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gress will be delivered by H. r.
Baukhage, whose topic will be Can
Democracy Be Defended"
Major pre-congreSS event is the
national defense mass meeting at
the Mayfower Hotel tomorrow after
noon at 2 o'clock. Out of this ses-
sion, which 1000 delegates to the
congress are expected to attend, will
come the material on which ma
tional defense resolutions of the
congress will be based.
The speakers will be Represent
ative Snyder, chairman of the
Military Subcommittee of the House
Appropriations Committee, who will
discuss Building Our Army; DR.
David Spence Hill of Brookings In
stitution. who will report on "Edu-
cation for American Democracy"
and DR.. Edmund A. Walsh, vice
president of Georgetown University
and regent of its School of Foreign
Service. who will speak on ''Democ-
racy and the World Revolution"
Mrs. Imogen B. Emery. chairman
of the National Defense Through
Patriotic Education Committee,
which annually sponsors the ses-
sion, will preside at the meeting and
open it with an address entitled
THE Committee Speaks"
Another traditional pre-congress
event is the Campaign reception"
which follows Immediately after the
mass meeting in the hotel ballroom.
Mrs. Pouch Giving Recetion.
Mrs. William H. Pouch of New
York, sole candidate for election as
president general of the society, is
giving the reception with the can
didateS for election on her slate,
also uncontested.
The only office where competition
Is seen is for the post of vice presi-
dent general. Six women have come
out for the four berths as vice presi-
dent general.
The election will be carried on
this year for the first time under
the changed bylaws, voted at the
last Congress. Twenty-one vice
presidents general hold ONCE for
three-y ear terms, with seven elected
each year. Under the changed by
laws. three of these seven are elect
ed or the national officers ticket
or tickets and designated first, Sec
ond and third vice presidents gen.
eral This arrangement provides
for automatic succession to the Of
fce of president general should a
vacancy be created.
With three vice presidents gen.
eral on Mrs. Pouch's ticket, four
posts as vice presidents general re-
main to be filled. The six candi-
dates are Mrs. William Wesley
Brothers, Pocatello, Idaho; Mrs.
James F. Donahue, Cleveland, Ohio:
Mrs Thomas Clair Mcguire, Plant
City, Fla; Mrs. C A. Swami Sim
clair, Alexandria, Va; Mrs. ELY Ruff
Barnes, Montgomery, Ala, and Miss
Lillian Chenoweth of the District.
Miss Chenoweth ended her two
year term as State regent for the
District last year She was indorsed
for the nomination as vice presi-
dent general by the District society
a year ago at the conference which
completed her administration and a
number of local chapters have re-
Gently Endorsed her for the post.
Mrs. Haig's Term Expiring.
The District now has one vice
PRESIDENT general in the cabinet,
Mrs. Charles Carroll Haig, but her
term expires at this Congress.
Since getting up T. slate of officers
and winning Endorsements from
chapters all over the country re-
ouires months of preparation. there
is little likelihood that a dark horse
viii enter the race for any of the
as yet uncontested national Offices.
Mrs. Pouch's ticket includes Mrs.
Joseph G. Tourney of Lancaster, Pa,
for first vice president general; Mrs.
John Whittier Hodge of Los Angeles
for second vice president general,
Mrs. Floyd William Bennison of
Minneapolis for third vice president
general, Mrs. William Henry Belk of
Charlotte, N. c., for chaplain gen.
eral; Mrs. William H. SchloSser of
Franklin, Ind, for recording secre-
tary general; Mrs. Edward Webb
Cooch of Newark, Del, for registrar
general; Mrs. H. A. Cox, a resident
Of Montrose, Colo, now living in
Washington, for corresponding Sec
retary general Mrs. Frederick
Alfred Wallis of Parish, KY, for his
torian general; Miss Marion d.
Mullins of Fort Worth, Tex, for Or
eanNing secretary general; Mrs.
Ralph L. Crockett of Redstone,
N. H, for librarian general; Mrs.
Samuel James Campbell OF Mount
Carroll, Ill, for treasurer general: