The Washington times., 1938-04-21
Highlights and Sidelights
OF y. A. r. Annual Farley
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It took the town Of Anderson,
Ind, hard work to raise the $4,000
with which to send their High
School Choral Club of 10 boys and
girls to Washington to sing before
the D. A. r. Continental Congress,
but their efforts were we'll re-
warded by the appreciation of the
group.
With the official State emblem
of North Carolina decorating the
table-the "long leaf pine"-a
luncheon was held yesterday at
the Mayflower Hotel by the North
Carolina delegation to the D. A.
r. Congress.
Mrs. Eugene Davis, state regent.
presided. Guests included Mrs.
William A. Becker, president gen.
eral; Mrs. Julius Talmage, record
ing secretary general; Mrs. Viii
liam H. Pouch, organizing secre-
tary general; Mrs. Henry M.
Roberts, jr., incoming president
general; Mrs. Frances Parkinson
Reyes, editor of the National His
torical Magazine published by the
D. A. R.; Mrs. Robert Johnston,
Mrs. Joseph Pryor, chairman of
press relations; Mrs. William
Henry Belk, vice president gen.
eral; Mrs. Clarence Adams, state
regent Of Colorado; Mrs. w. H.
Schlosser, state regent Of Indi-
ana; Mrs. Godfrey Creyke, ma.
tional chairman of program; Mrs.
o. Max Gardner, Mrs. R. l..
Doughton, Miss Frances Reynolds
and Mrs. Tom Craig.
Mrs. Harry K. Daugherty, ma
tional radio chairman of the D.
A. r. announced in her report at
this mornings session that Illinois
had won first place in D. A. r.
radio work, with nearly 300 broad
casts having been made on % diff
ferent stations.
Mrs. Albert E. Jenner, jr., of Chi
cago, is the Illinois radio chair
man. She is the youngest radio
chairman in the organization.
In reporting of the D. A. R.
Junior membership for her three
year term, Miss Deane Van Land.
ingham, national chairman of
junior membership, declared that
many Of the young women who
are now enthusiastic D. A. R.
members would have been lost to
the national society but for the
privilege which has been given to
them Of holding their meetings
apart and engaging in various
projects which appealed to them.
Miss Landingham told the Con-
gress:
1T must be realized that as
time marches on the young
people are living in a different
world from that in which the
founders of our society"
One of the busiest booths in the
corridor in Memorial Continental
Hall is that which is being main
tanned by the United States Con-
stitution Sesquicentennial Com.
mission.
Many Of the daughters are buy
ing the books that were prepared
under the direction of Representa-.
tive Sol Bloom, as chairman of
the commission. One of the
objects exhibited Is a Shrine of
the Constitution" which is a
bronze-enamele floor standard,
with an American eagle at top,
and equipped with several detach.
able frames displaying large
facsimiles of the Constitution and
the Determination of Independ-
ence, and photographs of signers
Of the Constitution.
Mrs. Lewis K. Rockefeller, wife
Of Representative Rockefeller, of
Chatham, N. Y, entertained the
D. A. r. delegates from the 9th
District Of New York, at luncheon
yesterday in Wardman Park Hotel.
President General-elect Mrs.
Henry M. Robert, jr, of Annap-
oils, and her entire slate Of
prospective national officers
were honored at the Maryland
D. A. r. luncheon at the May
flower yesterday. Mrs. William
Blakeslee, State regent, pre-
sided.
Mrs. william Becker was the
guest of honor at the New Jersey
D. A. r. luncheon in the garden
Of the Mayflower yesterday.
Representative Donald H.
Mclean of New Jersey spoke on
Preservation of the Elias Boudi-
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