The annual message of the Society's president, Mrs. A. M. Cook, was a masterpiece, so eloquent and so impressive that it was unanimously "ordered by: the Senate to be printed in the Congressional Recor She dwelt on the duty of the Society) to maintain the principles of the American Constitution inviolate by law enforcement, and opined that} the American people would never repeal the 18th Am" She advocated a more generous policy toward the equipment of schools and the salaries of teachers and called for more faithful and truthful re. presentation of American history} and for the reading of ghe Bible in schools. She maintained that their duty lay in contributing their utmost toward a better citizenship, a better America, "valiantly protected from the blood-lugtful hands of anarchy, an America, cherishing and taining American ideals of constitutional government. Greetings were sent by the American Legion and the Sons of the American Revolution and a number of fine addresses were delivered, said Mrs, Wilbur.
'There wore 1,940 accredited delegates to the Congress, the report continued, the Shanghai Chapter being represented by Mrs. Dicker-son, the State Regent, and the Philippines Chapter by Mrs. C. Lobingier' (wife of the former Judge of the U.S. Court for China) and Mrs. T. S. Holt. There wet 2,164 Chapters and in round numbers there were 157,000 members. The number of the last paper signed w: 222,880 by Mrs. Rawlinson. Mrs. Wilbur then dwelt on the finances of the Society in general and said that the total receipts for of the year amounted to G.$343,000, the Permanent Fund being G.$204,000. Towards the Constitutional Hal capable of seating 4,000 persons, 6.$855,000 had been pleadged.
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