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DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION MAGAZINEVolume 95, No. 2 February 1961 Whole Number 794

Contents67 The President General's Message

FEATURES68 George Washington—Colonial Soldier Rev. George West Diehl

69 General Washington and Leadership Brig. Gen. Paul M. Robinett (Ret.)

71 George Washington—Father of the American Navy

Rear Admiral Ernest M. Eller, U.S.N. (Ret.)

75 The Fifth School Committee Bus Tour—A Special Report Lois Clark

77 Georgia in the American Revolution Sarah Wells Isbell

82 Lincoln Lore

91 Nelly Custis' Wedding Present—Woodlawn Plantation Meredith Johnson

DEPARTMENTS84 Junior American Citizens

85 The National Parliamentarian

86 National Defense

93 With the Chapters

98 Genealogical Source Material

152 D.A.R. Membership

153 Minutes, National Board of ManagementSpecial Meeting, December 7, 1960

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Mary Glenn Newell

Herberta Ann Leonardy

Elizabeth Chestnut Barnes

MISCELLANEOUSSons of the Republic (Poem)

Pensacola Good Citizens Visit Miss Baker

Texas Society Projects-1899

Kate Duncan Smith Alumni Association Organized

The Most Insidious Racket of Our Time

The Electoral College

To the Glory of God

Beatrice Kenyon

Effie Lois Humphrey

Margaret Andrus

Lucie Donalson Riggs

Walter N. Cary

Mrs. Franklin R. Bruns, Jr.

Gertrude A. MacPeek

Florence Sillers Ogden

House Committee—Unsung Heroines of Continental Congress

Florence de Windt Dowdell

144 From Our Bookshelf

149 A Timeclock Trip

149 Let Us Pray (Poem)

154 Antiques ( Poem)

158 Brief List of Books on American Revolution

159 Some Significant Facts in American History

160 D.A.R. Magazine Advertising News

126 Congress Concessions Ease Gift Shopping

140 Copy of a Letter from Elijah Leonard

Lynn Brussock

Jean B. McManmon

Ruth Hartshorne

Amelia B. Deans

Minnie May Thayer

Justina B. Walz

Pauline W. Bishop

The President General's Message

WHILE many of you are reading this Febru-

ary issue of the D.A.R. Magazine, I shall

be attending State Conferences in the southern,

western, and mid-central parts of our country

and visiting with hundreds of our members at

each stop.

My itinerary for this trip includes Texas,

New Mexico, Arizona, California, Oregon,

Washington, Montana, Idaho, Nevada, Utah,

Colorado, Nebraska, and Iowa. We are well

represented in each State by active chapters

under the leadership of devoted State Regents.

These 13 States are far different from the

original 13 that were starred in our Flag, and

each has contributed its own unique vitality

and riches to the great growth of America. As

you may know, my home is in Lubec, Maine—

the farthermost point on the eastern seaboard.

While there, during the Holiday Season, I stud-

ied the plans for my trip, the distances I

would travel, and the cities I would visit; so

far to journey, so many things to see. My

thoughts went back to the days of the great

western migration, and the history that has

been written of the progress of the American

way of life.

Many of us had ancestors who traveled by

covered wagon or on horseback to break trailsinto the western territories. They marked theway for progress and comfort as we know it

today. The footsteps of men, women and chil-dren, and oxen imprinted the trails, and theswaying, cumbersome, covered wagons wid-ened them to rough roads. These wagons—un-comfortable pioneer vehicles by today's stand-ards—were home for migrating families.

Faithful women, with children of all ages,packed their meager belongings, stored foodand equipment that they could gather, and

with staunch hearts, trust in God, and loyalty

to their families, faced indescribable hardships

to become homemakers in the wilderness. They

carried with them the knowledge that Freedom

in America was guaranteed by the Constitution.

We of the D.A.R. have honored these wom-

en—we call them Madonnas of the Trail. They

represent sanctity and progress, and their spirit

abides today in the thousands of D.A.R. mem-

bers who are descendants of pioneers.

Words of strength were put into our Consti-

tution by the Founding Fathers, and our Na-

tion has prospered. We are envied our prog-

ress. We have moved forward for 171 years,

confident that individual initiative finds its

reward, that Freedom is not a catchword but

is actual.But we have new frontiers to face where

the strength of our own voices may succeed in

retaining the American way of life and free-

dom. Our way is being threatened by those

who wish to destroy. To defeat the tactics of

those who would destroy, raise your voice for

better education in fundamentals—for knowl-

edge of American history—for a greater spirit

of patriotism—for more discipline of mind and

less tolerance of innuendo. Our youth, partic-

ularly, must be taught to honor the heritage

of which we are, and they are, custodians. The

future is in the making; let's keep the Ameri-

can way the way of Freedom—let's raise our

voices and declare our patriotism and keep

intact our Constitutional Republic.

I shall not return to Washington until the

first of April, when I hope to see many of you

at our Seventieth Continental Congress.

Cordially yours,DORIS PIKE WHITE,President General, N.S.D.A.R.

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George Washington Colonial Soldier'

DURING the sessions of the Sec-ond Continental Congress, of

which he was a member, Col. GeorgeWashington, of Virginia, habituallywore the buff and blue uniform of theVirginia Militia on the floor of theCongress, thus evidencing his beliefthat the hour for action had arrivedand that he was in readiness forservice upon call. So, on June 15,1775, when Congress passed theresolution that "a General be appoint-ed to command all the continentalforces, raised or to be raised, for thedefense of American liberty," ThomasJohnson, a delegate from Maryland,rose and offered in nomination thename of Colonel Washington. It wasthe only name placed before the bodyfor consideration, and the electionwas unanimous. The next day the tallVirginian walked to the State Housefor the notification ceremonies; hemade a gracious acceptance of thehonor and responsibilities the positioncarried.

It was a far call to June 16, 1775,from February 1, 1753, when a youth,who had not yet reached his majority,was appointed Adjutant of the SouthDistrict of Virginia and was com-missioned a major in the militia. Hewas unschooled in military science—that was to come from the reality ofstark experience—but his love for itwas a compelling urge and inspira-tion. That very autumn Washingtonread in the Virginia Gazette aboutthe French occupancy of the Ohioand learned, perhaps in conversationwith his friend Fairfax, that GovernorDinwiddie was going to send a warn-ing to the trespassers. He concludedto offer his services as the messengerand immediately set out for Williams-burg. He was accepted, did as he hadbeen directed, and was back in theVirginia capital on January 16, 1754,the mission accomplished.As Virginia made ready for resist-

ance to the French advance, Wash-ington began his education in colonialdefense. Joshua Fry, of Albemarle,with the rank of colonel, was chosento lead the Virginia regiment, withI Presented before Virginia Frontier Chapter, Lex-ington, Va., February 21, 1958.

By Rev. George West Diehl

Washington, holding the rank oflieutenant colonel, as second in com-mand. Then came Washington's cam-paign of 1754, involving the skirmishat Great Meadows and the surrenderof Fort Necessity, thus opening theFrench and Indian War. The tragedyof Braddock in the forest undergrowthon the banks of the Monongahelacame a year later, on July 9, 1755.

After a period of rest and recupera-tion at Mt. Vernon, Washington ac-cepted the commission as colonel ofthe First Virginia Regiment and tookup the onerous duties of building upthe regiment and defending the west-ern frontier. In the early autumn of1756, he rode down the "GreatRoad" from Winchester, his head-quarters, on a tour of inspection ofthe forts on the Augusta frontier. Thestockade-fort of Ephraim Vause, onthe headwaters of the Roanoke, hadbeen captured by the invaders, andthere were rumors of other disastrousraids against the section.

Augusta Court House was reachedand left behind. He crossed the NorthFork of the James at Campbell'sFerry, near the present Lexington,and, skirting the Short Hill, came toLooney's Ferry over the James, whereCol. John Buchanan was erecting FortFauquier. From here, he and hisescort rode to Fort William, on theCatawba, to Fort Vause, to FortTrial, and to Capt. Harris' Fort, onthe Mayo River, near the NorthCarolina line. From here, Washing-ton retraced his steps to Fort Wil-liam, where he was joined by a groupof militia officers who made no favor-able impression upon the colonel.The cavalcade turned to the wilder-

ness trails and, crossing the mountainto Craig's Creek, descended thestream and, turning west on Jackson'sRiver at Fort Dunlap, came to FortYoung, the present Covington. Con-tinuing up Jackson's River, theypassed Fort Brackenridge, or FortMann, and ultimately reached FortDinwiddie. The last-named fort hadbeen a bulwark of defense for thefrontier for some years. From here,Washington returned to Augusta

Court House by the trail leadingthrough Buffalo Gap.

With the activation of the Britishcause under William Pitt, Gen. JohnForbes was selected to drive theFrench from their position in theOhio Valley. Two Virginia regimentswere recruited for the effort—theFirst, commanded by Washington,and the Second, commanded by Col.William Byrd. After joining Forbesat Raystown, on the Pennsylvaniafrontier, the Virginians joined theforward advance toward Fort Du-quesne. On September 13, 1758, theadvance column met disaster andwhat was tantamount to a secondBraddock's tragedy. However, theColonial and British soldiers occu-pied the smoldering ruins of theirobjective in November. Then, a yearlater, the power of the French inAmerica was broken by the captureof Quebec.

In October 1753, Major Washing-ton had started for the French postson the Alleghany; now, in Novem-ber 1758, he marched into the burnedFrench fort as a Colonel of VirginiaMilitia. In those 5 years, he had be-come so well schooled in the art ofwar that, when the call came onJune 15, 1775, to lead his fellowColonials against the might of Eng-land, he was ready for the momen-tous task. The adventurous pioneeryouth, the daring frontier fighter—he was the man of the hour.As he practiced the art of war in

those Colonial days, he had learnedmany vital lessons for his futurecareer. For instance, in dealing withDinwiddie and the Council of Vir-ginia, he became trained to deal withthe inefficiency and uncomprehend-ing and sometimes provocative atti-tudes of the Continental Congress.Too, he had learned that self-controlwas imperative, if goals were to beachieved, and that consummate tactwas necessary in handling men, bothin uniform or in civilian life. So,now, at the age of 27, Colonel Wash-ington was afforded 16 more yearsto assimilate this valuable experience

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General Washington and Leadership'By Brig. Gen. Paul M. Robinett, Ret.

IN the military profession a greatdeal of attention is paid to leader-ship. It is held in great esteem—sometimes too much so. All leaders

are not necessarily good—some in-contestably have been bad. Leader-ship is, therefore, a two-sided qualityand the reverse side of the coin shouldnot be neglected. Unfortunately, thegenerality of men have not been ableto recognize bad leadership and havecontinued to honor many who havedone great harm and who havebrought grief to countless people evenbeyond their own time.

Let us consider a good leader—onewhose labors and the results thathave flowed from those labors haveproved him to be a good leader—General George Washington.

When called upon to list what heconceived to be the essential charac-teristics or traits of the generals of hisarmy, Washington named the follow-ing:

1. Character.2. Professional ability.3. Integrity.4. Prudence.5. Loyalty.

These five traits are just as applicableto all military leaders as to generalofficers.

Obviously, the traits of a badleader would be the exact opposite insome degree to character, integrity,prudence, and loyalty, for even a badleader would have to have markedability to conceal the lack of the otheressential characteristics of a goodleader. This is why the world wouldbe better off if some leaders had neverbeen born.

After many years of study and con-siderable experience and researchinto leadership, I am convinced thatGeorge Washington remains to thisday the most eminent leader in peaceand war that America has produced.He has left a standard of leadershipthat can serve others as a model inbuilding their own patterns of goodleadership. But our study should notbe limited to him alone but should

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include many examples of both goodand bad leaders. From the bad wecan learn what not to do.

Character

It will be noted that Washingtonlisted character as the first trait of agood leader. Most good leaders haveadhered to this point of view. Gen-eral Guy H. Preston, a very discern-ing officer, put it this way. "Charac-ter," he said, "counts for more thananything else."Among the Americans who have

demonstrated outstanding characternone stands out more clearly thanWashington himself. Even as a boyof 15 he fashioned a code of conductand decent behavior which seems tohave had a profound influence uponhis whole life. He learned to controlhis tongue, impetuous nature, andfiery temper. He had ambition toexcel but so regulated his conduct asto be worthy of success. Experiencesas a boy and young man steadilystrengthened Washington's character.He grew with every task performed.Each contributed something to themaking of the man who was to betested later on many occasions.Energy, calmness, self-control, pa-tience, common sense, sound judg-ment, industry, orderliness, powersof decision and perseverance becamemarked characteristics of Washing-ton early in life. His mother was agreat help to him in his formativeyears as was his brother Lawrence.Although lacking formal schooling,he became an educated man largelyby his own efforts. Administrativeexperience in the management of agreat estate and in the VirginiaMilitia, work in the Virginia Legisla-ture, surveying in the wilderness, andhard and dangerous service in theFrench and Indian War, in which hedemonstrated physical endurance,courage, initiative, and resourceful-ness of a high order, completed theeducation of Washington and pre-pared him for the ordeal of the Revo-lutionary War. With this fundamentalbut rather low level preparation hewas catapulted into the command ofan untrained, poorly-organized army

of a new government which waspitted against the army of a greatpower. This preparation enabledWashington to evolve sound ideas oforganization, tactics and strategy, forthe coordination of sea and landforces of allies, and of the correctrelationship of military and foreignpolicy.

Washington was not always suc-cessful in the affairs of the moment,but his objective was always the ulti-mate one, and regardless of thecourse adopted he aimed at arrivingat the final goal set for himself. Per-haps his character shows best at Val-ley Forge. In that camp, where thetroops spent a cruel winter of suffer-ing and hard work and the Americancause seemed lost, Washington's in-spiring leadership held his men to-gether, improved their training,strengthened their minds, and broughtthem through the crisis stronger thanbefore. In doing this, he gained forhimself the undying affection of hisArmy. The morale of the troops isgenerally high in success and a suc-cessful general enjoys the esteem ofhis men; but the real test comes inadversity and defeat. If, at such atime, a commander retains the loyaltyand respect of his troops he may trulybe called a leader. Washington cameout of the camp at Valley Forge witha stronger grip on the spirit and legsof his men than ever before. Adversityhad been a boon to him and heemerged from the camp with greatconfidence in his Army—a confidencethat Maj. Gen. Charles Lee, who hadnot shared the bitter experience,lacked.

Having decided upon an offensiveoperation against General Clinton,whose forces had been in winterquarters, Washington put Lee in com-mand of the van of his advance onthe British. Lee vacillated, failed tomake a personal reconnaissance, ac-cepted rumors and changed his ordersrepeatedly. His command was soonin utter disorder and retreat. Movingto the front Washington encounteredLee going to the rear in the midst ofthis confusion. Displaying greatstrength of will and determination

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and using the strongest language ofhis career, Washington reprimandedhis subordinate, took charge of thetroops himself, restored order, andwon a defensive action at Monmouth,although he sought an offensive vic-tory.The character and leadership of

Washington may again be seen at thetime when fighting was concluded byhis great victory at Yorktown. Adisgruntled and neglected Army re-mained under arms. All around therewas chaos, and Washington alone in-sured unity. Brushing aside the flat-tering proposals of some subordinatesto make him king, he steadfastlyadhered to principles. Finally, afterrestoring republican spirit and dis-cipline in his troops and bidding eachofficer a warm-hearted farewell,fittingly ending years of danger, trialand comradeship, he went to Annap-olis and surrendered his commissionto the Congress before returning tohis farm as a simple citizen. At hisown request, the only compensationWashington received was a refund ofactual expenses he had incurred dur-ing the Revolutionary War—a sumindeed modest by present day stand-ards because he had lived veryfrugally throughout the war. He wasa man above flattery and self-in-dulgence. He bound men to himselfwith fetters stronger than iron.

Professional Ability

From the point of view of profes-sional ability, Washington was cer-tainly the outstanding personality ofhis time and remains the outstandingindividual in the history of the UnitedStates. It is indeed difficult to under-stand how he developed into therounded personality he attained. Thefacilities for study were not great inhis time but he seems to have madeuse of such as were available. He wasengaged in affairs from the time ofhis youth and had access to men whowere making their mark at the time.He developed a remarkable knowl-edge of men through a lifetime ofhandling and dealing with others. Heconstantly widened his acquaintancewith all classes of men and was ableto observe them at their work and atmoments of relaxation in peace andin war, to know their hopes and am-bitions, their problems and theirstrengths and weaknesses. He knewthem in both success and failure, theconditions under which men showtheir true natures. He did not pander

to the weaknesses of men but triedto make them better than they were.This might have reflected back uponhimself and made him better than heotherwise would have been. Thisknowledge of men—this ability toreach the soul of men and inspirethem—enabled him to draw out thebest that was in nearly everyone whocame under his influence. This waseven true in his dealings with allies.Despite Washington's great leader-ship, however, some men failed himand in doing so brought discreditupon themselves while providing his-torical examples that can be studiedwith profit to this day.

Washington's undoubted successwith the land and sea forces ofFrance, so well illustrated in the cam-paign culminating at Yorktown, canbe attributed to his wisdom andsagacity, to the power and greatnessof his character and personality, tohis perfect understanding of the prob-lem, and to his courtesy and tact. Hissuccess as Chairman of the Constitu-tional Convention and as President ofthe United States can be attributedto the same qualities. In these ca-pacities he had to demonstrate a dif-ferent sort of leadership than that ofcombat—intellectual and moral lead-ership and the patience and per-sonality to win the support of the menaround him. It can be said, therefore,that the successful outcome of theRevolutionary War was due to Wash-ington and that the form of the Gov-ernment under the Constitution couldnot have evolved except for him.

Integrity

Probably no other American hashad so much written about him asWashington. Nothing has ever turnedup to raise the least question concern-ing his integrity. There have been ef-forts to debunk the man but all havefallen flat. Integrity is the basic at-tribute of character. To some thistrait may seem to be hardly worthconsidering in a matter of war whereall values seem to disappear. Such isnot the case—certainly not in anarmy or nation devoted to republicanprinciples of government. Some haveexcused lack of integrity in certainindividuals on the ground that theywere good fighters or "go getters" inadministrative assignments — indis-pensable men. A man lacking in-tegrity is unworthy of any position oftrust or leadership in America. Thisis just as true today as it was in Wash-

ington's time but the trait is seldommentioned today and there is a wide-spread disregard of it in our teachingand practice.

Prudence

No one can be sure of the defini-tion Washington would have givento prudence, which he lists among therequired traits of a good leader, butit seems that he would have acceptedone found in Webster's dictionary,"Skill or sagacity in the managementof practical affairs or provident use ofresources." Allied to prudence, ofcourse, is common sense—the rarestof senses. Certainly, no one in Wash-ington's time demonstrated greaterprudence or common sense than hedid himself. In his own personalaffairs, in the conduct of the Revolu-tionary Army, and in the conduct ofthe Presidency, he demonstrated "sa-gacity in the management of prac-tical affairs." As one surveys the cur-rent scene and notes the lack of pru-dence in the affairs of today, he isapt to become a pessimist. If he hasread much history, he will recall thefate of other peoples who once wereprudent in the conduct of their affairsand then lost the trait and soon there-after lost their position in the world.

Loyalty

The last trait listed by Washing-ton as essential in good leadershipwas loyalty. It was not individual orpersonal loyalty to superiors or fol-lowers that he was thinking of butloyalty to our government and itscause although both aspects of loyaltywere deemed important for good lead-ership. We know that it was not easyfor him to take up arms against theBritish Government; but he placedthe principles and rights of free Eng-lishmen above loyalty to a regime thathad forfeited its right to loyalty byhaving been disloyal to the colonialpeoples. He, like other early Patriots,transferred his loyalty to the new or-der and staked his life and wealth onthe cause of independence.

After independence had been won,Washington and others of his persua-sion were able to form a governmentthat could be loyally supported by allreasonable citizens. The republicanprinciples of this government havemade it strong and a dynamic force inthe world. There have always beena few maladjusted individuals in

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George Washington Father of the AmericanNavy

By Rear Admiral Ernest M. Eller, USN (Ret.) Director of Naval History,

Office of the Chief of Naval Operations

you in this Society and we inAmerica in general rightly call

Washington the Father of his Country.We use this term because, as our mili-tary leader, he held our forces to-gether through the long, dark yearsof the Revolution. We use it because,as our first President, he put his handfirmly on the helm of an unsteadyship of state traversing a channelfilled with rocks and shoals. We useit because he is a leader of all thebest in the American spirit.We consider him the Father of his

Country also for other reasons. SinceI am in the Navy, I know you wouldbe disappointed if any of these relateto the Navy and I didn't mentionthem.

Every year, among the tens ofthousands of questions that come tomy office, there are always severalasking, "Who is the Father of theAmerican Navy?" Many people nom-inate John Paul Jones, others JohnBarry, John Manley, John Adams,and Robert Morris among our fore-fathers who worked hard to giveAmerica the benefit of her heritageat sea.

Perhaps first among these, how-ever, comes George Washington, ashe was first in so many things in de-velopment of the firm foundation ofour beginnings. Almost as soon as hecame to Boston in July 1775 he be-gan to experience, unhappily, and towrite about, the advantages of powerat sea.One of his early efforts was to try

to cut off the supplies for the BritishArmy. He removed provisions fromthe 'coast and islands nearby Boston.He tightened the blockade around thecity. Yet by simply going a little far-ther afield British ships brought inall their Army needed. It is one ofthe oldest lessons of history that thecheapest and easiest way to transportthe large quantity of supplies neededby men in large groups is by ship.For example, today 1 gallon of oil1 Part of an address given before the District ofColumbia Society on Constitution Day, Septem-ber 17, 1960

Official U. S. Navy Photograph

British fleet off Stately Island, N. Y., July, 1776.

can be shipped from the Middle East,some 6 to 10 thousand miles accord-ing to point of departure and route,for about 1 cent. Once this petroleumarrives in the United States it costsabout the same amount to transport itby truck, even 100 miles. In addition,State and Federal taxes to pay for theroads that provide the highways forvehicles ashore often add up to 10cents a gallon in costs that the usermust pay. There are no taxes, nocharges for construction and upkeep,on the broad highways of the sea.They nurture freedom in this as inother ways.

Not only did Washington find him-self thwarted in cutting off Britishsupplies, but he was soon in verygrave straits for powder, other muni-tions, and manufactured productsfrom abroad required by his Army.Following the old American maximthat if you need a helping hand youwill always find one at the end of yourarm, Washington organized his ownnavy to try to capture these suppliesfrom the enemy. He thus operatedAmerica's first deep-sea naval force.At one time or another he had

seven small ships in his "fleet". They

captured a total of 55 prizes, many ofthem with extremely valuable cargoes.One of these was the British Ord-nance Ship Nancy, so heavily ladenwith powder, projectiles, guns, andother ordnance that not only did theloss severely cramp the British Armybut perhaps made it possible forWashington to maintain the siege. Itwas said that the American Coloniescould not have manufactured, in 18months, all that was captured in theship, and one writer went so far as tostate that its capture saved the Revo-lution.

Another value of the sea Washing-ton soon experienced was that, forhim who controls it, the sea serves asa broad highway over which he maymove his armies and navies at will.This, too, has been a universal expe-rience from the beginning of historyand has grown in influence upon theaffairs of nations as ships have be-come larger and more seaworthy.This development has had major im-pact upon the events of our times.We, not the enemy, projected ourships, troops, guns, tanks, and air-craft to the shores of Europe andAsia instead of Germany and Japan

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bringing theirs to the shores of Amer-ica. More recently, although Leb-anon is almost on the doorstep ofRussia, it was American strength,striking swiftly from the decks of theSixth Fleet, 5000 miles from theUnited States, that gave vital aid toLebanon's Government, when re-quested, rather than nearby com-munist forces coming in to take over.Having failed to shut off British sup-plies, Washington steadily pushed hisemplacements closer to Boston, draw-ing a ring of steel tighter around theBritish army. Yet just when it ap-peared that he had the foe in hisgrasp, the British easily embarked intheir ships and sailed away. This fa-cility to come and go at will by seamarked the character of the war there-after. When the British wished to at-tack elsewhere, as they soon did atNew York, they simply sailed therein ships and did not have to fighttheir way laboriously through a hostileland.On the other hand, Washington,

even though in a friendly country,found the marches long, slow, weary,and debilitating on his Army. Whenthe British made a long jump, like theoverseas operations to capture Sa-vannah and Charleston, he chafed infrustration, unable to move troops intime to stop them. The mobility, flex-ibility, versatility, speed, and choiceof point of attack that the sea gavethe British were overwhelming ad-vantages he could not match.Thus, control of the sea gave the

British powerful benefits of freedomof choice and freedom of movement.It also gave them another advantageof perhaps greater importance—theability to combine the strength of seaand land into an irresistible concen-tration of power. Not only did the

Navy protect the Army and move itsafely and expeditiously to an un-heralded point of attack, but at thechosen place of assault it added theenormous power of its artillery. OneBritish ship of the line, for example,might have as many guns as the totalmounted ashore to oppose a fleet.Under the heavy fire of many ships,the British troops could drive ashorelike the concentrated stream of a jet.

This unique power of concentrationhas increased significantly and deci-sively since the time of Washington.Many revolutions have entered intothe portentous trend—such as steampropulsion, electricity, electronics (es-pecially in precise accuracy of firecontrol), the submarine and airplane(that have taken the Navy into theheights and depths), today's nuclearpower and guided missiles. Under theimpact of increasing power at sea,American amphibious attack inWorld War II could not be checked.No important attack from the seafailed in this war. North Africa, Sic-ily to Normandy in Europe, andGuadalcanal to Okinawa in the Pa-cific unrolled an unbroken scroll oftotal power of a Nation, assembledby sea, overcoming every obstaclethat the enemy raised.Among the several other advan-

tages that Washington noted I willmention only one more: He who con-trols the sea controls for his use theresources of the world and denies orat least severely restricts them tohis opponent. It is this support, evenalliance, of other nations that ulti-mately decides victory. In the longpageant of history, where a body ofwater, even as narrow as the EnglishChannel, separates the contestantsthe nation that has kept control ofthe sea has always won. We need re-

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call only a few dramatic examples:Greece against Persia, Rome againstCarthage, Britain against Napoleon,Britain and the United States againstthe Kaiser, Britain and the UnitedStates against the Nazis and Japan.Many Americans think of the

American Revolution as simply afamily altercation between the Col-onies and the home country. Yet, ifother nations had not declared waron England, the chances are that wewould not be independent today.Nearly 3 years after Concord andLexington, in 1778, France enteredthe war against her old antagonist,England. The next year, Spain joined,and in 1780 Holland came in. Hencethis became a world war in its broad-est sense, and more fighting took placein distant areas like the West Indiesand the seas of India than in Amer-ica.As soon as France declared war,

Washington saw his opportunity andbegan to plead for a fleet to operateagainst the relentless pressure of Brit-ish sea power. Through his lettersruns an unbroken thread of under-standing of the broad uses of naviesand armies in combined operationsthat marks Washington as one of theunique commanders of history. Hewisely combined and sought to applytotal power rather than just the onepart of America's strength under hiscommand.He needed the French Fleet for

combined operations to trap the Brit-ish Army. Repeatedly in his com-munications we read thoughts like thisto Lafayette:

It follows that, as certain as night suc-ceeds day, that without a decisive Navalforce we can do nothing definitive, andwith it everything honourable and glorious.A constant Naval superiority would ter-minate the War speedily; without it, I do

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French fleet of Admiral D'Estaing lying off New York, 1778.Official U. S. Navy Photograph

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Official U. S. Navy Photograph

Part of the powerful Sixth Fleet during maneuvers in the Mediterranean, August 1956.

not know that it will ever be terminatedhonourably.

With a world war on their handscalling for operations in far-flungseas, the French would not concen-trate naval forces off the Colonies tothe degree needed. When the fleetsdid arrive, for one reason or anotherthey failed to combine with Wash-ington in the decisive plans he con-ceived. Hence, although America nowhad the naval strength indispensablefor victory, the war dragged on.

In fact, for 3 years after Franceentered the war, the American causedeteriorated rather than improved.The British fleet and army capturedSavannah and Charleston, took firmcontrol of Georgia and South Caro-lina, and overran much of North Car-olina. American finances collapsed.Patriots who had entered the war sooptimistically found it long and wear-ing. Many sank into apathy. Wash-ington's army wasted away so that hecalled it "a remnant of an army".As year after year dragged on,

Washington, who had lived throughthe dark winter at Valley Forge, him-self almost despaired; in April 1781he wrote:

If France delays a timely and powerfulaid in the critical posture of our affairs, it

will avail us nothing should she attempt ithereafter . . . we are at the end of ourtether, and . . . now or never our deliver-ance must come.

"And it must come," he adds with"a superior Fleet always in theseSeas."

Happily, this was the darknessbefore dawn. A new French admiraltook over in the West Indies, wheregreat sea battles of this period werefought for the rich prizes of the sugarislands. Admiral Count de Grasseagreed to join in combined opera-tions. General Cornwallis, aftersweeping through the Carolinas, hadmoved on to Yorktown and en-trenched himself there. At long lastWashington's chance had come.Now, as autumn colored the leaves

across America, the pieces fell inplace; divine fingers seemed to reachdown to move the chessmen and endthe play. Washington started Amer-ican and French forces on the movefor Yorktown from the South, theMiddle Colonies, and Newport. Hehimself demonstrated before NewYork to deceive the British com-mander into expecting attack there.Meanwhile, the bulk of his Army

Official U. S. Navy Photograph

Bombshells bursting on Iwo Jima from ships of the United States task force in March 1945 in supportof landing craft heading for the beach. Mount Suribachi is in the background—the scene of the flagraising memoralized in one of World War II's most famous photographs.

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swept south to the head of the Ches-apeake, where they embarked inboats to take advantage of the easeof water transportation to convergeon Cornwallis. A French squadron,convoying heavy siege artillery, gotunderway from Newport.The rest of the story is well known.

De Grasse defeated the British fleetoff the Chesapeake Capes in one ofthe less bloody battles of sea history,yet at the same time one of the mostdecisive. This was in early September.Cornwallis hung on for anothermonth and a half, as Washington'slines inexorably tightened, and hesaw himself cut off from the life-giving sea. He surrendered 19 Octo-ber 1781. Though this did not markthe end of the Revolution it markedcertain victory. Nine days later Wash-ington wrote to Admiral de Grasse:

Your Excellency will have observed thatwhatever efforts are made by the landarmies the Navy must have the castingvote in the present contest.

Washington, the Father of ourCountry, in his mighty vision of thepower of the sea and wise use of it,thus lays strong claims to being alsoFather of the Navy—that has had andwill have such profound influence onAmerica's destiny.In this past century there has been

vast growth in power based at sea.The growth has been both absolute,to bring incredible strength to ships,and relative, to give them far greatercapacity for combined operationsagainst land strongholds. Many revo-lutions and developments, some ofthem radically affecting civilizationin all of its aspects, have enteredinto this mighty growth of powerafloat: Steam power, submarines thathave taken man into the depths andairplanes that have lifted him towardsthe stars, electronics, and now atomicenergy and guided missiles coveringvast distances. All of these have in-creased the relative influence of sea-power, a change of greatest signifi-cance for the nations of the FreeWorld bound together—or divided—by the sea.The latest step in this portentous

development is the Polaris ballisticmissile, fired from submerged sub-marines that project sea-based power—United States power—far inland.Invisible in the secret depths of thesea, virtually invulnerable to surprisedestruction and retaliation, the nu-clear-powered submarine, armed withthis new, incredible weapon, becomes

a new mighty champion for freedom.It can hurl a huge hydrogen warheadmore than 1200 miles to strike pre-cisely at the heart of enemy strength.Each submarine carries 16 missileslike this, capable of striking at 16different centers of strength. Thisadded power in America's arsenalbrings with it the great hope that itwill prevent nuclear war. It assures

Official U. S. Navy photograph

Historic first service shot of Polaris guided missilefrom the nuclear powered submarine, George Wash-ington.

certain retaliation, therefore it maywell be the ultimate deterrent, thesure means of preventing the holo-caust of atomic war.

It is appropriate that the firstPolaris submarine to operate forpeace and freedom bears the name,U.S.S. George Washington. Here is acolor picture of the first service shotsurging out of the depths of the sea,to speed precisely to its target areadown the long sea miles. This shotcovered a distance greater than fromWashington to Jamaica in the South,to Hudson Bay in the North, or farbeyond the Mississippi River in theWest.Here also is a facsimile of one of

George Washington's letters; and witha slightly paraphrased quotation fromthe letter I close this talk. In it ap-pears another of this wise leader'sprofound statements on the value toAmerica of its ancient landmark of

the sea. His profound vision was truethen in the days of sail. It is truetoday in the era of guided missilesand atomic energy. It will be true intomorrow's space age as the greatsea confederation of the Free Worldseeks to survive:

In the defense of America and freemen everywhere, strength based at seais the pivot on which everything turns.

Letter from General Washington to JohnHancock, President of the ContinentalCongress.'

Cambridge, November 30, 1775Sir:

I had the honor to write you the 28thinst. by Captain Joseph Blewer. Lastevening I received the Agreeable Accountof the Schooner Lee, commanded by Cap-tain (John) Manly having taken and car-ried into Cape Ann a large Brigantinebound from London to Boston laden withMilitary Stores, the Inventory of which Ihave the pleasure to enclose you.'Cape Ann is a very open Harbor and

accessible to large Ships, which made meimmediately send off, Col. (John) Gloverand Mr. (William) Palfrey, with ordersto raise the Minute Men and Militia ofthat part of the Country, to have theCargo landed without Loss of Time andguarded up to this Camp; this I hopethey will be able to effect, before it isknown to the Enemy what port she is car-ried into. I sincerely congratulate you onthis very great Acquisition; and am, Sir,(etc.)

G° Washington.

P. S. Manly has also taken a Sloop inthe Ministerial Service' and Captain(Winborn) Adams in the Schooner War-ren, a Schooner laden with Potatoes andTurnips for Boston, and carried her intoPortsmouth.'

Papers CC, 152, I. 301.

2Invoice of Stores on Board the Nancy,Store Ship, Robert Hunter, Master, takenby the Schooner Lee, Captain Manly.3 Sloop Polly, S. Smith, Master, from NovaScotia, with provisions.Schooner Rainbow, John McMonagle,Master, with provisions.

Letter from General Washington, to Ben-jamin Franklin, Minister Plenipotentiaryto France

Hdqrs. New Windsor, 20th Dec. 1780Sir,

A few days since, by ye Chev. DeChastellux, I had the honor to receiveyour honor of the 19th of March intro-ductory of him, and thank you for mak-ing me acquainted with a gentleman ofhis merit, knowledge, & agreeable man-ners—I spent several days very happilywith him, at our camp near the greatFalls of Passaic in New Jersey, and be-fore the army separated for its canton-ments, the principle (sic.) of which is at

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The Filth SchoolCommittee Bus Tour

A Special ReportBy Lois (Mrs. Ellsworth E.) Clark

National Chairman, Press Relations Committee

The Daughters of the AmericanRevolution School Committee's FifthBus Tour left the Mayflower Hotel,Washington, D.C., promptly at 7:30on the morning of October 13, 1960,under smiling skies.

Mrs. Paul R. Greenlease, NationalChairman, D.A.R. School Commit-tee, was a member of the group andthroughout the Tour was most help-ful in explaining the objectives andactivities of her Committee. The TourDirector, Mrs. Anna B. Sandt, Na-tional Vice Chairman, D.A.R. SchoolCommittee, provided each memberwith a well-filled kit, containing manyessentials for convenience and relaxa-tion on the trip.At the request of Mrs. Sandt, not

only had the Greyhound Corporationsupplied two new "scenicruisers" buthad also assigned Paul Robbins andJames Hamblin as drivers for theTour. These two efficient, courteous,and ever helpful gentlemen werewarmly greeted by many Daughterswho had traveled with them before.Mr. Robbins has been with everySchool Tour and Mr. Hamblin withall but the first.

For the first time a trained nurse,Miss Winifred Boerner, accompaniedthe group. Miss Boerner, herself amember of the D.A.R., was compe-tent, considerate, and understanding.She contributed her services free ofany fees, and every Daughter whowent on the trip is grateful to her forso unselfishly giving her time andprofessional skill.

Mrs. Ashmead White (PresidentGeneral), Mrs. William H. Sullivan,Jr. (First Vice President General),Mrs. T. Earle Stribling (ChaplainGeneral), Mrs. Erwin Frees Seimes(Recording Secretary General), MissMarian I. Burns (Treasurer General),Mrs. Austin C. Hayward (RegistrarGeneral), Mrs. Ross B. Hager (Li-brarian General), and Mrs. Jack F.Maddox (Reporter General to theSmithsonian Institution) were mem-bers of the Tour. The following Vice

Presidents General also made thetrip: Mrs. Roy H. Cagle, Mrs. HenryC. Warner, Mrs. D. Edwin Gambleand Mrs. Jackson E. Stewart. Otherson the Tour included Mrs. Eliot C.Lovett, Chairman, Approved SchoolsSurvey Committee, 17 State Regents,and 7 National Chairmen.

With true Southern cordiality,Lynchburg, Va., Daughters welcomedthe group at Oakwood Country Club,where a delightful luncheon wasserved.At the end of the first day's journey

through the lovely Virginia country-side, the Tour arrived at Kembly InnMotel, Winston-Salem, N.C. The 75Daughters were warmly greeted byMiss Gertrude S. Carraway, Honor-ary President General, who joined theTour here for its visit to NorthCarolina. Following dinner, membersof the group were the guests of OldSalem for a brief trip about the townand the showing of a most interestingmotion picture of the restoration pro-gram of the corporation.

Friday at midday the Tour arrivedat the mountain town of Boone,where, again, North Carolina Daugh-ters made everyone welcome andwere hostesses at luncheon at theBoone Hotel.The first school visited was Cross-

fore. Thoughtful preparations hadbeen made for the Daughters' visit.Young escorts handled luggage, di-rected tours of the campus and store,and made themselves generally avail-able. The brilliant fall foliage thatdecorated the dining room made anattractive setting for the dinner atwhich Mrs. Roy H. Cagle, NorthCarolina Vice President General, pre-sided. Greetings were given by Mrs.Ashmead White and by Miss Ger-trude S. Carraway. Mrs. Cagle gra-ciously introduced each official of theschool and the many guests who werepresent.A vesper service, conducted by the

young people of Crossnore, was heldin its Chapel immediately after din-

ner. Entertainment in the gymnasiumincluded a roller-skating exhibitionand a "mountain ballad" sing. Guestsand children alike enjoyed the squaredancing, the grand finale of theevening.

Next morning after a bright andearly breakfast, the Tour was on itsway again, headed for South Caro-lina. Tamassee, in holiday mood anddress, was eagerly awaiting the ar-rival of the buses. From arrival todeparture the Daughters were busytouring the grounds and buildings,shopping in the store, and visitingthe children; they also attended acoffee, a reception, and the openBoard Meeting following the BoardDinner.The beautiful 7 A.M. church serv-

ice was well attended and every-one was present for the Founders'Day Program—the highlight of thevisit. Founders' Day is a time of dedi-cation, of giving. It is the day onwhich homage is paid to those far-seeing women whose faith, love, andsacrifice made a dream come true.As Mrs. Paul R. Greenlease, NationalChairman of the D.A.R. SchoolCommittee, has so appropriately said,"Tamassee is truly an 'All States'project." That was borne out by thewonderful gifts presented by Daugh-ters from all parts of the country.

Presiding over the Founders' DayProgram was Mrs. Richard E. Lips-comb, State Regent of South Caro-lina and Chairman of the TamasseeBoard. The invocation was given byMrs. T. Earle Stribling, ChaplainGeneral. Ray Elliott, a Tamassee BoyScout, led the Pledge of Allegianceto the Flag and was followed byDoris Cobb, a Tamassee Girl Scout,who led the American's Creed. Dr.Ralph H. Cain, Superintendent, gavea cordial address of welcome. ThePresident General was presented byMrs. Matthew W. Patrick, Vice Pres-ident General and National Advisor,Tamassee D.A.R. School. Mrs. PaulR. Greenlease then gave greetings forthe Society.

Distinguished guests and membersof the Tamassee Board were intro-duced by Mrs. Robert King Wise.The Founders of Tamassee were in-troduced by Mrs. F. H. H. Calhoun,and a tribute to them was given byMrs. Vinton E. Sisson, member of theTamassee Advisory Board.

Founders' Day gifts were presentedby Mrs. Greenlease and formally ac-cepted by Mrs. Lipscomb. On behalf

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of the school, Dr. Cain expressedappreciation for the gifts. Memorialacres were dedicated by Mrs. Patrick.A flag of the United States of Amer-ica, which had been flown over theCapitol at Washington, was presentedby Mrs. Robert V. H. Duncan, Hon-orary State Regent of Virginia, forCol. Allen Hicklin of Alexandria, Va.Following the benediction by theRev. Robert B. Du Pree, the assem-blage proceeded to the Sarah CorbinRobert School, where the Flag pre-sented by Mrs. Duncan was raised.

Mrs. Roy V. Barnes, MichiganState Regent, presided at the cere-monies when the Mooney-GoddardCottage was dedicated. Acceptanceand appreciation for this gift wereexpressed by Mrs. Lipscomb. TheAtwell Barn, the gift of Mr. and Mrs.Charles S. Atwell of Texas, was dedi-cated, followed by the presentation,by Miss Lola Wilson, South CarolinaChairman, D.A.R. School Commit-tee, of the Lipscomb Playgroundgiven by South Carolina Daughtersin honor of their State Regent. Aportrait of the late Mrs. LowellFletcher Hobart, President Generalin 1929-32, was unveiled in theOhio-Hobart dining hall.At the conclusion of the Founders'

Day program, Tour members hastilylunched on the collation served in thedining room and left on schedule forthe next stop. Once again, the wayled over the mountains, and then pro-ceeded down into Georgia and theValley of the Chattahoochee. Just atdusk the buses entered the maingates of the Berry Schools at Mt.Berry, Ga. Here the Daughters werecordially welcomed, assigned rooms,and then taken to dinner in the im-pressive dining hall. Evening serviceswere held in the Chapel, to whichthe visitors' way was charminglylighted by hundreds of candles—eachcarried by a student. The service wasbeautiful, and a most impressive talkwas given by the President General.Monday morning was devoted to

a bus trip over the Berry SchoolsCampus, largest in the United States,and to an all too brief visit to lovelyOak Hill, the Southern Colonial homeof the Berry family.

Again, farewells were said; and,with the sun still shining, the bussesheaded for Grant, Ala., the majorobjective of the trip. Just before mid-day the Tour arrived at Kate DuncanSmith D.A.R. School at the top ofGunter Mountain and was welcomed

by the Alabama State Regent, Mrs.Leonard C. McCrary. There, also,were Daughters from near and farwho had come to join the Tour mem-bers for the meeting and to take partin the dedication of gifts presentedduring the year.The Basket Dinner at noon was an

event long to be remembered. Thir-teen tables had been set up on thegrounds, some with as many as 36delicious local dishes. The hospitableladies of Gunter Mountain invited the500 visitors to partake of the tempt-ing and luscious food.The Dedication Exercises began at

2 P.M. in the Becker Gymnasium,which, in future, will be used forother activities, such as the all-im-portant rummage sales from whichsome operating expenses of the schoolare derived.

Following the invocation by Mrs.T. Earle Stribling, Chaplain Gen-eral, the Pledge of Allegiance, andthe National Anthem, a greeting wasextended by Mrs. Leonard C. Mc-Crary, the State Regent. Distin-guished guests were introduced byMrs. H. Grady Jacobs, Chairman ofthe Board of Trustees of Kate Dun-can Smith D.A.R. School and thefaculty members by J. 0. Hamner,School Principal.The New York Faculty Cottage

and Campus Lights were presentedby Mrs. William H. Sullivan, Jr.,First Vice President General; shrub-bery for the chapel and landscapingof grounds by Mrs. Robert T. Corner,Past President, Alabama Officers'Club; the Blanche and KatherineZimmerman Storage Building by Mrs.Roy V. Barnes, Michigan State Re-gent; and soundproofing for theMusic Room by Mrs. Walter A.Kleinert, Michigan State Chairman,D.A.R. School Committee.

In addition, the Texas ScienceProject was presented by Mrs. EdgarR. Riggs, Texas State Regent; theHeaume Kitchen renovation, by Mrs.Stanley L. Houghton, Ohio State Re-gent; and the Dairy Conversion Proj-ect by Mrs. John G. Biel, IndianaState Regent. A lathe for the Me-chanical Arts Building was the giftof the Baton Rouge, La., Juniors.

These gifts were formally acceptedby Mrs. Paul R. Greenlease, NationalChairman, for the National Society;by Mrs. Lee Allen Brooks, AlabamaState First Vice Regent for the StateSociety; and by W. Ned Cary, Execu-tive Secretary, for the School.

The President General, Mrs. Ash-mead White, gave a stirring address,concluding with the words. "The KateDuncan Smith D.A.R. School is aschool where learning goes hand inhand with Christian virtues of honor,discipline, and duty." At the conclu-sion of the President General's ad-dress, students of the school gave apageant depicting some "wonderful"years in the school's history.A most impressive event was the

ground - breaking ceremony. Flag-bearers headed the processional tothe site of the proposed Doris PikeWhite Auditorium-Gymnasium. Mrs.McCrary presided, Mrs. Stribling of-fered prayer, and Mrs. White andMrs. Greenlease spoke. Mrs. Whitethen turned the first spadeful of earth;the Auditorium-Gymnasium is themajor project of the D.A.R. SchoolCommittee for the current adminis-tration. At the conclusion of theceremony the benediction was pro-nounced by Mrs. J. G. Bennett, Ala-bama State Chaplain.The interest of the President Gen-

eral in the actual classroom work isevidenced by her brief visits to theprimary classes, sandwiched betweenthe luncheon and the Becker Hallprogram. These impromptu visitswere a delightful surprise and rewardto many little boys and girls whohad labored lovingly and diligentlyover carefully cut out letters reading"Welcome D.A.R."

Tuesday morning, October 18, theTour turned north. For miles theroute lay along the Tennessee RiverValley, with its manmade lakes andcotton fields. Tennessee Daughterswere luncheon hostesses and wel-comed the travelers at the FairylandClub, high atop Lookout Mountain,one of the South's most beautiful andscenic spots. The touring Daughtersthen continued north to MaryvilleCollege. After registration at thePrincess and Maryville Motels, thegroup dined at the nearby SimpleSimon Restaurant.A short program and a reception

were held that evening in the MusicHall of the Fine Arts Center at Mary-ville. Dr. Ralph Waldo Lloyd, Presi-dent, and members of the Staff spokebriefly. The students provided enjoy-able music. Afterward, Mrs. Whiteand the members of the Cabinet re-ceived the faculty of the College andmembers of Mary Blount Chapter,D.A.R.

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Georgia n the American Revolution

When the American Colonies de-cided it was necessary to rebel againstBritish authority and oppression,Georgia was still an infant amongthem. She was the youngest and feltthat she had little reason for enter-ing the struggle. As in other Colonies,many of her citizens opposed the warand severing of relations with Eng-land, trusting in the British Parlia-ment to adjust grievances. The ma-jority, however, saw that freedomfrom Britain was necessary and thatit could be obtained only by inde-pendence from the mother country.

The Liberty Boys

This yearning for freedom grewstronger and stronger, and there wasorganized in Georgia (as in otherColonies) a band of patriots, calledthe Liberty Boys, whose motto wasLiberty, Property, and No Stamps.Prominent among them were JosephHabersham, Edward Telfare, WilliamGibbons, Samuel Wells, and JosephClay Jones. These men believed thatGeorgia should join the other Colo-nies in the fight for independenceand that the cause of other Ameri-cans was theirs also.

Sir James Wright, the Governorappointed by the British King, wasan ardent Royalist and resented anyeffort to oppose the measures passedby Parliament or to lessen royal au-thority. This, of course, made himvery obnoxious to the Liberty Boys,although he had been a good Gov-ernor and was fairly well liked.

After the Battles of Concord andLexington, our American soldiersneeded ammunition. The LibertyBoys broke into the magazine atSavannah, Ga., and took 500 poundsof powder to send to the Americanarmy. Governor Wright offered aI50reward for the names of the guiltyparties, but so brave and so loyalwere the citizens of Savannah that,although the identity of the LibertyBoys was well known, this rewardwas never claimed.

It was the custom to celebrate theKing's birthday with gun salutes; butthe night before his birthday in 1775

By Sarah Wells (Mrs. Luther) Isbell

Joseph Habersham Chapter, Atlanta, Ga.

the boys of Savannah spiked the gunsand threw them over the bluff toshow their animosity toward him. TheGovernor had the guns restored, andthe celebration went on, although itturned into a noisy parade and erec-tion of the first Liberty Pole in frontof Tondee's Tavern, meeting placeof the Liberty Boys.

Politics began to enter the picture.Noble Kimberly Jones had been twiceelected Speaker of the Lower Houseof the Legislature, but GovernorWright refused to recognize him.When he was chosen for a third termhe resigned, and Archibald Bullockwas elected to fill the vacancy.

"Georgia's First SecessionConvention"

The Provincial Congress ofGeorgia met on July 4, 1775, in Sa-vannah. Here the patriots' grievanceswere aired. They stated their ab-horrence of tyranny and their sym-pathy with the other Colonies. Theysent messengers to Governor Wright,asking for redress of their complaint.The Governor declared their Congressillegal and did all in his power tostem the wave of rebellion sweepingover his domain, but he was power-less to stop it. It was like a fire thatstarts slowly but ignites more andmore as it moves along. This Provin-cial Congress has been called"Georgia's first secession Conven-tion." At this meeting five membersof the Continental Congress wereelected.

Joseph Habersham, only 24 yearsof age, went alone to arrest GovernorWright. He walked in, and, layinghis hand on the Governor's shoulder,said, "Sir James, you are my pris-oner." The Governor was held cap-tive in his own house until one nightwhen he escaped and made his wayto England; when he was arrested hisCouncil fled also.

Georgia Signers of the Declarationof Independence

Georgia had three signers of theDeclaration of Independence at theContinental Congress of 1776 in Phil-

adelphia—Button Gwinnett, LymanHall, and George Walton. John Hous-ton would also have been a signer,but he was called home from Con-gress to counteract the influence ofJohn Zubly, who was doing all in hispower to inflame Georgia against in-dependence. Zubly was accused ofbeing a traitor and escaped to Eng-land.

Communication was so slow inthose days that it was August beforeGeorgia received word that the Dec-laration of Independence had beensigned. It was read in Georgia for thefirst time by Archibald Bullock,Speaker of the House and Governor,by right of his office, when Gover-nor Wright escaped to England. Gov-ernment guns were fired, and Gover-nor Bullock gave a banquet at whichthe following toast was read:Forasmuch as George III of Great

Britain hath most flagrantly violated hiscoronation oath and trampled upon theConstitution of our Country and thesacred rights of mankind; we thereforecommit his political existence to theground, corruption to corruption, tyrannyto the grave, and oppression to eternal in-famy; in sure and certain hope he willnever receive a resurrection to rule againover the United States of America. But,my friends and fellow citizens, let us notbe sorry, as men without hope, for thesetryants that depart, rather let us remember.America is free and independent; that sheis and will be, by the blessings of AlmightyGod, great among the nations of the earth.Let this encourage us in well doing, tofight for our rights and privileges, ourwives and children, and for all that is nearand dear to us. May God give us Hisblessings and may all the people say"Amen."

Georgia's Determined Stand

When war was declared, SouthCarolina asked the young Colony ofGeorgia to come under her jurisdic-tion; but brave little Georgia, seeingthat this would exterminate her andextend South Carolina to the Missis-sippi River (which at that time wasthe west boundary of Georgia),treated this suggestion with con-tempt. She remained an independentColony, although considered theweakest of all. Georgia might havebeen young, she might have been

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small, but she was by no means weakor failed to give of her men and sup-plies to the Patriot cause.

During the Revolution, Georgiasuffered untold agonies at the handsof British, Indians, and Tories. Shewas completely overrun by the Brit-ish and the Indians, who had beenenticed into fighting with them; butthe hardest to cope with were theTories.On February 5, 1777, the Pro-

vincial Congress met again in Savan-nah and framed Georgia's first Con-stitution. This provided for a Gover-nor and a Legislature. The Governorwas to be elected by the Legislatureand would serve for one year.

Invasion From Florida

One never knows when war cloudswill thicken. Scarcely was the Con-stitution adopted when the King'stroops invaded from Florida, attack-ing Fort McIntosh on the St. IlaRiver. Capt. Richard Winn and histroops, after 5 hours' fighting, re-pulsed them but had to surrender thenext day. Then Col. Lachlin Mc-Intosh made an attack and drove theBritish back into Florida. ButtonGwinnett was Acting Governor atthis time until one could be elected.Not long after, John Adams

Treutlen was elected to the position.McIntosh supported him, and thismade Treutlen and his political fol-lowers enemies; a duel between Mc-Intosh and Gwinnett resulted, inwhich Gwinnett was slain. Opposi-tion to McIntosh became so heavyhe offered himself for military serv-ice and was placed in the ContinentalArmy. Col. Samuel Elbert was thenput in charge of the Georgia troops.

Georgia was without a coast guard;all the forts of Oglethorpe had beendestroyed, the food supply was low,and the value of paper money de-preciated. The Tories, with a crueltythat would have disgraced savages,killed, burned, and destroyed the Pa-triots and their property. The Con-tinental Army sent two battalions tofight in Georgia and four galleys toprotect her coast.

Attack From the North

By 1778 most hostilities in thenorthern Colonies had stopped, andthe heavy fighting moved south. TheBritish planned to have Sir AugustinePrevost attack Georgia from Floridaand Lt. Col. Archibald Campbell to

come down from the north and attackSavannah, which at that time wasguarded by Gen. Robert Howe. Mov-ing down from South Carolina, Gen-eral Prevost plundered and attackedthe southern part of Georgia. At thebattle of old Midway Church, Pre-vost's horse was shot under him; hewas not injured, however, but quicklycollected his forces, causing ColonelWhite to retreat.

His advance was short, however.Learning that Col. Samuel Elbert hadjoined forces with White, he returnedto Florida, burning Midway Churchand all houses in his path, confiscatingall movable property, and cruellytreating the inhabitants. He evenbroke open graves in Liberty Countyand scattered their contents. Becausehe resented such cruelty, Moses Allenwas captured and held on a Britishship; in his attempt to escape, he wasdrowned.

Colonel Fraser, with 500 men,while waiting for news from GeneralPrevost, attacked Fort Morris, whichwas guarded by Col. Lachlin Mc-Intosh and less than 200 men, anddemanded surrender. Colonel Mc-Intosh's reply was "Come and takeit." The British threatened to burn ahouse for every shot that was fired.To reward McIntosh's cool bravery,the Georgia Legislature presentedhim with a sword having "Come andtake it" engraved thereon.

Invasion From the Sea

Gen. Robert Howe reproved Con-gress for Georgia's unprotected coast;aid was sent to Porrysburg and Col.Owen Roberts stationed at Savannah.In December word was received thatColonel Campbell and General Pre-vost were planning to attack Savan-nah and overrun Georgia. On Decem-ber 29 Colonel Elbert found themlanding at Tybee Island, and, beingfamiliar with the location and condi-tions, offered to prevent them fromgetting into the city, for once theyhad landed it would be doomed; butGeneral Howe refused this offer.Here was the best post of defense,and should not have been neglected.Col. George Walton warned GeneralHowe of a secret passage and askedthat he have it guarded, but this, too,he refused to do. Instead, Howeformed his line across Bretton's Hill.Colonel Campbell attacked from thefront and rear, and demanded thatHowe's troops retreat across the river,

leaving Savannah at the mercy of theBritish. Some of the inhabitants werebayoneted on the streets and somewere taken as prisoners to a Britishship, where they were starved andmaltreated. One of the prisoners wasthe aged Jonathan Bryan.

Lincoln Takes Command

In January Campbell left Col.Alexander Innes in charge at Savan-nah and advanced to take Augusta,the only large city in Georgia thathad not surrendered. Meanwhile,Howe had been removed from com-mand, and Col. Benjamin Lincoln re-placed him. The Georgia forces werenow so weak that they could not pre-vent the capture of Augusta. Again,as in other places, homes were burnedand plundered, and all citizens whohad not fled or would not join theBritish army were severely punished.On February 14, Gen. Elijah

Clarke and Col. Andrew Pickens, incommand of Georgia and South Caro-lina Militia, respectively, met theenemy at Kettle Creek, WilkesCounty, and won a great victory,capturing many British horses andsupplies. Colonel Boyd of the Britisharmy was killed, and Colonel Pickensshowed him all courtesy, having hismen bury him and sending all hispersonal belongings home to hiswife.

Col. John Twiggs surprised theBritish at Augusta and forced theirsurrender. Lincoln made plans toexpel the British from Porrysburg,but Campbell learned of his plan andattacked quickly and sent McPhersonto attack Gen. John Ashe at BrierCreek. Surprising Ashe and attack-ing from the rear, Lincoln's little bandwas demolished.

Colonel Elbert, in command of theleft wing, fought until he was struckdown; just as he was about to bebayoneted, however, he gave theMasonic sign of distress and wastaken prisoner instead. Cols. LachlinMcIntosh and Francis Harris werealso taken prisoners. This debacleagain put Prevost in command ofGeorgia south of Augusta. Lincolnfelt unable to dislodge him, and theCreeks and Cherokees, egged on bythe British, made Georgia's outlookdark indeed.An exchange of prisoners was

made, but returning Georgians, whohad been kept on boats, were soweak from starvation that they could

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not walk without assistance. Theirfood had been spoiled oatmeal andcondemned pork; many died daily,and their bodies were trodden in themud of the marshes. Although Lin-coln protested, Prevost turned a deafear.On May 11, Prevost attacked

Charleston, and Lincoln, who hadadvanced to Silver Bluff, had to re-turn to dislodge him. Gen. ElijahClarke and Col. John Dooly wereprotecting the Georgia frontier at thistime.

More Trouble With the ToriesThe last of June, the British, with

Captain Miller in command, attackedCol. John Twiggs in Liberty County.This little company fought so gallant-ly the British were overcome. Aboutthe same time, at Sunburg, Maj. JohnBaker defeated a group of Tories.Gray was, however, killed by RobertSallette, who belonged to no specialcommand, but was feared by theTories. A wealthy Tory offered 100guineas for Sallette's head. One daySallette, placing a pumpkin in a sack,came to the man to claim the reward;the man, thinking the head was inthe sack, paid it, then Sallette pointedto his own head, saying "Here's Sal-lette's head." He escaped, with theTory firing after him. Often in battlehe would leave the troops, slip intothe British camp, and kill several be-fore being discovered. Once hedressed in British clothing, dinedwith them, and (while they weredrinking a toast) drew his sword,slew the men on each side of him,and escaped on horseback before theBritish could capture him.The following summer Colonel

Twiggs pursued Daniel and JamesMcGirth, both notorious Tory lead-ers, and a band of marauders and atBuckhead Creek fought so valiantlythat he put the pilferers to flight.

Return of Governor Wright

The note should be inserted herethat in 1776, when Governor Wrightfled to England, Georgia was underGeorgia rule; but when the Britishcaptured Savannah in 1778 GovernorWright returned and hoped to restoreGeorgia to the King. Here Englandmade an especially hard fight, for shewas determined to keep Georgia,even if she lost other Colonies. Geor-gia, however, received some aid fromthe Continental Army and some fromher neighbor, South Carolina, and

thus was able to drive the British fromSavannah; Governor Wright had toflee again.

Foreign Commanders

Colonel McIntosh, now promotedto brigadier general, due to the esteemof Washington, was back in Georgiaand second in command to Lincoln;he took charge of the arms furnishedby South Carolina and delivered themat Augusta. Count Jean d'Estaingwas to join the Georgia forces atSavannah; and Count Casimir Pu-laski, who, with his men, was sta-tioned within close range of Augustaand Charleston, was sent to Savan-nah ahead of Lincoln to join theFrench officer. Without waiting forLincoln, the two foreign commandersdecided to attack Savannah at once.However, they delayed their siege 24hours, carrying on correspondencewith Prevost. They asked that Mc-Intosh's family and other women andchildren be allowed to leave the city,but Prevost refused, believing thatthey would protect the British. Thedelay was fatal. Because of Prevost'srefusal, many suffered needlesslyfrom the cannonading, which lastedfour days. Georgia gave the French20,000 acres of land for their servicesat Savannah.Then Prevost asked that the Brit-

ish women and children be permittedto go aboard a British ship, but methis own kind of refusal. Because ofinsufficient food, the attackers weresuffering from disease and scurvy.Seeing that it would take at least 10days to take the city by siege, theydecided to make an assault. TheFrench divided into three companies,and the Americans into two, underMcIntosh and Col. Henry Laurens.The Americans were to wear whitepaper on their hats at night so theFrench would know them, but atraitor revealed the plan to Prevost,and he was ready for them. AlthoughCount d'Estaing made four attempts,he had to retreat under cannon fireand packets made up of knives, scis-sors, and chains. One of the retreatswas through a marsh, and many ofhis men were lost.

Colonel Laurens attacked at SpringHill, but the enemy's fire was toostrong for him. Pulaski was leadingthe French and American calvarywhen he was killed and his men putto flight. After 5 hours of fightingthe Americans raised a white flag sothat they could have time to bury

their dead. Four times during the at-tack Colonel Laurens planted theflag on the British side, but eachbearer was shot. The last of these wasSgt. William Jasper, who won fameat Fort Moultrie. This was said to bethe flag that Mrs. Elliot presented tothe regiment, saying, "I make nodoubt, under Heaven's protection,you will stand by these colors as longas they wave in the air of liberty."

While he was dying, SergeantJasper had a soldier take the flagback to its maker and tell her that helost his life supporting these colors.He was also directed to take thesword presented to him at FortMoultrie to his father and tell him,"I wore it with honor."

Lt. William Glascock and a fewmen volunteered, through shot andshell, to rescue Pulaski, who waswounded and dying. He was takenon board ship and given aid but diedand was buried at sea. Of such metalwere the heroes made who helpedGeorgia achieve independence. Geor-gians may well boast of these greatexamples of patience, endurance, andcourage.

Lincoln wished to continue withthe siege, but Count d'Estaing waswounded and returned to France, so,on October 18, it was thought best towithdraw their armies. This with-drawal was a terrific blow to Georgia,for the Tories resumed their cam-paign of insult, pillage, and cruelty.They confiscated stock, Negroes,money, food, jewelry, and furniture;they whipped children to make themtell where valuables were buried andshowed no mercy to those who hadborne arms against them.The aged minister Daniel Marshall

remained among the Patriots to helpcomfort them. It was he who had or-ganized Georgia's first Baptist church,Kiokee Creek, in Columbia County.It was also he, who, earlier in life,had been persecuted for preaching inGeorgia. His son denounced sin andoppression with equal fervor, up-holding the majesty of God and ofliberty. Of him it was said that hecould "pray, preach, and fight," sodevoted was he to the cause of liberty.

Hardships of Georgia Patriots

It is impossible to make the peo-ple of today realize the terriblehardships of patriotic Georgia citizensduring the American Revolution.Often the people had to leave theirhomes and take refuge in forts or in

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other States. One of these forts wasFort Heard, where Washington, Ga.,now stands.

Stephen Heard almost lived in thesaddle, keeping a watchful eye onIndians and Tories. When peopleheard his horse, Silverheels, comingthey knew it was time to take refugein the fort. One wealthy family movedto Virginia so many times that it wassaid that even their cattle knew theway. A story handed down throughmany generations concerned a groupof Georgians returning home afterone of these flights for safety. Thechildren, walking ahead, did not waitfor their parents at Cherokee Fort;but each child, taking hold of acow's tail, was safely brought acrossthe Savannah River. One of thesechildren was Elizabeth Darden, great-niece of General Washington; shelater became Stephen Heard's secondwife.

Patrick Carr, of Jefferson, Ga.,disposed of 100 Tories, whom hecalled "vermin to be exterminated."When praised for this work, he said,"I would have made a very goodsoldier if the Almighty had not givenme such a merciful heart."

The Story of Nancy HartOne outstanding character of the

Revolution in Georgia, and one ofthe Tories' greatest enemies, wasNancy Hart of Elbert County, nowHart County. She was tall, erect, andmuscular, with a great love for herfriends and for liberty. She kept aconch shell handy to warn her hus-band and neighbors if Tories werenear. It would take a book to tell thewhole story of this colorful characterand her fearless patriotism. Historyrecords many of her brave deeds,and her name has been given to acounty, a county seat, a school, ahighway, and a railroad engine, anda monument has been erected in herhonor. Her name appears on the listof soldiers who fought at KettleCreek. She often acted as a spy, go-ing into enemy camps and, single-handed, capturing several Tories at atime. She was a warm friend and ahated foe. Her disposition may seemtoo bold and relentless for a woman,but let us remember that she lived interrible times.

After the war had lasted for sometime the Whigs in Georgia were re-duced to a pitifully small number.Their privations were almost unbear-able, and inflation increased unbe-

lievably; for example, the expenses ofRichard Howley, a delegate to Con-tinental Congress, were $500,000.

Savannah AgainThe year after the siege of Savan-

nah, McIntosh and Lincoln and theirmen were taken prisoners. HenryClinton, elated over this conquest,decided to send Col. Thomas Brownto capture Augusta, because Brownhad lived there before the war andhad said that he favored the King'scause. He was tarred and featheredby the Liberty Boys and promised tofight for Georgia, instead of with theBritish, but instead became a bitterenemy of the little State. When he ar-rived at Savannah, only a few troopswere stationed there—only about 300under command of Andrew William-son (who told his officers to returnhome because it was impossible toresist the King any longer). William-son himself deserted, joined theenemy, and was given a commissionin the British Army.

Col. Elijah Clark, chagrined byWilliamson's act, led his men intoSouth Carolina. As if the situation inGeorgia were not desperate enough,smallpox broke out, spreading untilit was dreaded more than the enemy,if possible. Many were superstitiousabout vaccination, and thus the dis-ease took a heavy toll, the epidemiclasting for months. Colonel Clarkstill conducted skirmishes into Geor-gia and on September 14, 1780, at-tacked Brown at Augusta, capturingthe garrison. Clark's attempt to dis-lodge Brown proved useless, however,although a battle raged for 4 daysand Brown was wounded. The lattersent for Col. John H. Cruger and hisrecruits, and when they arrivedClark and his little body of troopshad to retreat.

Captain Asley and his 28 soldierswere captured; and he, with 12 ofhis men, was hanged on the steps ofBrown's house so that he might havethe pleasure of seeing them. Brownwas cruel and vindictive, often givinghis captives to the Indians to throwinto roaring fires, scalp, torture, ormutilate as they desired.

Georgia in 1780Never was Georgia's patriotism

more sorely tried than in 1780. Thecause seemed hopeless, but Patriotsrallied once more. Nathanael Greenewas sent to command the forces fromGeorgia and the Carolinas. It was at

this juncture that Agnes Hobsonplayed hex brave part in freedom'scause. Much has been said and writ-ten about Paul Revere's famous rideand his warning "The British arecoming." Little, however, has beentold about the ride of this brave Geor-gia girl on Stephen Heard's Arabianhorse. She rode three days and nights,through enemy encampments and vil-lages, resting only a few hours eachnight, that she might carry an im-portant message from Clark inAugusta, Ga., to Greene in NorthCarolina. When no trusted mancould be found to carry the message,Agnes Hobson volunteered to carrythis dispatch. She was gentle andkind, yet brave, courageous, andstrong, and a splendid horsewoman.With the message concealed in herhair, piled high on her head in thefashion of the day, she posed as anignorant countrywoman going on avisit to relatives. The third night,someone recognized the horse as be-longing to Heard. Agnes overheardthis being discussed and planned toescape, although a fierce watchdogwas tied just outside her window.She made friends with the dog; andwhen, all were asleep, got away, andlater delivered the message to Gen-eral Greene in safety. Greene sentLight Horse Harry Lee to aid Clark,and together they retrieved Augustafrom the British.

Battle of the CowpensIn the Battle of the Cowpens,

South Carolina, in January 1781, asin other battles, Georgians acquittedthemselves with gallantry and honor.Major Jackson had raised a legion tobegin service in Georgia, and whenGreene had pushed the enemy fromSouth Carolina, Clark again enteredGeorgia. Here he found terrible de-vastation. Old men and boys hadbeen hanged; women insulted, robbed,and abused—deeds for which Brownand Col. James Grierson were re-sponsible.As the winter of 1780-81 slipped

away, the gloom that had envelopedGeorgia so deeply for so long beganto brighten. Everyone had confidencein Nathanael Greene's ability and hisreadiness to aid them. And now, long-absent soldiers who had been fightingin the ranks of other States for theircause rallied around again to fight fortheir Georgia. Troops from bothSouth Carolina and Georgia united inan attempt to recapture Augusta. For

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4 weeks they besieged Augusta, neverrelaxing their vigilance and waitingpatiently for assistance from Greene.Clark had been ill with smallpox; nowhe rejoined them, with 100 men. Sobeloved was he that the very sight ofhim in their ranks again gave in-spiration to others, for the discour-aged soldiers were about to returnhome. Colonel Clark sent some Pa-triot troops against the Tories atWalker's Bridge; they won theskirmish and returned in triumph tocamp. Clark's forces were weakenedby having to send a force to the upperpart of Georgia to drive back bothIndians and Tories, but soon Greenesent Pickens and Lee with reinforce-ments.

Recapture of Augusta

Brown, now convinced that theWhigs were bent on recapturingAugusta, placed the Patriot prisonerswhere they would be exposed to fire.The Patriot troops, meanwhile, de-cided to build military works to theleft and rear of the enemy, diggingditches and erecting a tower for can-nonading. Brown tried to prevent this,but was driven back into Augusta(then called Fort Cornwallis) . Al-though Brown tried to have thetower destroyed, he was unsuccessful.The tower was completed on June 3.Lee and Pickens, hoping to avoidfurther bloodshed, called on Brownto surrender; and when he refused,Lee gave the command to attack thefollowing morning. At length, realiz-ing his desperate situation, Brownoffered to surrender, and on June 5the British garrison marched out,leaving great quantities of ammuni-tion. Brown was sent to Savannah forhis own safety.

The recapture of Augusta, the onlycity of any size in inland Georgia, atleast meant comparative safety forthe upper part of the Colony. Col.Jackson, whose early work had pavedthe way for Augusta's surrender, wasplaced in command there. Now themorale of the long-oppressed Whigswas lifted, and Georgia began tohope for better days.

Before Brown's surrender, StephenHeard had been captured by theTories and sentenced to be hung. Thenews reached his family; and Kate, amuch-trusted servant, promised tosave him. Because she was a skilledlaundress, she wormed her way intothe good graces of the British officers.

When they learned that she was fromthe Heard family, they taunted herwith the fact that her master was tobe shot as a rebel. At last Kate foundan opportunity to hide him in somelaundry and carried him out of thecamp. He escaped from Augusta theday before the siege began and foughtthere with Jackson and Clark.Once more Augusta became the

Capital of Georgia. Now the Patriotarmies turned their attention towardrecovering middle Georgia, huntingTories and restoring such propertyas had not been destroyed to theWhig owners. All this part of Georgiahad been so plundered and burned,however, that very little was left.While Georgia was still strugglingwith her three foes—British, Tories,and Indians—news came of the sur-render of Cornwallis at Yorktown.

(1 This poem is based on a vision ofGeorge Washington's in 1777.)

SONS OF THE REPUBLIC

By

Effie Lois Humphrey,

Member, N.S.D.A.R.,

Grass Valley, Calif.

"Sons of the Republic, we must lookand learn,"

For skies are dark about us whereverwe may turn.

Behold a crown of light adorns ourgood old U.S.A.,

One word traced there reads "Union"—and that's the only way

To fight this mighty battle, to setearth's children free;

Unfurl God's standard, let it wave forTruth and Liberty.

While the stars remain above usAnd the heaven's dew is castUpon the earth beneath usSo long shall the Union last.

"Sons of the Republic, we must lookand learn"

To use the light of freedom, the worksof darkness spurn.

Then our Republic shall go on in wis-dom and in power

Until the earth beneath our wings isa universal tower

Of brotherhood; and murky clouds thatrise to threaten wars

Shall fade away forever from our be-loved shores.

Sons of the Republic,In one victorious band,Unite to conquer for our God,For Union, and our land.

Important Role of South Carolinaand Georgia

Has enough importance been at-tached to the role South Carolina andGeorgia played in the Revolution?Clark and Heard, battling in the Caro-linas, pushed Cornwallis back intoVirginia and thus set the scene forhis eventual defeat and surrender.After the war was virtually ended,desultory warfare continued in Geor-gia, however. Gen. Anthony Wayne,called "Mad Anthony" because of hisrashness and courage, was sent to aidin South Carolina and later turnedtoward Georgia. Much could be saidabout the terrible warfare that ensued,covering the region from Kentuckyto the Great Lakes. Fortunately, theoutcome was favorable to the Patriotcause.

Evacuation of Savannah by Britishand Tories

After Cornwallis' surrender, theBritish were ordered to evacuateSavannah and at once offered tonegotiate with Wayne. They wereoffered safety of person and property,and many remained in Georgia. How-ever, many notorious Tories did allthe damage they could before leavingand carried away personal propertyand Negroes belonging to others.On July 11, 1783, the British left

Savannah at last; at 2 o'clock thatday General Wayne took possession.However, before he entered, Gen.James Jackson was honored with thekey to the city, because he, at thehead of the cavalry, was the first toenter the city since it had beencaptured by the British in 1778, be-cause of his bravery throughout thewar, and because he persevered asleader of the army's vanguard whenit marched on Savannah.

Independence At Last

The Thirteen Colonies sent fivecommissioners to France to meet anequal number of British and draft atreaty of peace. By April 19, 1783,all hostilities had ceased. In the finaltreaty, Georgia was recognized andcalled by name by King George. "Forhimself, his heirs, his successors, tobe a free and sovereign state, allclaim to its territory being relin-quished."

Thus, after 7 years of tribulation,strife, suffering, and deprivation,through which fire, sword, and toma-hawk had been her portion, Georgiawon her independence.

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First Official Commemoration of Lincoln's Birthday

The first official commemorationof Lincoln's Birthday was in realitya memorial service arranged by Con-gress "to express the deep sensibilityof the nation to the event of the de-cease of their late President." Al-though nearly ten months had passedsince his demise, the fact that Con-gress was not in session at the time ofthe tragedy had postponed, until themembers returned to Washington, theformal expression of their grief.Upon learning of the assassina-

tion of the President on April 14,1865, several Congressmen hurriedto Washington and met in the Senatereception room at the Capitol atnoon on April 17. A committee offour members of each house was ap-pointed to report at 4:00 p.m. thesame day and recommendations wereadopted with respect to funeral ar-rangements and resolutions of sym-pathy.

President Andrew Johnson, in hisannual message on December 5,1865, officially announced to Con-gress the death of Abraham Lincolnin these words:To express gratitude to God, in the

name of the people, for the preservationof the United States, is my first duty inaddressing you. Our thoughts next revertto the death of the late President by anact of parricidal treason. The grief of thenation is still fresh; it finds some solacein the consideration that he lived to en-joy the highest proof of its confidence byentering on the renewed term of the ChiefMagistracy to which he had been elected;that he brought the civil war substantiallyto a close; that his loss was deplored inall parts of the Union; and that foreignnations have rendered justice to hismemory.

After the reading of the annualmessage was completed, on the mo-tions of Mr. Washburne of Illinois,and Mr. Foot of Vermont, on behalfof the House of Representatives andthe Senate, respectively, a committeeof arrangements was appointed,twenty-four from the House andthirteen from the Senate to plan fora commemorative program.The following resolutions were

adopted by the Joint committee:Be it resolved by the Senate, (the House

of Representatives concurring). That thetwo Houses of Congress will assemble inthe Hall of the House of Representatives,on Monday, the 12th day of Februarynext, that being his anniversary birthday,at the hour of twelve meridian, and that,

in the presence of the two Houses thereassembled, an address upon the life andcharacter of Abraham Lincoln, late Presi-dent of the United States, be pronouncedby Hon. Edwin M. Stanton; and that thePresident of the Senate pro tempore andthe Speaker of the House of Representa-tives be requested to invite the Presidentof the United States, the heads of theseveral Departments, the judges of theSupreme Court, the representatives offoreign governments near this Govern-ment, and such officers of the army andnavy as may have received the thanks ofCongress who may then be at the seat ofGovernment, to be present on theoccasion.

It will be observed that February12 was chosen for the ceremonies be-cause it was Lincoln's "anniversarybirthday." There is little generalknowledge that Secretary Stanton wasfirst invited by resolution to deliverthe memorial address on "the life andcharacter of Abraham Lincoln."Possibly he had already pronouncedin six words at the moment ofLincoln's death the eulogy which willoutlive all others: "Now he belongsto the ages." The committee an-nounced that Mr. Stanton "not hav-ing accepted that which was tenderedto him," the Honorable George Ban-croft in response to an invitationconsented to deliver the address.Two very rare items of Lincolniana

are associated with the preliminaryplans and procedure of the memorialprogram. Much of the information al-ready spread before the reader is ex-cerpted from a sixteen-page Govern-ment publication with the caption"In Memoriam" (M804). Anotherpamphlet even more difficult to ac-quire is a four page leaflet in mourn-ing borders entitled "Arrangements"(M837). It is a prospectus settingforth in minute detail the procedureto be followed.The first paragraph states: "The

Capitol will be closed on the morn-ing of the 12th to all except themembers and officers of Congress."It further specifies that "The door-keepers will have imperative ordersto admit no one before ten o'clockexcept members of Congress, and noone after that hour who does not ex-hibit either a letter of invitation ora ticket of admission." Beginningwith the notice, "The President of theUnited States will be seated in frontof the speaker's table in the House

of Representatives, the assignmentsof seats for all individuals and groupswere set forth with detailed instruc-tions." Seats in the galleries were alsoreserved for specified groups.

Every phase of the program be-ginning at 12 o'clock noon is out-lined. It announced "that the oratorof the day, Hon. George Bancroft,will occupy a seat at the table of theclerk of the House. . . . All being inreadiness, Hon. Lafayette S. Foster,President of the Senate pro tempore,will call the two houses of Congressto order. Prayer will be offered byRev. Dr. Boynton, Chaplain of theHouse of Representatives. The presi-ding officer will then introduce tothe audience the Hon. George Ban-croft, of New York, who will deliverthe memorial address." After thebenediction by Rev. Dr. Gray andthe departure of members of Con-gress and guests it was announced,"The Capitol will then be open tothe Public." The final paragraph inthis unique pamphlet states: "Thecommissioner of Public Buildings, theSergeant-at-Arms of the Senate andof the House, and the Doorkeeper ofthe House are charged with the ex-ecution of these arrangements."

Immediately after the House hadassembled at the conclusion of theprogram a resolution was passedthanking the guest speaker for hisaddress and requesting a copy forpublication. On February 14, Mr.Bancroft advised that a copy of hisaddress would be made available. TheHouse then ordered "twenty-thousandextra copies" making this clothbound report of the proceedings awidely circulated brochure. Themembers of Congress apparently re-ceived copies with their names in-scribed in gilt on the cover. The copybearing the name of "Edward Mc-Pherson," representative from Penn-sylvania who was born at Gettysburg,is in the Foundation Library.

Harper's Weekly commented edi-torially on February 24:The last solemn rite in commemoration

of Abraham Lincoln has now been per-formed. As the historians at the Greciangames told the traditions of the countryto the assembled Greeks, so the historianof the United States has recited the latestchapter of its history to the Congress andall the chief officers of this nation. Theorator was most wisely chosen.

,Frona Lincoln Lore, Bulletin of the Lincoln National Foundation, Feb. 8, 1954.

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Lincoln's Last Recorded Wordsi

Abraham Lincoln's last recordedwords have been brought to mind onthe eve of departure for the PacificCoast by the editor of Lincoln Lore.They were addressed to Hon. Schuy-ler Colfax at the White House on theevening of April 14, 1865, just as theSpeaker of the House was about tostart for a trip to the western coun-try. The President said to Colfax ashe left for Ford's Theatre, "Don'tforget, Colfax, to tell those minerswhat I told you this morning. Apleasant journey to you. I will tele-graph you at San Francisco. Good-bye." This was Abraham Lincoln'slast good-bye and except for sometraditional conversation, carried onwith members of the theatre party,the last words that he uttered.

We are able to create from Col-fax's own statements, the scene whichled up to this exclamation by thePresident and orient him in thoselast few moments, before he departedfrom the White House for that fate-ful theatrical performance. Colfaxstates with reference to his visit withthe President on April 14:I went there to see our President,

whom I believed I had a right to callfriend as well as President, and whom Iloved as I never loved man before, to askhim whether public duties would allowmy long absence from home; whetherthere was any danger or prospect of anyextra session of Congress being called dur-ing the summer. It so happened—and Ishall always rejoice, sad as it was, that Istood by his bedside during that night andsaw his life ebbing hopelessly away—thatI was there to have the last interview hadwith him on public affairs. . . . After con-versing familiarly for some time on mat-ters of public interest, he suddenly turnedto me and asked if I was not going to thePacific. I told him I was going if therewas no danger of an extra session of Con-gress this summer.

The President then advised theSpeaker of the House that therewould be no extra session, Colfaxcontinued that it was on that veryday Lincoln "gave to me a messagewhich he desired me to communicateto the toiling miners of the west,wherever I might happen to seethem."

Colfax claimed that at the time ofthis Morning visit the President

rose:And with much more than his usual

emphasis, he made what seemed to be aspeech which he had thought over in re-gard to the miners and their interests, andhe impressed it upon me that I shouldcommunicate it to them. I told him I washappy to be his messenger, and to bearsuch a message as this. He asked me tocome again in the evening, as he was go-ing to the theatre on that night and desiredme to accompany him. I told him then,and again in the evening, that as I hadengagements for the whole evening, andintended to leave the city the next morningto return home, it would be impossible forme to accompany him. After that we satand conversed for three-quarters of anhour. Finding that the time had arrivedwhen he should leave, he rose, and, asMrs. Lincoln took the arm of Mr. Ash-mun, of Massachusetts, he took mine, andwe walked to the doorway together—thelast steps he ever took in the Executivemansion. And then, as we arrived at thedoorway, he stopped, and repeated sub-stantially, though somewhat condensed orabbreviated, the message he had given mein the morning. And again, as he was go-ing out of the door, he turned, and saidto me: "Don't forget, Colfax, to tell thoseminers what I told you this morning. Apleasant journey to you. I will telegraphyou at San Francisco. Good-bye."

The main object of the trip, ac-cording to Speaker Colfax, was tolearn if the resources and status ofthe western country demanded thatthe construction of the Pacific Rail-road should be rushed. The explora-tory party consisted of Speaker Col-fax, Lieut. Gov. Bross of Illinois,senior editor of the Chicago Tribune,Samuel Bowles, editor of the Spring-field, Mass. Republican, and AlbertD. Richardson of the New YorkTribune. George K. Otis of NewYork, special agent for the OverlandStage Line also accompanied theparty.When the group reached Virginia

City, Nevada, Colfax addressed theminers and the Daily Territorial En-terprise, published at that place, car-ried in its issue of June 28, 1865, aphonographic report of Colfax'smessage on June 26. Some of hisspeech, especially that part whichcontained Lincoln's message, wascopied by the Daily Morning Chron-icle of Washington, D. C., andprinted in their paper for August 7,1865.

Colfax had this to say about theauthenticity of the speech and theaccuracy of its recording at the timeLincoln entrusted him with this mes-sage:

After his death (which occurred thenext morning) I thought I would write itdown, as it was fresh in my recollection,instead of trusting his communication tomy memory for delivery some monthsafterward. I think I wrote it down innearly his own words.

Inasmuch as the address is not in-cluded in the Uncollected Works ofAbraham Lincoln nor in its entiretyin any other compilation of Lincolnwritings, it seems appropriate to in-clude the complete text in this issueof the bulletin.

Mr. Colfax, I want you to take a mes-sage from me to the miners whom youvisit. I have very large ideas of themineral wealth of our nation. I believe itpractically inexhaustible. It abounds allover the western country—from the RockyMountains to the Pacific, and its develop-ment has scarcely commenced. During thewar, when we were adding a couple ofmillions of dollars every day to our na-tional debt, I did not care about encourag-ing the increase in the volume of ourprecious metals. We had the country tosave first. But now that the rebellion isoverthrown, and we know pretty nearlythe amount of our national debt, the moregold and silver we mine makes the pay-ment of that debt so much the easier. NowI am going to encourage them in everypossible way. We shall have hundreds ofthousands of disabled soldiers, and manyhave feared that their return home in suchgreat number might paralyze industry byfurnishing suddenly a greater supply oflabor than there will be demand for. Iam going to try to attract them to thehidden wealth of our mountain ranges,where there is room enough for all. Im-migration, which even the war has notstopped, will land upon our shores hun-dreds of thousands more per year fromover-crowded Europe. I intend to pointthem to the gold and silver that waits forthem in the West. Tell the miners for me,that I shall promote their interests to theutmost of my ability, because their pros-perity is the prosperity of the nation, andwe shall prove in a very few years, thatwe are indeed the treasury of the world.

The extent of the literal fulfillmentof this last formal statement aboutAmerica becoming "the treasury ofthe world" Abraham Lincoln could

not possibly have anticipated.

'From Lincoln Lore, Bulletin of the Lincoln National Foundation, Feb. 1, 1954.

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Pensacola Good CitizensVisit Miss Baker

By Margaret (Mrs. Lawrence) AndrusFlorida State Chairman, D.A.R. Good Citizens Committee

(R to L) Mary Jane Dennis, Betty Jo Wade, Peggy Patterson, Joan Folsom, Maggie White, Mr.with Miss Baker, Mrs. Ernest Gentry, Wilma Rice, Jo Ann Pitts, Rocelyn York. Second Row: Mrs.rence Andrus, Mrs. John Monroe, and Mrs. William Helie.

D.A.R. Good Citizens sponsoredby the Pensacola (Fla.) Chapter arethe only Good Citizens in the UnitedStates to visit the space-travelingmonkey, Miss Baker, at her bungalowat the Naval School of Aviation Medi-cine in Pensacola. Pensacola Chapter

ParrLaw-

sponsors 11 high schools in the GoodCitizens Contest. Each year the girlsare the guests of the chapter for aday, which includes a tour of thePensacola Naval Air Station, lun-cheon, and attendance at the chap-ter meeting to receive their pins.

Junior American Citizens

Vice

LEST WE FORGET! Your J.A.C.questionnaire for the period March 1,1960, to March 1, 1961, must be inthe hands of your State J.A.C. Chair-man by February 15, 1961. She willforward it to the National J.A.C.Chairman, Mrs. Ronald B. MacKen-zie, 1492 Unquowa Road, Fairfield,Conn., in time to reach her byMarch 10.

All National J.A.C. Contest en-tries must be in the hands of yourState J.A.C. Chairman by February15 in order that they may be pro-cessed and the winning State entriessent to Mrs. Charles L. Bowman,Vice Chairman in Charge of Con-tests, 4 Sackett Circle, Larchmont,N. Y., in time to reach her by March1. It requires over a month to breakthese entries down by category and

By Mary Glenn Newell

Chairman in Charge of Publicity

division, assign them to a committeeof judges, and (after judging) towrite up reports and mount the win-ning entries in scrapbooks to be dis-played at the Continental Congress.Try to realize what a time-consumingjob this is for Mrs. Bowman, and seethat your entries are sent in on time.The subject of the National J.A.C.Contest is Our Charters of Free-dom. There are seven categories: Es-says, posters, poems, songs, plays,programs, and club projects. Prizesare awarded according to grade level,and there are five divisions:

Div. 1—Kindergarten, 1st and 2ndgrades.

Div. 2-3rd and 4th grades.Div. 3-5th and 6th grades.Div. 4-7th and 8th grades.

Div. 5-9th grade and high school.

Navy guides arrange and accom-pany the girls on the tour of the mostinteresting features of naval air train-ing and research. The Good Citizenssaw the devices used to select mencapable of flying under the most try-ing conditions with the maximum ofsafety. Experts explained operationof the low-pressure chamber, whichsimulates high-altitude flying, the dis-orientation device, which subjectsstudent flyers to motion in two di-rections at once, around and aroundand over and over, and the humancentrifuge, which whirls at speedsequal to several times the force ofgravity and determines the black-out point.

Miss Baker, the squirrel monkeywho rode into space in the nose ofa rocket, performed happily for hervisitors. Miss Baker's reactions toher travels have been the subject ofdetailed studies, which encouragescientists to believe that humans, too,can make such a trip safely. Afterexamining the cushioned capsule thatprotected Miss Baker on her flightand the other safety devices devel-oped by flight scientists, severalGood Citizens expressed a willing-ness to volunteer for space flights ifthe fact that the first surviving mon-key was a female indicated that wom-en might be better adapted to spacetravel."

First, second, and third prizes andhonorable mention will be awardedin each division for each category.Please send in only the winning en-tries from each State. Also, pleaseread carefully the instructions in Mrs.Bowman's letter of July 1960, andfollow them carefully.

The Vice Chairman in Charge ofPublicity, Miss Mary Glenn Newell,3060 Sixteenth St., N.W., Washing-ton 9, D. C., will receive newspaperclippings and other publicity throughMarch 20, 1961. All newspaper clip-pings must show the name of the pa-per in which the article appearedand the date; with this exception, donot make any notations on the faceof the clipping. Any comments maybe written on a separate sheet ofpaper. If you have any snapshots ofthe events described in the clippings,send them along to be used in thescrapbook. They will add to the in-terest of your publicity but will not

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From the Desk ofthe National Parliamentarian

By Herberta Ann Leonardy

THE PROLOGUE TO ANELECTION—NOMINATIONS

On the Chapter Level

A nomination is, in effect, a motion thatthe person nominated be chosen for a cer-tain position or office.

"How may nominations be made?" is alogical question. Nominations are usuallymade: (1) By a committee. (2) From thefloor. (3) By a nominating ballot (P.L. p.204).

If your chapter follows the model formfor bylaws as set out in the D.A.R. Hand-book, 1960, pp. 128-134, you will find thatthe nominating committee is elected at aregular meeting and that the chapter re-gent is specifically excluded from servingon the committee. It is the duty of thiscommittee to nominate a candidate foreach office to be filled at the annual meet-ing. There is not any requirement in theNational bylaws that a chapter shall havea nominating committee. A nominatingcommittee, however, seems to be the mostfeasible on the local level.

The size of the nominating committeemay vary, but it should always be anuneven number. The model bylaws givefive members but smaller chapters may re-quire only three and the larger chaptersmore. The number should be establishedin the bylaws.

The nominating committee should neveract from sentimental or personal reasonsbut their sole consideration should be thequalification of the person for the officeto be filled and whether her election wouldserve the best interest of the chapter. Thenominating committee should ascertain ifthe person to be nominated will serve ifelected. If a chapter member is not pleasedwith the slate presented by the nominat-ing committee, she has a remedy—nomina-tions are in order from the floor. If youare following the model form, the consentof the person nominated from the floormust be secured.

Rules Governing Nominations

1. A nomination does not requirerecognition (P.L. 207).

2. It does not require a second.

3. It is debatable.4. It is not amendable.

How to Present and Complete Action onthe Report of the Nominating Committee

The regent: "The next business in orderis the Report of the Nominating Commit-tee."

Registered Parliamentarian

tee: (Without recognition) "The Nominat-ing Committee of the Chapter ofthe National Society, Daughters of theAmerican Revolution, submits the follow-ing nominations for chapter officersfor

For Regent, For First Vice Regent, For Second Vice Regent, For Chaplain, For Recording Secretary, For Corresponding Secretary, For Treasurer, For Registrar, For Historian, For Librarian,

(Signed) All members of theNominating CommitteeNOMINATING COMMIT-TEE

The regent reads the report of theNominating Committee in full, and thenuses the following form for each office:

"The Nominating Committee has nomi-nated Mrs. Y for the office of regent.Are there any further nominations for theoffice of regent?"

It is well to note that small chaptersmay not need the office of Second ViceRegent and may eliminate it if they wish.Small chapters may also combine the of-fice of Librarian and Chaplain. Two sec-retaries are not obligatory; one secretarymay serve both as recording and cor-responding secretary.

Form to be Used in Making a NominationFrom the Floor

The member rises, addresses the Chairand without waiting for recognition says,"I nominate Mrs.

Rules Governing the Motion to CloseNominations

If the formal motion to close nomina-tions is used it has specific rules govern-ing it and must not be entertained by theChair until a reasonable time has beenallowed for nominations.

1. The motion requires recognition.2. It requires a second.3. It is not debatable.4. It is amendable as to time (P.L.

167).5. It requires a 1/2 vote in the affirma-

tive.6. The vote may not be reconsidered.

Form to be Used With the Motion toClose Nominations

recognized) I move that nominations beclosed." Another member, without rising,seconds the motion.

Regent: "It has been moved and sec-onded that nominations be closed. Thosein favor of closing nominations will pleaserise." The regent, if the chapter is small,counts those standing or may ask thesecretary to count them and then says,"Be seated. Those opposed will rise." Theregent then announces the vote on eachside. "There are 24 votes in the affirma-tive; 8 votes in the negative. The affirma-tive has it with a two-thirds vote andnominations are declared closed."

To Close Nominations by General Consent

Nominations may be closed by generalconsent without the regent's entertainingthe formal motion to close nominations.

Regent: "Are there any further nomina-tions? There being no further nominations,(pause) nominations are closed."

Important Points Concerning Nominations

I. A person making a nominationshould consider the duties of the office tobe filled and realize that her nominationof the person implies a warranty that thecandidate has the ability to fill the office.

2. Article XIV, Section 3: "No mem-ber shall hold, at the same time, twooffices carrying a vote at the annual StateConference."

3. A nomination may be made by any-one who has the right to make a motion.

4. A member not nominated may beelected unless the bylaws prohibit it.

5. Nominees do not leave the room dur-ing an election, but if prudent will votefor themselves.

6. If a member declines a nomination,her name will not be placed on the ballotunless renominated.

7. Nominations are debatable and whilethe rules of decorum prevail, they do notapply so far as avoiding personalities isconcerned. The relative merits of thecandidates may be freely discussed. (P.L.p. 465, ques. 143.)

8. A nominating committee has theright to nominate members of the com-mittee for office, but the right should notbe abused by nominating an excessivenumber from the committee's member-ship.

9. A person may be nominated by thenominating committee for one office andnominated from the floor for anotheroffice.

On The National Level

Article VI, Section 1: "Nominations ofcandidates for all national offices shall bemade from the floor of the ContinentalCongress." The National Society does notprovide for a nominating committee or anominating ballot.Chairman of the Nominating Commit-

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* NATIONAL DEFENSE *By Elizabeth Chestnut Barnes

National Chairman, National Defense Committee

Foreword

The article "The Threat of ForeignEntanglements to American Sover-eignty" which you are about to readwas written by Mrs. James K. Polk,a member of North Riding Chapter,New York State Organization, anda National Vice Chairman of the Na-tional Defense Committee.

Some months ago, your NationalChairman invited the State Chair-men, chapter chairmen, and othermembers interested in the work of theNational Defense Committee to con-tribute articles dealing with mattersof interest to this Committee andparticularly those concerning theResolutions of the National Society.She had in mind (1) the stimulatingof interest in the work of this Com-mittee, (2) the sharing of their re-search with the membership general-ly through the D.A.R. MAGAZINEand (3) the hope that those who didthis research would spread theirknowledge throughout the chaptersof their State Society and the otherpatriotic and civic groups to whichthey belong.When it is not possible to use an

entire article, sometimes excerptsfrom it may be used in releases sentto the chapters, in material for theNATIONAL DEFENDER or inte-grated in articles written by the Na-tional Chairman.

The Threat of Foreign Entangle.ments to American Sovereignty

By Ethel D. PolkTreaties vs. Constitutional Guarantees

Under the Constitution of theUnited States of America exclusivejurisdiction over all matters pertain-ing to foreign relations is vested inthe Federal Government. The limita-tions and restrictions of powers andrights and the guarantees of freedom,which under the Constitution maynot be abridged by the Congress orby the States, can be ignored in theforeign relations field through theexercise of treaty powers which arecoextensive with the grants of powerin the Constitution itself. The onlygoverning charter limitation of the

scope and area of the exercise ofpowers in the foreign relations fieldlies in the recognition of an adher-ence to an established nationalpolicy.

Washington Advised AgainstForeign Entanglements

What historically has been theestablished national policy on com-mitments of our Country as far asthey affect or impinge upon thesovereignty or internal affairs of for-eign nations? What has that policydeveloped into today? It is my pur-pose to point out that in addition tothe necessary and desirable com-pacts and relationships with foreigngovernments there is an area of for-eign entanglement which was pro-scribed by George Washington andthe wise leaders who organized andfounded our Country and whose ad-vice, though honored by the breachtoday, is nevertheless sound andshould be again adopted as the guid-ing pattern for the maintenance ofour American freedom and the pre-servation of our Country.

Reverting to the basic principles ofself-containment by this Country andcomplete avoidance of meddling inthe affairs of foreign nations, you willrecall that George Washington setforth the following in his FarewellAddress:

Observe good faith and justice towardsall nations; cultivate peace and harmonywith all. Religion and morality enjoin thisconduct, and can it be that good policydoes not equally enjoin it?

In the execution of such a plan, nothingis more essential than that permanent, in-veterate antipathies against particular na-tions and passionate attachments forothers, should be excluded; and that, inplace of them, just and amicable feelingstoward all should be cultivated.So likewise, a passionate attachment of

one nation for another produces a varietyof evils.As avenues to foreign influence in in-

numerable ways, such attachments areparticularly alarming to the truly enlight-ened and independent patriot.

Against the insidious wiles of foreigninfluence (I conjure you to believe me fel-low citizens), the jealousy of a free peo-ple ought to be constantly awake; sincehistory and experience prove, that foreigninfluence is one of the most baneful foesof republican government. . . . Real pa-triots, who may resist the intrigues of the

favorite, are liable to become suspectedand odious; while its tools and dupesusurp the applause and confidence of thepeople, to surrender their interests.The great rule of conduct for us, in

regard to foreign nations, is, in extendingour commercial relations, to have withthem as little political connection as pos-sible.Europe has a set of primary interests,

which to us have none, or a very remoterelation. Hence, she must be engaged infrequent controversies, the causes of whichare essentially foreign to our concerns.Our detached and distant situation in-

vites and enables us to pursue a differentcourse.

It is our true policy to steer clear ofpermanent alliance with any portion ofthe foreign world; . . .

Taking care always to keep ourselvesby suitable establishments, on a respecta-ble defensive posture, we may safely trustto temporary alliances for extraordinaryemergencies.

Basic Principles of ForeignRelations Unchanged

It is submitted that these are funda-mental truths, that human nature hasnot changed from 1796 to 1959, thatenduring principles are not affectedby shortened periods of communica-tion or travel but are, in fact, moreimportant because of instantaneouscommunication and near instantane-ous travel. Whether the world belarge or shrunken, with the advancesin speed of communication and travelthe basic and fundamental principlesof relationships of •nations are un-changed.

Has U. S. Followed Washington'sAdvice?

What does history show as to howwe have conducted our affairs in thelight of this advice? Have we fol-lowed it? Let us look at the record.

1. John Adams and Jefferson

Under President John Adamsthere were no foreign and entanglingalliances made, and the same is trueof Thomas Jefferson's administration.Both Presidents followed the adviceof George Washington. Our Countryprospered and was then respected inthe community of nations.

2. Madison

During Madison's Presidency webecame involved in the War of 1812,in which we successfully enforced thedoctrine of our own independencefrom interference by Great Britain.There was no question in this war ofentangling ourselves in the affairs ofother nations.

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3. Monroe

The same desire to avoid foreignentanglements and disputes led to theenunciation of the Monroe Doctrineby President James Monroe. ThisDoctrine was incorporated in hismessage to the Congress in Decem-ber, 1823. It was an announcementto the effect that the American con-tinents were closed to Europeancolonization; that the United Statesdid not intend to interfere with Euro-pean affairs; that America was forAmericans; and that any attempt toreconquer the South American Re-publics would be considered a "mani-festation of unfriendly dispositiontoward the United States." This Mon-roe Doctrine tremendously influencedour attitude toward South Americancountries and our whole foreignpolicy for more than a hundred years.

4. Polk

From the period of PresidentMonroe's administration until that ofJames K. Polk, our Country enjoyedpeace and increasing prosperity. TheMexican War, which occurred duringPresident Polk's administration, re-sulted in the acquisition of territorythat later became the States of Cali-fornia, Utah, Nevada, parts of Ari-zona and New Mexico.

In passing it is most significant tonote that our self-contained policycontrasted sharply with the inter-woven foreign arrangements, such asthe Triple Alliance and the TripleEntente.

5. Taft

Under the administration of Wil-liam Howard Taft, treaties, whichhave served as models for manytreaties drawn up since that time,were negotiated with Great Britainand France, providing for the arbitra-tion of international controversies.

In fact, during the years when theTriple Alliance and Triple Ententeinvolved the great countries ofEurope in common defense problems,this Country continued to concernitself with its own affairs and to leavethe European nations to their owndevices. The ravages of the War Be-tween the States took many years torepair and heal, and American ef-forts continued to be concentrated ondomestic affairs rather than on af-fairs in Europe.

Early Interest in Foreign Affairs

The Spanish-American War didnot cause a deviation from our policy

of no entangling alliances, since noother countries were involved in thisdispute.

Although the United States did notenter into any foreign alliances in thefirst 138 years, it was by no meansuninterested in foreign affairs. Dur-ing President Fillmore's administra-tion, Admiral Perry led an expeditioninto Japanese waters, resulting inopening diplomatic relations withthat country. Some years later, Presi-dent McKinley was responsible forestablishing cordial relations withGreat Britain; and during PresidentTheodore Roosevelt's second termof office the Nobel peace prize wasconferred upon him for bringing theRusso-Japanese War to an end in1905. Treaties providing for arbitra-tion of international controversieswere negotiated between the UnitedStates, Great Britain and France dur-ing the administration of WilliamHoward Taft. This Country did not,however, bind itself to any other na-tion nor did it make any commit-ments to meddle in the internal orexternal affairs of other governments.

6. Wilson Abandons Washington's Advice

Woodrow Wilson followed Taftand had much difficulty with ourforeign policy. Trouble broke out inMexico, and Wilson tried to carry outhis nonintervention doctrine but wasobliged to resort to force. While warraged in Europe, President Wilsontried to keep the United States neu-tral; but repeated sinkings of non-belligerent vessels by German sub-marines, with resultant loss of Ameri-can lives, made a neutral stand near-ly impossible. Wholesale cooperationof American citizens in furnishingvast quantities of munitions and sup-plies to Great Britain and her alliesmade the United States, for all es-sential purposes, an enemy of Ger-many and her allies from the begin-ning.

This Country entered the FirstWorld War with much patrioticfervor. Our men sailed away singing"Over There" and "It's a Long, LongWay to Tipperary." They were willingto make the supreme sacrifice to"make the world safe for democracy."When the war was over, however, thepeace signed at Versailles imposedimpossible conditions on Germanyand her vanquished allies, cultivatinga fertile crop of discontent which wasto lead to World War II.

President Wilson had at first highhopes that a League of Nations couldprevent future wars. He hoped thatall European countries would adopta democratic form of governmentsimilar to that of the United States.What he did not realize was thatmany of these nations, by training,temperament, economic conditionsand the will of the people themselves,were not adapted to such a change.Now, for the first time, the UnitedStates was clearly meddling in theinternal affairs of foreign nations con-trary to the advice of George Wash-ington and the policy of self-contain-ment that had made us strong andprosperous.

Senator Borah expressed it inprecise terms:We went into a foreign war, a war hav-

ing its roots in wholly foreign policies. Weleft our dead on foreign soil. Those policiesof those countries remain the same.Europe is no nearer peace than before.We have our dead and crippled, ourmaimed and insane, our wrenched andtwisted institutions, while Europe retainsher bitterness, her dissension, her oldbalance of power. . . . The VersaillesTreaty was a result of the war we helpedto fight—one mad round of war andvindictiveness and dictatorship and repudia-tion seems to be the most pronounced re-sult of our entrance into European affairs.

Arbitrary lines were drawn andindigestible racial and politicalamalgamation made. We were clear-ly meddling in the internal affairs offoreign nations contrary to the ad-vice of George Washington and thepolicy of self-containment which hadmade us strong and prosperous.

U. S. Decides Against League ofNations

A special session of the Congresswas called to consider the treatyand the League covenant. The op-position in the Senate was fierce anddetermined, and among the peoplewas hardly less strong. It soon becameevident that the American mind wasnot prepared to accept entanglingalliances under the guise of a worldleague. The chief point of the opposi-tion was directed against Article Xof the covenant:

The members of the League undertaketo respect and preserve as against externalaggression the territorial integrity and exist-ing political independence of all membersof the League. In case of such aggression,or in case of any threat or danger of suchaggression the Council shall advise uponthe means by which this obligation shallbe fulfilled.

The people had had enough of

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meddling in the affairs of foreign na-tions and wanted no permanent en-tangling alliances. For the next twelveyears no significant arrangementswere entered into with foreign na-tions.

U. S. Recognizes Russia

For more than a decade the policyof nonrecognition of atheistic andcommunistic Russia was staunchlysupported in the United States byconservatives and denounced byliberals. The depression which thecountry had been experiencing, how-ever, brought about a change of senti-ment. American trade with theU.S.S.R. was falling off and theoptimistic thought that recognitionmight open up a great market. To aninvitation from President Rooseveltthe Moscow Government sent MaximLitvinoff, Commissar for Foreign Af-fairs, to Washington, and negotiationswere opened in November, 1933. Inexchange for formal assurances fromLitvinoff that the Soviet Union wouldrefrain from communist propagandain America, Washington formally ex-tended recognition to the Moscowregime on November 16, 1933.Neither did the anticipated com-merce with the U.S.S.R. materialize,nor was the pledge for discontinuingpropaganda kept.

7. Roosevelt and Neutrality

It was the Seventh InternationalConference of American States in1933 that gave our Country an op-portunity to foster its good neighborpolicy. After this conference Roose-velt announced in a public addressthat, "The definite policy of theUnited States from now on is one op-posed to armed intervention."

Temporary and makeshift neu-trality acts were passed in 1935 and1936; and in 1937 strong public pres-sure was exerted to bring about"permanent neutrality." This gave thePresident considerably larger dis-cretionary powers in the administra-tion of the act. It looked on its face asthough we were getting back to thewise Policy of our forebears. Therapid sequence of events which fol-lowed in 1937, however, caused areversal in policy toward interven-tion. A further step down the path offoreign entanglements came whenthis Country entered into a sweepingtrade pact with Great Britain. Thiseconomic alliance was widely re-garded as an attempt to bring the two

nations together in case of aggressionby the Dictator Powers of Europe.

For a few years thereafter, thepolicy of this Country seemed to havereverted to nonintervention.

French Plane Incident

Late in January 1939, a dramaticincident precipitated what was per-haps the most violent debate overforeign policy since the League ofNations fight. A bombing plane de-signed for the United States Armycrashed in Southern California, anda French officer was dragged from theflaming wreckage. It was then learnedthat a French air mission was visit-ing the United States and that thePresident, allegedly over the protestsof the War Department, had ap-proved the sale of American planesto France. A cry immediately wentup from isolationists and other criticsof the administration that the ChiefExecutive was effecting a secret mili-tary alliance that would involve ourNation in hostilities.

Disturbed by this outburst, Roose-velt summoned the Senate Commit-tee on Armed Services to the WhiteHouse and, after pledging the mem-bers to secrecy, spoke at length onthe policy of the United States. Im-mediately the report spread like wild-fire that the President had declared,"The frontier of the United Statesis in France." The die was cast; wewere committed to meddle! What fol-lowed was, under this policy, inevi-table.

Thus, when Germany invadedPoland, later that year, causing GreatBritain and France to declare war,President Roosevelt asked Congressto repeal our neutrality legislationsufficiently to permit America to sellmunitions to the British and French.In 1940, he negotiated a deal withGreat Britain whereby we suppliedher with fifty destroyers in exchangefor air-base rights on British-ownedislands.

Hobson's ChoiceThe American people, the elector-

ate, were given a Hobson's choice. In1940 Wendell Willkie, the Republi-can candidate for the Presidency, ranagainst the Democrat, FranklinRoosevelt, on a one-world platform.Roosevelt, however, had alreadyestablished a one-world platform ofhis own. Willkie was defeated, butthrough the identical platforms ourbipartisan policy as to foreign rela-

tions came into existence. Soon theLend Lease Bill, which authorized thePresident to sell or give enormousamounts of war materials to any gov-ernment at war with Axis Powers, waspassed. Then, at a memorable meet-ing at sea, President Roosevelt andWinston Churchill drew up the At-lantic Charter defining the future in-ternational policies of their respectivecountries. These two events in 1941brought us closer and closer to rec-ognized participation in the warwhich was raging in Europe and inthe East, where Japan was strugglingto conquer China at the same timethat she threatened western propertyand interest in the Orient.

Teheran and Yalta ChangeBalance of Power

In the fall of 1943, the TeheranConference was held; and it resultedin the western democracies abandon-ing their Yugoslav ally, Mihajlovic,and supporting the veteran com-munist agent, Josip Broz (Tito).

February of 1945 saw us enteringinto the Yalta Conference. It washere that Stalin gained his most dra-matic success: carte blanche in east-ern Poland, Manchuria, and otherterritories. At this conference theSoviets also obtained western acqui-escence and assistance in their seizureof Japanese and Chinese territory,primarily at the expense of the Re-public of China, America's long-termally in Asia. The Yalta concessionsto Stalin in the Far East radicallychanged the balance of power in thatarea in favor of communism. Thedividends of the Yalta investmentwere to be paid with the blood of ourAmerican boys fighting in Korea.

Roosevelt led America into WorldWar II for the alleged purpose of in-suring national security. It is evidentthat we have not attained this primeobjective, and thus we lost the war.The harvest we reaped from partici-pation in two World Wars was a verygrim one—in loss of life and acolossal national debt which we willnever be able to liquidate.

The Errors of Potsdam

The Potsdam Conference in Juneof 1945 resulted in incredible con-cessions to Stalin in Germany andAustria. The errors of Potsdam andYalta allowed Soviet power to ex-tend its penetration far into Europe.

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suffering to millions of Germans andAustrians, just as the success ofYalta had to the Yugoslays, Polishand Chinese. All were mere pawnsin the name of power politics.

Thus, in these successive steps, inthe short span of 1939 to 1945, theUnited States had come all the wayfrom its traditional position of notmeddling in the affairs of others tothe position where it was decidingultimate destinies of the peoples ofEurope and Asia. In a short 6 yearswe had abandoned the policies of140 years and risked American in-dependence which had been inviolateas long as we did not meddle in theaffairs of others. Even if we had notmade the mistakes we made, ourabout-face in principle started usdown a road of world involvementwhich we need not have taken.

U. N. Meeting at San Francisco

In 1945 the San Francisco UnitedNations Conference succeeded in cre-ating an international organization inwhich the Soviets and their satelliteshad wonderful opportunity for propa-ganda and in which action to checkand punish communist aggressionwas discouraged and even blocked bythe veto permitted to each of the fivegreat powers who are permanentmembers of the Security Council. Al-though Roosevelt set the stage forthis United Nations meeting, he diedbefore he could attend the confer-ence.

8. Truman Continues MeddlingPolicy

Thus, Harry S. Truman becamethe seventh Vice President to succeedto the Presidency upon the death ofthe Chief Executive. The year 1945proved an epochal one for him andfor the Nation. On May 8 the finaldefeat of Germany was accomplished.In July Mr. Truman authorized theuse of the newly proved atomic bombagainst targets in Japan; on August6, Hiroshima was atom-bombed;and on August 14, Japan's acceptanceof the surrender terms was broad-cast.

The Paris Peace Conference of1946, which followed the conclusionof World War II, facilitated Sovietcontrol in Finland, Hungary, Ru-mania, Bulgaria, Albania and centralEurope generally. These diplomaticvictories aided the spread of Sovietpower in Europe and Asia. At that

time communism was forced on mil-lions of persons who had been led tobelieve that World War II wouldbring them freedom.The pity of it is that the United

States, having embarked in its med-dling in world affairs, stood silentlyby, along with Great Britain, whilefreedom was destroyed in centralEurope. It permitted communistforces to sweep Southeastern Asia,China, and then Korea at a timewhen •we enjoyed a monopoly onnuclear weapons. Having sowed tothe wind, it was to reap the whirl-wind of a meddler when it dabbledin Chinese internal affairs.

This occurred when Chiang Kai-shek was told either to take com-munists into the Chinese Governmentor all American military aid wouldcease. Chiang courageously refusedto take traitors into his government.In retaliation for his refusal, theUnited States imposed an arms em-bargo on Nationalist China from July1946 to June 1947. The Soviets atthe same time fed a constant streamof military aid to the Chinese com-munists resulting in their militaryconquest of the Chinese mainland.The United States had gone to warin 1941 in large part to maintain afree and independent China but stoodby 8 years later while Free China wasdestroyed.

U. N. and Power Politics

During the entire period of com-munist aggression in China, theUnited Nations, far from applyingsanctions against the communists,never brought up the problem for con-sideration. Great Britain and India,more interested in the economic ad-vantages they hoped to attain than inthe freedom of 400,000,000 people,recognized Red China.

It is evident that the high moralpurpose written into the Charter ofthe United Nations is but a fairy tale.World peace is not to be achieved inthis manner, since peace and powerpolitics are the antithesis of eachother.

The United States became furtherentangled in European politics whenit joined in signing the North At-lantic Treaty in 1949. This Treatyprovides that "an armed attackagainst one (NATO member) shallbe considered an attack against themall."

Sad Story of Korea

Hopes for world peace were shat-tered when North Korean Com-munists invaded South Korea in Juneof 1950. President Truman com-mitted United States troops to the de-fense of South Korea, calling the in-vasion "a direct challenge to theprinciples of the United Nations."Only then did the United Nationslabel North Korea the aggressor andask United Nations members to sup-port the Republic of Korea and torefrain from aiding the enemy.The sad story of Korea is known

to all. With victory in our grasp, theSoviet Union intervened to salvagethe situation for Red China by pro-posing truce negotiations. The UnitedStates halted its advancing armies, thecommunists were permitted to keepmost of North Korea, and a UnitedNations "resolution" called for theestablishment of a free, united, andindependent Korea. The militaryliberation of North Korea, however,remained unfulfilled.

9. Eisenhower

Three years later, in December1953, President Eisenhower returnedfrom a conference in Bermuda wherehe conferred with Winston Churchilland Joseph Laniel of France. Lateraddressing the United Nations, heproposed an international agency topool atomic energy supplies fromboth the western and communistworld for peaceful purposes.

World Government ThroughAdministrative Forms

Clark M. Eichelberger, Director,American Association for the UnitedNations, wrote an article entitled"World Government Via the UnitedNations" in which he stated, "I be-lieve that world government is com-ing through new forms—many ofthem administrative forms, such asthe agency recommended by theAtomic Energy Commission. . . ."

In 1919 Americans balked at al-liances they felt too far-reaching; yet,in 1953 we find them sitting inapathetic tranquillity, not botheringto note the path down which we arewalking—one of complete entangle-ment!The Geneva Conference of 1954

saw us handing North Viet-Nam overto the communists and the neutrali-zation of Cambodia and Laos; but atthis writing the communists are fight-

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ing for possession of Laos, killingborder guards on the frontiers ofIndia, and have seized Tibet.

Spirit of Geneva

The "Spirit of Geneva" into whichRussia, England, France and theUnited States entered misled manyinto thinking the communists had be-come peaceful, since all the nationswere seemingly "chummy" and manypictures were taken in which theyheld raised glasses in "toasting." This"Spirit" is looked upon by the com-munists as a means by which to ex-tract further concessions from thenoncommunist countries at the con-ference table.

Inconsistent Meddlers

Unaffected by the "Spirit ofGeneva," however, the workers andstudents of Hungary rose in rebellionagainst the communist state in Octo-ber 1956. The Western Powers wrungtheir hands when the Hungarian Free-dom Fighters were being crushed bythe Soviet armor, inveighed againstthe Soviets in passionate addresses tothe United Nations, but abstainedfrom any concrete action whatsoever.They recoiled from challenging theSoviets in Hungary because theyfeared war. One of the steps that theUnited States could have taken wasdiplomatic recognition of the govern-ment of Premier Imry Nagy, whichfor a few days controlled effectivelythe city of Budapest and, probably,most of Hungary. Another stepmight have been the delivery of food,medical supplies, and miscellaneousequipment to the Hungarian rebels bysuch well-known and tried methodsas parachute drops. We are not evenconsistent meddlers. The Hungariandebacle was one foreign entanglementwhere, under our principle of med-dling, we would have been justifiedin intervening; but we missed ourgreatest chance of taking the initia-tive in the Cold War.

Foreign EntanglementsBankrupt U. S.

The treaties and pacts that havebeen made over a 15-year period arestaggering. The United States has de-fense commitments that to some de-gree involve every continent of theworld. Time and again Cold Waractivities have been aimed at weak-ening these pacts and treaties. Our

involvement is complete!Our foreign entanglements have

taken us far down the road from thepaths set forth by "the Father ofour Country." This great Nation,striving to fulfill its many "conferenceagreements," "secret agreements,""treaties" and "pacts," is spending it-self into economic bankruptcy. TheAmerican people are bearing taxesthat have become confiscatory. Thesetaxes can destroy our free enterprisesystem. Government competition,which is tax free, has done its shareto hamper it even more.

Americans, in their great desirefor peace, should not be fooled intosacrificing either their individual free-doms or their integrity as a Nation.They can easily lose their rights andfreedoms in the entanglements of in-ternational commitments and agree-ments if they permit their basic rightsunder the Constitution and Bill ofRights to be rewritten, leveled out,compromised, and confused by nebu-lous and ambiguous "treaties." Theycan also lose their integrity as a Na-tion—financially, politically, and mili-tarily—through too numerous andwidespread international commit-ments. The United Nations furnishesthe mechanism for these surrendersof sovereignty. George Washingtonwarned us against this very thing!

We Must MaintainNational Aspirations

It has been urged that over theformative years of our Country, overthe years of its development andgrowth, we were a small Nation and aminor member of the Commonwealthof Nations; and that as such, ourself-containment policy was sound. Itis urged now that, since we have ma-tured into a great world power, wehave had thrust upon us obligationsof world policing. I do not concurin this conclusion. As has been previ-ously noted herein, human nature hasnot changed; and human nature andnational asperations hand-in-hand arethe same today as they ever were.The strong independence of indi-vidual action and the integrity of self-containment are believed to be just aseffective today in maintaining ourown sovereign independence andguaranteeing thereby the sovereignindependence of other nations as theyhave been in the past.

Strong America GuaranteesWorld Peace

America had a clearer voice anda greater prestige when she spokedirectly to the world. Now the effec-tiveness of her voice is dissipated andlost in the confusing and vacillatingdebates in the United Nations. Itmay well be when this great problemof peace is looked at from all sidesthat a strong, verile and free Ameri-ca is not only best for its own citi-zens but the best guarantee of worldpeace and world order.

U. N. Gives Away Our FreedomsSuch a policy is not isolationism.

Certainly, we have an interest and astake in the well-being of the rest ofthe world. America, however, willperform its role in world affairs bet-ter if, instead of being a Santa Clausto all nations, it first of all protectsthe rights and liberties of its own citi-zens and conserves its own economyand its own strength, at the same timeencouraging other nations to stand ontheir own feet. We can and shouldgive intelligent aid and advice and ameasure of financial help, but ourState Department is now embarkedon a world-wide P.W.A. What iseven more serious, our delegation inthe United Nations has been naivelysupporting a program of levelingdown and giving away our preciousAmerican rights and liberties.

Accordingly, it is submitted thatnow is the time to about face, to re-linquish our role of internationalmeddler, to cancel our treaty com-mitments of international meddling,and to withdraw from the One World-ism of the United Nations.

Faith of Our Fathers, Living Still

We Americans have a philosophyof faith in God, in spiritual valuesand in the dignity of the human soul.These intangibles are the pricelessheritage of the Western World andhave been 2,000 years and more indevelopment. We need to return tothese faiths, the faith of our Fathers,and to relinquish the hand that istaking us down the road to commu-nism. We want no part of these God-less, materialistic concepts. May wewake up to the realities which face usbefore we lose our American Free-doms! In establishing our Freedoms,George Washington prayed to Godfor guidance. All Americans needto pray to God for guidance in keep-ing them.

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Nelly Custis' Wedding Present Woodlawn

Plantation

The mansion at Woodlawn Plan-tation, near Mount Vernon, was de-signed by Dr. William Thornton, thefirst architect of the Capitol andGeneral Washington's close friend.The location was selected by Wash-ington, who described it as "a mostbeautiful Site for a Gentleman'sSeat." There is a tradition that heinspected the "modeling" plans, andhe might have given the architectsome suggestions. It is certain thathe would have been interested in thehouse, as it was to be built on thatpart of the Mount Vernon estatewhich he gave his adopted daughter,Nelly Custis, when she married hisnephew, Lawrence Lewis, on his lastbirthday in 1799.The house was begun some time

in 1800, after Washington's death,when the Lewises knew that Bush-rod Washington was to inheritMount Vernon and that they wouldremain there only until Mrs. Wash-ington's death. A forest of oaks andevergreens was allowed to stand, andonly an area large enough for thehouse and lawn was cleared. Brickswere fired on the place, native pinewas used for the wood, and thesandstone trim came from the nearbyAquia Creek quarries. Most of thelabor was provided by the Lewisslaves.

Martha Washington, who was alsoNelly Lewis' grandmother, died in1802, and the Lewises were obligedto leave Mount Vernon for Wood-lawn before it was completed. Onlythe two wings had been built—thekitchen on the south and two roomsand a garret on the north—wherethe family lived for almost 3 years.Someone, probably a workman, haspainted the date "Sept. 9, 1805" inthe attic. It can be assumed that, bythis time, the main block and thehyphens connecting it with the wingswere finished. A cornerstone nearthe water table bears the same year.The house was late Georgian, of per-fect symmetry, with generous win-

By Meredith Johnson, Director, Woodlawn

Plantation, Mount Vernon, Virginia

dows and a handsome portico over-looking the river. It was set high onthe hill, and Mrs. Thornton wrotethat "Mr. Lewis' Hill" was a "finesituation all in woods from which hewill have an extensive & beautifulview."A description of Woodlawn ap-

pearing in the Alexandria Gazettestated:

The dwelling house is not surpassed byany in Virginia in construction, style offinish, and situation. . . . It is also ahealthy situation. . . .The house is of brick, with freestone

sills and lintels . . . slate roof, two sto-ries high, four rooms on a floor, spaciouscellar under the house, portico in frontpaved with marble and confined by free-stone; all the outbuildings of brick con-nected with the main building by spa-cious corridors, namely kitchen, wash-room, library, and servants hall, whichagain, by a brick wall, connects withthe dairy and meat house, all built of thebest material and in the best manner.

The traditions of Mount Vernonpassed to Woodlawn; and for over35 years the Lewises dispensed typi-cal Virginia hospitality to theirfriends, to official society from theCapital, and to curious strangerswho passed their door. A visitingCongressman wrote his wife, in 1817,that "everything is on a grand andliberal scale . . . rich service ofplates . . . waiters . . . and . . . serv-ers being of massiVe silver." He un-doubtedly referred to the Custis andWashington silver, which the Lewiseshad inherited. An Alexandrian whovisited Woodlawn as a child remem-bered the "handsome" china and sil-ver, the "boys and maids . . . well-mannered, well - contented, well -cared-for slaves. . . ."The great and the near-great came

to see the famous Nelly Custis, or torenew a friendship begun in NewYork or Philadelphia when she wasthe "Presidential daughter." Dr. andMrs. Thornton were intimates of thehousehold, and the latter shared withher hostess a fine talent for music,both instrumental and vocal. The

Lewis daughters were musical, too,instructed mainly by their mother.The winter evenings were enlivenedby music, with assists from the youngofficers across the river at Fort Wash-ington. Gen. Alexander Macomb,Gen. Edmund P. Gaines, ZacharyTaylor, and Andrew Jackson were allparticular friends of the family. Mrs.Robert E. Lee was an especially fa-vored guest, calling on her "AuntLewis" with her husband, a favoriteof that aunt.

Lawrence Lewis died at ArlingtonHouse in 1839, and his widow soonremoved to Audley, Clarke County,the home of her only surviving son,Lorenzo, and his family. Woodlawnwas put up for sale but was not solduntil 1846. More than 100 yearspassed before it was open to the pub-lic, and the house suffered the vicis-situdes of numerous tenants duringthat time. By 1901, having beenvacant almost 10 years, it seriouslyneeded major repairs. In that yearthe house was bought by the Kesterbrothers, who renovated it, and, de-spite some unfortunate changes,saved it from ruin. Miss ElizabethSharpe, the next owner, restoredmuch of the original house, thoughallowing some of the earlier changesto remain, chiefly widening of thehyphens and raising the roofs ofboth hyphens and wings. The lastprivate owner, Mrs. Oscar W. Under-wood, bought the house in 1925.She gave Woodlawn loving care andgreatly enhanced the beauty of thegardens and grounds.

In 1948, when the house was againfor sale, a group of public-spiritedcitizens formed the Woodlawn Pub-lic Foundation for the purpose ofbuying Woodlawn and opening it tothe public. It was first opened onWashington's birthday in 1949. Twoyears later it became the first prop-erty of the newly organized Na-tional Trust for Historic Preserva-tion, which today administers theplantation.

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The Trust was fortunate in se-curing Worth Bailey of Mount Ver-non as Woodlawn's first curator. Un-der his direction a restoration of themain block was begun. Mr. Baileydiscovered that much of the plainpine had been painted to simulateother, rarer woods—a fad popularin the early 19th century. The hallshad been "walnut," the music anddining rooms "mahogany." Twobedrooms had painted-maple doors,and two others were grained to simu-late maple and cherry. The wood-work was restored to its original con-dition, and there was concrete evi-dence for all wall colors. It wasdiscovered that only a few rooms ac-tually had been painted; the otherswere tinted whitewash.

Furnishing Woodlawn was a diffi-cult job. As both the Lewises wereWashington descendants they in-herited a number of things fromMount Vernon, which were broughtto Woodlawn. Over the years manyof these same objects had been re-turned to Mount Vernon and wouldnever be available for Woodlawn.This problem was solved by obtain-ing, as nearly like as possible, thoseitems left Mrs. Lewis in MarthaWashington's will and what LawrenceLewis bought at the private sale ofWashington possessions. Mrs. Wash-ington's will bequeathed "my GrandDaughter Eleanor Parke Lewis . . . aprint of the Washington Family in abox in the Garret and the GreatChair standing in my Chamber . .as well as two mirrors, china, threebedsteads, wine glasses and decant-ers, objects which could be dupli-cated from descriptions in Washing-ton's inventories. Documentary evi-dence for any other furnishings was

very limited. Lawrence Lewis' listof taxable property for 1815 didreveal that he then owned the fol-lowing mahogany furniture: "2Bookcases, 1 Sideboard . . 1 press,7 Tables, 3 Bedsteads, 1 Sofa & 32Chairs. . . ." The list also itemized"2 Chandeliers," 4 oil portraits, 1 incrayon, 25 prints above 12" (32 ingilt frames), 1 mirror 5' in size, one3', and 1 harpsichord."

However, except for the knownpieces from Mount Vernon the styleof other original Woodlawn furniturewas unknown. Fortunately an orig-inal sofa was loaned, and the Lewisdining chairs were returned. Thesofa was American Empire; thechairs were late Sheraton and prob-ably were made by Duncan Phyfe.These pieces provided an importantclue in furnishing the mansion. Ob-viously the Lewises had treasured theChippendale and Hepplewhite fromthe Washingtons but had bought con-temporary pieces to round out theirhousehold needs and later to replacethings that wore out. As the fam-ily's occupancy spanned the years1802-39, Woodlawn probably pre-sented a wide range in furniturestyles, from the Washington heir-looms to early Victorian.The Mount Vernon Ladies' Asso-

ciation, ever helpful and generous,was responsible for many Lewisitems returned to Woodlawn and ar-ranged for the loan of the KountzeCollection of Nelly Custis and La-fayette items by the Yale UniversityArt Gallery. The Metropolitan Mu-seum lent a number of appropriateantiques, as have the Brooklyn Mu-seum and the Museum of the City ofNew York. Lewis descendants havecontributed many personal posses-

sions that help give an historic housea lived-in feeling. Two large collec-tions of period furnishings weregiven Woodlawn by the Hon. Rob-ert Woods Bliss and Mrs. Bliss, andby Col. and Mrs. Edgar W. Garbisch.Today the mansion is almost com-

pletely furnished, and every year newevidence is turned up which gives abetter idea of How Woodlawn lookedwhen the Lewises lived there. A re-cently published diary has yieldedthe fact that the hall was filled withcomfortable sofas and chairs and thatthe walls were covered with maps.It is now known that here also werea terrestrial and a celestial globe.Very recently a printed account ofa visitor at Woodlawn in 1823 de-scribed his introduction into an "ele-gant parlour, well stocked with mu-sical instruments, harps, pianos, vio-lins; masses of books lay on everytable, and maps with elegant platesdecorated the walls." Such descrip-tions are invaluable in recreating theappearance of a house and the at-mosphere which was engendered bythe occupants.The largest available collection of

Lewis letters, the Bordley-Lewis cor-respondence at Mount Vernon, givesmuch material about family life atWoodlawn but is only tantalizing inregard to furnishings. From anothersource, a letter of Nelly Custis Lewis,strikes a homely note with the kind ofmaterial that is being discovered andis most descriptive: "My parloursbeing so cold" she wrote, "I have hadthe piano moved into the diningroom." It is hoped that similardocumentation can be found in orderto present more nearly the Woodlawnas known by Nelly Custis and Law-rence Lewis.

DESIGNATION OF FEBRUARY AS AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH

NOTE: The following excerpt from theCongressional Record of January 6, 1961,covers the introduction of a joint resolu-tion, sponsored by Senator Kenneth B.Keating of New York, designating Feb-ruary as American History Month.

Mr. KEATING. Mr. President, I introducefor appropriate reference, a joint resolutionto designate February of each year as Amer-ican History Month.

Selecting February as American HistoryMonth is especially appropriate when weconsider that among the famous Americansborn during February are: George Washing-ton, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Edison andHenry Wadsworth Longfellow.In bringing to the forefront the strength,

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courage, and determination of the past throughthe observance of a national history month,we would be setting an example and guidefor the future, worthy of consideration byall Americans.

Many cities and States currently observeAmerican History Month as a result of theefforts of the Daughters of the AmericanRevolution. Through their suggestion, I amintroducing this resolution today.

It is my hope that this proposal will begiven the expeditious and affirmative con-sideration it so well deserves.Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent

to have the joint resolution printed in theRecord.The PRESIDING OFFICER. The joint

resolution will be received and appropriately

referred; and, without objection, will be print-ed in the RECORD.

The joint resolution (S.J. Res. 22) desig-nating February of each year as AmericanHistory Month, introduced by Mr. Keating,was received, read twice by its title, referredto the Committee on the Judiciary, andordered to be printed in the RECORD, as fol-lows:

Whereas all Americans must honor theirdebt to the past and their obligations to thefuture: and

Whereas our freedoms are the result of thesacrifice, wisdom, perserverance, and faith ofour forefathers; and

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with the CHAPTERS

Photograph by Convair Division,General Dynamics Corporation

(L to R) Karel J. Bossart, "father" of the Atlasmissile, a naturalized citizen who has made agreat contribution to the United States; Mrs. HarryW. R. Chamberlain, regent of San Diego Chapter;Hon. James Carter, judge of the Federal Court,San Diego, Calif.

San Diego (San Diego, Calif.) presentedan Americanism medal to Karel J. Bos-sart, called "father" of the U. S. Air ForceAtlas intercontinental ballistic missile, atimpressive ceremonies before the U. S.District Court, presided over by JudgeJames Carter, on January 8, 1960. Twoother judges sat on the bench during theceremonies. Mrs. Harry W. R. Chamber-lain, regent of San Diego Chapter, madethe presentation in the name of theD.A.R. Mr. Bossart, a native of Belgiumwho was naturalized in 1936, came to theUnited States with a degree in engineer-ing from Brussels University.In 1926 he earned en M. S. degree at

Massachusetts Institute of Technology andbecame a leading aeronautical engineer.Addressing newly naturalized citizens of27 countries at the courtroom ceremony,he said, "Democracy is not a static thing.It is alive, thank God. It can go forwardor backward. As adoptive children, whoare more sensitive to the things that canmake a democracy go backward, you mustsound a warning signal. If you do noth-ing else for the Nation, Uncle Sam willbe amply repaid for giving you the priv-ilege of joining his family."

Benjamin Lyon (Denton, Tex.) TheTexas Boys Choir, organized in Dentonwith the support of local citizens, featureda Fine Arts program for the BenjaminLyon Chapter. The choir, which has al-ways had as one of its sponsors Mrs. J.E. Selz, present American Music chair-man of the chapter, had just completed aEuropean tour comprising 26 concerts.The British Broadcasting System presentedthem as one of the four best choirs heardat the Eisteddfod Competition in Llangol-len, Wales.One critic said: "America can be proud

of having a choir that can sustain a com-parison with the best choirs of Europe."Another wrote: "We do not rememberhaving heard a boys choir sing so pur-posefully and intelligently since the fa-mous Regensburger Donspatzen. Theysang at The Hague, where, in appreciationof their elegant behavior, they werecalled "Little Ambassadors from the newworld to the old world." They sang Massin the famous Sistine Chapel of the Vati-

can and for Pope John in the great Vati-can Basilica of St. Peter's. Returning toAmerica, they sang on the steps of theCapitol Building, Washington, D. C., andgave a Watergate Concert with the NavyBand.

The director, George Bragg, before pre-senting the choir to the Benjamin Lyonmembers and guests, described a side tripthey made to the ancestral home of themusic chairman, Nina Gwynn MoodySelz, 25 miles from Llangollen. Wales,where the international contest was held.This is Gwidir Castle, situated about 1mile from Llanwrst, North Wales; it wasthe ancient royal residence of Wales.From 1480 to 1678 it was the seat of theGwynn family. Sir Owen Gwynn cameover from England with the noblemenwho emigrated to the Virginia colony in1611. Upon the death of his brother hereturned to England to accept the baron-etcy. Later, his son Hugh came to Vir-ginia, where he obtained Gwynn's Islandas a reward for transporting colonists.Mrs. Selz is a direct descendant of HughGwynn.The choir director said that he, himself

was most interested in the history of theold castle, but the boys were completelyfascinated by the peacocks.The owner was most cordial and a lover

of music and so invited the boys to singsome Madrigals. This they did whilestanding directly in front of the castle.They had barely started when a bird—beautiful beyond description—came intoview and joined in the singing. His plain-tive melody was something between thecry of a guinea and a sea gull. As anaccompaniment he rattled and shivered histail feathers with a noise like a tambou-rine. Before the boys could believe theireyes a group of hens filed in, spread theirtails with the deft swish of a lady trainedin the art of opening her fan, lined upwith the cock and also joined in the sing-ing.

After the director finished his story ofthe castle, the choir sang numbers byBach, Handel, Pergolesi and Schubert,

Part of Texas Boys Choir in front of Gwidir Castle,Llanwrst, North Wales, ancestral home of Mrs.Nina Gwynn Moody Selz, American Music chair-man of Benjamin Lyon Chapter, Denton, Tex.

and by American and Texas composers.A chapter member, Dr. Julia Smith

Viehler of New York City, internationallyknown as a concert pianist, composer, andauthor, concluded the program with herown compositions and some by AaronCopland.

John Marshall (Louisville, Ky.). OnJune 12, 1960, Louisville Chapter spon-sored new markers for graves of Revolu-tionary soldiers in a long-neglected ceme-tery at 16th and Jefferson Streets, Louis-ville. A group of witnesses in attendanceat the dedication ceremony watched thecovers pulled from eight new markers inthe family lot of Mrs. Laura Talbot GaltHyatt, a former Louisvillian. Mrs. Hyatt,Program Chairman of the Virginia So-ciety, N.S.D.A.R., was present, and JohnMarshall Chapter was represented by itsregent, Mrs. J. Douglas Streit. Other or-

Mrs. Laura Talbot Galt Hyatt, Program Chairman,Virginia Society, and Mrs. J. Douglas Streit, re-gent of John Marshall Chapter, Louisville, Ky.,unveiling new markers in Western Cemetery.

ganizations represented were ZacharyTaylor Chapter, Daughters of 1812, rep-resented by Mrs. Richard R. Richardson,State President, and representatives of theAlbert Sidney Johnson Chapter, UnitedDaughters of the Confederacy, and Abra-ham Masonic Lodge. Mrs. F. ClagettHoke, Historian General of the NationalSociety, Daughters of the American Revo-lution, and Mrs. Fred Osborne, KentuckyState Regent, were also present.The young soldier buried in the Talbot

lot nearly 200 years ago was Isham Tal-bot, who Was present at Valley Forge. Apioneer Louisvillian was Capt. James Pat-ton, who served with George Rogers Clarkand also signed the petition of 1780 tothe Virginia Legislature to incorporateLouisville.

John Marshall Chapter has taken animportant step toward remedying morethan half a century of neglect and van-dalism in placing these new markers onthe old graves, and we trust that the newGovernment markers will remain un-touched.The very impressive ceremony, which

started with a march to the graves by aColor Guard of Dixie Post, American Le-gion, was closed by taps and retiring ofthe Colors.—Ellen W. Sell.

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Stephen Heard (Elberton, Ga.). Elber-ton's D.A.R. chapter, entertained at aluncheon at Samuel Elbert Inn on March14, honoring Mrs. Mary Givens Bryan,Miss Beatrice Lang, and friends.The luncheon table appointments were

patriotic in nature. Places were markedfor 30 guests with illustrated brochures

(L to R) Seated: Mrs. Walton Johnson, MusicCommittee; Mrs. Mary Givens Bryan; Mrs. JamesBradley and Miss Beatrice Land. Standing: Mrs.John Roberts, secretary; Miss Mary Lizzie Wright;Mrs. Hewell H. Mann, D.A.R. School Chairman;Mrs. Carter Arnold, American Music chairman;Mrs. Mathew KamaIs, chaplain; Mrs. Leila Rice,parliamentarian; and Mrs. Harry S. Bell, radio andtelevision chairman.

showing the granite industry in the countyand historic spots.

Mrs. James Bradley, regent, welcomedthe guests. Mrs. Mathew Kantala, chap-lain, led in prayer. Miss Mary LizzieWright, the program chairman, introducedthe distinguished guests and friends. Mrs.Leila Rice, parliamentarian, gave an in-teresting account of that illustrious sol-dier, Gen. Samuel Elbert, for whom thecounty was named. Mrs. Johnson andMrs. Roberts, talented musicians, playedpatriotic music.

Mrs. Bryan told of microfilming of thecounty records from 1792-1900 at no costto the county and stated that, in case offire or loss, these same records could beobtained from the Department of Ar-chives and History.

Three quill pens, which were found inthe cubbyholes of the court house, werepresented to Mme. Bryan, Z. W. Copeland(author of "War Woman"), and the chap-ter by Miss Mary Lizzie Wright.

After the luncheon the honored guestswere presented on radio by Mrs. Harry S.Bell, chapter chairman.—Mary L. Wright.

Ocoee (Cleveland, Tenn.) celebrated itsGolden Anniversary on December 4, 1959,with a tea at the home of Mrs. Joseph T.Jarnagin, the same house where the firstmeeting was held on December 4, 1909.Hostesses at the tea, attended by more

(L to R) 1st row: Miss Elizabeth Fillauer, Mrs.Theodore Morford and Miss Louise Harle. 2nd row:Mrs. Arthur Moser and Mrs. Allan Hinkle.

than 200 members and guests from Nash-ville, Knoxville, Athens, Harriman, TenMile, Benton, and Chattanooga, were Mrs.

Jarnagin and Mrs. James F. Corn, grand-daughters of the founding regent, Mrs. J.H. Hardwick, and Mrs. D. S. Stuart, Jr.,great-granddaughter.In the receiving line were Miss Louise

Harle, chapter regent; Mrs. TheodoreMorford, Nashville, State Regent, Ten-nessee Society; Mrs. A. M. Bryant, chap-ter vice regent; Mrs. Arthur Moser, Knox-ville, State Vice Regent; Miss ElizabethFillauer, Cherokee District Director; Mrs.Winston Campbell, chapter treasurer; Mrs.Will Fillauer, chapter historian; Mrs.Allan Hinkle, Chattanooga, State His-torian; Mrs. E. E. Shouse, chapter par-liamentarian.

Alternating in pouring were Mrs. C. L.Hardwick; Mrs. M. L. Harris, only activecharter member; and Mrs. S. N. Varnell,Mrs. George Westerberg, and Mrs. JohnMilne, past regents; Miss Harris KnoxStuart, great-great-granddaughter of Mrs.Hardwick, and Mrs. James F. Corn, Jr.,assisted in serving.

Mrs. Richard Barry, past regent, andMrs. Lyda Bryant kept the guest register.Mrs. Marquis Triplett and Mrs. C. L.

Wilson were in charge of the musicalprogram for the afternoon. On displaywas a scrapbook opened to show the com-mission authorizing Mrs. Hardwick to or-ganize Ocoee Chapter and a newspaperclipping of the first meeting.—ElizabethFillauer.

Fort Frederica, (St. Simons Island, Ga.).Mrs. Thomas Earle Stribling, ChaplainGeneral of the National Society, was hon-ored at a luncheon on September 1, 1960,at the King and Prince Hotel, St. Simons

Photo by Gil Thorp(L to R) Mrs. C. M. Ward, vice regent, Fort Fred-erica Chapter; Mrs. Thomas Earle Stribling, Chap-lain General; Mrs. E. W. Ellis, organizing regent,Fort Frederica Chapter; and Mrs. E. J. Smith, StateRegistrar of the Georgia Society.

Island, Ga., by our chapter, the only newchapter organized in Georgia during theyear 1959-60. Sharing honors with theChaplain General at this first programmeeting since its organization on April 16,1960, was Mrs. E. J. Smith, State Regis-trar of the Georgia Society, Homerville,Ga. Favors at the luncheon were copiesof the Constitution of the United States,tied in patriotic colors, in recognition ofSeptember as Constitution Month.

Mrs. E. W. Ellis, organizing regent ofthe Fort Frederica Chapter, presided andpresented Mrs. Stribling, the speaker, who,in her charming and lucid manner, gavea most informative talk on various phasesof D.A.R. work, including the project ofrestoring Meadow Gardens in Augusta,the former home of George Walton, oneof the State's signers of the Declarationof Independence, by the Georgia Society.She stressed the necessity of cooperation,engendered by love for the Society, in anyproject undertaken.

Other visitors present were Miss EmilyHuxford, representative of Children ofN.S.D.A.R., Homerville, Ga.; Mrs. 0. P.

Middleton, Waverly, Ga.; Mrs. T. F.Rooks, Columbia, S. C.; and Mrs. WarrenA. Coleman and Mrs. F. P. Vanstory, St.Simons.

John Rutherford (Rutherford, N.J.).On June 17, 1960, the 185th Anniversaryof the Battle of Bunker Hill, Miss Gene-vieve Gordon and seven of her cousinshonored Timothy Gordon, a Revolution-ary soldier who fought in Colonel Stark's

Photo by William B. Collin,Newburypori News, Newburyport, Mass.

Grave of Timothy Gordon at Belleville Cemetery,Newburyport, Mass., with D.A.R. RevolutionarySoldier grave marker (right) and S.A.R. MinuteMan grave marker (left). He is the ancestor offour daughters: Isabel W. Gordon, Genevieve Gor-don, Marian Gordon Otis and Dorothy GordonWillis.

Regiment. A D.A.R. bronze grave markerwas placed at his tombstone in BellevilleCemetery, Newburyport, Mass. Mrs. War-ren S. Currier, regent of Old NewburyChapter, attended the ceremony.Timothy Gordon was the great grand-

father of Miss Isabel Wyman Gordon ofWorcester, Mass., a former vice-presidentgeneral of the National Society. He wasthe great-great grandfather of seven Gor-don cousins, three of whom are the fol-lowing chapter members: Miss GenevieveGordon, John Rutherford Chapter, Ruther-ford, N.J.; Mrs. Marian Gordon Otis, NewRochelle Chapter, New Rochelle, N.Y.;and Mrs. Dorothy Gordon Willis, FallsChurch Chapter, Falls Church, Va.—Genevieve Gordon.

Cumberland County (Carlisle, Pa.) tookgreat pride in celebrating its 65th Anni-versary at a luncheon at Allenberry onthe Yellow Breeches on May 21, 1960.The meeting was presided over by thechapter regent, Mrs. George M. Horning.It was opened with an invocation by thechaplain, Miss Margaret Jane Dunlap,followed by the Pledge to the Flag. led

Photo by Hunter's Studio

(1 to R) Wilson K. Barnes, Mrs. C. Guiles F:ower,Mrs. Wilson K. Barnes, Mrs. George M. Horning,Miss Helen I. Harman, and Miss Margaret JaneDunlap.

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by Miss Mary Stuart. Mrs. Horning ex-tended greetings to the speaker, members,and guests, including regents from neigh-boring chapters. Mrs. Thomas R. Nevitt,accompanied by Mrs. Harriett Read Jonessang Our Anniversary Song, written byone of our members, Mrs. Helen HallBucher. The history of the chapter wasgiven by Mrs. C. Guiles Flower.A most timely and direct address was

made by Mrs. Wilson K. Barnes, NationalChairman, National Defense Committee.She urged us all to be alert to the infil-tration of communism, either as such orunder the guise of socialism.

Mrs. Barnes said, "Do we want to existor coexist as Russia wants us to—under-standing that coexistence would be giv-ing up all that we, as D.A.R. members,hold dear."—Margaret Jane Dunlap.

Standing Stone (Huntingdon, Pa.) wasorganized April 17, 1920, under super-vision of the late Mrs. Edward R. Greenewith 20 charter members, and 1960marked its 40th Anniversary. StandingStone, a musical phrase with immediateappeal even to a disinterested reader, isthe name earliest settlers gave to an an-cient Indian post on the spot where Hunt-ingdon now stands. In graceful splendorrose a stone, 14 feet high and 6 inchessquare, and the life of these Pennsylvaniaaborigines centered around it. It was aguidepost at a crossroads; carved on itwere historic deeds of the tribe; it haddeep meaning for those who lived aroundit. Enemy tribes attacked and carried itaway, and the proud warriors fought to

(L to R) Mrs. Robert Owen, Pennsylvania StateChairman, American Indians Committee; Mrs.Joseph Vafiery Wright, Pennsylvania State Regent;Miss Rebecca C. Barrick, regent, Standing RockChapter; Mrs. Allen Langdon Baker, OrganizingSecretary General; and Mrs. Theodore Zollers, Cen-tral Director.

bring it back. Earliest white settlers namedtheir first humble village "Standing Stone"and the fort they built nearby for theirprotection was "Fort Standing Stone."Long since lost is the original ancient

stone, but a replica now occupies thehead of a wide street in Huntingdon, witha background of effective landscaping, it re-minds busy passersby of Huntingdon'searly history.

Standing Stone Chapter's 40th Anni-versary year closed with a celebration atthe Elks' Home on April 8, 1960; 97honored guests, members, and friendswere present. Distinguished guests in-cluded Mrs. Joseph Vallery Wright, StateRegent; Mrs. Allen Baker, Honorary StateRegent and Organizing Secretary General,N.S.D.A.R.; Mrs. Theodore Zoller, Cen-tral Director of Pennsylvania; Mrs. RobertOwens, State Chairman, American Indians

Committee, and regents and members offour area chapters.

Life begins at 40; so may Life reallybegin for Standing Stone Chapter!—Re-becca C. Barwick.

Prestwould (South Hill, Va.). On Feb-ruary 20, 1960, in observance of Ameri-can History Month, the chapter held an

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Herbert A. Elliott presenting roster toHon. N. G. Hutcheson

open meeting in the Mecklenburg CountyCourthouse, Boydton, Va.At this meeting a framed roster con-

taining the names of 768 soldiers and citi-zens of Mecklenburg, who aided the causeof the American Revolution, was pre-sented to the Hon. N. G. Hutcheson,Clerk of the Circuit Court of Mecklen-burg County, by Mrs. Herbert A. Elliott,regent. This roster was compiled from rec-ords in the Virginia State Library, theOrder Books of Mecklenburg County, andprivate papers by the Genealogical Rec-ords Committee of the Prestwould Chap-ter under the chairmanship of Mrs. C. E.Vassar.The memorial was accepted on behalf

of the court by the Hon. N. G. Hutche-son, Clerk, who promised that it wouldbe certified upon the records of the Courtand that the roster would be placed in thecourthouse as a permanent reminder ofthe service rendered the country by thepatriots listed thereon.

William B. Hill, Director of the Roa-noke River Branch, Association for thePreservation of Virginia Antiquities, spokebriefly on the Revolutionary War period.Judge Sterling Hutcheson, United States

District Court for Eastern Virginia (ret.),spoke on the political and military activi-ties of Col. Robert Munford and Col. Ben-nett Goode, outstanding leaders in thecounty.The committee is continuing its re-

search, and expects to publish a book,Mecklenburg County, Virginia, during theRevolutionary War Period.—KatherineBlackwell Elliott.Lew Wallace (Albuquerque, N. Mex.).

On July 4, 1960, the chapter celebrated

Independence Day with a breakfast atThe Sundowner, in Albuquerque. Eachmember was presented with a colorfulpaper lei to wear as she entered the din-ing room. Mrs. Charles A. Thummel wasthe presiding regent. The invocation andpledge to the new 50-star Flag displayedwas led by Mrs. Fred C. Gray, Flagchairman. About 40 members and severalguests attended and enjoyed a very in-teresting talk on Hawaii, Our FiftiethState, by Mrs. L. S. Tireman, who wasintroduced by the Breakfast chairman,Mrs. John M. Burton. Mrs. Tiremanshowed several articles she had collectedwhile she lived in Hawaii. The chapterplans to continue a yearly breakfast ob-servance of this important day in ourhistory.On February 22, 1961, a tea will be

given to commemorate Washington'sbirthday and founding of Lew WallaceChapter 56 years ago.—Wanda E. Dudley.El Marinero (San Rafael, Calif.). A

recent event was the presentation of abronze sundial and marker honoring ElMarinero, an Indian chief of the CoastMiwoks. The ceremony took place in frontof the courthouse, where the dial wasplaced. Master of ceremonies for the af-fair was the Hon. N. Charles Brusatori,Superior Judge in San Rafael. MarinerScout Troop No. 132, led by Mrs. L. W.Schoff, were the Color bearers and led the

(L to R) Kneeling, Mrs. Georgiana Gabb andWalter Castro. Standing: Mrs. Jean HowardSmith, Mrs. John Philip Hellmann, II and Mrs. VeraHaffly Harlan.

Pledge of Allegiance. The San RafaelMilitary Academy band, conducted by E.J. Moldt, furnished some stirring music.

Mrs. John P. Hellmann H, regent of ElMarinero Chapter, introduced Mrs. WalterM. Flood, State Vice Regent, who pre-sented the sundial to Mann County. Theacceptance speech was made by the Hon.John F. McInnis, Mayor of San Rafael,who spoke on the life and exploits of ElMarinero, the Indian from whom theMann County Chapter took its name. Inthe early days he led the fighting againstthe Spaniards. Later when the Franciscanfriars founded Mission San Rafael Arc-angel in 1817, many Indians went to themission and were taught by the fathersand baptized. The chief was one of these,and because of his skill in crossing SanFrancisco Bay in a canoe or raft with men

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and supplies, he received the name ElMarinero, which means The Sailor inSpanish.

Other participants in the program wereFather Daniel McAlister of St. Raphael'sChurch; the Rev. Herrick Lane, Ministerof Visitation, First Presbyterian Church inSan Rafael; and W. D. Fusselman, super-visor of Mann County. State officers ofthe Daughters of the American Revolu-tion, besides Mrs. Flood, were Mrs. Hor-ace Rothwell and Mrs. Scott Rountree,State Chairman and State Vice Chairmanof Historic Spots, and Mrs. John M.Keyes, State Vice Historian.The Historic Spots Committee for El

Marinero Chapter, responsible for the ar-rangements, were Mme. Georgiana Gabb,chairman, and Vera HAI), Harlan,Thomas Harris, and Jean Howard Smith.—Mrs. R. E. Mittelstaedt.

Santa Clara (San Jose, Calif.) is justlyproud of its four generations of Woolfamily kinswomen. Mrs. Halsey W. Hen-drix (Winifred A. Wool), the head of thisfamily, is a longtime member of our chap-ter. She has given her time and talents

(L to R) Seated: Mrs. Halsey W. Hendrix, MissDonnie Lee Pyle and Mrs. J. Wayne Hutchins.Standing: Mrs. John F. Pyle and Mrs. Richard B.Whidden.

generously in aiding us in our projects.She has often entertained us at her hos-pitable, suburban home. Her two niecesare the next generation. Mrs. J. WayneHutchins (Edna Wool) is our capable re-gent, while her cousin, Mrs. Richard B.Whidden (Jean Wool), has been ourtreasurer.

Mrs. Hutchins' daughter, Mrs. John F.Pyle, is one of our enthusiastic youngmembers. Her little daughter, Dannie LeePyle, is a member of Santa Clara ValleySociety, C.A.R.

It is also interesting to note that Mrs.Hendrix' mother, Mrs. Frederick G. Wool,Sr. (Jane Morrill), National No. 250484,was a member, too. Mrs. Wool was a realgreat-granddaughter. Mrs. Jennie C. WoolTabler, a daughter of Mrs. Wool, Sr., andsister of Mrs. Hendrix, was an activechapter member. She passed away in 1939.The Revolutionary ancestor of these kins-women was the Rev. Isaac Morrill. Heserved as chaplain in the MassachusettsMilitia during the American Revolution.Under Mrs. Hutchins' deft leadership

Santa Clara Chapter is working busily onNational and State D.A.R. projects.

Five Good Citizen pins were presentedto senior high school girls at a tea givenin their honor in January. An R.O.T.C.medal was presented at a parade at San

Jose State College in April. Newly natural-ized women citizens have been enter-tained at a reception each year. SantaClara Chapter is always represented at allNorthern Council Meetings and at StateConferences.—Gladys E. Phillips.

Mary Hammond Washington (Macon,Ga.) Honoring one of its oldest and mostbeloved workers, our chapter dedicatedthe March meeting to Mrs. Lily WadeLittle Ryals (Thomas Edward), who has

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also been a leader in the chapter's libraryand other work for many years. The sub-ject of the program was "Our Library, aPlace of Beauty, History and Growth".

Before joining the D.A.R. in 1927, Mrs.Ryals was a teacher and principal in Ma-con schools and later supervisor of allBibb County grammar schools. She wasactive in many civic and patriotic organi-zations and served as regent of our chap-ter from 1928 to 1931, and later compiledits history.

In 1923, during the regency of Mrs.James Hyde Porter, the idea was con-ceived to have a Department of Historyand Genealogy; this formed the nucleusof what has gradually developed into thebeautiful Historical Department of theWashington Memorial Library. A be-quest to our chapter was left by Mr.Porter as a memorial to his wife, to beused exclusively for the History andGenealogical Department, and Mrs. Ryalswas made chairman of the chapter trus-tees to carry on this work. She is alsochairman of memorial books, which arecarefully selected and given to the libraryin memory of members who have passedon.

Mrs. R. P. Thornton introduced thespeakers. Mrs. Broadus Willingham's sub-ject was "Our New D.A.R. Room." Morethan $6,600 was collected for the beau-tiful blond furniture and green accessories.The chairs have markers honoring pastregents. Mrs. Slade Willingham spoke onthe "Family Historical Records Commit-tee" started during the regency of Mrs.Daniel J. DeLorey. Mrs. Pelham Fussgave an outline on microfilms, and Mrs.Randolph Palmer demonstrated their use.Mrs. William Parks Stevens, librarian, wasin charge. The Plaque shown above isover the entrance to the Historical Room.

—Ann Mercer DeLorey.

La Jolla (La Jolla, Calif.). During thepast 12 months, with Mrs. R. S. Patch asregent, the chapter in its 1 1 th year at-tained a membership of 100 and for the7th consecutive year received the GoldHonor Roll award.

Mrs. W. B. Martin, as Flag chairman,sponsored four special events: An Ameri-can Flag donated by Mrs. L. F. McGuirewas given to the Indians at Campo fortheir new assembly hall; two Flags givento the chapter by Congressman Bob Wil-son were presented with impressive cere-mony to the La Jolla Library and theSenior Citizens' Center; and a new 50-star Flag was given to a local Girl Scouttroop.

The chapter gave a welcoming party to65 new citizens following their naturaliza-tion ceremony in the San Diego CourtHouse.

Mrs. J. W. Benson, chairman of Ap-proved Schools, reported that the discardedclothing the chapter contributed to Tamas-see totaled 250 pounds.

Several programs were presented bymembers. Mrs. Claud Hurd gave an in-spiring program on National Defense.Mrs. 0. R. Barnett offered an illustratedtalk on her trip through Russia. MissPriscilla Ferry, an ex-regent reviewed thebook, Symbolism in Flower Arrangement,by her late father, Dr. Ervin S. Ferry. Atone meeting the chapter honored 23 ofour members who have been in D.A.R.for 25 years or more. Eight of them werecharter members of the chapter including,our organizing regent and Honor Rollchairman, Miss Angeline Allen.At the Flag Day luncheon in June,

Mrs. A. E. Strudwick told of the successof the Historical Shrine Foundation inrestoring and preserving landmarks ofearly San Diego. Mrs. Strudwick has hada large part in this important project.—Janet H. Parsons.

Mrs. R. S. Patch, regent, La Jolla Chapter.

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Esther McCrory (Amarillo, Tex.) cele-brating its Golden Anniversary (1910-60), this year, observed Constitution Week(September 17-23), with a luncheon atthe Y.W.C.A.

Miss Louise Evans, editor of the edi-torial page of two Amarillo newspapers,was featured as our speaker in an im-pressive speech on our Constitution. Shechallenged the group to preserve its birth-right of Freedom and warned, "No Su-preme Court can take away your rights.You established the powers they have."The chapter sponsored a window in a

large department store downtown, display-ing a large Flag, a framed picture ofSigning of the Constitution and Evolutionof the American Flag," literature, Pledge

Window display in downtown department store,Amarillo, Tex.

of Allegiance, etc. Early American tableand chair were also in the window, withan open Bible on table.We also publicized Constitution Week

by distributing cards and posters in school-rooms and libraries. Members were on alocal television show to remind everyoneto display the Flag and observe the win-dow display in downtown. Spot announce-ments were also given. Publicity includeda wonderful editorial and write-ups ofmeetings.—Kathryn Barnhill.Alhambra-San Gabriel (Arcadia, Calif.).

With Faith of Our Fathers, living still asour slogan, programs were focused uponthat theme. Constitution Week was well-publicized under the direction of Mrs.Madison H. Mount, National Defensechairman. Newspaper coverage includedarticles on the editorial pages of a numberof newspapers and numerous pictures.Mayors of three Valley cities signed proc-lamations. Their pictures, taken with Mrs.Mount and Mrs. Rutherford H. Frater,regent, appeared in various newspapers.Another picture showed children in Co-lonial costumes with city officials. Threelibraries and post offices arranged specialdisplays.The same coverage was employed for

American History Mouth. A window dis-play in a department store evoked muchfavorable comment and interest.November marked celebration of the

40th Anniversary of the founding of thechapter. From the highlights of their re-gimes, given by past regents present, acomprehensive history of the chapter wasrelated.

Mrs. Frank J. Thomas, American In-dians chairman, was instrumental in pro-viding handknit wool caps for tubercularIndian Veterans at Fort Whipple, Ariz.Large quantities of beads and jewelry tobe used in their native crafts were alsocollected for the Indians.

Sixteen history medals, three GoodCitizen awards, one R.O.T.C. Medal, fiveGirl Homemaker awards, and a Thatcheraward were given.A 50-Star Flag was presented to the

local C.A.R. Society.After witnessing the "J.A.C. in Action"

at one meeting, members were given aninsight into the working of the clubs un-der the guidance of Mrs. Fred C. Smith,chairman. For active participation inJ.A.C. activities we placed first in theState.On the National level, honors were also

won.Mario C. Gallonio, Citizenship Class

Instructor, was the recipient of the Ameri-canism award. Culminating the year's ac-tivities members took an active part inthe graduation ceremonies of Mr. Gal-lonio's classes. Mrs. John J. Champieux,Honorary State Regent and chapter mem-ber greeted the graduates. A committeeheaded by Mrs. Allen C. Neiswander,Americanism chairman, served refresh-ments.—Mrs. Herbert R. Sawtelle.Samuel Huntington (Huntington, Ind.).

Last May our thoughts turned to Consti-tution Week. Realizing the critical situa-tion our country is in, it seemed impera-tive to have a display that would arouseour citizens to think of what our FoundingFathers stood for and the importance ofkeeping our freedom, which they foughtfor. "The Spirit of '76", painted by A. M.Willard, was suggested by Mrs. WaldoSchaefer, radio chairman, to be our in-spiration.

Lloyd Crouch, a member of the Hunt-ington County Historical Society, wrote

Rickert Studio, Huntington, Ind.

Window display for Constitution Week arrangedby Samuel Huntington Chapter, Huntington, Ind.

to Marblehead, Mass., where the originalpainting hangs, and asked for a coloredprint of the picture. Using this as a guide,Miss Katharyn Lee, a local artist, paintedthe three figures in life size on plywoodand had them cut out at the lumber yard.Mrs. Frank Wright, National Defense

Chairman, and Miss Myretha Plasterer,D.A.R. Magazine chairman, used the frontwindow of a local hardware store on ourmain street for the Constitution Week dis-play as shown in the picture. A largeAmerican Flag with 45 stars forms thebackground. This flag belongs to ourcharter member, Mrs. Rose Ford. "Forwhat avail—if freedom fail" also paintedon plywood, is the keynote of the display.A poster with the name Samuel Hunt-

ington Chapter, Daughters of the Ameri-can Revolution, was in the window.—Mrs. Asa W. Kaiegbaum.

Princeton (Princeton, N. J.) to mark ConstitutionWeek—The chapter presented a framed copy ofthe Preamble to the Constitution for hanging inBorough Hall, Princeton. The picture shows thechapter regent and two of the honor guests.

(L to R) Mrs. Albert C. Cornish, regent, PrincetonChapter; Dr. Edward S. Corwin, Professor Emeritusof Princeton University, a leading authority onthe Constitution; and Hon. Raymond F. Male,Mayor of Princeton Borough.

Abigail Wright Chamberlin (Melbourne,Fla.). In a Florida county that witnessedan astounding growth in population in thelast decade, it was not too surprising re-cently, when the chapter received six newmembers, representing three generations,all coming through the registry of oneRevolutionary fighter. Owing to the influxof 17,000 missilemen working at nearbyCape Canaveral, Brevard County's popu-lation zoomed from 23,630 in 1950 to111,178 for 1960.

It's quite a span from the day whenmuskets were fired with the spark of aflint to our present era when rocket mo-tors are ignited with an electrical spark,but local D.A.R.'s are vividly aware ofour Nation's defense and peacetime en-deavors at the Air Force Missile TestCenter. Many times, from the windows oftheir homes, or from their yards, theycan see the "rockets' red glare" as theydepart over the Atlantic. So it could besaid, symbolically, that the local chapterrepresents that vast transition from Min-utemen to Missilemen.The chapter has taken advantage of the

nearness of space-age leaders. Featuredspeaker at a well-attended meeting thisspring was G. A. Willy, vice-president ofthe Martin Co., and head of the firm'shuge plant in Orlando. Titled 'Tee-time,"his talk mentioned various crises in worldhistory, including our country's infancy,

(L to R) Seated: Mrs. Logan Owen, Mrs. EdwardMussler and Mrs. Augusta Adams. Standing: Mrs.Nelson Rutledge and Mrs. Francis Holmes.

and the present. (Tee-time is the culmi-nation, or zero-point, in a count-downwhen a missile is fired.)

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Genealogical Source MaterialBy Beatrice Kenyon, National Chairman,

Genealogical Records Committee

(There is a charge of 300 per printed line for all queries. One typed line 61/2 incheswide, equals two printed lines, and check for same should accompany all queries.Check to be made out to the Treasurer General, N.S.D.A.R.

Location of Graves of RevolutionarySoldiers (copied from the Records ofHarold B. Trombley, Graves RegistrationOfficer of the New Hampshire AmericanLegion State Department). Contributed byRumford Chapter, Concord, N. H.

Rockingham County-Town of AtkinsonAtwood, John, Co. John Calfe, d. Dec.

18, 1800, Town Cem.; Belknap, Ezekiel,Co. John Calfe, d. Jan. 6, 1836, Ditto;Cogswell, Dr. William, Continental Army,d. Jan. 1, 1831; Hale, Benj., Co. EzekielGile, d. Dec. 4, 1781; Johnson, John, Co.John Calfe, d. May 2, 1823; Knight, JohnJr., d. June 26, 1813; Knight, Joseph, Co.Richard Dow, d. Mar. 23, 1820; Little,Samuel N. Co. John Calfe, d. May 23,1835; Noyes, James, Co. Richard Dow, d.Dec. 31, 1831; Noyes, James Jr., Co.Ezekiel Gile, d. July 18, 1817; Noyes,Joseph, Regt. Jacob Gale, d. Nov. 20, 1815;Poor, Jeremiah, Co. Richard Dow, d. Aug.3, 1811; Webster, Joseph, Mass. Service, d.July 30, 1828.

Town of AuburnAnderson, Thomas, Regt. Col. Reynolds,

d. Jan. 5, 1841, Long Meadow, C.; Aiken,Samuel, Regt. Col. Reynolds, d. Jan. 4,1825, Ditto; Blanchard Joseph, d. Mar. 7,1833; Chase, Wells, d. Dec. 28, 1824;Colby, Rev, Zacceus, d. Aug. 10, 1822;Currier, David, d. Apr. 1, 1840; Dearborn,Stephen, d. Oct. 10, 1827; Dinsmore, Rob-ert, Regt. Thomas Stickney, Jan. 10, 1824;Hall, Caleb, Regt. Moses Nichols, d. Feb.15, 1835; Hall, Josiah, Regt. Thos. Stick-ney, d. Sept. 10, 1825; Leach William M.,d. Aug. 10, 1818; McDuffee, Archibald,d. 1830; Merrill, Barnard, Regt. JohnWebster, d. Apr. 9, 1797; Patten, David,Mass, Cont. Line, d. Apr. 17, 1835; Pierce,Samuel, Regt. Col. Webster, d. Nov. 2,1817; Porter, Samuel, d. May 8, 1833;Wason, John, Regt. Col. Reynolds, d.July 8, 1848; Wason, Robert Regt.Thomas Tasker, d. Feb. 28, 1805;Worthen, Stephen, Co. Capt. Low, d. Apr.27, 1833.

Town of BrentwoodDudley, John, Regt. Col. Bellows, d.

Oct. 5, 1802, Dudley Cem.; Dudley, Sam-uel, Co. William Harper, d. Dec. 21, 1788,Dudley Cem.; Dudley, Winthrop, Con-tinental Army, d. Feb. 11, 1820, DudleyRd. Cem.; Gordon, Thomas, Regt. Col.Tash, d. July 28, 1819, Gordon Cem.;Jewell, Joseph, Regt. Pierce Long, Aug.11, 1822, Oldest Cem.; Judkins, Benjamin,Conn. Line, d. May 18, 1780, RoadsideCem.; Kimball, Dudley Co. HezekiahKimball, d. Aug. 17, 1824, Leavitt Cem.,Dudley Cem.; Leavitt, Thomas, Co. PeterCoffin, d. Oct. 10, 1832, Gordon Cem.;Marshall, Henry, Regt. Col. Wentworth,d. Apr. 23, 1843, Old Cem.; Morse, Caleb,Co. Daniel Moore, d. Apr. 19, 1775, ThingCem.; Morrill, Abraham, d. June 12, 1823,Old Cem.; Robinson, David, d. May 4,1819, Old Cem.; Rowe Simon, Co. PeterCoffin, d. Oct. 11, 1804, Oldest Cem.;Sanborn, Edward, Regt. Col. Tash, d.Feb. 2, 1829, Sanborn Cem.; Smith, Caleb,Reg. Jacob Gale, d. June 12, 1854, OldestCem.; Smith, John, Regt. Col. Scammell,d. Sept. 1, 1837, Ditto; Veasey, Jonathan,Regt. Stephen Evans, d. Nov. 15, 1833;

Wadleigh, Joseph, Regt. Stephen Evans, d.Apr. 5, 1821, Wadleigh; Whitcher, Isaac,Co. John Gale, d. Sept. 6, 1807, OldestCem.; Woodman, Joseph, Co. Daniel Gor-don, Apr. 6, 1829, Wadleigh; Woods, Asa,Mass. Militia, d. Jan. 11, 1835, West.

Town of CandiaAnderson, Wm., Co. Daniel RunnelIs,

d. Sept. 19, 1808, First; Bean, Nathan,Continental Army, d. May 11, 1827, Ditto;Brown, Aaron, Regt. Col. Nichols, d.1826; Brown, Sewell, Regt. LaommiBaldwin, d. Jan. 22, 1837; Burpee, Na-thaniel, Regt. Laommi Baldwin, d. Mar.9, 1835; Buswell, Moses, N. H. Militia,d. Jan. 28, 1835; Buswell, James, Co.Daniel RunnelIs; Carr, John, Co. StephenClark, d. May 24, 1813; Cass, Benjamin,Regt. Isaac Wyman, d. 1820; Clark, Hen-ry Jr., Co. Joseph Dearborn, d. Nov. 28,1823; Clark, John, Regt. David Gilman,d. Jan. 21, 1827; Clay, John, Regt. Laom-mi Baldwin, d. June 28, 1832; Clay,Walter, Regt. Moses Nichols; Clifford,Anthony, Regt. Col. Stickney, d. 1822,Langford Rd.; Clifford, Jacob, Co. MosesBaker, d. 1822, Langford Rd.; Colby,Enoch, Regt. Thomas Stickney, First;Dearborn, Samuel, Regt. Thomas Stick-ney, d. Sept. 7, 1818, Ditto; Dustin, Moses,Regt. Laommi Baldwin, d. Jan. 10, 1795;Eaton, Benjamin, Regt. Thomas Stickney,d. Apr. 8, 1835; Eaton, Eben, Regt. IsaacWyman; Eaton, Ephraim, Regt. MosesHazen, d. 1826; Eaton, Jesse, Regt. Laom-mi Baldwin, d. Dec. 22, 1808; Eaton, Paul,Regt. David Gilman, d. 1830; Emerson,Asa, Regt. Col. Reed, d.-; Emerson,Moses, Regt. Thomas Stickney; d. June 3,1839; Emerson, Nathan, Regt. ThomasStickney, d.-; Fitts, Abraham, Co. MosesBaker, d. Aug. 8, 1808; Hall, Obededon,Regt. Moses Nichols, d. Sept. 8, 1805;Heath, Asa, Co. Joseph Dearborn, d.-,Healey Farm Cem.; Hills, John, Regt.James Reed, d. 1818, First; Hills, William,Co. James Ford, d. Ditto; Hubbard, Ben-jamin, Co. Moses Baker, d. Feb. 19, 1834;Knowles, Amos, Co. Hezekiah Hutchins,d.-; Lyford, Stephen, Regt. Col. Poor, d.-; McClure, James, Regt. Laommi Bald-win, d. Apr. 20, 1814; Mooers, Samuel,Jr., Regt. Laommi Baldwin, d.-; Moore,Joshua, Regt. Col. Wyman, d. Feb. 15,1815; Mon-ill, Samuel, Regt. James Reed,d. Oct. 7, 1824; Morrison, John, Regt.James Reed, d.-; Palmer, Joseph, Regt.Pierce Long, d. 1816, First; Patten, Wil-liam, Regt. Col. Nichols, d. Apr. 30, 1842,Ditto; Pillsbury, Jonathan, Regt. MosesNichols, d. Dec. 22, 1826; Prescott, John,Co. Daniel Gordon, d. 1828; Rowe, Isaiah,Co. Moses Baker, d. 1810; Rundlett, The-ophilus, Regt. Joseph Senter. d; Sargent,John, Co. Moses Baker, Nov. 17, 1834;Sargent, Moses, Regt. Moses Kelley, d.Mar. 11, 1826; Smith, Biley, Co. JohnCarlisle, d.-; Smith, Oliver, Regt. ThomasStickney, d.-, North Rd. Cem.; Swain,Phineas, Regt. Thomas Bartlett, d.-, OldVillage; Taylor, John, Regt. HerculesMooney, d.-, First; Thorn, Nathan, Regt.Jacob Gale, d. Apr. 9, 1851, Ditto;Turner, Moses, Co. Daniel Runnels, d.-;Wadleigh, Benjamin, Regt. Thomas Stick-ney, d.-; Ward, Simon, Regt. MosesNichols, d. Sept. 6, 1830; Wilson, Thomas,Regt. Thomas Stickney, d. May 15, 1831;

Wilson, Thomas, Regt. Thomas Tash, d.May 6, 1808; Worthen, Jacob, Regt. MosesNichols, d.-.

Town of ChesterBasford, Ebenezer, Regt. John Webster,

d. Sept. 12, 1816, Village; Blaisdel, Isaac,Regt. David Gilman, d. Oct. 9, 1795,Ditto; Chase, Oerley, Regt. Samuel Ger-rish, d. Apr. 3, 1833; Colby, Jethro, RhodeIsland Service, d. Apr. 4, 1803; Dearborn,David, d. Dec. 10, 1826; Dearborn, Eb-enezer, Co. Stephen Dearborn, d. Aug.18, 1825; Dunlap, James, Co. John Web-ster, d. Mar. 18, 1803; Elliott, Jacob, Regt.Hurcules Mooney, d. Dec. 6, 1841; Emer-son, John, Regt. Moses Nichols, d. Apr.3, 1844; Fitts, Nathan, Co. Moses Baker,d. Jan. 29, 1781; Hills, Jacob, Regt. Col.Tasker, d. Nov. 2, 1815; Hills, Moses, Co.Joseph Dearborn, d. Sept. 10, 1843; Hills,Moses, Co. Joseph Dearborn, d. Feb. 3,1813; Hoit, Jabez, Regt. Moses Nichols,d. Aug. 7, 1817; Lane, Cornet Isaac, Co.Cutting Cilley, d. Apr. 21, 1834, Lane;Long, Joseph, Regt. Laommi Baldwin,d. Nov. 26, 1836, Village Cem.; Lufkin,Stephen, Co. Capt. Blodgett, d. July 9,1803, Village; Marden, George, Mass.Service, d. Feb. 27, 1826, Marden; Moore,William, d. Oct. 3, 1840, Village; Morse,Josiah, Regt. Thomas Reed, d. July 9,1812, Ditto; Morse, Stephen, Regt. MosesNichols, d. Mar. 6, 1807; Robie, Edward,Co. Moses Baker, d. Dec. 26, 1837; Sleep-er, John, d. June 27, 1834; Underhill,David, Regt. David Gilman, d. July 28,1827; Wason, James, Regt. Moses Nichols,d. Apr. 7, 1826; Webster, John, d. Sept.16, 1784; West, Wilkes, Co. Ethan Allen,d. Apr. 10, 1830; White, William d. Nov.9, 1829; Wilson, James, Regt. Col. Wy-man, d. Sept. 6, 1824; Eastman, Edward,N.H. Militia, d. Nov. 7, 1815, Ye OldCem.; Eastman Samuel, Regt. DanielMoore, d. Nov. 26, 1815, Blake Road;French, Jonathan, Co. David Quimby, d.Aug. 30, 1828, North; Hook, Humphrey,Co. Abraham French, d. Jan. 8, 1801, YeOld Cem.; Hook, Israel, Co. Robert Col-lins, d. Mar. 23, 1813, Ditto; Page, Thomas,Regt. Abraham Drake, d. June 26, 1849;Quimby, Benjamin, Regt. Alex. Scammell,d. Aug. 31, 1811; Sanborn, Jonathan,Regt. Abraham Drake, d.-.

Town of DeerfieldBatchelder, Samuel, Continental Army,

d. Aug. 1, 1809, Batchelder Farm; Butler,Benjamin, Regt. Joseph Cilley, d. May 1,1828, Parade; Chadwick, Dr. Edmund,3rd N.H. Regt., d. Nov. 8, 1826, OldCenter; Chase, Joseph, Regt. ThomasBartlett, d. June 21, 1840, Hill Top Cem.;Chase, Josiah, Regt. Col. Tash, d. 1782,Old Center; Folsom, Asa, Regt, JoshuaWingate, d. July 15, 1843, Parade; French.Moses, Mass. Cont. Line, d. Mar. 14,1834, Hill Top; Gilman, Ezekiel, Regt. Col.Stark, d. Mar. 9, 1793, South; Hilton,Joseph H., Regt. Alex. Scammell, d. Nov.26, 1826, Old Center; Mathes, Thomas, d.Dec. 26, 1833, Hill Top; Mills, Joseph,Regt. Joseph Cilley, d. Jan. 14, 1809,Parade; Philbrick, Nathan, Co. Henry El-kins, d. Dec. 11, 1824, South Road; Phil-brick, Nathaniel, Regt. Col. Poor, d. Mar.30, 1826, South Road; Simpson, John,Regt. John Stark, d. Oct. 28, 1825, HillTop; Veasey, Joshua, Regt. Enoch Poor,d. Dec. 28, 1850, Griffin Rd.; Veasey,Simon, Regt. Moses Kelley, d. June 231845, Pleasant Pond.

Town of DerryAdams, David, Regt. James Reed, d.

Jan. 24, 1838, Forest Hill Cem.; Adams,Edmund, Co., John Moody, d. Jan. 18,1825, Ditto; Adams, Jonathan, Regt. JohnBell, d. Mar. 20, 1820; Adams, William,Regt. Col. Mooney, d. Oct. 5, 1828;

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Aiken, James, Co. Joseph Dearborn, d.Jan. 9, 1839; Bond, Gilbert, Regt. Col.Reed, d. May 4, 1834; Boyes, James, Regt.George Reid, d. Aug. 10, 1779; Burnham,John, Mass. Continental Line, d. June 8,1843; Cheney, Thomas, Regt. John Stark,d. Jan. 18, 1838; Choate, James, Regt.Col. Wade, d. July 23, 1846; Choate,Jonathan, Co. David Low, d. Apr. 29,1838; Clark, Samuel, Regt. George Reid,d. Aug. 19, 1790; Danforth, William, Co.Samuel Atkinson, July 21, 1804; David-son, Thos., Co. Hezekiah Hutchins, d.June 23, 1827; Dickey, Matthew, Regt.Col. Webster, d. Oct. 5, 1802; Dinsmore,John, Regt. Jacob Gale, d. Apr. 15, 1814;Ela, David, Regt. Pierce Long, d. Feb.19, 1822; Gragg, Samuel, Co. JosephFinlay, d; Gregg, Joseph, Regt. Col. Gale,d. Mar. 6, 1804; Holmes, John, Co. GeorgeReid, d. 1794, Forest Hill, Cem.; Hum-phrey, James, Co. Moses Nichols, d.June 28, 1828, Ditto; Hunter, Robert, Co.Peter Coffin, d. 1778; Jewett, Nathaniel,Co. Nathaniel Wade, d. Nov. 25, 1838;McGregor, Robert, Regt. Moses Kelley,d. Sept. 1816; McMurphy, Robert, Regt.Col. Stark, d. July 18, 1818; McMurphy,William, Regt. Col. Stark, d. Aug. 10, 1791;Miltimore, Daniel, Regt. Col. Stark, d. Aug.8, 1828; Montgomery, Hugh, Regt. Col.Stark, d. Jan. 4, 1800; Morrison, Thomas,Co. Joseph Findlay, Apr. 2, 1804; Morse,Dr. Moody, Regt. Col. Conner, d. May 7,1830; Neal, John, Regt. George Reid, d.Nov. 21, 1788; Nichols, James, Regt.George Reid, d.; Nowell, Nathaniel, U.S.Navy, d. Feb. 6, 1832; Ordway, Enoch,Co. William Boyes, d. July 2, 1827; Pal-mer, John, Regt. Thomas Brackett, Apr. 14,1834; Pillsbury, Eliphalet, d. Dec. 25,1823; Platts, James, Mass. ContinentalLine, d. Jan. 9, 1835; Reid, George, Regt.John Stark, d; Reynolds, Daniel, Regt.Stephen Peabody, Dec. 13, 1795; Shute,Benjamin, U.S. Navy Ranger, d. Dec. 25,1847; Taylor, Adam, Regt. Moses Nichols,d. Apr. 13, 1806; Taylor, John, Co. JosephFindlay, d. Dec. 13, 1825; Taylor, Samuel,Regt. Moses Nichols, d. June 1803; Walk-er, Seth, Co. Eliphalet Daniels, d. Oct. 8,1838, East Derry Cem.; Wallace, Robert,Co. Joseph Findlay, d. Forest Hill; War-ner, Benjamin, Regt. Joshua Wingate,d. May 1, 1843, Forest Hill; Wilson, Rob-ert, Regt. Joseph Cilley, d. Oct. 17, 1850,Forest Hill.

Town of East Kingston

Currier, Ezra, Regt. Abraham Drake, d.Apr. 27, 1813, Old Cem.; Currier, John,Regt. James Frye, d. May 12, 1809,Ditto; French, Edward, Co. Enoch Chase,d. Dec. 11, 1847; Gale, Jacob, Regt.Josiah Bartlett, d. June 22, 1834; Graves,Jacob, Co. Enoch Chase, d. Sept. 3, 1831;Greeley, Edward, Co. Enoch Chase, d.Nov. 5, 1817; Greeley, Jonathan, Regt.James Frye, d. Mar. 3, 1813; Greeley,Moses, Co. Henry Morrill, d. Mar. 5, 1814;Morrill, Jacob, Co. Joseph Page, d. Jan.11, 1811; Morrill, John, Regt. JacobGale d. Oct. 8, 1825; Morrill, Philip,Regt. Caleb Cushing, d. Oct. 11, 1821;Ordway, Jacob, N. H. Militia, d. Sept. 4,1811; Rowe, Dr. Benjamin, Regt. Col.Nichols, d. Nov. 8, 1818; Sanborn,John, Co. Enoch Chase, d. Sept. 8,1795; Stevens, Samuel, Regt. Caleb Cush-ing, d. May 24, 1789; Tilton, David,Co. Abraham French, d. Aug. 27, 1825;Tilton, Philip, Regt. Enoch Poor, d. Jan.26, 1835; Webster, Caleb, Co. John Calfe,d. Mar. 21, 1809; Webster, Eliphalet,N. H. Militia, d. Aug. 11, 1818; Webster,Jonathan, L. Co. Enoch Chase, d. May19, 1830; Woodman, Joshua, Co. JonathanAyer, d. Jan. 5, 1821; Barber, Daniel,Regt. Enoch Poor, d. Jan. 31, 1801, Hod-

ding Camp Cem.; Blake, Enoch, Regt.Stephen Evans, d. Mar. 2, 1822, Town;Blake, Sherburne, Regt. Stephen Evans, d.Mar. 2, 1822, Town; Brown, Paul, Co.Daniel Gordon, d. Jan. 9, 1810, Town;Deake, Simon, Regt. Enoch Poor, d. Mar.16, 1801, Old; Dow, Zebulon, Regt. Col.Tash, d. Dec. 20, 1843, Lawrence; Fogg,David, Regt. Enoch Poor, d. Apr. 1826,Town; Freese, Jacob, d. Sept. 10, 1834,Central; Haley, Samuel, Regt. Enoch Poor,June 12, 1837, Haley; Jenness, Joseph, Co.Mark Wiggin, d. 1826, Jenness; Norris,Theophilus, Regt. Pierce Long, d. July 29,1833, W. Epping Rd.; Perkins, Abraham,N. H. War. Rolls, d. Feb. 24, 1802, Town;Towl Levi, Regt. Abraham Drake, d. May24, 1827, Red Oak Hill.

Town of Exeter

Barstow, Joshua, Regt. John Barkley, d.Dec. 22, 1821, Old Town; Boardman,Benjamin, 22nd Co. N. H. Militia, d. Dec.21, 1807, Second; Clifford, Ebenezer,Regt. Enoch Poor, d. Oct. 19, 1821, WinterSt.; Dutch, Samuel, d. Second; Emery,Noah, N. H. Militia, d. Second; Fogg,Seth, Regt. Joshua Wingate d. Bride Hill;French, Joseph, Regt. Pierce Long, d. Dec.31, 1810, New; French, Joseph Jr., Regt.Pierce Long, d. Nov. 16, 1819, New; Gil-man, John T. d., Second; Gilman, John W.d., Second; Gilman, Joseph S., Co. RobertPike, d. Sept. 26, 1826, Winter St.; - Gil-man, Nicholas, Regt. Alex. Scammell, d.May 2, 1814, Town; Gilman, Thomas,Regt. Thomas Stickney, d. May 13, 1823,Winter St.; Hill Jonathan, 2nd N. H.Militia, d., Second; Kimball, Robert, Regt.Pierce Long, d. Oct. 14, 1808, WinterSt.; Leavitt, Benjamin, Mass. Militia, d.,Second; Lovering, Benj. Regt. ThomasBartlett, d. May 3, 1841;Winter St..

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rison, Alex., Co. James Hopkins, d. Apr.21, 1800, Winter St.; Moulton, Redmond,Co. Henry Elkins, d., Redmond Farm;Osborne, Joseph. Regt. Col. Pickering, d.Feb. 19, 1831, Winter St.; Rust, Samuel,d. Feb. 6, 1827, Winter St.; Smith, Daniel,Regt. Stephen Evans, d. Nov. 17, 1817,Winter St.; Tenney, Samuel, Under Gen.Gates, d. Feb. 6, 1816, Winter St.; Thing,Winthrop, d. Sept. 21, 1837, Oakland Rd.;Tilton, Dr. Joseph, d. Dec. 5, 1838, WinterSt.; Williams, Isaac, d. Jan. 17, 1819, Sec-ond.

Town of Greenland

Barker, Philip, Regt. Pierce Long, d.Oct. 20, 1811, Town Cem.; Brackett,Joshua, Co. Jona. Robinson, d. June 19,1817, Brackett; Brackett, Thomas, Regt.Pierce Long, d. 1785, Hatch Farm; Con-ner, Benjamin, Co. Peter Coffin, d. Dec.29, 1835, Town; Huse, Sargeant, Co.Nathan Brown, d. Jan. 26, 1818, Town;Johnson, Philip, Regt. Enoch Poor, d.1790, Old; McClintock, Rev. Samuel,Regt. John Stark, d. Apr. 27, 1804, Town;Meader, John, Co. Daniel Gordon, d.Mar. 9, 1808, Town; Wedgewood, James,Co. Richard Weare, d. May 18, 1826,Town.

Town of Hampstead

Brickett, James, d. 1851, Town; Calfe,John, Regt. Pierce Long d. Oct. 31, 1808,Town; Davis, Josiah, d. Apr. 13, 1796,Old Cem.; Harriman, Reuben, Co. MosesLittle, d. Oct. 12, 1808, Harriman Farm;Hoyt, Ebenezer, N. H. Militia, d. Dec. 19,1836, Town; Huckins, Hezekiah, Con-tinental Army, d. June 13, 1796, Town;Kent, Job, Co. John Eastman, d. Dec. 26,1837, Town; Little, Benjamin, Regt.Joseph Welch, d. Jan. 13, 1841, Town;Little, Moses, Co. Jesse Page, d. Mar. 26,1816, Town; Marshall, William, d. June23, 1822, Marshall Farm; Nichols, Daniel,d. Oct. 6, 1825, Old; Ordway, John, d.

Sept. 3, 1832, Old; Page, Jonathan, Co.Ezekiel Gile, d. Aug. 6, 1832 Town; Poor,David, Co. Hezekiah Hutchins, d. Mar.20, 1834, Town.

Town of HamptonBrown, Zacheus, Regt. Enoch Poor, d.

Oct. 17 1810, Ring Swamp; Cram, Joseph,Regt. Col. Long, d. Aug. 26, 1791, Butter-fly; Dearborn, Joseph F. d. Nov. 13, 1827,Ring Swamp; Dearborn, Josiah, Co. JosephParsons, d. Sept. 15, 1814, Ditto; Dow,John, Co. Henry Elkins d. Feb. 19, 1829;Emery, Willard, d. Mar. 29, 1827; Gar-land, Jonathan, Co. Moses Leavitt, d. Apr.13, 1825; Godfrey, Jonathan, Co. HenryElkins, d. Jan. 2, 1840; Johnson, Nathaniel,Co. Henry Elkins, d. May 17, 1826;Lamprey, Daniel, Regt. Enoch Poor, d.Dec. 9, 1840; Lamprey, Reuben, d. Sept.25, 1818; Lane, James, Co. Henry Elkins,d. Mar. 4, 1836; Lane, Joshua, d. 1776,Pine Grove; Leavitt, James, Regt. DavidGilman, d. Aug. 23, 1838, Ring Swamp;Marston Jonathan, Regt. Moses Nichols,d. Jan. 27, 1843, Ditto; Marston, Jonathan,Co. Henry Elkins, d. Jan. 1, 1826; Perkins,Moses, Regt. Abraham Drake, d. Jan. 16,1839; Philbrick, Jonathan, Co. Jona.Moulton, d. May 19, 1822; Redman,Joseph, Co. George Osborne, d. Oct. 8,1846; Shaw, Simeon, Co. Henry Elkins, d.Aug. 14, 1840, Shaw; Toppan, Christopher,Militia d. Feb. 28, 1818, Ring Swamp;Towle, Abraham, P. d. Dec. 8, 1804, Ditto;Towle, Amos. Co. Henry Elkins, d. Aug.29, 1825; Towle, Jabez, Co. Henry Elkins,d. June 20, 1837; Ward, Cotton, d. May4, 1802; Weare, Daniel, Regt. Enoch Poor,d. Mar. 20, 1835; Blake, Jeremiah, Co.Henry Elkins, Feb. 24, 1800, Old; Cram,Jonathan, Regt. Jona. Moulton, d. Oct.11, 1806, Old; Dow, Joseph, Co. JosephParson, d. May 19, 1829, Falls; Hardy,Bradbury, Co. Winthrop Rowe, d. May16, 1817, Nason Hill; Lane, Jonathan, Co.Moses Leavitt, d. 1819, Old; Leavitt, Ben-jamin, d. May 1, 1805, New; Melcher,Samuel, Co. Henry Elkins, d. Aug. 31,1823. Moulton House; Merrill, Aaron,Mass. Militia, d. July 24, 1833, Old;Moulton, Thomas, Co. Henry Elkins, d.Nov. 19, 1840, Moulton; Prescott, James,Co. Moses Leavitt, d. Sept. 10, 1830, Falls;Sanborn, Abner, Under Gen. Sullivan, d.Apr. 17, 1811, Old; Sanborn, Theophilus,Co. Enoch Page, d. Oct. 17, 1826, Falls;Tilton, Benj. Regt. Henry Elkins, d. Sept.18, 1808, Old; Tilton, Caleb, Co. HenryElkins, d. July 11, 1815, Falls; Tilton,Michael, Co. Henry Elkins, d. Feb. 15,1823, Old; Tilton, Nathan, Co. HenryElkins, d. Sept. 19, 1806, Old; Tilton,Peter, Co. Henry Elkins, d. Dec. 8, 1829,Old; Wells, Aaron, Militia, d. Feb. 8,1819, Old.

Town of KensingtonBlake, Hezekiah, Co. Jacob Webster, d.

June 7, 1841, New; Blake, Philemon, Regt.Jona. Moulton, d. Jan. 10, 1826, Old;Brown, Joseph, Co. Joseph Clifford, d.June 19, 1817, Old; Brown, Stephen, Regt.Jona. Moulton, d. Sept. 14, 1811,Old; Fellowes, Jona., Co. Winthrop Rowe,d. Apr. 3, 1837, New; Fellowes, Na-thaniel, d. Nov. 14, 1822, Church; Fogg,Jeremiah, Regt. Enoch Poor, d. Nov. 6,1807, Old; Fogg, William, Co. Capt.Taylor, d. Aug. 17, 1806, Old; Hodgdon,Hanson, Co. Caleb Hodgdon, d. Oct. 8,1840, New; Lane, John, d. Mar. 21, 1811,Church; Locke, Josiah, Co. Caleb Hodg-don, d. Sept. 25, 1816, New; Loveren, Ben-jamin, d. Oct. 12, 1848, Town; Page,Stephen, Co. Ezekiel Gile, d. Jan. 16,1813, Old; Sanborn, Abraham, Co. Win-throp Rowe, d. Nov. 26, 1808, Ditto; San-born, Jewett, Co. Winthrop Rowe, d.;

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TEXAS SOCIETY PROJECTS1899-1961

During the past 61 years the TexasSociety has contributed much to theNational Society; it has, moreover,sponsored many outstanding projectsand provided innumerable scholar-ship and loan funds.

In 1909 a $5000 loan fund givento the University of Texas was thebeginning of a policy of placing agift of substantial worth in everyTexas-supported college in the State.

This policy was pursued for 40years, during which time $5000student loan funds were placed atNorth Texas State College at Den-ton, West Texas State College atCanyon, and Sam Houston StateCollege at Huntsville; $3000 scholar-ship funds were placed at East TexasState College at Commerce and SulRoss State College at Alpine; TexasWomen's University at Denton wasgiven a Museum of Gowns of theWives of Presidents and Governorsof Texas; Southeast Texas College atSan Marcos received a Texana andTextbook Research Library, and Ste-phen F. Austin College at Huntsvillereceived a History and Old Docu-ments Library. Texas A. and M.College at College Station receives aJunior Honors Man Award of $200each year.

In recent years, the Texas ArmedForces Award was established; mili-tary watches are given annually toan outstanding pilot in the Navy,Naval Reserve, Air Force, CoastGuard, and Marine Corps.

Another gift of substantial worthcan now be added to the list, for theTexas Daughters during this admin-istration have heard the urgent callfor more and better-prepared nursesand have established a $5000 en-dowment fund at Texas Women'sUniversity Nursing School for anursing scholarship; this will providefunds for a second-year student whowill specialize in the care and nursingof children or in public health nurs-ing.

Texas Daughters shared the ex-pense of building Memorial Conti-nental Hall and Constitution Hall.Both of these were built with em-phasis on meeting space, and it wasnot long before the National Societyrealized that it needed more adequate

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quarters to house its records and gene-alogical library, as well as additionaloffices for its staff, so a third buildingwas planned. Texas outstripped itsformer efforts and gave $42,000 to-ward erection of this building.The last notable gift to the Na-

tional Headquarters in Washingtonwas conversion of the Texas Room inMemorial Continental Hall into amusic room of the Early Republicperiod.When the great Carillon at Valley

Forge was planned, Texas pledgeditself to give C Sharp—the third larg-est of the 50 bells, at a cost of$6000. After the bells were dedi-cated, an appropriate tower had tobe built and Texas contributed $10,-000 to this.

Texas Daughters have placed twolarge bronze statues memorializinghistoric personages. The first wasthe handsome statue of La Salle atNavasota and the second was the fineCoppini statue of George Washing-ton on the campus of the Universityof Texas.Member participation in marking

historic trails and spots, not only inTexas but across the Nation, is re-counted in the published booklet onTexas Historic Markers. Historichouses have been preserved and re-stored all the way from Wakefield,Stratford, and Kenmore in Virginia tothe French Legation and O'Henryhouses in Austin. They have boughtacres for the Big Bend InternationalPark and contributed to the bringingof the U.S.S. Texas to anchor atHouston.

Finally, the Texas Society decidedto buy a house of its own in Austinin which to store its records and todisplay its accumulation of history.The Texas D.A.R. House at 401East 16th Street is a little stone cot-tage typical of the early Texas archi-tecture. The Austin Heritage Societyrecently presented an award to theTexas Society in recognition of res-toration of this cottage.The D.A.R. schools have always

received generous support from theTexas Daughters. One or more schol-arships have been given to each ofthe schools, and many chapters andindividuals present scholarships an-

The Texas D.A.R. Society house in Austin.

nually to Kate Duncan Smith andTamassee. The State Society hasshared the financing of many build-ings at both schools. The most ex-tensive building attempted to date ex-clusively by the Texas Society wasthe Texas Friendship Cottage, dedi-cated at Tamassee in October 1957.The D.A.R. School project for this

administration was a $4500 pledgeto Kate Duncan Smith School to con-vert unused space in the VocationalBuilding into much-needed sciencerooms and restrooms. The moneywas raised in 2 years, and theseTexas science rooms were dedicatedon October 17, 1960.

Texas is honored to have, amongits members, Mrs. Chas. Atwell ofPort Arthur. She and her husband,through the Texas Society, have be-stowed many magnificent gifts on theD.A.R. schools. These include anew dairy at Tamassee, several thou-sand dollars for a Teacher's Cottageat Kate Duncan Smith and a greatnumber of endowed scholarships, aswell as a boys' dormitory at Cross-more.For 25 years the Texas Daughters

have been interested in the Alabama-Coushatta Indians who live withinthe boundary of Texas and have donemuch to better their living condi-tions. The Mae Wynn McFarlandscholarship was established specifi-cally for the education of one of theseIndian girls at Sam Houston StateCollege. A second Indian girl is nowusing this scholarship.The most unique project is the

Texas D.A.R. Forest-150 acres ofpine timber in Jasper County, EastTexas. This acreage was acquired in1929 and was named a bird sanc-tuary. Thousands of pine seedlingswere planted, and it became simplya reforestation project. Paper millsmoved into East Texas, and treefarming was taught. The D.A.R.trees grew to a size to be cut fortimber, and the sale made possiblesome of the outstanding accomplish-

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The Silas Morton Chapter of Graham, The Texas State Board, and the TexasSociety, in loving appreciation of her inspiring leadership and outstanding accom-plishments, proudly and affectionately present Mrs. Edgar Ryerson Riggs as acandidate for Vice President General, 1961.

JANE DOUGLAS CHAPTER, D.A.11., DALLAS, TEXAS

Name

The following members proudly honor their Revolutionary Ancestors

Ancestor State

Adkerson, Mrs. Burrell T. (Florrie Higdon) William Poage Virginia

Alderson, Mrs. E. Roy (Fannie Sullivan) Sgt. Peter Blosser Pennsylvania

Barlow, Mrs. Samuel S. (Elizabeth Huster) Capt. Martin Lane North Carolina

Barnett, Mrs. Albert S. (Velma Wasson) James Dyer North Carolina

Bassett, Mrs. Ben H. (Ethel Walden) Capt. Peter Gray South Carolina

Behrends, Mrs. Earle D. (Daisy Teagarden) William Teagarden Pennsylvania

Beyers, Mrs. Robert A. (Bernice West) Lt. Col. Nathaniel Buell Connecticut

Blake, Mrs. L. B. (Lee Miller) Capt. Richard P. Ransom South Carolina

Boren, Mrs. Samuel H., Sr. (Ella Chilton) David Grinnan, Sr Virginia

Botkin, Mrs. Millard Fillmore (Hazel Deane) Michael Deane Virginia

Brewer, Mrs. George (May Hill) Daniel Hill North Carolina

Brown, Mrs. E. Allen (HaMe Richardson.) Col. James Richardson North Carolina

Brunner, Mrs. Frank G. (Martha Pearl Miller) Capt. Richard P. Ransom South Carolina

Carroll, Mrs. Abe, Jr. (Alice Cox) Col. James Martin North Carolina

Coleman, Mrs. Yewell B. (Pearl McCormick) John McCormick North Carolina

Davis, Mrs. R. B. (Olivia Bridges) Daniel Asbury Virginia

Dawson, Mrs. J. D. (Essie lone Vining) Joseph Ballinger Virginia

Dixon, Mrs. Graeme (Bonnie Waller) Lt. Clement McDaniel Virginia

Dorman, Mrs. George I., Sr. (Louise W. Miller) Maj. John Miller Pennsylvania

Dowell, Mrs. J. McCarty, Sr. (Rosabel Greer) Elias Barbee Virginia

Elliott, Mrs. R. D. (Marian McCreery) Capt. Thomas Clay Virginia

English, Mrs. William Francis (Harriet M. Husung) James Richards Virginia

Finley, Mrs. Minnie Lee (Minnie Lee Eddins) Devereaux Jarrett Virginia

Ford, Mrs. Gus L. (Anne Johnston) William Anderson South Carolina

Foster, Mrs. William H. (Carrie Annette Berry) Eleazar Wheelock New Hampshire

Gannon, Mrs. E. J. Ward (Ethel Hughes) Lt. Samuel Woodson Venable Virginia

Garlington, Miss Marie Anna Maj. John Pinkerton New Hampshire

Glenn, Mrs. Lora Bibb (Lora Bibb) Sgt. William Terrell Lewis, Sr Virginia

Grady, Miss Margaret Alexander Grady

Gunderson, Mrs. Norris E. (Harriet E. Harmon) James Hamilton

Gunderson, Mrs. Norris E. (Harriet E. Harmon) Col. John Smith,

Harmon, Mrs. John E. (Bessie Moore) James Hamilton

Harmon, Mrs. John E. (Bessie Moore) Col. John Smith,

Hood, Mrs. Marcus Moore (Nona Rogers) Peter Shrum

North Carolina North Carolina

Jr. North CarolinaNorth Carolina

Jr North Carolina North Carolina

Ingram, Mrs. Frederick B. (Alice Lane) John Hughey, Sr

Jameson, Mrs. Robert 0. (Antoinette Makin) James Alston

Johnson, Mrs. L. Weatherred (Lillian Wetherred) James Sudderth, Sr

Jones, Miss Nan George Mason, Sr

Kadane, Mrs. S. A. (Elizabeth Colwell) William Apperson

Kitrell, Mrs. Horace J. (Margaret Talbot) Laughter, Miss A. Vernon Laughter, Miss Pearl Lewis, Mrs. Walter T. (Ailsa Rives Posey) McCall, Mrs. John D. (Hazel Bradfield) McCorkle, Miss Frances Mary McCorkle, Miss Nelle Elizabeth McDowell, Mrs. Harold K. (Celia Nickel) McKeand, Miss Eleanor Neely Meadows, Mrs. Curtis W. (Lucille Loyd) Meadows, Mrs. E. 0. (Nina Belle Banks) Miller, Mrs. William Z. (Joyce Hicks) Mitchell, Mrs. George C., Sr. (Lottie Dickert) Morris, Mrs. Harry Joseph (Louise Eliz. Burton) Morris, Mrs. Harry Joseph (Louise Eliz. Burton) Murray, Miss Mary Clive Noblitt, Mrs. L. E. (Dorothy Smith) O'Neill, Mrs. Lewis P. (Georgiana Trask) O'Neill, Mrs. Lewis P. (Georgiana Trask) Sgt. Benjamin Foster, JrO'Neill, Mrs. Lewis P. (Georgiana Trask) Jabez CarpenterPadgitt, Mrs. Sullivan H. (Aline Childress) Parker, Miss Ella Estill Padllo, Mrs. John T. (Jane Tacquard) Pierce, Mrs. Franklin A. (Eva Carpenter) Pittman, Mrs. Chalmers V. A. (Margaret Hallett) Pittman, Mrs. Chalmers V. A. (Margaret Hallett) Pittman, Mrs. Chalmers V. A. (Margaret Hallett)Pratt, Mrs. Margaret L. (Margaret Barret) Price, Mrs. Verna Tye (Verna Tye) Riser, Mrs. J. C. (Ada Haile Simpson)

Pennsylvania North Carolina

VirginiaVirginia

North Carolina

Capt. Matthew Talbot Virginia

James Hamilton North Carolina

James Hamilton North Carolina

Lt. James Speed Kentucky

William Farrar South Carolina

John McCutchen North Carolina

John McCutchen North Carolina

Levi Preston New York

Capt. Stephen Webster New Hampshire

Aaron Burleson, II North Carolina

Harry De Loache South CarolinaCapt. Israel Hicks ConnecticutCapt. Peter Johann Dechert PennsylvaniaCapt. Thomas Black VirginiaSgt. Amos Boynton New HampshireCapt. William Terrell VirginiaThomas Burns VirginiaLt. Obadiah Martin North Carolina Vermont Massachusetts

Brig. Gen. Griffith Rutherford North CarolinaCapt. James Estill VirginiaGeorge Derrick PennsylvaniaCorp. Nathaniel Carpenter VirginiaIsaac Hallett MassachusettsNathaniel Sprague Massachusetts

Alexander McClelland MaineSgt. Francis Barret VirginiaJohn Tye VirginiaJohn Parker VirginiaWilliam Terrell Lewis, Sr VirginiaAaron Burleson, H North CarolinaPatrick Henry VirginiaHon. James Fisk MassachusettsBrig. Gen. Robert Lawson VirginiaRobert Miller South CarolinaSoloman Mitchell South Carolina

North Carolina Maryland Virginia

South CarolinaCol. William Whitley KentuckyJames Crutcher VirginiaThomas Brooks North CarolinaClarkson Heroy New YorkCapt. Robert Paine North Carolina

Wills, Miss Elsie Beattie William Beattie

Roberts, Mrs. J. Ben (Vera Collins) Rouse, Mrs. Dudley Lee (Eloise Meadows) Royall, Mrs. John W. (Anna Mae Milliken) Sanderson, Mrs. Joe N. (Susan K. Carnal) Santerre, Mrs. George H. (Enid Lewis) Sellingsloh, Mrs.' Delmar Ray (Daisy Pierce) Shaw, Mrs. Ralph H. (Belva Mitchell) Sublett, Mrs. Coulter R. (Annie Rob Rainey) Capt. Lewis Dupre Stone, Miss Dolly Mary Launcelot Chunn, JrTurner, Mrs. Charles E. (Valine Leachman) Isham ColemanTurner, Mrs. Maurice C. (Epsie Walden) James JordanUnderwood, Mrs. Robert A. (Mary West) Walter, Miss Gladys D Walter, Miss Mary Ethyl Ward, Mrs. Warren F. (Edith Loomis) Williams, Mrs. Clarence A. (Beatrice Walker)

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HONORING

MRS. CURTIS WASHINGTON MEADOWS(Lucille Loyd)

Regent, Jane Douglas Chapter D.A.R. 1960-1961

This page is presented with pride and affection by

JANE DOUGLAS CHAPTER, DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONLargest Chapter in The National Society Daughters Of The American Revolution As of November 1, 1960

Organized October 19, 1895

Dallas, Texas

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Cordial Greetings and Best WishesFor a most successful

Sixty-second Annual State ConferenceTexas Society Daughters American Revolution

To our honor guestMRS. ASHMEAD WHITE, President General, N.S.D.A.R.,

andMrs. Edgar Ryerson Riggs, State Regent, Texas Society, D.A.R.,Mrs. Curtis W. Meadows, Regent, Jane Douglas Chapter, D.A.R.,

and to all Members of the Texas Society, D.A.R.,Compliments of

a group of members ofJane Douglas Chapter, D.A.R., Dallas, Texas.

WELCOME

D. A. R.

To Your Texas

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Compliments of

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JANE DOUGLAS CHAPTER, D.A.R.Dallas, Texas

Junior American Citizens(Continued from page 84)

be counted as publicity in makingawards. The success of our J.A.C.Publicity Scrapbook for 1960-61 de-pends upon the material you sendin. First, second and third prizesand honorable mention will again beawarded the States that send in thebest publicity. The State J.A.C.Chairman's mimeographed letters tochapter regents, J.A.C. chairmen,and club directors, giving informationabout J.A.C. programs, will becounted as publicity and mounted inthe scrapbook under your State, sosend us copies of your letters. Alsoscripts of radio and television pro-grams on J.A.C. will be counted aspublicity. A good one has been re-ceived from Wisconsin.

For exhibits we should like pic-tures of club officers, prize winners,and club activities. These should alsobe sent to Miss Newell, with com-plete information on the back ofeach one.

Mrs. Annie Ford Godbey, regent,Fort Chiswell Chapter, Bristol, Tenn.,writes that she reads with interest allarticles in the Magazine pertaining toJunior American Citizens. She hashad charge of the Constitution Day

Jane Douglas Chapter, D.A.R.Compliments

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program in her local school for sev-eral years. Her object has been toarrange a program that will give thechildren better understanding of theConstitution of the United States andthe Bill of Rights and in which allthe children may participate. Shesent a copy of her program for 1960,setting forth facts about the Consti-tution and the Bill of Rights.A new club has been organized in

the District of Columbia at the PerryElementary School in an all-boyclass. They call themselves "The Pio-neers." This club is sponsored byCapt. Wendell Wolfe Chapter. Theeight clubs (all 5th and 6th grades)of Stanton Elementary School heldan assembly on February 18, 1960,in observance of the birthday of Ben-jamin Franklin. A motion picture ofthe life of Benjamin Franklin wasshown, and a member of each clubrelated an incident in his life. Christ-mas parties were given for theseclubs, sponsored by eight localD.A.R. chapters. At Thanksgivingand again at Christmas the membersof these clubs collected food for bas-kets for the less fortunate.

In the March issue of the Maga-zine, Mrs. MacKenzie, NationalChairman, will give the date, time,and place of J.A.C. meetings duringContinental Congress, also informa-tion about the J.A.C. workshop.

KATE DUNCAN SMITHALUMNI ASSOCIATIONORGANIZED

By Walter N. Cary,Executive Secretary,

Kate Duncan Smith, D.A.R. SchoolThe Kate Duncan Smith D.A.R. School alumni

banquet of May 14, 1959, was the first of its kindever held by the school and was attended by ap-proximately 500 people, most of whom weregraduates. Many of these former students wereout-of-State residents and had driven long dis-tances with their families in order to be present.This splendid response was most gratifying toD.A.R. and school officials and proved again thatKate Duncan Smith is truly a unique educationalinstitution and that no one appreciates this morethan the graduates themselves.A delicious meal was served in the Helen

Pouch Lunchroom.Mrs. Henry Grady Jacobs, Chairman of the

Board of Trustees at K.D.S., introduced theD.A.R. guests; these included: Mrs. Thomas R.Navin, Tucson, Ariz., a newly elected member ofthe board; Mrs. Oscar Horton, member of theboard from Guntersville, Ala.; Mrs. Everett L.Repass, member of the board from Salem, Va.;Mrs. John C. McDermott, Alabama Second Vice-Regent, Guntersville, Ala.

J. 0. Hammer, Principal and School Director,talked briefly and gave the alumni a cordial wel-come. Elmer N. Wright of the class of 1936 wasmaster of ceremonies. Truman Wright, class of1953, gave the invocation. Mrs. Laverne Click, amember of the first graduating class of 1931,gave a brief welcoming address. The only othermember of the class of 31 was Mrs. Louise Ken-namer Barkley, recently featured in the D.A.R.News Alumni Honor Roll Section.

J. Oran Hardin of Ballawin, Md., member ofthe class of '42, gave an interesting and informa-tive address on the need for an active alumniorganization. He stressed the necessity for leader-ship and a positive program that would benefitthe school. Mr. Hardin emphasized the ever-in-creasing demand for higher education and saidhe felt that the D.A.R. might well give somefuture consideration to the possibility of provid-ing advanced educational training for the youthof Gunter Mountain.The main address of the evening was given by

Dr. H. Jean Gayle, a member of the class of'41. Dr. Gayle, a dentist of Warrior, Ala., isan active leader in the religious and civic workof his community. He is deacon and superintend-ent of the adult department of Sunday Schoolin the First Baptist Church of Warrior, districtgovernor of Lions International, neighborhoodchairman of Boy Scouts, and vice president ofthe Alabama Chapter, American Society ofDentistry for Children.Dr. Gayle pointed to the improved roads, school

facilities, and higher standard of living on Gun-ter Mountain today as contrasted to the timewhen he was growing up. He gave the D.A.R.School a greate deal of credit for the unusualprogress that has been made on the mountainand especially for the outstanding educationalopportunities it has provided to the youth of thisarea, who otherwise would have definitely beenslighted. The speaker said that he probablywouldn't have finished high school had it notbeen for Kate Duncan Smith School.Following Dr. Gayle's address, the Kate Dun-

can Smith D.A.R. Alumni Association was for-mally organized, and the following officers wereelected: President, John David Morrow, class of'43 and at present Deputy Chief of Missile Sec-tion, Redstone Arsenal; vice president, R. B.Derrick, class of '39, of the Derrick Real EstateAgency, Scottsboro, Ala.; secretary, Elmer N.Wright, class of '36, now Marshall County HealthOfficer; treasurer, Miss Ruth Gayle, class of '46,an employee of the First National Bank ofGuntersville.

It was unanimously and enthusiastically de-cided that the Alumni Association meeting atKate Duncan Smith would henceforth be anannual affair. At the conclusion of the program,many took "a sentimental journey" through themain building and various classrooms before de-parting for home.With a missile official at the helm and a real

estate man to assist, no one doubted that thealumni association would soon have a positiveprogram underway.

WALTER N. CARY, Executive SecretaryKate Duncan Smith D.A.R. SchoolGrant, Alabama

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West Point in the vicinity of this place,where I make my own Quarters.

Disappointed of the second division ofFrench troops but more especially in thenaval superiority, which was the pivotupon which everything turned, we havebeen compelled to spend an inactive cam-paign after a flattering prospect at theopening of it, and vigorous struggles tomake it a decisive one on our part. Lat-terly we have been forced to be specta-tors of a succession of detachments fromthe army at New York, in aid of LordCornwallis, while our naval weakness, andthe political dissolution of a large part ofour army, puts it out of our power tocounterattack them at the southward, ortake advantage of them here.The movements of Lord Cornwallis

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President Washington, addressing bothHouses of the Congress of the UnitedStates, 7 December, 1796:To an active external commerce, the

protection of a naval force is indispens-able. This is manifest with regard towars, in which a state is in itself a party.But, besides this, it is in our own expe-rience, that the most sincere neutrality isnot a sufficient guard against the depreda-

tions of nations at war. To secure respectto a neutral flag, requires a naval force,organized, and ready to vindicate it frominsult or aggression. This may even pre-vent the necessity of going to war, by dis-couraging belligerent powers from com-mitting violations of the rights of theneutral party, as may, first or last, leaveno other option. From the best informa-tion I have been able to obtain, it wouldseem as if our trade to the Mediterranean,without a protecting force, will always beinsecure, and our citizens exposed to thecalamities from which numbers of themhave just been relieved.These considerations invite the United

States to look to the means, and to setabout the gradual creation of a Navy.The increasing progress of their naviga-tion promises them, at no distant period,the requisite supply of seamen; and theirmeans, in other respects, favor the under-taking. It is an encouragement, likewise,that their particular situation will giveweight and influence to a moderate navalforce in their hands. Will it not then beadvisable to begin, without delay, to pro-vide and lay up the materials for thebuilding and equipping of ships of war;and to proceed in the work, by degrees,in proportion, as our resources shall ren-der it practicable, without inconvenience;so that a future war in Europe may notfind our commerce in the same unpro-tected state, in which it was found by thepresent.

'Goldsborough's, The United States NavalChronicle, Washington, 1824. PresidentWashington was speaking to the Congressconcerning the treaties with Tunis andTripoli.

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A panel discussion by prominent patriots, followed by a question and answer period, will be thefeature of the National Defense Committee Luncheon to be held Monday, April 17, 1961, at theSheraton Park Hotel at 12 o'clock. Have you made your reservation?Send your check NOW, $5.00 per person, to Mrs. B. Harrison Lingo, Chairman of Arrange-

ments, c/o Business Office, N.S.D.A.R., 1776 D Street N.W., Washington 6, D.C. Advance reserva-tions will close Friday noon, April 14. Only a limited number of tickets will be available at theCommittee table in the basement of the Administration Building Friday afternoon and Saturdaymorning.

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HOUSTON REGENTS

MRS. DOUGLAS EDMANLady Washington ChapterOrganized Nov. 14, 1899

MRS. W. A. REITERJohn McKnitt Alexander Chapter

Organized May 20, 1913

MRS. GEORGE L. BARR MRS. CARLOS R. HAMILTON MRS. LOY H. RANDALLAlexander Love Chapter Samuel Sorrell Chapter Ann Poage Chapter

Organized Oct. 19, 1923 Organized April 15, 1926 Organized April 13, 1940

MRS. R. B. SPARKSTejas Chapter

Organized May 21, 1952

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IN MEMORIAM

MRS. J. WILLEY HARRIS

The John McKnitt Alexander Chapter, D.A.R., honors the memory of its beloved late Regent,Frances Skillman Harris, National No. 393366

For her devotion to the Chapter,

For her dedicated service in promoting the Historical, Educational and Patriotic

objects of the National Society,

For her qualities as a devoted wife, a loving mother, a loyal friend and a patrioticAmerican.

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Presentation of 50-S1ar Flag

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Massachusetts; Capt. I. Jerome

O'Connor, Commanding Officer of

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Mrs. Herbert W. Jackson (right),

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in honor of her mother, Mrs. A. G.

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MISSOURIMrs. Ailene F. Lewis,602 South Main St.,Holden, Mo.

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Compliments ofANTHONY SMITH OHAPTER

Lufkin, TexasCAPTAIN WILLIAM BUCKNER CHAPTER

Coleman, TexasFounder, Mrs. J. Tom Padgitt

Compliments ofCAPTAIN WILLIAM SANDERS CHAPTER

Port Arthur, TexasChapter Compliments

CAPTAIN WILLIAM YOUNG CHAPTERLongview, Texas

COLONEL GEORGE MASON CHAPTERGarland, TexasCompliments of

COMANCHE SPRINGS CHAPTER, D.A.R.Fort Stockton, TexasCongratulations from

COMFORT WOOD CHAPTER, D.A.R.Wharton, TexasCompliments of

CORPUS CHRISTI CHAPTER, D.A.R.Corpus Christi, Texas

Greetings fromFORT BEND CHAPTER, D.A.R.

Richmond, Texas

With pride we honor thememory of

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GEORGE WASHINGTON CHAPTERGalveston, Texas

Greetings fromISAAC GILBERT CHAPTER, D.A.R.

Kingsville, Texas

JAMES BLAIR CHAPTER

Corsicana, Texas

Honors with pride and affection

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Vice-Chairman National Honor

Roll Committee

and

Texas State Honor Roll Chairman

ComplimentsJOHN DAVIS CHAPTER

Abilene, Texas

Honoring Mrs. Walter G. DickOrganizing Regent

John Everett Chapter, D.A.R.Columbus, Texas

Greetings fromJOSIAH BARTLETT CHAPTER

Borger, TexasGreetings from

LIBERTAD CHAPTERLiberty, TexasCompliments of

LT. WILLIAM BREWER CHAPTERMidland, TexasGreetings from

LONE STAR CHAPTER, D.A.R.Texarkana, Texas

ComplimentsLUCRETIA COUNCIL COCHRAN CHAPTER

Arlington, Texas

Honoring Past Regents

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Laredo, Texas

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Greetings fromMARY GARLAND CHAPTER, D.A.R.

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Wichita Falls, Texas

Visit Historic Nacogdoches, TexasNacogdoches Chapter, D.A.R.

Greetings fromNANCY HARPER CHAPTER, D.A.R.

Sweetwater, TexasCourtesy of

NATHANIEL DAVIS CHAPTEROdessa, Texas

In memory of our deceased membersNATHANIEL WINSTON CHAPTER

Cleburne, TexasPOCAHONTAS CHAPTER

San Angelo, Texas

Honoring

MRS. EDGAR RYERSON RIGGS

Retiring State Regent of Texas

Prudence Alexander Chapter

Dallas

Compliments ofRIO GRANDE CHAPTER, D.A.R.McAllen, Pharr, San Juan, Alamo

Greetings fromSAMUEL PAUL DIN KINS CHAPTER

Kilgore, TexasGreetings from

SARAH ROBINSON ERWIN CHAPTERBreckenridge, Texas

Greetings fromWILLIAM SCOTT CHAPTER, D.A.R.

Bryan, Texas

George Washington

Colonial Soldier

(Continued from page 68)

and to ready himself for his destinyat the age of 43.

Indeed, a study of the career ofGeorge Washington, Colonial soldier,does reveal the fact that this periodof service, which he began as a novicewith only the military tradition ofhis people and a deep love for it ashis only equipment, was the fertilesoil in which grew the germs thatflowered so strikingly in the afteryears. Napoleon could claim the effi-cient cadetship at Brienne and thePoole Militaire at Paris; Marlboroughhad the Duke of York as his mentor;Wellington could boast of his train-

MARTHA LAIRD CHAPTER, D.A.Fl.\It. Pleasant, Tt

Mrs. W. F. Taylor (Nina Effie Taylor)Martha Laird Chapter, Mt. Pleasant, Texas

Honors Revolutionary AncestorHenry Skiles, Pennsylvania

In MemoriamTHOMAS WATERS 1881-1959

from his daughter—Mrs. .1. R. Moore, Omaha, Texas

In MemoriamADDIE HIGHTOWER CAMPBELL

1877-1960Winnsboro, Texas

MARY JANE DAVIS LIDEDec. 22, 1869-Oct. 3, 1958

Martha Laird ChapterMt. Pleasant, Texas

ing at Eton and the discipline of themilitary college at Angers; Grant,Lee, and Jackson were products ofthe United States Military Academyat West Point; but George Washing-ton was educated on forest trails withsavage Indians lurking in the under-brush, in his headquarters with face-to-f ace opposition from ambitious,subordinate inefficiency, and Govern-ment interference and pettiness, andon the line of march and in the heatof battle by the obstructionism oflesser minds.

Yet that Colonial training was ameans of fitting him for the dire con-ditions of Valley Forge and Morris-town, for the skillful maneuvering ofhis troops at Trenton and Princeton,for meeting the treason of an Arnoldand the chicanery of a Conway, forthe humility of defeat at the Brandy-wine and the mastery at Monmouth,and for the necessary cooperationwith foreign allies, especially theFrench at Yorktown.

In conclusion, well has DouglasSouthall Freeman said of him,2

While some of the young planters . . .had crossed the Atlantic to the universitiesand to the Inns of Court, he had been at-tending the difficult schools of the soldier.Often he complained of the poverty of itsresources and many times he threatened toleave it; but he adhered to its curriculumbecause he loved the life and because bothits exactions and its rewards had chal-lenged the deep impulses of his soul.

June 16, 1775, was Col. GeorgeWashington's graduation day. Withhis commission as General of theContinental Army, he went to hisgreat task; just ahead were Dorches-ter Heights, Long Island, Trenton,Princeton, Morristown, Brandywine,Valley Forge, Monmouth, Yorktown.Out of the crucible of war was borna Flag with 13 stripes and 13 stars,a new Nation.

°Freeman, D. S., George Washington, Vol. 2,p. 368.

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Greetings fromAlamo Chapter, San Antonio, Texas

Home of "The Alamo"

The Executive Board of ALAMO CHAPTER, San Antonio, Texas

Honor Their Revolutionary Ancestors

Regent Mrs. R. H. Parkinson (Lillian Cotton)... Nathaniel Montague, Mass.

First Vice Regent Mrs. F. W. Huntington (Barbara Smith). . Brig. Gen. Geo. Stillman, Conn.

Second Vice Regent. . . .Mrs. Desmond J. Farrell (Vera Kiech)...

Chaplain

Jacob Tucker H, N. H.

Mrs. Loyd J. White (Beatrice Noble) Capt. John McMurtry, Va.

Rec. Secretary Mrs. Gerald G. Henning (AdaHemingway) Nathaniel Garfield, Mass.

Cor. Secretary Mrs. R. A. Thompson, Jr. (RobertaBlackwell) Augustine Jennings, Va.

Treasurer Mrs. H. B. Rains (Laura Morgan) Colbum Barrelle, Mass.

Registrar Mrs. James M. Ryan (Frances Beckett). . John Logan, Pa.

Historian Mrs. Lewis Turtle (Maida Davis)

Press Reporter Mrs. Mark Upson (Ola Crews)

Librarian Mrs. Lucy Mae Hastings Matthews

Directors

Parliamentarian

Col. John Smith, Jr., N. C.

David Crews, Sr., Va. & Ky.

Arthur Galbraith, Va.

Mrs. A. W. Holden (Henrietta Greer)._ 1st Lt. Nathaniel Anderson, Va

Mrs. J. C. Trueheart (Alma Shafer) Samuel Harper, Sr., Pa.

Mrs. Thos. R. Lentz (Mattie Wallace). .. . John Foard, N. C.

Immediate Past Regent. Mrs. K. J. Montgomery (Leone Grigsby). John Grigsby, Va.

Change of Address

Any change of address for a D.A.R.Magazine subscriber should reach theMagazine Office six weeks in advanceto avoid loss of magazines. Give boththe OLD and the NEW addresses.Please include your ZONE numbereach time you send a subscription—also name of your chapter.

With the Chapters(Continued from page 97)

Lt. Col. James McCall is the ancestorwho qualified the six new members forentrance into Abigail Wright ChamberlinChapter. He led South Carolina troopsfrom 1771 to 1780. The McCalls wereScotch Presbyterians who first came toPennsylvania, then Virginia, then SouthCarolina. They were accompanied by theCalhoun and Harris families. A D.A.R.chapter in Washington, D. C., is namedfor Col. James McCall.The sextet of new members includes

Mrs. Augusta Stanley Adams, HonoraryState Regent of Georgia; Mrs. FrancisHolmes, her daughter; Mrs. Edward L.Beach and Mrs. Jack L. Graves, hergranddaughters; Mrs. Logan E. Owen, herniece; and Mrs. Nelson Rutledge, hergrandniece. The four older women men-tioned above were born in or near Dub-lin, Ga.; now they and their children (10in all) are living within 35 miles of Mel-bourne.—Logan Owen, Jr.

(Continued on page 128)

Honoring Mrs. C. C. Adams, RegentAARON BURLESON CHAPTER, D.A.R.

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Huntsville, Texas

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FEBRUARY 1961

Chapter Officers

Mrs. Douglas F. Edman (Georgia Bingle)James Harris, Jr., Md.

Mrs. Thomas E. Hand (Eloise Wallace)Col. John Lindsey, S.C.

Mrs. Dale C. Cheesman (Margaret Way)Samuel Boynton, N.H.

Mrs. Mayo J. Thompson (Priscilla Bruce)Thomas Cook, N.C.

Mrs. Willis C. Cameron (Margaret Davis)Capt. James Wahab (Walkup), N.Y.

Mrs. C. W. Alcorn (Lexey Cragin)John Cragin, N.H.

Mrs. J. W. Lynch (Katherine McNair)David Ball, Va.

Mrs. W. Bartles Gillespy (Jeannine Myers)Neil Morrison, N.C.

Mrs. Carl E. Brown (Christine Pierce)William Morris, W.Va.

Mrs. James W. Cherry (Kathleen Slaughter)Levi Cheney, R.I.

Mrs. Ray M. Welch (Helen Mason)Col. Chas. Rumsey, Md.

Mrs. Robert F. Peden (Laura Phillips)Lt. Chas. Womack, Va.

Mrs. Clifford B. Ray (Marguerite Buford)Kerenhappuck N. Turner, N.C.

Mrs. M. F. Clegg (Zubie Dunn)Thomas Young, N.C.Col. Josiah Dunn, Ga.

Contributing MembersMrs. Lee Scarpinato (Helen F. McNair)

David Ball, Va.Mrs. C. B. McKinney (Charlotte Lege)

Capt. Aaron Hill, N.C.Mrs. C. F. Hardy (Martha McCutchan)

Edward Morris, Va.Mrs. T. H. Black, Jr. (Maybelle Dorworth)

Nicholas Vansant, Pa.Mrs. Mary Pearl Cole

Capt. John Young, Va.Mrs. V. C. McNamee (Mary Harrison)

David Boyd, S.C.Mrs. R. J. Mason (Virginia Hollifield)

Edward Burgess, 'Va.Mrs. J. Phillip Bishop (Helen Barnes)

George Reed, Ga.Mrs. J. M. Hall (Leila McGheY)

Wm. McGhey, Va.

LADY WASHINGTON CHAPTERHOUSTON, TEXAS

Dedicated to JANE E. BARROWNational Chairman Overseas Chapters

Miss Frances PattonPaul Carrington, Va.

Mrs. W. B. Bates (Mary Estill Dorsey)Col. Richard Callaway, Ky.

Mrs. J. Frank Hairston (Mary Godman)John Stark, a.

Mrs. W. R. Martin Sr.,

eElizabeth Whitesides)David Boyd, S.C.

Mrs. A. H. Lichty (Ruth Herndon Murray)Joseph Herndon, Va.

Mrs. Joseph W. Barbour (Barbara FergusonReynolds)

Samuel Ferguson, Pa.Mrs. Richard W. Freeman (Eleanor Briggs)

John Pound, NJ.Mrs. Carl 0. Bue, Jr. (Mary Waring)

Stephen Bennett, Conn.Mrs. H .E. Mayhew (Edith McCarver)

Rev. Joseph Harrison, Va.Mrs. Bernard Mazow (Mary Louise Tinnin)

Thomas Machen, N.C.Mrs. B. M. Mason (Georgiana Rogers)

John Brightman, R.I.Mrs. Carl F. Stuebing (Cecile F. Loomis)

Capt. John Bucklin, R.I.Mrs. C. F. Jewett (Lillian Kimpton)

Capt. Hugh Logan, Ky.Mrs. Wilmer M. Stevenson (Charlotte Darragh)

John Hart, NJ.Mrs. Alice Sweet Ewing Vail

Col. Alexander Osborne, N.C.Mrs. Clarence L. Mims (Mary Shannon)

Capt. Kedar Ballard, N.C.Mrs. Joseph D. Shaeffer (Fredi Rodgers)

John Brown, S.C.Mrs. Roderick C. Ward (Elizabeth Collett)

Isaac Avery, N.C.Mrs. Wm. DeWitt Kunze (Pauline Jackson)

Maj. Henry T. Young, Sr., N.C.Mrs. Sam H. Jackson (Maggie Lee)

Maj. Henry Young, Sr., N.C.Miss Catherine Jackson

Maj. Henry Young, Sr., N.C.Mrs. D. Collins Davis (Bertha Alley)

Rev. John Atkinson, Va.Mrs. J. W. Martin (Annie Best)

Aquilla Kimball, Mass.Mrs. Phillip M. Pappas (Gwen Bennett)

Thomas Brooke, Md.Mrs. Edwin M. Wise (Elizabeth Adams)

John Bright, Pa.

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(Continued from page 92)Whereas the more fully we understand and

appreciate our history and heritage the more

we will be able to prove worthy of it; and

Whereas the need was never more acute

for encouraging study and recognition of the

greatness that is America: Therefore be it

Resolved by the Senate and House of Rep-

resentatives of the United States of America

in Congress assembled, That February of

each year is hereby designated as American

History Month, and the President of the

United States is requested and authorized

to issue annually a proclamation inviting the

people of the United States to observe such

month in schools, churches, and other suit-

able places with appropriate ceremonies and

activities.

George Washington

(Continued from page 70)

America who have lacked fidelity toour institutions. There are a few nowand they are intellectually under thedomination of a foreign ideology.No one lacking fidelity or loyalty

to our republican institutions shouldbe entrusted with any office either ci-vilian or military. This fidelity or loy-alty cannot be developed by merepomp and ceremony or by clever useof flags, music, pledges or slogans.Neither can we assume that loyalty

Honoring

MRS. MICHAEL DAVIS(Gladys McQuatters)

Regent, 01' Shavano Chapter, D.A.R.

San Antonio, Texas

is an inherited trait. It must be cul-tivated by positive instruction con-tinued over an indefinite future.Everyone should be taught the princi-ples which have shaped United Stateshistory and the armed forces have arole to play in this themselves.The importance of instruction in

United States history is well illus-trated in the report of a military his-torian who examined former prison-ers of war after the Korean conflict.He has reported that all who success-fully resisted the communist enemy'sefforts to break them down "unani-mously placed the knowledge ofAmerican history uppermost."At last the armed forces have rec-

ognized the importance of teachingAmerican history. The instruction atWest Point and in the ROTC nowincludes a course in American mili-tary history and the training of en-listed men also touches upon Ameri-can military history. If continued thisinstruction should stimulate loyaltyto our institutions. But this instruc-tion must be carried on indefinitely.Each new generation must learn andunderstand the story if Americanleadership is to preserve the wonder-ful heritage left by Washington andmany other leaders of the past.

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SAN ANTONIO DE BEXAR CHAPTER was organized Decemberwho fought and died for our freedom.

NameBallard, Mrs. A. L. (Lorena Carroll)

Barry, Mrs. L. K. (Mary Elizabeth Groesbeeck) Beckelmann, Mrs. Howard D. (Francis Kroeger)Beckmann, Mrs. Kurt (Mary Louise Price)Bessonette, Mrs. Van K. (Lilla Bertrand)Black, Mrs. William A. (Dorothy Sparkman)

Burch, Miss Agnes AnnCameron, Mrs. Robert (Hazel Henning) Carter, Mrs. Luther (Dora Jo Smith) Chipley, Miss Nan Elizabeth Chipley, Miss Sue RiversClark, Mrs. James H. (Lorena Hassell) Clark, Mrs. Sylvester (Adelaide McClellan)Coppock. Mrs. E. R. (Cornelia Kate Chittenden) Crockett, Mrs. Roy H. (Vernon Richardson) Dorsch, Mrs. Russell F. (Mary Weatherall) Givens, Mrs. James Douglas (Annabel Mosley)Hill, Mrs. H. Phil (Nonye Knott Aycock)Kirkham, Mrs. F. T. (Elizabeth Chandler)McGary, Mrs. Emmett A. (Khadijah Grant)Mitchell, Mrs. John (Zoe Scovill)

11, 1902. We, the following members, wish to honor our Revolutionary Ancestors

Ancestor StateAnger Price VirginiaLittleton Long North Carolina„John D. Grosbeeck New York

Hon. James Fisk MassachusettsPennsylvania

Virginia Virginia Tennessee, Pennsylvania

North Carolina Maryland

Capt. Nathaniel Irish Shadrack Cayce, Sr.

George DillardWm. PearsonWm. Gilbert, Ga.

Hon. Robert GoldsboroughJohn Paul Barringer North CarolinaJames Kendrick North CarolinaHon. Robert Goldsborough Maryland

Hon. Robert Goldsborough MarylandJohn Waddell Tennessee

John Wilson North CarolinaCapt. Jairus Chittenden ConnecticutMalcolm McCoury New JerseySamuel Watt South Carolina

Col. Philip Alston North Carolina Richard Bennett North Carolina Col. Joseph Williams North Carolina

John Grant Massachusetts Joseph Reyburn Virginia

Peacock, Mrs. Wesley (Edith Wing) John Rice, Jr. New YorkCol. John Rice New York

Pickett, Mrs. Herbert (Elisa Ammann) Dr. Robert Hall VirginiaRote, Mrs. Gerard T. (Mary Margot Glaze) Daniel Read MassachusettsSchiffers, Mrs. Henry (Marion Harrison) Col. John Mitchell South CarolinaSullivan, Mrs. Edward D. (Eileen Flanigan) Philip Rothrock PennsylvaniaSpreen, Mrs. W. J. (Francis Easley) George Teeter, Jr. Virginia

John Justus Henckel, Sr. VirginiaSteinmann, Mrs. W. A. (Anne Schleicher) Richard Wells, Sr. VirginiaStowe, Mrs. George W. (Ethel Van Ness) Johannes Van Ness Williams, Mrs. Alford (Cora Greer) Hendrick H. Banta, Sr.

Lawrence DeMottWilliams, Mrs. D. H. (Anna Greer) Richard Keele

New York Pennsylvania New Jersey Virginia

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National Vice Chairman, D.A. R., C.A. R. Committee, and Senior

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The battle against filth is a seriousone—as serious as selling dope to chil-dren. As the mother of four children,three of whom are teenagers, I knowthe importance of this.

Obscene material is being spreadacross the United States in variousforms—films, playing cards, comicbooks, photographs, and magazines. Itis our responsibility, and we can helpclear the field. Voluntary cooperationis needed now.Former Postmaster General Arthur

E. Summerfield has informed the pub-lic by radio and TV programs—alsohas sent out all forms of material tomagazines, newspapers, women's clubsetc. Now it is the job of parents, es-pecially mothers, to carry on this task.If your son wants to send off moneyfor a book, or a model car, check itfirst. There are companies that turnover their mailing lists to others, andin this way your son may get what heordered and a lot more that you wouldnot want him to read or see.

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against depravity is past. Although thisdespicable trade reaps 500 million dollarsa year, this diabolical business is costingthe Nation much more than money. It isrobbing our country and particularly ouryounger generation of decency—it is aseedbed for deliquency among juvenilesand depravity among all ages.

Mr. Hoover further states:This truly shocking and shameful state

of affairs [referring to forcible rape,which in this country in 1958 occurredevery 36 minutes] is made even more de-plorable by the knowledge that sex crimesand obscene and vulgar literature often gohand in hand.

Persons convicted under today's ob-scenity laws receive small fines andshort terms in prison, which in no way

(Continued on page 157)

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JAMES CAMPBELL CHAPTER, D.A.R.

Dallas, Texas

The following members proudly honor

Name

Alvis, Mrs. W. 0. (Jane Agnes McGuire)Andrews, Mrs. James Ray, Sr. (Mary Croft Smith)

Baldwin, Mrs. Willett F. (Lucie Hester McMurry)Boatwright, Mrs. Rene (Ore11 Kangerga)Bright, Mrs. Christopher R. (Rebecca E. Van Ness)Cassling, Mrs. Carl E. (Eva Heard)Childre, Mrs. H. Thad (Ilene Morris)Crook, Mrs. Wilson W., Sr. (Travis Cottrell)Ferguson, Mrs. Ted B. (Ellen Carpenter)Fink, Mrs. Frederick (Nancy McKnight)Grosse, Mrs. Alfred C. (Virginia Fay Wiseman)Haverstock, Mrs. John D. (Imo Smith)Holland, Mrs. Weaver E. (Winfred Adams)Hudson, Mrs. Ernest (Virginia Hubbard)

Hudspeth, Mrs. Albert E. (Leta Skiles)Kilgore, Mrs. Donald (Gladys Watson)Lamb, Mrs. Warren V. (Hope Kilgore)Lockett, Mrs. P. C. (Fanny Hunt)Madole, Mrs. Ross (Rebecca Elizabeth Bright)Martin, Mrs. William C. (Sally Beene)Massey, Mrs. Tom (Sarah Lee Cabell)McCarthy, Mrs. Harry B. (Helen Knowles)Morrow, Mrs. Frank S. (Ethel Goodfellow)

Muire, Mrs. Forest H. (Dorothy Stacy)Plyer, Mrs. Alfred H. (Stella Williams)Smith, Mrs. Joseph R., III (Helen Gibson)Sowell, Mrs. Thomas W. (Lillian Gladney Kangerga)Starnes, Mrs. Kenneth D. (Mary Verne Moorman)Tips, Mrs. Craig Adams (Ruth Ann Ratcliffe)Woolley, Mrs. B. W. (Lottie Plummer)Zuber, Mrs. Chas. B. (Mamie Goodman)

their Revolutionary Ancestors:

Ancestor State

Capt. Chas. WilliamsGeorge CroftJohn Archer ElmoreCapt. John WinstonDavid ReesePeter Baugh, Jr.Lt. Wm. Van NessLt. Chas. HeardSgt. Martin PalmerCapt. Patrick EwingPvt. Daniel McMahonCapt. James StephensonSgt. Henry RichardsNathaniel BabcockThomas AdamsMaj. Thomas HubbardEns. Thomas MilianJames CampbellCol. Fielding LewisCapt. William WalkerAsh EmisonLt. Wm. Van NessSamuel ReavisCo!. Joseph Cabe111st Lt. Levin BespichPvt. Moses BuckalowGoodfellow

Capt. John PiercePvt. Charles SpanglerCapt. John DickersonPeter Baugh, Jr.Ens. Obediah TrimmierPvt. Leonard WathenPvt. Richard PlummerCol. Samuel McDowell

VirginiaSouth CarolinaVirginiaVirginiaNorth CarolinaVirginiaNew YorkSouth CarolinaVirginiaMarylandNorth CarolinaSouth CarolinaVirginiaConnecticutVirginiaVirginiaVirginiaNew YorkVirginiaVirginiaPennsylvaniaNew YorkNorth CarolinaVirginiaMarylandNew York

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varied projects and can be countedupon to continue its good work topromote the growth of the NationalSociety and to further its aims andobjectives.

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The following members of General Levi Casey Chapter wish to honor their Revolutionary ancestors who helped to win AmericanIndependence

1. Ames, Mrs. Ellis D. (Sarah Yantis)Pvt. Jacob Yantis, Pennsylvania

2. Anderson, Miss Annell FrancesAlexander Hamilton, New York

3. Austin, Florence MariePvt. William McDaniel, Maryland

4. Beckham, Mrs. Ennes Bascom (Annie Laurie Lewis)Major William Lightfoot, Virginia

5. Colwell, Mrs. Dennis G. (Ellen Boone Shelton)Brig. Gen. Levi Casey, South Carolina

6. Ferguson, Mrs. Charles L. (Eula Jeane Lander)Patriot J. Strode. Sr., Virginia & Kentucky

7. Greer, Mrs. Emily Butler (L.J.)Major Peter Norton, Massachusetts

8. Griffin, Mrs. Cecil D. (Dorothy Lucille Trout)Pvt. Daniel Trout, Virginia

9. Hagard, Miss Nettie MayNathaniel Hagard, Virginia

10. Hargan, Mrs. LaDelle W. (LaDelle Warren)Martin Warren, Virginia

11. Harmon, Mrs. Henry (Johnnie Kathleen Lewis)Major William Lightfoot, Virginia

12. Harrington, Rebecca IreneCol. George Baylor, Virginia

13. Hazzard, Mrs. Donald G. (Willie Jewell Duncan)Pvt. William Duncan, Virginia

14. Herman, Mrs. Billy Ray (Mary Anne Harmon)Major William Lightfoot, Virginia

15. Latimer, Mrs. John B. (Jessie Lee Ransower)Henry Fitzhugh, Virginia

16. Lewis, Miss Ethel IreneMajor William Lightfoot, Virginia

17. Lewis. Miss Mary HazelMajor William Lightfoot, Virginia

18. Lofton, Mrs. Guy E. (Mary Mable Stemple)Isaac Pierce Barber, Massachusetts

19. Lutrell, Mrs. James D., Sr. (Lela Frances Harrington)William Edmunds, Virginia

20. McGowan, Mrs. Charles (Dorothy Mae Davis)Pvt. Henry Weist, Pennsylvania

21. Murphree, Mrs. G. H. (Grace Simpson)James Lord, III, Litchfield, Maine

22. Palmer, Mrs. Lorene Lewis (Lorene Lewis)Major William Lightfoot, Virginia

23. Price, Mrs. Tom M. (Rosa Lee Kitchen)Captain Benjamin Kitchen, Virginia

24. Reiser, Mrs. Lewis W. (Thomasina Messer)Pvt. Christopher Horn, Pennsylvania

25. Ripley, Mrs. George A. (Katie Tucker Rice)Lt. Henry Grider, Pa. & Kentucky

26. Scales, Miss Charlotte DaltonPvt. Daniel McKinney, Virginia

27. Scales, Mrs. Dalton (Leta Garver)Pvt. Daniel McKinney, Virginia

28. Schieffer, Mrs. Edwin C. (Buena Vista LaGow)Pvt. John Carmichael, Pennsylvania

29. Shelton, Miss Minerva CatherineBrig. Gen. Levi Casey, South Carolina

30. Shoecraft, Mrs. Warren A. (Emily Bess Greer)Major Peter Norton, Massachusetts

31. Tuck. Mrs. Edward Fenton (Jeanette Florence Lewis)Major William Lightfoot, Virginia

32. Ware, Mrs. Frank E. (Lillian Juanita Orr)Pvt. James Orr, Virginia

33. Wiesenborn, Mrs. Otto L. (Mary Z.)Major Reubin Corburn, Me. & Mass.

34. Williams, Mrs. Stanley Albert (Edith Ellen Lewis)Major William Lightfoot, Virginia

35. Williamson, Miss Carrie ElizabethWilliam Goode, Virginia

DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION MAGAZINE

Presidio La Bahia—Fort De-

fiance — has been historically

known since 1722. La Bahia,

Mission Espirito Santo, and

Nuestra Senora del Rosari were

established under Spanish pro-

tection in 1749 here in Goliad.

Mission La Bahia is still used

today for religious purposes.

The Mission Espirito Santo was

restored during the nineteen

thirties. Only the ruins of Mis-

sion Rosario remain today.

Many battles for the control

of historic La Bahia have been

fought and six flags have flown

over this fort. The flag of Goliad

is said to have been the first flag

of Texas Independence. Thisflag is a banner of seven red and

six white stripes with a large

field of blue. On its field of blue

are a bared arm and sword, and

on the middle white stripe is in-scribed the word "INDEPEND-

ENCE".

Goliad was an important mili-tary objective throughout theperiod of the Texas Revolution.

It was the scene of repeated at-

tacks and defenses. Mission LaBahia located a short distancesouth of the San Antonio Riveris the presidio where ColonelFannin and his men were heldunder guard before their massslaughter. The slaying of Fanninand his men after their surren-der at the battle with Mexicanforces on the banks of ColetoCreek generated a fury thatdrove the Texas Army underGeneral Sam Houston to the culminating victory at San Jacinto. "REMEMBER GOLIAD" and "REMEMBER ALAMO"

were the battle cries of the San Jacinto fight.

This page is dedicated to the memory of Colonel James W. Fannin Jr., and his valiant men who fellwith him, Palm Sunday, March 27, 1836.

NUESTRA SENORA

LA BAHIA, FORT DEFIANCE, GOLIAD, TEXAS

Close by La Bahia is the burial ground of the slain heroes, 330 of them put to death. Above their mass grave is a large

memorial structure erected in their honor by the State as part of the State's observance of the centennial of TEXAS IN-

DEPENDENCE.

THE GUADALUPE VICTORIA CHAPTER, DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, VICTORIA,

TEXAS, expressed their gratitude to The First National Bank of Goliad, to the ladies of The Goliad County Historical

Society, and the two ladies of Berclair, Goliad County, for their generous contributions that made it possible to present

this memorial page in this special Texas issue which is sponsored by the Texas D.A.R. Daughters. The Governor of the

state has designated the month of February as "Texas History Month."

Come, Visit Our City and Its Historic Missions.

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THE ELECTORAL COLLEGEby Gertrude A. MacPeek

National Chairman, DAR Magazine Committee

SINCE November 8, the press andpeople in general have been

voicing concern about the ElectoralCollege. "It should be done awaywith." "It should be reformed." "Weshould have direct vote by the peo-ple." "We should have a proportionalvote." "This was a good system inthe horse-and-buggy days, but weought to bring it up to date."The Wall Street Journal com-

mented:This system works remarkably well . . .

Abolishing it would be one more blow atthe Federal structure, one more step to-ward centralization of power in the Na-tional Government.

The Christian Science Monitorstates that:A bill of this intent will almost cer-

tainly come before Congress next year.Whether it gains the necessary two-thirdsvotes of both houses will depend largelyupon the determination of voters to writetheir Congressmen then with as much fer-vor as they answered Gallup pollsters now.

The November Gallup Poll showsthat 50 percent of the public favorsa change of the system for electingPresidents and only 28 percent favorsretention of the present State-winner-take-all approach.

Before we start writing letters toeditors and Congressmen and join inthe press barrage, let's take anotherlook and do some individual thinking.

This election was the closest since1876; but if proportional voting hadbeen the rule, the result would havebeen the same, although the electoralvotes would have been closer.Our Founding Fathers had difficul-

ty in determining how the Presidentwas to be elected. There were nopolitical parties; the vote was for theman. More than 30 distinct voteswere taken upon methods by whichto choose a President.

Gouverneur Morris and a fewother delegates wanted direct electionby the people but aroused little en-thusiasm, because most believed thatthe voters, scattered thinly over whatseemed to be a large area, would beunable to inform themselves aboutthe candidates as communication wasslow or nonexistent. The delegatesof small States thought that the largerStates would have too great an ad-

vantage, and it was feared that directpopular election would result in thetriumph of demagogues—those speak-ers who make capital of social dis-content to gain political influence.

Development of the Electoral College

Election by the Congress was wide-ly favored, especially by those whobelieved that the President was merelyan officer to execute the laws madeby the Congress. This plan was twiceadopted—once unanimously. But theidea grew that there should be abalance of power between the Con-gress and the Executive which couldnot be maintained if the Presidentwere to be elected by the Congress;hence ideas turned to a plan of elec-tion by the people, not directly, butthrough representatives of the Statesmeeting as an Electoral College.

Alexander Hamilton borrowed theidea from Maryland, which, by itsConstitution of 1776, had a body ofelectors who, every 5 years, chosethe members of its upper branch ofthe Legislature. It was expected thatthe electors would be the most cap-able, far-seeing, and trustworthy menin their States. Every elector was tobe a free agent, deciding for himselfwhich candidate was best qualified.The scheme worked in 1789 and in

1792, when every elector wroteWashington's name on his ballot. In1796, 13 men received votes; and in1800, every elector but one wrotedown the names of Jefferson, Burr,Adams, or Pinckney. By this timetwo distinct political parties hadevolved, and each took steps in ad-vance of the election to sell its candi-dates to the people. This defeatedthe purpose of the Electoral Collegeas it existed, because, instead of ex-ercising independent judgment, theelectors merely certified the wishesof the people in their States. Theelection was a tie between Jeffersonand Burr. Jefferson was a narrowwinner in the Electoral College. Thissituation resulted in the 12th amend-ment, adopted in 1804, providing thathereafter the electors should namethe person voted as President andalso the person voted as Vice Presi-dent.

Close Elections in the Past

In 1824, in a spirited contest, therewere four candidates, none receivinga majority. Andrew Jackson polledthe highest popular vote; John Quin-cy Adams, second highest; HenryClay finished a poor third, and W. H.Crawford was fourth. In the HouseClay swung his votes to Adams andbecame his Secretary of State. How-ever, in 1828 and 1832, AndrewJackson came back to win both thepopular and electoral majorities.There have been other times. In

1876 Tilden won 184 undisputedelectoral votes, Hayes 164. But fromfour States with 21 electoral votes—Oregon, Florida, South Carolina andLouisiana—came conflicting returns,Tilden lacked one vote for a majority,which meant that if any of theseStates swung his way, he was elected.The Senate was Republican; theHouse was Democratic; and the rulesrequired that no electoral vote whosevalidity was questioned should becounted, unless the two houses, act-ing separately, should concur. Thiswas a hopeless situation, so the rulewas repealed; and, after much con-troversy, an electoral commission offive senators, five representatives andfive justices of the Supreme Courtwas created to examine and to decidethe disputes. It so happened that therewere eight Republicans and sevenDemocrats, and every contest was de-cided for Hayes, a Republican whowas declared elected without a voteto spare! The country did not knowuntil 2 days before the scheduled in-augural who the President was to be.Perhaps the Kennedy-Nixon electionis the closest to this situation.

Preservation of theTwo-Party System

The argument for reforming theElectoral College is made to encour-age the growth of a responsible two-party system in all States. One pointis cited that "Why be a Democrat inVermont or a Republican in Georgia?Your vote doesn't count, as the mi-nority vote is so small it carries noweight." Well—why doesn't the mi-nority group attempt to get some at-tractive candidiates, and organize andsell its party in those States, insteadof accepting a defeatist attitude?Under the present winner-take-allsystem, it is said that tightly organizedethnic minority groups wield power

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Honoring

MRS. RICHARD E. LIPSCOMB

State Regent of South Carolina

South Carolina Daughters proudly and affectionately dedicate this page to the

State Society's distinguished Daughter, Margaret Smith Lipscomb, candidate for

Vice President General, April 1961.

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PEE DEE CHAPTER, D.A.R., BENNETTSVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA

BENNETTSVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA

Compliments of

H. J. MUNNERLYN, INC.Building Material

Bennettsville, S. C.

FARRON'S COURTand

DINING ROOM

Quiet Zone—

One Block Off Truck Route

Air Conditioned

Electric Heat

Room Phones & T.V.'s

Serving

"FOOD YOU DON'T FORGET"

U.S. Highways 15 & 401

Bennettsville, S. C.

HOTEL POWERS

In the Heart of the City

Steam Heat

Air Conditioning

Bennettsville, S. C.

Compliments of

Bennettsville Moteland

BRANDIN' IRON RESTAURANT

Highways 15 & 401

Bennettsville, S. C.

eitbie#14

Stale Ba44Bennettsville South Carolina

BANK WITH US—BANK ON US

Compliments

of

CITY

Bennettsville, S. C.

C. L. McCORMAC, Mayor

Compliments of

MARLBORO TRUST COMPANY

Bennettsville, South Carolina

Banking and Insurance Since 1919

Honoring

PAST STATE OFFICERS

SOUTH CAROLINA D.A.R.

of

PEE DEE CHAPTER

Bennettsville, S. C.

Compliments

of

J. P. STEVENS& CO., Inc.

DELTA FINISHING DIVISION

WALLACE

SOUTH CAROLINA

3inc 36t‘ric3 Since 1813

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DANIEL MORGAN CHAPTER, D.A.R. GAFFNEY, S. C.

LIMESTONE COLLEGE

The Administration Hall shown above is one of the buildings on the beautiful campus of Limestone College in Gaffney, South

Carolina.

This college for women, established in 1845 by Dr. Thomas Curtis, eminent Oxford University scholar and minister, assisted

by his son. Dr. William Curtis, is a fully accredited four-year liberal arts college located in the unrivalled Piedmont section of the

Blue Ridge Mountains, with accommodations for 450 students.

The charming old school has had a high intellectual and cultural tone from its beginning, and continues to provide a sound

progressive educational program designed to prepare young worn en to accept the responsibilities and the privileges of leadership

in a changing social order.

The building in the background of the above picture is the Cooper Dormitory, named for the great New York philanthropist,

founder of Cooper Union in New York City, who was one of the benefactors of Limestone College.

Courtesy ofMerchants and Planters National Bank

Piedmont Federal Savings & Loan Assn.

Bank of Gaffney

Musgrove Mill

Gettys Lumber Co.

Community Cash Co.Cherokee Lumber Co.Keller Pontiac Co.

A. P. McAuley Co. Inc.

Campbell Limestone Co.

C. B. Poole, Inc.

Coca-Cola Bottling Co.

Winn-Dixie Store

Peoples Drug Store

Shuford Hatcher Funeral Home

E. H. Jones Jewelers

City PharmacyDeCamp Publishing Co.

Poole Chevrolet Co.

FEBRUARY 1961[ 123 ]

Old Ninety-Six District Chapter D.A.R., of Edgefield, South Carolina

is grateful to the following Sponsors

THE RIDGE CITIZEN,

Printers and Publishers,

Johnston, S. C.

SATCHER MOTORS,

Dealer in Ford Cars and Trucks,

Johnston, S. C.

FEAGLE MOTOR CO.,

Johnston, S. C.

RIDGE BANKING CO.,

Johnston, S. C.

GULF OIL CORP.,

Gulf Distributor, Johnston, S. C.

EDWARDS OIL CO.,

Texaco Distributor, Johnston, S. C.

RIDGE GAS AND OIL,

Esso Products, Johnston, S. C.

V. E. EDWARDS & BRO.,

Hardware, Johnston, S. C.

PARKMAN MOTEL,

Augusta Road, Johnston, S. C.

JOHNSTON FLOUR MILL,

Johnston, S. C.

HART WHOLESALE GROCERY CO.,

Johnston, S. C.

PENDARVIS CHEVROLET CO.,

Edgefield, S. C.

J. RAYMOND FOLK, ATTY.,

Edgefield, S. C.

ALFORD GINNERY,

Edgefield, S. C.

QUALITY SHOP,

Edgefield, S. C.

JOHNSTON PETROLEUM CARRIERS, THE BANK OF TRENTON,

Augusta Road, Johnston, S. C. Trenton, S. C.

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• CHARLOTTE, N C

THE WOODPECKER I TRAIL

A SHORT ROUTE TO FLORIDA .THROUGH

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Landsford Canal—first step in RobertMills ill-fated dream to span a con-

tinent by water

• ROCK HILL, S. C.

CHESTERS.C.

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. . I \ oner, dismounted and appealed, in. . vain, to the citizens for help ‘Many Churches dating from 1752 with IV : .. .cemeteries and church yards

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Historical Attractions of Chester County

Courtesy of

• Belk-Hudson, Chester, S. C.

• Carolina Coca-Cola Bottling Co.

• The Chester Drug Co.

• Chester Seed and Feed

• The Chester Telephone Co.

• Coogler Oil Co.

• Davis Laundry and Dry Cleaning

• Duke Power Company

• Funderburk's Drug Store

• Kimbrell's

• Murray's Ladies Ready-To-Wear

• The Peoples National Bank ofChester

• Stone Insurance Agency, Inc.

• Shell Oil Company, Chester, S. C.

• Weir Oil Company

WAY N ES B ORO ,

Jones Residence of LewisA tavern where Aaron Burr spent

nightMETER, GA.

BLACKSHEAR , GA.

FOLKSTON , GA.

MAC CLENNY, FLA.

GAINESVILLE, FLA.

TARPON SPRINGS, FLA.

1 CLEARWATER, FLA.

Mary Adair Chapter

D.A.R.

Chester, South Carolina

ST. PETERSBURGH, FLA.

CHESTER COUNTY WITH ITS HEALTHY INDUSTRIAL CLIMATE EXTENDS A CORDIAL WELCOME TO INDUSTRY

BLUE SAVANNAH CHAPTERSouth Carolina Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, honors with pride her member, South

Carolina's State Regent and candidate for Vice President General,

MRS. RICHARD EDWARD LIPSCOMB

Her love for the work, her faithfulness to all duties, and her constant zeal for all D.A.R. goals make her an

outstanding Daughter and a worthy candidate.

For Home anti CountryBEHETHLAND BUTLER CHAPTER, D.A.R.

Greenville, S. C.

WHITE ROSE OIL CO.Perry Woods, Jr., OwnerGREENVILLE. S. C.

Compliments ofCATAWBA CHAPTER, D.A.R.

Rock Hill, South Carolina

Greetings from

CATEECHEE CHAPTER, D.A.R.Anderson, S. C.

Compliments ofCOWPENS CHAPTER, D.A.V.

Spartanburg, S. C.

MAJOR ROBERT LIDE CHAPTERHartsville, S. C.

SONOCOPRODUCTSCOMPANYMANUFACTURERS

of

Cones, Tubes

Cores, Spools

and Paper

Specialties

HARTS VILLE

SOUTH CAROLINA

A Foot-Note

No one has, as yet, submitted informationthat constitutes a valid claim to the Footsampler sent to the Magazine Office for safekeeping until a "rightful heir" is found.

Compliments ofFAIR FOREST CHAPTER, D.A.R.

Union, South Carolina

Compliments ofFORT PRINCE GEORGE CHAPTER, D.A.R.

Pickens, South Carolina

Ho,noring

MRS. EDGAR A. BROWN1911-1961

General John Barnwell Chapter, D.A.R.

BARNWELL, S. C.

Best WishesHUDSON BERRY CHAPTER, D.A.R.

Anderson. South Carolina

COLUMBIA CHAPTER, D.A.R.Columbia, South Carolina

Compliments ofWILLIAM SMITH & ASSOCIATES

Columbia, S. C.

Compliments

of

ATLANTICGREYHOUND LINES

STAR FORT CHAPTER, D.A.R.Greenwood, S. C.

Compliments ofCALD WELL GIFT SHOP

Greenwood, S. C.

Compliments ofGEORGE G. DAVIS COMPANY

Greenwood, S. C.

JAMES C. HEMPHILLArchitect

Greenwood, S. C.

J. B. WHARTONCOMPANY

Distinctive Ready-To-WearLadies - Children - Infants

GREENWOOD, SOUTH CAROLINA

LANDER COLLEGE

Four-year fully accredited Liberal Arts Collegefor women, enrollment limited, high scholasticstandards, excellent faculty, and home atmos-phere in a good community.

Help Us Save—Be An Early Bird!This can be done if you will send in yourrenewal well in advance of the expiration.

Greetings from thePETER HORRY CHAPTERof Conway. South Carolina

Greetings fromSAMUEL BACOT CHAPTER

Florence, South Carolina

Compliments ofSWAMP FOX CHAPTER. D.A.R.

Marion, South Carolina

HonoringMISS ALICE WALKER, Genealogist

Thomas Woodward Chapter, Winnsboro, S. C.

WALHALLA CHAPTER, D.A.R.Gateway to Tamassee

Walhalla, South Carolina

Compliments ofWAXHAWS CHAPTER

Lancaster, S. C.

POWER FOOD STORES, INC.2801 Devine St.Columbia, S. C.

CONGRESS CONCESSIONSEASE GIFT SHOPPING

By Pauline W. Bishop (Mrs. Henry F.),

In Charge of Concessions

Have you a list of loved ones to rememberwith gifts from your trip to Washington forD.A.R. Congress next April? Of course youhave, just like all other Congress-boundDaughters. So, the easy way to fill this needis to visit the Concession Committee's "shop-ping center" in the Ladies' Lounge on thelower level of Constitution Hall. You willfind there a pleasant variety of items—im-ports, coats of arms, heraldic jewelry, ceram-ics, dolls, handmade set jewelry, candies,charcoal etchings and oil paintings, books,stationery, flags, hosiery, and on and on,as well as the wares produced by Cross-nore, Hillside, and St. Mary's Indian School.We know you will be pleased with theseshopping opportunities so easily reached.

In addition, your purchases will help de-fray some of the expenses of Congress, sincethe rental fee and the 10 percent of salesand orders from concessionaires (except theD.A.R. schools and St. Mary's) are used forthis purpose. Three feet of rental space costs$10; at this rate the Concessions Committeecollected $282.50 last year. From the 10 per-cent commission on sales and orders, $562.09was earned, and the grand total was $844.59.This was most gratifying to everyone, andespecially to the Concessions Committee,whose efforts in planning and operating thecenter were many. They arranged the rentals,supplied copies of rules, provided admissioncards, and arranged parking spaces for theconcessionaires: they marked tables andchecked them frequently to collect sales slips,and helped man the concessions from earlymorning to late night.

Enthusiastic plans are under way for the1961 Congress, and the Committee hopeseveryone will plan to visit their "shoppingcenter" early in the week to see what isavailable and then come back often to fill allgift needs and fill the Committee's cashregisters to overflowing!

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Greetings From Woodruff, South Carolina

B. L. Barnett Jr.A. J. CoxWoodruff Chamber of CommerceWorkman CleanersJ. G. DarracottStinson Drugs0. E. Gilliland, Jr.

Carlisle GrayHall's Five & Ten

Woodruff's Colonial-Style home, built along the lines of Mt. Vernon, is more than 100 years old.Erected on a four acre lot, the house is surrounded by an old-fashioned garden which lends a touch ofbeauty to the site.

The Mary Musgrove Chapter, D.A.R., wishes to thank these sponsors:

Mrs. George S. Irby, Regent

Mrs. N. E. Cox, Chairman Advertising

W. E. HarrisonT. K. HowardMrs. Paul HundleyWoodruff Credit JewelersR. Vance LanfordBryan McAbeeLanford-Boyter MortuaryA. S. PearsonMr. and Mrs. E. C. PearsonW. H. Phillips

Reimer'sReid's Flower ShopRalph RogersCharles E. SmithWestern Auto AssociateWoodruff Supply Co.Wofford'sB. J. Workman, Jr.B. J. Workman, Sr.

Store

ADVERTISING

These are terrifically busy months in our Magazine Advertising Office, and you all canhelp us so much. How? By attaching the check in the amount for ADVERTISINGONLY to the ad order form and copy for the ad. PLEASE send the check, ad orderform, and copy to the Magazine Advertising Office, 1776 D St., N.W., Washington 6,D.C. Do not include payment for any item other than advertising in the check sent inpayment for advertising. Checks are made payable to the Treasurer General, N.S.D.A.R.but they are sent to our Office first. We then transfer them to the Office of the TreasurerGeneral.

Justina B. (Mrs. George J.) W'alzNational Chairman

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VISIT ORANGEBURG,SOUTH CAROLINA

EDISTO MEMORIAL GARDENS

THE EDISTO MOTELAND ORANGEBURGMOTOR COURT

Jack Nolen's Court Restaurant-Center

Ornageburg, S.C.—Ph. JE 4-7180

JACK NOLEN'S

COURT RESTAURANT

U. S. Highway

301 South-601 South

Orangeburg, South Carolina

BERRY'S ON THE HILL

Food—Different and Distinctive

Duncan Hines, Gourmet,

American Express, AAA

Phone JE 4-5275

U. S. Highway 301 South-601 South

Orangeburg, S. C.

PALMETTO MOTEL

U. S. Highway 301 South-601 South

Orangeburg, S. C.

R. L. CULLERREFRIGERATION

SERVICE

Orangeburg, S. C.

Sponsored by:

Moultrie Chapter, D.A.R.,

Orangeburg, S. C.

These merchants of Newberry, S. C.pay tribute to Jasper Chapter, D.A.R.,

for its service to the community:BELK-BEARD COMPANYNewberry, South Carolina

T. ROY SUMMER, INC.The Man's ShopNewberry, S. C.

PURCELL'SAuto Loans—Real Estate—Insurance

Newberry, S. C.

THE NEWBERRY OBSERVERAnd Herald & NewsNewberry, S. C.

KIRK PONTIAC-CADILLAC COMPANY2100 Nance StreetNewberry, S. C.

Compliments ofTHE SOUTH CAROLINA NATIONAL BANK

West Main Dillon, S. C.

EVANS PHARMACYPrompt and Courteous Service

West Main Dillon, S. C.

Compliments ofOCONEE ROLLER MILLS

Flour Meal FeedsSeneca, S. C.

OAKWAY GIN COMPANYDealers in

Cotton, Cotton Seed, FertilizerWestminster, S. C., R. F. D. 2SUMTER'S HOME CHAPTER, D.A.R.

Sumter. South Carolina

SOUTHERN PEST CONTROL313 N. Main Street

Sumter, S. C. Phone SP 3-3147Free estimate without obligationWe specialize in Termite control

UNION BAG-CAMP PAPER CORPORATIONDos 1965

Spartanburg, South Carolina

LA MOTTE'S RESTAURANT & DRIVE IN366 West Main Street

Spartanburg, South Carolina

With The Chapters(Continued from page 111)

Jacksonville (Jacksonville, Fla.). As itbegins its new season, Jacksonville Chap-ter, oldest and among the largest in Flori-da, looks back with pride on the achieve-ments of the past year. Our greatestobjectives have been National Defense andeducation.

Last year, in September, we were ableto place an article about our two D.A.R.Schools, Tamassee and Kate DuncanSmith, in the Florida Times-Union. Thiswas illustrated by a 3-inch-long, 4-column-wide photograph. We received an awardat the State Conference for this article, asit was about What the Daughters Do. Thisaward will now be a regular feature, tobe known as the Mae Stewart Award, asit was created by our recently elected VicePresident General, Mrs. Jackson E. Stew-art.

Also in September we conducted Con-stitution Week publicity. A well-framedpicture of the signing of the Constitutionwas presented to our County Board ofCommissioners by our regent, Mrs. Car-rington Barrs, and members of her board.This commission is housed in the CountyCourt House, so a two-column photographappeared in our biggest daily, the Times-Union; we were listed in the daily column,What's Doing in Jacksonville, and ap-peared on both television stations. Thuswe reminded the whole city of Jackson-ville that it was Constitution Week.Our program for the year included such

outstanding speakers as Don Bell, Gen.Sumpter Lowry, and George Stallings(Representative from Duval County to our

State Legislature). Generally our pro-grams were on National Defense subjects.

Last spring we were given the honor ofentertaining the Florida State Board.D.A.R. After the morning meeting, mem-bers of this board and our regent andState Historian were photographed read-ing from an old diary of 1776 in whichwere the words.

This day the last day of Liberty ifthe Stamp Act takes place. Long to beremembered.

A committee was formed a year ago tostudy Metro. After a year of study andresearch this committee made up a folderfor distribution, which has been very suc-cessful in educating people in regard tothis matter. We have been able to pindown actual results in the refusal of UrbanRenewal, in voting against merging, andin the decision of people to retain theirvoting rights. This chapter paid for thefirst 2,000 folders, distributed by the chair-man of the committee as an individual,and upon whom all responsibility lies.A third thousand was paid for by a dona-tion from the Katherine Livingston Chap-ter and a personal donation from a Jack-sonville Chapter member. Distribution wasmade through the president of the Demo-cratic Women's Club and the RepublicanWomen's Club. The Coalition of PatrioticSocieties in Tampa took 500 folders tomail over the State. We have had requestsfrom Palm Beach, Tampa, and Daytona,for this information as agents from "Ter-rible 1313" beset us on every side.

This winter our programs are all Na-tional Defense or educational, beginningin October with a speaker from our educa-tional television station, Greg Heimer. InNovember Capt. T. W. Hopkins, com-manding officer of Cecil Field Naval AirStation, will talk to us. American IndianMonth a speaker from our Dania SeminoleIndian Reservation will tell us of his prob-lems. Lacy Mahon, County Solicitor, willinform us regarding county crime. Amer-ican History Month our State Regent,Mrs. George C. Estill, will address us,and a skit will be given by our C.A.R.group, the Princess Malee Society. Hol-comb Kerns, News Bureau, University ofFlorida, will speak on the Challenge Fac-ing Our Universities in March. At ourbirthday luncheon in April Mrs. John R.Witt will speak on Know Your Textbooks.In May Joseph B. Mallard will speak onCivic Government Today.

This year we have made a student loanto an outstanding high school student whonow attends Jacksonville University andgiven a scholarship to Billy Cypress, Sem-inole Indian of Dania Reservation.Our Press Relations chairman is run-

ning a column on National Defense intwo weeklies under the title Wake Up,Americans. She does this as an individual.—Elizabeth Lewis Heath.

Hart (Winchester, Ky.). Recently thechapter placed a beautiful, antique cherrytable and chair in the Historic Room ofthe Winchester Public Library in honor ofMrs. Fred Osborne, State Regent of theKentucky Society and member of HartChapter. The Historic Room is sponsored

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3-fonorinqMRS. RICHARD E. LIPSCOMBSOUTH CAROLINA STATE REGENT

SOCIETY DAUGHTERS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION

Sponsored by Columbia Area Chapters

WILLIAM CAPERS CHAPTER COLUMBIA CHAPTER

ANN PAMELA CUNNINGHAM CHAPTER

DAVID HOPKINS CHAPTER RICHARD WINN CHAPTER

ELEANOR LAURENS PINCKNEY CHAPTER

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA CHAPTER

Old Cheraws Chapter, D.A.R., Cheraw, South Carolina

Compliments of

CHERAW COTTON MILLS, Inc.

Cheraw, South Carolina

Manufacturers of Quality Knitting Yarns.

Charles Pinckney Chapter, D.A.R., Bamberg, Denmark, South Carolina

Carlisle Military

SchoolSCea

Bamberg, South Carolina

James F. Risher, President

William R. Risher, Headmaster

Camden Military

Academy

Camden, South Carolina

James F. Risher, President

Lanning P. Risher, Headmaster

The National Park Service is seeking offers from qualified firms or individuals toprovide and operate ferryboat service for visitors to Fort Sumter National Monument,South Carolina, from the mainland city of Charleston. Fort Sumter will be highlightedduring observation of the Civil War Centennial.

NOTE: Please do not send in newspaper clippings and similar material and ask theMagazine Saff to convert them into chapter reports. Our workload is so heavy that we haveno time to prepare such material.

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TO THE GLORY OF GODBy Florence Sillers (Mrs. Harry C.) Ogden

Mississippi Delta Chapter, Rosedale, Miss.

01Id Presbyterian Church

Hidden away in the wooded hillsof Mississippi between Vicksburgand Natchez, in the ghost town ofOld Rodney, stands an ancient Pres-byterian church, built in 1829 anddedicated to "the Glory of God."

This church, of red, home-burnedbrick with white wood trim, is alittle architectural gem. It has twobeautiful fanlighted doorways, archedwindows with hand-blown glasspanes, and louvered shutters. Agraceful, hand-wrought, iron fenceencloses the churchyard. An un-usual hexagonal cupola tops thestructure and houses the bell, whosesilver tones can be heard for milesaround on a clear Sunday morning.One thousand silver dollars wentinto its casting.The interior has hardly been

changed from the day it was built.There is an aisle down each side,with pews between. These 130-year-old pews, enclosed by doors, are verylovely.

at Old Rodney, Miss.

To reach the old ghost town onefollows a meandering graveled road.The wheels of a century of travelhave cut deep into the hillsides. High,wooded banks rise on each side; inthe spring they are drifted with dog-wood blossoms, and the smell ofhoneysuckle is sweet on the air.

Suddenly, at the end of the sweepof a long hill, there is Rodney, dustyand crumbling into decay. It wasonce a hustling, bustling river townof 4000 souls. Today hardly a hun-dred people live there.The valiant little church stands

among its dreams, its back to thehillside where lies its congregation,remembered only by the names onthe tombstones. The church faces awoodland flat. Time was when itlooked out on the mighty Missis-sippi, busy artery of trade. But in1870 the restless Father of Watersmoved over in his bed 5 miles to thewest and left the town isolated. Thepeople moved away, and the little

town died. For years the steam-boats, passing on the river, blewtheir whistles across the willows, asalute to the dying town.Many famous people visited Rod-

ney—Aaron Burr, Henry Clay, andAndrew Jackson. "Springfield," thehouse where Jackson married RachelRobards, is still standing a few milesdistant. Zachary Taylor was on hisnearby plantation, Cypress Grove,when notified that he had been nomi-nated for the Presidency of theUnited States. Jefferson Davis livedjust up the river at Briar&Id Planta-tion.

Rodney and the little church arefull of history. During the Civil Warthe Federal gunboat, U.S.S. Rattler,lay off Rodney. On Sunday, Sep-tember 12, 1863, the officers andcrew attended services at the Pres-byterian church.

Suddenly a Confederate officer ap-peared in the church doorway anddemanded surrender, saying that thechurch was surrounded. Shots werefired, and bedlam broke loose. Thecongregation, mostly women, chil-dren, and seamen, fell to the floorand rolled under the pews.One Rebel lady jumped up on a

pew and cried out, "Glory to God!"Another fell out of a window back-ward; and one, who may be blush-ing in her grave, hid a handsomeyoung Yankee seaman under herhoopskirt. The officers and 17 sea-men were captured.The skeleton crew on the Rattler

heard the commotion and let looseits big guns. A cannon ball torethrough the facade of the church,and its scar is clearly discernible to-day. The Confederates sent a mes-sage to the Rattler, saying if theshelling did not cease, they wouldhang every prisoner in their charge.The shelling ceased.The little church "erected to the

Glory of God" still stands. Like the"Rock of Ages," it has withstood thetempests and the sunshine, shot andshell, time and misfortune. May itlive on for another hundred years!

ATTENTION!—Long-Time Subscribers

We hear that the Organizing Regent ofCapt. John Holmes Chapter, Minneapolis,Minn., Mrs. Pere J. (Maude Levering)Lawrence, has renewed her D.A.R. Magazinesubscription for the 37th time. We will beglad to publish an "Honor Roll" of those whohave subscribed for 35 years or more.

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HONORING

MRS. LOUISE MOSELEY HEATON

STATE REGENT OF MISSISSIPPI

Member Rosannah Waters Chapter of Clarksdale, Mississippi

This tribute is made possible through the courtesy of the following firms of Clarksdale, Mississippi

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GREENVILLE, MISSISSIPPI

"Mississippi's Largest River Port"

Extends a hearty welcome to the State Conference of

The Mississippi Society of the Children of the American Revolution

March 17th and 18th, 1961

"GREENVILLE BRIDGESPANS THE MISSISSIPPI AT GREENVILLE"

Greenville—county seat of Washington County,is one of the most attractive cities of the Deltanoted for its beautiful gardens and wide tree-linedstreets and true Southern Hospitality.

Greenville is on U.S. Highway 82 and StateNo. 1 and within twelve miles of the city are U.S.61 and U.S. 65.

Population, 1960 Census, 41,318. Financialdata—Three banks with total deposits of $33,-329,331. Two building and loan associationswith assets of $8,275,810.

The Greenville Bridge is the only toll-freebridge between Memphis and Natchez.

Greenville's trade territory includes southeastArkansas and northeast Louisiana and has apopulation exceeding 300,000 which places thecity third in the state in retail sales. Wholesalearea has a radius of 100 miles and populationof 550,000.

Commercial National Bank

First National Bank

Greenville Bank & Trust Company

Lina's Decorating Shop

Farnsworth Jeweler

C. L. Schlom Jeweler

Sam Stein-Greenville's Own Store

The Smart Shop

Tenenbaum's

McCullar Appliance & Furniture

Rosella's Appliances

Senoj Furniture Company

Bergman-Finlay & Starling Insurance

Kossman Insurance & Mortgage Company

Fast Service Laundry & Dry Cleaners

Greenley's (Men's Furnishings)

Harding's (Sporting Goods)

The Leader (Clothing)

Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company

Culley Rexall Drugs

Washington County Savings & LoanAssociation

Photo & Hi-Fi Center

Greeting from

Belvidere Chapter and Advertisers

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Lauisvi Ile . M ss;ssippi

Mrs. William R. Parkes is the Organizing Regent of the NanihWaiya Chapter. Organized in 1956 with thirteen members, theChapter has now more than doubled in size and last year waslisted on both the State and National Gold Honor Rolls.

The legendary birthplace of the Choctaw IndianNation is an imposing mound located fifteen milessouth of Louisville, Mississippi. For more than ahundred years it has been a well-known local land-mark, but as time and neglect took their toll littleremained by the 1950's to suggest the former gloryof the great mound.

Proudly presented byTAYLOR MACHINE WORKS

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When a chapter of the Daughters of the AmericanRevolution was organized in Louisville in 1956, it chose tobe named "Nanih Waiya" for the historic old moundnearby. Thus began an exciting renascence for the Choc-taws' sacred bending hill.A fifty-year-old idea of building a park around the

mound was revived. A group of interested people underthe sponsorship of the Winston County Chamber of Com-merce formed the Nanih Waiya Park Development Asso-ciation in 1957 and got to work. At the invitation of thisassociation and Nanih Waiya Chapter, Mrs. S. T. Pilkin-ton, Vice-President General, N.S.D.A.R., who was thenState Regent of Mississippi, addressed the legislature andappealed successfully for the establishment of the park.Nanih P. E. Waiya State Park became a reality.Through the donation of much land and the purchase

of some (completed in October 1960), the park now con-sists of two separate areas in which are located the greatmound itself, the mysterious cave mounds with their pos-sibility of pre-Indian culture, and the nearby DancingRabbit Creek Treaty site where the Choctaw nation soldits vast lands to the United States in 1830, opening a largesection of Mississippi to settlement.Work is progressing rapidly today on the building of the

park. Access roads have been built and restoration of themound begun. Picnic shelters, tables, rest rooms, and aspacious museum building have been built. Plans for thenear future include an elaborate outdoor pageant to bepresented annually at the mound by the Choctaw Indianswho still live in the area. Nanih Waiya State Park willsoon be attracting visitors from all over the country.

these patriotic businesses:TRIPLETT ELECTRIC COMPANYD. L. FAIR LUMBER COMPANY

M. L. MILLS, JR., Standard Oil Agt.THE FAIR COMPANY

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Greetings to

JOHN ROLFE CHAPTER, D. A. R.

from

FORREST COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

HATTIESBURG, MISSISSIPPI

SELBY C. BOWLING, Beat Three, Pres.

HARRY H. BELL, Beat One, Vice-Pres.

LUTHER G. LEE, Beat Two

J. A. P. CARTER, JR., Beat Four

W. H. BUTLER, Beat Five

Compliments of

Hattiesburg Savings and Loan AssociationHattiesburg, Miss.

Complimentsof

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OF HATTIESBURG

Hattiesburg, MississippiMembers

Hattiesburg Clearing House Association

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STATE IN THE UNION

HOME OF MISSISSIPPI SOUTHERN

AND WILLIAM CAREY

COLLEGES

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Compliments

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of Hattiesburg, Mississippi

Assured Savings — Home Loans

Assets Over 30 Million Dollars Reserves Over 234 Million Dollars

COOPERATION

We need your cooperation in sending in new orrenewal subscriptions. Please send us both yourgiven name and your married name to avoiderrors in your subscription. Prior to this notice,we have had mix-ups as a result of two peoplehaving the same names, both from the samecity.

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Indiana—History and Beauty, a gift of color slidesfrom Calumet Chapter, East Chicago, Ind., maybe ordered for chapter use from the ProgramOffice, N.S.D.A.R., 1776 D Street, N.W., Wash-ington 6, D.C. The rental check for this interest-ing program is $1.50, payable to the TreasurerGeneral.

D. A. R.

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Historic Homes PilgrimageHolly Springs, Miss.

April 28th-30th

The Heritage for Which Our ChildrenWill Give Thanks

By Alma Glenn Ezell,Capt. Alevander Quarrier Chapter,

Hollywood, Fla.

A free country, participation in gov-ernment, great educational institutions,unlimited opportunities, vast resources—all these things come to mind im-mediately when one thinks of ourAmerican heritage. But I want to con-centrate on the qualities in the char-acters of our forebears that producedthese results.

First of all, the title set me to won-dering whether our children or ourgrandchildren will ever know whattheir American heritage is. Freedomthey know (sometimes too much), butthe qualities that made our Nation sur-vive and endure—do they know any-thing of these? I recently read a maga-zine article that takes a close look atthe early days of our country and themen and women who, by their stamina,gave birth to our United States, and Iwonder again if this generation hasseen in us any evidence of that staminaand endurance and "will to survive"through hardships and self-denial.From the rock at Plymouth there

emanated ripples of great importanceto the history of America, and it re-mains as a symbol that the colonizationof New England was possible only ifone had faith and endurance. I thinkthat it is high time we, as a Nation,regain some of these qualities.We have the Four Freedoms and are

thankful for them, but do our childrenknow anything of the struggles thatproduced them and how dearly theywere won? And do they see in us thesame principles and high ideals thatour ancestors had, the strength of char-acter that achieved these freedoms?They have a great deal to give thanks

for, inherited from the past, but I amconcerned with the question of howthey realize and pass on this heritageto the generation to come. Will they,through indulgence and indifference,forget the heritage that is theirs? Inthe last line of our National Anthemwe sing of "the land of the free," butare we now "the home of the brave"?Except for material things, will ourchildren know what to give thanks for?I wonder.

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RALPH HUMPHREYS CHAPTER, D.A.R., JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI

VISIT

Beautiful and Historic

JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI

(Crossroads of the South)

Built 1833-39 as State CapitolRestored 1958-60 as State Historical Museum

GreetingsBERNARD ROMANS CHAPTER

Mississippi Society, D.A.R.On the bank of historie Tombigbee

Cotton Gin Port ChapterAmory, MississippiCompliments of

DAVID HOLMES CHAPTER, D.A.R.Indianola, Mississippi

Dancing Rabbit ChapterMacon, Mississippi

Honors its organizing and present regentsMrs. W. W. Whitten.Mrs. E. T. George

Greetings from

DAVID REESE CHAPTER, D.A.R.

Oxford, Mississippi

Greetings fromDOAKS TREATY CHAPTER. D.A.R.

Canton, MississippiGreetings

DUCHESS DE CHAUMONT CHAPTERMoss Point, Mississippi

Compliments ofJAMES GILLIAM CHAPTER

Marks, Mississippi

JUDITH ROBINSON CHAPTER

McComb, Mississippi

honors one of its charter members

MRS. MARY QUINN MeKNIGHT

GreetingsNAHOULA CHAPTER, D.A.R.

Laurel, MississippiIn loving memory of

MRS. W. E. SMYLIE • MRS. ORVILLE CLARKPushmataha Chapter, Meridian, Miss. SAMUEL DALE CHAPTER, D.A.R.

Meridian, MississippiGreetings from

UNOBEE CHAPTER, D.A.R.Taylorsville, Mississippi

Fifth School CommitteeBus Tour

(Continued from page 76)

Next morning, the President Gen-eral was the Chapel speaker and gavean outstanding address, which re-ceived generous applause. Mrs. T.Earle Stribling, Chaplain General,participated in the program and of-fered an appropriate and meaningfulprayer.

CHAKCHIUMA CHAPTER

Greenwood, Mississippi

Located on two rivers, the Tallahatchie onthe North and Yazoo running through thecity. Near historic Fort Pemberton where thebattleship "Star of the West" was sunk in theTallahatchie during Civil War in an effort toform blockade against Federal troops enter-ing Vicksburg by way of the Yazoo River.

Unique is this because at that point the tworivers are not more than a quarter of a mileapart, but the Tallahatchie wends its way east-ward two miles to converge with the Yalo-busha, flowing west to form the Yazoo, flow-ing south.

After chapel and breakfast in thedining hall, the Daughters toured thecampus, visiting the library, the newdormitories, and the store. Soon after11 A.M. the, by then, experiencedtravelers boarded the buses and set-tled down for the trip to Harrogate,Tenn., and Lincoln Memorial Uni-versity. Since Harrogate is close tothe Kentucky State line, there wasmuch "line crossing" between thereand Middlesboro, Ky., where theTour was lodged.At Lincoln Memorial University

rainy weather appeared for the firsttime, making a tour of the lovelycampus impracticable, but everyonevisited the Lincolniana collection andthe home of Dr. and Mrs. Robert C.Provine, where Mrs. Provine was agracious hostess at tea. After dinner,which was served by a group of stu-dents, Daughters were driven back toMiddlesboro, where members of Ken-tuck Path Chapter entertained themat a reception at the MiddlesboroHotel.

Thursday morning the rain hadgone, and only a few lowering clouds

dimmed the view as the busesclimbed the mountains and thendropped down into the valley toBristol, Tenn.-Va. Daughters fromfour Virginia and Tennessee chapterswelcomed the travelers and were hos-tesses at luncheon at the Bristol Ho-tel. Here, too, many a mystery wassolved at last. The "peanut game,"played since the Tour left Washing-ton, ended, and long-sought shells atlast became known to their "pea-nuts."

Once the buses were boarded, themiles over another range of moun-tains slipped rapidly behind. At sun-set the Tour reached the RoanokeHotel. Again there were rush andbustle as rooms were assigned. Invirtually no time everyone was readyto leave for the Roanoke CountryClub, where hostesses from MargaretLynn Lewis Chapter were waiting.Dinner was gay and happy. Briefgreetings were given following themeal, and guests and hostesses werepresented. The guests included Mrs.Paul Robbins and Mrs. Jim Hamblinand the Hamblins' teen-aged daugh-ter. Checks were presented to Pauland Jim in appreciation for the in-estimable contribution they had madetoward the comfort and well-beingof the Daughters.The following and last day of the

trip hospitable Virginia members hadplanned luncheon for the Tour at theThomas Jefferson Inn in Charlottes-ville.Tour members are greatly indebt-

ed to the State Regents of thoseStates through which the trip wasmade: Mrs. Frederick T. Morse, Vir-ginia; Mrs. William D. Holmes, NorthCarolina; Mrs. Richard E. Lipscomb.

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HONORING OUR

REVOLUTIONARY ANCESTORS

Miss John Vic Bailey. Lt. Benjamin BaileyBenjamin Risher

Mrs. John N. Bookhart Major John James

Miss Mabel Bridges Ensign James Means

Mrs. Richard C. Brown Lt. Robert Ellison

Mrs. Brice L. Caldvvell Joseph Thompson

Mrs. John Brice Caldwell Dr. Samuel FiskeMerrick

Mrs. W. T. Cates Brig. Gen. RobertLawson

Mrs. D. J. Cotter James Lamb

Mrs. V. C. Creel Capt. Henry Felder,Sr.

Mrs. Lewis L. Culley. . Eldad Steele

Mrs. Hooper Donald George Avery

Mrs. Edward W. Freeman Clement Mullins

Mrs. Lavinia M. Hill .. . . Col. William Brown

Miss Nell Lowe Col. Thos. MarstenGreen

Mrs. James T. Morris... .Sgt. James West

Mrs. Bruce H. Nicholson .John Paul Barringer

Mrs. John W. Patton Capt. William Harper

Mrs. B .W. Pennington. . . William Gray

Mrs. Dudley Phelps Clement Mullins

Mrs. Swepson S. Taylor Joel Rice

Mrs. Sidney Ray Berry Sgt. James West

MAGNOLIA STATE CHAPTER

Jackson, Mississippi

THE NATCHEZ PILGRIMAGE

Natchez-On-The-Mississippi

March 4 through April 2, 1961

30 Antebellum Houses Open

CONFEDERATE PAGEANT

Depicting Scenes of the Old South

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY-FRIDAY

SATURDAY NIGHTS

For Information about Tours and

Room Reservations Write

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Box 21, Natchez, Mississippi

Honoring

NANCYE MCCLURE PARK(Mrs. Arthur Clyde)

Chapter Regent 1956-1958

State Magazine Chairman 1958-1962

In sincere appreciation of her devoted andunselfish services to the Chapter

Fort Rosalie Chapter

Jackson, Mississippi

Is This the Biggest Teapot in the World?

Mrs. Willard Richards, State Regent of Mas-

sachusetts, attempts to pour tea from a huge, 300-

cup teapot into an antique handleless teacup, one

of her prized possessions. Mrs. Richards, a mem-

ber of Boston Tea Party Chapter, also exhibited

one of the tea chests dumped into Boston Harbor

at the time of the tea party, December 16, 1773.

The Photograph was taken at the opening of the

Tea Center in New York City, a nonprofit and

educational establishment to inform visitors of

tea's romantic history.

FEBRUARY 1961 [ 137 ]

Best Wishes To

Samuel Hammond Chapter, Kosciusko, Mississippifrom

ATTALA COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

E. W. FRAZIER, President

H. G. HUTCHINSON

C. D. OAKES

W. B. SMITH

LEE JOHNSON

JOHN C. LOVE, Atty.

SAMUEL HAMMOND CHAPTER

Honors

MRS. EDWARD C. FENWICK

Past Regent

(Mary Maganos McCool)

and

Librarian, N.S.D.A.R.

Courtesy of

FENWICK BROTHERS

Kosciusko, Mississippi

Mississippi Finest

LU VEL DAIRY PRODUCTS

SINCE 1919

KOSCIUSKO, MISSISSIPPI

Compliments of AckermanMembers of Samuel Hammond Chapter

Kosciusko, Mississippi

In memory ofMRS. ALICE HAMMOND POTTS

Hugh Potts Motor CompanyKosciusko, Mississippi

Compliments ofTHE ATTALA NATIONAL BANK

Kosciusko, Mississippi

(Continued from page 99)Shaw, Abraham, Co. Capt. Parson, d.Aug. 23, 1837; Shaw, Caleb, Co. WinthropRowe, d. Dec. 20, 1791; Stewart, David,Regt. Enoch Poor, d. July 10, 1795; Tuck,Jesse, Co. Joseph Clifford, d. Dec. 20,1826; Wiggin, Winthrop, Co. WinbornAdams, d. Aug. 21, 1840, New; Worthen,Enoch, Co. Moses Leavitt, d. Dec. 5, 1833,

All Success ToSamuel Hammond Chapter

00ENTFLOWF

fe-CL—iED CORAIMEALS.FoROPFORMOLAMEDS-

7he ATTRLA EMMY V, I,OSC/U5,0. /11/55_

RECOGNIZING JUNIOR MEMBERSOF

SAMUEL HAMMOND CHAPTERKosciusko, Mississippi

New; Worthen, Ezekiel, Co. Samuel Nays,d. Oct. 16, 1783, Old.

(Continued in March 1961 Issue.)

QueriesShipley - Herring - Harrison - Hank—

Wanted inf. on Robert and ElizabethShipley, Md. 1750; Alex., Josiah Herring;Josiah Harrison, Va. 1750 and Jos. Hank,Reading, Pa. 1754.—Dave Keiser, Phila.17, Pa.Byard-Hogan—Want any inf. on these

families: Garrett Hamilton Byard mar.wfe. Anne Hogan—Mobile abt. 1837, mayhave been from Lexington, Va., or Dela-ware.—Mrs. Robert A. Gordon, Atmore,Ala.Polk - Sharp - Yount - Stephens -

Schamagne-(Sherman)—Want ances., par-ents, dates and places of William (?) Polk,and wfe. Mary Sharp (where mar. anddate). Also brother John Polk and wfe.Christina Yount; moved to Mo. early in1900's (from where?). Also for Agnes (?)Stephens, b. near Richmond, Va., familymoved to farm near DeSoto, Mo. (when?);wfe. of Francois Schamagne (FrancisSherman) who came from Nancy, France,in 1831.—Mrs. Gordon Hampton, 6853Perkins Rd., Baton Rouge 8, La.

Whitfield-King-Kennard — Want proofPenelope Whitfield as dau. of Luke Whit-field and of her mar. to Chas. King, Clin-ton, N.C., instead of to Thomas Sutton asstated in book "Whitfield, Bryan, Smithrelated families". Their ch. were HenryW. mar. Nancy Wellborn, Mary mar.Ezekiel Moore, Penelope mar. LittleberryLesuer, Lucret a mar. Zadock Baker,Eleanor mar. James Jones Kennard, Wil-liam Whitfield mar. Susan, Stephen mar.

Compliments

MERCHANTS & FARMERS

BANK

Kosciusko, Mississippi

Friendly Service for

More Than 70 Years

(Member F.D.I.C.)

CHEEK & MAGEE, CONTRACTORSKosciusko, Mississippi

Honor

Mrs. J. C. CheekFirst Vice-Regent

Samuel Hammond Chapter

Sarah Dupree.—Mrs. A. S. Patterson, 512N. Delaware, Roswell, N. Mex.

Clark-Towles-Scurry — Want parents,dates, places and Rev, service of WilliamClark and wfe. Lucy Scurry, moved fromEdgefield Dist. S.C. to Ga., 1811, d.Macon, Ga., b. near Ocmulgee, River, sonsEdward, mar. Sophia Towles, 1827 inGray, Ga.: John W., mar. Charlotte Law-rence, Ga. Also for John Towles and wfe.Sara (who?), b. Va. moved to EdgefieldDist., S.C., then Gray, Ga., d. 1853, dau.Sophia Towles and others. NathanielGlover, mar. one dau. Same inf. for Thos.Scurry and wfe. Sarah (who?) of Edge-field, Dist., S.C., will dated Mar. 14, 1837,ch. William, Grant, Ridley, Frederick,Ann, Lucy, Ralph and John.—Mrs. H. D.Montgomery, 200 Coleman Ave., WestMonroe, La.Sargent - Horton - Kendricks - Mitchell-

Schofield—Want ances., parents, dates andplaces of Jane Sargent, b. mar. d. N.C.,mar. John Horton, b. ca 1777; parents ofJohn Horton, b. Dec. 23, 1749. (were JohnHorton and Sara (Sarah) Stafford Co.,Va.) Wife Isabella Kendricks, b. Oct. 13,1754, her parents were Patrick Kendricks,d. 1805 and Jane Kendricks, b. mar. d.background, N.C. Patrick was son ofThomas and Marion Kendricks. Birth,death and mar. dates needed. Capt. JohnMitchell (ances.), wife Jane Schofield. Wantall dates for both, children—Thomas, Wil-liam, John. William b. Sept 2, 1794, d.1878. Was Gen. Schofield her father?—Mrs. Jasper E. Smith, 507 South SmithSt., Vinita, Okla.

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Honoring Mrs. Isaac L. Toler, Organizing Regent, and with sincere appreciation to Mr. Toler for his work in genealogy.The above photograph was taken on their Golden Wedding anniversary, Oct. 9, 1960.

Amite River Chapter, D.A.R., Gloster, Mississippi

House Committee—Unsung Heroinesof Continental Congress

By Florence de Windt (Mrs. Philip H.) DowdellNational Chairman, House Committee

There is no glory connected withHouse Committee; no budget; no ex-pense money. However, some threeor four hundred dedicated Daughterswork all week long in April to makeCongress more pleasant, and runmore smoothly, for the rest of themany members, who descend uponWashington annually. Most of theDaughters come to the city at theirown expense—or their husbands—al-though some few chapters do givetheir regents or delegates some slightremuneration. These voters, however,are not eligible to serve on HouseCommittee, as they must attend themeetings and sessions in order tomake a report to the home folks.The Information Committee, the

General Chairman and her assistants,the Badge Committee, and the Park-ing Chairman, and some others be-gin their work well in advance ofopening night.

One makes many friendships whenon this committee, and we are anx-ious for more to serve on it. Tellyour chapter regent to send yourname to the State Regent, if you areinterested, able to come, and are nota voter. We want you!Have you visited our concessions

on the lounge floor? The Societymakes a percentage on all these, otherthan our own Schools. Visit the J. F.Caldwell Company table on the maincorridor. The National Society re-ceives an annual percentage on allsales of our insignia. One of themore reasonably priced bars is theCongress Committee pin, for whichHouse Committee Members are eligi-ble, after one year's service. Haveyou visited the flower table? Theflorist, as well as the photographer, iselected, or designated, by the Execu-tive Board each year. They, too, paythe Society a percentage of the sales

they make, as well as a rental for thespace they occupy.The women who work on the three

literature tables, selling our own ma-terial, from the Business, Correspond-ing Secretary General, and NationalDefense Offices, handle a great dealof money, for N.S.D.A.R. All arecapable workers. On the secondfloor, in the Assembly Hall, is theExhibit Committee. There one mayfind the Press Scrap Books, Wild-life and Conservation displays, andslides and material to be used byProgram Committees.

There is a bulletin board, whereone may find things to do in connec-tion with the Congress, but perhapsnot actually of the Congress. Thereare some tours, both short or long—apropos of these, read your MarchMagazine for the advertisements, andinformation.Come see us, and our subcommit-

tees: better still, have your namesent in so that you can work with us,make friends and influence people,and, at the same time, enjoy your-self, and do the National Society aservice. We would love to have you.Bring comfortable shoes, your senseof humor—and a great big smile!

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Greetings fromYazoo Chapter, D.A.R., Yazoo City, Miss.

Hie-a-sha-ba-ha ChapterStarkville, Miss.

MERCHANTS & PLANTERS BANKTCHULA, MISSISSIPPI

Member F.D.I.C.

HONORING

MRS. DIXON C. PEASTER

REGENT

YAZOO CHAPTER

Compliments

FIRST FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION

YAZOO CITY, MISSISSIPPI

Yazoo Chapter, N.S.D.A.R., sponsored "The Yazoo Story", 135 years of Yazoo County

History ($6.50). Order from Yazoo Chamber of Commerce, Yazoo City, Mississippi.

COPY of a LETTERfrom ELIJAH LEONARDto Col. Samuel Flower of Massachusetts

Dear friendafter my Love to you I must Let you know

that I am in good health as I wish these myfind you I little thought on the evening of the17 of November 1773 when I parted with youthat it would be nine or ten years before wemet again and god knows whether Ever wemeet But it is a satis faition that I can get anopertuinty to wright to you I was Driven offrom the Natchez in June 1781 with near halfthe Inhabitents of that and I hear sence thatall the people of the Natchez were goanExcept one or 2 famoleys But the Truth of itI Cant Tell Mr. Day and Henry Dwight cameaway together and came threw the IndianNations and on the 21 of August were allRobed of Evary thing we had and wereTurned up to shift I had as fine horses as anyman Need to Ride and was Tarnd on foot togit into the Settlement on the Back parte ofGeorgia Like begars we were all Served aLikethe women had some old poor horses giventhem to Ride on we Stayed togeathur a fewdays and Mr Day his wife his Little son andHenry Dwight went Down the Contry Iheard of them once or Twice afterwards Butwhare they be goan to I Cannot Tell TellConel Day I have Taken a grate Deal ofpains to know wheare they went But all tono purpos Some Times I think thay may begoan home to the Northwards But am at aLoss Your friends on the Mifsippi I Can giveyou but Little account of I Left them theirI hay heard that Chief of the people we Leftwent to the appalusaw But I Dont no Your

brother Elisha Marid Silance Harmon &Josiah Married Harmons youngest DaterElifha got in Tolarable Sercomstances &Josiah Lived Lived Midling but I believe heDid not Lay up much Joseph LeonardLaboured hard and made good Crops wasvarey well Spoken of as a good planter and IDid not hear as he folowed Drinking he kepthis Children with him but Indulged them tomuch Alex' was got to be all most man butwhat is become of them Now I Cannot Tellit is upwards of 2 Year since I have seen orheard of th** I have not Told you the un-happy affare that hap*** with the Natchezpeople I suppose you have heard this Dayif you have not Mr Sheldon or Branson canGive you an account of it it was Caused bya set of Villains to Answer their own pur-poses and forced the Inhabitents to Take uparms and to Take the fort from the Span-yards and Robed them of their Money andTreasur and Run of with it and Left theInhabitants to bare the Blowing of it I thoughtit Best to make my Best way homeward butbeing Robed of my money and Horses andEvary thing Else I Concluded I would StayTill Bettor weathur I Live near the bordarsof the Creek a Cherokee Nations Southwestof South Carolina their is a Number of ourNatchez people hear and some of them Talkof going To the Mifsippi this fall and IDont No but I shall go Back my self it isTalked that the Americans will Hold thatContry Remember me To all my friends FromYour friend and Hum'" Sarvt4 July 1783 ELIJAH LEONARD

Copied "as was" and submitted by Edith FlowerWheeler, M. D., Cortland, N. Y., great-great-grandaughter of Colonel Flower.

ComplimentsALLENS DRUG STORE

Starkville, Miss.PEOPLES SAYINGS BANK

The Friendly Rank, MemberStarkville. Miss.Compliments of

Starkville Coea-Cola Bet. Co.Starkville, Miss.

Compliments of

SECURITY STATE BANK

Starkville, Miss.

Member F.D.I.C.

WIER DRUG COMPANYThe Old Reliable Drug StorePhone 37 Starkville, Miss.

MADAME HODNETT CHAPTER, D.A.R.Cleveland, MississiPP1

Greetings fromNEHI BOTTLING CO.

Cleveland, Miss.

Greetings from

BANK OF CLEVELANDCleveland, Mississippi

Greetings from

PLANTERS EQUIPMENT CO.Cleveland, Miss.

In Memoriam

IVY GRAHAM HILL

Madam Hodnett Chapter

by

Cleveland State Bank

Cleveland, Miss.

'KIRK & RELATED FAMILIES$10.00

L. L. McNees, Lexington, MississippiCompliments

COCA-COLA BOTTLING WORKSCorinth, Mississippi

TOM'S TOASTED PEANUTSComfort Eng Co., Carder Dealer

Tupelo, Miss.

DENTON MANUFACTURINGCOMPANY

Shelby, Miss. Cleveland, Miss.

Volunteer Researchers

(Continued from page 109)

WEST VIRGINIAMrs. Chauncey Hinerman,509 Wheeling Ave.,Glendale, W. Va.Mrs. Roy Jolliffe,Cameron, W. Va.Mrs. William M. Bloyd,600 Tomlinson Ave.,Moundsville, W. Va.

This list supplements that on page 646 of theNovember Magazine.

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MRS. SHERMAN B. WATSON

"Lucille"

STATE REGENT, IOWA SOCIETY, D.A.R.

1960-1962

The following Cedar Rapids friends of Mrs. Sherman B. Watson, "Iowa's Beloved State Regent", are proud todedicate this page to her with their sincere afiection.

Mrs. W. Allen BarberMrs. Charles J. BreadyMrs. Edwin W. BruereMrs. William Eugene BurdMrs. Earl C. BusenbarkMiss Maude CarrMrs. Don C. CookMrs. Flournoy CoreyMrs. Richard CrewMr. and Mrs. Wm. W. Crissman. and family

Mrs. Ruby E. DennyMiss Margaret C. DickeyMrs. R. L. EdwardsMrs. Imogen Benson EmeryMiss Alice Hanna

Mrs. Earl D. HardwickMr. and Mrs. Arthur 0. HarstadMrs. H. E. HendersonMrs. G. W. LongakerMrs. Paul V. ManeyDr. and Mrs. Stanley Moen and familyMrs. C. J. NearyMrs. George M. NewlandMrs. Frank V. OrrMrs. Charles E. ParksMrs. Effie K. SchoederMr. and Mrs. Frederick Schueler and Suzanne

Mrs. George W. Smith, Jr.

Miss Annie F. SmitheyDr. Sherman B. Watson and family

FEBRUARY 1961

"OLD ZION" CHURCH

Burlington, Iowa

In 1837 Burlington, Iowa, was named the capital of

Wisconsin Territory. November 12, 1838, the first legisla-

five assembly of the Territory of Iowa convened in "Old

Zion" Church. The House of Representatives used the upper

floor and the upper house met in the basement. Though the

territorial capital was moved in 1841 the Supreme Court of

Iowa continued to meet in "Old Zion" for several years.

Sponsored by these Southeast Iowa Chapters

Antoine Le Claire ChapterElizabeth Ross ChapterHannah Caldwell ChapterJames Harlan ChapterJames McElwee ChapterJean Espy Chapter

John See ChapterKeokuk ChapterLog Cabin ChapterNathaniel Fellows ChapterOpen Prairie Chapter

Stars and Stripes Chapter

Burlington, Iowa

Pilgrim ChapterStars and Stripes ChapterVan Buren County ChapterWashington ChapterWinfield Chapter

Greetings fromGUTHRIE CENTER CHAPTER, D.A.R.

Guthrie Center, Iowa

Greetings fromPRISCILLA ALDEN CHAPTER, D.A.R.

Carroll, Iowa

Greetings fromWAUBONSIE CHAPTER. D.A.R.

Clarinda, IowaCompliments of

STANDARD MANUFACTURING COMPANYCedar Falls, Iowa

With the Chapters(Continued from page 128)

by the chapter and was purchased duringthe chapter regency of Mrs. Stephen T.Davis.

Present for the picture taken on theoccasion were Mrs. Charles Nelson, mem-ber of Fort Dearborn Chapter, Evanston,Ill., oldest living past regent of Hart Chap-ter, past State Registrar of the KentuckySociety, and a 52-year member of theNational Society; Mrs. Osborne, State Re-gent; Mrs. Richard F. McCready, presentregent of Hart Chapter; Mrs. William E.Bonfield, State Corresponding Secretaryand member of Hart Chapter; Mrs. Davis,past regent of Hart Chapter; and Mrs.J. E. Hunter, chairman of the LibraryBoard, who accepted the gift.

Veedersburg (Veedersburg, Ind.). Octo-ber was truly "Americanism Month" forthe chapter. For Constitution Week wehad a wonderful window display in one ofour stores on Main St. This was arrangedby Mrs. Mary Allen and Miss Ruth Bever,chapter members, and the display consistedof a large copy of the Constitution, pictureof the Signers, an open Bible, etc., with

our American Flag on display both insideand flying outside. Members had beenasked at chapter meetings to display theirFlags, and all citizens were asked throughour local newspaper to do the same, witha very good response.

On the evening of October 20 we heldan open meeting for the public at theMethodist Church of Veedersburg. Wewere assisted in this project by the LionsClub of Veedersburg. This was an Amer-icanism program, and our speaker wasH. J. Pierson of Indianapolis, Ind., whospoke on The America Nobody Knows.He warned us of the threat of Communismin our country and told us that we are re-sponsible for maintaining our heritage offreedom.

Members of the American Legion,American Legion Auxiliary, B&PW Club,teachers, students, and ministers wereamong those in attendance. The credit forthis program goes to Mrs. Wayne Corey,program chairman for our chapter, andher committee.

On Saturday afternoon, October 22,Mrs. Ruth Cates, chapter regent, attendeda meeting of the Girl Scouts of Troop 267of Veedersburg; our chapter has sponsoredthis group for 3 years.

An impressive candlelight "fly-up" cere-mony was held, and 16 little girls becameTenderfoot Scouts. Mrs. Cates presentedan American Flag and a Girl Scout Flag

to the troop; these were gifts of the chap-ter.—Ruth Cates.

Betsy Dowdy (Elizabeth City, N. C.).On October 15 Betsy Dowdy again came

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Order from Magazine Office, N.S.D.A.R.,

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riding into the hearts and imagination ofthe people of eastern North Carolina, forit was publication day of the new novel,Betsy Dowdy's Ride, by Mrs. Nell WiseWechter of Greensboro. An autographingparty was given to launch Betsy's Ride bythe chapter and the Pasquotank LibraryBoard.

Mrs. Wechter was very happy about thebook's launching, since it was taking placeright in the area where Betsy took theride, which led Mrs. Wechter to describeher as North Carolina's girl Paul Revere.The history is authentic, but the legendaryfigure of Betsy is elusive. The chapterwas most pleased to help make the areamore aware of the Revolutionary heroinefor which it is named.

The book is designed for youngsters of12 through 16 and it reads as well asTaffy of Torpedo Junction, which won forMrs. Wechter the State's best juvenile bookaward of 1957. It should also have greatappeal to grown-ups.

Approximately 75 people came to meetMrs. Wechter; many of them had beenfriends and students of hers when shetaught at Stumpy Point, N. C.—ShirleySpath.

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THE IOWA SOCIETY, DAUGHTERS of the AMERICAN REVOLUTION

PROUDLY PRESENTS THE TEN ELECTED MEMBERS OF THE STATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

State Chaplain State Vice Regent State Recording Secretary

1960

MRS. ANDREW H. BARNESOskaloosa Chapter

State Corresponding Secretary

MRS. A. L. BRENNECKEMarshalltown Chapter

State Treasurer

State

S. RAY H. GRUWELLizabeth Ross Chapter

MRS. E. L. MCMICHAELShenandoah Chapter

State Regent

MRS. SHERMAN B. WATSON"L UCILLE"

Ashley ChapterHistorian State

1962

MRS. WM. EUGENE BURDMarion Linn ChapterState Organizing Secretary

MRS. JOSEPH G. HANEYJean Marie Cardinell Chapter

State Registrar

MRS. H. A. WARNERHannah Caldwell Chapter

MRS. FLOURNOY COREYMayflower Chapter

FEBRUARY 1961

MRS. MAURICE K. CHAMPIONLucretia Deering Chapter

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The ladies pictured above are from the N.E. District, Iowa Society, D.A.R. This group of D.A.R. is part of the 80 Daughters who visited our schools in June,

1960. Our State Regent, Mrs. Sherman B. Watson, who planned the tour, is standing at the far left of the picture, back row.

THIS SPACE IS SPONSORED BY THE

Alden Sears Chapter, Charles City

Ashley Chapter, Cedar Rapids

Candlestick Chapter, Hampton

Clinton Chapter, Clinton

Dubuque Chapter, Dubuque

Francis Shaw Chapter, Anamosa

FOLLOWING NORTHEAST DISTRICT CHAPTERS IN IOWA

Hannah Lee Chapter, West Union

Helen Hinman Dwelle Chapter, Northwood

Marion Linn Chapter, Marion

Mary Knight Chapter, Strawberry Point

Mason City Chapter, Mason City

Mayflower Chapter, Cedar Rapids

Waterloo Chapter, Waterloo

FEATURED BY ASHLEY CHAPTER, D.A.R., CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA

MRS. FREDERICK J. SCHUELER, REGENT

From Our BookshelfNOW WE ARE ENEMIES, by Thomas J. Fleming. St. Martin's Press, New York,

N. Y. 1960. 366 pp. $5.00.One of the tragedies of "Bunker Hill" was the premature death of Dr. Joseph

Warren; it may not be too generally known that Washington had urged him to bethe chief medical officer of the Army, but he refused, deciding to take his chanceswith the footsoldiers. His loss in his first battle was an irreparable tragedy, becausehis own social background and patriotic endeavors had brought him into close asso-ciation with many of the British, as well as American, leaders, and he could illbe spared.

This book carries the subtitle—The Story of Bunker Hill. Too seldom the per-sonalities connected with the Battle of Bunker Hill have been overshadowed by thebattle itself. For the first time officers and men who had been brothers in arms duringthe French and Indian War met as enemies. For example, the idolized young brotherof Gen. William Howe had died at Ticonderoga in Israel Putnam's arms, and Col.William Prescott had fought beside General Howe at the siege and capture ofLouisburg.

People have wondered how the American troops mistook Breed's Hill for BunkerHill and fortified it in error. As it chanced, the officers and men who conductedthe nocturnal fortifying operations were from New Hampshire and Connecticut,and were not familiar with the terrain. Most of the private soldiers had been farmers,used to struggling with ground strewn with rocks; they were an ideal task force forpreparing the hastily built breastworks.

GEORGE YEARDLEY (Governor ofVirginia), By Nora Miller Turman.192 pp., maps, illustrations. $3.50Garrett & Massie, Inc., Richmond,Va., 1960.

It is strange that, in the more than 300years since the death of Gov. GeorgeYeardley, no book-length account of hislife has been published. This gap has nowbeen most acceptably filled in GeorgeYeardley, Governor of Virginia.Much modern writing about the first

two decades in Virginia centers aroundpolitics and war. Also, great emphasishas been placed on the hardships and

tragedy of the first settlers. There musthave been another side to the picture,else 5,000 people would not have set outfor the New World during this periodmeaning to make it their permanent home.George Yeardley gives us this other side.The book is written from the viewpoint

of a business man. George Yeardley ar-rived in Virginia in the spring of 1610,one of the passengers who voyaged fromEngland on the ill-fated Sea Venture. Hecame as a soldier and remained to dedi-cate the rest of his life to the develop-ment of his adopted country. His abilitieswere soon recognized, and great responsi-bilities were placed on him by the Virginia

Company. He literally rose through theranks. After serving a year as ActingGovernor, he became Governor and Cap-tain General of Virginia for two terms.

The land policy that George Yeardleywas commissioned to carry out eventu-ally became the land policy of the UnitedStates of America. The account of theprovision for such a policy in the charterof 1609 and the delay in putting it intoeffect make a needed contribution to un-derstanding of this historical period. Theapt analogy of the close tie between theapprentice system in England and the in-dentureships of the first settlers will helpto dispel the popular myth that the Com-pany was practicing primitive communismin Virginia. Clearly outlined is introduc-tion of the private ownership of land, forwhich Yeardley so diligently worked.

This great and versatile man accom-plished many things. His most lasting con-tribution was setting up the General As-sembly at Jamestown in 1619. The Gen-eral Assembly of Virginia has beencontinuous and is the second oldest repre-sentative law-making body in the worldtoday; only the Parliament of Great Britainis older. Through the life story of GeorgeYeardley we get a clear picture of the cir-cumstances surrounding its beginning anda better understanding of the most elusiveperiod in our Nation's history.

George Yeardley will appeal to everyreader who likes biography and authentichistorical narrative. It should also appealto the serious historian, who will pause toread the scholarly notes that support thetext.

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The Quaker Oats Company

uakeOats

The Quaker Oats Company is one of the largest employers in Cedar Rapids and in Iowa. The Cedar Rapids Plant occupies about 20 buildings onsome 15 acres of land. Capacity of the seven towering grain elevators is nearly 10.000.000 bushels. The major products made here are: QuakerOats, Mother's Oats, Puffed Wheat, Aunt Jemima Pancake Flour, Aunt J emima Buckwheat Flour, Puffed Rice, Flour, Life Oat Cereal, Pack-O-Ten(ready to eat cereals, Corn Meal, Grits, Oils, Ful-O-Pep Feeds and Quaker Feeds.

HOTEL ROOSEVELTCedar Rapids, Iowa

Newest and Largest

Headquarters for

1961 D.A.R. State Conference

Extends a Warm Welcome to ALL

Visiting Delegates

Naundwuk 3Af212-LODGE AND

Vloiwt, Catutt.AIR CONDITIONEDDINING ROOMSNACK BAR

ANDSERVICE STATION

CHEROKEENorth Carolina

The Iowa Society D.A.R. Bus Tour highlyrecommends this outstanding Motor Court

THE IOWA SOCIETYDAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

Is Most Happy to Salute Iowa's National Officer

Mrs. Alfred C. Zweck

(Jennie Lynn Zweck)

VICE PRESIDENT GENERAL, N.S.D.A.R.

1960-1963

The 79 ladies of the 1960

Iowa Society D.A.R. Bus Tour

happily pay tribute to their

fine, congenial and outstand-

ing drivers:

Mr. Jack Thews

Mr. Quentin Carroll

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ALAN YOUNGBE AR

Photo—Apgar Studio

Iowa proudly salutes one of her outstanding young Indian citizens. Alan Youngbear of Mesquakie, the Indian Settlement at

Tama, Iowa, is attending Parsons College, Fairfield, Iowa, with the help of a scholarship given by the Iowa Society, D.A.R.

Alan graduated from the High School at Tama in 1960 and is planning to major in Physical Education. He was an out-

standing student while in High School

This space is sponsored by the following Central District Chapters of Iowa

ARTESIA CHAPTER, Belle Plaine

DE SHON CHAPTER, Boone

GRINNELL CHAPTER, Grinnell

IOWACO CHAPTER, Marengo

ISHAM RANDOLPH CHAPTER, Newton

MARSHALLTOWN CHAPTER, Marshalltown

MARY MARION CHAPTER, Knoxville

NEW CASTLE CHAPTER, Webster City

OLD THIRTEEN CHAPTER, Chariton

OSKALOOSA CHAPTER, Oskaloosa

POWESHIEK CHAPTER, Grinnell

SPINNING WHEEL CHAPTER, Marshalltown

SUN DIAL CHAPTER. Ames

PREPARED BY DE SHON CHAPTER, BOONE, IOWA

MRS. H. C. BRECKENRIDGE, Regent

assisted by the following SOUTHWEST DISTRICT CHAPTERS:

COUNCIL BLUFF CHAPTER, Council Bluff

JEAN MARIE CARDINELL CHAPTER, Des Moines

MERCY OTIS CHAPTER, Indianola

SHENANDOAH CHAPTER, Shenandoah

Mrs. Sherman B. Watson, State Regent ofIowa Society, is happy to honor two of herown chapter members for their work withthis Advertising Project:

Mrs. Frederick J. Schueler, Regent, AshleyChapter

Mrs. Arthur 0. Harstad, St. Chrm., D.A.R.Magazine Advertising Comm.

The State Regent of Iowa Society, D.A.R., Mrs. Sherman B. Watson, is proud andhappy to present the names of Iowa Society's outstanding leaders, all Honorary StateRegents. Their friendship and counsel have been invaluable.

Lake, Miss HarrietJohnston, Mrs. Robert J.Hamilton, Mrs. W. H.Fitzgerald, Mrs. James E.Higgins, Mrs. Bessie CarrollEmery, Mrs. Imogen BensonNarey, Mrs. H. E.Throckmorton, Mrs. Tom B.

Ink, Mrs. R. P.Garlock, Mrs. C. A.Elliott, Mrs. Burl D.Owings, Mrs. George L.Swanson, Mrs. Charles E.Clay, Mrs. Sam StanleyKimberly, Mrs. L. W.Zwecle, Mrs. Alfred C.

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Photos—Courtesy of Art Hough, Pilot Tribune, Storm Lake, Iowa

In the top photo, left to right—Sherman R. Watson, StateC.A.R. Cedar Rapids, President. Rebecca Johnson, StateRegistrar, C.A.R. Cherokee and local President. Mary LouBeach, State 2nd V. Pres. C.A.R. Mason City. KristineSimington, local Pres., Spencer. Mrs. Wm. Ehmcke, D.A.R.State Chr. C.A.R. Cleghorn, Iowa. Twila & Lance Ehmcke,State Chr. Hist. Tours Fund.

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DINNER

In the lower photo, center: State Regent of Iowa D.A.R. Mrs.Sherman B. Watson, to her right: Mrs. E. E. Munger, C.A.R.Chr., Spencer and Mr. & Mrs G. Oliver Beach, Mason City,senior C.A.R. officers, of S.A.R. & D.A.R. to her left: JulieOlson, Spencer, State C.A.R. Recording Sec'y. and RonaldEdwards, Cedar Rapids, State C.A.R. Corresp. Sec'y.

Iowa C.A.R. Promotion PartyBy D.A.R. State Chairman

Mrs. William Ehmcke

The Youth and Education theme of Iowa's State Regent of D. A.R. headlined C.A.R. events at Storm Lake on Saturday eveningNov. 5th, when Mrs. Sherman B. Watson arrived with her distinguished son "Sherm", State President of the Iowa Society, Childrenof the American Revolution, where they were honored at a C.A.R. Promotion Party. Both honorees appeared on the program; Mrs.Watson showed her colored slides of D.A.R. Schools with her personal explanations of philanthropic endeavors by D.A.R. there.

This event arranged by the D.A.R. State Chairman of C.A.R. drew wide interest for two societies of C.A.R. from Cherokee andSpencer, who served as co-sponsors. Assisting them were their D.A.R. sponsors, Mesdames E. E. Munger, Spencer; L. L. Johnson andA. G. Gran, Storm Lake; C. T. Burkhart, Ralph Patterson, K. W. Prunty and E. W. Johnson, Cherokee.

Preceding the steak dinner in the Cobblestone dining room, 75 members, parents and guests joined in the National Anthem andthe Pledge to the Flag of the USA. Following the invocation by the State Regent, the guests were seated at tables decorated by StormLake's prospective members and their D.A.R. Interest centered on the favors denoting the pending program's highlights in C.A.R. Creedcards, Preamble book marks, song sheets, D.A.R. Schools notepads, "Jr. Am. Citizens" pencils and Iowa historical maps. Five StateOfficers, three State Chairmen and a prospective C.A.R. organizing President wore their Society's flower, the white carnation. Intro-ductions of distinguished guests (pictured) continued with the presentation of Marcia Strandberg of Boone, pending President of thenew Daniel Boone C.A.R. Members introduced their guests.

The co-sponsored patriotic program followed with ritual, music and fact. Kristine Simington, Spencer President, offered the wel-come that was answered by guest Ruth Allison's unique response. Cherokee C.A.R. presented their Patricia Prunty who sang a solo.Spencer C.A.R. gave a skit on the United Nations. The State P resident's address concluded the choral singing of "This Is MyCountry".

"Sherm" Watson addressed his attentive audience on the C.A.R. theme INTEREST. His subtle wit struck a ready applause. Hepresented the benefits of membership with logical reasoning, stressing the sound influence upon our Nation and the individual wholives American patriotism. His goal is to double the membership and those going to Wash. D.C., for the National Convention and his-toric educational tour.

Sidelining events of the evening, C.A.R. Candy sales were ringing added profits to the C.A.R. Tours Fund. Both "Sherm" andthe State Chr., Mrs. Wm. Ehmcke, expressed gratitude for the statewide assistance given this project by D.A.R. Mr. Beach of MasonCity and the S.A.R. was given recognition for his interest.

Features including the D.A.R. slides show and an hour or two of chaperoned ballroom dancing in the beautiful CobblestoneBallroom were announced by Mrs. Ehmcke before the benediction.

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SANFORD MUSEUM and PLANETARIUM117 EAST WILLOW

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Loren E. Anderson

Virginia I. Herrick

Meyer Wolff

BUSINESS ADMINISTRATOR

Lester C. Ary

MUSEUM DIRECTOR

W. D. Frankforter

CHEROKEE, IOWA

TELEPHONE CAnal 5-3922

Sanford Museum presents exhibits designed to interpret interesting regional material in the fields of history, science, and natural

history. It also contains a collection of African game animals and the first planetarium in Iowa. The latter is a Spitz projector and

is used for demonstrations to many school and adult groups throughout the area.

An active program of research is conducted in the fields of archeology and geology. The archeological exhibits include some of

the oldest Indian artifacts yet found in the State of Iowa.

One of the galleries features a series of alcoves containing period settings of clothing and furnishings. Another historic exhibit

under construction is an American livingroom of the middle 19th century.

A continuous series of special changing or traveling exhibits obtained from throughout the United States and other countries is

presented each year. Educational programs, lectures, and films are also offered to round out the museum's function as an educational

and cultural center for northwest Iowa.

The museum was founded by the bequest of Mrs. W. A. Sanford, Cherokee, Iowa.

SPONSORED BY THE ENTIRE DISTRICT OF NORTHWEST IOWA D.A.R.

Algona Chapter, Algona

Pilot Rock Chapter, Cherokee

Clear Lake Chapter, Clear Lake

Betty Alden Chapter, Emmetsburg

Okamanpado Chapter, Estherville

Fort Dodge Chapter, Fort Dodge

Mary Brewster Chapter, Humboldt

Cumberland Valley Chapter, Ida Grove

Ann Justis Chapter, Odebolt

Sac City Chapter, Sac City

Mary Ball Washington Chapter, Sheldon

Bayberry Chapter, Sibley

Martha Washington Chapter, Sioux City

Lydia Alden Chapter, Spencer

Ladies of the Lake Chapter, Spirit Lake

Buena Vista Chapter, Storm Lake

Featured by Pilot Rock Chapter, D.A.R., Cherokee

Arranged by Mrs. William Ehmcke, Cleghom, Iowa

Iowa D.A.R. State Chairman C.A.R.

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A Timeclock TripBy

Looking into the future is some-thing we all wish we could do some-times so this month, with the helpof a timeclock such as the ones madefamous by several well-known au-thors in their works, let us jumpahead a few weeks in time and seewhat is in store for us. . . .Time: April 15, 1961.Place: Constitution Hall, Wash-

ington, D. C.All morning Juniors are busily un-

packing and setting up a display ofarticles to be on sale at the JuniorMembership Bazaar booth, at itsusual place in the D Street corridorbetween the official photographerand Caldwell's booths. The boxesthey are opening have been sent fromfar and near, from chapter Juniorcommittees large and small, somewith only one or two members.Among the contents the workers find(with price tags attached to each con-tribution), ever-popular aprons, cud-dly stuffed animals, toys for bothboys and girls, earrings, novelties,and many other sorts of things forCongress buyers to take home. TheJuniors' wares are reasonably pricedand suitably packable for traveling,just right for Congress thank-yousand take-home remembrances forchildren, grandchildren, other mem-bers of the family and friends. Allproceeds from the bazaar are to beadded to the committee's only na-tional fund-raising project, the HelenPouch Scholarship Fund.On her side of the booth Janet

Yeager, National Vice Chairman inCharge of Note Paper, is countingout her orders of assorted note pa-per designs from Nelson Studio andLester Miller, the committee's twostationery suppliers. As we lookover Janet's shoulder, we see an ar-tistic arrangement of insignia pa-pers of various sizes, insignia placecards and postcards, notes withsketches of Constitution Hall andMemorial Continental Hall, and oth-er designs for every taste and pur-pose.Time: April 16, 1961, 5:15 P.M.Place: Colonial Room, The May-

flower.Juniors are gathering for the an-

Lynn Brussock, National Chairman,

Junior Membership Committee

nual Junior Membership Dinner,greeting old friends and making newones, and looking forward to hearingnews of what their fellow Juniorsare doing in various parts of the Na-tion. Miss Gertrude Carraway, Hon-orary President General, is the guestof honor and principal speaker thisevening. The President General, Mrs.Ashmead White, will greet them la-ter. Thomas Edward Senf, NationalPresident, Children of the AmericanRevolution, and Mrs. Paul R. Green-lease, National Chairman of theD.A.R. School Committee, are alsoguests at the dinner. All reserva-

Let Us Pray

By Jean B. (Mrs. E. A.)McManmon

George Washington Chapter,Galveston, Tex.

We live; we love; we laughAnd as the cup of life we quaff

Do we pray?We see the flowers when full blown—We weep, we cry; we wail and moan

But—do we pray?We sing; we play; we dance

Give old friends a passing glance—No time to pray.

Just look around and you will seeThe beauties, here for you and me.

What joys we might bring to the oldAnd heal the sick—warm the cold.

To feed the hungry or light the wayOf some poor soul, before he's clay.

To hearten one who's bent with care—Or encourage one with zeal to dare.

Some things cannot be bought withgold!

The meek, with faith, are soon madebold,

As they have all the help they needIn One, who watches each kind deed

And showers His goodness all the dayOn those who pray.

tions have been made in advance, byApril 8, with Mrs. Joseph W. Bow,4322 Rosedale Avenue, Bethesda14, Md., accompanied by a checkfor $6.50, payable to the JuniorMembership Committee. Their re-servations are held at the door.Time: April 17, 1961, 9:00 A.M.Place: Executive CommitteeRoom, American Red CrossBuilding, 17th and D Streets.

Juniors and all other interestedDaughters assemble for the JuniorMembership Committee meeting.Here all phases of Junior activitiesare discussed, and questions from thefloor are answered by Junior leadersrepresenting many parts of the coun-try. It is an informal meeting, andagain Daughters have the opportu-nity for making new friends andlearning about Junior work.

Time: April 17, 1961, 9:00 A.M.,later that day and the following4 days.

Business at the Junior Member-ship Bazaar hums as delegates, alter-nates, and congressional committeemembers stop to shop and visit withthe committee members on duty.The booth is open all week, before,during, and after daytime sessions,to make it possible for all Daughtersto examine our wares and take somehome, of course! The Juniors alsoare eager to say "hello" to all at Con-gress, to talk about the work of theircommittee, and to discuss questionsof mutual interest.

Time: April 22, 1961, and later.Places: Kate Duncan Smith,

Tamassee, Lincoln MemorialUniversity and elsewhere.

The bazaar at Congress has closedfor another year, the Daughters havereturned to their homes, and the fruitof their efforts is taking shape in thelives of the Helen Pouch Scholarshipstudents wherever they are, and willbe in years to come. Better Ameri-cans through their training at theschools, these boys and girls becomemature citizens who contribute con-structively to the future of our na-tion.The timeclock whirs to a stop, and

we are once again in February. Asyou make your plans for the springahead, do remember what you haveseen on your visit; and when Aprilarrives, we Juniors shall be lookingforward to seeing your bazaar con-tributions and you with us at Con-gress!

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affectionately and proudly presents

MRS. ALBERT GROVER PETERSas a candidate for the office of

STATE REGENT

Evelyn Cole Peters

has contirbuted distinguished and devoted service in D.A.R. National, State and chapter activities.

FEBRUARY 1961

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURER GENERAL

D. A. R. Membership

StateNumber

ofChapters

Membership as of November 1, 1960

Chapter At Large Total

ALABAMA 65 3,069 54 3,123ALASKA 3 89 89ARIZONA 7 565 25 590ARKANSAS 30 1,501 16 1,517CALIFORNIA 139 8,219 323 8,542CANAL ZONE 1 58 1 59COLORADO 35 2,315 30 2,345CONNECTICUT 58 4,567 83 4,650DELAWARE 9 545 2 547DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 60 3,698 102 3,800FLORIDA 69 5,415 139 5,554GEORGIA 89 6,147 69 6,216HAWAIIAN ISLANDS 1 136 / 138IDAHO 12 533 9 542ILLINOIS 118 9,743 126 9,869INDIANA 96 7,438 32 7,470IOWA 86 4,203 55 4,258KANSAS 66 3,566 27 3,593KENTUCKY 73 4,577 34 4,611LOUISIANA 51 2,843 39 2,882MAINE 36 2,092 24 _/, 116MARYLAND 34 1,981 71 2,052MASSACHUSETTS 98 5,327 67 5,394MICHIGAN 62 4,423 55 4,478MINNESOTA 41 1,770 44 1,814MISSISSIPPI 54 3,272 30 3,302MISSOURI 87 5,260 60 5,320MONTANA 14 693 8 701NEBRASKA 43 2,393 19 2,412NEVADA 6 275 5 280NEW HAMPSHIRE 34 1,735 13 1,748NEW JERSEY 84 5,214 113 5,327NEW MEXICO 11 706 10 716NEW YORK 178 13,767 255 14,022NORTH CAROLINA 89 5,118 63 5,181NORTH DAKOTA 9 302 8 310OHIO 125 9,220 166 9,386OKLAHOMA 40 /,403 20 2,423OREGON 32 1,457 18 1,475PENNSYLVANIA 135 13,087 108 13,195PUERTO RICO 1 23 23RHODE ISLAND 23 1,016 8 1,024SOUTH CAROLINA 60 3,061 50 3,111SOUTH DAKOTA 1 4 429 3 432TENNESSEE 85 4,354 64 4,418TEXAS 103 8,363 157 8,520UTAH 4 242 4 /46VERMONT 29 1,259 4 1,263VIRGINIA 108 6,232 131 6,363WASHINGTON 38 1,963 53 2,016WEST VIRGINIA 49 3,514 30 3,544WISCONSIN 47 2,266 22 2,288WYOMING 9 426 12 438FOREIGN: CUBA 1 55 55

ENGLAND 1 30 30FRANCE 2 71 71MEXICO 1 36 36PHILIP PINE ISLANDS 1 19 19AT LARGE 32 32

TOTAL 2,856 183,081 2,895 185,976

64,

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MINUTES

NATIONAL BOARD OF MANAGEMENT

Special Meeting

December 7, 1960

HE Special Meeting of the National. Board of Management was calledto order by the President General, Mrs.Ashmead White, at 12 noon, Wednes-day, December 7, 1960, in the NationalBoard Room, Memorial ContinentalHall, Washington, D. C.

• The Chaplain General, Mrs. Strib-ling, offered prayer, followed by thePledge of Allegiance to the Flag, ledby the First Vice President General,Mrs. William H. Sullivan, Jr.The Recording Secretary General,

Mrs. Seimes, called the roll, and thePo following members were recorded pres-

ent: National Officers: Mrs. White, Mrs.Sullivan, Mrs. Stribling, Mrs. Seimes,Mrs. Baker, Miss Burns, Mrs. Hay-ward, Mrs. Hoke, Mrs. Hager, Mrs.Maddox, Mrs. Wrenn, Vice PresidentGeneral, District of Columbia; Mrs.Tonkin, Vice President General, Vir-ginia; State Regents: Mrs. Wilson, Dis-trict of Columbia; Mrs. Shramek,Maryland; Mrs. Morse, Virginia.The Treasurer General, Miss Burns,

moved that 156 former members bereinstated. Seconded by Mrs. Baker.Adopted.The Treasurer General reported the

iv following changes in membership:Deceased, 775; resigned, 1,370; rein-stated, 156.The Registrar General, Mrs. Hay-

ward, read her report.I have the honor to report 1,667

applications presented to the Board.a MARTHA B. HAYWARD,

Registrar General.

Mrs. Hayward moved that the 1,667applicants whose records have beenverified by the Registrar General beelected to membership in the NationalSociety. Seconded by Mrs. Baker.Adopted.

The Organizing Secretary General,Mrs. Baker, read her report.

Your Organizing Secretary Generalherewith submits the following reportfrom October 12th to December 7th:

Through their respective State Re-gents the following six Members AtLarge are presented for confirmationas Organizing Regents: Mrs. GladysWoodall Hudgings, Fort Payne, Ala.;Mrs. Jean W. Henderson, DeBary, Fla.;Mrs. Miriam Brough Lethen, Wood-stock, Ill.; Mrs. Lottie Bandy Wilson,Brandenburg, Ky.; Mrs. ElizabethTomlinson Clardy, Lovington, N. M.;Mrs. Virginia Fitzwater Duffy, Nitro,W. Va.The resignation of Mrs. R. Gladys

Vernon Dickerson as Organizing Re-gent in Monroe, La., has been received.The following organizing regency has

expired by time limitation, and the StateRegent requests reappointment: Mrs.Martha Baine Roddy, Punta Gorda,Fla.Through the State Regent of Arkan-

sas, Martha Baker Thurman Chapterrequests permission to change its nameto Fort Smith.

The following three chapters arepresented for official disbandment: Wil-liam Weatherford, Atmore, Ala.; Ken-nebec, Bingham, Maine; Gayoso,Caruthersville, Mo.The following four chapters have

met all requirements according to theBylaws and are now presented for con-firmation: Reuben Long, Hurtsboro,Ala.; St. Tammany, Slidell, La.; CloughValley, Terrace Park, Ohio; TehaLanna, Stephenville, Tex.

ELIZABETH H. BAKER,Organizing Secretary General.

Mrs. Baker moved the confirmationof six organizing regents; resignation ofone organizing regent; reappointmentof one organizing regent; change inname of one chapter; disbandment ofthree chapters; confirmation of fourchapters. Seconded by Mrs. Hayward.Adopted.The Recording Secretary General

read the minutes, which were approvedas read.The President General invited the

members to attend the exercises at theMarine Barracks when she would pre-sent the D.A.R. award to the officercandidate who received the highestgrade in leadership in the Marine CorpsPlatoon Leaders Class, Marine CorpsSchools.The meeting adjourned at 12:15 p.m.

BETTY NEWKIRK SEIMES,Recording Secretary General.

Just before going out of office—on January 18—President Eisenhower signed into

law a bill creating the C & 0 Canal National Monument. Plans for its develop-

ment and future use have not been revealed as yet; but the historic canal, which ran

from Cumberland, Md., in the coal country, to Georgetown, D. C., played a stellar

role at one time in conveying products of what was then "the West" to the Alantic

tidewater.

Early in January the Savings Bonds Division of the United States Treasury cele-

brated the 20th anniversary of the Savings Bonds program. Since May 1941, American

citizens have bought over $100 billion worth of Series E bonds. Banks have issued

about 80 percent of these bonds as a public service. Outstanding bonds of the SeriesE and H groups form 15 percent of the National debt.

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Compliments ofHIWASSEE CHAPTER

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HERMITAGE CHAPTER, D.A.R.the oldest Chapter in Tennesseeorganized in 1896, sends greetings

to all D.A.R. SocietiesHonoring our Regent

MRS. ROBERT 0. SMITHArdmore Chapter, Ardmore, Oklahoma

Honoring Mrs. It. L. Hughes, RegentBORDERLAND CHAPTER, D.A.R.

Fayetteville, Oak Still, Mt. Hope, W. Va.

NATHAN DAVIS CHAPTER, D.A.R.West Union, West Virginia

Compliments ofWEST AUGUSTA CHAPTER

Mannington, W. Va.

Greetings fromKANZA CHAPTER, D.A.R.

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Best Wishes to

GAINESVILLE CHAPTER, D.A.R.

Mrs. Freeman H. Hart, RegentGainesville, Florida

CITIZENS BANK OF GAINESVILLEMember F.D.I.C.

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The Electoral College(Continued from page 120)

out of proportion to their members.But certainly would not proportionalState voting encourage splinter par-ties? A popular candidate could losea State by having a splinter group ofhis own party oppose him or even athird party and thereby allow his op-ponent to take the State. It would belike the 1948 election in the South.Because of that, Senator Henry CabotLodge in 1950 sought to have thenumerical winner elected as long ashe had taken 40 percent of the vote.The Lodge bill did not pass the Con-gress.

Effect of Direct Popular Vote onStates' Rights

Any shift toward a direct popularvote would cause the small States tolose power in presidential elections.Now their votes are wooed as ardent-ly as are those in California or NewYork State. By popular vote a candi-date need only concentrate on adozen cities and run up huge majori-ties there that would offset the ruralareas and small States. It would giverise to the entrenched power of citybosses far beyond what is experiencednow. It would have a divisive in-fluence, in that the base emotions ofethnic or religious blocs would pre-vail.

But more than this—once more wewould be giving away our States'rights!Our Government is a federation

of States. The Government of theUnited States is Federal because thesovereign people provided in the Con-stitution equally for a central Nation-al Government and for governmentsby States. All powers not given to theFederal (central) Government areretained by the States. This is a factabout which we have grown careless.Since 1932 big government has in-gested, by small bites, the powers of

the several States. Our people havetacitly permitted this to happen.

Constitutional AmendmentsInimical to the Electorate

The electorate was asleep twice,both times before 1913 when we werelulled by a false peace and years ofplenty. In that year the States agreedto the 16th Amendment (February25, 1913) giving the Congress thepower to collect taxes on incomes,from whatever source derived, with-out apportionment among the Statesand without regard to Census enu-meration. The ordinary voter wasn'tconcerned. The tax was to be leviedon the rich. However, now it is notonly confiscatory but is also used asa punitive weapon and invades theindividual's privacy.The second time was when the

17th amendment (May 31, 1913)provided for the election of UnitedStates Senators by direct vote of thepeople. Again, we gave away thesovereign rights of the States, becausethe original concept of the Congresswas that the House should be chosenevery 2 years by direct vote of thepeople and, as a check on its power,the Senate was to be comprised oftwo Senators from each State, suchSenators to be chosen by their legis-latures. In effect, the Senators wereambassadors from their States to de-liberate on the popular legislation andto maintain the interests of theirStates. By direct election, Senatorslost their ambassadorial qualities andbecame just the servants of their con-stituents, just as their lesser col-leagues. If we did not have the directelection of Senators, much of thelegislation passed by the Congress inthe last 30 years would have beenconsiderably different so far as "give-away" programs are concerned.

Power of the Big City Vote

Therefore, if we now abolish theElectoral College and go to directelection or a proportional election,the majority of us who do not livein New York, Chicago, San Francisco,etc., might as well stay at home onelection day and let the big city votesprojected on those computors (?!!!)determine the President.

Horse-and-buggy days? Maybe.But the common sense of our ances-tors far outweighs the emotionalbinges the populace delights in toooften in this push-button world.Let's think before we commit our-selves.

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THE NEVADA STATE SOCIETY

March

Nevada Sagebrush ChapterMrs. Guy Benham, Regent

John C. Fremont Chapter• Mrs. Cameron Batjer, Regent

Welcomes

MRS: ASHMEAD WHITE, President General

to the

NEVADA STATE CONFERENCE, D.A.R.

16 and 17, Las Vegas, Nevada. Valley of Fire Chapter,

Mrs. C. David Lambird, State Regent

Toiyabe ChapterMrs. Clarence Jones, Regent

Francisco Garces Chapter

Mrs. Harry Wallace, Regent

Hostess

Lahontan ChapterMrs. 0. M. Sander, Regent

Valley of Fire Chapter

Mrs. Harvey Dickerson, Regent

MARION CHAPTER

Fayetteville, ArkansasGolden Anniversary

Charter member 50 yearsGeorgia Norman 81186

Olivia Norman Floyd

Regents 1910-1920:

*Mrs. R. B. Willis (Mary Jasper)(Organizing Regent)

*Mrs. George Parsons (Jennie Chandler)*Miss Julia Vaulx*Mrs. Guy Phillips (Augusta Kenney)

1920-1930:*Mrs. L. D. Wooddy (Fannie Watson)*Mrs. Samuel Nunnelly (Mamie Lowry)

*Mrs. A. C. Hamilton (Kathleen Downs)

Mrs. Emmett Ratliff (Marian Gladson)*Mrs. Jeff T. Hight (Cener Sanders)*Mrs. R. E. Blair (Julia Meade)

1930-1941*Mrs. Paul M. Heerwagen, Sr.

(Ida Killian)

Mrs. Charles Edward Prall (Dayle)

*Mrs. R. E. Blair (Julia Meade)

*Miss Julia Ramsey VaulxMrs. Rudyard K. Bent

(Marguerite Ewing)

81,187

56,067

81,489103,477129,444

81,189114,89781,547140,859137,049187,075

218,996

255,739

1941-1951:*Mrs. Adeline FordMrs. Leland Bryan (Gertrude Watson) 134,277Mrs. Benj. Whitely Cross

(Catherine Albright) 317,365Mrs. Murray Peyser (Myrtle Cox) 274,651

Mrs. John C. Hamilton (Eunice Crippen) 288,233

1951-1961Mrs. Leonard L. Baxter (Laura Hill) 314,844Mrs. Russell G. Paddock (Irene Grubbs) 195,397Mrs. J. Volney Parker (Margaret Gray) 258,735Mrs. Arthur S. Brown (Marian Gladson) 140,859Mrs. Royce M. Lansford (Xanna Yater) 405,870

All deceased past regents' graves marked.

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STAMFORD CHAPTER

Stamford, Connecticut

Organized in 1894

Honors

its living Past Regents

Miss Sara Mead Webb

Mrs. Robert A. Hadden

Mrs. Charles L. Johnson

Mrs. Otto Heyer

Mrs. Barton A. Bolton

Mrs. Harriet P. Partee

Mrs. Robert Dugdale

Mrs. Allton T. Williams

Mrs. Richard Penfield

Mrs. Everett Raymond

and

Mrs. Reuben H. Curran

Its present Regent

Compliments ofGENERAL HENRY LEE CHAPTER, D.A.R.

Lake Village, Arkansas

The Most InsidiousRacket of Our Time

(Continued from page 114)

are commensurate with the enormity• of the crime they have committed. Of

what importance are these to a con-

victed purveyor to the damage he hasdone in kindling an unhealthy pru-riency in children?

Present laws are inadequate to pre-vent or cut out the trade in por-nography. A liberal Supreme Courtruling on the difference between "art"and "obscenity" has provided an "out"for the sellers of this material.

An informed, aroused group, work-ing with law-enforcement agencies, suchas the FBI and others, can accomplishmuch to stamp out this filth which isthreatening the morality of our na-tion—and our richest blessing—ourchildren. Will you help as an informedand intelligent group of outstandingAmerican women?

FEBRUARY 1961 [ 157 ]

A Brief List of Books on theAmerican Revolution,

Selected and annotated by

Amelia B. Deans (retired librarian).

973.3. Revolution and Confederation

CHANNING, EDWARD. The AmericanRevolution, 1761-1789. Macmillan, NewYork, 1912. 585 pp., maps. $6.75. (Vol.3 of his History of the United States.)A scholarly work, suitable for study

and also interesting to the general reader.FISKE, Jornsi. The American Revolution.

Houghton, Mifflin, Boston and New York(c1891). 2 vol. $3.00 each.A concise, lively narrative, by one of

America's finest historians.FISKE, JOHN. The Critical Period of

American History, 1783-1789. Houghton,Mifflin, Boston and New York (c1888,1916). 368 pp. $3.00.A continuation of the volumes on the

American Revolution; in the author'sclear and graceful style.

LANCASTER, BRUCE. From Lexington toLiberty. The Story of the American Revo-lution. Doubleday, Garden City, N. Y.,1955. 470 pp. $5.75.A very readable history of the Revo-

lution, in dramatic and pleasing style. Theauthor treats men and events with fairnessto all sides and from a viewpoint accept-able to patriotic sentiment. There aresome vivid descriptions of battles.MALONE, DUMAS. Story of the Declara-

tion of Independence. Oxford Univ. Press,New York, 1954. 282 pp., illus. (prints,paintings, photographs). $10.00.A pictorial history, with first-rate text

by an authority on Thomas Jefferson andhis times.TREVELYAN, SIR GEORGE OTTO: The

American Revolution. [1766-1778]. Newedition. Longmans, Green, 1905-12. 4vols. in 5 (vol. 2 is in 2 parts).An admirable history, from a British

viewpoint; favorable to the Americancause. Written with finished ease andsuavity of style, leisurely, discursive,touched with humor. It is filled with fasci-nating detail and lively characterization.The author's hero is Charles James Fox;he is an admirer of George Washington;his keenest sympathies are with the gal-lantry and hardships of the British privatesoldier. There is a brilliant sketch of Ben-jamin Franklin as a diplomat. The authoris at home in the 18th century; it comesto life under his hand.The history closes with the signing of

the French-American Treaty and the be-ginning of the war between France andEngland.

Franklin, Benjamin.

FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN. Autobiography.Houghton, Mifflin, Boston, 1923. 286 pp.,illus. $2.50.Other editions:Modern Libr. $2.50 (Illustr. Modern

Libr.)Dutton (Everyman's Libr.). $1.45.Modern Libr. $1.25.An American classic.VAN DOREN, CARL. Benjamin Franklin.

Viking Press, New York, 1938, 1956. 845pp. $6.00.One of the best of the biographies of

Franklin. Long and detailed, but interest-ing. If one doesn't have time for the en-tire book, one might read the last chapteror two of "London" and all of "Paris."

•

Washington, George.

(Washington as a soldier is admirablyportrayed in Fiske's "American Revolu-tion".)FREEMAN, DOUGLAS SOUTHALL. George

Washington. Vol. 5. Victory with theHelp of France [1778-1783]. Scribner,New York, 1952. 570 pp., illus., maps.$7.50.

Part of a recent, thoroughly researchedlife of George Washington, by a cele-brated biographer. The work is long anddetailed; in 7 volumes.

MORISON, SAMUEL ELIOT. The YoungMan Washington. Harvard Univ. Press,Cambridge, Mass., 1932. 43 pp. 50 cents.(Revised edition in "By Land and by Sea,Essays and Addresses by Samuel EliotMorison", 1953, pp. 161-180.)

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February has been appropriately des-ignated American History Month. We arethus reminded particularly of the birth-day anniversaries of two great Americans—Washington and Lincoln—and of eventsconnected with their careers. Togetherwith other patriotic societies, the Daughtersof the American Revolution leads the Na-tion, in annual observance of these his-toric events.

This year we celebrate the 229th an-niversary of the birth of George Washing-ton, born February 22, 1732; and the152nd anniversary of the birth of Abra-ham Lincoln, born February 12, 1809-77 years after the birth of Washington.Many tributes to these American states-men have been made throughtout theyears. Of Washington much has beenwritten and spoken and will so continueas time passes. It was Harry Lee who bestdescribed him with these immortal words:

First in war, first in peace;first in the hearts of his countrymen!

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Looking back into history, we recall many important events taking place duringFebruary, among them the birthdays of those great defenders of American freedom—Abraham Lincoln and George Washington—and the inventor, Thomas Edison. Massa-chusetts entered the Union, the Territory of Illinois was created, the Boy ScoutOrganization was founded, and voting by women was declared legal—all in February.Individuals and groups of individuals pattern our lives now, as in the past. We haveindividuals and groups of individuals who each month exert themselves to the utmostto secure advertising for our D.A.R. Magazine, so that we may honor the past, acknowl-edge the present, and direct our thinking toward the future. They do not work forcommissions alone, but to make sure that Americanism begins at home. This monthof February, American History Month, we have a great big "thank you" to say to theseStates for their efforts:

Texas—Mrs. Edgar R. Riggs, State Regent: Mrs. Lorenzo L. Skaggs, State Chair-man. 65 of 104 chapters participated, sending $3,377.00, including cuts and mats.John McKnitt Alexander Chapter is first, with $515.00, Jane Douglas Chapter secondwith $390.00: San Antonio de Bexar Chapter third, with $386.00.

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