Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-04-16
Inspiring Spectacle
as 32d Congress
COnvenes.
MRS. MINOR MAKES
STIRRING ADDRESS
President General Urges
Continued Fight Against
BOlshevism.

Declaring the world today faces
difficulties on a larger scale and OF a
more varied nature than ever before.
President Harding, in an address be
fore the National Society OF the
Daughters of the American Revolt
ton in Memorial Continental Hall, to-
day urged America TO draw a lesson
from the fortitude of the nations
founders and follow their path until
newer, better one is discovered
The President congratulated the
daughters upon the fact that their
ideals are those Of Americas fore
fathers. The very destiny of the race
the future Of civilization, he said.
rest upon the answers we find to the
important questions the nation faces
today. America, the President assert
ed, might draw d lesson from the
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton.
Until new paths are revealed 10
US let US hold secure to those which
we have inherited. The war-toru
world of today easily might find i
helpful lesson and cheering encourac-
Inent from the founding fathers VIII"
round way to a union and concert
ed effort. World wonder. sometime
world envy, has attended the astound-
ing development"
The Daughters of the American Reyo
luton formally convened their thirty
second congress in Memorial Continental
Hall promptly at 1890 o'clock this
morning. Mere mana salwart bu-
| gler of the United States Marine
| Corps-called the $500 delegates and
alternates, representing every state
in the Union. to order moment be-
| fore Mrs. George Maynard Minor, the
| president general, entered in state
| and declared the convention in SEES
! sion
In the tense excitement of the
inaugural exercises all else but the
society,s creed of true Americanism.
| as enunciated by Mrs. Minor in her
annual address, was momentarily for
! gotten. Politics. the coming selection
of new president general. personal
| ambition-all were laid aside when
the incumbent president general call
| ed upon the Daughters OF the Amer
| lean Revolution a a body to stamp
| out radical societies ''masquerading
! as peace and freedom organizations"
fOut-and-o patriotism for the
| preservation of American ideals" was
the duty, Mrs. Minor charged upon
! the delegates. She delivered her ad-
dress in an atmosphere fairly over
| flowing with the spirit of America
Grouped before her were the blood
! descendants of the valiant men and
women who. more than century
| ago founded this nation. Swinging
| slowly from the stained glass cell
| ing above hung suspended a huge
colonial flag: around it were grouped
the flags of the states.
Assembly Sounded.
| Only few minutes earlier every
person in the room had stood at at
| tention. right hand to salute while
| The American Creed" and The Sa-
: lutte to the Flag" were recited. I'm
| maculate in his blue, red and gold uni
form, the marine bugler had sounded
| assembly. Red, white and blue ny
drangeas nodded from the Termed
| fringes of the rostrum, upon which
sat the national officers and high
city and government officials. 1t was
in this atmosphere that the presi-
dent-general called upon the repre-
sentativeS of American womanhood
to go out and fight the creed of boil
shevism which. she declared. is seek
ing to crush true Americanism.
oh you women, gathered here today
from all the states, representative OF
hundreds of chapters throughout our
broad land. if l could only make you
realize all that it means now to be a
nleI VI the american heNOlutlO0.
II means, in its deepest sense. a self
dedication t0 home. country and God
Yours is the heritage which means
America and all that America stands
for and yours is the obligation to per-
petuate and defend it.
1t has been well written that those
who have no reverence for their ances-
tors will have nothing worthy to
transmit to their descendants. 1t is
true that we are a society that looks
backward. but it is into living past
that we gaze. No past that is worth
anything can ever be called dead. Is
not the past which gave US our homes
and built up our country worth some
thing? We look backward only that
We may go forward with greater hope
and courage.
Liberals Sheer Mt Past.
1T is the fashion to sneer at the
past, to make it the butt of superficial
jokes and radical denunciations. But
the f1utterng leaves of a tree might
just as well give themselves airs of
superiority and deny the roots. Where
would they be were the ak laid to the
roots and the tree cut down?
THAT is what many Americans
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