Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-14
Isabel w. Ball Flag Association. Clyde
Norton pulled the cords to unfurl the flag.
At Juvenile Court Playground.

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At Juvenile Court Playground.
Exercises attending the presentation of
a flag by the Marcia Burns Chapter of
| the Daughters of the America Revolution
| to the Fairgrounds attached to the Juven-
| lie Court took place yesterday afternoon
at o'clock in the pavilion in the rear of
the court building on 18th street.
| The services were especially unique in
that platoon of United States marines
| was present, under the command of cor
poral from the marine barracks. AS the
| flag raised by Court Officer William
| A. Hickey, a veteran of the Spanish and
| Philippine wars, the service men came to
salute, while trumpeterS played the ma
| tional anthem.
For fully hour before the exercises
| commenced the members of the chapter
| which presented the flag gathered in the
| courthouse and made d minute inspection
of the building. The routine of the
| Juvenile Court work was explained to the
callers by court attaches.
In addition to the ladies who presented
| the flag others who participated in or wit
| messed the exercises We're many school
| children, wards of the court, and a num-
Der of ladies interested in the court S
| work.
| The exercises began with the singing
| OF several national airs and music by the
| marine buglerS. Mr.. John Dore on be-
| half of the Marcia Burns Chapter, made
| the presentation address, in which he
traced the history and origin of the
American flag.
| He described the earlier flags of the
country at the time when the first signs
| OF revolt became noticeable in the thir-
teen English colonies, then the realization
| among the peoples of the several colonies
that common ensign was necessary
ana fnally the adoption of the flag with
the thirteen stars and the thirteen stripes
| Changes in the Flag.
The speaker then reviewed the changes
in the flag from that time. the adding of
a star to the flag field for every state
admitted to the Union, until today. from
| the thirteen original stars, the flag con-
talns forty-six stars, the last added with
| the admission to statehood of Oklahoma
MT Dore dwet on what the flag means
! 70 American youth as we'll as manhood,
| the patriotism that the sight of it should
| i1Stlli In every true American heart and
| what 1t has cost the nation in the blood
OF soldiers and sailors to keep the flag
untarnished.
In accepting the flag in behalf of the
| Fairgrounds, Judge William H. DeLacy
| delivered stirring address, in which he
dWe!t at length on what the national en-
Diem stood for among the American
| youth He reviewed the trials under
| which the ration and its manhood labored
| TO dsc:>er the flag as it is at present to
the America of today. and urged that
every American youth should revere it, and
| follow closely the noble ideals for which
| it stands He declared the flag and pa
| tr1otiSm went hand in hand and no pa
triotism was worth the word unless there
was purity, morality, steadfastness and
integrity with 1t.
The speaker pointed to the Washington
Monument nearby. and told his hearers
| in whose honor it was erected as a last
| ing tribute and analysed the model traits
| OF Gen. Washington. which he said should
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| boy when he determined what his duty
was toward his country.
Several members of the Marcia Burns
| Chapter made short addresses culogiZine
| the work of the Juvenile Court in the Dis
| trict of Columbia, especially among the
| poorer children of the city. the true pa
| triotism and upholding the ideal of gem
uine integrity of good citizenship which
| the court was trying to instll in them
| A remarkable feature of the presenta-
| ton exercises was the large number of
children of poor parents who We're at
tracted by the gathering of the school
children and others on the grounds.
Prize Flag Presented.
In a gathering of patriotic boys and
| girls. with sprnkling of grown folks.
an impressive program was presented at
the North Capitol street Fairgrounds. at
| ) o'clock yesterday afternoon. The flag
presentation was in charge of Mrs. Nor
| gan -. Lewis OF CONSTITUTION Chapter,
Daughters of the American Revolution
assisted by other ladies of that associa-
ton.
The program opened with the singing
of America led by Miss Pierce. fol-
lowed by the presentation of the flag by
Mrs. Lewis. In her address Mrs. Lewis
gave history of Old Glory, and advised
| the boys and girls to learn we'll the les
sons that are taught by the red, white
and blue.
The flag was then raised IN tho to,, of
the staff on the playground by Edward
Didota, president. and Ralph Mercurio
secretary of the Christopher Columbus
Club. Children of the Republic COM
posed of Italian-American boys. AS the
colors were raised to the top of the mast
two marine buglers sounded a salute. and
the children and adults cheered
Guy Habercom gave the salute and al
legiance to the flag. Gustavus A. Weber
of the board of directors of the PLAY
grounds Association received the flag.
from the d. y. R., making a patriotic re-
Spouse to Mrs Lewis address.
A silk American flag. the gift of Mrs
George T. SmalwoOd for the best ESSAY
by Mrs Lewis on behalf of the donor to
Master Burchea Clements. The second
prize, a silver medal given by Mrs Lewis
was presented to Master Guy Habercom
by Mrs Charles w. Brown, vice regent of
Constitution Chapter.
Chaplain Couden of the Senate delivered
an address ON the flag and its lessons.
Regiment in the civil war was responsible
for the appellation "Old Glory which is
applied to the Stars and Stripes. The
flag was presented to his regiment by the
women of Ohio.
Mrs. E. F. Pierce, recording secretary