The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1930-09-12
GEORGE WASHINGTON b.
CENTENNIAL
Will Be Observed Throughout
The United States

Thanksgiving Day the same
year, there will be observed
throughout the United States
a commemoration of the Two
Hundredth Anniversary of the
Birth of George Washington.
The celebration is sponsored by
the United States Government,
and Congress has created a
commission charged with the
responsibility of formulating
and putting into operation
plans for the event. This COM
mission, officially known as the
United States Commission for
the Celebration of the Two
E[undredth Anniversary or the
Birth of George Washington,
is composed of the following:
The President of the United
States, Chairman; Vice-Pres.-
dent, Speaker of the House of
Representatives; Senator S.
D. Fess; Senators Arthur Cap
per of Kansas, Carter Glass of
Virginia and Lee S. Overman of
North Carolina; Representa-
tives Willis c. Hawley of Ore
gon, John @. Tilson of Connec-
ticut, Jos. w. Byrns of Tenn,
and r. Walton Moore of Vir-
ginia. There are also eight
Presidential Commissioners, as
follows: Mrs. John Dickinson
Sherman, Colorado; Mrs. An
thony Wayne Cooke, Pennsyl-
vania; Henry Ford, Michigan;
George Eastman, New York;
G. Bascom Slemp, Virginia!
Wallace McCamant, Oregon;
Albert Bushnell Hart, Massa-
chusetts, and Bernard M. Ba-
ruch, New York. The Associ-
ate Directors under whose
management the plans are be-
ing organized and directed are
Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3rd, and
Representative Sol Bloom, of
New York.
The program now being pre-
pared by the Associate Direc-
tors is intended to provide for
the participation of every man,
woman and child in the United
States. The celebration will
extend to every village, town
and hamlet in the country. 1t
is to be nationwide in it's scope
the most far-fiung and all
inclusive observance ever I'M
dertaken in America.
In order to prevent a geo.
graphic concentration of the
program, there will be no ex-
position. The Commission
wishes to exclude all such ma
terial phases. There will be no
great demonstration of prog
ress of America in a material
sense, although realization of
the things for which Washing
ton strived will serve to en-
'phasize in the minds, the I'M
told blessings which are enjoy
ed by his countrymen today.
Instead of an assembling OF the
evidence of wealth and pros
perity there is to be an empha-
sis upon the spiritual-an ap-
preciative reawakening IN the
hearts of all the people of the
character and life of Americas
greatest citizen.
The school children of Amer
lea will have an important part
in the celebration according to
the program now being effec-
ted. 1t is planned to much
more thoroughly familiarize
these boys and girls with the
life and character of George
Washington. For this reason
a great deal of information is
now being gathered and care
fully checked for absolute his
torical accuracy. This mater
ial will very likely be placed
before the 100000 school
children in the United States
in the form of programs, pag-
ents and plays to be given on
dates of great historical inter-
est. In this way the children
will be impressed with the sig
nificance of Washington's win
ter quarters at Valley Forge,
the battles of Trenton and
Yorktown and many other
places in which Washington
showed his herosim and loyalty
to the cause of America. His
boyhood days, when he learned
the lessons which were later to
prove so valuable to him; the