Evening star., 1923-09-02
SOUTHERN SOCIETY
TO INCREASE SIZE
Membership Campaign to Be
Staged-Committees for
Year Are Chosen.

Comprehensive and intensive plans
for broadening into one of the larg-
est organizations of the kind in
America are being formulated by the
directing heads of the Southern So
ciety of Washington. A campaign
soon will be inaugurated for a large
increase In membership and a boost
ing of it's personnel in both numbers
and personal and official caliber.
This is part of the program laid
down by it's new head. President
Charles A. Douglas. and official, pro-
ians associated with him in the man
agement of the organization.
Receptions to be given to Pres
ident and Mrs. Coolidge. to
former British Premier Lloyd George
and to the representative women of
the south. who will be in Washington
as delegates to the annual convention
OF the United Daughters of the Con-
federacy, are part of the preliminary
seasonal arrangements decided upon
by the society's executive committee
and advisory heads of committees.
These functions will be elaborate in
scale and among the most brilliant of
the winter events in Washington.
Other distinctive events will mark
the society's activities later on.
committees Named.
President Douglas yesterday an
nounced the following committees for
1928:
Executive committee-Wade III.
Cooper, chairman: Claude y. Bennett.
vice chairman: Charles NJ. Galloway,
William II. Saunders, Daniel G. Roper,
George III. Lamar and Clarence j.
Owens
Membership committee-David II.
Blair. chairman: f. b. Merritt. vice
chairman; Mrs. Elizabeth Fred, Hamp-
son Gary. Mrs. Warren \. Akers. DIR.
Wade II. Atkinson and Robert A.
Extension committee-Mrs. Helen II.
Gardener. chairman; Pat Harrison,
vice chairman; L. B. Merritt. William
Edward +. Britton. Si William William G. Hariee. lay lee
Howard Lloyd, Stewart B. Muncaster,
Frank F. Conway. Maj. Gen. Arthur
Murray. Representative Garland Dupre,
Robert, L. Morgan. H. l.. Rust. Mrs.
Bailey and Henning e. Nelms.
Auditing committee-Robert y. Har-
per. chairman; William r. DeLashmutt.
vice chairman; Samuel l.. Rogers.
Galloway. chairman; Capt. c. c. Cal
houn. vice chairman; Mrs. David
Dubose Galliard. Maj. Gen. John A.
Lejeune. Mrs. William E. Hutton. Mrs.
Bates Warren, Mrs. William c. Gorgas,
Mrs. Samuel NJ. Meek and Mrs. Thomas
Watt Gregory.
Floor committee-Charles C. Nc
Chord, chairman; John Temple
Graves. vice chairman; George F.
Mitchell, DR.. J. G. b. Bulloch, Alex
ander NJ Bull. Neyle Colquitt, Horace
G.. Smithy and James Kerr Mebane.
Entertainment committee-ieorge
H. Lamar. chairman; Conrad II. Syme.
vice chairman; DIR. Sterling Ruffin.
Mrs. Frank Morrison. Charles w.
Semmes. John H. Small and Samuel
]. Graham.
Public information committee
Fred A. Emery, chairman; Marshall
Morgan and Edward +. Britton.
Covers All South.
The societys membership geo.
81 aphically stretches from the lower
reaches of the southwestern states
to the Mason and Dixon's line that
separates Maryland anu Pennsylvania.
1t embraces members from the Dis
trict of Columbia. Maryland and all
the states in the category of the
southland. 1t is not sectional or
partisan or for promotive purposes
in any way, except that it's members
are the representatives or descend
ants Of families in all that territory
mentioned. 1t has nothing to do with
any purposes or aspirations not set
forth in Its articles of membership.
Its only purposes, SO far as the south
is concerned. are to amplify the scope
of southern history, to perpetuate
southern traditions, to enrich south
ern sentiment and to intensity in
the youth of the people of all those
states, including Washington city. an
educated conviction of the SOUTH
worth and worthiness in the hearts
of the American people. 1t carries
forward this slogan as well as the
slogan Of the broad patriotism that
makes the people of all those states
and the District of Columbia loyal
to the entire country and helpful mem
bers Of the federation of humanity