Organizations: Spicer-Wallace Chapter D. A. R., 1950, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: July 27, 1950 Winn Parish Enterprise

Winn Chapter of DAR Organized In Home of Judge and Mrs. Cas Moss

The new Winn Parish Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution was
organized at the home of Judge and Mrs. Cas Moss in Winnfield, with Mrs. John
Newton Pharr, New Iberia, La., State Regent of the National Society of the
DAR, presiding.

Mrs. John Newson Pharr, Mrs. George M. Wallace, Regent of the Prescott de la
Houssaye Chapter, Baton Rouge, Mrs. A. A. Fredericks, Baton Rouge, State
Organizing Regent, announce the appointment of Mrs. Childress Armstrong,
Delhi, as Organizing Regent of the Winn Parish Chapter.

Mrs. Armstrong, the former Bessie Butler Newsom, was one of the first women
proofreaders on a daily newspaper in the South.  Reporter and art columnist on
the Jackson (Miss.) Daily News, she was active in the organization of the
Mississippi Art Association and served one term as secretary.  She was one
time president of the Cary Art Club and the Sketch Club, of Jackson, the Gulf
Coast Art League and others in Mississippi and Louisiana.  Her waters colors
and designs have been exhibited in the Jackson Art Gallery, the Lauren Rogers
Museum, the Louisiana Art Commission Galleries, in Memphis, Chattanooga,
Atlanta, Dallas, and Monroe.  Her poems have appeared in several anthologies
including the recent Belhaven College Anthology and the White Heron of the
Shreveport Poetry Society.

Present at the meeting were twenty of the charter members of whom sixteen are
descendants of Major James Wallace and Capt. Oliver Spicer, revolutionary army
officers.

Mrs. Pharr spoke on the work of the DAR, particularly the youth program, and
the growing need to combat the spread of communistic influence by giving our
young people a vital and informed regard for tradition, a deeper respect for
the past, a clearer understanding of the motives, purposes, and character of
those men and women who, foot by foot, hacked away a wilderness that these
young people might inherit the most civilized country in the world. 
Appreciation is a matter of perception and understanding.  The parents of this
new generation were the "lost generation" as so they used to say of
themselves, caught between two wars, reaching their maturity just as the
depression rose like the muddy waters of the Mississippi.  Much of their
ambition and much of tradition, and a way of life ebbed away in this flood. 
They became the debunkers and theirs may be called the debunking era of
American history.  They must return to and bring their sons and daughters back
to this certain means by which they can survive, the faith of our fathers, the
integrity, the unshaken love and service of the country.

She spoke of the two schools owned by DAR and the 14 mountain schools largely
supported by DAR.  Of the work on Ellis Island, a program that has continued
since the beginning of the Society, she said that at the request of the
government the society has set up and operates a physical therapy clinic for
the rehabilitation of Merchant Marines.  There also, a Manual of Good
Citizenship is issued by the DAR to ever alien and this is a textbook approved
by the U. S. Education Association.

The following officers were appointed, terms of all officers to continue until
completion of the organization of the chapter and election will be held in
late fall or early winter:

Mrs. Mary Weir Allen, Winnfield, Vice-Regent; Mrs. Georgia Thompson Cole
Holmes, New Orleans, Secretary-treasurer; Mrs. Ethel Wallace Farber, Baton
Rouge, Registrar and keeper of records; Mrs. Bell Wallace Mosley,
Winnfield, Chaplain.

Other members were Mrs. Ophelia Wallace Moss, Mrs. Ophelia Moss Storey,
Mrs. Jannette Wallace Smith, Mrs. Irene Talton Radescich, Mrs. Bessie
Tannehill Walsh, all of Winnfield; Mrs. Ida Wallace Moore and Mrs. Marjorie
Schonlau Russell, Minden;

Mrs. Olive Ann Kidd Rau, New Orleans; Mrs. Virginia Wallace Ward and her
sister, Mrs. George Mildred Wallace Jones, Mrs. Sara Becker Paret and Mrs. ann
Becker Roby, Mrs. Patricia Murphy McNeely, Prescott de la Houssaye Chapter,
Baton Rouge, Mrs. Hazel Brewton.

Miss Ann Armstrong, Delhi, Prescott de la Houssaye Chapter, member and
Winnfield Chapter member, and Mrs. Valerie Baker Willis of Oak Grove, and Mrs.
Eula Crawford Hightower of Hattiesburg, Miss., Mrs. Flo Flemming, Jr., and
Miss Jenn Fleming of Clarksdale, Miss., and Tokyo, Japan.