Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-19
U. S. Congress Called on by
Society to Fulfill Terms
of 5-5-3 Pact.
RECOGNITION OF SOVIET
EMPHATICALLY OPPOSED
Mrs. Lowell F. Hobart of Ohio Is
Elected President General
by 400 Majority.

Calling on the United States Congress
to provide "as speedily as possible a
Navy appropriate to American dignity
and power the National Society.
Daughters Of the American Revolution.
today wrote into its record the most
militant stand yet taken for national
defense.
On the eve of new administration
of their affairs, delegates to the Thirty
eighth Continental Congress adopted
resolutions urging the following:
/. Fulfllment by the United States
Government of the 5-5-3 ratio with
reference to capital ships agreed upon
at the Washington Conference on
Limitation of Armaments in 1921,
q. Calling on the WomenS Patriotic
Conference on National Defense, in
which the society participates, ito de-
clare its emphatic opposition to the
recognition of Soviet Russia" by this
Government.
3. Urging the enactment of an oath
of allegiance to the United States as
one of the qualifications requisite for
teachers in the schools and colleges of
our land"
4. Reiterating its position favoring
the immigration act of 1924, including
the So-called national origins clause.
5. Calling on the Women's Patriotic
Conference on National Defense to re-
affirm its recommendation "for a strong
support of the Chemical Warfare Service
and commend that service for its per-
siStent and effective resistance hereto
fore to all attacks of radicals and others
opposed to an efficient national defense
by the United States"
Reserve Forces Commended.
Resolutions indorsing the splendid
movements" of the Reserve Oficers
Training Corps and the Civilian Mill
tary Training camps: a petition to the
United States Congress to officially
adopt The Star Spangled Banner" as
the national anthem. and resolutions
appealing to Congress to appropriate
funds necessary to restore the frigate
Constitution were adopted.
Participating in the Congress en-
thusiastic reception of the resolutions
was Mrs Lowell Fletcher Hobart c.
Cincinnati. Ohio. who was elected yes.
terday to succeed Mrs. Alfred j. Bros
seau as president general of the So
ciety.
Mrs. Hobart defeated Mrs. julius
Young Talmadge Of Athens, Ca, re-
ceiving 1921 votes of 2.249 cast, and
carrying into ofiice with her 10 women
who will form her cabinet" in adj
ministering the national society for the
next three years. Her margin of victory
was about 400 votes. in one Of the
most spirited elections in the organiza-
tons history.
Mrs. Hobart's Ticket.
Elected with Mrs. Hobart we're: Mrs.
william Rick Painter. Missouri, chap
lain general. 1865 votes: Mrs. Charles
Humphrey Bissell. Connecticut. record
ing secretary, 1913 votes; Miss Margaret
B Barnett, Pennsylvania corresponding
secretary. 1889 votes; Mrs. William A.
Becker. New Jersey, organizing secre-
tary, 1886 votes; Mrs. Harriet Vaughn
Rigdon, Indiana. treasurer general. 1910
votes: Mrs. Josiah A. Van Orsdel Of
Washington. D. c., registrar general,
1888 votes; Mrs. Flora Myers Gillentine,
Tennessee, historian general; Miss Anne
Lang, Oregon. reporter general to
Smithsonian Institution, 1859 votes;
Mrs. Russell w. Magma, Massachusetts,,
librarian general. 1913 votes. and Mrs.
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