Evening star., 1940-04-20
D. A. R. Delegates
Start Home After
Banquet Ends Session
Mrs. RooseveIt's Greeting
And Installation Of
Officers High Light Day

A1ter nearing reports ana aQ-
dresses all week, the delegates last
night were ready to enjoy themselves
at the farewell banquet which was
punctuated with group singing.
State banners were draped from
the boxes in the ballroom and the
long speakers table was decorated
with red. white and blue candles
On the tables were souvenir acorn
hulls tied with ribbons prepared by
the youngsters at the Pine Noun
tain Settlement School. Mrs. Henry
M. Robert, jr., president general.
whose strict adherence to parlia-
mentary procedure all week kept
dissension at a minimum, unbent
sufi1ciently to tell the Daughters she
had been asked to be funny at the
banquet.
Tells of Demands on Time.
Gould you be funny after a stren-
uous week like I've had?" she de-
manded. Then. after telling some
of the demands made on her time
by delegates and the super human
efforts they expected of her, she
added, I've decided that some of
you are little bit funny
In introducing Clifford Bergman,
cartoonist for The Star and speaker
at the banquet, she described a car
toon he had drawn 30 years ago
showing dove of peace perched
atop Memorial Continental Hall.
Hat pins, shoes and all manner of
things were flying out Of the win
dows in the cartoon, she said, and
the bird was saying This is no
place for me-"
That bird is a homing pigeon
because the dove of peace has come
back to rest" she declared I'VE
have just finished congress marked
by very fine spirit"
After telling the delegates he had
Joined the Sons of the American
Revolution because he wasn't al
lowed to join the D. A. r., Mr..
Bergman proceeded to sketch
George Washington and some of
the Presidents of the United States
whose wives were active in the
patriotic society.
Troubled by Daughters Hats.
One of his first assignments, he
said, was to picture the Daughters
at their convention. He ran into
all kinds of trouble, he told the
Daughters, because the women's
hats completely hid their faces and
were mammoth in diameter.
The songs with which the ban
quet was interspersed were led by
Mrs. Charles Carroll Haig of the
District. Capt. William F. H. San
telmann, who directed the United
States Marine Band Orchestra at
several of the congress sessions this
week. contributed his voice, too, to
the songs.
The White House reception at
tracted the largest D. A. r. delega-
ton in years. The guests appar-
emily had forgiven and forgotten
the resentment openly expressed at
the White House reception last year
which Mrs. Roosevelt, who had just
resigned from the D. A. r. in pro-
test against the ban which kept
Marian Anderson from singing in
Constitution Hall, failed to attend.
Pressed BY Train Time.
Despite the fact that Mrs. Roose-
welt, with o'clock train to catch,
sped the guests through the line in
double quick time without passing
once for rest, the crowd was backed
up almost to the east entrance of
the White House. After their long
stand, they consumed large guam
titles Of the water that awaited them
In the state dining room.
The final ofIicial acts of the 49th
Continental Congress were the con-
firmation and installation OF newly
elected honorary vice presidents
general. vice presidents general and
State regents and vice regents. The
society's traditional pagentry and
color marked the ceremonies in
Constitution Hall before the White
House reception.
The District of Columbia new
State regent and vice regent to re-
ceive their ribbons were Mrs. Harry
c. Oberholser of 2805 Eighteenth
street NV, and Mrs. Geoffrey
Creyke of 3525 r street NV. Mary
lands newly installed officers were
Mrs. George Hamilton Stapp, regent,
and Mrs. Adelbert Warren Mears.
vice regent, both of Baltimore.
The honorary vice presidents gen.
eral were Mrs Gerald Livingston
Schuyler of Colorado and Mrs. Will
liam Henderson vaught of West
Virginia.
Vice presidents general installed
were Mrs. Reuben Edward Knight
of Nebraska, Mrs. William Harrison
Hightower of Georgia. Mrs. Jacob
F. Zimmerman of Illinois, Mrs.
Eugene N. Davis of North Carolina
Mrs. B. H. Geagley of Michigan. Miss
Marion Seelye Of Kansas, Mrs. Fred
G. Morgan of Maine and Mrs. Wilbur
B. Blakeslee of Maryland.
Other Regents Installed.
Other State regents and vice re-
gents, respectively. Installed at the
ceremony included:
Alabama-Mrs. A. s. Mitchell.
Mobile, and Mrs. Robert Thornton
Conner, Birmingham.
Arizona-Mrs. William j. Oliver.
Prescott, and Mrs. Carl Otto Lamp
land, Flagstaff.
Arkansas - Mrs. Philip Fall
Crutcher, Pine Bluff, and Mrs. Davis
NJ. Biggs, Proctor.
California-Mrs. Perry Wallace
Macdonald, Piedmont, and Mrs.
Frank Edgar Lee, Santa Monica.
Connecticut-MissK Katharine Mat
thies, vice regent, New Haven.
Florida-Mrs. T. c. Mcguire re-
elected, Plant City, and Mrs. Rob-
ert Sidney Abernethy, Winter Haven
Georgia-Mrs. Thomas C. Nell
Atlanta. and Mrs. Stewart Colley
Granville.
Hawaii-Mrs Carl Bowers An