Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-04-16
PRESIDENT WELCOMES
D.A.R.; LAUDS CRUSADE
OF TRUE AMERICANISM
|Harding's Speech
| At n Session
| In Memorabilia

In Memorable
Daughters Of the Revolution:
1T is a great pleasure to greet
and join in the welcome which the
nations capital gladly extends to
the notable body of enlightened
and patriotic women who gather
annually to renew their pledges Of
highest national usefulness.
l am sure that Washington re-
1oices In the presence and profits
by its contact with an association
wherein long ago you merged the
finest aspirations for service, and
submerged every consideration of
sectieE. faction. ancient division
and merely selfish ambition Tt
has been the uniform object of the
Daughters Of the Revolution to
preserve and promote those senti-
ments of civic duty, of broadly
national concern, of genuine pa
triotism, which constitute our rich
est inheritance from the fathers
who laid the foundation Of our ma
tional estate.
Our country will have done we'll
when 1t is assured Of the full en-
llstment of all the unselfish deyo-
ton or its womanhood in the su-
preme duty of implanting senti-
ments of real Americanism in the
hearts of all our citizens 1t is
because
SO earnestly, SO unswervingly led
IN enlisting womanhood for this
splendid service, that these year
iy conventions are recognized as
occasions of refreshment to the
spiritual welfare and reinforce-
ment to the physical reserves on
which depend the national move
ment forward and upward. Yours
is an unceasing, a self-perpetuat-
ing crusade. You seek constantly
TO draw in new armies Of recruits
TO the forces which uphold the
banners of exalted nationalism
ana OF ennobling citizenship. Your
service to country finds it's re-
cruits in the youth of the on
coming generation; it gains in
strength through the training and
discipline of these; it seeks all
ways to expand and improve its
Ideals and aims, through its eff
forts to open a wider anu a. truer
vision to those who will be the
leaders of tomorrow.
1t is in this conception Of your
organization that, think, we shall
most justly appraise it's usefulness
to our country. You have made il
your especial endeavor to train
the rising generation in the WAYS
OF righteous and useful citizen
ship. In your zeal for a better to-
morrow you have wrought greatly
for a better today.
The Daughters of the ReyoIu-
ton have preserved for US all
lesson in the desirability of for
bearance. patience and tolerance.
In the beginnings of the nation
there were wide divergences of
Judgment about institutions, meth
DDS, directions, means and meas
ures. There were conflicts of SEN
timent. section and fundamental
social procedures. Passions were
often infiamed. and jealousy often
was threatened These conflicts re-
CURED to be settled through mu-
tual concessions, through generous
recognition of inevitable and
yet perfectly honest differences.
Fortunately for our country's
great experiment, there was a suf-
ficient endowment Of wisdom,
moderation and self1essness to
make possible the adjustment of
all the differences. The great
project of government of the
people, for the people. by the peo-
pie was sent forth in the world
because no group or faction or
narrow interest assumed to be or
to represent all the people No
group arrogated to itself all the
political Righteousness of the
young republic.
Because it has ever been the
aim and object of your organiza-
ClOn TO keep TINS general attl-
tude at the front among your
policies, one is prompted to note
the striking coincidence between
the complexities of those early
days in our history and the prob
lens which the world confronts
today. Never has mankind faced
difficulties of such varied char
acter. or on SO huge a scale. as
now PROFOUND to it the riddle of
the Sphinx. The very destiny of
the race, the future Of civiliza-
ton, seem to depend on our find
ing answer. and on our sincere.
generous, broad-minded accept
ance of that answer when it is
found. Until the new paths are
well revealed, we must hold Sc
cure those which we inherited.
We shall not find an answer which
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