Evening star., 1916-06-10
Plan FOR SCHOOL
PUPILS TO MARCH
Arrangements Made for Thou
sands of Children to Appear
in Preparedness Parade.
PARENTS BEING URGED
TOPERMIT PARTICIPATION
No Official Program to Be Issued.
Five Hundred District Employees
Will Take Part.
PARADE SUBSCRIPTIONS.

| city W edneSday, Flag DAY, the ua! VII
which the preparedness parade is to be
held, members of the preparedness
| parade committee today were engaged
4 In ma king arrangements for the par
ticipation of the thousands of school
children in the great demonstration.
] There are $4,000 school children in
| Washington, and it is believed that a
| large percentage of them will want to
march in the parade. Realizing this,
the parade committee has arranged for
the assignment of position well up
toward the front of the line for the
children.
The committee is urging the parents
of ali public school children to ailo"
them to take part in the demonstra-
ton. The children will march 1mme-
diately following the high schooi ca
dets who will serve as an escor. ioi
them.
No Official Program.
Members of the preparedness parade
committee were hard at work TO-DAY
arranging details in connection with
the parade. Their attention was called
to the fact that men are going about
the city soliciting advertisements for
nropram of the parade. There IS no
official program, the committeeman De
clare, and they are extremely anxious
that merchants and other business men
likely to insert advertlseinen,T, Lnnw
so-called official programs should kho"
this. .-,.;o
ARRANGEMENTS for the participation
by employees of the District government
in the preparedness parade WEDNESDAY
were discussed at a meeting OF the
committee of arrangements this after-
noon at the District building. ). w.
Paxton, superintendent of street clean
ing, is chairman of the committee.
The various heads OF the oepaItniem.e ~
rade and it is expected more tnah ooo
employees will be in line.
High School Cadets to March.
The action of the board Of education
Yesterday afternoon, in deciding to allow
the High School cadets to participate in
the parade, was highly gratifying to the
members Of the parade committee
There are eighteen companies OF white
cadets and seven companies. Of colored
cadets. This will mean that more than
1,500 cadets will be. in line. at the head
Of the public schools section OF the
parade.
High School Cadets Association. This
association is to take part, with DR.. l.
A. Pelzman as marshal DIR. PelZman is
anxious, however, that all cadets should
| Join this section, even though they are
not connected with the association.
The District of Columbia Medical So
ciety last night voted to participate In
| the parade 1t Is believed that between
$50 and 400 physicians will march. They
are to be given an advanced position
in the line so that they will be free to
return to their offices and patients as
soon as possible.
/ DR.. j. A. Cannon has been named
chairman of committee which is to
arrange for the participation of the
doctors and the other members of the
| committee are Drs. E. b. Davidson,
president of the society: William Gerry
Morgan, E. G. Seibert, John Burke and
| John Macatee.
Builders Invite Marchers.
| The Builders and Manufacturers As
sociation, which expects to have about
| 100 marchers in line, has extended an
| invitation to all persons engaged in va
rious phases of the building business.
whether members Of the exchange or
not. to parade with the exchange
marchers There will be a special meet
! ing in the rooms of the exchange at
o'clock Monday night to complete ar
| ranCemente. and it Is urged that all
those connected with the building bust
! ness attend this meeting whether mem
| bers or not.
| A delegation Of the men who are ar
ranging BaltiInore's part in the pre-
paredness pardde are going to see Gov.
| Harrington today to invite him to head
! the MARYLAND delegation. About 1.00(
| No vla q estimated
| line with a band. Eighty thousand
people will march behind the Presi-
| dent.
other part of the great procession as
the bearers Of :he biggest flag in the
| United States. 1t measures 81 by l0(
feet and 100 men are needed to carry
it. New York tried to get 1t for its
| several hundred pounds. The nag will
be carried in the Star Spangled Banner
division Of tho Maryland section. head
ed by H. Writ steel and delegation
of members of the City Club.
Band for Maryland Section.
| II already has been made certain tina,
the Maryland section will be headed
by a band. and today an effort will bs
made to get one or more companies OF
the National Guard to be in the van.
| guard O6icals of the Maryland League
for National Defense will confer with
officials of the guard to determine
whether the presence of some of thu
guardsmen in the parade would not b.
a step in the right direction in tn,
miIitia's campaign for recruits.
| The Maryland section has been di
vided into the following sections. will
IStuart s. Janney as grand marshal:
Engineers division. II. ID. Bush. mar
shal: w ID. Janney. assistant.
Bankers division. c. c. Homer. Jr.
marshal: C. Leland Getz, assistant.
Star Spangled Banner division. ii
Writ Steele, marshal. and members o
the City Club.
Advertising and publicity division
wv. w. Cloud, marshal: Gilbert l. Luca.
land E. Lyle Cunts, assistants.
Lawyers division, William L. Mar
bury, marshal; Francis X. Murray ant
H. Findlay French. assistants
Plattsbury division. Redmond c
Stewart. marshal; William D. Lilley
assistant.
Stock brokers division. Coope
Drewry, marshal.
Builders division. Isaac H. Scates
marshal.
Contractors division. C. N. Ellinger
marshal
In process of formation: Medical di
Vision. woman's section and Chev.