Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-04-25
EVERYBODY Wanted.
IN LINE OF MARCH
Committee Confident 10000
Will Parade in Liberty Loan
Demonstration Here.
TOMORROW HALF HOLIDAY

Don't be a spectator, be in the line
Of march,
With this as its slogan. the District
to every washingtonian to make FIRST
payment on a bond and march up
avenue in tho big bond
buyers demonstration at o'clock to-
afternoon.
If you are government employe, or
belong to any of the organizations that
intend to march in body you will find
a place Of formation ready for you. in
dicated elsewhere in today's Star.
If you are just an individual with
payment made on a bond you arc In
vited to march in the eighth division
of the parade, which will form at
o'clock at Sd street and Indiana ave
nue.. There also will be a mems unat-
tached section in the tenth division.
which assemblies at 9Th and streets.
AS new entries continued to come
into headquarters at 11s H street this
morning members OF the committee
expressed confidence that their esti-
mate of 10000 marchers would be sur
passed. -
In the first division of the parade
there will be 492 young men of wash
ington, who will leave in few days
to join the fighting forces. Every man
or woman who marches up the Avenue
behind them will signify that ne or
che intends to back up these boys with
dollars and food.
Holiday Spirit to Reign.
With government departments. busi-
ness establishments and public schools
closing at noon, holiday spirit VIII
reign over the city until late after
noon. when the exercises END with a
mammoth liberty loan rally on the
White House Ellipse. The Public LII
brary will close during the parade.
AS climax to the demonstration
Miss Ruth Law, the aviatrix. will
maneuver over the heads of the thou
sands of marchers as they file onto
the Ellipse. Descending into lane
which will be roped of for her ma
chine. the young flyer will undertake
to secure $1,oO0.oo0 in SUBSCRIPTIONS
pledge card Of all who buy from her.
One of the prettiest spectacles IN the
parade will be the human liberty loan
nag. made up of Girl Scouts and chill
Root Rhodes superintendent of Dis
trict Fairgrounds, Is IN charge OF the
flag"
The National Service School notified
the committee this morning tnat "
girls of the school will march in their
khaki unifornS. Meaded by Miss Eliza
beth Poe. commandant.
School Children in Line.
Ernest L. Thurston. superintendent of
schools. who will head his army of
little bond BUYERS. announced this
o.. oh
have purchased bonds, emitting them
to march It is expected 1000 will have
started buying bond by tomorrow.
AS in the other patriotic parades held
in Washington in the past few years.
the great army of government clerks
will constitute the bulk of the march
ers Bureau chiefs are striving to out
do each other in the appearance of
their sections
All the cabinet officers, with the ex-
McAdoo and Secretary of War Baker.
are expected to be in the city in time
to march at'the head of their depart
ments. Each bureau chief in turn will
head his section.
The parade will leave Peace Monu-
ment promptly at 2 o'clock. headed by
Gen. Richard D. SimmS, comm mander OF
the District National Guard. and Melvin
c. Hazen. grand marshal OF the parade.
Behind them will come section OF the
Marine Band, the District liberty loan
the Senate, the House, mem
bers of the Supreme Court of the Dis
trict, the 492 drafted men, headed by
the District Commissioners and en-
pIoyes of the White House, headed by
Executive Clerk Rudolp.i Forster
DR.. Garfield to Head Employees.
DIR. Harry Garfield, federal fuel ad-
will head 500 employees of
his bureau in the parade. Chief Clerk
Reese of the Department of Agriculture
already has the assurances of $500 en-
pioyes of his department to march
There will be 1900 employees of the
food administration in line.
officials of the Washington navy yard
estimate they will have 5000 men in
line.
Mrs. Susie Root Rhodes, supervisor of
Fairgrounds. is in charge OF the wom-
ems organizations in the parade. The
women's organizations will be led by
the womens liberty loan committee
of the District The women,s ersant,
Funk vice chairman of the national
women's liberty loan committee, and |
Mrs Charles 8. Hamlin. chairman of
the District womens iiberty loan COM
mittee.
They will walk together ahead of
the I.iberty bell. The bell will be |
driven by woman. manned by women /.
and will lead all the women's organi- |
cations.
Woman Workers to March.
Mrs. stephen G. Porter and Mrs.
Goldthwaite Higginson Door. joint |
chairmen Of the ouse-to-house can
yassers Of the women's liberty loan |
will march at the head of |
the 1000 Washington women who have |
for service in the house
to-house canvass. The chairmen of |
the various subcommittee of the |
women's liberty loan committee OF
The women's liberty loan committee
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