Evening star., 1921-06-14
CAPITALS TRIBUTE
PAID TO THE FLAG
Old Glory Waves From All
! Poles in Washington.
! Many Exercises Held.

Old Glory waved in the breeze from
every government department.. busi-
ness establishment and school in the
National Capital today on the occa-
sion of the celebration of Flag day.
While school children held exercises
appropriate to the occasion in their
SlasSroomS and at school aSsemoies
various government departments Gel
ebrated the day in informal fashion
Toni ght at O'Clock will see the eel
ebration contaminated at formai eA-
ercises on the east front of the cap
itol which will be Illuminated for the
occasion. A pageant representing the
wars of the nation will be a feature.
Flag Is Unfurlcd.
Exercises were held this afternoon
At the Post Office Department, the
Washington city post office and at the
Department of Labor. and at SSo
o'clock a celebration is to be held In
the court of the pension office.
Unfurling of the great flag In the
Post Office Department court. WIN
employees of the department looking
down from the corridors which circle
the court, was the feature of the cell
ebration at the Post Office Depart
ment Postmaster General Hays at
tended.
Charles w. Darr told what the flags
stand for at the exercises heid at ihe
city post Office Postmaster Chance pre-
sided. Clerks and carriers of the office
took part in the celebration.
Exercises Held at G. p. o.
Patriotic songs and a flag drill by
thirty young ladies featured exercises
held at noon at the government printing
Office. Several thousand empioyes OF
the big print shop gathered for the
ceremonies in response to Public Printer
Carter'S invitation
B. A. Lineback led the workers in
singing ''The Star Spangled Banner.
''The Flag of the Free" and THE Red,
White and Blue" Miss Margaret Sulli-
'sBunker HILL" was sung by E. A. Lang.
o Exercises at the Capitol tonight will
be held under auspices of the G.. A. X
A concert by the United States Marine
pageant. Commissioners of Patents Gar
diner is to speak. Col. John McElroy Is
TO preside.
Veterans to Aid Pageant.
The pageant is to be in charge of Mrs.
Marie Moore Forrest, and 1000 people
will sing in chorus. There will be zoo
women and children carrying flags. and
colonial and revolutionary flags will be
presented by thirty-two young women.
These flags have been made by Mrs
Isabel Worrell Ball, past national senior
vice president, Woman's Relief Corps.
The revolutionary period is to be
staged by young mon from Gonzasa Col
lege The war with Mexico will be rep
resented by William Harman. ninety-one
years old, veteran of that conflict.
Veterans Of the civil war will be under
the leadership of Col. McElroy. Spanish
war veterans and members of the
American Legion will complete the rep
reservations.
Exercises appropriate to the day
were held in all the public schools of
the city, including the high schools.
Members OF the G. A r. spoke at
most of the schoolhouses- Typical
Of the celebrations generally was that
at the Dent School.
There the children gave pageant,
"The Making. of the Flag" In six
parts: 1.-The Spirit of 1776. "Colum-
bia and the Thirteen Coionies," The
Declaration of Independence." THE
Making of the Flag" and-'rhe Flag
Dance" This last was given by
children Of the fourth. fifth, sixth
and seventh grades
Georgia delivered the address at ex-
ercises held this afternoon at the
Park View School. George H. Rus
sell, president of the Park View Citi-
xens' Association. presided.
the invocation. The Boy Scout drum
and bugle corps of Troop 40. of Park
View, played for assembly and the
colors" Six hundred school children
sang patriotic songs, accompanied by
the Park View School Orchestra, Mrs
Laura F. Ward, director.
Secretary DENLY is to speak at the
Jr. o. u. A. NJ Flag day exercises to
be held at o'clock tonight at the
METROPOLITAN NJ E. Church Repre-
sentative William D. Upshaw OF
Georgia and Representative B. Car
roll Reese of Tennessee are to speak.
Rev. H. D. Mitchell, pastor of the
church is to be master of ceremonies
Rev. John H. Briggs of the Fifth
Baptist Church is to pronounce the
invocation Councils of the Junior
Order of United American Mechanics
participating are Andrew jackson.
No. s; Anacostia- No. 16; Star Span
gled Banner, No. s; John L Burnett,
No. 4, and Reno, No. 46.