Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-04-11
q. LOUIS TO OPEN LOAN ClMPl|CA
 ON GRAND SCALE
MONSTER OUTDOOR lNsPlRA- TIONAL MEETING PLANNED
 FOR SATURDAY., APRIL 6.
150,cOO CROWD EXPECTED
vice-President Marshall to Speak Gov Gardner ard Other Nota- bIes Will Review lm-
 mense Parade.

The Third Liberty Bond Campaign will be launched in St. Louis April t with a monster parade and inspira- tional meeting.
 More than 50,000 soldiers and civil tans are expected to take part in the parade, which will form at NeWstead avenue and Lindell boulevard and march through Forest Park 10 Art Hill, where the patriotic meeting will be held.
 vice-President Thomas R. Marshall will peview the parade and deliver an address to an audience it is predicted will number 150,000.
 Gov. Gardner will introduce the Vice President. Seated upon the reviewing stand will be the Governor, Mayor kieI, military and civil representatives of all 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 at the front or in training camps. The fathers and mothers CT these soldiers will carry service flags as a mark of patriotic distinction.
 A huge service flag bearing star 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 the reviewing stand. The flag is 7S feet wide and 1o6 feet long and was pre- sented to St Louis by the Million Pop ulation Club.
 Following Vice President Marshall's address dozen bands led by Sousa'5 band from the Great Lakes Training Station. playing in concert, will render the Star Spangled Banner" as an American flag is lowered at retreat. Lieut.. Commander Philip Sousa has been invited to personally lead his band
 While the parade is moving through A Forest Park d squadron of aviators from Scott Field, H., will lombard St. Louis with Liberty Bond literature. The airmen will drop from the sky ap- peals to the people 10 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 man domination.
 Daylight fireworks will be an attrac- tive feature of the celebration. The pyrotechnics will be symbolical of the occasion. Rockets shot into the sky will burst and flash in colors Ameri- can flags, Uncle Sans, the Statue of Liberty and other patriotic symbols.
 April 6, the anniversary of Amer ica's entry into he 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 it is expect ed that business houses will close and everybody in the city who can possi- bly, do so attend the inspirational meeting.
 Five thousand soldiers from Jeffer- son Barracks, naval scouts from the
  drum corps. a naval drum corps com posed of women and Boy Scouts will head the parade All civic and fra ternal organizations will he represent ed in the parade
 Among the uniformed fraternal bod ies which will participate in the parade are Knights Templar Knights of Co., lumbus, Knights of Pythias, Shriners, Elks and others
 The Chamber of Commerce. Ro- tarians, Joyians and other organlza- tions will have delegations in the pa rade. There also will be delegation from the trades and labor organiza- tions. A dozen bands, military and civic, will furnish music.
 A delegation from the Womens Council of National Defense and a Red Cross division will have 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 is expected to carry an American flag and the next of kin of all soldiers are requested to carry service flags.
 The parade will move at ? o'clock.
 The Liberty Loan Committee in- tends to make April the greatest pa triotic demonstration day in the his tory of St. Louis.