Evening star., 1932-05-15
YOUTHS Of CAPITAL
FROL|C IN FESTIVAL
1000 School Children Honor
Washington at Monu-
ment.

On the green slopes in the shadow OF
the great Monument honoring his
memory, the Capitals school children
paid tribute to George Washington
yesterday in festival of fun, culminat-
ing in pageant and procession around
the tall shaft.
Led of with sporting activities
dances, music and games in all parts
OF the Washington Monument Grounds
and adjacent to Potomac Park, the
District Bicentennial Commission's
Festival of Youth" drew about 1000
children from the community centers
school Fairgrounds and other institu.
tions OF the city.
The program lasted from l until
O'Clock, when the throngs of youngsters
flocked to Fifteenth street and Consti.
tuition avenue for the Procession oi
Tribute" This column of brilliantly
attired marchers, garbed mostly In Co
Otto johnson, as George and Marths
tuition avenue to Seventeenth street anc
turned into the Monument Grounds
where group of distinguished guest!
viewed the procession from the open.
air Sylvan Theater.
Tour Festival Activities.
James Otis Porter and Mrs. Johr
Otto johnson as George and Marths
Washington, toured the festival activi.
ties in historic coach drawn by
horses. The vehicle was said to have
been used by President Grant in his
inaugural parade.
A program of events in the Sylvan
Theater, starting at 12:45 pm, was
headed by band concert by the Lang
ley Junior High School Band directed
by Capt Karl Schaeffer. The Harmon
lea Band of the Hyattsville Elementary
School. under the joint direction OF
Mrs. Leone Barber Curbow and Mrs
Alice w. Rice, was a feature of this
program.
The celebrated group of minuet dane
ers from the Capital Society, Children
of the American Revolution, directed by
Mrs. Henry F. Sawtelle, presented a
number, while other groups performing
on this program included the Thomson
Community Center, Friendship House
Southeast and Langley Community Gen.
ters, Georgetown Community Center
Brightwood Demonstration School and
groups from the Randall and Francis
Junior High Schools. The Sylvan Thea
ter program was arranged by the Com
munity Center Department.
Exhibits Presented.
Among the exhibits were the Boys
Club Of Washington's display of art
craft activities and parts of the Boys
Club circus; the Trail to Citizenship, VI
sponsored by the Boy Scouts of Ameri-
ca, demonstrating Boy Scout activities;
cutter sailing under auspices of the
Sea Scouts, on the Tidal Basin. and
demonstrations of life saving. C,irl
Scouts demonstration of 8 model camp:
model yacht regatta. sponsored by the
Washington Model Yacht Club and a
model aircraft demonstration, arranged
by the District of Columbia Model Air
craft League. An impressive display of
Life in an Indian Village" was ar
ranged by the Salvation Army Life
Saving Scouts on the north side of the
Tidal Basin.
The procession of tribute to George
Washington was participated in BY
groups from virtually every public schoo
and recreation center in the city. They
paraded to the martial music of half q
dozen boys bands. Cadet Col. Chester
Morrill,, jr., was grand marshal of the
parade, and Cadet Col Ernest Anderson
was assistant grand marshal
DR. George c. Havenner, executive
vice president of the District Bicenten-
nial Commission, headed the distin-
guished guests who reviewed the march
ing column from the Sylvan Theater
With him was Miss Sibyl Baker, chair
man of the Festival of Youth Commit
tee, which planned the event.
The formation of the divisions in the
procession of tribute was as follows:
First division: Maj Robert L. Ney-