Evening star., 1932-04-24
OAR HELM TAKEN
BY NEW OFFICERS
Mrs. Magma Sounds Plea for
Renewed Service as SeS-
sion Ends.

D. A. r. to q constructive program of
good citizenship and patriotic educa-
tion," new administration, headed by
Mrs. Russell William Magma of Holyoke,
Mass, took the helm for the next three
years, late yesterday, as the Forty-frst
Continental Congress passed into
history.
Pledges Of good will and cooperation
given by the retiring president general,
Mrs. Lowell Fletcher Hobart echoed
in the exchanges between outgoing and
incoming national officers at the an
nual love feast last night at the
Willard Hotel. Some 800 delegates
gathered for the final banquet with
songs and farewells until another
congress rolls around next April 18.
Mrs. Hobart presided as POSTMASTER
and there were responses from Mrs.
Magma and her 10 cabinet officers.
Tomorrow morning the new admins
tration will hold its first board meet
ing important because of the official
announcement of policy and the ap-
pointment of new national committee
chairnen. Seldom has new admins
its duties with clearer understanding
of the work it is to do or a more
unanimous support from chapters IN
every section.
Slated for Defense Post.
Interest centers on the report that
Mrs William A. Becker of Montclair,
N. j., is to become the next national
defense chairman succeeding Mrs. Will
liam Sherman Walker, the incumbent
for the last six years. A former State
regent of New Jersey, Mrs. Becker has
served the last three years as organiz-
ing secretary general. She was class
mate of Mrs. Magma at Smith College. |
Reported thoroughly in sympathy with
the new intentions with regard to the
national defense policy Mrs Becker's |
appointment, it was said, would meet |
with unqualified approval
Mrs. Magma took the helm of the D. |
A. R. leadership yesterday afternoon |
with plea for cooperation and ring |
ing ACCOMPLISHMENT to delegates: "As
you lueave for your homes, take with |
you renewed hope, high courage, and |
assume your responsibilities to service |
through good citizenship and patriotic |
education, as members of this great or
ganization of American womanhood,"
she declared. Constructive co-opera- |
your individual responsibility"
One accomplishment Mrs. Magma can |
look forward to with certainty is the |
wiping out of the indebtedness on Con-
stitution Hall. During the last week, |
she collected more than $4,000 for the
building fund, some $4,000 of which she /
raised in popular subscriptions yester-
day.
Decorated Gaily.
At last nights banquet, attended by
about 100 more delegates than last |
year, the hall and the speakers tables |
were gaily hedecked with flowers and /
decorations remindful of the Bicenten-
NAL year. Led by the two offlcial flag |
bearers, Mrs, Jean ]. Labat and Miss
Dorothy Dec. Jenkins, the officers of |
the outgoing and incoming admins
tration marched in a procession amid |
the applause OF delegates.
In addition to Mrs. Magma, the newly
installed cabinet officers were the chap
lain general, Mrs. Raymond Grant |
Kinbell Of Illinois; the secretary gen.
eral, Mrs. Henry Bourne Joy of Michi- |
gan, the corresponding secretary gen.
eral, Mrs. John M Beavers of the Dis |
trict Of Columbia; the organizing secre-
tary general, Mrs. Frank Rowland Par
cells Of New York; the treasurer general, |
Miss Katherine Arnold Nettleton of
Connecticut; the registrar general, Mrs.
Stanley Foreman Reed of Kentucky; the |
historian general Mrs. William Louis
Dunno of Texas, the reporter general to
the Smithsonian Institution Mrs. Frank
Phelps Toms Of California, the librarian
general, Mrs. Frank Madison Dick of
Maryland, and the curator general. Miss
Myra Hazard of Mississippi.
Conspicuous also was the new slate
of eight vice presidents general. Mrs
Joseph Hayes Acklen of Tennessee, Mrs.
Nathaniel Beaman of Virginia, Mrs.
Il Thomas Boyd of Colorado. Mrs. |
Joseph M. Galley of Pennsylvania, Mrs.
Edward w. Cooch of Delaware, Mrs.
Frank Hamilton Marshall of Oklahoma,
Mrs. c. Edward Murray of New Jersey
and Mrs. Walter L. Tobey of Ohio.
Mrs. Hobart was presented with a
handsome gold wrist watch as a token
of affection by the members of her
cabinet
Happy among the guests were Col
Walter Scott of New York. father of
Mrs. Magma. and her husband, Russell
William Magma, who occupied a special |
table with close friends and members
OF the Holyoke, Mass, chapter. 1t was
from this chapter that the new presi-
dent general entered the D. A. r.
arena in 1912 to rise to its highest
elective Office.
Maj. Story Speaks.
Aside from the traditional program
associated with the termination of each
congress, Maj. Sidney Story, in an ad-
dress, outlined a panacea for the
Nations economic and political ills
In conclusion, he declared: The need
IS for statesmen like George Washing
ton, who will put the country and duty
knf fore ~ har TIHVo a,aI |
purge the Nation of all the poisons of
communism, pacifsm, prohibitionism,
pessimiSm and all the other malignant
Ills which seek to destroy the Republic"
The curtain rang down on the final
session Of the Forty-First Continental
Congress yesterday afternoon amid a
scene Of gorgeous color at the installa-
tlon exercises.
IN one of the boxes sat Col Scott,
pale faced and wet eyed as his daughter
faced the large audience and made her
pledge Of office. 1t was the realization
of years Of fond hope on the part Of
Col Scott.
The broad ribbon of this high office.
with its attendant responsibilities, is
indeed a badge of courage" Mr.. Magma
said. "As it is placed upon my shoulders,
so I feel the responsibility to you for
loyalty and service.
L ask you to rededicate yourselves,
at the beginning Of new administra-
ton, to work together in devoted serv-
ice, to know that no leader can accom-
plish results alone. 1t is the united |
efforts and the combination Of chap |
Ter and state that makes accomplish /
ment possible
Halls Note of Optimism.
"It is significant that the speakers |
during this Continental Congress have |
closed their remarks with q note OF |
optimism
Let us work and serve together. |
God be with you till we meet again"
Cornetist Arthur S. Whitcomb Of the |
Marine Band sounded the signal that !