Evening star., 1932-04-23
CEREMONIES END
CONGRESS OF OAR.
Mrs. Russell William Magma
Becomes President General
This Afternoon.
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passing from one administration to the
other. Mrs Lowell Fletcher Hobart. re-
tiring president general. and Mrs
Magma. her successor, will be the GEN.
tral figures and the central theme nj
the after-dinner speaking
Final reports, the acceptance of gifts
and unfinished reports were the matters
before the Congress today as it wound
I'D its affairs of the year.
At t1:45 O'Clock the professional of re-
tiring and newly elected officers formed
in the president generals reception
room and made an impressive appear
ance upon their entrance to the hall
silver trumpets sounded, the Nav
Band orchestra struck up the crashing
strains of the Grand March" as the
long line of fashionably dressed women
preceded by banners, marched down the
aisle to the stage.
Mills Addressed Congress.
With Secretary of the Treasury Mills
as the principal speaker last night, Con-
stitution Hall was filled to more than
its usual evening attendance. To the
organization which has been exceedingly
active for stronger national defense and
a bigger fleet, Secretary Mills pointed
out that while every one is for a bal
enced budget in principle" there is a
strong opposition to each Individual
economy proposed. For this reason he
urged the necessity of a unified and
consistent program. He made no men,
tion of specific items.
Secretary Mills asserted that of all
problems confronting the country today.
that of having the Governments finan-
cial house put in order was the most
vital, Tor If the Governments credit
were brought into question, he said,
recovery would be delayed indefinitely.
He pronounced it absolutely imperative
that both parties work together, shar-
ing jointly the responsibility and what
ever measure of unpopularity may
come" with imposition of new tax
burdens and reduction of governmental
costs.
1T is not too much to say that If
each part of either the economy or
the revenue program is considered
separately and independently of the
programs as whole, it is faced with
the serious danger of defeat" Mills
said.
Asks for Coordination.
He expressed himself as confident of
the enactment Of a reasonably sound
and adequate tax measure" but said
that in the effort to reduce cost of
Government there is at present "a vast
degree of confusion, due in a large
measure to a division of responsibility
and OF Jurisdiction"
To do away with the present cha
otto situation and to insure the attain
ment OF prompt and definite results, il
Is essential that the various propose is
looking to economy should be combined
and co-ordinated," he said.
For this he prescribed the same recipe
that he maintained should have been,
and would eventually be, the course for
the tax bill: For the Treasury De-
partment and members of the commit
tees in charge of the drafting and prep
aration OF the revenue bill to sit around
the table In spirit of complete nom
partisanship and willing cooperation
with view TO producing the best DOS
sible bill that can be written under
most difficult and trying conditions"
Declaring the real problem todav
the restoration of confidence" Mills
said, the very forefront of the pro-
gram Is the Governments undertaking
to put its own financial house in order.
II the Governments credit can ever
be brought into question, such a blow
Will have been dealt to confidence and
nope that this depression, with all that
1t spells in terms of human misery and
suffering, must be indefinitely pro-
longed." he said.
Mrs. Rigdon Submits Report.
The liberty loan fund. a permanent
fund amounting to Sl0O, 900 raised dur
ing the period of the World War. Is
invested In notes, secured by Consti-
tuition Hall, Mrs. Harriet Vaughn Rig
don, chairman, re orted to the congress.
She said:
"On April /. 1881, there was a balance
of s4,646.45 in the accrued interest. to
which had been added $4.250 making
total of S8,89645.
From this amount pensions amount
ing to s4.720 have been paid to seven
Real Daughters and 10 Spanish -Ameri-
can War nurses. Three hundred dol
lars was contributed to the tubercular
sufferers in Fort Bayard, N. Mex, and
S400 transferred to the Caroline E. Holt
scholarship fund, leaving a balance in
the accrued interest of S3,476.45"
Mrs. John Triggs Moss, chairman of
the national committee on National
Old Trails" stressed the success of the
work Of this group and pointed out it
was the inspiration of this committee
organized in 1911 that awakened in
tereSt in locating, exploiting and adver-
tising old historic roads, and the COM
mittee has become of national i'm
portance. Today this National Old
Trails Road" conceived by George
Washington and following civilization
westward under various acts of Con-
gress, and sponsored as a national
memorial for the last 81 years by the
D. A. r., reaches from ocean to ocean
and in the u States through which
this highway passes are erected IL i'm
posing monuments This national
shrine is not only representative. but
distinctive memorial to those pioneer
mothers of ours whose granite virtues
were so outstandingly great, Mrs. Moss
said.
Maryland is taking a prominent part
in old trails work" continued the