New-York tribune., 1921-11-11
City to Stand
flushed at Noon
For Hero Dead
Silent Reverence Paid i'm q
Minute Interval Will Be
Chief Feature of Homage
Rendered by Multitude
Veterans Parade at / PM.
Legion Rally in Garden and
Labor Meeting at Night
Also OH Varied Program

SiieHt III HoHOr OIL Cne unknown Amerl-
can soldier who is to be buried in
Arlington Cemetery this afternoon
Not a wheel will turn on the subway
the elevated or the surface lines
Trains on lines running into the city
will stop. Telegraph service will be
suspended. Telephone operators will
stand at attention at their switch.
boards, regardless of calls. Factory
production will halt. Sales in CONNER.
cial houses will be suspended. The
only sound breaking in upon the silent
tribute to the nations dead will be
the continued tolling of the church
bells, which will begin at 11:45 a. m
Morning, afternoon and evening
Armistice Day will be observed by
Legion posts, patriotic societies
churches, synacogues and labor organi.
cations throughout the city. 1t will
be both an observance of the ami.
versary Of the close Of the war and 9
demonstration in support Of President
Harding's Conference on the Limita.
tion of Armament.
Veterans to March Up Avenue
Two mass meetings will be held in
Madison Square Garden and there will
be a parade of veterans up Fifth Ave.
nue..
American Legion celebrations will
center in meeting at Madison Square
Garden at noon. Arrangements have
been made to seat $4,000 persons. The
speaker will be former Congressman
Martin w. Littleton.
That the participants may hear
President Harding's voice when he
speaks at the grave Of the unknown
dead at Arlington telephone wires
have been installed and provided with
amplifers. 1t is believed that the en-
tire exercises, including speeches and
music, at Arlington, will be heard dis
tinctly by the audience here.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt will be
chairman of the meeting. The mem
bers of the executive committee are
Albert z. Gray, J. Noble Braden, Henry
W. Boyce, Grenvilie Clark, Van SAINT
voord Merle-Smith, Charles e, Merrill
and Frank J. Sinnott.
Captain Walter l. Joyce will be grand
marshal of the parade which has been
organized by the Americanization com
mittee of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars. The line ~ill move from Wash
ington Square at 1 o'clock and will fin.
ish at Sixtieth Street and Fifth Avenue
Honor to the unknown soldier and a
demand that the government take steps
to create foreign markets for American
made goods are to be the objects OF
the parade, it is announced.
Mayor Hylan, Brigadicr General Will
liam G. Bates, the Rev. DR.. Ernest NJ
Stires, Colonel John Hughes. u. S. NJ
c., and Captain A. L. Robertson will be
among the officials and veterans in the
reviewing stand at Madison Square.
The societies which will participate
include the American Red Cross, Army
Nurses, Junior Red Cross, Canteen
Workers, Overseas Service League
United Spanish War Veterans, the
American Legion, Mecca Temple, A. A.
o. N. Nj. s.; Sons of the American
Rcyolutlon, Sons OF Veterans, Junior
Order of American Mechanics, knights
Of Columbus, Cadets of st. Francis
Xavier College, Knights of Pythias
American Flag Association, Business
Men and Women's League, the Bov
Veterans Association, the 18th Regi-
ment Veterans Association and the 22d
Regiment Veterans Association
Labor Mass Meeting at Night
Every seat has been taken for the
limitation of armament meeting to be
held in the Garden in the evening
under the auspices Of the Central
, Trades and Labor Council. AS show
ho oF In =
paragraph heads the program under
the caption, How to spend our in
come.":
Total expenditures for year ending
June 80, 1920 s5,ss7, ,712,64s. Taxa,
tion for the expenses of the Federal
government for the year ending June
80, 1920, averaged $50 per person: ot
this only so cents per person was spent
for education, development and re.
search. This colossal sum is divided
as follows: Peace, 6.4 per cent; war
90 per cent"
The speakers will be Samuel Com
pers, Major William F. Deegan, state
commandant of the American Legion;
the Rev. Father John j. Dunn, Bishop
William T. Manning, Rabbi Stephen s
Wise and Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw
Music will be furnished by Margaret
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company, and the list Regiment band
At 8 o'clock in the evening a mass
meeting will be held in the Cathedra
OF st. John the Divine in the interests
of the limitation of armaments. Bishor
Manning, DR.. John II. Finley and DR.
John kclman, pastor of the Fifth Ave
nue. Presbyterian Church, will be tbs
| speakers.
In Brooklyn the American Legior
has arranged a memorial service ir
the Orpheum Theater at 11.30 O'Clock
in the morning, and concert, recep
Armory in the evening, the latter fo,
the benefit of disabled soldiers.
Gold Star Mothers at Cemetery
Five thousand homing pigeons will
be released during service to be held
! in the Cypress Hills Cemetery by the
Veterans of Foreign Wars, at which
| gold star mothers will be present
| The fight of the pigeons will symbolic
the release of the spirits of the dead
One pigeon, however, will be held ir
captivity. This pigeon was one of The
birds that saw service in France, anc
| if released it might attempt to fly back
| to France. 1t will be decorated with
q medal and given home at the Bron,
Zoo.
S. Rankin Drew Post, American
Legion, the Allied amusement unit dur.
ing the war, will hold memorial serv.
ices in Longacre Square at lO:46 a. m
f. II. Sothern will be the principa
speaker. On the committee in charge
are j. O. Donovan, Frank J. TAYLOR. A
s. Goldsmith, Glenn Candon. Colone