The Yale expositor., 1918-11-14
MICHIGAN CITIES AND VILLAGES
STAGED NOISY CELEBRATIONS
THAT WAR WAS OVER.
THOUSANDS PARADE STREETS
West Branch Tarred and Feathered
and Buried Kaiser in Etfigy. Other
SideIights in State.


lowing receipt of the report that tho
var. was over
Official denials failed to check the
pentup enthusiasm of celebrators.
Crowds massed before the capitol
and demanded speech of Governor
Sleeper, who said
This report may or may not be
true. If it is not true. 'do..t worry.
1t will be absolutely true before
long" He added that IF the arms
tice suits Marshal Foch and Ten.
Pershing / am satisfied with it,
Detroit-When official denial, from
Washington. Paris and London, If
the report of signing of truce reach.
ed the immense throngs on the
downtown streets natural uneasiness
over the effect on the crowd. express
ed by Mayor Marx and some of the
leading citizens of the city. died Il
sSdden death.
From a beehive of industrial and
mercantile activity, intent only on
beating it's own record as the great
est center of war work in the world,
Detroit changed in the twinkling OF
an eye, Thursday, to deliriously
happy playground, business, trans
portation, telephone service para
lyzed, and hundreds of thousands OF
cheering, screaming, horn-blowing
Dervishes wading through bliZZards
of congettit, in a wild cataclysm of
noise and joyousness, to celebrate
the flash of the greatest news in the
worlds history. That il wasunoftl-
cial and unconfrmed made no differ
ence.
Siren whistles shrieked the news,
fire bells all over the city changed
the victory not that told thousands,
intent on their workaday tasks. that
wonderful events had occurred, and
Detroit instinctively knew that Ger
many had bowed to the inevitable.
Police patrols and fire apparatus on
orders of Mayor Marx. raced through
all sections of the city with gong5
changing and sirens open wide; house.
wives piled into the streets in kitchen
aprons and curl papers. then told the
news to everybody within screaming
distance, and then dressed and took
the available family to join the tens
Of thousands who poured into the
heart of the city from every street
leading to the Campus Martious.
Ann Arbor-"Glorious If true" was
the comment of President Hutchins, of
the University of Michigan, on the re-
port that terms had been signed be-
tween, Germany and the Allies.
Every factory in the city and every
store closed shortly after 2 o'clock
Thursday afternoon. The Students
Army Training corps sections A and
B, $500 strong, paraded the campus
square and the downtown streets and
an hour and half later the naval unit
of the S. A. T. c. paraded headed by
band.
Everything from a factory whistle
and the campus fire siren to a penny
horn footed for hours at a stretch.
There was a parade and bonfire at
Ypsilanti, while Big Rapids, not
knowing whether TO believe or disbe-
,ieve the report, celebrated anyway
Citizens thought the action of Turkey.
Austria and Bulgaria were grounG
for an outburst.
Civil War veterans stood with barred
heads and tears coursing down their
checks as flags were unfurled at Ira
verse City's patriotic display. Bands
played; mothers, fathers and children
paraded and fires were built. as the
kaiser was dragged, hung, shot. burn
ed and buried in effigy. The super
visors passed a resolution of thanks
to God for "humanitys unutterable
relief"
Buick, bort, Chevrolet and other
factory workers at Flint left their
lathes and benches TO take part in
the celebration. which continued long
into the night.
Community singing, a band concert
and speeches made up the program
arranged for Mt. Clemans by Mayor
Sarns.
Albion staged a big parade. with
many floats, fire trucks and autos.
Members of the college S. A. 4. c.
led it,
Ferndale started movement to
make November Z Liberty day" be.
fore the report OF peace was finally
squelched.
Grand Rapids. Ionia. MuskegOn,
jackson and other cities staged mon
ster parades, with a din of noise and
fireworks
Monroe closed up shop 10 celebrate.
Schools were dismissed that the kid
lies might take part.
A dozen caterpillar tractors from
the REQ factory played feature part
In a parade.
The Kaiser was tarred, feathered
snd burned in efiigy at West Branch.