Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-06-29
GLORIOUS FOURTH
REALLY GLORIOUS
No Foolishness Wasting Powder
Which Will BE Saved to
Humble the Hun.

This glorious Fourth of July will be really
glorious Instead of wasting perfectly
good powder in making tremendous
racket which Is neither patriotic nor
pleasant and often merely heralds the APP
proaCh of death through accident, real
patriotism will bc shown In parades,
meetings and a general stiffcning OF the
good old American backbone. The DOW
der heretofore burned in irecrackers,
bombs and hullabaioo-makers will be
saved To the end that it may be used to
humble the Hun.
And even the small boy, who usually
kicks like to the proverEial steer, at beng
shorn Of his din-producing imple-
Incnts. is quite willing to be thus shorn
this wear because If he 5 too young To
fight he's not too young 70 wish the worst
of bad luck on the Kaiser and heep that
same bad luck to get busy.
Plans for celebrating the nation
natalie day were discussed at meeting
of the local Council Of Defence held
in the rooms of the Street and Sewer
Department Thursday afternoon. The
Wilmington observance but one OF series
planned in every city and town IN the
United States in accordance with an
outline suggested BY the National Council
of Defence and approved by President
Wilson.
One of the chief features Of the quiet
celebration will be a huge parade IN which
every society is expected to participate
Colonel Weller +. Slower was appointed
chief marshal of the parade and ne Will
issue a formal appeal to every organized
body Of citizens. be they Of foreign birth
ar native Americans, to JON IN this the
new way of celebrating the birth OF the
nation.
Clarence c. killen was appointed
chairman Of the committee OF arrange
ments and with but few exceptions the
program for the day has already been
completed
The proposed program will be as fol-
lows:
PRAYER: America, BY the Community
Chorus. plcdCinC allegiance to the Flag,
by the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts; read
ing of the Declaration Of Independence;
band selection; brief patriotic address;
chorus, singing Of patriotic anthems the
reading az the presidential address to re
delivered on that day at Mt. Vernon;
bencdlctIon; music.
The entire program including the
parade is expected to consume no more
than little over two hours The paraders
viii line up ut 10 O clock No details have
been announced as 10 the march, but
efforts will bc made TO waste as little time
rs possible so that the Celebrants may
have part of the afternoon for themselves
The outlook is that there will nc keen
rivalry between the various societies to
make the best showing in the parade. 1t
is also possible that q battalion Of soldiers
stationed in this vicinity viii participate
in the affair and add touch OF realism 10
10 oil
No nationality will be left out of the
parade and the following are those ex-
pected 10 be in line; Americans. English.
French, Italians. Russians, citizens OF
Panama, Cubans, citizens of San Marlno,
japanese, Chinese, Brazahans, Serblans,
Greeks. Rumanians, citizens OF Gaute-
mails. Nontenegrins, Belgians, hberlans,
SIamcse and Portuguese, all allies IN the
war for democracy. and the following
ueutrals: Mexicans, Swedes, Danes,
Norwogians. Syri&ns. Iithuanians. Poles.
Czecho->|avs. (Bohenians}, Croats and
DaimatIans