The Washington times., 1934-04-20
D,A,R,CONGRESS
ADDRESSED BY
FIRST LADY
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which is to make our country q
leader in having no people who
do not know enough to under
stand what Is going on, not only
here but throughout the world.
We would then have real ma
jOrity rule, a really democratic
country and perhaps we can full
fill the ideal Of our fOrefathers
when they founded a country
where everyone should have an
equal opportunity and where
everyone should have a reason
10 live for their country"
PEACE STRESSED
Mrs. Roosevelt was scheduled
to speak on the education of
mountain people. She referred
only briefly to the subject,
launching forthwith into her i'm
passionate appeal to the Daugh-
ters to stand behind a move
ment which would bring about
ideals of common peace and
happiness. Her appeal was re-
Ceived with applause.
Concerted action to curb the
spread of communism in schools
and colleges throughout the coun-
try was demanded in a resolu-
ton adopted by the Congress.
The resolution said that stu
dents, comprising approximately
one-third of the population of the
country, are being subjected to
pressure by an immense cam
paign under expert leadership to
promote the most irrational paci-
fism and un-American radi-
calisn."
The congress further urged that
there should be no relaxation of
enforcement of deportation laws
for the expulsion of aliens who ad-
vocate the overthrow Of the Gov
ernment by force and violence.
immigration Scanned
Another resolution recon-
mended that the temporary eXecu-
tive order, restricting immigration
to 10 per cent of the legal quotas,
be permanently established by
legislation.
Stating that the Army person
mel has been reduced to $4,000
officers and 125,O0O enlisted men,
the Congress adopted a resolution
urging that the country awake
from it's present lethargy and
fallacious feeling of security" by
increasing the strength of the
Army.
Mrs. Russell william Magma,
president-general, today received
a letter from Charles A. Moran,
Of the Georgia Veterans of For
eign Wars, urging a fight against
the "insidiouS propaganda and
sinister influences which seek to
wreck and destroy the very
foundation of our country"
Mrs. Roosevelt was to receive
the delegates and pages at the
White House this afternoon fol-
lowing the closing session Of the
congress.
Resolutions Ready
On the basis Of numerous re.
ports made to the congress in the
past four days Of its session in
Constitution Hall, the committee
on resolutions is understood to be
ready to report out several reso-
lutions on this subject.
It has been pointed out to the
delegates that numerous commu-
nistic groups are at work spread
ing "red" propaganda and STIR
ring up discomfort and unrest.
One resolution which the D. A.
r. has consistently adopted ever
since the Russian Revolution
namely, opposition to the recog-
milton of Soviet Russia-will be
missing from the list Of resolutions
this year, the congress having gone
so far as to invite Russian Ambas-
sador and Mrs. Alexander Troy
anovsky to be guests Of the society.
The conclave will be concluded
this afternoon and the annual ban
quet will be held tonight at 1880
p. m. in the Mayflower Hotel.
A "back-to-the-farm movement"
was urged last night by Secretary
of Commerce Daniel c. Roper in
his address to the congress in
which he outlined the various op-
portuAities for women in the New
Deal.
Ask Women to Help
He called on the women to as
sist in a program which would
help to relieve unemployment
problems in the large cities,
stating:
"COuld not women assist in
discovering and putting into
operation small industries,
handicraft and others, in the
smaller communities, thus
serving to distribute rather
than cOngest industry, at the
same time reviving in the
American mind q greater ap-
probation of rural life and
stimulating a constructive and
well ordered back to- the farm
movement