The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-06

OPENING OF THIRD
LIBERTY LOAN DRIVE
FITTING CELEBRATION
WAR ANNIVERSARY
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the inscription. Ring it agar buy
Liberty Bonds" AT the rising hour
church and fire bells in many commu-
mites will be rung, and Boy Scouts
Will run from house to house pressing
door hells.- These arrangements have
been made secretly in most cities. lr
order to give the citizens a surprise.
FEATURE OF CELEBRATIONS
i feature of the celebrations nearly
everywhere will be the parades q
troops, Cities located near training
camps have borrowed" units for the
Gay to impress the citizens who stay
at home with their duty to make their
dollars enlist in the liberty war. War
exhibits have been arranged in some
communities. with popular speakers 10
emphasize the lesson of bond buying.
WAR EXHIBIT TRAINS
Through the ST. Louis. Dallas and
Atlanta federal reserve districts spe-
cial trains of French and American
war exhibits will run.
Another feature of the early days of
the campaign viii be the tour of .he
Great Lakes naval station band, oe
A-ieih JoiiH 4nllin GOuSd Is lSduSFt
through the middle west and east.
Scusa viii lead big band of $50
pieces at St Louis tomorrow.
TO BOMB" NEW YORK
Airplanes from the Mineola training
field will bomb New York with Liberty
Lean literature. and the Liberty bank"
a reproduction of the subtreasury, will
be opened in Madison Square. A parade
of citizens will march from Liberty Loan
headquarters to the city hall to be re-
ceived by Mayor Hylan
Chicagos observance was planned to
begin soon after midnight, with celebra-
tions in hotels and restaurants like those
of New Years eve, and big military
and naval parade, is to be held during
the day.
MOVIE STARS IN LINE
The first feature of the campaign was
a play tonight under direction of the
National Press club, with Mary Pick
ford Marie Dressler Douglas Fairbanks
and Charlie Chaplin taking the roles in
person. The movie stars will speak to-
morrow at public mass meetings ara
later start on tours of the country.
Fifty towns in the San Francisco re-
serve district tonight sent word they ex-
pected to win the honor flag before the
sun goes down tomorrow.
Eighty thousand persons, lncluulnS
| 20, eco women, are to march in a patriotic
parade in Boston, with one section con-
tanning only citizens of foreign BIRTH
INTEREST IN SOUTH
| Reports to Liberty Loan headquar-
| ters tough from the south indicate
unusual interes in the campaign open
| irg tomorrow.
organizers in the atlanta district
reported that the campaign would be
opened with UNPRECEDENTED demon
STATIONS n every ely ana town. and
mea ion also Wds made Of liz. apparent
| enthusiasm N raial districts.
A message from the Richmond dis
| trlcr said. 'f..e spirit antmating Lib
| erty Loan workers throughout organ
| izations from central committees down
| tasoug., county snndiviyscns is SPLEEN
dtsi.9 Rallies and other patriotic meet
| ings WITH mark the CT aning IN prac-
! t.ca!y every city nn1 town Of the Rich
| mond district. Special Pleasure was
expressed by loan wulsers here over
reports that farmers are showing much
interest in the third loan. Between
l4Deu and 5000 woi@els wili do solicit
ing in the Dallas district on the first
| da /, according TO message tonight.
Aifplanes from a number of training
camps in Texas VIII "ton.b" cities with
/ literature. Several small towns an
noui'cc they wculJ report the rails
ing OF their full quota before noon.