Evening star., 1933-02-21
PATRIOTIC GROUPS
HONORWASH|NGTON
HERE TOMORROW
201St Anniversary of Found
er's Birth to Be Marked
by Ceremonies.
GEN. MALONE TO SPEAK
AT MASSING OF COLORS
Corcoran Cadet Corps and Oldest
Inhabitants to Hold
Meetings.

Minus the fanfare Of a year ago, the
Capital will pay homage tomorrow to
the Founder of the Nation in quiet cere-
monies throughout the city.
The 201St anniversary of the birth of
| George Washington will be observed in
the usual manner by the patriotic. socie-
ties with appropriate exercises. There
Will be no paradeS such as marked the
Bicentennial Celebration last year.
Reuniting for the nineteenth success
sive year, the Sons of the American
Revolution, Sons of the Revolution,
Daughters of the American Revolution
and Children Of the American Revolu-
t1on will hold joint exercises at Memo
row. The ceremonies will be in charge
of the District of Columbia Society,
S. A. R., this year, following the Gus
tom of having each of the senior socie-
ties take its turn in supervising ar
rangements.
Gen. Malone to Speak.
Maj Gen. Paul B. Malone, command
ing the Sd Corps Area, with headquar-
ters in Baltimore, will deliver the prin-
cipal address after a concert by the
United States Marine Band. The mass
ing of the colors" will be feature of
the meeting.
After the exercises members Of the
S. A. R. will go to the Mayf1ower Hotel,
where the annual meeting and election
of officers will be held.
A double birthday party will be cele-
brated tonight by the Corcoran Cadet
Corps, famous old National Guard out
fit. which passed out Of existence years
ago. Surviving members of the corps
will meet for smoker at 920 Tenth
street to commemorate the corps
f1ftieth anniversary as well as the natal
day OF Washington. The meeting also
will be in the nature of memorial
to G. Eugene Edwards, first captain of
the cadets, who died September 20,
1881.
Inhabitants to Meet.
The Association of Oldest Inhabi-
tants Of the District of Columbia will
hold its annual celebration of Wash
ington's birthday anniversary at the
old Union Engine House at 10 am.
tomorrow. A business meeting will
precede the patriotic services, at which
Representative Loring Black, Democrat,
of New York, will deliver the main
address. Elra c. Palmer will read
Washington's famous farewell address
Theodore W. Noyes, president of the
association. is expected to preside.
The observance of the District of
Columbia Department of the American
Legion will take the form of attend
ance at the annual solemn military
mass at the Church of the Immaculate
Conception, Eighth and N streets. Rev
Francis j. Hurney, pastor of the church
and a wartime chaplain, will be cele-
brant of the mass, assisted by Rev
Joseph Koch, U. S. A., chaplain OF
Walter Reed Hospital, and Rev. Thomas
J. Knox, U. S. NJ, chaplain of the
Quantico Marine base. Very Rev. Ig-
natius Smith, o. p, will deliver the
address.
4S Flags to Be Raised.
At ceremonies at the base Of the
Washington Monument the flags Of the
48 States will be raised around the
shaft. The exercises will take place al
am. and the Monument will be open
from 1890 to 4:30 pm. A wreath
from President Hoover and q number
OF patriotic organizations will be laid
at the base of the shaft.
The New England States Society will
honor the first President with a George
Washington memorial ball at the Hotel
Washington, at $3.50 pm. tomorrow
william Tyler Page, former clerk OF
the House, will open the exercises by
reading "The Americans Creed" Ad-
dresses will be made by Representa-
tives y. S. Guyer, Republican, oi
Kansas; William P. Connery, Democrat
Of Massachusetts, and Donald B
Partridge. Republican, of Maine. Mrs
David D. Caldwell, vice president gen.
eral, Daughters of the American Revo-
luton, and Maj. Gen. Amos A. Fries
nominee for president, District Of Co.
lumbia Society, Sons Of the American
Revolution, also will speak.
Besides playing at the exercises al
Continental Hall in the morning, the
Marine Band, under the direction OF
Capt. Taylor Branson, conductor, will
play special program at the Marine
Barracks, at pm. The suite, "Cov-
cred Wagon Days." by william H
Woodin, will be featured.
Pilgrimages to the. tomb Of Wash
ington, at Mount Vernon, will be made
by members Of Gen. Nelson A. Miles
Camp, No. 1; Gen. Nelson A. Miles Aux
iliary, No. 8, Of United Spanish War
Veterans, and Washington Centennial
Lodge, No. IA, F. A. A. M. The war
veteran groups will leave Fifteenth
street and New York avenue at 8 am,
while the MaSonS will leave from Ma
sonic Temple, Thirteenth street and
New York avenue, at l pm. Wreaths
will be laid on the tombs Of George and
Martha washington.