The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-11
CITIZENS TO HONOR
 l SACRIFICED HEROES
Pictures Of Those Who.
 Lie In Flanders Fields
 Recalled
LENGTHY PARADE BEGINS AT 2 P. M.
Gold Stsr Mothers, Confederate. 7 Veterans, Boy Scouts To
 March

Armistice Day is to mean more to Birmingham than ever before.
 The sixth anniversary of the signing of the protocol, which ended the greatest war in his tory, is to be celebrated by Bir- mingham with more elaborate ceremonies and greater reyer- ence, than in any of the inter- |Vening years. With heads bowed, the city will watch the parade of those who answered the call tosarms, who suffered the hardships of the trenches, and who were fortunate to re- turn home.
 But, the city's thoughts will be of those who are sleeping in the blood-red | fields of Flanders those who died for humanity, those whose memory ever win sba fresh in the minds and hearts of the entire city.
 The chief event of the Armistice Day celebration vii be the parade--a re hinder of the wartime days when the strongest and bravest youth of Birl mingham mLrched away to martial nut sic. But the parade will be only the outward sign of the city's respect, for the real Armistioe Day will be cele- brated in the heart of every Birming- ham citizen. kt
 Cheers For Veterans
 The Gold Star mothers, the fast di- minishing line of Grey, Spanish War veterans, every patriotic society or or ganization will take part in, the parade. But the cheers of the crowds which will pack the line of march Tuesday after noon will be reserved for the former Birmingham soldiers, sailors and marines, who will constitute the main section of the long procession, the long est probably, ever seen in the city.
 TSe parade twill march < at 2:30 o'clock, with patriotic assemblage to follow in the city auditorium, featur- ing an address by Harwen G. Davis, attorney general of Alabama.
 The Birmingham Boy Scouts, who are fostering the celebration this year, re- port that every detail has been care fully planned in advance. Committees appointed for the various features of the occasion have reported every detail ready, to D. B. Dimick, general chair man. Decorations for the streets down which the parade will march, were hung Friday night, in charge of J. D. Rosen- burger, who has arranged for especially appropriate decorations for the Twenty first street viaduet. .....g.. ,.
 Coleman Blaeh, in charge of the com mittee on closing, has announced that all stores in the retail division of the chamber of commerce will close for d half day. Numbers of the employees of the city's large firms will march in the demonstration.
 Other than 100 additional policemen who will patrol the streets down which the parade will pass, several troops of Birmingham Boy Scouts will aid in keeping the crowds behind the police lines.
 All Mustered
 Arrnistice Day is the only day in which the entire Boy Scout organiza- ton is mustered, according to D. B. Dimick. Besides the complete mobili- sation of the Boy Scouts, approximate ly 50 school children from each of the g schools, will participate in the pa rade, besides the regular R. o. T. c. units in the high schools.
 Negro veterans of the World war, twill march with the main parade down Nineteenth street to First avenue, where they will leave the line, and march down First avenue to Eighteenth street, up Eighteenth street to the Ne gro Masonic temple, where the negro Armistice Day program will be staged.
 SeVenf Divisions
 The parade will contain seven divi- sions. first military, police attachments and city commissioners. The second di- vision will be composed of the National Guard and various military units sta tioned in Birmingham, and the Boy Scouts. World war veterans and other war veterans are to form the third di- vision. The high school military units and other public school children will compose the fourth division. The fifth division will contain the private schools, civic and fraternal orders and similar