Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-25
TWO MIGHTY LOAN PARADES
WILL CLOSE DRIVE FOR WEEK
E. T. Stotesbury to Lead $4,000 School Children
Through Broad Street Tomorrow March of
Democracy" Will Be Feature Saturday

TWo parades will be features OF the
Il Liberty Loan drive this week.
Thirty-fve thousand children from the
city'S high schools and seventh and
eighth grades of the elementary schools
will march in the Liberty Day pageant
tomorrow. All public schools will be
closed at II o'clock by order of Edwin
Wolf, president of the Board of Educa-
tion.
On Saturday afternoon 10000 uni
formed men will participate in the
March of Democracy" starting at l
o'clock from Broad street and Columbia
avenue and proceeding south on Broad
street to Wharton. This will include all
the patriotic, war religious and secret
societies of the city. Nearly 100 bands
are expected TO be in line Four thou
sand troops from Camp Dix have been
promised, and all Camp Meade men in
the city on leave wiz march. About
1875 sailors will attend from Wissi-
I hickon Barracks, Cape May, and large
number of saHors ana marines from
the League Island Navy Yard.
Efforts were made by Washington
officials to have the March of De-
mocracy" held tomorrow. Liberty day,
instead Of on Saturday Tho committee
refused to change the plans, however
unless President Wilson would review
the parade. This he was unable to do,
owing to press Of business in Washing
/ ton.
/ No program had been arranged for
| Liberty day when Edwin Wolf came TO
/ the assistance of the Liberty Loan com.
/ mittee by ordering a school parade.
[ Twenty bands will be scattered through
| the parade of the $4,000 children. It
will form at Girard avenue and march
south on Broad street.
Stotesbury TO Lead Parade
William Stecher, director of physical
education in the public schools, will be
in charge According TO present plans
the line will be headed by E. 7. Stotes-
bury and the fifteen members of the
Board of Education. The 1900 Cod
desses Of Liberty" from the South Phila-
delphia High School for Girls will be in
line.
Elaborate preparations are being
made in the schools today. Wherever
possible the children will be in costume,
They will carry Liberty Loan and
school banners, American flags and
school flags, Each school will march as
a unit.
Eight hundred priests and ministers
from all denominations will walk in the
| March Of Democracy" it was announc-
ed today Bishop Rhinelander will lead
$50 Episcopalians, Bishop Berry will
head several hundred Methodist Epis-
copal ministers, the Rev. Edward Yates
Hin will marshal 100 Presbyterans, and
all other denominations Will be repre-
sented. The number of Catholic priests
to be in line has not yet been ascer-
talned on account Of the necessity OF
their Saturday afternoon confessional.
Sixty-fve industrial and alegorical
floats of a patriotic nature will be
among the many novelties of this great
pageant. These have been prepared by
a number of industrial concerns In the
city They will symbolic the memoir
, able stands for freedom and democracy
made by America through her history
The products now being supplied by
Philadelphia TO Pershing's army IN
France will be shown,
"Our Daddles over There"
Another feature will be troop OF
little boys and girls With. fathers In
France They win march near the van
Of the parade surrounded by boy and
girl scouts. They will cJrJNsn q banner
with the inscription;
.Our daddies are over there. Buy .
bond and help bring them hack - IA
Close behind this juvenile brigade tbs