Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-22
PROGRAM REVEALED
FOR B|CENTENN|AL
OPENING ON FEB. z
President to Give Address.
Damrosch and Sousa to
Lead Music.
ENTIRE NATION TO JOIN
IN TRIBUTE OVER RADIO
Washington's Monument Will Be
Banked With Floral Tributes
at Close of Ceremony.

Two famous maestroes of the music
world and the official spokesman of the
United States Government will lead
vast multitude gathered here within
the shadow of the Washington Monu-
ment, next February %, in paying
tribute to the Father of His Country"
in a program inaugurating the Nation
wide observance of the George Wash
ington Bicentennial.
With the Nation listening In, through
the medium of radio, President Hoover
will deliver a memorial address and
thousands of local citizens and Capital
visitors, gathered on the grounds about
the obelisk, will sing the national an
them under the leadership of DR.. Wal
ter DamroSch to the accompaniment
of masSed bands under the direction of
John Philip Sousa.
Marvin Announces Plans.
These were the plans announced to-
day by DR.. Cloyd Heck Marvin, chair
man OF the District of Columbia BIZ
centennial Commission, for the events
ushering in the local series of COM
memorative programs which are to con-
tinue from February % to Thanksgiving
Cay next year.
AS President of the Nation which
called upon George Washington to be
its first Chief Executive, Herbert Hoover
will be invited to deliver the first OFF,
cial address, marking the start OF the
protrated program honoring the Vir-
ginian.
Participating in the initial ceremonies
maintaining diplomatic representatives
in Washington.
The radio is to be employed to give
a national and international touch to
the inaugural celebration program.
Entire Nation TO Join.
Simultaneous with the broadcast of
My Country 'Tis of Thee" from the
Washington Monument Grounds, SINH
lar gatherings attending Bicentennial
programs throughout the country and
in United States possessions beyond the
seas are to sing the anthem.
State Bicentennial Commissions every
where are being invited to cooperate
in this phase of the countrywide OBJ
servance and, If plans carry, the voices
of Americans in overseas possessions
will aid giving the celebration univer-
sal character.
America" Is to be sung at noon on
Washington's natal day wherever the
American flag flies, amid the peals of
chimes and carillons. At noon. next
February %, citizens everywhere will be
called upon to pause for two minutes
and join in the singing of the anthem.
President to Lead.
With the ceremonies thus impressive
" inaugurated, President Hoover is ex-
pected to address the asSemblage here
and afterward to deposit floral tribute
at the foot of the Monument, a signal
for the offering of flowers by all OF the
delegations present. These will include
representatives of the Washington fam
| lily, the Colonial families who were
Washington's friends and contemporaries.
the diplomatic corps, delegations from
all the States and American possessions,
all tribes of American Indians. fraternal
and patriotic organizations, the Wash
| ington school children, and, finally, the
rank and file of American citizens.
BY nightfall, the great memorial
! shaft, it is expected, will rise from a
veritable mountain of flowers.