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Show Eagles Present Bronze Tablet to Mothers Indinnapolls, Ind. Representatives Representa-tives of the 000,000 members of the Fraternal Order, of Eagles aud thousands of other persons will be here Sunday, Mothers 'Day, when the Order will unveil and present to the nation a bronze tablet commemorating com-memorating the first know public appeal that America set aside a day for honoring Mothers, The tablet will have a place in English's Oiera House, where, on February 7, 1904, Frank E. Herlng, of South Beud, Ind., formerly national na-tional president of the Eagles, made the appeal In an address which was part of a memorial program pro-gram of Indianapolis Eagles. Speakers will include Robert E. Proctor, Elkhart, Ind., national president of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, and Boyd Gurley, editor of the Indianapolis Times, winner of the Pulitzer prise. The musical part of the program will Include a song by Michael Duffecy, who was on the 1904 program, pro-gram, and one written especially for the day. I The tablet made of virgin bronze bears the following inscription: "On this site Sunday February 7 1904, the first known public plea for a nation wide observance of Mothers' Day was made by Frank E. Herlng, teacher, orator, humanitarian. human-itarian. In commemoration of Mothers' Moth-ers' Day and In honor of Its beloved belov-ed founder, the Fraternal Order of Eagles erects this tablet, May 10, 1931." Decision to erect the tablet was reached at the Indiana Eagles' convention con-vention in June, 1930. The commit-tee commit-tee which obtained the memorial was headed by Otto P. Deluse, Indianapolis, In-dianapolis, former national Eagles' president, and Includes John B. Hudson, Mayor of Lafayette, Indiana In-diana Eagles' president; Ernest E. Cloe, Noblesville, State Secretary; Dr. Fred G. Dllley, Brazil, chief examiner ex-aminer of the Insurance department and Ray C. Brock, Kokomo, past - (Continued on Page 4) EAGLES PRESENT BRONZE TABLET (Continued from page one) state president. Herlng, decorated by the American Ameri-can Wnr Mothers on November 14, 1920, ns "Father of Mothers' Day," has the distinction of having been a student, professor and trustee of the University of Notre Dame. He Is now president of the national alumni association. He is editor of The Eagle Magazine and a leader in the two major public undertakings of the Order-enactment of Old Age Pension laws and creation of a federal commission for the Stabi- -ligation of Employment. "The wand of the Fairy God-1 mother, Electricity," must help to lighten the farm wonman's load if , the farm home, as a nation knows, and reveres It today, is to eontiue, ! Mrs. Seweli warned. j j |