Evening star., 1936-04-23

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presented by the Marcia Burns Chap
ter of this city.
Charging that American citizenship
In some instances has become "a
cloak for professional patriots from
beneath which our most sacred insti-
tutions are being exploited for selfish
purposes" Dr. Felix Forte of Boston
told the D. A. r. he avored a con-
stitutional amendment giving courts
power to take away the rights of
citizenship to those proving unworthy
OF such right"
Citirg a group he considered "un-
worthy" the speaker referred to some
experts, "college-bred who left these
shores and went to Russia to help
Russia get strong enough so even
tually to overpower our form of Gov
ernment here"
The other principal speaker to-
day was to be Cameron Beck. director
of the New York Stock Exchange
Institute, taking as his subject
Leadership for Tomorrow"
This afternoon Mrs. Roosevelt
tees. This afternoon Mrs. Roosevelt
planned to receive the delegates at
the White House.
J. Edgar Hoover, director of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation, and
Dr. Henry w. A. Hanson, president of
Gettysburg College, will be the prin-
cipal speakers tonight. Hoover will
speak on Patriotism and the War
Against Crime"
Voting Today.
Daughters were voting today to
select seven out of nine candidates
for the posts of vice presidents gen.
eral. The District of Columbia candi-
date is Mrs. Harry Colfax Grove. She
Is charter member of E Pluribus
Unum Chapter. having served as vice
regent and regent. She filled the office
of State historian. State vice regent
and State regent; State chairman of
Constitution Hall Finance Committee,
State Revolution Relics Committee
Twice she has served as chairman
of the Constitutional Congress Com
mittee for the Pages Ball. She now
Is serving as director in the National
Officers Club, D. A. r., and State
chairman of Resolutions Committee
She is a charter member Of the
Daughters of the American ColonistS
and is now vice president of the At
lantic Coast section of the society.
Other candidates are: Mrs. William
John Ward. New Jersey; Miss Emeline
Amelia Street, Connecticut; Mrs. Eli
Dixon. Illinois; Mrs. Allen Harris,
Tennessee; Mrs. Mortimer Platt,
Texas; Mrs. j. Harris Baughman,
louisiana; Mrs. Thomas J. Mauldin,
South Carolina, and Mrs. Harold
Theodore Graves, North Dakota. The
candidates were nominated last night
with high praise. Mrs. Grove was
nominated by Mrs. George M. Grimes,
retiring State regent here, and the
nomination was seconded by Mrs.
Livingston L. Hunter of Pennsylvania.
The attack yesterday by Mrs. Vim
ton Earl Sisson. chairman of national
defense through patriotic education,
on Socialists and Communists in Con-
gress 'masquerading under the pro-
tectirg cloak Of one of the major
parties" brought a quick rejoinder
from Capitol Hill.
In reading her speech. she left out
the name of Representative Marcan-
tonic of New York, who had been
criticized in her prepared copy, but
she attacked his bill to amend the
Constitution on public ownership of
utilities Marcantonio replied by say
ing the D. A. r. has become "the
ladies auxiliary of the American
Liberty League"
Il am not interested in what the
D. A. r. says or thinks" said Marc
antonio. But I am interested in
the teachings Of the mothers of the
American Revolution. If the daugh-
ters had been in existence in 1776
the Revolution would have failed.
Betsy Ross certainly would be
ashamed of the Daughters, and would
advise them to go back home to their
knitting instead of making fools of
themselves at a convention. The