Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-06-14
GROUPED ABOUT FLAG
Graded School Children Honor
Old Glory.
DAY GIVEN TO PRAISE
EXERCISES PARTICIPATED IN By
MANY YOUNGSTERS.
Emblem the Signal for Bursts of Song
and oratory-The Various
Programs.
DAY GIVEN TO PRAISE


| pubic schools. Thirteen years ago a small
body of citizens under the direction NJ
Mr. A b. Frisbie, prominent member of
the G. A r. undertook to conduct eyer
cfses In commemoration of the day at the
public school in Anacostia The exercises
held at that time Were highly successful
and the Woman's Relief Corps and the
Womens Auxiliary Of the G. A. R. took the
| matter up, with the intention of making
the celebration general and official. The
other patriotic societies also took hold OF
the matter and bent their efforts through
| the state legislatures and the municipal
governments for the establishment of the
day as a time for special exercises in the
schools.
In 19ol-not 1891 previously publish
ed-a committee from the Sons of the
American Revolution, head by Gen. Thos.
M. Vincent, L. S. A, called on the Commits
sioners and suggested the establishment Of
Flag day as a day for official observance in
the schools, and the Commissioners adopt
ed the plan. So since 1901 Flag day has
been one of the gala days of the year for
the school children. In every school house
In the city today the little tots and the
larger children gathered in the assembly
hall of their buildings and paid their trib-
ute to the flag. The celebration is essen
tally children's exercise. The young
sters contribute all of the numbers on the
program but one, and some of the pro.
grams are of special merit
In two Of the schools, the Webster and
the Gales, orchestras have been organized
among the pupils especially for such occa-
sions as this, and in both schools today the
musical programs were excellent. In all
the schools the exercises were presided
over by a member of the G. A. r., who
made a short address to the children and
then assisted them in the remainder of the
program.
The programs at some of the schools
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cluded recitations in costume. flag drills.
etc, without stint. In some Of the schools
the preparations for Flag day have been
going on for months. At the Franklin
School the exercises were held in Frank
lin Park and were especially pretty. The
celebrations all began at o'clock this aft
ernoon, and continued for an hour or an
hour and a half. Following are the pro-
grams in all the graded schools as an
nounced this morning:
First Division.
Adams School-""The Colors of the Flag"
third grade, Red. Justus Gibson;
White" Mary Hayden; Blue" Bassett
Roberts; recitation, William Moore: our
Flag Lily Hazard; Our own L. s.
Maurice Brick; The Army, Alfred Fred
erick; The Navy" Paul Bushnell: The
Schools Florence Mcdonnell; our Flag
Eliza Matthews and Edith Cohen; The CO.
lonial Flag" James WOODBURY.: The
Bunker Hill Flag, Petite Morris; The
Pine Tree Flag, George Whitweil: The
Rattlesnake Flag" Grace Goodpasture;
THE FIRST National Flag, John Allen;
Need OF National Flag Helen Hen
drick; Making and Adoption" Dorothy
Merriam; Description and Meaning Ed
mend Rheem; The Present Flag" Howard
Hodgkins; The Poem, Star Spangled Ban
ner'-fa, The Author Lowry Stephen
son; CbJ The Time" Harry Bates; tc) The
Place" Harvey Mum, I'D Sentiments"
Walter Montgomery. Analysis of the
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Second Stanza, May Hubbard; (c) Third
Stanza, Susie Courts. I'D Fourth Stanza.
Helen Cooper; Importance of the Union
Webster, Charles o. Parks: address, K. T.
Sweet.
Berret School-"story of the Flag" Fred
koswitch: Flag of the Free" Frederick
Dodson THE Banner Betsy Made" Leo
nora Richards; barbara Frietchie.' Mary
Eurhaus; Our Flag" Carolyn Love; War
ren's ADDRESS at Bunker Hill" Russell
Ambos: Importance of Union" Ella Bur-
chard; brakes American Flag" Ella OPP
penheiner; Flag Day, Mary Love; Tent
ing on the Old Camp Ground" eighth
grade; address, j. S. Johnson.
Part /. For the younger children. Kin
dergarten, first second, third and fourth
grades
Dennison School-"Our Country is Ameri-
ca Ralph Nuber, Bernard Doud. George
Mensinger; The Big Bass Drum" first
Flag Of Bright Stars and Stripes" kinder
garten; Il Love the Flag Dorothy Dam
zenbak: Our Flag Colors" Robert Wood
ward; 1.-The Red, the White, the Blue" Mida
Little Hands So Soft and White, Edna
Marcy; The Flag" Ruth E. Shaw; Sol
der Boy Margaret Gerard, Well Bailey;
"Our Heroes" Genevieve Dewey; Select
ed Frances Deitrick; Pretty Little Blue
bird kindergarten, Selected, Henry
Weeks; The Drum" Roberta Patterson;
sunshine Katherine Wells. Edna Marcy:
Selected" B. Evelyn Crist.
Part II. Our Flag" Harry Murray; An
Old Soldier Speaks" Marguerite Muncey:
vere's Ride Roy Finney; Pride of Bat
terry B." Pendleton Brown; violin solo.
Norman Ficher; The American Flag"
Ethel Day: Freedom" Harry THOMPSON;
"Hetty McEwen," Frances Clements; Love
Of Country" Edith Slater; The Flag"
Eugene Atkinson; Rev. A. 8. Kiske, ID;
There is Beautiful Flag" Willie Webb
as Uncle Sam Barbara Freitchie.'
Flag" eighth grade; Gettysburg Address"
Harvey Haight: Ship of State" John KEEL
ley; Song of Marion's Men," Marie Chew:
The Flag" Lula Day; Union and Liber-
ty," Ida Smith; America" John Cook;
Kentucky Belle" Maybelle Criswell; Pa
triotism," Gaines Lipscomb; Flag of the
Favorite Poem" Martha Claxton; Our
Flag" Dorothy Harvey; Home. Sweet
Home" Theresa Drexel: "Hurrah for the
Flag" girls. sixth grade
in Many Lands" Anna Somerville. Lee
Groseclose Elizabeth Schaff, Joe Davidson,
Margaret Fishburn Magregor Davidson;
Our Flag" Dorothy Ashley: THE Flag"
Pauline Stone; II Ought to Love My Coun-
try David Nelson: THE American Flag"
Wright Mccormick. Robert Henderson, Will
liam Beck; Flag Drill Minnie Stone,
Grace Simpson, May Ramsay. Willie Brere-
ton, Dorothy Saxton, Rose Parker florence
Thornton, Ruth Amise, Florence Silsby,
Ruth Adams. Helen Lewis. Grace Warning;
Ik.aI. h
1.-The Needs of Our Country" Wilson Sis
by. Francis Mckinney, Lawrence Nicolai,
Norman Lynch; The American Flag
Ethel Smith; Spring Song eighth grade:
address, j. r. Webster.
Hubbard School--Address. Rev. w. W.
Curry patriotic quotations, Victor Meyers.
Alien Fonda. Alice Newman Ruth Shaw
first grade; Janet Little, Lillian Matungly,
Luzon Halter, Richard Molby, Harriet jar
reis, Ruth Breuinger, Birch Hit, Andrew
Smith, second grade; plano solo. Roberta