Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1918-04-18
St. LOUIS TO OPEN
LOAN CAMPAIGN
ON GRAND SCALE
MONSTER OUTDOOR iNsPlRA.
TloNAL MEETING PLANNED
FOR SATURDAY, APRiL6
10000 CROWD EXPECTED
vlce.President Marshall to Speak
Gov. Gardner and Other Nota.
bies viii 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 and
march through Forest Park to Art Hill.
where the patriotic meeting will be
held.
Vice-President Thomas r. Marshall
will review the parade and deliver an
address to an audience it 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 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 of
these soldiers will carry service flags
as a mark of patriotic distinction.
A huge service flag bearing a 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 70 feet
wide and 156 feet long and was pre-
scented to st. Louis by the Million Pop,
ulation Club.
Following Vice-President Marshall's
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 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
Forest Park@ squadron of aviators
from Scott Field, ILL.,, 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
man domination.
Daylight fireworks will be an attrac-
tive feature Of the celebration. The
p%yrotechnics will be symbolical of the
occasion. Rockets shot into the sky
will burst and flash in colors Ameri-
a flags, Uncle Sans. the Statue of
Liberty and other patriotic symbols.
April g.. 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
st. Louis recruiting station, including |
a 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 parade1
are Knights Templar, Knights of Co.
Knights Of Pythias. Shriners,
Elks and others.
The Chamber Of Commerce, Ro-
tarians. Jovians and other orsaniza-
tions will have delegations in the pa
There also will be a delegation
from the trades and labor organize
A dozen bands. military and
will furnish music.
A delegation from the Women's
Council Of National Defense and a Red
Cross division will have a prominent
place In the procession. Letter car
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.
Tho ~n.nJz ...iIs - n >pI-- l
The Liberty Loan Committee in
lends to make April 6 the greatest pa
.riotic demonstration day In the his
.ory Of st. Louis.