Evening star., 1940-07-05
Fireworks Show
Re-schedu|ed
At $50 Tonight
lckes, in Radio Talk,
Blasts Disporosers
Of Democracy

Washingtonians, drenched and
disappointed last night when beat
ing thundershower drove them from
a hastily Cancelled Monum n
Grounds fireworks display, will have
another opportunity tonight to see
the pyrotechnics if the weather per-
mits.
Preliminary exercises had barely
started last night when the $4,000
assembled spectators were pelted
with rain that left water standing
3 inches in some spots.
Attendants set off some of the
more elaborate displays-among
them Niagara Falls" the crowd
ran. 1t was feared that the rain
would destroy these chemical mas
terpieces. The bulk of the $500 dis
play, however, was salvaged and will
be set off at the grounds at $50
o'clock tonight.
Lawrence E. Williams, chairman
OF the Districts Fourth of July Gen.
eral Committee, said new set pieces
were being rushed from New York
to replace those set off last night.
In addition, 125 aerial bombs, some
of them the largest ever made for
fireworks, remain over from last
night.
Festivities will begin at 7::30 pm.
with concert by the Marine Band.
A recording of Secretary of Interior
IckeS speech, broadcast last night,
will be played at the grounds to-
night. Tickets for those who do not
have stubs from last night may be
purchased at the Monument grounds
or at the A. A.. A. headquarters,
Seventeenth street and Pennsyl-
vania avenue NV.
Fair weather was forecast.
Ickes Blasts Disparagers.
Secretary Ickes, speaking over
an N. B. C. network in the
WMAL studio after being rained
out at the Monument, reaffrmed
his faith in the continuance of
American democracy as he called
on the people to give a hard, angry,
shouting razzbery laugh" to those
who would have us believe that the
United States is WORKOUT" He
said:
Tonight, in the Capital of our
free and young and great Republic,
we are assembled to reaffirm to our
selves and to the world that we in
America still hold these truths to
be self evident. We swear that We
will hold fast to the principles upon
which this Nation was founded,
I'VE reafirm our belief in free
dom-freedom of speech, of worship,
of assembly and of the individual.
I'VE pledge continued allegiance to
the eternal principles of truth and
Of 5usttce ,,g s.,x p sesssssyssss4s,
Haven't Begun to Live, He Says.
When are you going to imagine
the words that your fathers would
have used, and their fathers?" Mr..
Ickes demanded.
when is the great, hard, angry,
shouting razzberry laugh of the
American people going to yell down
the West wind of this continent and
out to sea and on out past the
horizon?
when are you going to say all
as one man and all together:
I'VE haven't even yet begun to
live!
I'VE haven't even yet begun to
create on this continent the new
and untried and never yet realized
world of freedom and security and
elf-respect.
Triumphant" Peoples.
Mr.. Ickes asked the American
people to have a look" at the new,
triumphant" peoples held UP to
them for emulation by the Fourth
of July propagandists.
you see these superior people of
the future who would rule the
world abase themselves before new
gods set up for them by dictator
You see all this. And you listen to
the orator. You hear him tell you
that freedom is now a mark of in
feriority and of incompetence, and
that slavery is the badge of pride
and of patriotism ="