Evening star., 1926-05-10
HIGH AND Low Join
MOTHERS TRIBUTE.
Davis Defends FIapper in
Talk at Exercises at Tomb
of Unknown Soldier.

Washington's citizenry, from the
President to the most humble resident.
joined yesterday in the Nationwide
observance of Mothers day.
President Coolidge, like many an
other mothers son, attended Mnlh-
er's day service At the First ConEre-
gational Church. accompanied by Mrs.
Coolidge, and heard Bishop Edwin
Holt Hughes of Chicago pay homage
to the mistress of the home.
Vice President Dawes also partlci
pated in the city's tribute, presiding
over exercises at the Tomb of the I'm
known Soldier At this service Sec
retarv of Labor Davis staunchly sup
ported the modern girl, with her short
skirts and lively ways, and added that
tho heroism displayed by the I'm
known Soldier was the masculine
counterpart of that heroism his
mother displayed in bringing him to
birth"
Mother and Soldier"
LET US on this day remember them
together" Mr.. Davis said. THE I'm
known Soldier and the unknown
mother. hero and heroine of our ma
tional life"
In defending tlapperdom the Labor
Secretary likened the girl of today
TO the girl of the early nineteenth
century. He agreed that some flap.
pers were frivolous. but that the
overwhelming ma iority were quite
the same age.
Flappers have existed for the past
1 900 years. he asserted. and about
them were said the same things by
their elders that are being said to-
day He recalled the words of Ed
mund Burke. who begged his gen
GRAFTON to bear in mind that because
half q dozen grasshoppers under a
fern made a field to ring with their
chink. it did not follow that they
were the only inhabitants of the field,
for in the same field thousa nds of cat
tie chewed their cuds silently in the
shadow Of the British oak"
Noisy Flappers Few.
Thus" he stated. might we speak
of our noisy f1apperS. in comparison
to the whole. They are few in num-
ber." Some allowance must be made
he added. for the spirit of youth, and
he discounted any belief that the flap
perS whose eScapadeS enliVen the
press columns are destined neces
sarily to shoot Niagara"
Secretary Davis was the principal
speaker at the Arlington ceremony,
which was held undes' auspices of the
American War Mothers and the Con
gressional Club. Representative La
mar Jeffers of Alabama compared the
home without mother with a home
blessed with one in a talk on The
Heroine a Home
WreathS We're laid on the tomb for
the American War Mothers. the Con
Gressional Club, the war veterans
group in Congress. the EurydiCe Club
of Toledo and the American Women's
Legion. The War Mothers wreath of
gold was placed lin the name of the
unknown mother and typifying the
love and remembrance of all World
War mothers" "
Pigeons Sent OF.
A flock of carrier pigeons was re-
leased. symbolic of the desire to carry
the mothers massage to the four
corners Of the nation. BenediCtion was
pronounced by Chief Chaplain John
T. AXton, jr., of the L. 5. Army. Taps
was sounded by bugler.
AS the exercises came to an end
Army fiiers from Boiling Field scat
tered white carnations over the graves
of the World War veterans in Aring-
ton Cemetery.
Inc AIllN, Navy anu Marine bdHuS
played at intervals during the rites.
Representative Clifton a. WoOdrum
Of Virginia sang Mother O Mine"
and Nine. Ryder elsey. soprano. of
New York. sang Songs My Mother
Taught Me-" The music and speeches
were broadcast by WCAP and a chain
of out-of-town radio stations.
Most of the citv's churches held
special Mothers day services, the ser
mons generally touching on the
sanctity of the home and the devotion
of mothers for their children.