The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-02-21
RANKS
TO HONOR HERO
Grand Army Will Take Part
in Observance Of George
Washington S Birthday.
WHOLE CITY PATRIOTIC
Wilson. Bryan. Daniels. and Brownlow
Expected to Be Among
Speakers.
WHOLE CITY PATRIOTIC

Official. private and commercial Wash
ington will set aside their daily routine
tomorrow to commemorate with appro-
pirate ceremonies the 1Sd anniversary OF
the birth of George Washington.
One of the principal exercises to be
held in this city will be the joint celebra-
ton in Memorial Continental Hall<of the
Grand Army of the Republic, the Sons
of the American Revolution and the
Sons of the Revolution. President Will
son has accepted an invitation to speak
at this celebration. which is scheduled
To- commence at 10 o'clock in the morning.
Vice President Marshall may again at
tend the anniversary services of the Ma
sonic lodge in Alexandria, Va, with
which Washington was connected.
Lincoln Camp. No. = Sons of Veterans,
will conduct Il joint celebration to COM
memorate the birthdays Of Washington
and Lincoln. at their hall. 110l L street
northwest. Several Senators and Rep
resentatives are expected to address this
gathering.
Brownlow Will Speak.
Commissioner Louis Brownlow will
speak to the Association of Oldest In
habitants in the morning. at their club
building. Nineteenth and II streets north
west. At this meeting l.. 7. Shoemaker
will read Washingtons Farewell Address.
Mobilization of the forces of the unem-
pIoyed will be urged by members of the
Monday Evening Club. who have arrang-
ed to hold their annual banquet at Raus-
cheers in the evening. John Il. Andrews,
of New York City. and Charles Barnes.
also of New York, two of the best adj
vised men of the country on the question
of the unemployed. will speak.
The horrors of war and the glories of
peace will be the subject of addresses
at a meeting of the Woman's Peace
Party in Masonic Temple in the after
noon. Among the speakers will be Mrs
Louis +. Post. wife of the Assistant
Secretary of Labor; Mrs. Kate Waller
Barrett. national chairman of the
Florence Crittenden Mission: DIR. Harvey
w. Wiley. pure food expert. and John
Barrett. director general of the Pan
American Union.
The holiday will be observed by the
Young Women's Christian Association
with reception at 6l9 Fourteenth street
northwest. The Washington National
Monument Society will meet in the
morning at the home of Henry B. +.
mcfarland. 12OS Eighteenth street north
west, to elect officers and hear reports
on the stones that have been received
and soon are to be placed in the monu-
ment.
Daniels at Rally.
Secretary of the Navy Daniels will be
the principal speaker at a patriotic rally
concentrating the birthday anniver-
saries of Lincoln and Washington, to be
held at 3:I5 o'clock this afternoon in
Polls Theater under the joint auspices
of the District Epworth League of the
NJ. Z. Church and the Epworth League
Union of the NJ. E. Church South.
Robert ID. Burbank, first vice president
OF the District League. will preside. Ep-
worth League choirs from Trinity, Ana
costa, Iowa Avenue. Dumbarton. Doug
las, Foundry. McKendree and Hamlne
NJ. E. churches will join in the singing.
A twenty-one piece orchestra, conducted
by Anton Kaspar. will furnish the music.
Miss F. B. Heartsill and Miss Mary
Sherier will sing