Evening star., 1936-03-14
D. A. R. |NDORSES
ANT|-RED STUDY
District Daughters Urge
Constitution Teaching.
! Mrs. Haiq Elected.

With Mrs. Charles Carroll Haig
elected new State regent, the District
of Columbia Daughters Of the Amer
tcan Revolution today stood COM
nlitted to a policy condemning COM
munisrn, and urging that both the
Constitution and Declaration Of In
dependence be taught here in the
public schools.
The thirty-fifth annual conference
OF the District daughters closed late
yesterday afternoon at Memorial Con-
tinental Hall with election of officers,
headed by Mrs. Haig. She will not
be installed officially, however, until
next month, at the Congress of the
National Society D. A. R.. in Con-
stitution Hall. She succeeds Mrs.
George Madden Grimes, who has
served for two years.
Communism was roundly scored
earlier in the day by Mrs. John M.
Beavers, vice chairman of the Com
mittee on National Defense Through
Patriotic Education, who declared
that knowledge Of communism is
necessary if it is to be intelligently
combated."
Resolution Approved.
Mrs. Beavers later was one Of the
four past State regents to sign reSo-
luton presented by Mrs. Harry Col
fax Grove, chairman of the Resolu-
tions Committee, urging that both
the Constitution and the Declara-
ton of independence be taught to
combat "subversive propaganda, which
is being spread through our schools,
churches and colleges" The con-
ference approved this resolution.
Standing fast to the general language
of their resolution and report, the
committee chairmen, and other
daughters declined to comment fur
ther on the controversy over whether
teachers should teach, without ad-
Vocating, communism in the District
schools.
The conference approved the Reyn-
olds-Starnes legislation for restricted
immigration, and opposed the Kerr
Coolidge bill for committee on
deportation Of undesirable aliens.
Mrs. Strong Elected.
In the elections, only competition
was for the Offices Of recording secre-
tary and librarian. Mrs. Catherine
3. Strong with 73 votes defeated DR..
Ella r. Fales with IS votes for re-
cording secretary. Mrs. Samuel B.
Woodbridge was elected librarian
over Mrs. Gaius M. Brumbaugh, SIS
to IL.
Mrs. Harry Colfax Grove was in
dorsed by the State conference for
the post of vice president general,
made vacant by Miss Helen Har-
man, whose term expires this year.
Other officers elected were: Vice
regent, Miss Lillian Chenoweth;
chaplain, Mrs. T. Temple Hill: cor
responding secretary, Mrs. Earl B.
Fuller; treasurer, Miss Linda v.
Nance; assistant tt asurer, Miss
Mary E. Black; registrar, Mrs. Elmer
e. Curry, and historian, Mrs. Lee r.
Pennington, jr.
Records Presented.
Mrs Elmer E. Curry, State chair
man of genealogical records, presented
to the State conference five volumes
of church and cemetery records.
Many reports were heard, includ-
ing that of Mrs. Jason Waterman,
president of the Chapter House Cor
poration; Mrs. William Henry Harper,
State director Of the District of Co.
lumbia Children of the American
Revolution, and others.
A memorial service was conducted
in the middle of the business ses-
sion yesterday in honor of members
who had died during the year. Car
nations were built into a wreath by
chapter regents, and members of the
families of the deceased.