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tomorrow when national officers
start making their reports and the
six honorary presidents general
greet the congress.
Reports in Morning.
Beginning early, the convention
will crowd the morning with the
report of standing rules by Miss
Emeline A. Street, chairman Of the
Resolutions Committee; the report
of the Program Committee by its
chairman, Mrs. G.. w. S. Musgrave;
the Credentials Committee report by
Mrs. Keyser Fry, chairman. and the
reports of IL national officers. wind
ing up with Mrs. Roberts report.
The afternoon will be reserved for
meetings of national committees
and State delegations. who are
scheduled to elect their State off,
GERS. A number of social functions
will occupy the delegates during the
afternoon.
Tomorrow night is set aside for
the president generals reception
and the pages ball at the Mayhower
Hotel. National officers will make
up the receiving line with Mrs
Robert at Constitution Hall for the
reception, while the State regents
receive in their respective boxes.
Rain Mars Pilgrimages.
A cold. driving rain and lowering
skies greeted the delegates when
they left Memorial Continental Hall
yesterday for their annual pilgrim
ages to Arlington National Gene
terry and the tombs of George and
Martha Washington.
At Continental Hall about 500 del
egates assembled to pay tribute to
the 2,473 members of the society
who died during the past year.
The memorial service opened with
a professional led by the pages in
white. A black-robed choir filed in
singing hymn. After Mrs. Loren
Edgar Rex, chaplain general, offered
a prayer, she read off the roll call
by States of the dead. AS each State
was called of, two pages placed a
lily in a huge urn on the platform.
lighted by a candelabra of glowing
tapers.
Individual tributes to 81 distin-
guished late members were paid by
Mrs. George Maynard Minor, hon
orary president general; Mrs. How
ard L. Hodgkins, honorary vice presi-
dent general; Mrs. Henry Bourne
JOY, honorary vice president gen.
eral; Miss Janet Richards, Mrs. C.
Edward Murray and Mrs. Harry C.
Grove.
Biographical Sketches Given.
Mrs. Minor gave a brief biographi-
cal sketch of Sarah Elizabeth
Mitchell Guernsey. a late honorary
president general, for her service as
chief executive of the society during
the difficult war years.
Mrs. Joy spoke of the late Mary
Pool Newsom of Georgia, real
Daughter, and commented that Zone
by one We lose the women who have
tied us so closely to the past" Real
Daughters are those removed only by
one generation from the Revolution
ary War.
The tribute to the founders, orig
inally scheduled for the garden of
the hall, was held indoors, with Mrs.
Robert as the principal speaker.
I'm founding the national society,""
Mrs. Robert declared, "these wom-
en- emphasized that the D. A. r. was
a perpetuation of the spirit of the
men and women VINO achieved
American independence"
Rain Curtails Ceremony.
She stressed the fact that the
principles for which the Revolution
was fought were not established
simply by the assertion that they
existed. The founders, she said,
realized that the principles must be
obtained in the future. She bade
the society to continue along the
course charted by the founders.
The ceremonies at the Tomb Of
the Unknown Soldier in Arlington
were cut short by the rain and only
handful of delegates joined the
pilgrimage. Instead of the usual
formal procession, half dozen
pages huddled under an umbrella
while Mrs. Robert laid the wreath
at the Tomb. The rain, which had