Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1918-04-04
ST. LOUIS TO OPEN
LOAN CAMPAIGN
. ON GRAND SCALE
I
MONSTER OUTDOOR. INs7iRA'
TIoNAL MEETING PLANNED T
FOR SATURDAY, APRIL 6.
$50, 1000 CROWD EXPECTED
Ivice-President Marshall to Speak
Gov. Gardner and Other Nota-
bIes Will Review I'M
. mense Parade

The Third. Liberty Bond Campaign
will be launched In st. Louis April 6
with a monster parade and inspira-
tional meeting.
More than $4,000 soldiers and civil
ians are expected to take part in the
parade. which will form at Newstead
avenue and Lindell boulevard ano
march through Forest Park to Art Hill
where the patriotic meeting Will be
held.
Vice-President Thomas r. Marshal.
will review the parade and deliver al
address to an audience 1t Is 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 all of the allied nations and many
other prominent persons. Included IL
the guests of honor upon the platform
| will be the parents of st. Louis mer
who are at the front or In training
camps. The fathers and mothers o.
these soldiers will carry service flag
as a mark of patriotic distinction.
A huge service flag bearing stai
for every ST. Louisan serving in the
army will fly from the mast above the
reviewing stand. The largest Ameri
can flag in the world will be suspend
ed upon the side Of the hill above ths
reviewing stand. The flag Is Is feel
wide and 156 feet long and was pre-
sented to st. Louis by the Million Pop
ulation Club.
Following Vice-President Marshall''
address a dozen bands led by Sousa's
band from the Great Lakes Training
Station. playing in concert, will render
the "Star Spangled Banner" as ar
American flag Is lowered at retreat
Lieut.. Commander Philip Sousa has
been invited to personally lead his
| band.
While the parade is moving through
Forest Park a squadron of aviator
from Scott Field, H., will lombard ST
Louis with Liberty Bond literature
The airmen will drop from the sky ap
peals to the people to invest In bonds
and thereby back the brave men who
are making the supreme sacrifice upon
the blood-stained battlefields OF
Europe. that America and the world
may be freed from the menace OF Ger
! 6an domination,
| Daylight fireworks will be an attrac
tive feature Of the celebration. The
pyroteehnics will be symbolical of the
occasion. Rockets shot into the sky
will burst and flash in colors. Amerl
can flags, Uncle Sans. the Statue OF
| Liberty and other patriotic symbols.
! April 8, the anniversary of Amer
ica's entry into the war, was selected
by Secretary McAdoo as the most fit
ting date to launch the Liberty Bond
campaign. Mayor Kiel will proclaim
| a holiday in st. Louis and 1t Is expect
ed 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
drum corps, a naval drum corps com
posed of women and Boy Scouts will
head the parade. All civic and fra
ternal organizations will be represent
ed in the parade.
Among the uniformed fraternal bod
les which will participate in the parade
are knights Templar. Knights Of Co
lumbus. Knights Of Pythias. Shriners
sElks and others.
/ The Chamber of Commerce. Ro
tarians, Jovians and other organiza
lions will have delegations In the pa
rade. There also will be delegation
from the trades and labor organiza
lions. A dozen bands. military and
civic, will furnish music.
A delegation from the Women'l
Council OF National Defense and Red
Cross division will have q prominent
place In the procession. Letter car
riers and other. federal and municipal
employees also will be among the
marchers. Every man, woman and
child who participates in the parade "a
expected to carry an American flas
and the next of kin of all soldiers are
requested to carry service flags.
The parade will move at 2 o'clock
The Liberty Loan Committee in
tends to make April the greatest pa
triotic demonstration day In the his