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Show n, - " a , ' ' ' Every State, City and Town ( To Participate In Celebration These points should be emphasized with, respect to the Celebration Celebra-tion of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of George Washington Wash-ington this year: 1 It is sponsored by the United States Government: Congress created the United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission Commis-sion and the President of the United States is its chairman. 2 It will not be a world's fair or exposition, and it will not b3 held in any one place. 3 It will be a nation-wide, even a world-wide, series of celebrations celebra-tions in which every state, city and town every organization and institution, in-stitution, every home and individual in this country, together with Americans and others in many foreign countries, will participate. Every community is expected to plan, and carry out its own program of events, in cooperation with the United States Commission and the State Commissions. 4 It will last from Washington's Birthday, February 22, 1932, to Thanksgiving Day, November 24, 1932, with special local and national na-tional celebrations everywhere on all holidays, anniversaries, or other days which can be connected with the life of George Washington. 5 While the ceremonies on February 22 should be especially elaborate and impressive, as marking the actual Two Hundredth Anniversary An-niversary of George Washington's Birth, arrangements also should be made for public gatherings, pageants, plays, processions, musical festivals, fes-tivals, tableaux and ether events at various times during the entire period of more than nine months. Every program should relate to the great life and work of the First President and Founder of the Republic. Repub-lic. On Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and other national and local holidays or anniversaries there should be special programs, but the celebration should not be confined to these days. 6 It will take time to prepare the local programs and arrange for the local celebrations. The United States Commissic.n urges mayors may-ors and other officials of every city and town in the country to appoint George Washington Bicentennial Commissions or Committees in order to prepare for the event3 of the Bicentennial Year. 7 All organizations and institutions of whatever character civic, business, labor, educational, religious, fraternal, literary, social and others are urged to plan for a "George Washington Year" in 1932. 8 The United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission, Commis-sion, Washington Building, Washington, D. C, will send suggestions for local programs to any committee, organization or group that will write for them. ' |