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go down in the annals of Washington history as one of the most brilliant events ever held in the nation's capital. The guests were drawn from official and social circles, together with representatives from patriotic, religious and civic organizations. So greatly had this distinguished and beloved friend of our organization endeared himself to our Society that the Daughters of the American Revolution had thirty representatives at the dinner, some of whom came a great distance to pay honor to Ambassador and Madame Jusserand.

A phase of your President General's activities has had to do with the preparation and radio broadcasting of a 10-minute speech on "The Aims and Activities of the Daughters of the American Revolution," and she also broadcasted a 15-minute talk on "Benjamin Franklin," in connection with the observance of National Thrift Week.

Upon invitation of the Sons of the American Revolution, on January 17th, the President General participated in the celebration of the birthday of Benjamin Franklin by placing a wreath at the base of the Franklin statue, at Tenth street and Pennsylvania avenue, and making a brief address in the name of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

January 21st, with Mr. Marvin H. Lewis, the President of the Sons of the American Revolution, and Representative Winter, of Wyoming, she was a guest of honor at the annual banquet of the District of Columbia Sons of the American Revolution. At this time she gave a greeting from our Society, in which she assured them of our co-operation in all matters of mutual interest.

Your President General feels that the National Board of Management will chronicle, with a sense of personal loss, the death of Mrs. Warren G. Harding, wife of the late President Harding. Both as a private individual and as the wife of the nation's chief executive, Mrs. Harding actively participated in the work of our Society. Through her efficient helpfulness as a member, as well as through her many thoughtful personal courtesies, she endeared herself to all of those with whom she came in contact, and we mourn her passing with sincere

sorrow.

It is with profound regret that your President General announces the death of Mr. George W. Fairchild, of New York, who was an interested and valuable member of our Advisory Board.

She also announces the death of Mrs. Eleanor Washington Bellamy, of Macon, Georgia, a distinguished member of our Society. According to advices received from our attorney, General Harris, the Society is to receive a bequest from

Mrs. Bellamy's estate, should there be sufficient funds available to pay it or any part of it after certain expenses and the necessary State and Federal taxes have been met. Specific information concerning this matter will be transmitted as soon as it is available.

Your President General feels that you will be interested to know that she and Mr. Cook were guests of President and Mrs. Coolidge, at the judiciary reception at the White House, the evening of January 22nd, and were dinner guests of the President and Mrs. Coolidge, at the judiciary dinner at the White House, on January 29th.

She and Mr. Cook were also privileged to be the guests of General and Mrs. Lord, at the Semi-Annual Meeting of the Bureau of the Budget, Monday evening, January 26th, when President Coolidge and General Lord addressed the meeting.

The Ambassador of Great Britain and Lady Howard have done your President General and Mr. Cook the honor to ask them to be their dinner guests on Friday evening, February 6th. It has been a great pleasure for the President General to attend a number of District of Columbia Chapter meetings. Among them have been the very enjoyable meeting of the Army and Navy Chapter, the interesting bridge party for Wakefield, and the colorful ball held at Wardman Park Hotel, for the benefit of and under the auspices of the Chapter House Corporation of the District of Columbia Daughters of the American Revolution.

There have been two committee meetings of the Plans Committee, one of which was attended by the members of the Advisory Board, to consider plans for the proposed new Auditorium. Mr. John Russell Pope, the architect selected by the Building Committee to prepare plans for its consideration and that of the Congress, also attended these meetings. Mr. Pope, the President General might add, is not only giving his services entirely free of charge to the Society, but has made three trips at his own expense from New York in connection with this project.

Two Executive Committee meetings have been held.

There has also been a meeting with the Society's parliamentarian to consider the proposed amendments to the By-Laws, and a special Board meeting was held January 31st.

The President General has the honor to announce that President Coolidge, acting under the authority vested in him by a resolution adopted by the Congress of the United States, has appointed your President General a member of the United States Commission for the

Celebration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of George Washington (1932).

The resolution names President Coolidge, the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House as ex officio members. To represent the Senate and House of Representatives upon this commission, the President pro tempore of the Senate has appointed Senator Fess, of Ohio; Senator Glass, of Virginia; Senator Spencer, of Missouri; Senator Bayard, of Delaware; and the Speaker of the House has appointed Representative Hawley, of Oregon; Representative Tilson, of Connecticut; Representative Garner, of Texas; Representative Byrns, of Tennessee.

"The commission appointed by the President is to consist of Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook, of Pennsylvania, President General of the Daughters of the American Revolution; Mrs. Mary Sherman, of Colorado, President of the General Federation of Women's Clubs; Henry Ford; Hanford MacNider, of Iowa, former Commander of the American Legion; C. Bascom Slemp, retiring Secretary to the President; A. Lawrence Lowell, President of Harvard University; Edgar B. Piper, Portland, Oregon, publisher; and Frank A. Munsey, New York, publisher."

In your President General's letter of acceptance to President Coolidge, she pledged her own best efforts and the loyal support and whole-hearted co-operation of our Society in this great patriotic commemoration.

It is your President General's intention to leave the afternoon of February 14th to attend numerous State conferences in the West and Southwest. She plans to include the States of Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, California, New Mexico, Arizona, and Oklahoma in her itinerary, thus totaling a record of twenty State conferences attended this year.

The President General feels that each one of us serving upon this Board is increasingly impressed with the opportunities for service which come to us as individuals and as motivating forces in this great organization of ours. During the sessions of the approaching Thirtyfourth Congress, as well as at all other times, let us strive to think nationally and without personal bias, so that our decisions upon the important questions of policy confronting the Congress may be so wisely made that they shall contribute at all times to our future growth and be worthy of our best selves and the greatest possible development of the largest woman's patriotic organization in the world.

LORA HAINES COOK, President General. Dr. Barrett moved that the report of the President General be accepted, with apprecia

tion of the signal honor extended to her by the President of the United States in appointing her as a member of the United States Commission Celebrating the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of George Washington, and that a letter of thanks be sent from this Board to President Coolidge.

The President General exhibited a reproduction in colors of the painting of George Washington by Rembrandt Peale, which has recently been acquired. Mrs. Goode related an interesting incident at the auction when other organizations, representatives of dealers and prominent local citizens were competitive bidders; finally, all but one of the opponents were eliminated, and he ceased to bid when he learned that the painting was desired for Memorial Continental Hall; a touching tribute to the members of our National Society.

The Report of the Recording Secretary General was then presented.

Report of Recording Secretary General Madam President General and Members of the

National Board:

Aside from the usual routine work, my office staff has undertaken the indexing of the early records of the National Society, including the printed proceedings from the first Continental Congress, held in 1892, through the twentyfirst, in 1912 (21 volumes). This has brought to light much interesting data, some of which has been incorporated in an article for our magazine, entitled "Extracts from Early Records."

A number of inquiries have been received from members and prospective members which has made necessary considerable research among these hitherto unindexed records, as well as considerable correspondence. It is apparent, therefore, that the time expended in doing this indexing is well worth while and will result in much saving of time in years to come.

Another piece of back work, involving much correspondence, has been very nearly completed, namely, the ferreting out of the present address of over 100 members whose membership certificates had been returned to this office during the past several years, either because of non-delivery through the mails or for some correction or addition. The majority of these, in addition to the 119 previously reported, have been mailed out to their proper destination.

The command of time to accomplish these two very important pieces of work has been made possible by an enforced delay in getting out current membership certificates, due to the necessity for having a new plate made. For lack of supplies the work of the engrosser came to a halt from December 15 to January 10

The date for the engrosser, however, was promptly prepared and the engrossing is now being pushed forward. All of the October and November certificates will soon be ready to go in the mail.

Advance preparations for Congress, in the way of assembling data for the National Committee on Publicity and the compiling of duplicate records and other data for use at the Washington Auditorium, has also occupied considerable time, as has the work of co-operation in the formulation of plans for the proposed exhibits during Congress week.

To facilitate the efficient handling of reports and resolutions to be presented at Congress, I wish to recommend that in so far as possible a uniform size of paper be used, and that two carbon copies be furnished in advance, one for my office, which will later go to the printer, and one for the official stenographer, which will be available for the press. The original report, after having been read before the Congress, to be turned in to be bound with the permanent records for the files.

Respectfully submitted,

ALICE FRYE BRIGGS, Recording Secretary General.

The report of the Executive Committee was read by the Recording Secretary General.

Report of Executive Committee

At a meeting of the Executive Committee, held at 10:30 a. m., Tuesday, February 3, 1925, the following action was taken, and is now submitted for approval by the National Board of Management:

1. That the money in the treasury for Louvain be forwarded to the Louvain Library and the account closed.

2. That the President General and the Recording Secretary General be empowered to make the necessary contract for the stenographic report for Congress.

3. That the Registrar General be authorized to verify papers of applicants offering service rendered by General Galvez and his soldiers. Respectfully submitted,

ALICE FRYE BRIGGS, Recording Secretary General.

The recommendations of the Executive Committee were adopted ad seriatim.

The report of the Treasurer General was presented, followed by the reports of the Finance Committee and of the Auditing Committee.

REPORT OF TREASURER GENERAL

Madam President General and Members of the National Board of Management :

I herewith submit the following report of receipts and disbursements from November 1, 1924 to January 31, 1925:

CURRENT FUND

Balance in Bank at last report, October 31, 1924..

RECEIPTS

Annual dues, $118,187; initiation fees, $14,905; reinstatement fees, $435; supplemental fees, $1,321; catalogue of Museum, $2.50; certificates, $5; Constitution posters, $1; copying lineage, $1; creed cards, $20.11; D. A. R. Reports, $8.68; die, $1; directory, $1; duplicate papers and lists, $307.10; exchange, $1.30; hand books, $15.50; index to library books, $2.60; index to lineage books, $25; interest, $354-32; interest-life membership, $47.81; lineage, $2,796.56; Magazine subscriptions, $8,217.50; advertisements, $1,247.30; single copies, $102.68; sale of cuts, $12.68; post cards, $1; proceedings, $8.75; rent from slides, $5.36; ribbon, $8.26; sale of waste paper, $5.11; slot machine, $5.45; stationery, $5.25; telephone, $103.19; Auditorium events, $500.

$2,473.89

Total Receipts

DISBURSEMENTS

Refunds annual dues, $916; initiation fees, $320; supplemental fees, $27

President General: clerical service, $375; postage, $50..

$1,263.00 425.00

148,661.01 $151,134.90

Organizing Secretary General: clerical service, $1,215; engrossing,
$5.50; regents lists, $115; file, $1.50; postage, $20; typewriter
repairs, $12.10

Recording Secretary General: clerical service, $601.66; lists and tags,
$16.45; typewriter repairs, $1.25........
Certificates clerical service, $464.83; engrossing, $226.65; postage, $5;
folders, $1.40; typewriter repairs, $1.25; refund, certificate fee, $1.
Corresponding Secretary General: clerical service, $547.50; paper, en-
velopes and folders, $1,028.12; postage, $90; dater, $5...
Registrar General: clerical service, $6,663.51; binding records, $90;
postage, $40; typewriter repairs, $15.15; book, brief cases, paper
and pad, $22.15...

Treasurer General: clerical service, $4,690.42; books, cards, files, paper

and envelopes, $501.60; typewriter repairs, $17.45...
Historian General: clerical service, $1,350; typewriter repairs, $.75...
Reporter General: clerical service, $217.90; postage, $1.36; expressage,
$.75; paper, $3.75.....

Librarian General: clerical service, $986.72; accessions, $311.38; cards,
binders, folders, labels and tape, $31.14; binding books, $123.50;
postage, $5; expressage, $2.87; refund, contribution for books, $34.
Curator General: clerical service, $300; mount board, $.95........
General Office: Executive manager's salary, $500.06; clerical service,
$577.50; postage and stamped envelopes, $1,948.68; constitutions,
necessary information and pamphlets, $306.60; binding books,
$33.50; engrossing, $7; advertising, $1.74; car fare, $5.50; ex-
pressage, $3.84; supplies, $241.11...
Committees: Americanization-circulars and bulletins, $82; Buildings

and Grounds-clerical service, $32.50; postage, $5; Finance-
clerical service, $30; Girl Home Makers-postage, $5; Historical
and Literary Reciprocity-clerical service, $15; postage, $26;
cards, $6.65; Liquidation and Endowment-engrossing, $7.30;
Patriotic Education-postage, $5; Patriotic Lectures and Slides-
postage, $7.64; Publicity-clerical service, $4.96; clippings and
circulars, $37.15; postage, $41..

Expense of Buildings: employees' pay roll, $2,810.10; electric current
and gas, $221.02; ice, towel service and water rent, $117.26; ex-
pressage and drayage, $52.83; elevator inspection fee, $2.50;
painting, $59.60; repairs to portico roof and plumbing, $1,772.67:
supplies, $173.70 ....

Printing machine expense: printer, $270; paper, $109.29; repairs, $1..
Magazine: Committee-clerical service, $156; postage, $6.26; telegrams,

$2.16; Subscription Department-clerical service, $424.75; postage,
$111.50; cards, folders and circulars, $58.40; Editor-salary, $600;
postage, $13.50; articles and photos, $385.22; shears, $2.05;
Genealogical Editor-salary, $150; printing and mailing Novem-
ber-January issues, $5,659.45; Cuts, $720.63; postage, $476.51; ex-
pressage, $12.63; subscription refunded, $2...

1,369.10

619.36

700.13

1,670.62

6,830.81

5,209.47

1,350.75

223.76

1,494.61

300.95

3,625.53

305.20

5,209.68 380.29

Auditorium events: labor, $131; lights, $41; refunds, $189.50. . . .
Auditing Accounts

Duplicate paper fees refunded..

Furniture and Fixtures.....

Lineage: 1,000 copies Vol. 73, $1,608; 1,000 copies Vol. 74, $1,624;

postage, $315; expressage, $4.11.

Ribbon

State Regents' postage..

Stationery

8,781.06

361.50

150.00

2.00

888.00

3,551.11

10.50

186.70

293.55

Telephone and telegrams.

Thirty-fourth Congress: Credential Committee-clerical service, $195; postage, $145.50; cards and stamp, $4.50; Transportation Committee-certificates, $30

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323.02

375.00

45,900.70

$105,234.20

55,000.00

$50,234.20

$3,340.77

$40.00

25.00

888.50

86.35

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SPECIAL FUNDS
LIFE MEMBERSHIP

Balance, October 31, 1924.

Receipts

$447.83
800.00

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