Rhode Island, ....Mrs. Chas. Warren LipPITT, 7 Young Orchard Ave., Provi South Carolina, dence. (Margaret Barbara Farnum.) .MRS. ROBERT Moultrie BratTON, Guthriesville. (Virginia Mason.) MRS. THOMAS C. ROBERTSON, 1310 Senate St., Columbia. ..MRS. WILLIAM G. SPENCER, 509 Stevenson Ave., Nashville. South Dakota, ... Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, MISS MARY BOYCE TEMPLE, 316 W. Cumberland St., Knoxville. (Ella Hutchins.) MRS. HULING Parker RobertSON, 404 N. 9th St., Temple. .MRS. MARY FERRY ALLEN, Park City. MRS. CLAYTON NELSON NORTH, Shoreham. (Anne E. Bascom.) MRS. JULIUS J. ESTEY, Brattleboro. (Florence Gray.) .MRS. SAMUEL W. JAMISON, 1016 Franklin Road, Roanoke. (Alice Peyton Terry.) MRS. WILLIAM W. HARPER, "Peliso," Orange. (Anne Williams Hill.) Washington, ..... MRS. DAVID A. GovE, 1115 23d Ave., north, Seattle. (Eva Wead.) MRS. ALBERT J. TRUMBULL, 1242 16th Ave., north, Seattle. West Virginia, ...MRS. R. H. EDMONDSON, 487 High St., Morgantown. Wisconsin, Wyoming, MRS. DOUGLAS E. NEWTON, Hartford. (Jennie Nordeck.) ..MRS. OGDEN HOFFMAN FETHERS, 605 St. Lawrence Ave., (Frances Conkey.) Janesville. MRS. E. H. VAN OSTRAND, 405 Clermont Ave., Antigo. (Mattie Culver.) MRS. HENRY B. PATTEN, 314 E 18th St., Cheyenne. MRS. JOHN W. FOSTER, MRS. ADLAI E. STEVENSON, MRS. DANIEL MANNING, MRS. CHAS. W. FAIRBANKS Honorary President Presiding MRS. MARY V. E. CABELL Honorary Vice-Presidents General MRS. ROGER A. PRYOR, 1893. MRS. A. C. Geer, 1896. MRS. MILDRED S. MATHES, 1899. MRS. DEB. RANDOLPH KEIM, 1906. HOW TO BECOME A MEMBER Any woman is eligible for membership in the NATIONAL SOCIETY, DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, who is of the age of eighteen years, and is descended from a patriot man or woman who aided in establishing American Independence, provided the applicant is acceptable to the Society. Family tradition alone in regard to the services of an ancestor, unaccompanied by proof will not be considered. All persons duly qualified, who have been regularly admitted by the National Board of Management, shall be members of the National Society, but for purposes of convenience, they may be organized into local Chapters (those belonging to the National Society alone being known as members-at-large). Application Blanks and Constitutions will be furnished on request by the State Regent of the State in which you reside, or by the "Corresponding Secretary General," at headquarters, 902 F Street, Washnigton, D. C. Applications should be made out in duplicate, one of which is kept on file at National Headquarters and one returned to file with a Chapter should one be joined. The application must be endorsed by at least one member of the Society. The application, when properly filled out, should be directed to "Registrar General, D. A. R., 902 F Street, N. W., Washington, D. C." The initiation fee is one dollar; the annual dues are Two Dollars. The sum of three dollars, covering the initiation fees and the annual dues for the current year, must accompany each application presented to the National Society direct for members-at-large. The sum of two dollars, covering the initiation fee and one-half the annual dues for the current year, shall accompany each application forwarded to the National Society, through any local Chapter. All remittances to whomsoever sent should be by a check or money order. Never in currency. No application will be considered until this fee is paid. If not accepted, this amount will be returned. At the April meeting of the National Board of Management, Daughters of the American Revolution, the following motion was unanimously passed: "Resolved, That the following notice be inserted in the AMERICAN MONTHLY MAGAZINE: 'Chapters shall send to headquarters, D. A. R., 902 F Street, Washington, D. C., notice of deaths, resignations, marriages and all changes of address and list of officers."" American Monthly Magazine VOL. XXXV. WASHINGTON, D. C., NOVEMBER, 1909. No. 5. ADDRESS TO THE NATIONAL BOARD Mrs. Matthew T. Scott, President General Ladies and Officers of the National Board of Management: We stand at the threshold of a new era. To-day marks an epoch in the life of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution. No hour of greater moment, no hour of finer historic interest, has marked any period in the life of our organization, than that which assembles us together-to-day for the first time, in this splendid apartment, eloquent with the great purposes, consecrated to the great ideals for which our society stands. We have witnessed-and some of us have participated in magnificent dedicatory ceremonies in the past; the laying of the corner-stone, memorial monolith portico, rich gifts, the expression of the patriotic devotion of individuals or chapters or States, when the very air has been charged with sympathetic eloquence, that matched the masterpieces of any age or nation. To-day we come with no music of band, or blare of trumpet, no splendid pageant with banner and procession, but-encompassed by a great cloud of witnesses, it is rather with a sense of awe, the hush that is the benediction as it were, of answered prayer, that we come to renew our tacit oath of allegiance to the Constitution, our tacit pledge to maintain the faith, and to exemplify, the patriotic principles that have inspired and made possible, this magnificent realization of our dreams, this glorious consummation of all we have hoped, worked and prayed for. With heads bowed in humility lest we forget, with hearts. lifted in thankfulness for the unseen Hand that has guided our stately ship and anchored it at last safely in this beautiful haven |