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to their children a Government estab-
lished by the hallowed blood of our
fathers, which Is today aSSatled by foes
without and foes within.
At the White House officials were
told that q ditinguished roster OF
sponsors, including both men and
women. has been secured for the
Daughters OF the American ConStitu-
ton. Among them are Vice President
Curtis, Mrs. Edward Everett Gam.
Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Will
mer Bird, who was the first chairman
of the women's division of the Repub-
lican party; s. s. Kresge. chain store
magnate; Gov. John @. Winant of YER
mont Mrs. Richard Cabot of Boston,
Ruth st. Denis, the dancer; Prof. Isaac
Lippincott the Rev. DR.. Ivan Lee Holt
Of st. Louis. a Democrat and prominent
Southern Methodist leader; the Rev.
DR.. George A. Campbell Of st. Louis.
editor of the Christian Century and
woman leaders from various parts of
the country.
Financial Backing Strong.
The ID. A. c." are not entering the
political arena without that all-eSsen-
tial sinew of war-money. An unnamed
philanthropist has contributed a check
fat enough to see things through the
next year The bulk of the funds row
In bank will be spent on planting sec
tional organizations all over the coun-
try. There are to be 4S vice presidents,
one for each State. and to these women
will be intruSted the launching of local
branches within their respective juris-
dictionS. AS organizer in chief, the
Daughters Of the American Constitu-
ton have drafted the services of Mrs.
Louis j. Brooks of Ohio, who is de-
Scribed as the most potent woman go
getter in the United States in the field
Of organization. Mrs. Brooks will op-
crate under a board of officers, which
Is now composed Of Mrs. Hooker, as
president: Mrs. George II. Strawbridge
of Philadelphia as vice president; Mrs.
Clarence Howard as second vice presi-
dent; Byron Moser, st. Louis banker,
as Secretary-treasurer. and Clarence
Howard as advisor Mrs. Hooker, prime
mover in the ID. A. c." Is famed
throughout the Southwest for civic
work. After the World War, the State
of Missouri bestowed upon her the first
decoration ever given a woman in that
region, in tribute to her war activities.
the leaders of the Missouri bar and
has frequently been mentioned for high
Republican honors in st. Louis and the
State.
Hoover Support Aim.
THE Call to American Womanhood, I"
which forms the prospectus of the
Daughters of the American Constitu-
ton, specifically diScloses that the re-
election Of President Hoover in 1892 is
the organizations main objective. Are
we then such decadent people, with
all our glorious past" the prospectus
opening passages ask, that we can
with indifferent ears hear a slogan sent
forth: Smear Hooverl'-a slogan about
our President, the Chief Executive of
the United States? Are we so weak
that we can sit and smile with tolerant
eyes while men of prominence and
ladies of fashion defy the laws of the
land, sneer at the courts and set them
selves boldly against the Constitution of
this country-all this while the red flag
of bolshevism, through its alien sup
porters, advantaging our lawlessness
and chaos, seeks to destroy our very
form of government"
Later on the D. A. G. manifesto ex-
claims: I'VE believe it has seldom fallen
to the lot of a President to bear the
burden Of leadership through such a
series of crises and calamities as have
confronted Herbert Hoover during his
administration, while at the same time
he has had to endure such misrepre-
sentation, vilification and abuse as have
been broadcast over this land. Held up
as un-American, q failure, an impotent
leader, alive to the distress of foreign
peoples, but deaf to the SufferingS OF his