whatever you may term it, that will say to the people of the United States that will say particularly to these morons and the proBritishers and these un-American people who are attacking the flag that this is our anthem; and if they do not like it after that, let them go where the cowards of the Revolution went, to Halifax or some other place. [Laughter and applause.]

Mr. LINTHICUM. Mr. Maynadier, president of the District of Columbia Sons of the American Revolution, just wants to make a state

ment.

STATEMENT OF MR. T. MURRAY MAYNADIER, PRESIDENT SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, WASHINGTON, D. C.

Mr. MAYNADIER. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee. I am in as much of a hurry as you are. As president of the District branch of the Sons of the American Revolution, I want to say that at a meeting last night of this society, consisting of 560 members, they unanimously indorsed these measures. [Applause.]

STATEMENT OF MR. JOHN MARTIN, REPRESENTING BUREAU FOR AMERICAN IDEALS, NEW YORK CITY

Mr. MARTIN. I believe that the Star-Spangled Banner ought to be and will be made our legal national anthem. There was a question here about the sentiment raised in favor of it. All we have to do is to attend any rally, any meeting of any kind, and when the StarSpangled Banner is played, spontaneously everybody rises, and if anybody does not rise, they are very soon shook up and may be knocked down and made to get up again. That is the sentiment in the United States. [Laughter and applause.]

You notice we do not try to take anything out of any other nation's national anthem, and if we did try to do that and if we were to cross the water and institute a propaganda in any European nation to try and delete one of their national songs, I think we would meet with the same kind of opposition that Pussyfoot Johnson met with when he crossed to the other side.

Our late lamented President, Warren Gamaliel Harding, in his address at the unveiling of the Francis Scott Key Monument, at Fort McHenry, made use of the following words, Mr. Chairman [reading]:

In the second stanza he glimpses the banner and bursts into song of 'rejoicing. The first stanza is a defiance of the oppressor, and then, in the fourth and last stanza, we find the note of thanksgiving, the prayer that the victory may be justified in the conduct of a race of free men

"Oh, thus be it ever, when free men shall stand
Between their lov'd home and war's desolation."

Mr. Warren G. Harding indorsed that Star-Spangled Banner. and you have heard here the testimony about Mrs. Stetson's article. I have before me an official report of a hearing held in the office of the commissioner of accounts, New York City, where Mrs. Stetson testified that she expended in paid advertisements in daily papers the sum of $16.244.80 to destroy our national anthem.

This for no other reason, Mr. Chairman, than to prevent those venemous attacks and to keep peace within our borders, because

there will be no peace while those people persist in attacking the national anthem and calling it bombastic-Mrs. Stetson calls it "bombastic and sensual." There is nothing that suggests sensuality in the words of the Star-Spangled Banner, and it is sacrilegious to talk about our national hymn in that language.

Here is the danger in the writing of those people who are attacking our national anthem. They are creating religious and race animosity in the United States, Mr. Chairman, and I will quote from the writing of Mrs. Stetson to prove it. She said [reading]:

The Monroe doctrine debars Europeanism in all its forms and phases from America, but does not exclude Ephriam [Great Britain], the brother of Manasseh [America], for these are the two sons of Joseph.

That is preaching that every other nation of Europe must keep hands off in our affairs except Great Britain. We ought to preach the doctrine that if every nation, including Great Britain, shall keep hands off in our internal affairs.

Mr. MONTAGUE. There has not been any trouble about that, as indicated by our past history, has there? Did not Cleveland go pretty far when he told Great Britain to keep hands off in the Venezuela matter?

Mr. MARTIN. Yes.

Mr. MONTAGUE. I do not think you need to be alarmed about that. Mr. MARTIN. Mr. Chairman, I do not want to detain this committce longer. Francis Scott Key not only wrote the national anthem but the national anthem is the key to our national life.

The CHAIRMAN. The committee can not sit while the House is in session; so if you will kindly add whatever else you desire to say and present it, it will be put in the record.

Mr. LINTHICUM. I just want to make one statement and close, and that is the fact that Congress has practically recognized this whole matter in the erection at Fort McHenry of a monument to Francis Scott Key under an appropriation from Congress of $75,000, which monument was unveiled about year ago.

The CHAIRMAN. I would like to say to all those who have been here and have not been heard but who desire to be heard that if a short statement is submitted containing any matter which will be additional to what has already been said, we will be glad to insert it in the record, so as to present it to the House.

(A list of persons appearing before the committee in support of the bill is as follows:)

FOR STAR-SPANGLED BANNER BILL

Miss Florine Judik, president N. S. N. S. D., 1812, Maryland.

Miss Virginia Taylor, State director Children of the American Revolution. Miss Grace E. Bouldin, treasurer Maryland 1812 Society.

Miss Harriet P. Marine, State histor.an Maryland Daughters of the American Revolution.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank N. Sands, Baltimore, Md.

Mrs. W. Burns Trundle, Baltimore, Md.

Mrs. Henry Fenimore Baker, national president Daughters of the American Revolution and 1812 Society.

Mrs. Clement W. Sheriff, historian Service Star Legion, Prince George's County Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution, Maryland.

Mrs. Thomas B. Gambel, president Lend-a-Hand Club, Baltimore, Md.

Mrs. J. Frank Wilson, retiring State historian Maryland Daughters of the American Revolution.

T. Murray Maynadier, president Maryland Society War of 1812 and Sons of the American Revolution.

Mrs. W. M. Pannebaker, secretary Lend-a-Hand Club, Baltimore, Md.

Mrs. Noble Newport Potts, president United States Daughters of 1812, District of Columbia Society; national corresponding secretary Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America; regent Major L'Enfant Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution; vice president Guadeloupe Club, 1846.

Mrs. Amos G. Draper, Descendants of Signers of the Declaration of Independence.

Mrs. Sarah F. Lansburgh, corresponding secretary of the District of Columbia Society of 1812; treasurer of the Daughters of American Colonists; member of General Washington Chapter, of Trenton, N. J.

Mrs. Delaware C. André, treasurer of Lend-a-Hand Club, Baltimore, Md. John Edwin Beatty, vice president Society of 1812 in Maryland.

DAUGHTERS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION CHAPTERS AND OTHERS INDORSING LINTHICUM BILL (H. R. 6429)

Baltimore Chapter (256 members).
Cornelia Greene Chapter, St. Louis, Mo.
Francis Scott Key Chapter, Baltimore, Md.
Battle Pass Chapter, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Gansevoort Chapter, Albany, N. Y.

Margaret Lynn Lewis Chapter, Roanoke, Va.

Colonel Charles Lewis Chapter, Point Pleasant, W. Va.

Mason City, Iowa Chapter, Mason City, Iowa.

The Lois Warner Chapter, Junshion, Kans.

Colonel William Preston Chapter, Roanoke, Va.

Osage Chapter, Sedalia, Mo.

Stone Castle Chapter, Dawson, Ga.

Katherine Schuyler Chapter, Alfred, N. Y.

Samuel Felt Chapter, Dowagiac, Mich.

Comte de Grasse Chapter, Yorktown, Va.

Owasco Chapter, Auburn, N. Y.

Witness Tree Chapter, Columbia, Pa.
Jack Jouett Chapter, Charlesville, Va.

Captain Richard Somers Chapter, St. Peter, Minn.

Berks County Chapter. Reading, Pa.

Captain John James Chapter, Jackson, Ohio.
Mount Hyalite Chapter, Bozeman, Mont.

The Golden Spike Chapter, Ogden, Utah.

Philip Schuyler Chapter, Troy, N. Y.

Mahwenawasigh Chapter, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.

Washington Courthouse Chapter, Washington Courthouse, Ohio.
John Clarke Chapter, Social Circle, Ga.

George Washington Chapter, Washington, D. C.

Paul Revere Chapter, Boston, Mass.

American Liberty Chapter, Washington, D. C.

Prescilla Mullens Chapter. Galena, Ohio.

Abigail Webster Chapter.

Francis Scott Key Chapter, Baltimore, Md. (2)

Santa Ysadel Chapter, San Jose.

Michael Prevert Chapter, Fort Angeles, Wash.
William Davidson Chapter, Lexington, N. C.

Oak Tree Chapter, Salem, N. J.
Preston Chapter, Roanoke, Va.
Fairfax County Chapter, Fairfax, Va.
Uncompalgre Chapter, Montrose, Colo.
Lucy Meriwether Chapter, Laredo, Tex.
Chickchewunska Chapter, Newton, N. J.
George Armistead Chapter, Manassas, Va.
Battle Creek Chapter. Battle Creek, Mich.
The Needles Chapter, Needles, Calif.
Olive Prindle Chapter, Chillicothe, Mo.

Maryland Society Daughters, Annapolis, Md.
Archibald Bullock Chapter, Montezuma, Ga.
John Lindsey Chapter, Washington, D. C.
Anna Warner Davis Chapter, Groton, Conn.
Massanulton Chapter, Harrisonburg, Va.
South Parish Chapter, Uxbridge, Mass.
Captain Jeremiah Baker Chapter, Elkton, Md.
Fort Sewald Chapter, Jamestown, N. Dak.
Jacksonville Chapter, Jacksonville, Fla.
Mississippi Society, Jackson, Miss.

Molly Foster Berry Chapter, Fort Scott, Kans.
L'Angville Chapter, Marianna, Ark.

Betty Bonny Chapter, Chilocco, Okla.
Dorothy Brewer Chapter, Waltham, Mass.

Capt. Alexander Tedford Chapter, Union, S. Dak.
Col. John Donelson Chapter, Washington, D. C.
Continental Chapter, Washington, D. C.

Peggy Stewart Tea Party Chapter, Annapolis, Md.
Mary S. Lockwood Chapter, Coleridge, Nebr.
Abigail Hartman Rice Chapter, Washington, D. C.
Hannah Tracey Grant Chapter, Albion, Mich.
Independence Chapter, Independence, Mo.
Capt. Jacob Rich Chapter, Arma, Ill.
Haddonfield Chapter, Haddonfield, N. J.

Anne Wainwright Cushion Chapter, Pierre, S. Dak.
James Pittman Chapter, Commerce, Ga.
Hardin Camp Chapter, Jonesburg, Mo.
Morrison Chapter, Morrison, Ill.

Fay Robinson Chapter, Reedsburg, Wis.
Jeremiah Baker Chapter, Elkton, Md.

Claude Jean Allorez Chapter, Superior, Wis.
The Odell Chapter, Odell, Ill.

General Sumter Chapter, Birmingham, Ala.
William Findlay Chapter, Palestine, Tex.
Ocoee Chapter, Cleveland, Tenn.

Oklahoma City Chapter, Okla.

Martha Board Chapter, Augusta, Ill.

The Shenandoah Valley, Martinsburg, W. Va.
Daniel Morgan Chapter, Gaffney, S. C.

Betsy Ross Chapter, Lawrence, Mass.

Palestrello Chapter, Wallingford, Vt.

Charles Pinckney Chapter, Denmark, S. C.
Hannah Woodruff Chapter, Southington, Conn.
Staten Island Chapter, N. Y.

D. A. R. Society, Olathe, Kans.

Quenett Chapter, The Dalles, Oreg.

Munedoo 615 Chapter, Columbus, Wis.

Fort Worth Chapter, Fort Worth, Tex.

Madison Chapter, Jackson, Tenn.

Butler Johnson, Sutton, Nebr.

Cooper County Chapter, Boonville, Mo.

Military Ridge Chapter, Bloomington, Wis.
James Halstead Senior Chapter, Robinson, Ill.
The Nancy Ward Chapter, Chattanooga, Tenn.
Washington Lewis, Federalsburg, Va.

DAUGHTERS OF 1812 FAVORING LINTHICUM BILL

Maryland Chapter, Baltimore, Md.

Ohio State Society, Daughters 1812, Toledo, Ohio.
Old Hickory Chapter 1812, Memphis, Tenn.

Century Chapter, Atlantic City, N. J.

National Society, Jacksonville, Fla.

Hero of New Orleans Chapter, Nashville, Tenn.
New Jersey Society, Dunellen, N. J.

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West Virginia Council, W. Va.

Col. Moses Williamson, Loch Haven, Pa.
Northampton Blues, Allentown, Pa.

Oul Chevanis Chapter, Chevard, S. C.

Jonathan Alder Chapter, Madison County, Ohio.

U. S. Daughters 1812 of South Carolina, Kershaw, S. C.

District of Columbia Society, U. S. D. 1812, Washington, D. C.

DAUGHTERS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION REQUESTING ADOPTION OF

STAR-SPANGLED

BANNER AS THE NATIONAL ANTHEM WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ANY PARTICULAK BILL OR RESOLUTION-

Ontaris Chapter, Pulaski, N. Y.

Nielding Lewis Chapter, Marietta, Ga.

Martha Walson, Williston, S. C.

Francis Scott Key, Baltimore.

Turbutt Wright Chapter, Sudlersville, Md.
Stamford Chapter, Stamford, Conn.
New York City, New York.

Ponce de Leon Chapter, Winterhaven, Fla.
Old Belfrey, Boston, Mass.

Col. Arthur Erwin, Deland, Fla.

Peoria Chapter, Peoria, Ill.

Joseph Habersham Chapter, Atlanta, Ga.
Pilot Rock, Cherokee, Iowa.

Seminole Chapter, Palm Beach, Ga.
Philip Perry, Titusville,, Fla.

Mississinena Chapter, Portland, Ind.
Elizabeth Cleveland Gillespie, Perry, Mo.
Washington Chapter, Washington, Iowa.
Thomas Wade Chapter, Wadesboro, N. C.
Fort Harrison, Terre Haute, Ind.
Governor Wm. Paca, Bel Air, Md.
St. Joseph Chapter, Niles, Mich.

Jack Jouett Chapter, Charlottesville, Va.
Mandare Chapter, Mandan, N. Dak.

Mary Melrose Chapter, Waterloo, Iowa.

Lydia Alden Chapter, Spencer, Iowa.

Katherine Livingston Chapter, Jacksonville, Fla.
Elizabeth Munford Ashe, Halifax, N. C.

Berks County Chapter, Reading, Pa.

Cora Stickney Harper, Fort Pierce, Fla.
Uvedale Chapter, Hutchinson, Kans.

Alexander Hamilton Chapter, Franklin, Ind.
Log Cabin Chapter, Fairfield, Iowa.

Minisink Chapter, Goshen, N. Y.

John Wallace Chapter, Bedford, Ind.
Clark County Chapter, Kahoku, Mo.

Caroline Scott Harrison, Indianapolis, Ind.
Boonesboro Chapter, Richmond, Ky.

Col. J. Davies Chapter, Stockton, Ill.

Beaverhead Chapter, Dillon, Mont.

Maria Jefferson Chapter, St. Augustine, Fla.

Greenwich Tea Burning Chapter, Bridgeton, N. J.

Minishoshe Chapter, Bismarck, N. Dak.

Milwaukee Chapter, Wisconsin.

Hannah R. Arnett, East Orange, N. J.

Spirit of Liberty, Washington, D. C.
Kayendatsyona Chapter, Fullin, N. Y.
Chief Ignace Chapter, Montana.
Henry Downs, Waco, Tex.

Faith Trumbull Chapter, Norwich, Conn.
Benj. Sargent Chapter, Pittsfield, N. H.
Chancellor Wythe, Richmond, Va.

General Richardson Chapter, Pontiac, Mich.

Caesar Rodney, Wilmington, Del.

Mary Dillingham, Lewiston, Me.