South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-04-18
THOUSANDS WILL
MARCH SATURDAY
Details For Patriotic Demon
StratiOn Are Rapidly Near
ing Completion.

To the martial strains of half a
dozen bands. boys and Civil war
veterans, soldiers and recruits. men
and women, totalling thousands in
all, will march in what promises 10
be by far the greatest patriotic pa
rade ever staged in South Bend.
Saturday afternoon.
Never before has there been so
much interest aroused over a SINH
lar event in South Bend. Every
one seems anxious to cooperate and
the parade will undoubtedly be one
of the biggest turnouts ever wit
messed here. Five hundred Culver
cadets are coming 10 take part. Uni
formed cadets from NOtre Dame 10
the number of $50 and fully as
many uniformed students will be i'm
line. Posts of Civil war veterans
are vying with each other for the
honor of having the largest repre-
sentation, scores of the members
of both Auten post and Norman
Eddy post, G.. A. r., having signi-
fed their intention Of being on
hand. The local post of Spanish
war veterans will be represented i'm
goodly numbers. Company f will
march, accompanied by all the re-
cruits that have enlisted either in
the national guards or the regular
army, in the city at the time. There
will be 500 Red Cross marchers,
with banners galore. A majority of
local fraternal societies will have
walking delegations. Such other or
carnations as the Bar assOciat ton
and the Dental association will al
so be out en- masse.
Women To BE I'm Line.
Many of the women's clubs of the
city will be represented in the wom-
ems section Of the parade. There
will be at least one church delega-
ton 600 strong from st. Adelbert's
parish. The Elks' boy scouts will,
OF course. be on hand.
The line of march has not yet
been determined upon but the pro-
cession will start promptly at 2:15
o'clock probably at some point on
Michigan St
The streets along the line of
march will be in gala attire for the
occasion. Several merchants have
already begun decorating. The dec
orations throughout Will he i'm the
national colors. There viii also be
flags and banners and floats in the
parade, but primarily it will be a
silent expression of thousands of
marchers of the city's patriotism.
To Encourage Recruiting.
The primary purpose Of the pa
rade will be TO encourage enlist
ments and ways and means are be-
ing worked out for accepting re-
oruits during the demonstration.
The Red Cross will also make use
Of the demonstration TO obtain new
members for its organization.
Several prominent speakers will
talk at the mass meeting which will
follow the parade but the list Of
speakers has not yet been complet-
ed, nor has the place for the mass
meeting been picked.
Red Men TO March.
a big delegation of Red Men, led
by the Red Mems band, will take
part. Arrangements were made at
the meeting of Montauk tribe, No.
246. Tuesday night at Red Men hall.
A telegram which has been sent by
the great incohonee (nation presi-
dent) of the Red Men To Pres't Will
son pledging him the support of the
100000 Red Men in this country
OF tho r,napffnu
Crusade lodge No. IA. X. of p,
will also be well represented i'm the
parade. Arrangements for the X. OF
P.'s participation were made at
of the lodge Tuesday night.
The Army and Navy union COM
pleted plans for its participation.
The Dodge band will head the
walking delegation Of ex-soldiers and
sailors.
Big ThrOng Expected.
4 great crowd will undoubtedly
through the streets Saturday after
noon. All factories will be closed.
The stores in the downtown section
and the theaters will also close dur
ing the parade. Ed Smith, manager
of the South Bend Baseball club. has
announced that the exhibition game
scheduled for the local team Satur-
day afternoon has been called off.
Besides the townspeople there will
also be a large crowd
here from the country and adjoin-
ing cities to witness what will un-
doubtedly be this sections greatest
display Of patriotism.
Mai. Fred Dennis. chairman of
the executive committee in charge
OF the complete demonstration, is
busy arranging final details for the
whole affair. The line OF march,
bands 10 participate, the speakers
for Tho nccaeinr, u-ilI rrnhn b.. La