Evening star., 1926-04-24
D. A. R. CONVENTION.
NEARS END IN PEACE.
Delegates Move Back Into
Historic HaII-Sessions
Close This Afternoon.

The thirty-ffth Continental Con-
gress of the Daughters of the Amer
lean Revolution, the most peaceable
in the long history of that society,
swung into the final day of its ses-
sions this morning with nothing but
routine business to be completed be-
fore adjournment.
There was one note of especial in
terest In today's sessions, however,
for they found the delegates back IN
their historic home. Memorial Con-
tinental Hall. which has seen the
Daughters Of the American Revolu-
ton grow from a small organization
to such a popularity that It's pre-
cincts were no longer large enough to
accommodate even the delegates TO
the annual congresses.
Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook called
to order her last session as presi-
dent general at 10 o'clock this morn
ing. The report Of the resolutions
committee. completion of unfinished
business and consideration OF new
business were the only three sub
iects on the program before recess
was taken for lunch. This after
noon the delegates will reassembie
and formally install their new ma
tional officers.
Stricter Naturalization urged
Several of the resolutions adopted
bv the Congress had direct bearing
upon action of the United states
Congress. One Of these, character1Z-
ing existing naturalization laws as
"meager and inadequate recon-.
mended the passage by Congress OF
an amendment which would neceSsi-
tate the accomplishment of a strict
educational test before a candidate
for naturalization should achieve that
estate.
Another pointed out that a movement
is now under way to have the great
highways of the Nation numbered
instead Of named in honor Of his
toric persons, events or places. BY
adopting the resolution, the Daughters
of the American Revolution put
themselves on record as favor1ng
unanimously a. retention of the idea
of giving Americas highways signifi-
cant names instead of meaningless
numerals.
The third resolution to be adopted
recommended appointment of a COM
mission by Congress to study all bat
tlefields In the United States and
transmit to the President by Decem-
ber l, 1929, a comprehensive plan for
marking each one.
Other Resolutions.
Additional resolutions. which receiv-
ed unanimous Endorsement, were as
follows: Reaffirm the support by the
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton Of the National Defense act and
urging the establishment Of military
training in colleges, schools and
camps; ordering the withdrawal or
the societys Endorsement to any park
at Yorktown which does not include
the battlefield and the field OF sur
render; authorizing the transfer OF
certain Philippine bonds to the newly
issued bonds for Constitution Hall,
and thanking Vice President Dawes
for his address last night.
The attention Of the delegates was
directed to an exceptional honor that
was paid Mrs. Cook and, through her,
all members of the society, in the
Senate last Monday, when Senator
Goff of West Virginia sought the
consent of the chamber
to have printed in the Congressional
Record that day the entire text of
Mrs. Cooks patriotic address of vel
come to the newly arrived delegates
to the thirty-f1fth congress. Inc re-
quest was granted by the Senate and
a copy of the Record was exhibited
in Memorial Continental Hall today,
the president generals re-
marks, beginning on the first page Of
the Record and continuing through
several more.
Dawes Praises Women.
The American woman Is "the bull
wark of all good things in America.
Vice President Dawes told the dele
gates at their session last night. II
used to be against woman suffrage"
he confided, land 1t was only when /
was elected to my present office that
I changed my mind. In the last cam.
paign I saw woman at work, and /
don't care whether she Is Republican
or a Democrat, wet or a dry. the
woman believes in what she
works for"
The Vice President described him.
self as the Official listener of the
United States Senate" and the "offi-
,ial diner.out for the administration"
In the first capacity, he said. he got
! superabundance of oratory and In
the second he suffered from q mini
mum of home cooking. In introducing
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