Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-14
FLAG ANNIVERSARY
WILL Be OBSERVED
Capital Is Leading Nation in
$3.50 Birthday Programs
Today.

Flag bedecked, the National Capital
is leading the Nation today in the OBJ
servance of the 1880 anniversary of the
birth of the American Flag, to be fea-
tured by a huge F1ag-day demonstra-
ton on the east steps of the Capitol
tonight at O'Clock.
Some 81 organizations also will join
a flag ritualiStic service under the aus
pices of Washington Lodge, No. Is. B.
P. o. Elks, in the Central High School
auditorium tomorrow afternoon at 8
o'clock.
The ceremony at the Capitol tonight
will be under the auspices of the Grand
Army of the Republic and the Woman's
Relief Corps. One of it's features will
be the presentation of pageant depict
ing the Birth of the Flag"
Crosby and Holiday to Speak.
gram at the Capitol will be a march
down the steps of the Defenders of Old
Glory, the service men, who saw &C
ton in the Civil and Spanish
Wars respectively. Addresses will be
delivered by Gen. Herbert B. Crosby
District Commissioner and Representa-
tive William P. Holiday, Republican
of Illinois.
Flag day exercises were held today
at the Bureau of Engraving and Print
ing, under the auspices of the Bureau
of Engraving and Printing Post of the
American Legion.
The occasion was observed at Bust
ness High School yesterday.
The general public is invited to at
tend the exercises under the auspices of
the Washington Lodge of Elks in Gen.
trail High School tomorrow afternoon.
Among the organizations to be repre-
sented at the services will be the Grand
Army of the Republic, the Confederate
War Veterans, Spanish War Veterans,
American Legion, Veterans of Foreign
Wars, Loyal Legion, American War
Mothers Club. American Red Cross,
Daughters of 1912, Boy Scouts. Girl
Scouts, the Mystic Shrine, Kallipolis
Grotto. Masonic lodges, Knights of CO.
lumbus. Daughters of the American
Revolution, Reserve Oflcers' Associa-
ton, the Eagles, Moose and Gold Star
Mothers
The exercises at the school will in
Guide vocal and instrumental music.
brief devotional services, the reading of
the history of the flag by John Dillon
Fitzgerald, past exalted ruler of Elks:
the Elks' ritual ceremony, and a short
patriotic address by Past Exalted Ruler
of Elks Edwin S. Fuller.
Three parades will be held as a pre-
liminary to the exercises in the school
and will combine at the school for the
ceremony.
The first parade will start at Six
tenth and Columbia road, headed by
the Veterans of Foreign Wars, led by
the 116-piece band and drum corps, I'M
der command of Capt. Harvey L. Mil
ler the second will start from Eleventh
and Columbia road, with the posts of
the American Legion headed by the
Costello Post Drum and Bugle Corps,
and the third will start from Fourteenth
and Park road with the members Of the
lodge, headed by their 55-piece boys
band, under command of Lieut.. George
Chapman. Special members of the
drill team of the lodge will act as mar
shals, under command of Mai C. Eu-
gene Edwards. The Boy Scouts, in
charge of Col E. L. Mattice, will assist
in the lines of march.
Choral Club on Program.
The Lovette Choral Club under the
personal direction of Mrs. Eva White
ford Lovette, will render vocal music.
Mrs. Lorena M. Gawler. will give sew
eral vocal selections. She will be &C
companied by Julien Edwards at the
piano.
Invocation will be given by Rev
Luther S. Frank pastor of the EN-
manual Episcopal Church of Anacostia,
D. c., and the benediction by Rev
Eugene T. Kennedy. S. j.
The 1865 Elk Lodges throughout the
Nation, with a membership of S75. OOO
will hold similar services TO those to be
held under the auspices of the Wash
ington Lodge tomorrow.