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Show MOTHERS' DAY PROGRAM MAY 13 Local aerie Fraternal Order of Eagles, will again hold their annual Mother's Day program on Monday evening, May 13, as announced an-nounced by B. A. Hocking, chairman. chair-man. The first public plea for a national na-tional Mothers' Day was made by the late editor of Eagles mag-agin, mag-agin, Frank Hering, more than 42 years ago, in an address to Indianapolis Eagles. The Eagles took the initiative in sponsoring local programs by their aeries long before the day was observed observ-ed generally. The movement culminated cul-minated in the setting aside of a national day by congress in 1914. after -Miss Ann Mae Jarvis, a Philadelphia woman, had urged that the date be the second Sunday Sun-day in May, the anniversary of her mother's death, and that the occasion be marked by the wearing wear-ing of the carnation, her mother's favorite flower. On Armistice day, in 1929, the War Mothers of America recognized recog-nized the role of Mr. Hering and the Eagles in popularizing Mothers' Mo-thers' day by presenting him with a medal upon which was inscribed "The Father of Mothers' Moth-ers' Day." |