Show IA Washington BY RODNEY DUTCHER jf WASHINGTON July 20 20 The The un- un enormous proportions of this 1932 1032 George Washington bi bicentennial bicentennial hi- hi centennial celebration seems to be largely attributable to Sol Bloom and his soul They put Sol and his soul In a dinky little capitol office when they made him a n director of the commis commis- sion sJon But Sol has expanded the commission into vast handsome quarters in a bg big new office building and commands scores of workers who among hundreds of or other things and in the name of George Washington Washing Washing- ton and Sol Sal Bloom are arc now pelting hundreds of thousands of leading citizens and organizations In cities and villages with Instructions and bulky programs for the observance ob oh- servance through next year ear of or the two hundredth anniversary of oC Washington's birth THOSE FERVENT SPEECHES Maybe Mabe you OU dont don't think any New NewYork NewYork York congre congressman has a soul But that's because you haven't listened lIstene l to Sol Bloom talking about the bicentennial bicentennial tennial and the great patriotic reawakening re reawakening re- re awakening which he believes will come out of it There aTe are authenticated authenticated instances where people have haye broken down and wept at hearing him on the radio They thought Sol So was crying too He wasn't but before before be before be- be fore the microphone his voice and frame shake in grimmest earnestness earnest earnest- ness as he pours out that soul Sols lost his wife exclaimed to their daughter Vera as the two listened to his radio voice once recently and it seemed that no man affected so emotionally emotionally emo emo- emotionally could possibly go goon on Were bringing the real WashIngton Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington back to the people he ex explains cx- cx plains tense tensely Were humanizing Washington Were We're giving America a history lesson such as no country ever had before We must have more of the thc spiritual and less of the material Weve We've forgotten history History Is like religion Georgie Cohan has written us a song for the ye year r 1932 Lindbergh flying across the ocean was guided and guarded b by the pro ers of or hundreds o c of millions of or people He couldn't fall Tills This country cant can't fall faU to fulfill Its highest destiny if we have the prayers of ot a hundred million or morn people for their country and with thoughts of or George Washington Overdoing this thing tiling Man Mai you cant can't overdo history Pe 5 get fed up on it all before we ge get through Well they dont don't get x fed up on religion do they Theres There's nothing more beautiful than the his his- tory lory of ot our country The spirit of or George Washington will rise iro from his tomb in Mt 1 Vernon and bring us together again as the living Washington stilled the storms storms' that swept over the da days davs s when he lived In Ia the flesh This c celebration Is gol going to give the thc American people the greatest national rallying point they ever had SOLS SOL'S RISE IN WORLD Personally Sol Bloom confides h he is very happy because he Is Js doin doing something to repay his country for what it has done for his Ills parents and anc sisters and brothers c The amazing fervor and activity which Sol So Bloom short chunky an ana ami brown haired at 61 throws s 's into the too bicentennial during a long hot summer sum sun mer iner Is Js no more remarkable than h ht career caree S SHe He Hc was born in Pekin HL nl and wa was waS working in a a. bru brush l factory at Sa San Francisco when 8 years tears old for tor 1 a week weck He never went to school but has read rend greedily since his mother taught him how He was wa bookkeeper in that brush factory at 11 Its superintendent at 13 13 treasurer treas of a theater at 15 building his hf first theater in theater in San Francisco at 17 and starting on a tour around the tIme world at 19 19 Twenty years old and he had been put In charge o of construction con of the famous midway at the thc Chicago world fair He supervised super the thc midway with its d dazzling attractions through 1893 He Ill went into the music business and owned 80 ro 0 stores over the country b before fore he sold out But real estate and construe tion attracted him most and he became be became be- be came a millionaire He re retired from business in 1920 at the age of or 50 and the people tip toward One Hundred Twenty fifth street in New York City began to elect him to congress Money Sol Sal Bloom says Is only good for the independence It gives you |