Evening star., 1937-03-14

TO HAVE HOME
Chapter Announces Suffi.
cient Funds Have Been
| Raised for Purchase.
Daughters Of the American Revolu.
ton in the District of Columbia viii
soon have a chapter house. The Chap.
ter House Corp, through the presi.
dent, Mrs. Jason Waterman, an.
nounced to the State Conference, ir
session at Memorial Continental Hall
that sufficient funds had been raised
| to purchase house.
Provision was made by the confer
ence for funds for the maintenance OF
a house at such time as the building
| shall be required. 1t Is expected the
house will contain sufficient rooms TO,
the meetings OF the So chapters.
Offices Of the State officers will be
| located here and the State COMMITTEES
! rooms, where lectures and educational
activities Of the District D. A. r. will
be carried on.
No definite location has been de-
cided upor, but several are being con-
Sidered
The reading OF what the Consti-
tuition Means to YOU" statement in
brief paragraph form of the provisions
of the Constitution, prepared by the
National Defense Through Patriotic
Education Committee of the National
Society, featured a meeting of the
George Johnston Society, C. A. R, at
the home of the senior president.
Mrs. Robert A. Ryland, on Pershing
drive.
The Americanism Committee will
hold special meeting at the Ameri-
canization School, Tenth and H
streets. tomorrow at o'clock to dis
cuss plans for the annual Spring fes-
tival for newly naturalized citizens.
The speakers will be Souren H.
Hanessian vice president Of the
AmeriCanization School Association
and Miss Maude E Alton, principal of
the school
Capt. Joseph Magruder Chapter
will contribute to the building fund
for the school at Tamassee, S. C.
Judge Lynn Chapter will give a
benefit dinner March "a at the Fair
fax Hotel. The chapter recently sent
large box of gifts to Tamassee.
Life and Beauty Spots of Japan" was
the subject of an illustrated talk by
Mrs Yarnel at the March meeting
at the home of Mrs. Enoch Vann.
Richard Arnold Chapter will cele-
brate the silver anniversary of the
founding Of the chapter Tuesday.
Pictures of old Georgetown were
shown at the March meeting at the
home of Mrs. Charles Wagner.
Mrs. Rice w. Means will be hon
ored by the Dolly Madison Chapter
in a biographical sketch to be added
to the District Of Columbia Memory
Book. Mrs. Means is the wife of Col
Means, former Senator fror Colorado
The March program was presented
by Flora McGill Keefer and her stu
dents at her studio. Mrs. Alexander
H. Bell, state chairman of American
ism, spoke on "Americanism in the
District of Columbia"
Marcia Burns Chapter will meet
March II at the home of Miss Mar
garet B. Fields, 81 Seventh street
northeast, Miss S. Helen Fields and
Mrs. Minnie A. Tull, assistant host
esses. Mrs. Jason Waterman, presi-
dent Of the Chapter House Corp, and
Mrs. Geoffrey Croyke, state chairman
Of the D. A. r. Magazine, will be the
guest speakers. Other guests will be
Miss Margarite E. Naylor, regent, Liv-
insston Manor Chapter, and Mrs. A
Y. Casanova. past state historian. The
chapter will have white elephant
sale
Miss Jean Warfleld Of the Dorothy
Hancock Chapter has been asked to
name the new club of Junior Ameri-
can Citizens which has been organized
by Mrs. Joseph Aaunders. state chair
man OF the committee. The club will
be known as the John Hancock Club.
The Junior American Citizens are
sponsored by the National Society.
"Gingerbread and Kenmore" is one
OF the enterprises being carried on
by the D. A. R. The Dorothy Han
cock Chapter has adopted this project
for one of the seasons activities.
President Monroe Chapter will meet
Tuesday, with Miss Louise Bercaw
and Mrs. Adele Cox as hostesses. at
Miss Bercaw's home, 1860 Hobart
street. Mrs. Elmer E. Curry, state
registrar, will be the speaker of the
evening.
The following alternates will rep
resent the chapter at the Continental
Congress in April: Mrs. z. Lewis
Dalby, Mrs. Adele Cox, Mrs. J. Alfred
Richards and Mrs. William A. Bow
man. Misses Elizabeth Bethea and
Laura E. Gaines will be pages at the
Continental Congress.
Mrs. Joseph F. Whitney Of the
Falmouth, Mass, Chapter will be
the guest at the March meeting.
Elizabeth Jackson Chapter will meet
tomorrow at 1890, at the home Of
Mrs. j. B. G. Gusts, 4503 Hawthorne
street, Wesley Heights. Mrs. George