The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-05-13
Regent Address To
Lafayette Chapter
Mrs. M. V. b. Scull Describes
Trip to National Meeting
Held at Washington.

At the annual luncheon of Lafayette
Chapter, Daughters of the Revolution,
held last Saturday the following adj
dress was delivered by the Regent,
Mrs. NJ. V. B. Scull:
Another Congress of the Daughters
of American Revolution has passed
into history. | will try to do my
share in bringing to you the things
which l wish o might all have had
first hand.
washington welcomed the Daugh-
ters in a most profound and reveren-
tial way-welcome not to our city, but
your city, as it was III ancestors
who established the American Repub-
lie and made possible the City of
Washington.
"If all roads on Monday morning
did not lead to Memorial Continental
Hall, Their few were travelling the
others. The house committee was
tried to the utmost when the 400 ac-
credited delegates and a~lternates came
streaming into the building shortly
after nine o'clock. That they were
handled at all, spoke well for the sys-
TEN and observation-disclosures of the diff
ferent committees Flowers and flags
formed the decorations. Flowers were
banked on either side of Mrs. Minor.
All were tokens of love and apprecia-
ton of her and the other national Off
GERS. Promptly at 10 o'clock the con
ference assembled by the call of the
bugle sounded by Arthur S. Witcomb
of the United States Marine Band.
Immediately afterwards, amid
rounds and rounds of deafening APP
t plause, Mrs. Minor and the national
officers, escorted by 141 white-clad
pages, entered the hall, marched to
the platform. Mrs. Minor was at the
end of the procession and carried a
beautiful bouquet of red roses.
Every seat was filled, many stand
ing despite the fact that it was the
first time in the history of the society
that the general public was barred
from the opening session. Mrs.
Minors opening address was a plea
for a better nation. She points out
that it is the daughters most sacred
duty to promote true decentralization
through which the nations are bound
together in the bonds OF mutual faith
and trust while preserving their ma
tional identity.
another insidious danger which as
sails the very heart of our democracy
is the slacker's home. 1t is said the
American home is going into discard"
Must this fiippant expression be re-
garded as truly stating the case? Are
we no longer American women?
Inherent in the Anglo-SaXon is his
love of his home and this country is
fundamentally Anglo-SaXon. Inherent
also in many of the nations which
make up our foreign population is
the love of home, but the ideals of
the American home are no always
theirs. To hold fast TO those ideals
is woman's distinct sphere of action,
but this sphere is not bounded by the
four walls of the house. 1t reaches
out to the better schools, purer NOV
les, cleaner drama, modest dress, bet
ter discipline for the child at home
and in school. An undisciplined child
is good material for future u%pheayals
and revolutions.
1T is said that the morals of the
rising generation are as loose as its
goloshes. / don't believe it. | have
faith in the young of to-day, faith
that they will make good and settle
down when the world rocks a little
less %uneasily in the whirlpools left by
the war.
"The world grows better, not worse,
with every succeeding generation,
There is too much pessimism. Weak
lamentations will not help matters
any. Acid criticism rebounds only
against itself. Be constructiye-keep
the home fires burning
con Tuesday at ! O'Clock the
Daughters were to 60 TO Arlington,
tI.t tJ.rr MIGHT nov tbatT trihEtH 10
the unknown heroes of our country.
After much waiting and many vain at
tempts to secure a place in an auto,
we reached our destination. | am
sure our driver was no %respecter OF
the speed law nor nervous women
That we were not overturned was due
more to Providence than prudence.
However, nothing happened, and 1t
was all we'll worth while.
During the ceremony the gates
were closed to all but Daughters o.
American Revolution. Autos were
Obliged to display our insignia in or
der to enter. 1t is indeed a beautiful
memorial. The services were simple
but impressive.
81 don't know that | ever heard
more beautiful music. The hymn,
The Heavens R~esounded with His
Gloria was exquisitely rendered.
Even the weather blended in to make
it more impressive. A grey day, black
clouds %scudding across the sky with
an occasional ray of sunshine or a
drop of rain. Each State Regent, as
well as the national president, carried
a wreath Of flowers, which they laid
upon the sarcophagus of the unknown
soldier.
1--WE hurried back for our State
meeting, which was held in our own
beautiful room. Unfortunately, Xix
M. c. H, it was not nearly large
enough for our delegation.
Mrs. Fits presided in her W
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