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Show ! most for the better citizenship of a greater America an America firmly and fearlessly maintaining, defending and protecting itself from the grasping, self-seeking, bloodstained hands of the anarchist and the communist an America cherished by active law observance and the maintenance of high Christian ideals, the great principles of the constitutional government, upon which our nation was so nobly j founded. D. A. R. ENJOYS REMARKABLE GROWTH IN 35 YEARS An interesting account of the wonderful growth and high purposes pur-poses of the Daughters of the American Revolution, is contained in an article on the society by Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook, its national president, in the current number of the National Republic. In part Mrs. Cook says: "As an organized unit the Daughters of the American Revolution are thirty-five years young this year. Thirty-five years in the history cf either an individual or of an organization is a comparatively brief span of years. Yet, what an astounding era of growth and accomplishment accomplish-ment it is the proud privilege of this society to chronicle. "Organized October 11,1 890, in that year of high patriotic inspiration in-spiration and activity following the centennial observance of the ratification rati-fication of the Constitution of the United States, it numbered four chapters and 390 members within six months after its inception. It is noteworthy that it should have reached its thirty-fifth milestone of achievement and its present aggregation of more than 2,000 chapters and of 1 50,000 members in October of the year 1 925 a month significant sig-nificant because it commemorates for Americans those discoveries of Columbus through which a new life and history were begun for the Western Hemisphere; a year apart from others because it celebrates the one-hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Battle of Lexington and Concord and the one-hundred and forty-fourth October since Cornwallis surrendered to the American forces at Yorktown in 1 78 1 . "We, Daughters of the American Revolution, have a proud heritage heri-tage from patriotic ancestors of Revolutionary days. How shall we best make ourselves worthy descendants? By contributing our utter- |