. pinned her gold badge
on Mrs. Minor as the delegates stood
and applauded.
"Made In Germany"
Discovery was made today that
some of the post card views of Mount
Vernon bought by the Daughters on
the boat trip to Washington's home
yesterday. bore the inscription Made
In Germany" and Mrs. Guernsey an
nounced that assurances had been
given that such cards would not be
sold to tourists In the future. Dele
gates who purchased the cards said
that they would not mail them if they
bore the imprint.
Higher pay for teachers and edu-
Gators generally was advocated by the
congress in a resolution reported out
Of committee by Mrs Henry B. Joy,
originally by Miss Janet Richards of
Washington. Relief measures for
Poland. Endorsement Of the vocational
and educational schools In Army posts.
and greetings to the President of the
United States were the subjects OF
adopted by a rising vote. 1t was also
voted to give . special distinguished
service medal to all members of the
D. A. r. whose activities in France
during the war took them within the
zone of shell fire.
Gifts for Education.
A gift to the society of $1,000 for
patriotic education, from the vir-
ginia Daughters. was announced by
gent. and contribution Of $1,000
came from Michigan, through Miss
Alice l. McDuffee. state regent. Many
gifts were contributed to furnish the
banquet hall including silver pitchers,
ewers. cake trays. sandwich plates.
etc.
The pages who have served through
the congress contributed s65 to Mrs.
George Thatcher Guernsey, retiring
president general. to be donated to
any cause she chose. and the cash was
accordingly added to the fund for the
relief OF Polish children.
pilgrimage to Mount Vernon.
The pilgrimage Of the Daughters
yesterday to Mount Vernon. where
wreaths were placed in the historic
tomb and where a memorial tree was
planted. was one of the most popular
FEATURES of the entire weeks pro-
gram. Several hundred delegates and
practically all of the national officers
MADE the trip. going by the regular
O'Clock, and returning shortly after
o'clock.
Impressive ceremonies attended the
planting OF the tree on the hillside
opposite the tomb. the tree being a
mulberry sapling from the famous
neId OF Yorktown. where the sur
render Of Lord .cornwallis to Gen
Washington marked the close of the
revolutionary WAIT Soil from every
state in the eUni69 was placed. about
the roots, some coming from graves
OF early patriots. some from famous
oattlehelds and some from war gar
dens" that helped feed the country
during the war with Germany.
Mrs Kate Waller Barrett, state re-
gent OF Virginia, in addition to soil from
that state. contributed earth she had
brought from the Marine and Belleau
wood End from the grave Of an Ameri-
can officer who is buried in France.
Miss Janet Richards. representing the
district OF Columbia, carried q boxfuI of
earth from beneath the Continental
OAK. q historic tree that stands near
the end Of Connecticut avenue
serst. NJ }: Ober. orderly of the Sec
rotary Of the Navy and the Oldest marine
In service. accompanied the delegation
as bugler and sounded ITO the Colors''
as the women gathered about the tomb.
Taps followed when the wreaths had
been placed on the sarcophagi within,
marked the close of the tree-planting
ceremony.
DR.. David jayne Hill Speaks,
An address by Dr. David Jayne Hill.
former ambassador to Germany and
now a member Of the faculty Of George
Washington University, on guarding
Our Heritage" was the principal number
Continental Hall last night. Bolsheyism
and radicalism. Is not combated, will
eventually destroy the home and the
family. he told the delegates. and advo-
Gated love Of country and liberty under
the law as antidotes for those evils.
The greatest event in the history
OF government was the American rev.
olution." said the former diplomat.
The early colonists had a concep-
ton of government that was new In
the worlds history, a viewpoint never
conceived before their generation.
THE constitutional government which
they established is the bulwark of
America against anarchy. and it Is tho
abuse of constitutional government that
is responsible for our present unrest"
DR.. Hill added that radical leaders
had been encouraged by being re-
ceived in society" to make new
sensation, and said that socialism was
only ''clean-shaven bolshevism."
An informal dinner was given by
Mrs. John Laidlaw Buel. state regent
OF Connecticut. at the New Willard
last night, in honor Of Mrs. Minor and
the other officers of the incoming ad-
ministration.
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