The Washington times., 1938-10-26
District Members
To Be Hosts
To Visitors
BY MARY PADGETT


An elaborate reception has
been planned by the District
Daughters Of the American
Revolution in honor Of the
National Board Of Management
Of the D. A. r. now in session
in Memorial Continental Hall.
taking place tonight from Q to
II O'Clock, in the main ballroom
Of the Mayflower Hotel.
Mrs. Henry M. Robert, in,
OF Annapolis. Nd. president
general, State regents, vice presi-
dents general, national commit
tee chairmen and other distin.
guished officers will be guests
Of honor.
Miss Lillian Chenoweth. D.
C.. State regent, has had charge
Of all arrangements generally
for this function. Preparations
have been made for an attend
ance of more than a thousand
persons and the event is ex-
pected to be one Of the most
brilliant affairs staged by this
organization in recent years.
AUTUMNAL THEME
An autumnal theme will ne
used for TIE decorations, with
bronze and yellow as the color
scheme.
Mrs. Barton Stone Embry will
act as chairman of reception,
assisted by some IS members Of
her committee on entertain
ment.
Miss Chenoweth and Mrs.
Robert will head the receiving
line. Lieut.. Chester Hammond,
U. .S.A., will make the introduc'
tions. The receiving line will
include Mrs. Charles Carroll
Haig, vice president general, OF
Washington; Mrs. Howard L.
Hodgkins, honorary vice presi'
dent general, of Washington;
Mrs. Loren Edgar Rex, chaplain
general, Of wichita, Kan; Mrs.
John S. Heaume, recording Sec
retary general, Of Springfield,
Ohio; Mrs. William Kennedy
Herrin, jr., corresponding Secre-
tary general, of Clarksdale, Miss;
Mrs. George D. Schermerhorn,
organizing secretary general, Of
Reading, Mich; Miss Page
Schwarzwaelder, treasurer gen.
eral, of Lake Mahopac, N. Y:
Mrs. Frank Leon Mason, regis
trar general, of Scituate, Mass;
Mrs. Leland Stanford Duxbury,
historian general, of Minneap-
oils, MINI; Mrs. Vinton Earl
Sisson, librarian general, Of Win
netka, ILL.,; Mrs. Joseph T.
Young, reporter general to the
Smithsonian Institution, OF Pied,
mont, Calf, and Mrs. willard
Steele, curator general, Of Chat
tanooga, Tenn.
PERSONAL PAGE
Miss Helen Towner will act as
Miss Chenoweth's personal page,
and Mrs. Harriet Haig Green
will serve in the same capacity
for Mrs. Robert. Miss Mary
Elizabeth Mcneil, and Miss
Peggy Turner will have the
honor of being flower pages dur
ing the reception.
Mrs. Jean j. Labat will have
charge of the refreshment ta-
bles, which will be effectively
decorated in an autumn motif.
Many distinguished guests are
expected, including Mrs. Ruth
Bryan Owen Rohde, former min.
lister to Denmark, who inau-
gurated the D. A. r. good citizen
ship pilgrimageS; Mrs. Daniel
c. Roper, wife of the Secretary
Of Commerce and herself a
prominent member Of the D. A.
R.: Representative Sol Bloom,
of New York, director of the
Con stitution Sesquicentennial
Commission.
SESSIONS CONTINUE =,
Sessions continued through
out yesterday and this morning
and afternoon in the national
officers clubrooms of Memorial
Continental Hall. In a report
by Mrs. Ober D. Wharthen, OF
Vidalia, Ca, chairman of the
conservation committee, it was
urged that all States sponsor re-
forestation projects.
Mrs. Wharthen outlined the
idea whereby each chapter
should take an acre of land for
reforestation in either the State
or national forest project, par
ticularly in the New England
States where the damage from
the recent hurricane was heavy.