The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-26
(NEA Service Writer,

(NEA Scrv1CC NE1JCfJ Washington.-If youes can keep George Washington out of your sight next year you'll have to be liv. ing out in the woods without any money.
 The mint will start putting Wash ington's portrait on all of the quar- ters and of course 1t already is on all the dollar bills. It Is also on all the two-cent stamps and just be- cause next year is 1892 the post office will put. different picture of George on each of the other II stamps running in denomination from one-half a cent to 10 cents. But that isn't the half of 1t. Lis- ten to Congressman Sol Bloom, di. rector of the George Washington bicentennial commission.
 T predict" he says, "that more than 250,000,000 pictures of George Washington will be distributed. Of course, if you get into the copies of Washington pictures appearing in newspapers and magazines 1t will run into the billions"
 Pictures Everywhere In other words, the country is going to be positively plastered with pictures of the Father of his Coun- try on the theory that no one will ever get tired of looking at him.
 Every telegraph blank will. bear Washington picture, one is ad- vised at the commissions head. quarters. Special posters of the old gentleman will be stuck up in every one of 49,2Sf postoffices. Separate posters are being officially made for all railroad stations in addition to those which railroads themselves | will devise to stimulate travel to historic shrines.
 To every schoolhouse in America goes another specially designed por- trait of Washington in frame and colors. Pullman dining cars will print the face of the immortal George on their menus and some of the very largest railroads have promised to do the same thing to their timetables.
 The latest telephone directory here in Washington bears the re- production of George Washington bust along with reminder of the bicentennial and representatives of the commission are negotiating now with a view to having every tele- phone directory in the country car- ry similar cover next year. 0OOStS 6OuVcnlE lF0uC Five-and-ten-cent stores will sell for dime handsome little framed portraits. A host of firms are al- ready designing innumerable ban. ners, badges, buttons, plaques, blot. ters, silk goods for dresses, alman-. acs. school books and other books all of which will bear some sort of q likeness of George. The commis- sion gives advice and approves. ,g
 The big calendar companies will make 1892 bicentennial calendars your favorite insurance company. with a brief biography of the great railroad, delicatessen dealer or bank and if you get a free calendar from man and one or 12 scenes taken from his life you can thank the con- gress which decided that 1892 ought to be celebrated in a big way and the commission which has been whooping 1t up.
 poster called George Washington the Mason" which will be placed in ali their lodges.
 And the ads of 1932-did you know that George Washington made his own -four. had his own hogs killed. sent the help down to the river for ice, hunted game and rode in . coach? Well. the commission knew 1t and 1t has tipped off the miilers. packers, electric refrigera- tor makers. gun manufacturers, au- tomombile companies and many others that such themes furnish swell ideas for advertising copy. As Bloom suggests. that probably means billions of copies of Wash. ington pictures. iI
 Medals for Schools
 1f by any chance you should miss seeing what Washington looked like by any of those means you may be able to catch c glimpse of him on . series of medals to be used in school contests. on bicentennial automobile tire covers such as may now be aeen, along with thousands of news papers and magazine articles about George which the commission ex. poets 10 be printed and for which it will supply art, at special exhibits Of paintings of Washington, at for. nal presentations of Washington busts Co ail governors and mayors ef large cities, in news reels cover. inR presentations and other eere. monies, in the great movie called "The story Of George Washington" new beina prepared and divisibie