Evening star. [volume], April 22, 1937, Page A-5, Image 5

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Mrs. Charles Haig Reports
Organization’s Growth
to D. A. R.
Mrs. Charles Carroll Haig, State
regent of the District of Columbia
D. A. R., reported to the forty-sixth
Continental Congress last night that
si* new clubs of Junior American
Citizens were formed in the public
schools here during the past year,
making a total of 11 clubs, with a
membership of over 400.
Good citizenship medals will be
presented, she said, to one boy and
one girl in the June graduating class
of the 18 junior high schools of the
District, in connection with the D.
A. R. program on national defense.
Through the Genealogical Records
Committee, she reported that 959
pages of Bible and miscellaneous rec
ords were contributed.
More than $1,500 has been contri
buted for scholarships to the ap
proved schools from thus city, she
reported, and nearly $300 to the
Florence H. Becker Recreation Hall
at Kate Duncan Smith School and
the manager at Tamassee.
The D. A. R. in the District of Co
lumbia. she reported, now has a mem
bership of 3,500.
An innovation of the year was an
evening known as ‘‘chapter regents'
night," during the State conference,
•he said.
The Maryland State report, by Mrs.
Arthur P. Shanklin of Baltimore, said
copies of the 1,800 census records
of seven counties of Maryland and
Baltimore City had been given to the
D. A. R. library.
State and chapter student loan
funds, she said, were increased in
the amount of $1,575. Sponsored by
D. A. R. chapters, three societies of
the Children of the American Revolu
tion and four new clubs of Junior
American Citizens were organized.
Mrs. Arthur Rowbotham of Al
tavista. Va., State regent, reported
D. A. R. membership had increased
and now stands at 3.979. One new
chapter had been aded during the
year, she reported, making a total of
60.
Seven well organized and prospering
Junior American Citizens’ Clubs were
reported. Fourteen radio programs of
a patriotic nature had been given
during the year, she said.
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D. A. R.
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of the Buenos Aires conference and at
the same time passed a series of other
resolutions, among them these three:
Continuance of the Civilian Con
servation Corps.
Increased appropriations for the
Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Erection of a tablet in Constitution
Hall in honor of Mrs. William Russell
Magna, honorary president general
and former president general, through
whose efforts, to a great extent, funds
tor erection of Constitution Hall were
raised.
The delegates to the congress went
to the polls today to cast their bal
lots for seven vice presidents general
and one honorary vice president gen
eral. There are 11 candidates for the
former post and 2 for the latter. Re
sults will be announced tonight.
Mrs. G. M. Grimes of Schuyler
Arms Apartments, who has been
active In the D. A. R. since 1922, Is
the District's only candidate for a
Vice presidency.
Mrs. Grimes was nominated last
night by Mrs. Charles Carroll Haig.
State regent for the District, and
seconded by Mrs. A. P. Shanklin,
6tate regent for Maryland.
campaigning is Quiet.
In sharp contrast to the excitement
attending the triennial election of a
president general, the campaigning
for the posts at stake today was
tarried on without furore.
Mrs. W. H. Talbott of Rockville,
Md., and Mrs. W. B. Burney of
Columbia, S. C., are the candidates
for the honorary vice presidency, to
which only former vice presidents gen
eral are eligible. Besides Mrs. Grimes,
these 10 are in the vice presidential
race:
Mrs. F. M. Dick of Cambridge, Md.;
Mrs. G. B. Averill, Milwaukee, Wis.;
Mrs. W. H. Belk, Charlotte, N. C.;
Mrs H. J Cary, Kearney. Nebr; Mrs.
Ronnie Farwell, Terre Haute, Ind ;
Mrs. C. E. Head, Seattle. Wash.; Mrs.
Gory Hogg, Lewisburg, W. Va : Mrs.
R. K Minson, Temoe, Ariz; Mrs. M.
C. Turner, Dallas, Tex.; Mrs. E. H.
Whitaker. Pasadena. Calif.
In recent years it has not been the
D. A. R. Candidates
Among the candidates for
the posts of vice president
general and honorary vice
president general of the
D. A. R. are one woman
from the District and tivo
from Maryland. Upper right is
Mrs. George Madden Grimes,
Schuyler Arms Apartments,
candidate for vice president
general; upper left, Mrs.
Frank M. Dick, Cambridge,
Md., candidate for vice presi
dent general; lower, Mrs. Wil
liam H. Talbott of Rockville,
Md., candidate for honorary
vice president general.
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I custom for vice presidents general to
go from that post to the president
generalship. There are 21 vice presi
dents general, 7 of whom are replaced
each year.
Born in Dakota Territory.
Mrs. Grimes, who was born at
Standing Rock Agency, Dakota Terri
tory, has been District state chair
man of Correct Use of the Flag, regent,
vice regent and registrar of the Army
and Navy Chapter and vice chairman
of the National Auditing Committee.
She was formerly a member of the
National Printing Committee and
National Correct Use of the Flag
Committee.
Mr*. Grimes served five years as
national chairman of the Bulletin
Board Committee and is a former
chairman of the National Reception
Committee. She was State chairman
of Constitution Hall Finance Com
mittee.
She has served as State vice regent,
State regent and now is State chair
man of Resolutions Committee.
From the ballot box the congress
delegates went to their seats to listen
to F. A. Sileox. chief of the Forest
Service, bemoan the abuse of the
"woods and templed hills" hymned
in Samuel Francis Smith’s song,
“America.”
“Nowhere except in this land of
the pilgrim's pride were there forests
more illimitable or incomparably beau
tiful,” Sileox said of the America
of 100 years ago. He spoke after the
D. A. R. Conservation Committee pre
sented Its annual report.
Report of Committee.
The Conservation Committee re
ported that during the past year it
planted more than 400,000 trees, 120,
I 000 shrubs and 150,000 bulbs, spend
i ing in all $89,968 95.
“Human conservation has been out
; standing,” Mrs. Avery Turner of
Amarillo, Tex., chairman of the
committee, said.
“The conservation of youths par
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Retirement
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would take advantage of early retire
ment or because the Government could
weed out workers it was believed
should be retired.
Federal employes had experience
with forced retirement under the
economy act, however, and did not
like It, and those workers who now
can retire at 62 or 05, instead of 70
as customary, also are opposing the
plan.
Disputed by Actuaries.
Actuaries, too, dispute the civil
service figures on the cost of admin
istration, holding that the option, if
exercised by emploes alone, would run
about $5,000,000 annually, and that to
give this option to the Government
also would boost the cost about
$8,000,000.
There nave been a couple of plans
put forth for survivor annuities, it is
said, neither of which would cost the
Government anything more unless for
slight additional clerk hire. These,
however, are reported to be in dis
favor with the workers because they
feel the result would be Inadequate
payments.
At the same time, however, it was
indicated that no retirement legisla
tion that might be expected to entail
additional cost will be looked on with
favor by the administration, particu
larly in view of the current move
toward reducing expenditures. This
same argument against increased
costs, however, was put forth several
months ago by Representative Rams
peck, Democrat, of Georgia, chairman
of the House Civil Service Commit
tee, who said Congress would oppose
adding to the retirement load.
The Civil Service Commission has
not disclosed what personnel improve
ments were embodied in the report to
the White House, which was taken up
with the President for the first time
yesterday. The program was recom
mended, however, with the qualifica
tion that it would not entail added
expenditure and otherwise conform to
the President's ideas.
Entrance Requirements.
Both President Roosevelt and the
Civil Service Commission are known
to be interested in raising entrance
requirements for Government posts to
put the service on a more selected
basis. Coupled with this is the ques
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