Daily Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1918-191?, 1918-04-05
ST. LOUIS TOOPEN
LOAN CAMPAIGN
ON GRAND SCALE
MONSTER OUTDOOR, INsPiRA.
TIonAL MEETING PLANNED
FOR SATURDAY. APRIL o.
$50, 900 CROWD EXPECTED
vIee-Presldent Marshall to SPEAK
Gov. Gardner and other Nota-
bles VIII Review I'm
nense Parade

The Third Liberty Bond Campaign
will be launched In st. Louis April
with a monster parade and inspirs
tional meeting.
More than $4,000 soldiers and civil
ians are expected TO take part In the
parade, which will form at Newsteaa
avenue and Lindsil boulevard and
march through Forest PARK TO AT hiii.
where the patriotic meeting VIZ %
held.
President Thomas r. Marshall
will review the parade and deliver an
address TO an audience II Ia predicted
will number 10000.
Gov. Gardner will introduce the VICE
President. Seated upon the reviewing
stand will be the Governor. mayor
Kiel. military and civil representatives
of ali OF the allied nations and many
other prominent persons. Included IN
the guests OF honor upon The platform
will be the parents OF st. Louis men
who are ut the front or In training
campo. The fathers and mothers Oh
these soldiers will carry service fiass
as a mark OF patriotic distinction
A huge service flag bearing star
for every St Louisan serving In the
army will NY from the mast above the
reviewing stand. The largest Amerf
can flag IN the world will be suspend
ed upon the side OF the bill above the
reviewing stand. The flag u u feet
wide and i56 feet long and was pre-
scented to 81. Louis BY the Million Pop
uiation Club.
Following vice-President Marshairs
address n dozen bands led by Sousa's
band from the Great Lakes Training
Station. playing In concert. win render
the star Spangied Banner" rs IN
American nag Il lowered at retreat
Lieut.. Commander Philip Souss has
been invited to personally lead hi,
band.
While the parade Is moving through
Forest Park a squadron OF AVIATOR
from Scott Field. H.. will lombard 81
Louis with Liberty Bond literature
The sirmen will drop from the sky ap
peais 20 the people TO invest In bonds
and thereby back the brave men who
are making the supreme sacrifice upon
the blood-stained battleffelds Of
Europe. that America and the world
may be freed from the menace OF Ger
man domination
Daylight fireworks will be an attrao-
tive feature Of the celebration The
pyrotechnics will be symbolical Of the
occasion. Rockets shot into the sky
will burst and fash In colors Ameri'
can flags. Uncle Sans. the Statue OF
Liberty and other patriotic symbolic.
April 6, the anniversary OF Amer
ioa's entry into the war. was selected
by Secretary McAdoo as the most tit
ting date TO launch the Liberty Bond
campaign. Mayor KEEL will proclaim
q holiday In st. Louis and II II expect
cd that business houses will close and
everybody In the city who can posi-.
bly, do so attend the inspirational
meeting.
Five thousand soldiers from Jeffer
son Barracks. naval scouts from the
81. Louis recruiting station, including
A drum corps, a naval drum corps oom-
posed OF women and Boy Scouts win
head the parade. All civic and fra
tornal organizations will be represent
cd In tho parade.
Among the uniformed fraterna bod
ies which will participate In the parade
kre Knishts TemplAr. Knights Of Co
iumbus. Knights OF Pythias. Shriners
Elks and others.
; The Chamber OF Commerce. Ro
tarians, Jovians and other orsanira
lions will have delegations In the pa
} rude. There also will be q delegation
from the trades and labor organise
lions. A dozen bands. military an'
civic, will furnish music.
A delegation from the women''
Council OF National Defense and Re-
Cross division will have q prominen
place In the procession. Letter car
riers and other federal and municipa
employees also viii be- among tn
marchers. Every man. woman sn'
! child who participates In the parade Y
expected 60 carry an American ia,
! and the next Of kin OF all soldiers arr
requested TO carry service flags.
The parade win move at O'Clock
The Liberty Loan Committse II
! tends TO make April Q the greatest %
D triotic demonstration day In the hia
tory OF ct IOuis