Show I I jl jlIA IA A t Washington Daybook I i iBy 1 u By RODNEY DUTCHER WASHINGTON June 25 If 26 If you youcan youcan can cnn keep George Washington out of your sight next year you'll have t te to tobe tobe be e living ou out in the woods without any money The mint will start putting Washington's Washington's Wash Wash- ington's portrait on all all of at the quarters quarters quarters and of course it already is on all aU the dollar bills It is also on all the two cent stamps and Just be because because because be- be cause next year is 1932 the postoffice postoffice post post- office will put a different picture of George on n each tach of or the other 11 stamps running in denomination from h one half 1 a cent to 10 cents But that Isn't the half hat of it Listen Listen Lis Lis- ten un to Congressman Sol So Bloom director di dl dl- dl rector of the George W Washington hington bicentennial commission I predict he says that more than pictures of George orge Washington will be distributed Of or course if it you get into the copies of or W Washington n pictures appearing in newspapers and magazines it will ru run into the billions PICTURES EVERYWHERE In other words the country Is la goIng going go- go I gO-I Ing to be positively plastered with pictures of the Father of his lila Country Country Coun Coun- try on the theory that no one willever willever will ever get tired of looking at him I Every telegraph blank will bear beara a a. Washington picture one is ad advised advised ad- ad at the commissions commission's head head- quarters Special posters of or the old gentleman will be stuck up in everyone every everyone everyone one of Separate posters are being officially made for all railroad stations in addition to 00 those which railroads themselves will devise to stimulate travel to historIc historic historic his his- shrines To every schoolhouse In America goes joes another specially designed portrait portrait por per trait of ot 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 tho same thing to their time tables The latest telephone directory here In Washington n bears the re reproduction reproduction reproduction re- re production of or a George GeoFge Washington bust aust along alone with a 8 reminder of the bIcentennial and representatives of the thc commission are arc negotiating now with a a. view to having every telephone telephone telephone tele tele- phone directory in the country carry a similar cover next year ten Five-and-ten-cent stores will sell for a dime handsome little framed portraits A host of firms are al already already al- al 1 ready designing innumerable banners banners ban I ners badges buttons plaques blotters blotters blot blot- silk goods for dresses blot I almanacs al almanacs almanacs al- al school books and other books books all all of ot which will bear some sonie sort of a a- likeness of George The comm Ion gives elves advice and an ap proves The big calendar companies W will Jl make 1932 bicentennial calendars and if yo you yot ge get a n. free frea calendar from fron your favorite insurance company I railroad delicatessen dealer or bari bank with a n. brief biography of the great greatman man and one or 12 scenes taken 1 from his life you can thank the Congress congress con con- gress which decided that 1932 ought to be celebrated in a a. big way an anthe and the commission lon which has bce been whooping it up The Masons arc are getting out a poster called George Washington the Mason which will be bo placed in 4 all their lodges And th the ads of 1932 1932 did did you yoU know that George Washington made his own own flour had his own hogs hags j killed sent the help down to the thc l river for ice hunted game and rode in a coach Well Wen the commission o J knew it and it has tipped off the thc millers packers electric refrigerator Ua- Ua tor br makers gun manufacturers aut automobile companies and many others that such themes furnish swell ideas for advertising copy As Bloom suggests that probably means billions of or copies of W WashIngton Wash Wash- hington h- h Ington pictures MEDALS FOR SCHOOLS If by any chance you C miss seeing what Washington looked to r like by any of or those means you ou may my be able to catch a glimpse of him on ona a series of ot medals to be used in I school contests on bicentennial au- au i tire Ure covers such as may no nobe now I be seen along with thousands of at newspapers and magazine articles about George which the commission j expects to be printed and for which it will supply art at special exhibits I of ot paintings of or Washington at formal formal for for- mal presentations of Washington busts to all governors and mayors of or large cities in news reels covering presentations and other ceremonies in the great movie called The Story of ot George Washington now being prepared and divisible Into short subjects sub in the commissions commission's own sound- sound color movies enacting episodes of Georges George's life through special reels on Washington n being prepared for weekly meetings of members of or H 4 clubs in portraits furnished for lectures at various culture clubs and historical societies or through slides being produced for tor stereopticon con lectures This modest program for the pie plc- of or George Washington is Just Just- a mite of or what the commission Is doing to ll the Father of his Country to his children on the anniversary o of th the year ear of or his birth I |