Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-19
D. A. R. WILL RENEW
PATRIOTISM FIGHT
5000 Delegates Arriving for
Convention Which Opens
Tomorrow.

Prepared to press their campaign IN
support of undiluted Americanisn with
renewed vigor during the 1882 Wash
ington Bicentennial year, the advance
forces of the National Society, Daugh-
tiers of the American Revolution, were
stu arriving in large numbers last
night for the weeks sessions OF the
Fortieth Continental Congress which
conyenes tomorrow morning in Consti-
tuition Hall.
with scant heed paid to economic
and political problems and meme at all
to prohibition and unemployment, the
uroQram of the Continental Congress
this year indicates that Mrs. Lowen
FLETCHER Hobart. the combatant presl-
dent general, will sound new alarms
against the clamoringS Of Pacihsts ana
Co rmunistS-the twin enemies OF the
D. a. r. Mrs. Hobart's opening ad-
dress tomorrow morning in the presence
OF more than 5000 delegates and al
ternates from over land ana sea, VIII
be accepted as laying down the prln-
ciples which the patriotic organization
shall support.
President Hoover, pressed by mat
tiers of state. win be unable to ad-
dress the Continental Congress this
year and Vice President Curtis has as
sumed his place on tomorrow nights
program. Secretary OF Agriculture
HYDE also will speak. 1t was an
nounced. however, that Mrs. Hoover
would attend the opening session In
the morning. a duty which she VIII
perform with great Willingness owing
to her long interest in character build
ing activities.
Prohibition Question Looms.
while interest in this off-election
year of the D. A. r. centers primarily
on questions allied with national pre-
paredness, and the support OF the
Constitution, it was almost certain that
prohibition would be forced upon the
attention of the congress from the hoor,
as curing the previous sessions. Prld-
ing themselves that the D. a. X. never
takes cognizance of political issues. the
Resolution Committee was expected TO
follow its almost traditional policy OF
binding its eyes to prohibition and
other controversial questions.
State delegations arc establishing
their headquarters in all the principal
hotels and with perfect weather in
yiting Yesterday. hundreds Of the ar
irving Daughters fastened TO get a
glimpse of the famed cherry blossoms
in Potomac Park before the strenuous
sessions of the congress begin. Regis
tration of delegates and ritcrnates con-
tinued all day YESTERDAY. more than
half Of the number having already ar
rived.
All candidates for Office and all
State regents will be the luncheon
guests of Mrs. Frank H. PARCELS. New
York State regent. at ] o'clock this
afternoon at the willard Hotel. 1t will
be a non-partiSan assemblage, but one
at which the managers Of the IL cam
didates-10 to fill the vacancies oc-
curing in the office Of the vice presi-
dents general and / for the Office of
honorary vice president general-win
get in their good work.
Yesper Services Cancelled.
The annual Sunday evening vesper
services have been dispensed with this
year. Instead, most of the delegates
will attend services at various churches
and at the Washington Cathedral,
where they win be welcomed.
Interest centerS this afternoon on the
unwilling of the statue OF John Sewer
Revolutionary soldier and statesman,
which is Tennessee's second offering TO
the collection of States heroes per-
petuated in Statuary Hall at the Cap
itol. DR.. Flora Myers Gillentine, his
torian general OF the D. A. r., who
halls from Tennessee. will deliver the
dedicatory tribute to Sewer
Gov. Henry H. Horton, heading a
large delegation Of Tennesseeans, viii
attend the exercises, which begin at
$50 O'Clock. Representative Joseph w.
Byrns of Tennessee will deliver an ad-
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