Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-09
BY DONALD A. CRAIG.

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| Capital. There the principal epents OF
the 1892 series OF programs tDiiI occur.
The merit article mill appear Sunday.
BY DONALD A. CRAIG
While the George Washington Bicen.
| tennial Commission is still working or
a definite and complete program Of
events for the nationwide celebration
of 1892, the associate directors and the
commission are following, in the main
in making their preliminary plans q
basic program, drawn up tentatively by
William Tyler Page, clerk of the House
of Representatives and executive secre-
tary of the commission.
This schedule provides for almost con-
tinuouS celebrations of one sort or an
other from February %, 1892, until
Thanksgiving day, in November of that
year, all over the country, with Wash
ington City as the focus of it ALL
Washington City should be the
Mecca OF all American pilgrims that
year" said Mr.. Page. 'It should be the
scene of great historic pageants, illus
trating the life of George Washington
and his ideals. All over the Nation
there should be similar pageants and
gatherings In honor of Washington,
Every national holiday that year
should be celebrated in this City OF
Washington with great events-pro-
grams arranged by the United States
Commission and the local Bicentennial
Commission-beyond anything OF the
kind heretofore held here"
Mr.. Pages Proposals.
Among the proposals for celebrating
the bicentennial here and elsewhere
made by Mr.. Page are the following:
A great conference in this city OF
legislators, perhaps from both the States
and from foreign nations. The latter
suggestion has been made also by Rep
resentative Sol Bloom of New York,
who, with Lieut.. Col u S. Grant, Sd, is
an associate director of the celebration.
A conference in Washington of jurists
and courts.
A conference Of educators here.
A conference here of all religious
bodies, held jointly, in honor OF the
character OF George Washington.
Let scientists from all over the land
come together in big gathering here
that year to honor the name and the
achievements of Washington.
AS honored guests perhapE the Fed
eral Government might invite men and
women of world fame in any line of
endeavor to this city from other nations
to pay their respects to the memory Of
the great founder of the Nation.
A great Pan-American conference, in
which every nation in the Western
Hemisphere would participate, in Wash
ington City.
As outlined In somewhat more detail,
but only in partial and tentative form,
the program proposed by Mr.. Page has
been summarized as follows by months:
February.
A great memorial day for Washing
ton on February %, with the inaugura-
ton OF the years program.
Formal dedication of the national
memorials erected or constructed by the
National Government in memory of
George Washington.
Meeting OF the governors of all of the
States.
Memorial grafton by the President of
the United States, broadcast through.
out the land.
At night. great indoor pageant of the
life OF Washington, with marvellous
music, broadcast all over the world
John Philip Sousa has consented tc
compose a George Washington march.
Tributes to Washington, spoken over
the radio by world rulers and statesmen.
March.
The welcoming to Washington as
guests OF the Nation, the descendants of
all Presidents OF the United States, on
Presidents day, March 4.
Dedication of portraits Of the Presi-
dents in the George Washington Uni
versity. with terse tributes by governors
OF the States presenting the portraits.
A parade, led by the President and
Vice President and all living former
Presidents and Vice Presidents, and
representation OF the characteristics OF
Inauguration parades from the time OF
Jefferson.
In the evening a great social event,
probably a revival of the historic inau-
guraI ball
Reception at the White House.
All over America-in all schools. COL
leges. and so forth--tributes paid to the
Presidents Of the United States. A day
of exaltation OF the high once of Chief
Executive OF the United States.
April.
special Easter celebration,
A time Of exaltation of religion in the
lie OF the Nation all over America.