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...immigrants," 'the Daughters of the American Revolution have been running, stumbling and crawling to recapture lost dignity. Their goal; pure "Americanism." In this field they have no peers, with the possible exception of the Colonial Dames who came off the boat a few years before the Revolution. But the DAR is heavily populated, 174,000 this year, and makes up in intensity what it lacks in tradition...
Another sag in "Americanism" that brought DAR action was the "unamerican" flying of another flag on an equal level with that of the United States. A DAR agent found the Un guilty of this and the outraged Daughters hastened to have the equal arrangement changed. When the Norfolk Navy Yard repeated the insult, they passed a resolution demanding a Congressional investigation...
...Turning from defense of Old Glory to defense of Jim Crow, the Daughters discovered their lease to a Washington auditorium, Constitution Hall. DAR rule has taught many Negroes that the Hall is an exclusive place. Two time loser Hazel Scott, colored wife of Representative Powell, found that the Daughters didn't like her kind of singing. While few negroes have similarly tried twice, the Hall has been forbidden ground to over fifteen colored entertainers in the last five years, and just to prove that they do not discriminate only against the entertainment industry, the Daughters ejected an Ethiopian Minister...
This proposal may seem difficult to execute, but the atmosphere of a DAR continental convention would make it entirely plausible. Last month, for instance, the Daughters tackled and demolished everything from dope smuggling to the gold standard. A resolution for return to the latter brought protest from an amateur economist: "It would be chaotic to put the United States alone on the gold standard." She was silenced by "It is only foreigners who can't redeem in gold," and the resolution passed...
...state of Kentucky, was taken from Germany in World War I. Mostly high equatorial plateau; a hunter's paradise but infested with tsetse flies. Population: 16,000 whites, half of them Germans; 23,000 Indian traders; 7,000,000 Bantus, scattered in some 100 tribes. Capital: Dar es Salaam. Resources: cotton, sisal, peanuts...