Evening star., 1915-09-13
DEPARTMENTS LEND
AID TO FLAG SALE
ALI Save the War Department Will
Permit Sale Throughout the
Various Offices.

The War Department has officially
aroused the ire of the women's COM
mittee which is arranging for Flag
day sale Thursday to help swell the
fund for the entertainment of veterans
and their friends during the Grand
Army encampment here.
THE War Department is the only
government department that positive
ly refuses to let us put our flags on
sale within their sacred precincts"
said a prominent member of this COM
mittee today. All of the others have
treated us most graciously and are CO.
operating with us in every way pos
sible to make the Flag day big flnan-
cial success"
The explanation given by officials Of
the War Department is that q hard
and fast rule has had to be made
against permitting solicitors to appeal
to the department employees within the
building and that for this reason the
request Of the woman's committee
could not be granted.
For Every Man, Woman and Child.
The ladies' citizens committee, Of
which Mrs. w. E. Andrews is chairman,
is arranging for a big patriotic day
said in a speech that every American
citizen ought to wear an American flag,
particularly at this time" Mrs. Andrews
is making her plans to have every man,
woman, and child who lives in Wash
ington and vicinity wear an American
flag in honor of the coming encamp-
ment of the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie. when the veterans will march up
Do y1ryo MI <t
1t is hoped that every person who
can do SO will buy one of the little
flags or bows which the ladies will have
for sale that day. The first thought in
arranging for the sale of the flags was
to interest the various great depart
ments of the United States government
In this Mrs. Andrews was very success
full. The State Department generously
considered the movement and granted
permission at once for the sale of the
flags. and not only that the flags might
be sold, but suggested the advisability
of their permitting two young ladies
from the office of the Secretary of State
to take charge of the sale OF the fags
in that department. The Navy Depart
ment was equally gracious. The War
Department positively declined to have
anything to do with the sale of the
flags. The Treasury Department was
just as gracious as the State Depart
ment. This is also true Of the Interior
department..
Mrs. Andrews Expresses Confidence.
In the government printing Office and
the bureau of printing and engraving
there was not even a suggestion Of an
objection to this patriotic work. Com
missioner Saltzgaber will permit the
selling of the flags in the pension Office.
And SO it is throughout all the great
bureaus of the government. Ladies are
to be stationed in all the big depart
ment stores, others will accompany the
Chamber of Commerce on its excur-
sion to Chesapeake Beach. and if any
of Washington and the outlying dis
tricts gets away from Mrs. Andrews
committee they will have 10 hunt a
bombproof. Mrs. Andrews says. how
ever, that she does not believe that
there will be any trouble whatever in
disposing of every flag and flag bow
that the committee has for sale. There
will be also pretty silk flags. something
that every automobile owner will want
during this national encampment.
Mrs. Andrews appeals to the patriotic
spirit of the city in placing these flags
on sale. She says: by buying one OF
them every man, woman and child will
be giving a mite toward the entertain
| ment of the Grand Army Of the Re-
public on its forty-ninth national en-
campment. Every penny of the money
is to be used for that purpose"