Abstract

The Peaceable D. A. R

D.A.R. has never been a pacifist organization. It has, however, prior to the last decade of jingoistic effervescence, been conspicuous at times in the promotion of world peace. On certain occasions it has even hob-nobbed with avowed and celebrated non-resistant's. It may possibly make the average citizen of today, who is bored by these juvenile performances, a little envious of the past to realize that up to 1890 there actually was no D.A.R. in the beginning of the nineties the newly formed Sons of the Revolution formally voted a lock out against women. The S. A. R. stood for substantially the same thing, but for the men and women-a distinction quite enough to warrant a feminist strike for union. No particular women and men were specified, which was a wise arrangement, permitting a convenient flexibility. There were all sorts of people in the Revolution, the noble and those about whom the less said the safer.