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Show 1 EAGLES PLAN TO PRESENTPROGRAM Mothers' Day will be observed by Bingham Canyon Aerie, Fraternal Fra-ternal Order of Eagles, with special spe-cial exercises on Monday, May 12 at Masonic hall. The principal princi-pal speaker on the program will be Mrs. D. F. Johansen. The public pub-lic is; invited to attend. This annual commemoration of Mothers' Day is a long-standing tradition in the Fraternal Order of Eagles, declared Worthy President John West. Two years before Congress set aside the second Sunday in May as Moth- ers' Day, the grand aerie, or national na-tional governing body of the fraternity, fra-ternity, enacted legislation providing pro-viding that all aeries in the jurisdiction juris-diction observe Mothers' Day with appropriate ceremonies. The interest of the fraternity in Mothers' Day dates back to tebruary 7, 1904, the day on which one of its leaders, Frank E. Hering now Editor of The Eagle Magazine and Chairman of the Eagles' National Old Age Pension Commission delivered the first known public plea for a nation-wide Mothers' Day. In 1925, the American War Mothers issued this statement: "The Fraternal Order of Eagles was the first organization to conduct con-duct a national campaign for the observance of Mothers' Day " On the committee in charge of the program are B. A. Hocking, Chris T. Praggastis and Merl Porter. O |