Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-06-23
- A 2 "BLACKLIST" CHARGES
BRING EXPULSION TO MRS. BAILIE
Board OF Management Holds
Name of Organization
Is Injured.
Society Declared Eliminated
From Connection With
Accusations.

Expulsion from the Daughters of the
American Revolution was the sentence
the national board OF management Oh
the society passed yesterday upon Mfs'
Helen TUFTS Bailie of Boston, whose
.,hlacklist" charges were held injurious
10 the name of the organization. Inc
vote was unanimous. q statement mace
public bv the Society'S officials SAID.
The so-called black list" which MRS
Battle had said she had seen Ill MaSSa- .
chusetts. was thoroughly eiimlnate1
from any connection with the national
society" a statement issued ON oehall VI
the board asserted. -.
MRS. Alfred BroSSeau. president gem
erai of the society. issued statement
declaring she regretted it had been nee
essarv TO expel Mrs. Bailie. but asserted
that 1.-The good name of the organization
is above any personal feelings ana Sl'e
reioiced that 1t had been proved tnae
the National Society had never spoh-
sored black list" she SAID.
Holds Free Speech Not Issue.
"The question of free speech Is not
on issue Mrs. BrosSeau declared.
without restraining that OF others, We
reserve To ourselves the right 10 lnVlt-
inc TO our platforms and listening 10
whom We please Being an entirely
self-supporting organization We feel we
are we'll within our rights In initiating
our own policies" :,
Mrs. Bailie took the witness STAND III
her own behalf Thursday at the closed
session of the national board OF hiah-
agement. which investigated the chafses
and she was represented by couilsel' as 81
was the society. George w. Aieer OF
New York and Lawrence G. BROOKS OF
Boston represented Mrs. Bailie, while ID
Ralph Burton of Washington represent
ed the society.
Nineteen members of the society pre-
ferred charges against Mrs: balile III
April accusing her OF "conouct CA4Cu-
lated to iniure the good name ana as
tllrb the harmony OF the society. upon
investigation. the executive committee
recommended that the charges were
well founded" and presented them 70
the board of management. wnlcn neIu
the hearings mass OF documentary
evidence on both sides was CONSIDERED
by the board, at the close OF testimony
Statement by Society.
The statement issued by the society
Mrs. Bailie admitted authorship OF
the pamphlet, Our Threatened Herl-
tage.' on which the charges OF giving
ont statements Injurious to the name
of the national society were oaseo.
This pamphlet, 1t was charged, con-
tanned statements derogatory to the
poed name of the society, belittled its
work, falsely accused its officers OF I'M
authorized acts, stated that its offlcerS
were duped and hypnotized and con-
tanned propaganda contrary TO the ex-
pressed. policy OF the society IN re-
gard to its patriotic work
zone of the accusations MADE by
Mrs. Bailie was that Mrs. William Sner-
man Walker. chairman Of the ID. a. X.
committee on national defense, had APP
peared before the House committee on
naval affairs and, in behalf OF the
D. A, R., had supported the then pend
ing naval program without the authori-
zation OF the ID. A. r. Mr.. Burton
showed that the National Socoety or the
Daughters of the American Revolution,
by a resolution passed at the last meet
ing of the Continental Congress here.
irldorsed the SIS ratio. He m
troduced letters from Secretary Wilbur
and Representative Fred A. Britten,
chairman of naval affairs committee OF
the House, showing that even with the
program outlined by the Government.
the United States Navy would still be
under the SIS ratio.
Mrs. Bailie, under cross-examination.
admitted that although she had made
the accusations against Mrs. Walker
and had given them TO the press, she
had been unfamiliar with the facts as
to whether the proposed additions TO