Evening star., 1925-04-20
AMERICAN PEOPLE
SOUND, SAYS D. A. R.
HEAD IN WELCOME
Mrs. Cook, Addressing 5000
Delegates, Sees No Sign
of Race Degeneration.
WARNS AGAINST WORK
OF PACIFIST SOCIETIES
Praises Laws Restricting Aliens
and Regrets Difficulty of
Deporting Unworthy.

/ Scornine as wastrels the absurdlv
/ small minority who disport them
! selves where the lights are whitest."
| Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook, president
! general of the Daughters of the Amer
! lcan Revolution, told the Thirty
/ fourth Continental Congress of that
! society al its opening session here to-
! DAY that there need be no fear about
! social conditions in our Republic to-
/ day"
! The numerous, the respectable. the
! hardy and the free Americans are
| growing stronger and stronger in their
! course" Mrs. Cook asserted This
! country will be safe in their hands
] the great mass of American people of
! all classes.
Minority of WastreIs.
/ Tits only an absurdly small minor
/ ity who disport themselves where the
/ lights are whitest. They are the non
producing waStrelS, possessing neither
! regard of themselves nor of their
neighbors. Picturesque though they
may appear to the novelist, they
/ finally will prove themselves of little
/ importance and subjects of the aver
age Americans contempt"
/ Denying that American social life
! is loose and irresponsible, Mrs. Cook
J declared ours is a God-fearing. home
! loving citlzenry." The exceptions to
| this" the speaker continued, ARE so
! exceedingly small in number that they
! appear great only in being conspicu-
/ Gus. Never have our successful men
and women so fully demonstrated their
/ sense of responsibility for the better
! ment of social conditions as today"
5000 Delegates Here.
More than 5000 delegates and alter
mates, comprising the largest number
/ of women ever accredited to a Cont
mental Congress of the Daughters of
/ the American Revolution, occupied
, the first floor of the Washington
Auditorium, where the main sessions
of this congress are being held. In
I the gallery We're more than 1000
! spectators during the formal opening
ceremonies of what il is predicted
will be one of the most important
gatherings in the history of the 50
! ciety.
/ 1t was in an atmosphere of intense
patriotism that Mrs. Cook delivered
her address. and her audience was
actively responsive to her appeal for
a firm continuation of the Christian
ideals and principles upon which this
Nation was founded and upon which
it has prospered. Surrounding her on
. the were representatives
from a score of other leading patri-
otic societies and high dignitaries of
/ State and Nation.
Tribute to Coolidge Ideals.
Mrs Cook paid high tribute to the
ideals enunciated by President Cool
idge. But any plan of economy on
the part of the Federal Government,
she added. will not succeed TO the
fullest degree unless it is also APP
piled in the cities, counties and
States. "All of the saving cannot be
done here in the National Capital"
she declared. Local governments
must also supply the lesson, and we
! must use our efforts in our homes
to that end"
Although she praised passage of
legislation restricting immigration to
these shores, Mrs. Cook scored the
misguided emotionaliSts, converts to
the eloquent casuistries of the propa-
ganda societies." who blocked adop-
ton of the act which would have
given the Government the right to de-
port immigrants who fail to evince
a desire to acquire American citizen
ship and attempt to menace the Ma
tion's institutions of government.
Education and patriotism, Mrs.
Cook continued, must always be the
shining goals toward which true
Daughters of the American Reyolu-
ton will strive. Although she ex-
pressed a hope that America will
never become a militaristic nation, she
sounded a warning that tremendous
influences are at work to have this
country disarm in the face of pos
sible aggression to suit a pacifstic
theory. In part, Mrs. Cooks address
follows:
Text of Address.
''At daybreak $50 years ago yes
, terday morning Capt. John Parker,
, American, said to his neighbors
grouped at the bridge at lexington:
Don't fire unless you are fired on,
but if they want war it night as
well begin here And there the EN-
battled farmer stood and fired the
shot heard round the world. John
Parkers words eXemplify the spirit
or the American far better than we,
perhaps, have realized. In fact, too
often we have been criticized for
] what seemed submission, or, at least,
extreme patience.
Thought of Independence.
| 1T was Samuel Adams who first
/ thought of independence, and he only
, some seven or eight years before the
. outbreak of the Revolution. On that
j April morning $50 years ago, walking
across the fields, he heard the firing
4 at Lexington. Turning to his COM
, panion, John Hancock, he said, oh,
e what a glorious morning is thisn How
; well all this illustrates the character
s of the American when he believes his
s rights are assailed. Not an impulsive
enthusiast, but careful, even cautious,
: willing almost to be driven into
l. corner, but then standing for justice
s and right with every fiber of his
mind and body responding.
THE holding of the annual con-
gress of the Daughters of the Ameri
can Revolution this year upon ths
r Monday after Sunday, April 10, is not.
V as il might seem, an unrelated coinci-
q denee. For our national society had
h this memorable occasion in mind in
e their selection of the Monday nearest
8 April 19 as the date for convening
their annual Continental Congress.
New England has always fittingly OBJ
served April 10 as the high light that
it is in American history.
!. 1.-The world knows that we are a
). Nation of great numbers and hardy
. and free, and we have always main
!. tanned ourselves as a truly respect
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