Evening star., 1925-04-20

an invitation for us to be preyed upon.
Nothing could be farther from the
aims of our society than to commit
our Nation to a militaristic program,
but it is the duty of every citizen to
safeguard the United States against
aggression by helping to support and
maintain land, sea and air forces for
our reasonable protection. To this
| policy Daughters of the American
! Revolution are solemnly committed.
| We furthermore believe that it is our
! duty and that of every American citi-
zen to be fully informed as to the
measure of national protection which
| is necessary-and to be unceasing in
our efforts to see that it is provided
! by the Congress of the United States.
Approve Training Camps.
las a society we have also gone on
| record as expressing our entire sym
| pathy with the objects of the citizens
military training camps, and we are
directing toward them the earnest at
tention of all parents. Each succeed
ing year since their inception they
! have performed an invaluable service
! to the Nation in bringing together
young men of all types. both native
and foreign-born, whom ii is training
for good, clean citizenship through the
| development of a closer national and
! social unity.
| THE spread of pacificism and the
| undermining of our ideals of national
| service by foreign agencies and by
our nattve-born emotional theorists,
who have been swept loose from
| stable moorings by skillful propa-
gandists, have reached a dangerous
! stage. Organized efforts have even
been made on the part of certain
| powerful propaganda society to have
| teachers of history confuse the minds
| of immature pupils with regard to
! their patriotic ideals concerning the
men in our Nations history who gave
! their lives for their country. In a
| recent number of the bulletin of such
, an organization great emphasis and
| commendation are given to a para
graph which cited that no articles
or songs eXtolling wars, battles or
the heroes of past wars are to be
| printed in the school books or papers
of the schools of a certain vicinity
Training of Children.
Thinking citizens Of America.
| whatever may be the horrors of war
and however opinionated we may be
| in regard to war or the means for its
| prevention, let US be resolved that
| every American boy and girl shall be
permitted to cherish the memory of
| those who paid the supreme sacrifice
for an unconquerable ideal. Rather
should we do more than less in our
schools by way of implanting the
seeds of patriotic emulation in the
hearts of the youths and maidens who
| are coming after US TO take up the
| torch when we relinquish it.
"It is the claim of modern psychol-
ogists that the play hours of children
are the greatest factors in the de-
| velopment of character and physique.
Fairgrounds and recreation centers
are now very generally acknowledged
as the most powerful social agency
in reducing Juvenile delinquency and
crime. Every daughter should in
form herself as to whether her com
| munity is intelligently and adequately
meeting this very vital need of mod
ern childhood. 1t has been said that
the child in it's play repeats the his
tory Of the race With properly
equipped and supervised Fairgrounds
in America we shall see the patriotic
teachings that we would have incul-
Gated live again in the American citi-
zens of tomorrow.
"'Oh. what a glorious morning is
thisr might we'll be said concerning
this April morning. Today we, the
descendants of the minute men and
of the 'embattled farmers of LeXing-
ton and Concord, as well as of the
other brave soldiers of that time, are
in possession and enjoyment of the
America made possible by their sac
rifices.
America Grown Great.
The America grown great and
powerful because of its advantages
under the democracy they fought for
and established. The America which
through it's utilization of its immense
natural resources, has made It's citl-
zens the most prosperous and happy
of all the peoples of the earth. The
America which has come to its place
in the sun as a world power because
it has maintained toward all other
1 nations the broad humanitarian out
look inculcated by its early patriots.
u How can we best show our
gratitude? How can we best be
worthy of the heritage they have be-
uueathed us? BY being slow, as were
they, to national combat, yet continu-
ing TO stand firm as did they for jus
tice and right. By steadfastly main
tanning ourselves as a numerous, a
respectable, a hardy and free people
Thus shall we Americans of today pass
on an America undefiled in national
honor and probity to the Americans
of tomorrow.
"a symbol frequently helps US to
express an ideal That of a nation is
a flag AS we look at the flag of our
beloved country today and through
out all the tomorrows of our lives
wherever we may beat home, abroad
ashore, afloat-let it symbolic for
each one of US a patriotic love and
devotion, fond hopes, high aspirations
and the security of a great Republic
which shall forever maintain unsullied
and unwarped its institutions Of con
stitutional government.
1t was with the same time e-honored
ceremony that has marked every con
ventton of the Daughters of the Amer
} lean Revolution since it's beginning
that Mrs. Cook formally opened the
thirty-fourth Continental Congress
) The big auditorium was beautifully
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