Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-19
SESSIONS OF c. AR.
TO RUN ALL WEEK
Picturesque Ceremonies at
Mt. Vernon on Thirty-Sixth
Annual Program.

While their elders are meeting in
| Constitution Hall, the Children of the
American Revolution will open their
thirty-sixth annual convention Tues
| day morning in the Corcoran Gallery
| of Art. Mrs. Samuel Shaw Arentz of
Nevada, the national president, will pre-
| side over these young delegates from
every State, whose ages range from 4
to 81 years.
The sessions will continue all week.
ending with picturesque ceremonies at
Mount Vernon. At the opening ses-
sion, national officers of various patri-
otto organizations will extend their
greetings to the representatives of the
$4,000 members of the Children of the
American Revolution.
State flags from Nebraska, Pennsyl-
vania, Texas, Ohio and Oklahoma will
be presented to national headquarters.
Besides the regular sessions, much sight
seeing is planned. The Capitol will be
visited, and william Tyler Page, the
author of the Americans Greed, will be
the children'S guide. At the Congress
sional Library. the interest will center
around the original copies Of the Decla-
ration OF Independence and the Con-
Stitution, which are there in cases with
gold leaf frames. Washington's Tomb
will be visited by river boat, so the
children may be impressed by the
tolling OF bells. which is the custom of
all vessels going down the Potomac
when they pass Mount Vernon.
Visit to Alexandria.
They will go to Alexandria to see the
monument they themselves provided for
the grave of the Unknown Soldier of
the Revolution when 1t was discovered
several years ago. Christ Church, where
washington worshipped, also will be
visited.
while the main purpose of the
convention is to report progress Of the
State societies and confer on methods
OF improvement" said Mrs. Arentz yes
teroay, ut Is quite as important that
the children visit the Nations historic
shr1nes to acquire knowledge and gain
inspiration. Anything touching the
life OF Washington cannot fail to inter-
est them. They have undertaken to
furnish room in the restored house at
Wakefield, Va, his birthplace. Several
pieces of furniture of that period, suit
able for a child's bed room, have been
secured. Every detail at Mount Vernon
captures their attention. While the
older ones are carefully examining
swords and spinets, the smallest ones
are usually racing up to the third floor
to see the little hole in the door where
Martha Washington's cat came in.
Each year they gather around the
tree that the society planted IS years
ago, and part of the ceremony is to
listen to Mrs. Eleanor Washington How
ard, the last living child born at Mount
Vernon, tell the story Of Washington's
youth. The very inception of the So
ciety is from a statement of Washing
ton as he greeted group of children
during the Revolution: We may be
beaten by the English on the field of
hn$ kIank De- aIaa 80 1.,.G
here is an army that can never be
conquered"
Washington Family Members.
On the Governing Board are two
members of the Washington family,
Mrs. Howard and Mrs. John Kerr. Sew
eral of the smallest children have fire.
quently acted as pages in colonial COS
tunes.
Tuesdays session will be broadcast
from the convention hall, but on We'd
nesday evening the whole program will
be given in the radio studio of the Sons
Of the American Revolution, when it is
expected that members from all over
the country will listen in. This radio
program will be followed by the story.
with pictures, of THE Many Homes of
the Continental Congress"
National officers are: President, Mrs.
Samuel Shaw AREN'T: vice president
presiding, Mrs. Eleanor Washington
Howard; recording SECRETARY. Mrs. Frank
Ray; treasurer, Mrs. Thaddeus Jones;
registrar, Mrs. w. Gardiner; Librarian
curator, Mrs. Charles Groves; chaplain,
Mrs. Percy M. Bailey: national vice
presidents Mrs. Violet Blair Janin, Mrs.
Larz Anderson, Mrs. Robinson Downey,
Mrs: Lawrence Quirollo. Miss Dorinda
Rogers. Mrs. Amos A. Fries, Mrs. Fred
erick Memges, Mrs. Georgia Knox Ber-
ry, Mrs Rose Mulcare. Mrs. John A.
Maxwell The national corresponding
secretary is Miss Aimee Powell; organ
izing secretary, Mrs. Theodore Clay
Uhler.
The honorary presidents are Mrs.
Fred Dubois, Mrs. Frank Mondell and
Mrs. Josiah A. Van Orsdel. The hon.
orary vice presidents are Mrs. Horace
Towner, Miss Margaret Lothrop and
Miss Anne Cummins.