Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-04-20
JO|NEDBy France
AND BRITAIN, D.A.R.
VISITS MI. VERNON
Annual Tribute is Paid to
Washington in Most I'm
pressive Ceremony.
TREES PLANTED BY TWO
NATIONS AT U. S. SHRINE
Wreaths Are Placed on Tomb by
Nine. Jusserand, Marshal Joffre
and Mrs. Minor.

France and Great Britain united
with the Daughters of the American
Revolution in paying annual tribute
to George Washington at memorial
exercises this afternoon at Mount
Vernon 1t was perhaps the most
solemn and impressive ceremony ever
held at the shrine Of the Father OF
Our Country" by the D. A. r.
Frances honor to Washington was
paid by Marshal Joffre of France. who
is concluding his American tour by
ive-day visit in the National Capital.
and Ambassador and Nine. Jules Jus
serand. Great Britain was represent
ed by Maj. Gen. Bethel. military at
tache of the British embassy.
Trees From Abroad.
Ambassador Jusserand planted on
the soil of the first Presidents home
a tree from La Grange Castle, France.
the home of Lafayette. A tree
brought from. Sulgrave Manor. the
Washington ancestral home in Eng
land, was planted by Gen. Bethel.
Both were accepted on behalf of the
D. A. r. by Mrs. George Maynard
Minor. president general. and subse-
quently presented to the Mount YER
non Ladies' Association. =.
After the tree planting, exercises
wreaths were placed on washington's
tomb by Nine. Jusserand. Marshal
Joffre and Mrs. Minor. Mrs. Minor
also placed a wreath on the tomb Of
Martha Washington. Before the pic
ture OF Lafayette in a room In the
Washington mansion, which the
Frenchman occupied during his visits
at Mount Vernon a wreath was
placed by Miss Jean Winslow Col
trane. historian general of the society.
Delegates Welcomed.
The trip to Mount Vernon was made
aboard the steamer Charles Macales-
ter, which left the. 7th street wharf
with more than 1000 Daughters and
their special guests. The vanguard
of delegates reached the wharf about
l o'clock. and was Sreeted BY music
by the post band from Camp Hum
phreys. AS each succeeding group Of
delegates arrived they were given q
similar welcome.
Virtually all the delegates who
made pilgrimage to Mount Vernon
were aboard the steamer when
Marshal Joffre and Ambassador and
Mma Jusserand arrived, and the
party received, an ovation as they
stepped on the gangplank of the
All details for the trip to Mount
Derwent. chairman of the commit
tee i'm charge. and DR.. Kate Waller
Barrett Of Virginia. assistant chair
man. Mrs. Derwent was instrumental
in obtaining the trees which were
planted
Mrs. Minor in her speech laid par
tlcular emphasis on the writings of
Washington. declaring that his state
papers have nodded the character
of the nation and directed its poll
cies."
ITO think OF Washington the SOL
dier. the military leader, comes easi-
ly to us.the Washington of the pic
lures and statues. ALI are familiar.
But the words this man wrote and
spoke are summed up for many of
us in the tale of the cherry tree. OF
Washington the statesman, the
thinker. the President. we know next
to nothing. Yet his pen was even
more potent. If I may say SO, than
his sword"
Mrs. Minor urged the daughters to
read Washington's writings.
"Reverently we bring this tribute
of a grateful people to this most
sacred shrine of the nation" de-
clared Mrs. Minor.
ITO Washington we bring the trib-
ute of a memory that can never die.
We, the descendants of the men of
his devoted army. bring tribute to
one whose sole descendant was his
country. What more can we say Of
him than has already been said?
I'VE remember the deeds of Wash
tngton, but do we remember his
worls? Do We even know them?
Preached Gospel Of Americanism.
I'm all his writings. in his circular
letter of congratulation and advice
TO the governors of the thirteen
states when retiring from the COM