Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-15
More Than 5000 Delegates
and AIternates Fill Audi
torium for Session.
MRS. BR0SSEAU TELLS
OF S0ClETY'S PURPOSES
Fostering Of Deeper, More Jealous
National Spirit Is Urged by
President General.

Another year of effort behind them.
members of the National Society,
Daughters Of the American Revolution,
met in their thirty-eighth annual Con-
tinental Congress In the Washington
Auditorium today to contemplate the
accomplishments of the society and
stake out new fields Of effort in patriotic
endeavor.
More than 5000 delegates and alter
mates, representing a membership of
100000 women. filled the great Audi
torium at the opening meeting and
heard Mrs. Alfred j. Brosseau of Con-
necticut, the retiring president general,
sound call for the mobilization of the
ideals OF American patriots for the fos-
ter1ng OF deeper, more Jealous ma
tional spirit.
There is not a crisis of any kind
or condition threatening the Society Of
the Daughters of the American Revolu-
tion." she asserted.
Grave issues are confronting our
country now as always since its founda-
ton. Unequivocally committed to an
ardent defense of home and country
and loyalty to the institutions of Gov
ernment, naturally we are bound to be
sympathetically and actively involved
in such issues
The address of Mrs. Brosseau fea-
tured the opening meeting, a gathering
made colorful through display Of 1ow-
ers and impressive through patriotic
responded to by the assemblage.
Witcomb Sounds Assembly.
Promptly at 10 o'clock, the assembly
call was sounded by Arthur S. Witcomb,
second leader, the United States Ma
rine Band. 1t was the signal for the
entrance Of the pages. More than two
hundred young women, dressed In
white and bearing chapter standards.
marched in single file from the rear
of the auditorium to the stage while
Mrs. James Shera Montgomery at the
organ and Mr.. Witcomb played "Colum-
bia, the Gem of the Ocean" Follow
ing the pages were the national officers,
MRS. Brosseau, president general; the
vice presidents general and others.
Mrs. BrosSeau called the congress TO
order and Mrs. Matthew Brewster.
chaplain general, read from the fifty
fourth Psalm and offered prayer.
The great audience rose as q page
bearing the nag stepped to q prominent
place on the stage, and led by Mrs.
Charles Brand, national chairman of
the committee on correct use Of the
nag. the assemblage recited the salute
to the nag. Then The Star Spangled
Banner" was sung.
Page Leads in Greed Program.
William Tyler Page, clerk of the
United States House Of Representatives.
led the assemblage in reciting THE
Americans Creed" of which he Is the
author. Fully 5000 voices followed Mr..
Page in reciting impressively these
words:
It believe in the United States of
America as a government of the peo-
pie, by the people. for the people: whose
just powers are derived from the
consent of the governor: a democracy
in a republic; a sovereign Nation of
many sovereign States; perfect Union,
one and inseparable; established upon
those principles Of freedom, equality,
justice and humanity, for which
American patriots sacrificed their lives
and fortunes.
ct therefore believe it is my duty TO
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