Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-14

ton. Robert Norris and Col. George Ross
called upon Mrs. Betsy Ross in June, liN6
iust prior to the Declaration of 1nde-
pendence, and asked her to make flag
from a rough drawing which, according
to her suggestions, WAS at once redraWi
by Gen. Washington i'll pencil in her back
parlor. The flag as made by Betsy Ross
was adopted by the American congress
at Philadelphia. June II, 1lI.
The house where the first flag was made
is still standing al 30 Arch street. Phila-
delphia II is a two-story and attic build
ing.
Col. Perham's Address.
Col. \. :. Perham, patriotic instructor
of the Department of the Potomac. q. a.
r.. was in charge of the Flag day ex-
ercises in the public schools, and supplied
the long list of speakers
The men of the present generation will
soon pass away" Col. Perham said in
his address at the Emery chool this
afternoon. This country of the next
generation will be what you young ladies
and gentlemen make it, We who fol-
lowed the flag in the sixties leave to you
the great problems of state, finance. COM
merce and education: and We look TO You
to carry this flag to still further and
higher renown, to unfold our national
honor and glory at home, and among the
nations of the world.
May your opportunities and achieve
ments be in the line of peace, commercial
and literary enterprise and the advance
ment of education, and in the still fur
Their Improvement of our American
homes
But if conditions confront you, when
some wrong exists or some oppression
prevails, which may be worse than wal
and can in no other manner be extermi-
mated, we, who have trod in the foO--
steps of our fathers in maintaining the
integrity of Old Glory, look to you to
take the flag from our hands and carry
it to new glory and further achieve
ments, greater renown and a higher state
of civilization than we have seen.
May you be as brave as your fathers
i'll the sixties, whether from the sunny
south or the colder north
May you add new glory. renown and
luster to the flag, this flag representing
the corner stone OF liberty and Justice
carry it higher and farther than we. May
the flag in your hands achieve new
laurels for humanity and enlightened
progress.
We trust you will remember its
splendid history, what it cost to estab-
lish. to defend, to retain intact. carry
around the globe and plant it. and what
il represents across the Pacific
The programs of the Flag day exercises
al many of the public schools were as
follows:
Business High School-Introduction
Principal Allan Davis; singing of the
school songs. "A Grand Old School, and
Business High School March Song: re-
marks presiding officer, Charles Lyman
singing. America" by the school; ora
ton, Gen. Nelson a. Miles: singing, The
S;ar Spangled Banner by the school.
First Division.
Jackson School-Chorus, Columbia, the
Gem of the Ocean; address of welcome,
Caroline Preston, eighth grade: salute
to the flag, all the schools; recitation.
Flag of the Free. David Burrows, Lloyd
Smoot. Benjamin Mackall and Mason
Read. third grade: recitation. Three Lit
tie Sisters. Grace Fox, fourth grade: rec
itation, The Schoolhouse Stands by the
Flag. Frank Swindells. fifth grade;
chorus, The Star Spangled Banner; reci-
tation. Our Flag. Louise Neikirk, Mar
tena Charles and Isabel Wight, sixth
grade. recitation. Flag of the Rainbow.
Mitchell Carroll. Henry Matthews and
Dorsey Griffith, seventh grade: recitation,
Old Glory. Janney Nichols. eighth grade:
chorus, Tentins on the Old Camp Ground:
address by Col. Arthur Hendricks:
chorus America: chorus and march, The
Battle Hymn of the Republic.
Second Division.
Rrightwood Schoo1-C'horus, THE Star
SpangIed Banner" the schools; recita
ton, Flower of Liberty Mildred Eek
ert; recitation. Birthday of the Flag.
Edna De Vers; recitation. The Flag OF
the Free. Eva Payne: chorus. ''Colum'
bia, the Gem of the Ocean, the schools
recitation Stream, Old Glory Edna
Landgraf; salute TO the flag. the schools
reading Story of the Origin of the Star
Spangied Banner Lillian Middleton
recitation and duet, The Color Guard,
Ivy Devers. Leah Merryman and Ethe
Stecker: solo, My Own United States,
Katharine Howard; recitation. The Ban
ner Betsy Made Elreane Galley; read
ing. The Flag Above the Schoolhouse
Door" Lille Beck; recitation, Hats
on" Mitchell England: chorus, There
Are Many Flags in Many Lands" the
schools; recitation, THE American Flag
Marie Specht: composition, The ETolu
tion of Our Flag" Edward Fowler: dia
Iogue The Making of the Flag Cor
rhine Connely, Walter Browne. Howard
Galley. Earl McAleer and fifteen girl:
from third and fourth grades; address
MIR. Lewis Cass White; chorus. "Ameri
ca the schools.
Brightwood Park School-"Columbla tn.
Gem OF the Ocean," all schools: 'Oit
Glory Otto Voigt: Twinkle. Twinkle
Little Stars" Marguerite Robinson: ''Th
Flag" Robert McNiel and George Park
THE Color Guard Helen McAleer an,
Marie Cox: Yankee Doodles Flag,
Elsie Ward. The Star Spangled Banner,
all schools; flag exercises. Thomas Pitt
AionZo Lambath. Helen Cronise; March
ing Song" grades I and =: What Littl
Girls Can Do" Marguerite Butler. Jessi
Calender; Shine Shine, Shine" Mir
lam krause: Flag Song. Katie Dean
Helen Howard. Nettie Brown. Marie Cox
Alma McNerhaney, Helen McAleer: M
Country" Stanley Collinge, Raymon
Connolly; Flag Song, grades 3 and 4
"A Banner Bright" Catherine Lynch
The Banner Betsy Made" William Xix
son; reading, Raynor Howison: Fla
Salute, all schools: America al
schools: address, Mrs. Laura V. Mc
Cullough.
Harrison School-Song, Awake. Saiut
the Flag" school: The Pledge" school
scng, 'Hurrah for the Flag sixth an
seventh grades: recitation, Our Flag,
Evelyn Berkeley, third grade: marchin
song. third grade: recitation, THE Ban
ner Betsy Made" Mary Gibson siXt