Evening Star Newspaper, April 23, 1937, Page 5

0. AR HELP ASKED T0 REDUCE CRIME Congress Urged to Lend All Possible Aid to Children’s Groups. Daughters of the American Revolu- tion today was challenged by Dr. Amos O. Squire, medical examiner of Westchester County, N. Y., and formerly chief physician of Sing Sing Prison, to help save both boys and €irls from lives of crime. He addressed the morning session in Constitution Hall as the Sixty-fourth Continental Congress of the D. A. R. drew toward a close tonight, with its annual banquet’ at the Mayflower Hotel. Pointing out that crime costs an average of about $100 a year for every man, woman and child in the country, he warned that during the last 30 vears “delinquency in the girl has increased at a greater percentage than it has in the boy.” Because of this, the daughters were eppealed to by Dr. Squire to support organizations such as the “Girl Scouts, Girl Guides and similar organizations interested in the girl in the hope that delinquency of this group might be lessened.” Praises Boy Scouts. Praising the Boy Scouts and boys’ groups, the speaker called on the daughters not only to support them, but to take jury service willingly and boys and girls. called on his hearers to look to the children of their acquaintance, to the children in their own home. “Let us retain the love and confidence of our | own children,” declared Dr. Squires, “and there's very little likelihood of them becoming anti-social.” After hearing final reports of com- mittees this morning, the congress was to install officers this afternoon, | including State regents, State vice regents elect, vice presidents general | elect and hororary vice presidents gen- | eral elect. The banquet tonight is ex- pected to close with a “love feast” and entertainment. “Happy Birthday to You" rang through Constitution Hall today as fonor of the birthday anniversary of their president general, Mrs. William or at a dinner given last night at the Mayflower Hotel by Mrs. J. Harris Baughman of Louisiana, a vice presi- dent general. In & run-off election today Mrs. W. B. Burney of Columbia, S. C., defeated | | | Irish A. Becker, She was the gigst of hon- | humber some of my ancestors,” said | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1937. M_C. Turner of Tex: New D. A. R. Vice Presidents General Gayly wearing the flowers which are a feature of the 46th D. A. R. Congress here this week, these seven women last night were presented as the newly elected vice Daughters of the American Revolution. Seated (left to right): Mrs. W. H. Belk of Charlotte, N. C., and Mrs. of Cambridge, Md.; Mrs. E. H. Whittaker of Pasadena, Calif.; Mrs. and Miss Bonnie Farwell of Terre Haute, Ind. presidents general of the Mrs. C. E. Head of Seattle, Wash.; as. Standing: Mrs. F. M. Dick G. B. Averill of Milwaukee, Wis., —A. P. Photo. schools and in contributions tnward‘ interest themselves in the training of | them during the year. But most directly he | As part of the extensive work of the | Press Relations Committee, Mrs. | Joseph E. Pryor, chairman, reported a Press Relations Digest was published in September as a reference work to all chapter regents and Press Rela- tions Committees. Charles P. Taft, son of the former | President, told the session last night | he was “certainly not of the debunkers | who blackguard the founding fathers, | but I see no point,” he declared, “in | acting like Medusa and turning them | to white stone in a pink. haze on a | postage stamp.” ‘Talks of Revolution, “The American social movement,” Revolution was a | he declared, “and | - Y 8 |its leaders were vigorous young men the daughters sang this old favorite in | who were not afraid of being called subversive influences immigrants, * 8% The wild among whom I | Taft, “did a lot of the fighting for us in 1776, while a lot of the ‘best people’ were British sympathizers, who after the peace treaty were driven out of the colonies to Canada.” | “Look at modern times with that Mrs. W. H. Talbott of Rockville, Md., for the coveted position of honorary | them,” vice president general by a vote of 770 | to 163. The run-off was necessitated | ter.” revolutionary past marshalled behind declared the speaker, “and surely you will understand youth bet- Taft warned that to meet the because in the voting yesterday neither | situation “you can't do it by trying received the required two-thirds vote. | to compete with the promisers, * * * | Seven vice presidents general were | neither can elected yesterday and will be installed | " today. Mrs. George Madden Grimes of this city was one of four defeated in | the race for vice president general. | Those elected in order of the size of | their votes were: Mrs. F. M. Dick of Cambridge, Md.; Mrs. E. H Whitaker | of Pasadena, Calif.; Mrs. W. H. Belk | of Charlotte, N. C.; Mrs. C. E. Head of Seattle, Wash.; Miss Bonnie Far- well of Terre Haute, Ind.; Mrs. M. C. Turner of Texas, and Mrs. G. B. Averill of Milwaukee, Wis. Motion Picture Report. Reporting for the Motion Picture Committee, Mrs. Leon A. MclIntire today said a questionnaire found members were “definitely against” the practice of double features. Approxi- mately 200 institutions of higher learn- ing, she said, were offering instruc- tion in technique of teaching photo- play appreciation. | Throughout the country, accordmgi to Mrs. Horace M. Jones of !he‘ Americanism Committee, a program was carried on for “citizenship train- | Ing for the stranger within our gates, | for our own young people, or for | those whose loyalty to American ideals has wavered through indifference or misunderstanding.” Co-operation | with young people was stressed through assistance given Scout troops and all similar youth organizations. The four real daughters of the Revolution were reported by Mrs. Julian McCurry of the Real Daugh- ters Committee to be: Mrs. Angelina L. Avery, 98 years old, Wilimantic, Conn.; Mrs. Mary Pool Newsome, Gibson, Ga.; Mrs. Caroline P. Randall, Springfield, Vt., and Mrs. Annie K. Gregory, Willlamsport, Pa. They get from the national society a regular pension of $25 a month and an addi- tional check of $10 at Christmas and Easter. ‘Wide Use of Radio. Radio was widely used during the year, according to Mrs. Henry K. Daugherty of the Radio Committee, “to bring before the citizens of our Nation the high ideals of the Daugh- ters of the American Revolution, bring word pictures of historical facts, patri- | otism and loyalty to country.” Miss Katharine Matties of the Ap- | moved from the new $500,000 high proved Schools Committee, reported great increase in interest in these you get anywhere by | preaching liberty, damning Fascist | dictators, or painting red networks of communism across every evening sky.” He counseled “patience” in dealing with youth, suggested giving youth “responsibility and experience,” and for them, he said, “build a real love of country that endures 365 days in the year.” The speaker told a story of how in his own family he thought he had been ‘“persuasive” last year, but had “discovered recently under the lapel of the last Fall's suit of my oldest daughter, 18, a Roosevelt button.” The George Washington University Glee Club sang, under direction of Dr. Robert H. Harmon, director, with Paul DeLong Gable, accompanist. The United States Army Band played, | under direction of Capt. Thomas F. Darcy, jr. | Dr. Edward Howard Griggs, author and lecturer, spoke on “Philosophy of Life for American Youth.” ARTS BODY IS SEN DATA ON WATER FRONT | Revised Sketches for Development Program Forwarded by Maj. Luplow. Revised sketches for the Wash- ington Channel water-front develop- ment have been forwarded to the Fine Arts Commission by Maj. Walter D. Luplow, district engineer for the War Department for the Washington area, officials announced today. H. P. Caemmerer, executive secre- tary of the Fine Arts Commission, said the sketches will be sent to his members for study in advance of the meeting scheduled here next month. The designs comprise seven draw- ings of the various types of struc- tures to be erected along the water front. School Board Bans Statues. BOULDER, Colo.,, April 23 (#).— Two nude stone statues must be re- school building, the board decided last night by a 5 to 4 vote after a heated argument. Program of the D. A. R. TODAY. 2:30 P.M. Concert, 2 until 2:30° United States Navy Band Orchestra, Lieut. Charles Benter, leader. Assembly call. Entrance march: United States Navy Band Orchestra. Entrance of the president general, the hon- orary vice president general elect, retiring vice presidents general and vice presidents general elect, re=- tiring State regents and State re- gents elect, and re-elected sme} regents, escorted by the pages. Confirmation of the election and in- stallation of State regents and State vice regents elect: Presentation by the organizing secretary general. Confirmation of the election by the president general for the Con- tinental Congress. Oath of office administered by the chaplain general Installation of vice presidents gen- eral elect: Presentation by the recording sec- retary general. Oath of office administered by the chaplain general. Confirmation of the election of hon- orary vice president general elect: Presentation by the recording sec- retary general. Confirmation of the election by the | president general for the Con-| tinental Congress. | Missing C. A. R. “After the ball was over” meant only long hours on hotel lobby sofas for 10-year-old Johnny Tate of Columbus, Miss., after the last strains of music had died at the C. A. R. dance in the small hours yesterday | morning. Yesterday friends and police were mystified as to his whereabouts until a touzled head peering over a mezza- nine sofa in the Mayflower tipped them off. | Here for the convention, Johnny has i been staying with Mrs. Lucille Brown | Mayfield, a cousin, at 2301 Cathedral | avenue. Leaving the Washington | | Club at 12 midnight, after wringing | the last ounce of pleasure from Paul Jones, Virginia reel and swing time, | | he proceeded to the cousin’s apart- | | ment house only to find the door | locked and no one to answer. The first obstacle in the path to slumberland proved to be a “drive-it- yourself” elevator. “I didn't know which button to push,” said Johnny in an interview today, “so I pushed them all and ended up on the second floor of the apartment house. That's where I wanted to go. I knocked on the door a long time, but nobody answered. “I reckon somebody was there, but I was sleepy, so I went downstairs and rang for the janitor. I couldn't get him either. There wasn't much else to do but lie down on a sofa and sleep.” Along about 5 am. yesterday Johnny woke up and decided he'd PEEPING TOES.. and COLORS too! @'. PINK ~ DOESKIN WHITE PATENT | G DYEABLE LINEN A ell as flattery in fh‘t:r:lll;'l 'Bnlhl with cressed straps. White, or colors over Deeping toes. Collect: (from D. A. R. ritual) in unison, led by the chaplain gen- eral. “Lord God, we pray that we may be joined together in loyalty— these who now are placed in lead- ership, and we who have chosen them to guide us. Bless their faithfulness and ours, in a united service to our Society and to Thy Kingdom. May we have an aware- ness of Thy companionship in all our plans and projects; and the assurance of Thy benediction upon our work. Amem.” Music: The assemblage. “Blest Be the Tie That Binds.” Benediction: The chaplain general. The retiring of the colors. Adjournment: Forty-sixth Conti= nental Congress. Exit march: United States Navy Band Orchestra. ANNUAL BANQUET, THE MAYFLOWER HOTEL 7:30 P.M. Mrs. Elmer E. Woollen, chairman; Mrs. David D. Caldwell, vice chair- man; Mrs. Loyal R. Alden, vice chairman; Miss Byrd Belt, Mrs. Ryland C. Bryant, Mrs. William A. Buckingham, Mrs. Harry K. Nield, Mrs. William E. Northam, Mrs. George W. Stapp. Music by the United States Marine Band Orchestra. Delegate, 10, Found Dozing in Hotel Lobby better find Mrs. Etta Palmer, who came up from Mississippi with him. This necessitated a trek to the May- flower. “I didn't know how much a taxi costs, 80 I walked down the street and across the bridge with the lions on i, you know the one I mean, and got a taxi man to take me to the Mayflower. I didn't want to wake Mrs. Palmer, 50 I lay down on another sofa by the elevator. “Every time that darn old elevator man would come downstairs he'd whistle and wake me up. so I had to g0 up on the ‘mezzlene’ floor and find me another. “I got me some good sleep there and woke up about 7 o'clock. I didn't want to go back to sleep again, 'cause I was afraid they couldn't find me. Next thing I knew, though, it was 10 o'clock. “Great day in the morning, I said to myself, I'm supposed to be carrying & flag down at the convention right this minute. Just then they found me.” While all this was going on Johnny’s friends from the home State had given him up for lost. Mrs. John Morrison Kerr, national organizing secretary of the C. A. R.,, had been notified and police, who had been called about 8 a.m,, were sending out calls to precinct and scout cars. Pretty, young Catherine Butera, Mis- sissippi page, was the sleuth who finally discovered Johnny. - STANDARD FOR MANHATTANS .. Now America’s fav Alce. by vol. 15.95% orite cocktail MARTINI & VE RMOUTH nts for U.S. A, W. A. TAYLOR & COMPANY, N.Y. A HEADS INSTALLED, C.A. R ADIOURNS Mrs. Pouch and Associates Take Oaths of Office at Mount Vernon. Installation of national officers un- der the C. A. R. elm tree at Mount /] Vernon and Spring skies adjourned the forty-second annual convention, in session since Tuesday morning. Mrs. Willlam Henry Pouch, new president, and her associates, wearing official ribbons and flowers, received the oath of office from Mrs. Percy M. Balley, retiring national chaplain, Mrs. Pouch told youngsters the new officers would do their best to be “big sisters” to them. Preceding the induction, three shrines, sacred to Children of the American Revolution, were visited: Christ Church, Alexandria, where George Washington was & vestryman; the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier of the Revolution, at Old Presbyterian = Meeting House, Alexandria, and the graves of George and Martha Wash- ington at Mount Verncn. Rev. Harry Le: Doll, pastor of Christ Church, was presented with the silver baptismal ewer, given by the C. A. R. in honor of Mrs. Eleanor Wash- ington Howard, last living person of Ch dri ww A—S urch for having won a membership He obtained 95 new members. the Washington family to be born at ||| Mount Vernon. Mrs. Howard, unable to attend the convention because of illness, attended the presentation. Wreaths were placed on the un- known soldier’s tomb and on tuose at | | Mount Vernon, while 10-year-old Jo- seph T. 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